MUVO.tv
Your media server, reimagined with AI.
Muvo turns your own hardware into a private streaming platform: rich metadata, Smart Transcode, remote access, four polished clients, and Muvo Scout for library-aware AI.
Free tier available. No credit card required to try the media server.
One server. Every screen in your house.
Muvo ships four polished clients on the same feature bar, and the canonical UI, sat in the media server itself, is the visual reference every other surface tracks against.
Media Server
The brain. Indexes your library, fetches metadata, manages users, transcodes on demand, and exposes a private API to every other client.
Download serverWeb App
Browse, play, and edit from any browser. The host dashboard for libraries, watchlists, billing, and Muvo Scout sits here.
Open app.muvo.tvWindows Player
A dedicated 4K-ready player with rich detail pages, recommendations, playlists, and Scout in the rail. Not a browser shell.
Get the playerAndroid Player
One signed binary across phone, tablet, Shield, and Fire TV. Adaptive layouts, 10-foot UI on TV, gesture controls on phone.
Get the APKA library-aware AI in every Muvo client.
Scout is the conversational layer over your shelf. Ask in plain English; it filters by what you own, what you have watched, runtime, mood, and cast. Approved Plans keep destructive writes like playlists, watchlists, and owner actions behind a review step.
Scout never writes silently. You see exactly what would change.
Every owner-only action (playlist edits, watchlist changes, file renames, owner Watch-Folder moves, metadata refreshes) runs as a Plan card you can review, edit, or reject before anything hits the disk.
Approved Plans
Anything that writes (playlists, watchlists, owner moves) runs as a Plan card you review and approve. No silent mutations.
Memory across messages
Follow-ups feel natural. Scout keeps thread context and your saved taste signals so you can iterate on ideas without repeating yourself.
Per-user, personalised
Each Muvo AI+ account on your server gets its own Scout context, watch history, and taste signals. Household profiles stay separate.
Your files stay home
Cloud models see prompts and text metadata only. They never see raw video. Storage and streaming never leave your hardware.
Ready to put Scout to work on your library?
Muvo AI+ unlocks Scout, semantic search, recommendations, voice search, smart playlists, and the rest of the AI bundle, billed per user, per month.
Direct play first. Convert only what the client can't handle.
Other servers blanket-transcode and waste your CPU and your quality. Muvo probes every track, decides per-stream, and only pays the conversion cost for the parts that actually need it. Hardware-accelerated where the box supports it.
Inspect every track: codec, bitrate, resolution, channel layout, language, and HDR profile.
Direct play when the client supports it. Otherwise repackage or convert only the parts that need it.
HLS to phones, MSE to browsers, native to the WPF and Android players. Resume picks up where you left off.
- Video is never re-encoded when direct play works, so you keep bit-perfect quality.
- Audio downmix only when needed (DTS / TrueHD / E-AC3 to AAC stereo / 5.1)
- Hardware-accelerated decode and encode on Intel QSV, NVIDIA NVENC, and Apple VideoToolbox
- Subtitles burn in or pass through; PGS converted on the fly when the client cannot render
- Bandwidth-aware ladders so a 4K HDR remux still plays cleanly on a hotel Wi-Fi
Smart Transcode ships with every Muvo media server. No extra plugin, no paid tier.
Get from folder paths to a working server.
Muvo guides the server owner through libraries, playback settings, metadata, and connectivity without hiding the important choices.
The wizard takes about three minutes from install to first stream.
Drop a file. MUVO does the rest.
Watch Folders identify content, match it to TMDB, preview destructive changes, and move it into the right library, with auditable history so nothing happens behind your back.
Manage your libraries
Movies, TV Shows, and Watch Folder, each with scan controls, metadata settings, and storage paths.
Automatic organisation
Every file is identified, matched, renamed, and moved. The full history is always visible.
One folder. Audited renames. Zero spreadsheets.
Try Muvo with your own library
Install the media server, connect a player, and feel how your existing files behave with modern metadata, Scout, and Smart Transcode on top.
Your shelf, organised the way you actually watch.
