Since 2.18.0 no Jellyfin Live TV channel plays: opening one fails with
"Could not start the live channel", and switching channel inside the player
does nothing at all. Negotiating video transcodes as fMP4 (#2131) left the
device profile with no MPEG-TS entry, and Jellyfin discards every non-ts
transcoding profile for a live source whose tuner sets
UseMostCompatibleTranscodingProfile - hardcoded for every HDHomeRun host, the
default for M3U ones - so the negotiation came back with no HLS URL at all.
The device profile now sends a ts profile alongside the fMP4 one, listed
second, the way jellyfin-web does. Both of its codec lists are strict subsets
of the fMP4 entry's and the server ranks profiles with a stable sort, so ts
can only win where fMP4 has been filtered out; VOD keeps negotiating fMP4.
flac and truehd are absent because TS cannot carry them, av1 because that is
the gap fMP4 exists to fill.
Live TV also stops being unconditionally transcode-only. It now reads the same
saved quality preset the library path does: Original asks for direct play and
sends no bitrate ceiling, so a channel the server can hand over untouched no
longer costs a GPU encode session per viewer, and a capped preset transcodes at
that ceiling. A direct-play session whose stream dies re-negotiates a forced
transcode instead of re-opening a URL the server will not serve.
Two smaller holes on the same path: a negotiation that bailed out left the live
stream AutoOpenLiveStream had already opened running, because no playback
session existed to ever stop-report it - a few failed tunes could saturate a
provider's connection budget - and a channel switch that failed to start showed
no message at all.
close#2198
New media added server-side was invisible while the app was open - the
client had no channel for library-change notifications, so the home
screen and library tabs sat stale until an app restart.
Each online server now runs a reconnecting websocket push channel
(Plex `/:/websockets/notifications`; Jellyfin/Emby `/socket` with the
dialect deltas, including Emby's capabilities registration), owned per
server by a LibraryEventService supervisor that follows server
online/offline/replaced-client transitions and app lifecycle. Channels
emit one coalesced LibraryChangeEvent per burst on a leading-edge
throttle modeled on Plex Web's repopulate pacing: the first settled
change surfaces immediately and a library scan's flood merges behind
it. Connection failure degrades silently to the stale-refresh paths -
bounded reconnect backoff, re-armed on every status sync.
Consumers pace their reaction through one shared RefreshPacer: burst
debounce, blocked retry while video playback or an active scroll owns
the surface, a cooldown bounding pass frequency during bulk imports,
and credit for committed pull passes so a push landing right after a
fresh load defers to the cooldown's trailing edge.
- Discover runs a debounced full pass and swaps the result in place;
the hero carousel resets only when a pass lands first content, so a
push never yanks a screen the user is reading. Pushed removals drop
from every visible list immediately via the deletion bus, scoped to
the emitting server.
- The visible library tab swaps its data in place: transaction tabs
reload without clearing, and the browse and paginated card grids
refetch their loaded span (Plex Web's repopulateRange) with the
scroll offset anchored on the first visible item and the span
clamped after alpha jumps. Hidden tabs - and tabs behind another
main tab - mark per-library staleness epochs instead and reload when
next shown; epochs are snapshotted at load start so a push racing an
in-flight fetch stays stale.
- The stale-resume and tab-shown paths refetch home hubs (previously
Continue Watching only), covering setups where the socket cannot
connect.
close#1646
Remapping a mark whose color is part of its identity - a red-outline
wordmark with white fill, a colored badge - fixes legibility but changes
the logo's character, which reads worse on hero surfaces than the
partial invisibility it cures.
The light tone class now splits on measured colored-pixel fraction:
light-dominant marks with incidental color (<=15% saturated pixels,
lightAccented) always remap, while lightMixed marks remap only when the
new ToneMappedLogoImage.remapMixed policy allows it. Heroes pass false
on the network, offline, and TV spotlight logo paths; the Live TV
guide's channel cells keep remapping mixed marks. The policy joins the
image-cache key. The threshold comes from a real clear-logo set:
remap-friendly marks measured at <=0.11 colored, identity-colored marks
at >=0.28.
On the light theme, the detail hero's fallback title was hard-coded
white over a scrim that washes artwork toward the near-white background,
and white-on-transparent clear logos vanished into the same wash on the
detail, home, and TV spotlight heroes.
The title fallback now defaults to the theme foreground with a
background-side halo, matching what the TV hero already did. Clear logos
run through the channel-logo tone remap: light-toned marks recolor
toward the theme foreground on light backdrops (network and downloaded
artwork alike), colored marks keep their pixels, and dark themes render
the original artwork. The backdrop-luminance gate is shared with the
Live TV guide as logoToneTargetFor.
White-on-transparent broadcast logos (CBS, FOX, the NBC wordmark) vanish
on the light theme's white guide cards, making channels hard to identify.
