Unofficial Stremio PS5 Port

Important

We need beta testers! The next version is being tested right now, and I need people with a jailbroken PS5 to try the test builds on different consoles, TVs, networks and streams, and tell me what works and what doesn't. Join the beta Discord server to get the test builds and report what you find: https://discord.gg/fJzFmvFqVf

Important

Version 1.0 is a full redesign of the app. Every screen was rebuilt from scratch. See What's new in 1.0.

Stremio now lives in the Games section of the PlayStation home screen. From 1.0 it is a game-type title (before, it was under Media). If you have an older version, remove it first: see Install.

Since version 0.2.0, no Stremio streaming server is needed. The app streams movies and TV shows directly on the console: torrents are downloaded by the app's own built-in torrent engine, and direct links (e.g. debrid services) play straight from their source.

A Stremio client for jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles, running as a native app on the home screen: browse your catalogs and library, pick a stream, and watch it, all with the DualSense.

Unofficial. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by or supported by Stremio, or by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It has no connection with either. "Stremio" and its logo are trademarks of their owner; "PlayStation", "PS5" and "DualSense" are trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. No Sony code, SDK, keys or firmware files are included.

Screenshots

Home: the wallpaper of the title you are on, and your rows	Continue Watching: play now, or choose another episode or stream
Discover: browse any catalog, with a preview	Library: everything you saved or watched
Episodes: seasons, what you have watched, where you stopped	Streams: grouped by resolution, with size and seeds
Player: subtitles, audio tracks, seeking	Search: with the PS5's own keyboard

The titles and artwork in these pictures are invented (made by tools/preview).

What's new in 1.0

A full redesign. The whole interface is new: it keeps Stremio's look and is drawn on the console's GPU, at 4K when your TV supports it (1080p otherwise).

And more besides the new look:

• Now in the Games section. Stremio is a game-type title, so it shows up under Games on the PlayStation home screen. It also gets all of the console's direct memory (about 11 GB instead of about 2 GB), which the artwork and the video decoder use.
• Hardware decoding reworked for the new interface: the video goes from the console's decoder to the GPU for display, and the player shows whether hardware or software decoding is in use.
• Continue Watching picks up where you left off: it plays the same episode with the same stream, at the point where you stopped, and after a finished episode it goes on to the next one.
• ○ always takes you back, all the way to the Board.
• The video pauses by itself when you press the PS button.
• Faster, sharper pictures: the app loads the posters and wallpapers before it shows the home screen, and uses higher-resolution wallpapers where they exist.
• Soft interface sounds when you move around, switch page or go back (turn them off in Settings, Interface sounds).
• Search opens the PS5's own keyboard, at the top right of the screen.
• Everything of 0.3.x is still here: the built-in torrent engine, direct links, subtitles (including Arabic and Hebrew) and sign-in with a code.

What's new in 0.3.1

• Arabic subtitles fixed: they showed as white boxes; they now show in an Arabic font, right to left, with joined letters.

What's new in 0.3.0

Fewer buffering stops:

• Long read-ahead on the console's storage: the app now uses up to 16 GB of the PS5's storage. Built-in torrents keep a 6 GB cache and download up to 3 GB (about a quarter of an hour of 4K) ahead of what you're watching; streams from a streaming server or a direct link keep up to 6 GB ahead.
• Six connections for streaming-server streams too (before, only direct links): one connection from a server measured 3-6 MB/s, six about 8 MB/s.
• If a source is slower than the video itself (a torrent with few seeders), it can still stop: pick a stream with more seeders or a smaller file.

What's new in 0.2.0

• Streams directly on the console: a built-in torrent engine (trackers, DHT, peer exchange) downloads just ahead of what you're watching, into a rolling 1 GB cache, and bans peers that send bad data.
• Hardware video decoding: H.264, HEVC (8 and 10-bit) and VP9 up to 4K decode on the PS5's own video hardware; other formats fall back to software decoding.
• HDR10 tone mapping: 4K HDR titles are converted to the TV's normal range with correct colours.
• Faster direct links: big files are downloaded over several connections at once.
• Smarter buffering: the buffer adapts to the video's bitrate and to how well the download keeps up, so playback stops less.

