TV configurations: Preferences

• Text size and Text font: adjust overall readability. Font choices include a preview.
• Dialog style: choose a classic or two-pane layout.
• Channel, group and programme title text size: adjust each size in the navigation panel, along with its text style and brightness.
• Base theme: changes the app’s appearance. Focus selector: changes how the item selected with the remote looks.
• Change Language, Time Format and Date format: set the language and display formats.
• Show update indicator: makes the update indicator visible in the interface.
• EPG offset: follow the system or choose an offset suited to the guide. Catch-up offset: follow the TV guide offset or choose a separate value for catch-up.

• Startup screen: chooses the page shown when Waveo opens.
• DNS provider: chooses the service the app uses to resolve addresses. Keep the setting that works on your network.
• Exit app without confirmation: removes the exit confirmation prompt.
• Hide new groups added during updates: prevents new groups from appearing automatically in navigation.

• Integrated group menus: choose a classic layout or one grouped by playlist.
• Focus when selecting TV: choose the last viewed group or the last used playlist name.
• TV Guide and VOD: use arrows to reorder each menu and checkboxes to choose which entries appear.
• Hide collapsed side menu by default: reduces its presence on screen.
• Show group & playlist change buttons in drawer menu: shows or hides these shortcuts.
• Show profile in menu: keeps the profile visible in navigation.

Some checkboxes stay locked to keep settings and at least one content entry accessible.

• Display All group: adds a view of all content.
• Hide metadata panel: reduces the information shown with content.
• Show the New label and its duration: choose whether recent additions are marked and for how long.
• Release dates on episode cards: shows this information on the cards.
• Highlight watched content: marks items already watched. The completion threshold sets how much must be watched to count as finished.
• Animation when a poster is highlighted: choose no animation, poster zoom or card enlargement.

• The All TV group, two-line channel names and channel numbers: choose the guide’s navigation aids.
• List mode: choose card size and whether to show only logos. Channel logo priority decides whether Waveo prefers the provider’s logo or the EPG logo.
• Action buttons above the EPG: always show them, hide them or show them on focus.
• Short Left press and the Back button: choose how they return to groups or the current programme.
• Play last channel when TV guide opens: choose Always, Never or On screen change.
• Channel preview on focus: enable it in the guide, in the player’s EPG panel, in both or neither. Delay before changing channel prevents previews from starting too quickly.
• Automatic full screen and its delay: set when a preview switches to full screen.
• My Wave TV: channel click: chooses whether selecting a channel opens it directly in full screen.
• Default lead time for program reminders: sets how far in advance a programme reminder appears.

• Max favorites in player: limits the favourites shown in the player.
• Max history items: sets the size of the relevant history list.
• Watch time before adding to history: keeps very short playback out of history; Disable stops adding entries.
• Show content marked as watched: keeps finished content visible. When enabled, Show watched content in chooses favourites, history or both.

These preferences control behaviour on the TV. Sharing between devices is set separately in My cloud > Sync.

• Default search filter: chooses the content type selected at the start of a search.
• Back after opening a TV channel: sets where to return after opening a channel from search.
• Show hidden-group content: includes content in results even when its group is hidden.

• Control auto-hide delay: sets how long controls remain visible. Button descriptions: shows help when a button is focused.
• Resize video when the EPG panel opens and Current programme under channels: control the built-in panel’s layout.
• Automatic episode change and its threshold: set whether and when the next episode starts.
• IntroDB intro/outro skip: uses available markers for intros and credits in supported content.
• Show details when paused: displays content information while playback is paused.
• Always show clock: enables the clock; adjust its position, transparency and size separately.
• Audio language: sets your preferred language when the content has a matching track.

• Streaming delivery format: choose TS or HLS according to your source’s support.
• HLS Buffering (TV) and Buffering (VOD): adjust how much video is loaded ahead. A larger buffer may reduce interruptions but increase startup time.
• Before and After: add time before and after scheduled recordings.
• Local timeshift: enables local playback time shifting when the device and content support it.
• Picture-in-picture on Home: allows a small video window when returning to the home screen on supported devices.

• Audio passthrough: sends audio to compatible equipment for decoding. Audio delay · TV: corrects a mismatch between sound and picture.
• Auto-framerate for TV and VOD: matches the display refresh rate to the content. Minimum delay before switching: avoids frequent changes.
• Auto resolution for TV and VOD: adjusts resolution within the display’s limits. Render at source resolution: prevents the player from upscaling the picture.
• Color dynamic range for TV and VOD: choose Auto, an HDR preference or SDR to suit your display.
• Display format: keep proportions, fit width or height, stretch or use smart zoom. Stretching can distort the picture.

Use these options to address a playback problem on a TV. If playback works, keep your settings. Otherwise, change one option at a time and test the result on that TV.

• Audio tunneling: uses a playback mode available on compatible devices.
• Recreate decoder on channel change: changes how the player restarts a channel.
• Prefer software audio or video decoding: bypasses hardware decoding, separately for TV and VOD; this may use more resources.
• Disable HEVC hardware decoders: can work around problems with this format.
• Strict IDR start: waits for a suitable starting frame before playing video.
• Disable framerate estimator: turns off automatic estimation of the content’s frame rate.
• Secure preview ↔ fullscreen transition: a workaround marked Not recommended in the interface; use it only for a transition problem.

• Enabled by default: choose separately whether subtitles start enabled for TV and VOD.
• Subtitles: choose your preferred language; the content must offer it.
• Size, Font, Text color and Background: customise appearance. Use the stream’s value to keep the style supplied with the content.
• Text opacity and Background opacity: adjust transparency.
• Subtitle position: choose bottom, centre, top or Custom.
• With Custom selected, use the horizontal and vertical controls that appear to move the text.

Check the result on the TV with subtitled content. Some subtitle formats may enforce their own appearance.