Auto-curated franchise collections, hand-built playlists, and a per-user watchlist that travels with you between web, Windows, and Android.
Auto-curated Collections
Muvo recognises franchises and groups them into beautiful collage cards (Marvel, Bond, Wizarding World) without you renaming a single folder.
Playlists across clients
Build watch playlists once. They sync to web, Windows, and Android. Scout can draft them for you and you approve before any write hits the server.
Watchlist + watched state
Per-user watched state, resume points, and watchlist follow you between devices. Mark a series watched on Android and the WPF tile updates instantly.
Sign in once. Your shelf travels with you.
Every detail, where it belongs.
Posters, cast, trailers, seasons, episodes, recommendations, and mood signals sit beside playback state. Click an actor; see the rest of the work you own.
See your library treated like cinema, not a folder tree.
Full visibility, zero guesswork.
Real-time CPU, memory, uptime, active streams, library stats, and storage breakdown in one panel.
Your data stays yours.
Your video files stay on your server. AI features use prompts and text metadata, not raw uploads of your movies.
Everything you need, nothing you don't.
Cinematic Library
4K posters, backdrops, full cast & crew, episode stills, ratings, and genre tags from TMDB. Your folder of MKV files becomes a cinematic catalogue.
Smart Transcode
Video is never re-encoded when direct play works. MUVO converts only what the client cannot play (e.g. DTS to AAC) using hardware acceleration. Zero quality loss when avoidable.
Muvo Scout
Library-aware AI chat for picks, semantic search, recommendations, memory, and approved Plans for owner-only writes. Lives in the rail, not in a separate silo.
Stream Everywhere
Web app, Windows player, Android phone/tablet/Shield/Fire TV. Start on your laptop, finish on your TV with resume points that follow the user, not the device.
Watch Folders
Drop a file, walk away. Muvo detects, identifies, fetches metadata, renames, and moves it into the right library. The full move history is auditable.
Skip Intro & Credits
Detect intros, recap, and credits automatically. One-tap skip on every client. No plugin, no extra subscription, and no fiddling with chapter markers.
Subtitles, Properly
Embedded, sidecar, and OpenSubtitles fallback in one search. PGS and ASS converted on the fly when the client cannot render. Per-user font and size.
Privacy First
Your video files stay on your hardware. Cloud AI features use prompts and text metadata only. Storage and playback never leave your server.
Multi-User
Owner, admin, and viewer roles with their own watched state, watchlists, taste signals, and Scout subscriptions. One server for the whole household.
How MUVO stacks up.
| Feature | MUVO | Plex | Emby | Jellyfin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-Hosted | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Paid | Free |
| Smart Transcode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hardware Transcoding | Free | Paid | Paid | Free |
| AI Library Chat | Yes (Scout) | No | No | No |
| Approved Plans for writes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Watch Folders | Yes | No | No | No |
| Auto-curated Collections | Yes | Manual | Manual | Manual |
| Auto Metadata (TMDB) | Built-in | Built-in | Built-in | Plugin |
| Remote Streaming | Built-in | Built-in | Paid | Manual |
| Skip Intro/Credits | Yes | Paid | Paid | Plugin |
| Live TV & DVR | Planned | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile Apps | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Modern UI | React + Compose + WPF | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Not sure? Start free, no credit card. The Free tier covers a single server with unlimited libraries.
What we are building next.
Four-client core
- Media server, web dashboard, Windows player, and Android player on the same feature bar
- Remote connection from app.muvo.tv to your media server
- Smart Transcode with direct play where possible
Scout at the core
- Contextual Scout rail across the canonical clients
- Memory, semantic search, recommendations, and approved Plans
- Server-owner admin actions with preview and confirmation
Living-room and install reach
- Chromecast sender and receiver work
- Smart TV packaging and store paths
- NAS / Docker install story and thin vendor shells
- Live TV, DVR, and richer trust pages
Want a heads-up when the next slice ships? Drop your email below or follow the changelog.
Bring your library into Muvo.
Start with the free media server, then add Premium or Muvo AI+ per user when you need remote streaming or Scout.