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MULTI-LINK CLOUD MANAGEMENT

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Film identification

TMDb

Turns your questionably named video files into a proper library with posters, ratings and cast. Works better than your file naming deserves.

Settings

PREFERENCES

Appearance

ThemeCinema stays cinematic either way.

Grid densityHow much media fits on screen.

Library

Photos opens inYour landing view.

Re-run film identificationClears all matches and lets TMDb try again.

Playback

Slideshow speedFor the ▶ button in the viewer.

Autoplay videosStart playing when opened.

Loop videosAround and around.

Account

Profile photoShown in the top bar.

Signed in asuser

Data

Everything syncsSources, keys, albums, matches and these settings follow your account.

Export settingsA JSON backup of your synced data.

Import settingsRestore from a backup file.

Clear this deviceWipes the local cache. Your account copy is untouched.

Help & info

THE MANUAL

Playing your media

The short version: MP4 files (H.264 video, AAC audio) play instantly everywhere, on every source and every device. If you get to choose a format, choose that.

Got MKVs instead? You're covered. Vaultmall ships Vaultmux, its own streaming remuxer: it reads the MKV over the network, rewraps the video and audio in real time and plays them in Vaultmall's own player. No conversion step, no waiting, no quality loss, full seeking. It engages automatically whenever you press play on an MKV.

Vaultmux, and its honest limits

Works with: Dropbox, today. Other sources use their own playback routes below.
Video it handles: H.264, HEVC (x265) and VP9 inside MKV or WebM.
Audio it handles: AAC. That covers most files.
4K x265 needs hardware. Vaultmux never converts video, so your device's hardware decoder does the work. Macs from 2017 on and most recent Windows machines have HEVC hardware. Safari is the most generous with it.
DTS and Dolby audio can't be decoded by any browser. Vaultmux will play the video silently and tell you; use the one-click Dropbox player hand-off for those files, or prefer AAC audio tracks.
Seeking uses the MKV's own cue index, which nearly every MKV has.
If Vaultmux can't play something, you always get a one-click hand-off to Dropbox's own player, which converts anything on their servers.

Sources at a glance

Local Files · Best all-rounder: photos and videos straight off this machine, nothing uploaded. Limits: desktop Chrome, Edge or Brave only; one click to reconnect each visit; this device only.
Dropbox · The full experience: one-click connect, photos, native video, and Vaultmux for MKVs. Limits: free accounts have daily bandwidth caps; un-reviewed apps allow 500 connected users.
Cloudinary · A real media CDN, great for streaming MP4s and photos. Limits: needs the deployed site (the serverless helper); 25 GB on the free plan.
Google Drive · Photos inline; videos play through Drive's embedded player inside Vaultmall. Limits: you must be signed into Google in this browser; no Vaultmux, so playback quality choices are Drive's.
MEGA · End-to-end encrypted; files decrypt in your browser. Limits: best for smaller folders and photos; whole files decrypt before video plays.

Metadata keys

TMDb key (required for Cinema): free at themoviedb.org → Settings → API. Powers posters, backdrops, logos, ratings and cast.
OMDb key (optional): free at omdbapi.com/apikey.aspx, 1,000 requests a day. Adds IMDb ratings and Rotten Tomatoes scores to title pages. Without it those two tiles read n/a.
Both live in Sources → nothing to reconfigure per device; they sync with your account.