Movies and series

Tabs under the top bar:

• For you leads with a featured title, then what you're watching, titles like the one you watched last, what's popular, new this week, top rated, and what's on the streaming services with the most of your catalogue.
• New has what your provider added this week and this month, and recent releases.
• Genres and Services show a tile for each genre and streaming service. Open one for its titles.
• 4K lists titles with a 4K version, when your provider has any, and plays that version.
• Adults lists the titles your provider marks for adults, once you turn on For adults in Settings > Movies and series.
• All movies and All series list everything, sorted by date added, popularity, rating or name.
• Collections has your own collections, movies and series together, on both Movies and Series.

A row's All, a genre or a service opens the whole list; Back, or Escape, returns to the tab. In a list, the arrow keys move through the posters and Enter opens one. Page Up and Page Down move by a screen; Home and End go to the ends. Tab stops once in the list, on the selected poster, and closing its details returns keyboard focus there while the poster is still listed. The pointer only hovers; clicking a poster selects and opens it.

Every tab but All movies and All series shows titles in your language, or in several, and titles with their own sound, such as films with Dutch subtitles, unless they were made in another language. All movies, All series and search show everything else. Titles for adults show only in their own tab, never on Home, in another tab or in search.

The field at the end of the tabs searches movies on Movies and series on Series. It finds a title by the name it shows, by its translations and original name, and by the names your provider gives each version, and shows what it finds as posters in place of the tab. Down or Enter moves to the posters. Escape, or a tab, clears it.

⌘K (Ctrl K on Windows and Linux) searches movies and series along with channels and programmes. Opened from Movies or Series, it starts with what the field searched for; so does Search everything under the results.

Genre, Year, Runtime, Rating, Watched, Source, Quality, Language and Verified filter an open movie or series grid and its search results. They are compact menus on one line, after Sort where a list has one. Each menu lists every choice, with the current one checked, and Any clears that filter where offered. Clear both Year fields to remove its limits. Genre and Source take several picks, and a title matches any of them. Year has a From and a To year, either left empty for no limit, and applies them when you press Enter or close it. Long menus scroll, and Escape closes an open menu before it leaves the list.

Genres come from TMDB. Year and Rating are the provider's, for each version; Rating offers 6+ to 9+, out of 10. Runtime uses provider or TMDB lengths from current details already loaded in this session, so filtering never fetches details or opens a file: a title whose runtime isn't known yet never matches, and a line under the menus says how many are left out. Watched follows this profile's progress: Unwatched, In progress (at least two minutes played) or Watched. A film mark applies across its qualities in the same subscription until a newer play of any version or a later mark, including unwatched, replaces it. Manual watched episode marks count only on already loaded files. Alternate loaded files of the same episode share its watched or in-progress state, as in Details. For a series, Runtime and Watched look at the episode files already read, not the whole series. Runtime evidence stays in the recent details cache (up to 200 entries) and disappears on eviction or restart; reopen details to load it again. A year, rating, runtime or genre that isn't known never matches. Every filter must hold for one version of a title, from one source.

Quality and Language are hints from the provider's names. Unknown means no hint, and MULTI means a mark for several languages. The count shows matches out of the current list, beside a collection's name; Reset clears every filter. Switching between Movies and Series clears them too. ⌘K's search stays unfiltered.

Sort orders All movies, All series and a collection opened from a row, a genre or a service. A collection's order lasts until you leave it.

Verified filters by sound or subtitle languages found in files read on this computer, without opening or probing any files to filter. Its menu says how many current files were read, and offers only Any until one is. Its Unknown means a track was found but its language is unknown. Unread files and absent tracks do not match. Quality, language and verified choices must match one file together. A series matches when one of its known episodes has such a file; this does not promise the same tracks on every episode. After a restart or a list refresh, reopen a series' details before its saved episode observations count again. Only recently opened details stay available for filtering; reopen older series if their observations no longer count.

