# Kaveo > A minimalist, high-quality media player with a library of its own: local files first, Jellyfin optional, HDR output, a neural upscaler, and subtitles it can fetch, sync and translate. Site: https://kaveoplayer.com/ Guide: https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/ ## Kaveo - [Kaveo documentation](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/): Everything Kaveo can do, and how. - [From your file manager](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/file-manager/): Play or file a video or a track, or open a photo, with a right-click. - [Command line](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/command-line/): Start Kaveo on a file, a folder or a web address from a terminal. - [Keyboard shortcuts](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/keyboard-shortcuts/): Every key and mouse button the player answers to, as Kaveo ships it. - [Troubleshooting](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/troubleshooting/): The messages Kaveo shows, and what to send when you report a problem. - [Credits](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/credits/): The people and projects whose work appears in these pages. ## Getting started - [Getting started](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/getting-started/): Your first minutes with Kaveo. - [Licence](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/getting-started/licence/): The key a Kaveo beta needs, and what happens when it ends. - [First launch](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/getting-started/first-launch/): What Kaveo shows the first time, and how to point it at your films. - [A tour of the interface](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/getting-started/interface-tour/): The top bar, the library home, the title page and the player at a glance. ## Your library - [Your library](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/): Browse, organise and correct the titles Kaveo finds. - [The library home](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/home/): The featured band, the rows, and new files appearing on their own. - [The card menu](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/title-menu/): Quick actions from a right-click on a title's card. - [Trailers](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/trailers/): Play a title's trailer, and choose its quality and language. - [Search and genres](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/search/): Find a title, or narrow the library to one genre. - [Artists](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/artists/): Browse your music by who made it, and play everything by one artist. - [Artist pictures](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/artist-pictures/): Where an artist's picture comes from, and how to find the missing ones online. - [Playlists](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/playlists/): Keep a list of songs under a name, play it, and bring M3U playlists in and out. - [Podcasts](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/podcasts/): Subscribe to podcasts by their feed, listen streamed or downloaded, and pick up where you left off. - [Album information](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/album-information/): An album's year, label, genres, cover and description, from your files and from MusicBrainz. - [Categories](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/categories/): Split the library into places of your own. - [Editing music tags](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/edit-tags/): Change what your music files say — titles, artists, album, cover — and write their loudness into them. - [Genres and tags](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/tags/): See and correct a title's genres and its anime or adult tag. - [Hiding adult content](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/adult-content/): Keep adult titles out of the library screens. - [Correcting a wrong match](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/correct-a-match/): Fix a title Kaveo matched to the wrong film or series. - [File info](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/file-info/): See what a file says about itself, and what sits beside it. - [Collections](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/collections/): Group the films and series of one saga. - [Missing episodes](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/missing-episodes/): See which episodes of a season you do not have, and what is coming. - [Metadata files](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/metadata-files/): Use and write the NFO files other media tools keep beside your videos. - [Your own photos and videos](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/personal-videos/): Keep phone and camera photos and videos in a place of their own. - [Viewing photos](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/view-photos/): Look at your own photos one at a time, zoom in, and step through a folder. - [Slideshow](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/slideshow/): Play a folder of your own photos and videos from start to end. - [Exporting your photos and videos](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/library/export-your-videos/): Copy your own photos and videos, one or a whole folder, to a folder you choose, with their dates. ## Watching - [Watching](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/): Playing a video, and what the player can do. - [Player controls](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/player-controls/): The playback bar, and leaving the player without stopping the film. - [Audio and subtitle tracks](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/audio-and-subtitle-tracks/): Choose the soundtrack you hear and the subtitles you read. - [Two or three subtitles at once](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/more-subtitles/): Show a signs track beside the dialogue, or two languages together. - [Volume and dynamics](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/volume-and-dynamics/): The same loudness for every title, night mode, clearer dialogue, and volume above 100 %. - [Same loudness for every title](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/same-loudness/): Level songs, episodes and films to one loudness, and choose how. - [Equalizer](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/equalizer/): Shape the sound with ten bands, from a preset or your own. - [Next episode and queue](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/next-episode/): Move between episodes, album tracks and queued files. - [Playing on a loop](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/loop/): Repeat a video, a folder or a playlist for hours, with nobody watching. - [Sleep timer](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/sleep-timer/): Pause after a while, or stop at the end of what is playing. - [Listening to music](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/listen-to-music/): Play a track or a whole album, yours or a server's, and what the player shows when there is no picture. - [The song screen](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/now-playing/): What the player shows while a song plays, and where it leads. - [The music queue](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/music-queue/): Choose what plays next, and change the order while the music plays. - [Music while you browse](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/music-bar/): Keep listening on other pages, with shuffle, repeat and the queue at hand. - [Lyrics](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/lyrics/): Read the words of a song while it plays, the line being sung lit up. - [Visualizer](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/visualizer/): A spectrum of what you hear over the cover, or its waveform in the cover's place. - [Skipping openings](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/skip-intro/): Skip a series' opening or ending. - [Screenshots](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/screenshots/): Save a picture of what is on screen. - [HDR output](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/hdr/): Send HDR video to an HDR display. - [Saving a frame](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/save-a-frame/): Keep the picture on screen as a photo. - [Editing a copy of a video](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/edit-a-copy/): Trim, turn or silence a video, and keep the result as a new file. - [Copying to the clipboard](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/copy-to-clipboard/): Paste the picture on screen, one of your own photos, or