Settings Breakdown
Nuvio's settings allow for deep customization. Below is a detailed breakdown, noting differences between the Mobile, Android TV, and Windows versions.
IMPORTANT
Anything not labeled Android TV only, Mobile only, or Windows only is a feature of all versions.
1. General & UI
| Setting | Mobile | Android TV | Windows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theme | Select custom accent color palettes (White, Crimson, Ocean, Violet, Emerald, Amber, Rose). Toggle AMOLED Black to use pure black backgrounds for OLED screens. | Select custom accent color palettes (White, Crimson, Ocean, Violet, Emerald, Amber, Rose). Toggle AMOLED Mode and Pure Black Surfaces to use pure black app backgrounds and card surfaces. | Select custom accent color palettes (White, Crimson, Ocean, Violet, Emerald, Amber, Rose). Toggle AMOLED Black to use pure black backgrounds for OLED screens. |
| Font & Language | Adjust global App Language overrides. | Adjust global App Font family choices and App Language overrides. | Adjust global App Language overrides. |
| Layout / Home Shelf | Toggle the Show Continue Watching shelf on the Home screen. Select a base home card type: Card (TV-style landscape card), Wide (info-dense horizontal card), or Poster (artwork-first poster card). Toggle Resume prompt on launch popups. | Switch home dashboards between Modern View (with dedicated hero panels), Grid View, or Classic View. Toggle Fullscreen Hero Backdrops. Configure auto-collapsing sidebars. | Toggle the Show Continue Watching shelf on the Home screen. Select a base home card type. You can enable the card depth effect. Toggle Resume prompt on launch popups. |
| Up Next Behavior | Configure granular tracking rules: Prefer Episode Thumbnails, Up Next From Furthest Episode (disable for rewatches to use most recent), Show Unaired Next Up Episodes, and Blur Unwatched to avoid spoilers. | Configure series playback lines using Prefer Binge Group rules, Reuse Binge Groups, and variable Next Episode Threshold Mode percentages. | Configure granular tracking rules: Prefer Episode Thumbnails, Up Next From Furthest Episode (disable for rewatches to use most recent), Show Unaired Next Up Episodes, and Blur Unwatched to avoid spoilers. |
| Poster Card Style | Fine-tune card Width (Compact, Dense, Standard, Balanced, Comfort, Large) and Corner Radius (Sharp, Subtle, Classic, Rounded, Pill) with a real-time pixel size Live Preview. Toggle Landscape Posters and Hide labels. | Fine-tune card Width metrics (Compact to Large), Corner Radius geometries (Sharp to Pill), and hover Backdrop Expand Delay timers. Toggle Landscape Posters. | Fine-tune card Width metrics (Compact to Large), Corner Radius geometries (Sharp to Pill), and hover Backdrop Expand Delay timers. Toggle Landscape Posters. |
2. Playback: View Playback Guide
- Internal Player: Highly recommended for most users. Supports hardware decoding.
- Internal Engine: Manually choose between ExoPlayer or libmpv as the primary background media core.
- Auto-switch engine on startup error Android TV only: Automatically falls back from ExoPlayer to libmpv for detected anime or if an initialization failure occurs.
- External Player: Useful if you encounter codec issues. Nuvio can pass the stream to VLC, MX Player, or JustPlayer.
- Hardware Acceleration: Toggle this if you experience stuttering on older devices.
- Auto-Play Next: Automatically start the next episode in a series.
- RTX Video Super Resolution Windows only: Upscales low-resolution video using NVIDIA RTX AI Super Resolution.
- Intro, Outro, and Recap Skip: Prioritizes segment database filters across IntroDB, AniSkip, and Anime Skip. Includes automated community timestamp submission tools [Mobile and Desktop Only] alongside custom parental guidance Content Warnings and automated segment skipping filters (including recaps).
- Stream Selection & Auto-Play: Configures connection handshakes using Reuse Last Link, Last Link Cache Duration thresholds, explicit Auto Stream Selection modes (Auto-play first source, Manual list, or custom Auto-play regex match), scraper Timeout settings, and granular Filtering Scopes for plugins/addons.
- Binge Watching Options: Customizes automated series playback chains via Prefer Binge Group rules, Reuse Binge Groups, variable Next Episode Threshold Mode percentages, Show loading status, and idle security prompts via Are You Still Watching? with configurable Episode Threshold Android TV only.
- Subtitle and Audio Preferences: Locks primary and secondary multi-track audio/subtitle languages, filters out non-preferred tracking layers, uses a Skip Silence trigger, Remember audio delay per device, and offers an Enable downmix route with Maintain original audio on downmix and Number of channels (2.0–7.1) to crush multichannel surround sound into clear stereo speaker arrays.
- Subtitle Layout Adjustments: Tailors caption scaling sizes, Bold font weight, custom text/background color profiles, outline parameters, and Vertical Offset. Includes an experimental toggle to deploy the libass rendering engine for heavy ASS/SSA dynamic typesetting scripts.
- Interface & Control Overlays: Features standard Loading Overlays, passive informational Pause Overlays, OSD System Clocks Android TV only, touchscreen Hold To Speed / Hold Speed scaling multipliers, and Touch Gestures for seeking, volume, and brightness Mobile only.
3. Account Integrations: View Integrations Guide
- Trakt.tv: Syncs your "Up Next" list and watch history across all Nuvio devices. Includes Library Source, Watch Progress, Continue Watching Window, Comments, and More Like This source settings.
- Simkl: Syncs anime, TV, and movie watch history. Includes Anime ID preference setting.
- TorBox / Premiumize:
- Essential for high-quality, buffer-free 4K streams.
