MovieThrow v1.6

MovieThrow desktop app for macOS. Download MovieThrow-1.6.dmg below.

What is new in 1.6

• Reliable zero-start queue playback — fresh large titles no longer race far ahead before Apple TV attaches, preventing new movies and episodes from starting minutes into the timeline.
• Resilient streaming cushion — fresh streams build a short startup buffer and then produce modestly faster than playback, avoiding periodic pauses.
• Library-first Player — when Up Next is empty, Browse Library is now the primary action while Open Other Files remains available for videos outside the chosen library.
• Rich local library and title details — browse movies, TV shows, seasons, episodes, trailers, and extras; inspect posters, runtime, genres, directors, writers, producers, cast, characters, and headshots before playing.
• Local metadata control — correct classifications, manage files, and edit every metadata field and poster independently of TMDb.
• Playback stability from 1.5.1 — includes the startup deadlock fix that keeps playback and metadata UI updates on the main actor.

Requires macOS 14+ and Apple silicon. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

SHA-256: 622f01e61c712965968554159a06c8935ec71727dcc96e063f109d44a87a535d

MovieThrow v1.5.1

MovieThrow desktop app for macOS. Download MovieThrow-1.5.1.dmg below.

What is new in 1.5.1

• Fixes a playback startup deadlock — title metadata updates now stay on the main actor, preventing MovieThrow from freezing or exiting when opening a movie or episode.
• Hardens AVFoundation callbacks — playback completion, stall, and failure handling now dispatch safely to the main queue before updating the interface.

Requires macOS 14+ and Apple silicon. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

SHA-256: bc23b89791c16aec3a08227d1a9fdfd1a1145cced76ea3997cf59cd618b75c74

MovieThrow v1.5

MovieThrow desktop app for macOS. Download MovieThrow-1.5.dmg below.

What is new in 1.5

• Rich title and episode information — title details include runtime, genres, directors, writers, producers, cast, characters, and linked TMDb headshots.
• Inspect before playing — every movie and TV show opens a larger detail view with poster art, credits, Play, and queue controls; grouped trailers, featurettes, extras, seasons, and episodes remain organized.
• Fully local metadata editing — correct titles, year, runtime, genres, cast, crew, and poster artwork without a TMDb account. Local overrides survive rescans and take precedence everywhere.
• Smarter library organization — move misclassified files between Movies and TV Shows, and group a movie's main feature with trailers, featurettes, deleted scenes, interviews, and bonus material.
• More reliable metadata matching — queued and restored files inherit the library's authoritative identity, so poster and detail lookup stay consistent.
• Sleep/wake subtitle recovery — playback checkpoints before system sleep and rebuilds video, audio, and caption timelines together after wake to prevent subtitle drift.
• Writable library management — selected library folders now receive read/write sandbox access for safe rename and Trash operations.

Requires macOS 14+ and Apple silicon. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

SHA-256: 0000f8dc77769c066626e152b5fc608e166782355c51678798f55ed60e9f10d8

MovieThrow v1.4

MovieThrow desktop app for macOS. Download MovieThrow-1.4.dmg below.

What is new in 1.4

• Local media library — choose a library folder and browse normalized movies, TV shows,
  seasons, and episodes. Queue a whole season in one click.
• Automatic library updates — the saved index appears immediately, verifies itself at launch,
  and uses macOS filesystem events to discover additions and removals without polling. Newly added
  movies and shows appear first.
• Library management — review conservative possible-duplicate groups, reveal files in Finder,
  safely rename videos together with matching caption/metadata sidecars, or move them to Trash after
  confirmation.
• Official and local artwork — prefers existing Jellyfin-style artwork and can retrieve
  high-confidence official posters from TMDb using a user-supplied token.
• Caption recovery and reliability — choose another OpenSubtitles release or generate a local
  replacement; restores captions for Dolby Vision and native MP4 playback paths and improves
  multichannel AAC caption synchronization.
• Playback compatibility — stronger HDR/4K AirPlay routing and post-seek stability across the
  real-world library formats exercised during development.

Requires macOS 14+ and Apple silicon. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

SHA-256: 207a87492d65d80bbef4423c85a7eb266fefdfbc258d4e1f1660895f6cf87260

MovieThrow v1.3

MovieThrow desktop app for macOS. Download MovieThrow.dmg below.

What is new in 1.3

• Automatic captions — uses embedded and local subtitles when available, can retrieve missing subtitles through OpenSubtitles, and can fall back to on-device caption generation.
• Transparent caption status — persistent on-screen status explains whether captions were embedded, local, downloaded, generated, or could not be resolved.
• Broader subtitle support — improved text-rendition handling and bitmap subtitle OCR preparation without blocking playback startup.
• More reliable playback and seeking — stronger HDR/4K AirPlay routing, HLS startup, compatibility fallback, buffering, timeline, and post-seek recovery behavior.
• Queue and playback polish — drop files directly onto the active queue, skip backward or forward 10 seconds, cleaner media titles, useful technical metadata, and stable poster artwork while playing.

Requires macOS 14+. Notarized for Gatekeeper (Apple silicon / arm64).

SHA-256: 35d6dc33ca4f24dd95461980e9da011e0b6b0188318004a991ae5a9d60b33220

MovieThrow v1.2

MovieThrow desktop app for macOS. Download MovieThrow.dmg below.

What's new in 1.2

• Multi-track subtitles — every embedded text subtitle track is now published as its own selectable rendition, so you can switch languages/tracks (including over AirPlay).
• Smoother AirPlay handoff — starting a file with an Apple TV selected now holds playback for the TV instead of briefly playing on the Mac first, and the device chooser names the connected device.
• Polish — smoother scrub-preview thumbnails, a clickable AirPlay chooser card, and a larger filename display.

Requires macOS 14+. Notarized for Gatekeeper (arm64).

MovieThrow v1.1

MovieThrow desktop app for macOS. Download MovieThrow.dmg below.

What's new in 1.1

• Scrub previews — hover or drag the timeline to see a thumbnail of that moment.
• Live now-playing art — the banner follows along with the current scene as you watch (handy while streaming to Apple TV).
• Preview thumbnails are generated automatically in the background the first time you play a file and cached for instant reuse — no Jellyfin/Kodi library required.

Requires macOS 14+. Notarized for Gatekeeper (arm64).

MovieThrow v1.0

MovieThrow desktop app for macOS. Download the .dmg below.