Channel logo decodes now classify the frame's tone once per image-cache
entry and bake light-neutral pixels toward the theme foreground:
monochrome white marks recolor fully, mixed marks (colored peacock plus
white wordmark) keep their colored pixels, and self-backed or dark
artwork decodes unchanged. Applied in the guide channel column, guide
search, and favorite reordering whenever the backdrop is light,
including the dark theme's inverted focus card; dark backdrops keep the
original artwork.
close#2197
A quality preset the source already fits under direct plays the file
since #2152, but a transcode above the source bitrate is sometimes the
point: a device that cannot decode the source (10-bit H.264, AV1, 4:4:4)
wants the server's highest-quality encode, and the shortcut silently
handed it the very file it cannot play smoothly.
A new Quality switch, "Play Smaller Videos at Original Quality" (on by
default), gates the shortcut in PlexClient._presetNeedsTranscode; off
restores the pre-#2152 behavior where any non-original preset always
transcodes. Plex-only by design: MediaBrowser servers make the
equivalent direct-play-vs-transcode call server-side.
close#2193
close#2183
Reusing a room means whoever enters first becomes the host, and moving the
session to someone else's library meant everyone leaving and re-entering in
the right order. The host can now promote any connected guest from the
participant list (Watch Together screen and the in-player session sheet),
with playback, control mode, and reconnect identities carried across.
The relay owns the swap: a new `transferHost` message validates the sender
is the live host and the target a connected modern-protocol guest, then
swaps `HostPeerID` and the reconnect verifiers (each peer keeps its own
token), persists the room, and broadcasts `hostChanged` to every peer.
Clients flip roles in place: the controller swaps its role engine while
keeping the session, message queue, and player attachment. A promoted guest
seeds the coordinator with the room's last known intent (a paused room
stays paused) and the known-peer roster so the fresh epoch re-gates
instead of solo-starting; a demoted host falls back to a reconciler with a
fresh clock sync and asks the new authority for state. Guests re-pin the
host identity, reset their sequence, and re-converge their clocks.
A rejected transfer (`not_host` / `peer_not_found`) surfaces as a toast
instead of tearing the session down. Pre-transfer app builds in the room
ignore `hostChanged` and stop following the room at the next transfer;
targets on an old sync protocol are not offered the action.
The brightness set with the left-edge swipe was lost the moment playback
ended, so every session started back at the system level. A new
"Remember Brightness Level" toggle under Settings > Playback > Gestures
persists the level a swipe settles on and reapplies it when the next
playback starts (and when the app resumes mid-session). Leaving the
player still restores the pre-playback brightness, so the rest of the
app is unaffected. Default off, preserving current behavior.
close#2178
The chip strip sat 24px below the search field and 24px above the first
result. Drop the strip's own top padding (the field's bottom padding
already provides 16px) and halve the results sliver's top padding when
the strip is shown, so both gaps read as an even 16px.
Making mpv the Android default only moved installs that had never opened
the Player Backend setting. Anyone who had ever picked ExoPlayer kept it,
including the low-end TVs and Hi10P devices the new backend was built for.
The backend choice now lives under a new `android_use_exoplayer` key and
the old `use_exoplayer` one is dropped at startup, so every install starts
on mpv. ExoPlayer stays selectable in Settings > Playback > Player Backend,
and a pick made there writes the new key and sticks.
The guide-search sheet and the TV rail's options button fell back to
English in every non-English locale: their six keys existed only as
empty strings in the sibling translation files.
Fill all 126 empty targets across the 21 locales and regenerate the
slang bindings. searchNoResults keeps its ${query} placeholder and each
locale's quote convention, and channelsSection uses the broadcast sense
of "channel" rather than the audio-channel word already used by
fileInfo.channels.
The mini player drew a thin scrubbable progress bar along its top edge on
top of the ambient background fill. Drop the scrub lane: the fill is the
card's only progress display, and precise seeking stays on the
now-playing screen's seek bar. Horizontal drags across the card's top
edge swipe-dismiss the card again.
Quitting the app lost the music session: on the next launch the queue,
current song, and playhead were gone. The session now persists per
profile (new MusicSessions Drift table, schema v22) through throttled
write-through during playback, and the next launch rehydrates it as a
parked-paused queue — no audio core and no source resolution until the
first play, which opens the track at the saved offset. Ending the
session (stop, swipe-dismiss, video claim) clears the snapshot, and a
new "Remember music session" playback setting (default on) gates the
restore.
close#2148
On TV the show detail screen exposed season actions nowhere: marking a
season watched meant toggling every episode one by one, and the action
row's menu only covered the whole show.
