For any folks know infuse on Apple Store, I released an alternative on PlayStore

Rooting help
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For the geeks in this community, if you watch movies with your own hosted service, local disk, or service like Emby, Jellyfin, Plex, or webdav, samba.

I guess you already know infuse, and it only support apple devices. In the last two years, I built an app VidHub which is kind of an alternative to infuse, and I keep got the messages from users, please support android etc. And now I just released the very beginning version of VidHub on playstore, it support all the webdav, samba etc. And emby/jellyfin/plex will be released in this month.

So if you are a fan with local hosted movie server and you know infuse or Kodi, feel free to have a try with VidHub, and leave the feedback to me, I will read every comments and try to build a video player for android users.

Why VidHub?

If you host your movie or tv show streaming by yourself, no matter the video is in your local disk, icloud, webdav server, samba server or emby/jellyfin/plex server, you can build a threater experience on your devices.

Key Features:

:clapper: Scratch the movie poster automatically & organize all video files quickly.

:tv: Support almost all file format of the video files, support HDR, DV also. But not Dolby Atmos yet.

:earth_africa: Support all language subtitle, search online to find any subtitle you want to try.

:floppy_disk: File Management inside the app, batch rename, delete etc.

:computer: Emby, Jellyfin, Plex, direct connection mode, super fast.

:cloud: icloud sync with all apple devices, trakt supported, so easy to track & sync.

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Definitely should’ve added the app name in the first paragraph and title, then shared the play store link in the description area.

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Fraser said:
Definitely should’ve added the app name in the first paragraph and title, then shared the play store link in the description area.

Will Add a link in the post now. But need the moderator review.

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Would love to see an Android TV version of this app, and similar sync to the iCloud one on the Apple versions of the app, though Trakt integration does help this somewhat.

But either way, good work in bringing this across. A native Android TV app would likely see me switching away from Stremio.

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@Brennan
Yes, me too. Working on this part

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Came across this the other day, just waiting for emby integration

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Clove said:
Came across this the other day, just waiting for emby integration

Going to release emby plex jellyfin support in this month

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TIL Infuse only available on Apple’s platforms.

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Valen said:
TIL Infuse only available on Apple’s platforms.

Yes, I keep seeing users comments about android, so I moved to android now. VidHub also will support android tv soon

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Is this open source?

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Vance said:
Is this open source?

No, and I have no intention of opening.

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Tatum said:

Vance said:
Is this open source?

No, and I have no intention of opening.

That’s a hard pass for the jellyfin gang.

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any way to make the ios version work with and play content from stremio?

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Jordan said:
any way to make the ios version work with and play content from stremio?

So far no, we have not integrated with stremio now, maybe later.

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What would the advantage of this app be over just using Plex directly? It sounds like, at least on Android it doesn’t even support Dolby Atmos audio yet? I like the idea if it works well, Kodi for example has amazing codec playback support, but a terrible interface. If this could be a prettier, easier alternative that integrates with Plex servers I could see it taking off, but the codec support is key imo

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@Ainsley
Yes, I am trying to make a better ui with great codec, currently I build this as my iOS vidhub ui, a little bit changed as android. And video decoding is basically mpv engine.

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@Ainsley
Do Kodi and Plex GoogleTV apps do on device decoding now?

I can’t speak for this app, but the main reason I moved to AppleTV + infuse is because the AppleTV had enough horsepower to just natively play any video. At the time I was running Plex I think (it was years ago and I kept flipping between apps so I can’t remember exactly). My server was also my main PC, and I could definitely feel it when someone started watching something (in the sense that the transcoding process really made stuff on my computer lag).

Moving to infuse, my “media server” was just a usb drive plugged into my router and shared with SMB.

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@Finch
Afaik they always have done on device encoding, but for Plex as an example, if the client (shield, Google TV streamer, etc) don’t support the audio codec, video codec, or subtitles then they transcode on the server end to a codec set that the device will support and then the device gets fed transcoded video that it still has to decode to play. A decoded video stream is way too big to send to an end client over normal networks, think how HDMI is up to 18Gbps for 2.0 for example.

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it’s working well with my local network so far.

I know this app is still in early development, but in the future can you include an option like “one tap or touch” anywhere on screen to “pause” or “play” current running video please?

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@Bevin
Maybe later build