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Audio

Setting	Choices	What it does
Preferred language	Default (first track), a language	The audio track picked when there's one in it.
Second choice	none, a language	Picked when there's none in the preferred language.
Switching to it	Quick (no wait), Safe: waits 3, 6 or 10 seconds	Quick picks the track before the video starts; Safe once playing, reloading the audio 6 seconds back (when Quick names your language but you hear another). Live streams always switch Safely.

Subtitles

Setting	Choices	What it does
Default language	Off, a language	Turns a subtitle on by itself.
Second choice	None, a language	Used when nothing is in the default language (not when the default is Off).
Second subtitle (at the top)	Off, a language	A second language at the top of the screen at the same time.
Only my languages	Off, On	The subtitle menu lists only the three languages above, and tracks that don't say their language.
Skip lines with	none, your words, separated by commas	A line with one of them (or a bit of one, capitals or not) isn't shown.

Appearance (a page of its own, from Subtitles):

Setting	Choices	What it does
Size	Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large
Color	White, Yellow, Cyan, Green
Background	None, See-through box, Solid box
Edge	Drop shadow, Outline, None
Position	Lower, Bottom, Raised, Higher	Lower is close to the screen's edge; Raised is above a widescreen film's black bars.
Font	the TV's, Roboto, Atkinson Hyperlegible, Nunito, Cousine

Skipping

Setting	Choices	What it does
Intros, recaps and previews	Ask, After 5, 10, 15 or 30 seconds	Ask shows the Skip Intro prompt; a countdown skips on its own, with Cancel.
Next episode	Ask, After 5, 10, 15 or 30 seconds	At the credits: the prompt, or the next episode after a countdown, with Watch Credits.

Seeking & buffering

Setting	Choices	What it does
Seek step	5, 10, 15, 30 seconds	How far LEFT / RIGHT jump. FF / REW jump three steps; holding a direction speeds up.
Reconnect live channels	Off, A few times, Keep trying	A channel that drops (lost, frozen or ended) opens again at the live edge: 3 times in 5 minutes, or with no limit, up to a minute apart (BACK stops it). Off: the player closes.
Buffer	Normal (the TV's own), More, Most	What the TV's player loads before starting and after running dry (More: 8 and 10 seconds; Most: 15 and 20): slower to start, dry less often.
HLS through StremioK's service	Off, Sources that need headers, All HLS sources	The service fetches it with the source's User-Agent, Referer and Cookie (the TV's player can't always send them): a step more to start. Hold OK on a source: once.

Source ranking

Everything that decides which source plays: the order on this page, with two pages of their own for what's left out and what ▶ Play does. Their rows sum up what's set.

Setting	Choices	What it does
Played before first	On, Off	Sources that played for this title (or, for a series, like its recent episodes') come first; Off, they rank like others.
Filters ›	a page (below)	What's left out, or sent to the bottom.
When you press Play ›	a page (below)	Whether the list shows, and what happens when a source doesn't start.
The criteria, in order	▲ / ▼ to move, OK to turn on or off	What orders the sources (see The criteria). Restore defaults puts them back.
Addons (Feed sources)	▲ / ▼, OK to turn off	The addons that give sources, in the order they're asked. One turned off isn't asked.

Filters:

Setting	Choices	What it does
Sources the TV can't play	Shown, Hidden	Shown: dimmed at the bottom. Hidden: torrents and links it can't open are left out (a line says how many); where-to-watch apps stay.
Movies' sizes / Series' sizes (an episode)	Smallest (100 MB to 2 GB), Largest (2 GB to 80 GB), Most per hour (1 GB to 10 GB an hour); no limits	Sources outside a limit move to the bottom and are never picked on their own (Size limits).
Hide sources with these words	none, your words, separated by commas	Sources with one in their name, description or file name (whole words, capitals or not: CAM, HDTS, a language) move to the bottom and are never picked on their own.

When you press Play:

Setting	Choices	What it does
Skip the source list	Off, On	On, ▶ Play on a movie, OK on an episode and ▶ Play SxEx play the top source once the addons have answered (nothing playable: the list). The remote's ▶ Play key does this whichever you choose.
The next source if one doesn't start	On, Off	A source the TV refuses, or not started after 45 seconds, gives way to the next (up to 3 more); Off: back to the list. Not live channels, YouTube or USB files.

Size limits

Most per hour goes by the title's length: 3 GB an hour allows a 2-hour film up to 6 GB and a 45-minute episode up to 2.25 GB. A source outside a limit says why (over 20 GB, 4.1 GB an hour, over 3 GB). A source without a size, or a title without a length (for Most per hour), isn't held to them.

The criteria

In their default order, all on except the last:

1. Resolution (high to low): at the top, the list is grouped by resolution.
2. Not yet cached last.
3. Release type: remux > Blu-ray > web > unknown > TV rip, CAM far below.
4. HDR before SDR.
5. Seeders (high to low): the count a torrent source states (Torrentio's 👤 123); sources that don't state one keep their order.
6. Feed sources order: your addons' order (below).
7. Each addon's own order: right after Feed sources order, each addon's list as it gives it, one addon after another; above it, the addons' lists interleave.
8. Cached before unknown (off).

Formats

What plays on this TV, learned as you watch. It starts empty; each source you play adds its video profile (resolution, codec, bit depth and HDR: 4K · HEVC · 10-bit · HDR10) and its formats (video codec, 10-bit, HDR / Dolby Vision, audio, file type). Sources with a format marked Not working sit at the bottom of the list, and ▶ Play best and the next episode skip them.

Setting	Choices	What it does
Each row	Working, Not working	Working once a source with it has played a couple of seconds, Not working after failing with two different files. OK switches it by hand.
Mark "Not working" automatically	On, Off	Off, failed starts aren't recorded; what's marked stays.
Resolutions	4K, 1440p, 1080p, 720p, SD, Unknown: Allowed, Not allowed	A resolution not allowed sends its sources to the bottom at once.
Forget all formats		Starts over (the resolutions stay as you set them).

Private viewing

Setting	Choices	What it does
Private viewing	Off, On	On, what you play isn't recorded (see Privacy) until turned off; StremioK's name shows in outline. UP › ◐ Private: for what's playing.