Help with local media playback, on-device AI subtitles, live recording transcription, subtitle translation, network media, and storage management.
What Media-AI is for
Media-AI plays local and network media and uses on-device AI to create subtitles, live transcripts, translations, and speaker-aware results.
Where your data lives
Imported media, recordings, transcripts, app settings, and generated files are stored primarily on your device. Media-AI does not use its own transcription server.
Contact Support
Please include your device model, operating system version, Media-AI version, media format or source type, and a short description of the issue. For playback or transcription problems, include the exact error message and a redacted screenshot when possible.
You can select videos from Photos, import audio or video files, or open supported media from another app.
Media-AI supports system playback formats and uses an additional playback engine for formats such as MKV, WebM, and AVI when needed.
If a file does not open, confirm that it is fully downloaded, not protected by DRM, and uses supported audio and video codecs.
Generating AI subtitles
AI transcription runs on your device with the bundled Whisper model and may use substantial memory, storage, battery, and processing time.
Keep the app available while the task prepares audio and processes chunks. You can review task status from the Tasks tab.
For better results, choose the spoken language when known and use clean, clearly audible speech.
Completed subtitles can be displayed, translated, adjusted, and exported from the player.
Recording and live transcription
Microphone permission is required before Media-AI can record audio.
The large AI model must be ready before recording and live transcription begin.
Headphones can help prevent playback audio from being captured again by the microphone.
If transcription stops, check microphone permission, available storage, and whether another app is using the audio input.
Subtitle translation
Translation uses Apple's system Translation framework rather than a Media-AI server.
The required language model may need to be downloaded by the operating system.
Translation availability depends on the device, OS version, selected source language, and target language.
WebDAV, SMB, podcasts, and media links
Local network permission is needed for SMB and other sources hosted on your local network.
Check the host, port, path, username, password, and TLS setting when a saved connection fails.
Remote playback and podcast feeds require network access and depend on the availability and compatibility of the server you choose.
Media-AI stores saved connection passwords in the device Keychain.
Storage, cache, and deletion
Open Settings → Storage Management to review app-managed media, subtitles, transcription work files, and caches.
Deleting generated subtitles does not delete the original media file unless you separately remove that media from the local library.
Removing a saved network connection or podcast subscription does not delete content from the remote server.
Some temporary data is normally cleared after a task finishes or expires.
When contacting support, do not send private recordings, full network credentials, or unredacted personal media. A short sample or redacted screenshot is usually enough.
Media-AI 能做什么
Media-AI 可播放本地及网络媒体,并通过端侧 AI 生成字幕、实时转写、翻译和带说话人信息的结果。