- Requires an API Key or Device Code for authorization.
- Plugins & Extensions: Manages third-party scraper repositories globally, allowing integrations via direct URL inputs or mobile QR code syncing codes. Includes Enable plugin providers globally and Group plugin providers by repository toggles.
- TMDB Enrichment Sourcing: Pulls downstream artwork, textless backdrops, synchronized release countdown metrics, cast crew indices, production networks, and dedicated episode runtimes. Requires a Personal API key Mobile only.
NOTE
Using a metadata source that does not align with TMDB can cause issues with artwork and other metadata. If you have duplicate posters or other metadata issues turn off Artwork, Episodes, and Season Posters enrichment toggles.
- MDBList Ratings API: Connects a custom key to fetch and layer platform rating scores (Trakt, IMDb, TMDB, Letterboxd, MyAnimeList, Rotten Tomatoes, Audience, and Metacritic) over title dashboard views.
- Anime Skip Integration: Authorizes account validation links via an external Client ID to activate accurate crowd-sourced timestamp skipping triggers.
4. Advanced: View Playback Guide
- Decoder Priority: Dictates processing priorities across Device decoders only (strict hardware parsing), Prefer device decoders (hardware priority with software fallbacks), or Prefer app decoders (FFmpeg) (software processing for legacy formats).
- DV7 - HEVC Fallback: Fixes distorted purple or green colors by falling back from unsupported Dolby Vision Profile 7 video to standard HEVC.
- Strip HDR10+ Metadata: Removes HDR10+ dynamic metadata from the video stream when the display does not support it.
- Hardware Decoding (mpv-only): Toggles hardware-accelerated decoding within the libmpv engine.
- Dolby Vision Mapping Android TV only: Includes Preserve DV mapping (DV7 to DV8.1) and Convert DV5 to DV8.1.
- Refresh Rate Switching (AFR) Android TV only: Automatically matches your TV's refresh rate to the content (e.g., 24fps) to eliminate judder. Configurable as Off, On start, or On start/stop parameters.
- Tunnelled Playback: Improves synchronization and reduces overhead by using an optimized low-level playback path on supported devices. This can provide smoother playback for demanding 4K HDR video.
- Force AC-3 Transcoding (Optical/SPDIF): Live-transcodes heavy modern multichannel sound formats (TrueHD, DTS, AAC) into traditional compressed Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks to maintain output over bandwidth-limited digital optical audio connections.
- Experience mode: Switch between the full settings interface and a simplified Essential mode that hides advanced options Android TV only.
- Performance & navigation Android TV only: Includes Fast Horizontal Navigation and Nuvio Focus Scrolling for optimizing remote-driven browsing performance.
- Remember Last Profile: Automatically loads the last-used profile when the app starts, skipping the profile selection screen.
- Diagnostics: Includes Sentry crash reports (toggle automatic crash reporting) and Playback issue reports for submitting diagnostic data.
- Cache: Clear Continue Watching Cache to reset the Continue Watching shelf data.
- DV Diagnostics Android TV only: Conversion mode selection and Last Playback Diagnostics for troubleshooting Dolby Vision playback issues.
5. Buffer and Network Android TV only: View Playback Guide
These configurations govern internal memory allocation thresholds, local system caching pools, and network data transit rules. Full detail lives under Player Settings → Buffer and Network.
- ExoPlayer Native Memory: Relocates the ready-ahead playback buffer into a more efficient area of device memory so high-bitrate streams can maintain larger ahead-buffers without exhausting the app's limited private memory share on TV sticks and boxes. Displays device RAM and a recommended safety limit.
- Custom Playback Buffers: Completely overrides stock Media3 parameters with specialized processing limits (works with or without Native Memory):
- Min / Max Buffer Duration: Calibrates the safe minimum and maximum content duration thresholds to cache ahead of the active video cursor position.
- Initial Buffer & Buffer After Rebuffer: Sets the precise buffering depth required before an initialized video stream boots, or when reclaiming feeds after a playback stall.
- Back Buffer Duration: Holds already-viewed stream data inside local system memory arrays to enable instant seek-back actions without re-downloading source content.
- Target Buffer Allocations: Manages device RAM footprints safely via an automated Managed Memory Budget filter, or overrides restrictions to unlock manual caching sliders up to 2GB via the Allow Larger Target Buffer toggle.
- Disk Cache Performance: Establishes fixed storage caching partitions:
- VOD Disk Cache: Saves active downloaded file arrays directly onto internal storage to shield progressive media playback from momentary network drops.
- Auto Size: Automates cache constraints targeting roughly 10% of total available free space, with manual overrides to maintain strict storage headroom margins.
- Network & P2P Stream Filters: Deploys a Custom Network filter to open parallel download connections for progressive links when a CDN throttles single-connection speed. Independent of Native Memory. Includes HTTP/2, Connection Count, and Chunk Size controls, plus P2P Streaming and Hide torrent stats overlays. Use Settings → Advanced → Stream Throughput Diagnostics to compare baseline vs parallel speeds before leaving multi-connection mode on — see Stream Throughput Diagnostics.
6. Customization & Management
- Profiles: Manage multiple users, watch histories, and recommendations separately. View Profiles Guide
- Collections: Create deep custom collections grouping media by genre, studio, or custom lists. View Collections Guide.
- Backup & Synchronization: Exports or imports compiled application configurations to instantly mirror visual formats, tracking scripts, and engine limits across backup hardware keys.
7. Downloads & Notifications Mobile only
- Downloads: Manage offline media downloads including storage location and quality preferences.
- Notifications: Configure Episode release alerts to receive push notifications when new episodes are released. Includes a Test notification option to verify setup.