The one-line answer
Use Standard. Switch to Lite only if you’re consistently getting fewer than 5–6 results on mainstream, recently-released content.
What Lite removes
Standard templates include a set of quality-gate ESEs that Lite drops. These are the ones removed:
| ESE removed in Lite | What it does in Standard |
|---|
| Low Bitrate Kill | Excludes streams below a minimum bitrate threshold |
| Low Seeders Kill | Excludes P2P streams with very few seeders |
| Upscaled 4K Kill | Excludes 1080p content AI-upscaled to 4K |
| Bad 4K Bluray Kill | Excludes 4K Blu-ray encodes from known poor-quality groups |
| Bad 1080p Bluray Kill | Same for 1080p |
| Extra Cached HQ / LQ limits | Caps the number of cached results per quality tier |
| Extra Uncached limit | Caps uncached results |
What Lite keeps
All hard kills remain active in Lite: CAM/SCR exclusion, YouTube and external stream blocking, 3D content blocking, resolution enforcement (1080p templates still block 4K), and all regex score filtering.
Lite is not a lower-quality mode — it is a less restrictive filter mode. The regex scoring, sort order, and PSE ranking logic are identical to Standard.
When to use Lite
- You’re getting 0–3 results on popular mainstream movies
- You’re on a low-overhead AIOStreams host with limited compute
- The content you watch is mostly older or niche where quality metadata is sparse
- You’re on a host like fortheweak where resources are more constrained
When to stay on Standard
- You’re getting 5+ results on most content
- You want to avoid upscaled or low-bitrate streams appearing
- You’re on ElfHosted or self-hosted (no resource constraints)
If you switch to Lite and immediately get many more results, that means Standard was working correctly — your library of content just has sparse metadata. You can stay on Lite if the result quality feels acceptable.
Available Lite templates
All Lite templates share the same PSE logic and sort criteria as their Standard counterparts. Import via Template → Import in AIOStreams.