Opening a filtered poster picks the matching version. The arrow beside Play still lets you choose another.

Settings separates the three languages for movies and series by task:

• Movies and series > Titles in, English unless you change it, decides the names titles show, which version of a film shows and plays, and what the tabs show.
• Playback > Audio in is the sound a title starts with: a language, or Original language, the one it was made in. Until you set it, it follows Titles in.
• Subtitles > Subtitles are Off, Only when forced, which shows only subtitles a file marks as forced for its sound, such as translations of signs, or a language.

Picking a sound track or subtitles in the player sets Audio in or Subtitles to its language, so the next title starts the same way. Captions have no language, so picking them leaves Subtitles as it was.

Interface language, at the top of General, is the language of Mr. Streamer's own words: menus, buttons, messages and dates. It changes none of the three above. System default follows your computer's language when it is English, Dutch, French, German or Spanish, and is English otherwise. The change shows at once, with nothing restarted.

Your provider's lists don't say a film's genre or where else it streams, and name films their own way, so Mr. Streamer asks TMDB, using the TMDB ids providers list. It asks about each title once, newest first, and fills in names, genres, popularity and services as answers come in: on a large subscription that takes about a quarter of an hour the first time, and again once after you choose another language. Titles take their usual name in your language from Settings, or the English one where TMDB has no translation, and their details show the original name. Search finds a title by any of these names and by your provider's. Meanwhile a ring beside search in the top bar fills up, and goes when the asking stops; hover it for how far it got, or click it for Settings. Which titles each service streams comes from JustWatch, for the country your computer is set to.

Mr. Streamer has its own TMDB key. If TMDB stops accepting it, Settings > Movies and series says so beside TMDB, and Own key… takes a key of your own; a free TMDB account gets one.

A poster opens its details over the list, which stays where it was: the artwork, the original title when it differs, the year, length, genres and rating, the story, the cast with their photos and parts, and who directed or created it. An episode you stopped in shows how much is left. They load when you open the title, never before: TMDB's story, artwork and cast in your language where it has them, your provider's otherwise. A title opened before opens at once. A film's details are those of the version that plays.

• Resume plays a movie or episode from where you stopped. From the beginning starts it again, without asking.
• Play starts something new. For a series it plays the episode you're on: the one you stopped in, the next one you haven't watched after one you finished, or the first. Once every numbered episode is watched it reads Replay and starts the first one again.
• The arrow beside Play shows when there are several versions, each named for what you hear and read, such as "English sound, Nederlands subtitles" or "Deutsch sound · 4K", from the marks in your provider's list and the language the title was made in; the line under the buttons says which one plays, and Automatic shows which it picks. Automatic plays the 4K version of a title opened from the 4K tab, carries on in the version you were watching, or else plays the one that suits your language. Pick another and that title plays it from then on, from Home and the lists too, and a series lists its episodes. Opening from the 4K tab or a filtered grid first picks that grid's matching version instead; the menu still lets you change it. How far you got carries over within one subscription. When several subscriptions offer the title, each version also says which subscription it is from, and one from another subscription starts from the beginning: see picking which subscription plays a title. A pick goes when you remove its subscription.
• A series opens on the season you're watching. Each episode shows its name, air date, length and story, and once TMDB answers for that season, its rating, director and guest stars where TMDB has them. Other seasons ask TMDB nothing until you open their tab. Watched episodes have a check mark, and one you stopped in shows how far you got. Click an episode to play it. The three dots at the end of its row mark it watched or unwatched.
• Save puts the movie, or the whole series, on your watchlist. The button then reads Saved, and pressing it again takes the title off.
• Add to collection beside it opens your collections, ticked where they hold the version that plays. Tick or untick one to add or remove it, or New collection to make one with the title in it. The button then reads In 2 collections.
• Remove from Continue watching takes the title off Home's row, every version of it, and the button goes. How far you got stays, so Resume carries on. The title comes back to the row when you play it again.