Each season row on the TV detail rail now carries a full-size Options
card that opens the same season context menu the mobile season tabs
offer (mark watched/unwatched, download, delete, add to). The card
rests off-screen left of the first episode — the row is a
center-anchored scroll view and the card lives in the negative-offset
region before the anchor — so the resting layout and default focus are
unchanged and normal playback gains no extra steps; pressing LEFT from
the first episode slides it in. The trailing View All / retry / loading
slots become matching full-size cards instead of compact pills.
close#2156
Live TV had no search: finding a channel or a program meant scrolling
the guide row by row, which is close to unusable on TV with a few
hundred IPTV channels, and the global search tab covers neither
channels nor EPG data.
A search action on the Live TV tab bar (shown on every tab, since the
D-pad route through the chips selects each tab it crosses) opens a
sheet that filters channels by name, call sign, and number, and the
next 24 hours of programs by title and series name, from one
fetchSchedule fan-out per open. Selecting a result jumps the guide to
it: the favorites filter is dropped when it would hide the target row,
the time window is re-anchored when the airing is outside the visible
six hours, and D-pad focus lands on the channel cell or program block.
While the sheet is open, companion-remote search queries land in it
instead of the global Search tab (same save/restore idiom as the video
player overrides). Jumps requested while a guide load is in flight are
stashed and replayed when the load commits.
Based on #1526 by @l3gitpanda, rebased over the guide virtualization
and source-group work, with the schedule fan-out moved onto
forEachLiveTvServer and the jump focus routed through the guide's
focus-snapshot publisher so the landed cell actually renders focused.
close#2168
The end-of-episode autoplay prompt only named the next episode; Plex shows
a visual preview, which is what non-readers navigate by. The prompt card now
paints the episode's 16:9 still edge-to-edge behind the text under a bottom
gradient scrim, falling back to the text-only card when no thumbnail can be
served (no thumb, or no client and no downloaded artwork). Unwatched stills
respect the hide-spoilers blur, and the lookup only runs while the prompt is
visible to keep the playback-path build cheap.
close#2166
94 strings added since the settings rework were empty placeholders in every
non-English locale, so those screens fell back to blanks. Fill all 1974
missing values across 21 locales, reuse each file's existing terminology,
and translate the few verbatim-English leftovers (es rankPopular, fr tags,
it dynamicRange, pl stop, nb tag). Regenerated Slang output.
Any quality preset other than Original started a transcode even when the
file was already well under it: a 6.2 Mbps 1080p h264 source under the
"1080p 10 Mbps" preset came back from PMS as a 10.4 Mbps encode, so capping
quality on mobile data spent more data than leaving it uncapped, plus server
CPU nobody asked for (#2152).
A preset is a ceiling, so a version that fits under both its bitrate and its
resolution is now served by the file itself, on the same direct-play path
Original takes, and no transcode decision is sent at all. Height counts as
well as bitrate because the preset's label promises a resolution too, and a
device that asked for 1080p may not decode the 4K source a bitrate-only
comparison would hand it. An unreported bitrate or height leaves the
transcode standing.
The comparison has to happen in the client: PMS answers directPlay=1 with
"Direct play OK" whatever bitrate cap the request carries, measured on 1.43
with a 65 Mbps 4K source under a 10 Mbps cap, so its MDE cannot be asked to
enforce one. Plex Web reaches its own directPlay/directStream flags the same
way, folding the preset's bitrate into its client-side direct-play profile
first. Jellyfin already gets this right server-side.
close#2152
While music plays, the persistent mini player showed progress only as a
subtle background tint with no way to seek; the full seek bar sat one
navigation hop away on the now-playing screen (#2141).
The card's top edge now hosts a thin visible progress bar inside a taller
touch lane: tap seeks proportionally, dragging scrubs and commits one seek
on release, and hovering or dragging grows the bar and shows a thumb. Card
taps outside the lane still open the now-playing screen. Pointer-only by
design: the overlay never renders on TV and the keyboard focus chain leads
to the now-playing screen's focusable seek bar.
close#2141
Tapping Instant Mix on Plex often did nothing: the /playQueues POST used no
endpoint failover, createPlayQueue swallowed every error into null,
fetchInstantMix mapped that to an empty list, playInstantMix returned
silently on empty tracks, and the errors stream's only listener is the
now-playing screen, which is not mounted at tap time (#2141).
The play-queue POST now rides the shared endpoint failover (replaying it is
safe: an orphaned duplicate queue on the server is inert), createPlayQueue
and fetchInstantMix propagate typed errors, playInstantMix reports
started/empty/superseded and throws fetch failures, and the tap site shows
a translated snackbar for a failed or empty mix. A failed collection or
playlist queue launch now also reaches the real failure snackbar instead of
the misleading "no items" path.
Downloaded tracks landed in the generic downloads/{serverId}/{ratingKey}/
layout as video.mp3 because the path builder only special-cases movies and
episodes, so a user-visible download folder showed opaque folders and
meaningless names (#2141).
