Point it at your directories.
Tell Media Centaur where your video files live and it starts watching them. That's the whole configuration — zero-config SQLite under the hood, so there's no Docker stack, no Postgres, and no server to stand up first.
The database is a single file you can read, back up, and move. Nothing about your setup is locked away in a container volume you can't reach.
It identifies everything.
Media Centaur watches those directories, parses each filename, matches every movie and show against TMDB, and downloads the artwork. New files get picked up as they land.
Anything it isn't confident about doesn't guess — it waits in a Review queue so a sloppy release name never becomes the wrong title on your wall. You confirm, it learns the rest.
Browse your library — desk or couch.
What you get is a wall of artwork, dark-first and large. At your desk it's keyboard-fast and mouse-friendly; from the couch the same screens drive on a gamepad or remote.
One control surface, two postures — there's no separate "TV mode" to switch into and no cut-down interface. The library you browse working is the library you browse relaxing.
Press play.
Selecting a title launches mpv on the machine it's running on — the same box driving your TV. Media Centaur tracks how far you got and resumes exactly where you left off.
When an episode ends, the next one is already queued, so a binge keeps rolling without you reaching for anything. Finished titles are marked watched on their own.
