Pick up where you left off
Resume movies and episodes across paired screens with progress stored by your server.
Continue WatchingPlayback history
Tater Tube Player + Server
Your library. Your channels. Just press play.
A modern, self-hosted home for your movies, shows, and live channels—served by Tater Tube Server and made for the biggest screen in the room.
Steam + Steam Deck Wishlist now
Apple TV Available now
Google TV Available now
Player preview
Coming to Steam
Playback comes first
Your library feels at home on the TV.
Tater Tube Player keeps the things you watch most within a few controller clicks, with artwork-forward browsing and clean playback controls built for the couch.
Browse everything
Move through movies, TV shows, folders, seasons, and episodes without leaving the player.
Local librariesSearch
Tune into your own TV
Watch server-built Tube TV channels with guide data, bumpers, station IDs, and commercial breaks intact.
Live TVChannel guide
Made for watching
Less dashboard. More play.
Artwork, progress, live schedules, and search stay clear from across the room. Every surface is designed for a controller or TV remote first.
LibraryMovies + TV
Live TVNow + Next
One system, end to end
Your server does the heavy lifting.
Tater Tube Server scans your movies and shows, resolves artwork, remembers playback, builds your Tube TV schedule, chooses direct play or transcoding for each screen, and can enhance compatible lower-resolution video with optional AI upscaling.
It is a complete self-hosted media platform—not another skin over Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin.
Keep your library yours
Choose the native Mac app or map local media into Docker, then serve it directly from your own hardware.
Build your own live TV
Turn movies and series into scheduled channels with guides, bumpers, station IDs, and commercial breaks.
Play the best stream
Use direct playback when the device supports it and server transcoding when it does not.
Pair every screen
Connect players with a short PIN and keep progress synchronized by the server.
Optional AI upscaling
Explore AI upscaling
Give older video a sharper path to the big screen.
Auto Detect matches local GPU-accelerated models to your hardware, with automatic fallbacks that keep playback moving.
From handheld to living room
One Tater Tube experience across every screen.
The shared server contract keeps libraries, playback, and live channels consistent while each client feels native to its platform.
Steam + Steam Deck
The controller-first Qt player is coming to Steam. Wishlist it now and follow the Steam page for release updates.
Apple TV
Download the native player free from the App Store for Apple TV running tvOS 18 or later.
Google TV
Download the native player from Google Play for Google TV and Android TV, with remote-first browsing and playback.
Another way to play
Tater Tube Retro
Choose the VCR-style 240-MP interface on Steam/Linux, a Pi 4 CRT, or a Pi 5 HDMI setup. Tater Tube Retro brings together Game Center, PC Link, Public Access, Tape Deck, and the complete retro module lineup.