Tracks now get Music/{Artist}/{Album}/{NN - Title}.{ext} in both file and
SAF modes, grouped by sanitized album-artist with Unknown Artist/Album
fallbacks and a disc prefix on multi-disc albums. Existing downloads keep
working: playback and deletion resolve the stored path per record, and the
empty-parent cleanup keeps shared album folders while a sibling track
remains.
Users could not adjust the five-second Play Next timer, switch off the
edge-swipe/pinch gestures they trigger by accident, deinterlace DVD-era
content, or keep always-on-top across episodes.
Play Next Countdown (0-30 s) joins Auto-Play & Skip; zero skips the
prompt and starts the next episode immediately, while the transient-
retry prompt keeps its fixed five-second spacing. Brightness swipe,
volume swipe, and pinch-to-zoom each get a switch in a mobile-only
Gestures group; a disabled edge also stops stealing the content-strip
drag. A Deinterlacing toggle (mpv-only — ExoPlayer has no filter chain)
sets mpv's deinterlace=auto at player init. The player's always-on-top
toggle now persists via a pref that is re-applied when the next player
opens, including autoplay episode transitions; the window flag is still
dropped when the player closes.
Also resolves the reorg TODO markers per triage: hold-to-speed lock
(#1046) will be gesture behavior rather than a setting, metadata
language (#1668) and delete re-authentication (#1924) are rejected, and
always-on-top is player-persisted state, not a Window setting (#1386).
close#1827close#1810close#2149close#931
Settings were grouped by screen history rather than by what they govern:
the profile-selection prompt, startup section, force-TV mode, and app
language sat under Appearance, Discord Rich Presence and the companion
remote host hid inside Playback > Behavior, and maximum volume lived
under Seek & Timing.
Introduce a General screen (language, startup, desktop window), regroup
Appearance into display/library/home/navigation/Live TV, split the
Playback monolith into engine, video & display, audio, quality,
subtitles, seek, auto-play & skip, and behavior groups, surface
auto-play next episode in settings, rename the Keyboard Shortcuts
section to Controls (now also hosting the companion remote host), move
Discord Rich Presence to Services > Integrations, and move the
performance-overlay switch to Advanced. Pref keys are unchanged, so
stored values, export/import, and reset behavior are unaffected.
TODO markers record the agreed homes for upcoming settings (#1998,
#2064, #1641, #1769, #2149, #1827, #2138, #1810, #1046, #1924, #1413,
#1668, #1386, #1795).
On mobile data the single default streaming quality either burns
through the user's data plan or permanently caps quality at home.
Playback start now applies a dedicated cellular default when the
device is on a cellular-only connection, read from the app's existing
single connectivity subscription. The new setting defaults to
following the general default, ships in Settings > Playback for
phones/tablets only, and explicit per-play quality picks still win.
'Metered connection' had been spelled out independently in the offline
provider, the download WiFi-only gate and the sync-rule cooldown.
Rather than add a fourth copy, all four now share
ConnectivityLinkType. Network *presence* is deliberately left alone:
its callers disagree on whether an empty snapshot counts as
connected, so folding that in would change behavior.
showSelectionDialog now returns the picked DialogOption instead of its
raw value so the tile's null-valued 'Same as Default Quality' option
stays distinguishable from dismissing the dialog.
close#2147
When a Plex admin disables credits detection for a show or movie, PMS
strips detected credits markers from its responses, but Plezy's
chapter-title fallback resurrected the skip action from a credits-named
chapter — surfacing a "Next Episode" button (and auto-skip) during
credits the admin asked to leave alone.
Drop credits markers when the owning show/movie carries an explicit
enableCreditsMarkerGeneration=0. Movies read the attribute off the item
already fetched; episodes resolve the grandparent show through the
shared cache-first metadata row, so the lookup normally costs no extra
request and only runs when a credits marker is actually present. Absent
attribute (servers without the feature) and -1 (library default) keep
the fallback intact; lookup failures fail open. The offline cached
extras path applies the same rule from cached rows.
close#2137
The library grid packs posters edge to edge. The grid delegate's cross-
and main-axis spacing were hardcoded to zero, so the only visible gap
came from each card's own 3px padding, and Library Density changed
poster size rather than the space between posters. The result reads
denser than Plex, Jellyfin, or any commercial client, both horizontally
between posters and vertically between a poster and its title.
Add a Grid Spacing setting - Tight, Normal, Spacious (0/6/12px) - below
Library Density. Tight is the default and reproduces the current layout
exactly, so no existing grid moves on update.
The gutter lands in MediaGridDelegate.spacingFor(), already the single
funnel for non-full-bleed grid spacing, so every grid surface picks it
up: library browse, collections, playlists, downloads, and the detail
screens. Square music grids keep their 8px floor. The pref is watched
once in MediaCardSliverLayout - the only MediaGridGeometry.resolve()
call site - so grids re-layout live instead of on restart.