Features

• Sign in with your Stremio account (QR code / link code); your addons and library sync from your account.
• Board, Discover, Library, Addons, Settings pages in Stremio's colours, with poster art, wallpapers and smooth scrolling.
• Search with the PS5's on-screen keyboard.
• Title pages with seasons and episodes; streams grouped by resolution (4K, 1080p, 720p, ...) before you pick one.
• Player (FFmpeg, hardware decoding) with subtitles (from addons), audio track selection, seeking, and resume (Continue Watching).
• Torrent statistics (peers, speed, progress) while a torrent starts.
• One native app: no launcher, no payload sender and no server needed.

Requirements

• A jailbroken PS5 that can run homebrew titles, with ShadowMountPlus (or another tool that mounts .ffpfsc images) and fake-signed app support (e.g. kstuff / etaHEN). Developed and tested on firmware 11.60.

Install

1. Download PPSA77711.ffpfsc from the Releases page.
2. Copy it to /data/homebrew/ on the console (FTP, PS5 Upload, ...).
3. ShadowMountPlus registers it: start Stremio from the Games section of the home screen.
4. In Settings, sign in to your Stremio account.

To update (also from 0.x), close Stremio first, delete the old PPSA77711.ffpfsc, wait a few seconds, then copy the new one. (If the image is replaced while the app is running, the console keeps the old icon and backgrounds.)

Note

Version 1.0 keeps the title ID PPSA77711, but it is a game-type title: it appears in the Games section, where 0.x was under Media.

The app keeps its settings, artwork cache, read-ahead caches and log in its own storage (/download0/stremio, up to 16 GB), the same place as before, so your sign-in should carry over; if it doesn't, sign in again.

Controls

Where	Button	Action
Everywhere	✕ / ○	select / back (○ from any page goes to the Board)
	D-pad, left stick	move
	△ or Options	search
Board	□	See all (not on Continue Watching)
	✕ on a Continue Watching card	play now / choose another episode / choose another stream
	Options, on a Continue Watching card	remove it (asks first)
Addons	□	reload the addons
	✕ on an addon you added by URL	remove it
Title page, episodes	✕	choose the episode
	L1 / R1	previous / next season
	△	mark the episode watched / not watched
Title page, streams	✕	play
	□	play with the streaming server
Player	✕ or touchpad	pause / play
	D-pad left / right	seek 10 s
	L1 / R1	seek 1 min
	L3	back to the start
	□ / △	next subtitle / next audio track
	L2 / R2	subtitle delay -/+ 0.25 s
	D-pad up or Options	track menu
	○	stop

Building

Builds run on Linux or WSL (Ubuntu 24.04 tested):

./build.sh

The script installs what it needs (clang 18, the ps5-payload-sdk with its prebuilt libraries, ps5-native-app-boilerplate for the PS5 tooling, and, through ps5-homebrew-ui's own script, the ps5-opengl SDK, a pinned release that is checked against its SHA-256), then writes:

• dist/PPSA77711.ffpfsc: the app as one image file, for /data/homebrew/
• dist/PPSA77711/ (and .zip): the same as a folder (if you copy the folder instead, make sure eboot.bin keeps its execute permission)

tools/preview/preview.sh renders the screens on a PC (Linux or WSL with Mesa's software OpenGL) as pictures, with invented sample art, for working on the design without a console.

How it works

Stremio is compiled with the payload SDK's compiler, linked with the full C++ runtime and the OpenGL SDK, and turned into a signed native eboot.bin by the boilerplate's converter (gl/build.sh). The screens are drawn by the ps5-homebrew-ui toolkit (vendored in third_party/hui) with OpenGL 4.6 on the console's GPU. A native title runs in a sandbox with a minimal C runtime, so native/ adds what the libraries need there:

• heap.c: the malloc heap in direct memory (a title's flexible memory is only a few hundred MB), 32-byte aligned, leaving room for the video decoder;
• posix_fixes.c: 8 MB thread stacks, pipe() as a socket pair;
• console_curl.c: name lookup through the console's resolver, socket fixes;
• kernel_mem.c: memory mapping through the console's own library;
• ps5_modules.c: loads the on-screen keyboard module before first use;
• hui_runtime_shims.c: the process-level shims the OpenGL runtime needs;
• stubs/: link stubs for system modules the SDK has none for (the video decoder).

native/check_imports.py lists any system function that would resolve to a module the console doesn't load into an app.

