OMP — Open Movie Player: watch TorrServer on TV and Android

⚡ The gist in 5 seconds - The point: OMP is a media player that plays movies and TV shows directly from TorrServer on your home network. - Where it's available: LG webOS 4.0+, Android TV, and Android phones. - The limitation: it requires TorrServer, but if you don't have your own server, OMP can run it right on the phone (arm64). ### 🔍 What was found OMP (Open Movie Player) is a GitHub project; the current version is 0.15. The player works with the TorrServer catalog: categories, TV shows by season, chapters, intro skipping, audio tracks, and subtitles. On LG webOS it uses the TV's hardware decoder; on Android TV it uses the built-in player (Media3 with FFmpeg) with support for DTS, AC3, E-AC3, and TrueHD, or VLC (almost all formats, ASS subtitles with styling), or an "Auto" mode. Version 0.15 added direct connection to Jackett and Prowlarr (ports 9117, 9696) with handoff to Android TV, Cloudflare bypass for Kinozal and rustorka (login via browser, with FlareSolverr as a fallback). Search is unified: one query across rutor, nnmclub, rutracker, Kinozal, rustorka, Anidub, BigFANGroup, torrent.by, Jackett, Prowlarr, and TorrServer search, with duplicate torrents merged. ### 💡 Why it matters OMP solves the main problem of home streaming: the phone becomes the remote and a second screen. You can start an episode on the TV, then pause, rewind, switch audio tracks, and adjust the volume right from the phone. A shared watch history is stored on TorrServer and synced across all devices, indicating where you watched: "TV" or "Phone 'name'." This lets you continue watching from the same point on any device, and for TV shows — automatically move on to the next episode. For those without their own TorrServer, OMP runs the server right on the phone (arm64 architecture), so the TV will find it on its own. ### 🧩 Context The project is being developed as a media player for home networks. Installation on a TV is possible in one click; for LG — via the Homebrew Channel. OMP can automatically discover servers and TVs on the network, and connect the phone to the TV via a QR code (LG) or a code (Android TV). The phone app has a "New" tab with a feed of fresh torrents and notifications that arrive even when the app is closed. There's also an "Error Log" holding 500 entries with a button to send a report to GitHub, and settings backup to a file. Updates are checked at launch, and after installation a changelog is shown.

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