Grid cells grow the poster-to-title gap to 2/4/6px as well; the
Expanded poster absorbs the delta, so the cell keeps its aspect ratio.
Fixed-height hub-row cards keep the historical 2px because their text
band cannot absorb more, and hub-row cell packing opts out of the
setting entirely so shelves stay byte-identical across it.
Full-bleed TV grids are untouched - they already carry an 8-18px
scale-derived gutter - and are opt-in behind tvFullCardLayout, so the
default TV library grid follows the setting like every other surface.
Verified on macOS across all three steps: gutters and title gap grow,
grids re-pack live, and the segmented control reflects and writes the
value.
close#1597close#2083
Plezy carried three native HTTP clients on the assumption that they beat
Dart's own. Benchmarked against real Plex and Jellyfin servers on macOS,
Windows, Linux and three Android devices, two of them do not.
Cronet loses on every request shape the app issues: 8.1 vs 83.8 MiB/s on a LAN
body read, 84 vs 150 req/s on an artwork fan-out, 14.3 vs 10.7 ms on
sequential API calls. It also fails a 60-way fan-out outright with
net::ERR_CACHE_WRITE_FAILURE under the 2 MiB memory cache we configured, and
cost 70-705 ms of CronetEngine.build on first use. Paying that build off the
critical path is the only reason AndroidPlatformHttpClient,
warmUpPlatformHttpClient and the per-request delegate swap existed; all three
go away with it.
CupertinoClient had no measured advantage either, losing the TLS fan-out 44 vs
60 req/s, and no reported issue ever justified it. tvOS already shipped the
dart:io client, so Apple platforms now agree with it.
WinHttpClient stays. WINHTTP_OPTION_IPV6_FAST_FALLBACK (#1128) has no dart:io
equivalent, and it brings the system proxy and the Schannel trust store.
The pool tuning becomes unconditional. It was opt-in behind usePlexApiClient
so generic tracker and auth clients stayed disposable, but every dart:io client
has carried connectionTimeout and forceCloseOnDrainTimeout since #1972, so
tuned and untuned already share shutdown semantics and the flag only cost
throughput: 12 connections per host with a 90s idle measured ~4x the dart:io
default on a 60-way fan-out on Linux and ~2x on Android.
media3-datasource-cronet and cronet-embedded stay. They back ExoPlayer's
CronetDataSource independently of package:cronet_http.
Refs #2140.
Two relay setup tests failed on CI while the same commit had passed a
few minutes earlier. The harness rewrote every 10-second timer in the
zone to 10 ms, which also compressed the connect deadline of the
recovery that runs once setup retries are exhausted. On a loaded runner
that deadline expired after the relay had upgraded the socket but
before the client sent its first frame, so the recorded connection
carried no messages and shifted the expected sequence; when all three
recovery attempts were starved this way, the recovery never announced
at all.
A reply that never comes is safe to compress, a real loopback handshake
is not, and one zone hook matching on duration cannot tell them apart.
The service now exposes the setup acknowledgement, the release
handshake, and the release acknowledgement as separate budgets, each
still 10 seconds in production, and every test sets only the one it
means to expire. The blunt helper is gone; what remains collapses the
250 ms and 500 ms retry delays, which are waits rather than races.
Verified by reproducing both failure modes under CPU saturation, about
one run in ten, then 30 consecutive clean runs of the file under the
same load and a full suite at 6332 passing.
Browsing a Plex home-video / "Other Videos" library under "Show all"
offered no way to sort by your own rating. The sorts Plex advertises for
those sections only cover critic and audience ratings, which unmatched
files never carry, so nothing rating-based was usable.
Plex honors `sort=userRating:desc` and `sort=viewCount:desc` on those
sections without advertising them, and the client already appends both
for movie and TV libraries. Home-video sections are `type="movie"` on the
wire and only differ by `subtype="clip"`, which the library mapper folds
into MediaKind.clip for folder-first grouping and wide cards, so they
were failing the movie/show allow-list. Add clip to it.
A player whose predecessor had not released the shared native channel
within three seconds skipped its own native dispose and chained its
release onto that predecessor. If the predecessor's teardown never
completed - one hung 4K session was enough - every later player waited
on the chain, failed to initialize, and playback stayed broken with
"Playback could not be started" until the app was killed.
Initialize and dispose now carry the creating instance's token. The
Android plugins remember which token created the current core and
acknowledge a dispose from any other token without touching the core,
so a dispose that lost the ownership race is provably stale and safe to
send. With that guard, a timed-out ownership wait force-disposes
instead of skipping, settles its release unchained, and frees the
channel for the next session; a dispose watchdog answers Dart even if
a native teardown hangs, leaking that one core instead of wedging all
future playback. Commands wait eight seconds (was three) so a slow but
healthy teardown delays the next session instead of failing it.