Also in your subscriptions lists related titles from your subscriptions' catalogues, excluding adult titles. Its posters open their details in place of these. Back in the top bar returns through up to eight previous details, restoring the season and scroll position, with keyboard focus on the related poster when it is still listed. From the first it returns to the page. Close or Escape returns to the page at once. Playing a title or opening Settings from the details keeps the way back. Opening a title from a page or search starts a new one. The top bar remains usable in details, including Back, Search and Settings.

Versions lists quality first, then language and subscription. These are hints from the provider's name until you open a file. Equal hints within one subscription show a version count: expand it to choose each exact file by its original label, file type and added date where listed. Files in an expanded group get a version number in the provider’s list order. Matching names never make different files interchangeable.

A tick names tracks actually read on this computer. A file with no subtitles says No subtitles only after it was read; another file with the same hints makes no such claim. A series observation says how many exact files it has read, including alternate files of one episode, rather than promising the tracks of every episode. Opening the menu reads no files. Changing or replacing a source clears obsolete observations, and series observations require its current episode details to have been opened here.

The three dots at the end of an episode's row open Mark watched and Mark unwatched. They are for an episode you saw somewhere else, or one that played to its end after you fell asleep. Tab reaches the dots after the row, and Enter or Space opens them. Marking plays nothing, and whatever is playing carries on as it was.

• Mark watched gives the episode its check mark, also when Mr. Streamer never learned how long it is. It no longer offers Resume, and the series moves on to the next episode you haven't watched.
• Mark unwatched takes away the check mark and the place you stopped at. The series goes back to that episode, from its beginning. An episode you stopped in offers both, so you can reset it without marking it watched first.

The row changes once the mark is saved; until then it says Saving…. A line under the season tabs then names the episode and offers Undo, which puts back exactly what was there: the check mark or the place you stopped at, and whether the series was in Continue watching. Undo stays until you mark another episode of the series, start playing one, take the series off Continue watching or close the details. If a mark couldn't be saved, the line says so with Retry, and nothing has changed.

A mark is kept with the subscription whose version the details show, like your progress. It holds for every language and quality that subscription lists of the series, and it goes by the episode's season and number, so it stays when your provider replaces the file. Mr. Streamer knows the series by its TMDB id, or by your provider's own number when it has none, never by its name. A series your provider gives a TMDB id later keeps the marks you made before. If your provider takes that id away or changes it, the marks made under it wait, shown for no series, until the id is back: providers reuse their numbers for other series. With several subscriptions, another subscription's episodes keep their own check marks, and the menu and the line under the tabs name the subscription you're marking in.

Playing an episode after you marked it replaces the mark with what you watch. An episode that was already playing when you marked it does not: that play no longer saves how far it gets in the episode, so your mark stays as it is, and Undo brings back the place you were at when you marked it. Moving what plays to a TV, to another TV or back to this computer doesn't make it a new play. Starting the episode again does.

If Mr. Streamer can't read what you watched, the details say so with Try again. Until it can, they name no episode to go on with, show no check marks and offer no marks, so nothing is guessed. The episodes still play, from their beginning.

To mark a whole season or series, or a film, at once, see Marking a film, season or series.

• A film's details have Mark watched among the buttons beside Play, or Mark unwatched once the film is watched. It marks every version of the film that the subscription of the version shown lists. A marked film plays from its beginning and leaves Continue watching. Playing it after you marked it replaces the mark with what you watch.
• A series' details have Mark season watched and Mark series watched beside the season tabs, or Mark season unwatched and Mark series unwatched once every episode there is watched. The season one marks the season shown. The series one marks every episode the series lists, specials included. Both mark in the subscription whose version the details show, as an episode's own mark does.

