diff --git a/src/main/java/cz/kamma/xtreamplayer/XtreamPlayerApplication.java b/src/main/java/cz/kamma/xtreamplayer/XtreamPlayerApplication.java
index d65928e..aae7a90 100644
--- a/src/main/java/cz/kamma/xtreamplayer/XtreamPlayerApplication.java
+++ b/src/main/java/cz/kamma/xtreamplayer/XtreamPlayerApplication.java
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@ public final class XtreamPlayerApplication {
                 return;
             }
 
+            if (isLikelyLargeVodFile(target, sourceUrl)) {
+                proxyLargeMediaStream(exchange, target, sourceUrl);
+                return;
+            }
+
             try {
                 List<URI> attempts = candidateUris(target);
                 HttpResponse<byte[]> response = null;
@@ -798,10 +803,103 @@ public final class XtreamPlayerApplication {
         return out.toString();
     }
 
+    private static boolean isLikelyLargeVodFile(URI uri, String sourceUrl) {
+        if (sourceUrl != null && !sourceUrl.isBlank()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        String path = uri == null || uri.getPath() == null ? "" : uri.getPath().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT);
+        return path.endsWith(".mkv") || path.contains(".mkv?")
+                || path.endsWith(".mp4") || path.contains(".mp4?");
+    }
+
+    private static void proxyLargeMediaStream(HttpExchange exchange, URI target, String sourceUrl) throws IOException {
+        List<URI> attempts = candidateUris(target);
+        List<String> attemptErrors = new ArrayList<>();
+        for (URI candidate : attempts) {
+            try {
+                HttpRequest.Builder requestBuilder = HttpRequest.newBuilder(candidate)
+                        .GET()
+                        .header("User-Agent", firstNonBlank(
+                                exchange.getRequestHeaders().getFirst("User-Agent"),
+                                DEFAULT_BROWSER_UA
+                        ))
+                        .header("Accept", firstNonBlank(
+                                exchange.getRequestHeaders().getFirst("Accept"),
+                                "*/*"
+                        ));
+                copyRequestHeaderIfPresent(exchange, requestBuilder, "Range");
+                copyRequestHeaderIfPresent(exchange, requestBuilder, "If-Range");
+                copyRequestHeaderIfPresent(exchange, requestBuilder, "Accept-Encoding");
+                copyRequestHeaderIfPresent(exchange, requestBuilder, "Cache-Control");
+                copyRequestHeaderIfPresent(exchange, requestBuilder, "Pragma");
+                String referer = resolveRefererForCandidate(exchange, candidate, sourceUrl);
+                if (!referer.isBlank()) {
+                    requestBuilder.header("Referer", referer);
+                }
+                HttpResponse<InputStream> response = HTTP_CLIENT.send(
+                        requestBuilder.build(),
+                        HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofInputStream()
+                );
+                int status = response.statusCode();
+                String contentType = response.headers().firstValue("Content-Type").orElse("application/octet-stream");
+                if (status >= 400) {
+                    attemptErrors.add(maskUri(candidate) + " -> HTTP " + status);
+                    try (InputStream ignored = response.body()) {
+                        // close upstream body
+                    }
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                copyResponseHeaderIfPresent(response, exchange, "Accept-Ranges");
+                copyResponseHeaderIfPresent(response, exchange, "Content-Range");
+                copyResponseHeaderIfPresent(response, exchange, "Cache-Control");
+                copyResponseHeaderIfPresent(response, exchange, "Expires");
+                exchange.getResponseHeaders().set("Content-Type", contentType);
+                response.headers().firstValue("Content-Length")
+                        .ifPresent(value -> exchange.getResponseHeaders().set("Content-Length", value));
+
+                long responseLength = parseContentLength(response.headers().firstValue("Content-Length").orElse(""));
+                exchange.sendResponseHeaders(status, responseLength >= 0 ? responseLength : 0);
+                long sent = 0;
+                try (InputStream inputStream = response.body()) {
+                    byte[] buffer = new byte[64 * 1024];
+                    int read;
+                    while ((read = inputStream.read(buffer)) >= 0) {
+                        exchange.getResponseBody().write(buffer, 0, read);
+                        sent += read;
+                    }
+                } finally {
+                    logApiResponse(exchange, status, (int) Math.min(Integer.MAX_VALUE, sent), contentType);
+                    exchange.close();
+                }
+                return;
+            } catch (InterruptedException interruptedException) {
+                Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+                writeJson(exchange, 500, errorJson("Stream proxy interrupted."));
+                return;
+            } catch (Exception exception) {
+                attemptErrors.add(maskUri(candidate) + " -> " + compactError(exception));
+                LOGGER.warn("Large media proxy candidate failed uri={} reason={}", maskUri(candidate), compactError(exception));
+            }
+        }
+        writeJson(exchange, 502, errorJson("Unable to proxy large media stream. Attempts: " + String.join(" | ", attemptErrors)));
+    }
+
     private static String proxyStreamUrl(String absoluteUrl, String sourceUrl) {
         return "/api/stream-proxy?url=" + urlEncode(absoluteUrl) + "&src=" + urlEncode(sourceUrl);
     }
 
+    private static long parseContentLength(String value) {
+        if (value == null || value.isBlank()) {
+            return -1L;
+        }
+        try {
+            return Long.parseLong(value.trim());
+        } catch (NumberFormatException ignored) {
+            return -1L;
+        }
+    }
+
     private static UpstreamResult retrySegmentUsingFreshPlaylist(HttpExchange exchange, URI originalSegmentUri, String sourceUrl)
             throws IOException, InterruptedException {
         URI sourceUri = URI.create(sourceUrl);