Verified on a Shield Pro: 38 back-to-back session races at 0.8-2.2s
gaps with zero failures and balanced teardowns, and a deep-link-over-
playback collision whose stale dispose is ignored, after which Back
returns to the still-playing session and Retry starts the new one.
Apple and desktop handlers ignore the token and keep the historical
skip semantics until they gain the guard.
With video on the MediaCodec plane, real bitstream passthrough, media3
demuxing, and the GL fallback ladder in place, mpv measures at parity
or better than ExoPlayer on every device class tested (Tegra, Mali,
Amlogic armv7, Adreno; API 28-36; phone, TV, and foldable), including
the two historical Android mpv failure modes: low-end TV playback and
Hi10P.
Installs that never chose a backend move to mpv; a stored ExoPlayer
choice is preserved, and the Player Backend toggle stays user-visible
as the escape hatch. The automatic ExoPlayer-to-mpv runtime fallback
is unchanged.
The in-app FFmpeg container demuxer classified every DTS variant as
plain DTS (profile-blind MIME mapping at the demux boundary), so
DTS-HD MA lost its lossless identity downstream, and it ignored
container display-aspect-ratio overrides. media3's extractors get both
right.
Delete the FFmpeg demuxer (JNI, extractor, and its setting); ExoPlayer
direct play demuxes with media3's DefaultExtractorsFactory again, and
mpv - the Android default - reads container display dimensions itself.
close#2124close#2115
mpv's ao_audiotrack hardcoded stereo IEC61937 frames, which cannot
carry TrueHD MAT or DTS-HD MA 8-channel bursts, and the app fed
audio-spdif an empty list in self-defense because mpv
force-passthroughs every codec named there with no decode fallback.
The mpv path therefore decoded everything, and passthrough had to be
enabled by hand on every install.
The Kotlin audio route probe (AudioOutputPolicy) now feeds mpv a
per-route audio-spdif list, the fork's multichannel IEC61937 patch
(pinned libmpv v1.1.3) provides the burst geometry, and E-AC3, TrueHD
and DTS-HD MA bitstream on the mpv path. Android TV installs with no
stored preference default to passthrough on, on both backends; an
explicit user choice is preserved.
Verified by route probing and mpv logs on Shield and Box R; no AVR was
in the loop, so receiver-side decode is unconfirmed.
Software-decoded HDR always collapsed to SDR on Android: the EGL
window surface carried no colorspace, so PQ/HLG content that fell back
to software decode rendered through an SDR surface, and Android was
excluded from the hdr-enabled path outright.
The GL vo now requests a BT2020-PQ window surface (fork patch, pinned
libmpv v1.1.3) and Android joins the hdr-enabled path, so software
decode keeps HDR scanout and tone mapping happens only when the
display genuinely cannot show HDR.
Android mpv drew every frame through vo=gpu: an ImageReader/GLES copy
pinned to 8-bit RGB0 with a 100 ms timed wait per frame, which
truncated 10-bit and HDR output, raced acquireLatestImage, and
performed badly on low-end TVs.
Video now scans out on a SurfaceFlinger video plane through the fork's
vo=mediacodec: decoder buffers are queued to the surface at their
target PTS (av_mediacodec_release_buffer_at_time), so 10-bit and HDR
dataspaces reach the display untouched and frame pacing no longer
depends on GL vsync. Subtitles and OSD render on a sibling transparent
surface presented for the same PTS, frame-locked by construction.
The plane takes decoder buffers only, so software-decoded video stays
on a GL vo, with a chain-failure watchdog re-initializing the output
when the plane refuses a stream mid-session. The GL fallback is vo=gpu
- gpu-next breaks the Tegra GLES linker (#2010) - and GpuVoPolicy
selects gpu-next only when Dolby Vision RPU reshaping needs
libplacebo. AV1 film grain is applied in the decoder
(vd-lavc-film-grain=cpu) because the GL raster grain fallback is not
available on this path.
Pins libmpv-android v1.1.3, which carries the fork patches this path
rides on: the vo itself, BT2020-PQ EGL window surfaces, GLES direct
rendering treated as slow (H.264 Hi10P software decode on Tegra went
from 0.3x realtime with wrong colors to 1.0x with correct 10-bit
output), and multichannel IEC61937 for ao_audiotrack.
Verified on Shield Pro (Tegra/GLES), Pixel 7 (Mali), Box R 4K Plus
(Amlogic armv7), and Galaxy Z Fold3 (Adreno): 520 play/teardown cycles
and 3 hours of continuous 4K HDR playback; HDR engagement confirmed
via SurfaceFlinger dataspace BT2020_ITU_PQ.