Marking plays nothing. Each change is saved all at once or not at all. Films and episodes that already were as you asked are left alone, and the line under the buttons says how many episodes changed, as Marked 3 episodes of Season 2 watched, or that everything already was. Undo takes back the whole change: every check mark and place you stopped at, where the series goes on and whether the title was in Continue watching. Once you play, mark or remove from Continue watching a film version it marked, or any episode of any version of that series, Undo can no longer be done: the line goes, or says so when you press Undo, and nothing changes. Switching profiles takes the line away too. If a mark couldn't be saved, the line says so with Retry, and nothing has changed.

History at the top of Home opens it, and Home returns. Each profile has its own. A kids profile sees only the titles approved for it.

Movies and series lists every movie and series version you played or marked, most recent first, with how far it got or how you marked it, and when. A title has an entry for each version you watched and each subscription it's in: another subscription's file keeps its own progress, and the entry names that subscription. Titles your lists no longer have, and titles for adults, aren't shown. Click an entry to open its details. Its three dots mark that film version, or every episode of the series, watched or unwatched, with Undo as above, and take it off Continue watching while it's there. Nothing in History is deleted for good.

On this computer lists the recordings and downloads you played, each with its own place, apart from the online entries and from each other. A recording says when you last played it, as Continue watching does. A download keeps no time you played it, so downloads show in the order of the Downloads page, with no time. Click one to play it from where you stopped; a download that isn't finished opens Downloads.

If History can't read what you watched, it says so with Try again. A failed refresh keeps the last successful list and hides the empty-history message until a read succeeds.

Save in a title's details keeps a movie or a whole series for later. It works as soon as the details open, before the story and the cast arrive. Episodes can't be saved on their own.

Watchlist in the top navigation bar shows everything you saved, movies and series together, the title saved last first. A to Z sorts them by name. Home also has a Watchlist row whose All opens the page. The navigation entry appears while there is a saved title visible under your adult-content setting, including unavailable titles. It works when Home’s row is hidden. Removing the last visible save hides the entry and leaves an already open Watchlist page in place. A poster opens the title's details, and it plays from there as from anywhere else. On the page the arrow keys move through the posters and Enter opens one; Tab reaches the poster they are on, then its ×.

Only you take a title off: with the × on its poster, or with Saved in its details. Starting a title, finishing it or removing it from Continue watching leaves it saved, and saving changes nothing about how far you got. The same title can be in both rows.

A title is saved once, whichever language or quality you opened it in, and it stays the same entry when your provider renames it or lists other versions of it. Mr. Streamer follows it by its TMDB id. A title your provider lists without one is followed by your provider's own number for it, never by its name, so it can't turn into another title that happens to be called the same.

With several subscriptions, a film or series that two of them offer under the same TMDB id is one poster on the watchlist, as it is in Movies and Series. Save saves it for every subscription that offers it at that moment and asks nothing. The arrow beside Play picks which one plays, and the × takes the title off for all of them. Two titles that only share a name, or a provider's number, stay two entries. A subscription you add later plays a saved title it offers too. The title stays saved for the subscriptions you saved it from, and for no other.

When no provider lists a saved title any more, it stays on the watchlist, dimmed and marked Unavailable. Open it to remove it, or leave it: it plays again once a provider lists it again. With several subscriptions, it says which ones it was saved from. If a subscription's movie and series lists couldn't be refreshed, the page says so and shows what you saved from the lists it has.

Saved titles for adults show, and count, only while For adults is on in Settings > Movies and series. They stay saved while it is off.

The watchlist is kept on your computer, with the subscription each title was saved from, like favourites. Remove, on a subscription in Settings > Subscriptions, keeps what it saved for when you add the same account again, unless you tick the box that deletes it. A title you saved from another subscription as well stays on the list.

Collections are lists you name and keep, such as Family night or Weekend films. They are not the watchlist: Save still keeps a title for later, and a title can be saved and in several collections at once.

Collections, the last tab on Movies and on Series, lists your collections with how many titles each has, and opens the one you pick beside them. New collection names a new one. A collection's ⋯ has Rename, Move up, Move down and Delete collection, which asks first; deleting a collection leaves its titles in every other collection and on the watchlist. Every control is a button or a menu, so Tab, Enter, Space and the arrow keys reach all of it.

