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- Live TV for providers of any size. All of a provider's channels, however many: a provider of 55,000 channels opens in seconds and scrolls smoothly. Find your way by groups, sorted by language, by favourites and recently watched, or search channels and what is on. Type a channel number to tune in. Every day the guide covers is there, including the past.
- Catch-up. Programmes that already aired play from your provider's archive, and "Watch from the start" restarts what is on.
- Pause and rewind live TV, and jump back to live. A channel plays on when your provider drops the connection for a moment, without showing the last seconds again.
- Zap like a TV box. Up and down change channel in the player, channel and number keys work too, and a banner says what is on and next. A channel that will not play tries its other copies first.
- Record. Record a programme, or every new episode of a series. When your provider keeps an archive, Lumen records from it after the programme ends, so you can keep watching something else.
- Portal logins (MAC). Add a Stalker / Ministra portal with its MAC address.
- Your provider account at a glance: whether it is active, until when, and how many of its streams are in use.
- Adult content is a switch, off until you turn it on, per profile; kids profiles never see it.
- Your IPTV provider's films and series. Sign in to your provider and its films and series come too: each category is a catalog you can show on Home, hide or reorder like any other, they are in Discover, and when your provider has a film or episode you open from anywhere, its copy is one of the sources. Big providers repeat everything per language: you start with English and your app's language, and Languages on the provider's addon picks others. Lumen asks the provider gently, so it is not taken for abuse.
- The calendar knows when films come out to stream. Films in your library show on their cinema, digital and DVD & Blu-ray dates for your country (with your TMDB key), three months ahead. With Trakt connected, episodes show their real air times and everything Trakt follows is added.
- New episode alerts. The calendar's menu item counts new episodes of the series you follow, and a card tells you when one comes out (never over a film you are watching). The bell on the calendar turns the cards off.
- Subtitles made on this device are far better, and in your language. A new speech model hears 25 European languages much more accurately and three times faster, with every line timed to the words; another hears every other language. The subtitles can be translated on this computer into more than 50 languages with the translation models Firefox uses. Nothing is sent anywhere.
- Live TV has its own tab. Once you add a TV playlist, Live TV appears in the menu with the full guide: today, tomorrow and the day after, every channel with its number, what is on now in detail, a channel search, and your groups, favourites and recently watched channels. Set a reminder on a programme still to come and Lumen tells you when it starts. Channels no longer appear among films and series on Home.
- Sign in to your TV provider. Add a playlist with your provider's server, user name and password, or add a user name and password to a playlist link that asks for one.
- Calendar. New and coming episodes of the series you follow, films from your library by release date, and your TV reminders, day by day.
- Play videos from this device. Open a file from the home screen (Open file, or Ctrl+O), drop one anywhere on the window, or choose Lumen under "Open with" in Explorer or an Android file manager. Lumen remembers where you stopped and lists recent files under "On this device"; a subtitle file with the same name next to the video loads by itself. Files stay on the device they were played on and never sync.
- Night mode, Even out volume and Volume boost in the player's settings panel: loud scenes come down and quiet dialogue comes up, levels stay steady between titles, and quiet mixes get louder without distorting. Each is remembered per device. (Night mode and Even out volume need the full audio engine, on Windows for now.)
- Subtitle colour and outline (white, yellow or cyan, with an optional bold outline), and a Hardware decoding switch for pictures with glitches, in the player's settings panel.
- Lumen picks the right source. Play chooses for you by your spoken languages, a link it has verified over an unknown one, instant sources, and for series the same release as your last episode, waiting a moment for slower addons instead of taking whichever answers first. Settings → Playback → Choosing sources sets the highest quality, the largest file and words to skip (CAM releases by default). Sources outside those limits stay in the list, marked Filtered.
- Skip intro and recap, free. A Skip button appears during an episode's opening or recap (OK on the remote skips it), using community timestamps (IntroDB for series, AniSkip for anime) and the file's own chapter markers. When the credits' start is known, Up Next appears there instead of in the last seconds.
- Send report in Diagnostics sends the diagnostic report to us in one step, with passwords, keys and folder names removed, and gives you a reference to quote. Diagnostics also shows how many sessions on this device ended unexpectedly.
- Speakers and subtitle height in the player's settings: tell Lumen whether you have stereo, 5.1 or 7.1, and raise subtitles away from the bottom edge.
- Cast to your TV. "Play on…" now lists the smart TVs on your network (Samsung, LG, Sony, Philips and others with built-in DLNA). Pick one and the film plays there, with a remote in Lumen; files on your computer work too.
- Chromecast. "Play on…" also lists Chromecasts and TVs with Google TV or Android TV built in (a Shield too), with the same remote in Lumen. No Google account or app needed.