A device with no hardware HEVC decoder could still be handed an HEVC
transcode: the device profile advertised a fixed codec list that assumed
every device decodes everything. Prepending AV1 to reach the AV1 encoders
issue #2131 asks for would have made that worse - an Apple TV 4K and every
iPhone before the A17 Pro have no AV1 decoder at all.
Probe the platform instead. Android enumerates MediaCodecList for a
hardware decoder and iOS/tvOS ask VideoToolbox, both feeding one latched
VideoDecodeCapabilities that the device profile reads when it builds its
codec lists. Desktop deliberately answers nothing: a pre-Kaby-Lake Mac has
no hardware HEVC decoder and an M1 no AV1 one, yet both software-decode in
real time, so narrowing there would force transcodes for nothing. An
unanswered or failed probe advertises everything, so the list never
narrows on missing data.
The transcode target becomes av1,hevc,h264 filtered by the probe. Leading
with AV1 is safe because the server rotates codecs its admin has not
enabled ("Allow encoding in HEVC/AV1 format", both off by default) to the
back before picking one, so it costs nothing on a server that will not
emit AV1.
Audio now accepts everything the path can carry. The direct-play profile
drops its AudioCodec list entirely - an omitted list means "any codec" to
Jellyfin - so an audio stream can no longer be what blocks direct play.
The transcode target lists every codec Jellyfin can put in an fMP4
segment, so a video-only transcode copies DTS or TrueHD instead of
re-encoding it. Two limits bound that string: the server validates it
against ^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\._,|]{0,40}$ when it echoes the list into the
transcode URL, so alac does not fit and * is not a wildcard; and omitting
the key is not "accept everything" here the way it is for direct play,
because the server substitutes the source codec and then ships no audio at
all for a source fMP4 cannot carry.
close#2131
MPEG-TS segments cannot carry AV1, so a Jellyfin server with an AV1
hardware encoder (Intel Arc and similar) could never pick AV1 as the
transcode output no matter what the codec list advertised. Switch the
video TranscodingProfile container from ts to mp4, matching
jellyfin-web's fMP4 HLS behavior; mpv consumes fMP4 HLS on every
platform and the Plex VOD target has shipped it since issue #1859.
close#2131
Preferences that belong to the media-server account had nowhere to live in Plezy. Jellyfin keeps a user's audio/subtitle language, subtitle mode and several library options in `UserConfiguration`; plex.tv keeps the same language choices plus watched indicators and review visibility on the account. Plezy read four of those fields for auto-track selection and could never show or change any of them.
Adds an Account preferences section under Connections. One account edits in place; several show a picker first, scoped to the active profile's own connections so a managed Plex Home user never edits the owner's record. Every row is gated on what the backend can actually store.
It also moves "rewatching in Next Up" onto the account. There is no `UserConfiguration` field for it, but the per-user `DisplayPreferences` store is keyed `(userId, displayPreferencesId, client)` with no device component, so the switch goes there and follows the account.
`AccountRef` keys by account, not `clientScopeId`: MediaBrowser is `{machineId}/{userId}`, Plex is (account, Home user). Writes are patch-shaped because both backends replace whole objects — Jellyfin's `POST /Users/{id}/Configuration` and its `DisplayPreferences` row both reset omitted fields, so each write re-reads, merges only the patched keys, and posts back. Plex takes its changes as query parameters with an empty body, and its `experience` blob and the PMS `/accounts/1` mirror are deliberately untouched.
`AccountPreferencesController` owns a single repository above the profile session, so changing a language in settings reaches the next playback without a restart. Emby is gated out of rewatching through `MediaBrowserDialect.supportsNextUpRewatching`.
close#1910
Linking a Seerr instance had two rough edges, both on the Jellyfin path.
The URL step prepended https:// to anything without a scheme, so a
plain-HTTP instance on the LAN — 192.168.1.5:5055, or a bare host on
Seerr's default port — failed with "could not reach" unless the user knew
to type the scheme. And the only way to sign in with a Jellyfin account
was typing a username and password, which on a TV remote is misery.
Schemeless input now expands into candidates that are probed together,
but TLS wins by construction: a plaintext success is held while any https
candidate is still in flight and is accepted only once they have all
failed. The sign-in that follows posts a password to whichever URL wins
here, so a slow-but-working https endpoint has to beat a fast plaintext
one, and the wait is already bounded by the probe timeout. When nothing
answers, the failure that reached a server outranks a transport error, so
"this instance has not completed first-run setup" is not masked by "could
not reach https://..." from a candidate the user never typed.
Quick Connect goes through Seerr's own proxy routes (3.4+): initiate,
then check polled at Seerr's own 2s cadence through the shared
pollWithBackoff — a 404 mid-poll means the secret is gone and is terminal
— then authenticate, which mints the session cookie through the existing
sign-in path. The secret rides in a query string, so it is registered for
log redaction the way the Jellyfin flow registers its own. An instance
that predates the routes 404s the initiate and is told apart from a
generic rejection.
