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Sipario setup & playback guides
Setup help and practical playback guides. Find your sources, choose your language and understand what your hardware can do.
Install Sipario on Android TV or Google TV from Google Play
Find the official app, install it on your TV, connect your own sources and choose between Google Play and APK updates.
Read the guide →How to sideload an app on Android TV with Downloader
Install the APK with Downloader, or choose the Google Play release.
Read the guide →Play Dolby Vision, TrueHD, and DTS on Android TV
Understand native playback, hardware support, audio decoding and passthrough.
Read the guide →Dolby Vision Profile 7: why disc remuxes play flat on Android TV
Understand the difference between HDR10 and Dolby Vision, and the tradeoffs of single-layer conversion.
Read the guide →How real-time Profile 7 to 8.1 conversion works
A technical account of the conversion: RPU surgery on HEVC NAL units, Matroska container rewriting, the decoder entry gate, and keeping ahead of a 4K bitrate on supported hardware.
Read the guide →Fix subtitles and audio in the wrong language
Why players keep defaulting to the wrong track, how forced and SDH subtitles work, and how to make your language stick on every title.
Read the guide →Looking for an mpv player on Android TV?
mpv is the engine enthusiasts trust on the desktop. Here's what it gets you on a TV — the codec coverage, the tuning, and the limits.
Read the guide →Connect your media server, addons and playlists
Your server and addons already know what to play. Here's how a fast native player fits alongside the sources you already use.
Read the guide →Play your M3U and HLS playlists as live channels
Turn an M3U or HLS playlist into a browsable channel grid with a guide, played direct through the native player.
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