- Keep episodes ready. Turn it on in Settings → Playback and Lumen downloads the next episodes of the shows you're watching, then deletes them once watched. Good for trips and flaky Wi-Fi.
- Downloads play first. Press Play on an episode or film you have downloaded and it plays the file right away, even offline.
- Import a Trakt export. Bring your watched history and watchlist from Trakt without setting up a Trakt app: export your data on trakt.tv and pick the ZIP in Settings → Trakt.
- Your own films and shows. Add the folders where you keep them (Settings → Playback → Folders on this computer) and Lumen lists them as a library, with posters: shows with their episodes in order and a button for the next one, films with where you left off. What you watch from them counts everywhere: start a film on the PC, finish it on the TV.
- Type on your phone. With your phone paired as a remote, type a search or an addon link on the phone and it appears on the TV.
- Your own keyboard shortcuts in Settings → Playback on Windows.
- Subtitles made on this device (Windows). When a film has no subtitles you can read, choose Make subtitles in the subtitles menu: Lumen listens to the film and writes subtitles just ahead of where you are, on your computer, in the spoken language or translated to English. The speech model (74 MB or 141 MB) is downloaded once when you first ask; nothing you watch is sent anywhere.
- Network folders (SMB). Your own films and shows → Add a network folder: a folder on a NAS or another computer (
smb://nas/Media/Filmsor\\nas\Media\Films), with a name and password or as a guest. It becomes part of your library like a folder on this computer, and it works on Android and Android TV too. The password stays on this device. - Media servers on your network. Your own films and shows → Find media servers lists the DLNA servers at home (most NAS boxes, and Plex, Jellyfin or Emby with DLNA on). Open one, browse its folders and play; Lumen keeps your place on this device. No account needed.
- Live TV from a playlist. Addons → Add a TV playlist takes an M3U address (from a TV tuner such as HDHomeRun, a provider, or a free channel list) and, if you have one, a guide. Channels appear on Home by group, with what is on now and next; a channel's page shows the guide for the hours ahead.
- A tidier Settings and Addons. Settings is a short menu (Profiles, Languages, Sources, Home & library, Player, Sync & devices, Accounts, Performance, Storage & backup, About), each a page of its own. Addons puts the ways to add a source (Stremio, Plex, Jellyfin, TV playlist) up front as tiles, your addons next, and the rarely needed bits under Advanced.
- TV: every page starts with something selected. Discover, Settings and Addons used to open with nothing highlighted until you pressed a key; they now open on their first option, like Home and the title pages.
- The next episode starts faster. While the credits roll, Lumen gets the next episode's link ready, so Up Next goes straight into it.
- TV guide. A channel's page opens the guide: every channel down the side, the next six hours across, a line at now. Choose a programme to watch its channel.
- Your Plex server as a source. Addons → Add a Plex server shows a code; enter it at plex.tv/link on any device signed in to Plex and choose your server. Its libraries appear on Home and in search, a title it has plays straight from it, and what you watch moves Plex's own resume points and watched marks. No Plex password goes through Lumen.
- Your Jellyfin or Emby server as a source. Addons → Add a Jellyfin or Emby server: sign in once and your libraries appear on Home and in search, a film or episode your server has plays straight from it (the original file), and what you watch in Lumen moves the server's own resume points and watched marks. The password goes to your server and nowhere else, and every device in your household gets the server.
- Crop black bars for wide screens: turn it on in the player's settings (or press C) and a film made wider than its frame fills an ultrawide monitor or zooms cleanly with Fill. Lumen finds the bars itself, skipping dark scenes, and remembers the choice on this device. An Aspect ratio choice fixes a picture that looks squeezed or stretched, and Fit, Fill and Stretch now also work on Android TV.
- Thumbnails on the seek bar on Windows: hover or drag it to see the frame you're about to jump to.
- Picture in picture on Android phones and tablets: press Home while a video plays, or the new button in the player, and it keeps playing in a small window. Closing the window pauses.
- Advanced mpv options in Settings → Playback, for people who know mpv: write an mpv.conf for this device, and see what applies as you type.
- Links to a moment. Copy link at this time in the player's settings panel gives a lumen:// link that opens the title in Lumen with "Play from 1:23:45" ready.
- Why won't this play well? The player's statistics (the D key, or Playback statistics in the player's settings panel, now reachable with a remote too) start with plain sentences: the source is slower than the video needs, frames are being dropped, decoding runs on the processor, or HDR is shown in SDR.
- Profiles and kids profiles. Everyone in the household gets their own Continue Watching, progress, library, languages and home rows (shown, hidden and in their order); switch from the avatar at the bottom of the menu. A kids profile uses only the addons you pick for it, has no Addons or Settings, and can be locked with a PIN. Profiles travel with sync to every device.