An open collection shows its titles in the order you added them, as posters. A poster opens the details of the version that was added. The arrow keys move through the posters and Enter opens one; Tab reaches the poster they are on, then the ring in its corner, which selects it. Once something is selected the bar above the posters says how many, Add to collection puts them in another collection, Remove from takes them out of this one, and Done clears the selection.

A collection holds the exact version you added, from the subscription you added it from. Another version of the same film, such as its 4K one, or the same film from another subscription, is a separate entry, and two titles that share a name stay two. A title keeps its place when your provider renames it. When no provider lists it any more it stays, dimmed and marked Unavailable: press it to select it, then Remove from takes it out. It can't be added to another collection until a provider lists it again.

A smart collection keeps rules instead of titles you add, and holds the movies or the series that match them now. On All movies or All series, once a filter is set, Save as collection names one with those filters as its rules and says how many titles match. In the Collections tab New collection asks for a Collection or a Smart collection; a new smart collection is marked New in the column until its first rule is saved, and goes if you discard it. Smart collections are marked with a filter symbol before their count, and hold the kind of the tab they were made on.

An open smart collection shows its rules above its matches, newest additions first. + Rule adds a rule, and Any removes one. Changing a rule saves nothing: the count shows what the new rules match, and a bar says Rules changed with how many matched before. Discard goes back to the saved rules and Save rules keeps the new ones; if saving fails, your changes stay and Retry sends them again. The column keeps the saved count until they are saved. Matches follow your lists as they change, and leave out what the profile may not open, as other collections do. If they can't be read again, the matches already shown stay, with the time they are from and Try again. A source you removed stays in a saved Source rule, marked Removed, and matches nothing. A title's Add to collection offers only the collections you add titles to, and a smart collection's matches can be selected and added to one of those, but not removed.

Each profile has its own collections, kept on your computer across restarts; another profile never sees them or their counts, and deleting a profile deletes its collections. Titles a profile may not open are left out of its collections and their counts: a kids profile sees only its approved titles, and titles for adults show only while For adults is on. Unavailable titles show only on a profile that isn't a kids profile, while For adults is on, since a title the lists no longer have can't be checked. If your collections can't be read, the page and the details say so with Try again, and show nothing as empty in their place.

The picture fills the window below the top bar, with the title, a timeline and the controls along the bottom; they fade while you watch and come back when you move the pointer.

• Drag the timeline, or skip back and forward 10 seconds. A skip into what's already loaded is instant; further away, the picture takes a second to catch up.
• Sound lists the sound tracks the file carries, and CC its subtitles. CC opens a panel with everything about subtitles: the tracks, their timing and look, and online search. C turns the last ones you picked on and off, and a paused title stays paused while it changes. Your choice of language is remembered, and the next title or channel that has it starts with it, as Audio in and Subtitles under Settings > Playback and Settings > Subtitles describe. When the file has no sound in that language, its own default plays.
• Speed, beside them, plays from 0.5× to 2×. Voices keep their pitch. The speed lasts for the title, and carries on when Next episode plays the one after.
• Timing, in CC, moves subtitles earlier or later in tenths of a second, for this title only. Look sets their size, a box or a shadow behind the text, low or higher up, and stays for every title and channel. Subtitles drawn as pictures, as on Blu-rays and DVDs, take only size and position.
• Menus follow the arrow keys. Escape or a click outside closes them without pausing or skipping.
• Mini player, beside full screen, or P, shrinks the window into a small picture in a corner of the screen, on top of other windows. The title plays on where it was, with its subtitles, and the keys work as before. Drag the top of the picture to move it, and its corner to resize it. Escape, a double click or the arrows button puts the window back where it was, full screen included; the cross leaves the title. The countdown to the next episode carries on in it, and the next episode plays there. On a Mac the window and its Dock icon disappear for a moment each time it shrinks or grows back. Linux under Wayland can't keep a window on top, so there the mini player isn't offered.
• Next episode, or N, plays the next one at once.
• The keyboard's media keys and the system's own controls, Now Playing on a Mac and the media overlay on Windows, show the episode's name, its series and "S1 E3", or the film's name, with TMDB's picture. They play, pause, skip 10 seconds, move along the timeline, and play the next episode when there is one.
• Back, or Escape, returns to the details or the page you came from.

