How to get regional and non-English content appearing in Stremio’s Discover section alongside your Core Builds stream setup.
How Discover Works
The Discover tab in Stremio is populated by addon catalogs, not stream sources. Core Builds templates control how streams are filtered and sorted — they don’t add catalog content to Discover. Regional titles show up in Discover only when an addon that provides regional catalogs is installed.
AIOStreams and stream addons (Comet, Zilean, TorBox Search) are stream-only — they have no catalog or Discover output. You need a separate catalog addon to populate regional Discover rows.
MediaFusion has the broadest regional catalog support: Indian (Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam), Middle Eastern, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and more.
- Go to your AIOStreams config → Addons → find MediaFusion
- Enable it and open its settings
- Turn on “Enable Watchlist Catalogs”
- Set your Certification / Language filters to include your target region
- Save and reinstall your AIOStreams URL in Stremio
Install MediaFusion as a separate Stremio addon if you want its catalogs without adding it to your stream stack:
- Go to
https://mediafusion.elfhosted.com
- Configure your language and region preferences
- Copy the generated manifest URL
- In Stremio → Addons → Install from URL → paste and install
Installing MediaFusion standalone means it only provides catalog entries to Discover. It does not affect your AIOStreams stream results.
Regional Catalog Categories
| Region | Content |
|---|
| India | Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada |
| Middle East | Arabic films and series |
| Turkey | Turkish dramas and films |
| Korea | K-Drama, Korean cinema |
| Japan | J-Drama, Japanese cinema |
| Spain / Latin America | Spanish-language film and TV |
| Europe | French, German, Italian selections |
Option 2 — TMDB Addon
The TMDB addon gives you Discover catalogs filtered by language and region, pulled directly from The Movie Database. It creates rows like “Popular in France”, “Top Rated in Japan”, “Now Playing in Brazil” — browsable by language and region.
- Go to
https://94c8cb9f702d-tmdb-addon.baby-beamup.club/configure
- Set your language (e.g.
fr for French, de for German, ja for Japanese)
- Set your region (e.g.
FR, DE, JP, IN, BR)
- Copy the generated manifest URL
- In Stremio → Addons → Install from URL → paste and install
The TMDB addon uses ISO 639-1 language codes and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. Use lowercase for language (fr, de, ja) and uppercase for region (FR, DE, JP).
Stremio ships with Cinemeta pre-installed. It provides global catalogs (Top, Popular, New) but with no regional filtering. You cannot configure it for a specific language or country.
Useful as a baseline — not useful for targeted regional discovery.
Organising Your Discover Catalogs
Once you have regional addons installed, Stremio stacks all catalogs from all addons in Discover. It can get noisy. You can clean it up two ways:
In Stremio directly:
Long-press (mobile) or right-click (desktop) any Discover row → Hide to remove rows you don’t want.
In AIOStreams (catalogModifications):
AIOStreams can rename, reorder, or hide catalogs from addons installed through it. In your template’s config, the catalogModifications array controls this.
Example — rename and reorder your Library catalog:
"catalogModifications": [
{
"id": "lib-1791b.aiostreams::library.torbox",
"type": "library",
"name": "My Library",
"shuffle": false,
"enabled": true,
"usePosterService": true,
"hideable": true,
"searchable": true,
"addonName": "Library"
}
]
catalogModifications only affects addons configured through AIOStreams — not standalone addons installed separately in Stremio.
Quick Reference by Region
| I want content from… | Best addon |
|---|
| India (Bollywood / South Indian) | MediaFusion |
| Middle East / Arabic | MediaFusion |
| Turkey | MediaFusion |
| Korea | MediaFusion or TMDB (ko / KR) |
| Japan | MediaFusion or TMDB (ja / JP) |
| France | TMDB (fr / FR) |
| Germany | TMDB (de / DE) |
| Brazil / Portuguese | TMDB (pt / BR) |
| Spain / Latin America | TMDB (es / ES or MX) |
| Italy | TMDB (it / IT) |
| Anywhere + streams | MediaFusion (catalog + stream source) |
| Global (no regional filter) | Cinemeta (already installed) |
Does This Affect My Streams?
No. Discover catalogs and stream sources are completely independent in Stremio.
- Catalogs (Discover) → controlled by catalog addons (MediaFusion, TMDB)
- Streams (what plays when you click a title) → controlled by Core Builds + your debrid service
Adding MediaFusion or TMDB for regional Discover content has zero impact on how your streams are filtered, sorted, or served.
Still Not Seeing Regional Content?
- Make sure the addon is actually installed in Stremio — not just configured in AIOStreams. AIOStreams configuration does not automatically install the addon in Stremio unless you reinstall the manifest.
- Restart Stremio after installing a new addon — catalog rows do not always appear until the next app launch.
- In MediaFusion, check that your language or certification filter is not accidentally excluding content — an overly strict certification filter can block entire regional catalogs.
- TMDB requires a valid region code — use the two-letter ISO country code (e.g.
IN, JP, BR). Using a language code in the region field (e.g. ja instead of JP) will return no results.
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