one of your own videos, somewhere else. - [Media keys and the desktop](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/media-keys/): Play, pause and skip from the keyboard's media keys and the desktop's media controls. - [Opening a web address](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/open-a-url/): Play a video file, a stream or a video page like YouTube's from its address. - [When the graphics card stops responding](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/watching/graphics-card/): Kaveo recovers by itself, and what it does if it keeps happening. ## Subtitles - [Subtitles](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/): Load, sync, edit and translate subtitles. - [Loading subtitles](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/load/): Use a subtitle file beside the video, a track inside it, or a file on your server. - [Finding subtitles online](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/online-search/): Search OpenSubtitles for a subtitle in your language. - [Syncing subtitles](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/sync/): Move a subtitle onto the right timing. - [Resyncing a whole series](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/resync-all/): Re-time every subtitle of a film, a season or a series at once. - [Subtitle delay](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/delay/): Shift every line of a subtitle while you watch, and keep that timing. - [Writing and editing subtitles](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/edit/): Create a subtitle, fix its lines and timing, or delete one. - [Saving a subtitle](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/save/): Write a subtitle you changed to a file, on the server, or over the original. - [Position and style](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/position-and-style/): Move a line, change fonts and colours, or place every subtitle. - [Translating subtitles](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/translate/): Translate a subtitle with an AI model. - [Translating a whole series](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/translation-queue/): Queue the subtitles of a film, a season or a series for translation, without playing them. - [Subtitles from OpenSubtitles for a series](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/translation-queue-online/): Let the translation dialog download subtitles in your language, or English to translate from. - [Following the translation queue](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/translation-queue-panel/): See how far the translation queue is, pause it, change its order, and retry what failed. - [Choosing a translation model](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/choosing-a-model/): How good each kind of model is, what it costs, and how long it takes. - [Better translations](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/translation-quality/): Names, speakers, style, and lines that do not fit. - [Translating on your own computer](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/subtitles/local-models/): Use Ollama or LM Studio, and let Kaveo listen to the film. ## Sources - [Sources](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/sources/): Where your titles come from. - [Local folders](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/sources/local-folders/): The folders Kaveo scans for films, series and music on this computer. - [Jellyfin](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/sources/jellyfin/): Connect a Jellyfin server and keep your progress in sync. - [When a server moves](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/sources/server-moved/): Give Kaveo a server's new address without losing its categories. - [New files on a server](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/sources/server-scan/): Make your Jellyfin server list a file you copied there yourself. - [Leaving files out](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/sources/leave-out/): Keep folders and files out of the library, by rule or with a marker file. ## Organizing files - [Organizing files](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/organizing/): Rename, import, and keep several copies of a title. - [Naming templates](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/organizing/naming-templates/): Choose how Kaveo names your files and folders. - [Tidying a folder](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/organizing/tidy-a-folder/): Rename what is already in your library to match your templates. - [Download folders](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/organizing/download-folders/): File finished downloads into your libraries. - [Fixing an import](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/organizing/fix-an-import/): Tell Kaveo where the files it could not place belong. - [Several copies of a title](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/organizing/versions/): Keep more than one copy of a film or episode. ## Private titles - [Private titles](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/private/): Keep titles encrypted and out of the library until you unlock them. - [Setting up private titles](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/private/set-up/): Choose where they live and set a password. - [Hiding a title](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/private/hide-a-title/): Make a title private. - [Hiding a photo](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/private/hide-a-photo/): Make one of your own photos private, its Live motion with it. - [Taking a title back out](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/private/take-a-title-out/): Turn a private title back into an ordinary file. - [Locking and unlocking](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/private/lock/): Unlock private titles, lock them again, and change the password. ## Settings - [Settings](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/): A reference page for each section of Kaveo's settings screen. - [Saving changes](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/saving/): How Save and Revert work, and what does not wait for them. - [Library](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/library/): The folders Kaveo scans, your categories, how files are named, and the playback history. - [Metadata](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/metadata/): The key that fetches posters and plots, music information online, the cookies that sign you in to sites, and starting over. - [Vault](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/vault/): Where private titles live, when the vault locks itself, and its two credentials. - [Audio](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/audio/): Where the sound goes, exclusive access, passthrough, DSD, the device's own volume, downmixing to stereo, and the pitch at another speed. - [Subtitles](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/subtitles/): Whether subtitles are drawn, how they look, and who translates or finds them. - [Behaviour](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/behaviour/): What the player does on its own, how it saves a frame, and how sharp a web video plays. - [Picture](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/picture/): Where the picture sits on the screen, and its colour. - [Upscaler](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/upscaler/): The picture pipeline — what is done to a frame, in the order it happens. - [Display & HDR](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/display/): Match the picture to the screen it is shown on, one display at a time. - [Rendering](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/rendering/): Who decodes the video, and how finished frames reach the screen. - [Interface](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/interface/): Language, themes, hover and seek bar previews, the home's featured band, the slideshow and the desktop's media controls. - [Shortcuts](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/shortcuts/): The keys and mouse buttons that drive the player, and how to change them. - [Diagnostics](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/diagnostics/): Logs, recordings and diagnostic bundles. - [Components](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/components/): What Kaveo uses on this computer, and the choices about it. - [Backup](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/backup/): Save Kaveo's settings, history and subtitles to one file, and restore them. - [About](https://kaveoplayer.com/guide/settings/about/): The Kaveo version you are running, newer ones, and where to report a problem.