- Match frame rate (Android TV): the TV can switch to the video's frame rate for smooth motion, in the player's settings panel.
- Passthrough to receiver: Dolby and DTS sound (including Atmos and DTS:X) can go untouched to an AV receiver or soundbar, in the player's settings panel.
- Trakt once for the household. Connect Trakt on one device and every device that syncs scrobbles too, each profile to its own Trakt account.
- Verified sources. For direct streams Lumen reads what the file really contains, including picture (4K, HDR10, Dolby Vision) and every audio track's language and format, shows it on the source, and uses it to pick: a film named 1080p that is really 4K, or one that turns out to carry your language, is judged by what it is.
- Watch together. Start a party in the player's settings panel and share the code; friends who open the same title play, pause and seek in step with you, each on their own source. Private: the relay cannot see what you watch.
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- The calendar opens on today on every screen, shows a line of what each episode or film is about, and no longer shows made-up air times. Live TV shows what is on now from the start, and its "No information" cells are quieter.
- The player's settings panel is now four tabs: Subtitles, Audio, Picture and More. It opens on the tabs (left and right pick one, down goes into it) and reopens on the tab you used last. Speakers, passthrough to a receiver and frame-rate matching are set once per device, under Settings → Player.
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- Guide titles never break mid-word. A programme in a short slot shows "Busin…" instead of splitting "Business" across two lines.
- The Live TV search box fits its text on TV. Its hint no longer wraps onto two lines on Android TV; where it would not fit, it simply says Search.
- Subtitle height applies at once. Choosing Bottom, Higher or Highest moves the subtitles straight away, and on Android TV it works at all.
- Big TV providers load. Signing in to a provider with a large film library no longer stops at "the playlist or guide is too large": Lumen reads the provider's channel list instead, and playlists and guides of any size are read as they arrive.
- Skip intro and Skip recap take focus when they appear, so OK presses them on a TV and Enter on a computer.
- The player applies your speakers, keys and subtitle look before the video starts, instead of a moment after (the sound could switch layout under a receiver in the first second).
- Discover says when your addons did not answer and offers Retry, instead of "Nothing matches these filters".
- Closing "Add a source to start playing" with the remote keeps the focus on screen.
- On Android, list rows show their focus and touch highlight while a page slides in.
- Discover's genres work with any addons. Picking a genre shows its titles (Reality used to show nothing), and the remote stays on the genre you pressed. Only real genres are offered: with the TMDB addon the list had grown to over a hundred entries, years, languages and "Day" among them. One slow addon no longer leaves the page empty while the others have answered.
- The remote reaches everything and you can see where you are. Download and "Play on" beside a source, the last size choices under Choosing sources and "Show in folder" under Storage can be reached again; LEFT from a control by the edge of a page goes somewhere instead of nothing; DOWN then UP comes back to the card you left on Home's rows. Focus is clearly marked on Details' and Home's outlined buttons and on addon switches. Home no longer takes the remote's focus away from a Details page opened on top of it.
- UP and DOWN go to the next row. "Show code" on Sync, "Check now" on About and "Open file" on Home were skipped when their row started with text. Arrow keys leave text fields on a computer too, the profile button shows when it is selected, and Trakt's options can be reached right after opening them.
- "See all" with a sort chosen shows titles within a few seconds instead of collecting hundreds first.
- A profile PIN locks your profile. It is asked when someone switches to it (it used to be asked when leaving it), and before a locked profile can be edited. With more than one profile, Lumen asks "Who's watching?" when it opens.
- Addon addresses ending in
manifest.json/(with a slash after it) install instead of failing. - Easier to read and to use with a screen reader. Titles and details stay readable over bright artwork, faint text and blue and red buttons have stronger contrast, and the window buttons and each addon's on/off switch now say what they are.
- Films without artwork show their name on their card instead of a bare film icon.
- Image subtitles (Blu-ray PGS, DVD VobSub) now show, and styled anime subtitles (ASS) keep their fonts, colours and positions on Windows and Mac. On Android TV's HDR output, picking an image subtitle switches that title to the compatible output so the subtitles can be drawn.
- Opening another episode from a link now shows that episode (the previous one used to stay on screen).
- Skip intro on your own shows. For shows in your folders, Lumen listens for the opening the episodes share and offers to skip it.
- Subtitles that are out of sync fix themselves. Press Sync automatically in the player's settings and Lumen listens to the film's dialogue and moves the subtitles into place, on your device, in a moment.
- A source that won't play is skipped. When Lumen picked the source and it turns out broken, it quietly tries the next one instead of stopping on an error.
- Pressing Play while sources are still loading starts the best one as soon as it arrives, instead of doing nothing.
- Keyboard shortcuts in the player kept working after you click one of its buttons on Windows; before, they could stop until the next click.