How far you got is saved as you go: every minute, and whenever you pause, skip, change tracks, finish or leave. It's kept with the subscription you watched in, like favourites.

When an episode ends, the next one plays after the delay in Settings > Playback > Next episode delay. Choose any whole number from 0 to 60 seconds. The default is ten seconds; 0 is Instant. Autoplay stays a separate Next episode switch.

The end screen names the next episode, and says when a new season starts, as in "Finished S1 E3 · Season 2 is next". Play now, or N, starts it straight away. Cancel keeps the end on screen, with Next episode and Episodes, which opens the series. Leaving, starting something else or removing its subscription stops the countdown too. Settings holds the remaining seconds, even Instant. Closing Settings resumes that remainder if autoplay is on, including after an off/on edit while Settings was open. Final Off cancels it. Enabling autoplay later does not restart a cancelled countdown, and changing the delay applies to the next countdown. A failed settings read leaves manual Next episode available.

The next episode is the next one you haven't watched, in your provider's order and across seasons, in the version of the series you're watching and with your sound and subtitle languages. Episodes you watched or marked watched are passed over, also when you marked them while this one played. It never goes back to an earlier episode, and specials only lead to other specials. Mr. Streamer checks what you watched once more before the next episode opens. If it can't, nothing starts on its own: Next episode checks again. If the episode doesn't start, the screen says why: Try again asks your provider once more, and Episodes opens the series.

With none left to watch after it, the screen says that this was the last episode, or that the rest is watched. Watching such an episode into the credits takes the series off Continue watching, every version of it, once you've watched every numbered episode, until you play or mark one of its episodes again. If you skipped an earlier episode, the series stays on the row and offers that one.

Home's Continue watching row shows what you were watching: movies you started, and for each series the episode you're on. A title counts as started after two minutes, and as finished in its last few minutes, where the credits run. A finished movie leaves the row, and so does a series once you watched every numbered episode of it. A finished episode stays as Next episode, which plays the next episode you haven't watched, the first earlier one you skipped when none is left after it, or opens the series' details once you watched them all. A series you marked an episode of shows the episode it goes on with: the one you marked unwatched, or the next one you haven't watched after the one you marked watched. When none is left after that one, it is the first earlier episode you haven't watched, and once every numbered episode is watched the series leaves the row. Specials don't count towards that. The tile follows what you watch: when an episode that was playing as you marked another reaches its end, the series moves on past it. It goes by the episodes the series listed when you last marked one or opened it, so episodes your provider added or took away since show once you open the series. The row shows what you saved, so it asks your provider nothing until you press play. The × on a tile takes it off the row, as Remove from Continue watching does.

Key	While watching
Space, K	Pause and play
Left, Right	Back or forward 10 seconds
Up, Down	Volume
N	Next episode, also during a countdown
C	Subtitles on and off
G, H	Subtitles 0.1 s earlier or later
<, >	Slower or faster
F, M	Full screen, mute
P	Mini player, and back
Escape	Close a menu, leave full screen, back

Many subscriptions allow one connection at a time, and Mr. Streamer plays one thing at a time across all of them. Opening a movie or episode stops the live channel first, whichever subscription each is from, and Movies and Series don't play the muted live preview Home shows; it starts again when you go back to Home. A pause of more than five minutes lets go of the connection, and playing again picks up where you were. A download from the same subscription waits while anything of it plays.

What plays lists the formats and what gets converted.