Project layout

gl/           the app's logic and entry point: accounts, catalogs, library, search,
              playback, the artwork cache, the PS5 keyboard dialog, the main loop
ui/           the screens and their look: Board, Discover, Library, Addons, Settings,
              title page, player controls, pop-ups, the boot screen
src/          what is underneath: the Stremio API, HTTP, the FFmpeg player and hardware
              decoder, subtitles, audio output
src/torrent/  the built-in torrent engine and the player's torrent input
native/       native PS5 build: link script, runtime fixes, stubs
third_party/  hui (ps5-homebrew-ui, vendored), nlohmann/json, stb_image
app/          what the console reads: icons, fonts, certificates, the home-screen
              icon and pictures (sce_sys), licenses/ (license texts shipped inside the app)
tools/        preview/ (renders the screens on a PC), make_icons.sh (icons from
              stremio-icons), make_boot_art.py and make_dds.ps1 (the boot screen's name and
              the console's start-up pictures)

Status and known limitations

• The PS5 doesn't let the app accept incoming connections, so torrents only use peers the app can connect to; torrents with few reachable seeders start slowly or stop to buffer.
• Some formats (AV1, 4K HEVC coded in tiles) decode in software and can stutter at 4K.
• HDR is shown tone mapped, not as HDR; Dolby Vision plays its HDR10 layer.
• Titles and texts in Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have no font in the interface yet (they show as "?"), and the interface isn't mirrored for right-to-left languages. Subtitles in Arabic and Hebrew are shown correctly.
• Some wallpapers are only available in 1280x720 at the image service Stremio uses; they are enlarged and sharpened, but cannot look as sharp as full HD ones.
• A Stremio streaming server is optional: set one in Settings only if you want server transcoding or prefer it for torrents.

Credits and licenses

Licensed under the GNU GPL v3.0. This app stands on the work of many developers; thank you to all of them:

• BlackBearReloaded: ps5-homebrew-ui, the OpenGL interface toolkit this version is built on (renderer, controller input, text and shapes, runtime shims; vendored in third_party/hui), and its sound mixer and the Glass interface sounds (from ProsperoEden, generated with ElevenLabs Sound Effects); ps5-opengl, which makes OpenGL 4.6 run on the PS5, together with Mesa and OpenGNM PSBC; and ps5-native-app-boilerplate, the native-app foundation and tooling (with parts derived from SharpProspero by SvenGDK).
• The ps5-payload-sdk and its PacBrew libraries (FFmpeg, libcurl, OpenSSL, libwebp, GNU FriBidi, miniupnpc and more).
• The Kodi port for PS5 (Team Kodi, VivaLaVent): techniques for the heap, thread stacks and the keyboard dialog.
• Nuvio PS5 (Husam Osman): the hardware video decoding and parallel downloads were ported from it.
• dht (Juliusz Chroboczek) and miniupnpc (Thomas Bernard): the torrent engine's peer discovery and port mapping.
• stb (Sean Barrett): image loading, and the font baking behind the interface's text; nlohmann/json (Niels Lohmann); libwebp (Google): the posters' format; Inigo Quilez's published distance functions, behind the shapes the toolkit draws.
• Fonts: Inter (The Inter Project Authors), Montserrat (The Montserrat Project Authors) and DejaVu for the interface (the toolkit also ships Press Start 2P and Patrick Hand); Noto Sans, Noto Emoji and Noto Naskh Arabic UI (Google) for other scripts.
• Build tools: MkPFS (PSBrew) for packaging, Microsoft's DirectXTex for the console's start-up pictures, librsvg for the icons and Pillow for the pictures and the screen previews.
• On the console, the app relies on ShadowMountPlus (drakmor), etaHEN and kstuff; none of them is included.
• Stremio: stremio-icons and stremio-video, and the logo from dashboard-icons (homarr-labs). The app uses Stremio's public services for your account.
• Posters, wallpapers and descriptions come from the addons you use (for example Cinemeta and its image service) and belong to their owners.

See THIRD_PARTY.md for every component, where it is used and its license.

Note

This project is vibe coded: it was built with the help of AI.