SeerrAuthMethod.quickConnect deliberately stores no secret: silent
re-auth is impossible by construction, so an expired cookie lands in the
existing "no stored credentials" arm, unlinks the session, and the
connect flow asks for a fresh code. The affordance is limited to the
Jellyfin credential form, since Seerr rejects Quick Connect for Emby, and
is not auto-started on TV the way the MediaBrowser form is:
/settings/public exposes no "Quick Connect enabled" flag to gate that on.
The waiting panel and its attempt/cancel bookkeeping moved out of
AddJellyfinScreen into QuickConnectCodePanel and QuickConnectFlowMixin so
both screens share one implementation, and the post-frame focus helper
both forms use moved to AsyncFormStateMixin.
Turning what a user typed into URLs worth probing lived inside
JellyfinEndpointDiscovery, next to a private copy of the scheme-detection
regex that url_utils already had. A second backend needs the same rules
with a different default port, and the existing copy carried two latent
defects: input with no host came back unchanged, so a candidate that can
never resolve went to the prober, and a query string survived into the
base URL that request paths are appended to.
expandBaseUrlCandidates takes the ordered guesses a backend wants — a
scheme plus the port to try when the user typed none — and owns the rest.
A typed port beats a guessed one, so host:8096 collapses to one candidate
per scheme and the same guess list covers both bare hosts and hosts with
ports. Candidates are built field by field rather than through
Uri.replace, whose null query means "keep mine", so query and fragment
are dropped for real. Blank input and input with no host expand to
nothing.
JellyfinEndpointDiscovery passes its existing order, so its probe and
persistence behaviour is unchanged, and hasUrlScheme replaces the regex
copy.
Playing a downloaded movie or episode failed outright once the storage
holding it was gone — an SD card ejected, a USB volume unplugged, the
files deleted from outside the app (issue #2101). The item still played
fine from the server, but Plezy never tried: it committed to the local
copy and surfaced mpv's open failure.
Resolution already refused a missing local copy and let the caller
stream instead, but only for filesystem paths. SAF `content://` URIs
skipped the check on the premise that they are always playable as
written. They are not: an unmounted volume answers
`FileNotFoundException: No root for <volume>`, and a revoked grant is
just as dead, while the row still reads `completed`.
Probe the stored document through SAF before preferring it, so an
unreachable copy resolves to nothing and every consumer degrades the
way a missing file already did — the player streams, and both
external-player entry points launch against the server instead of a
dead URI.
close#2101
Siri Remote navigation felt sluggish and then over-sensitive next to
native tvOS apps (issue #2006): swipes were priced at a fixed travel
per step, a single flick could glide into a second focus step, hard
lifts coasted several extrapolated steps, and rail scrolls snapped in
65-250ms where native glides.
Retuned the whole path against two hardware instrumentation passes on
an Apple TV 4K: committed-move telemetry through an experimental
UIFocusItem bridge (branch feat/tvos-native-focus-bridge), then a
dedicated native probe app logging every touch sample, pan velocity,
engine hint, focus step, and scroll tick across 101 swipe sessions on
160/230/300pt tiles. What the data showed, now encoded:
- step pricing follows geometry: one step costs the focused item's
extent along the swipe axis plus ~155pt (measured 314/391/410pt on
160/230/300pt tiles), not a fixed distance. Thresholds derive per
axis from the primary focus rect, normalized so a wide-flat control
steps vertically once the finger covers its height. Locked-focus
rows (hub rows, the TV browse rail) vend their selected card's rect
through the new LockedFocusRowNode so the row-wide focus node's
screen-sized rect never prices the step. Scopes, the player's
catch-all surfaces, and unbuilt cards fall back to a fixed 400pt.
- a lift never coasts more than one step: sessions with lift
velocities up to ~11400pt/s never produced a second coast step. The
glide is gated on a sustained drag (two consecutive same-direction
steps), cancelled by reversal pivots and new touches, so a discrete
flick moves exactly one item.
- the native 'inertia' feel is the scroll animation, not focus
physics: the engine's scrollable containers settle over ~450-900ms
of ease-out. TV rail and hub-row navigation scrolls now retarget a
500ms easeOutCubic animation per step, so drags and hold-repeats
chain into one continuous glide that catches up on release.
With "Ask for profile on app open" enabled, every screen-off or app
switch on a phone re-pushed the profile picker and PIN on resume, burying
a companion-remote session that survives backgrounding since the
reconnect cycle was made lifecycle-aware. Suppress the resume prompt
while a companion session is live, mirroring the active-playback
exemption — the session already belongs to the profile that started it.
close#2087
Non-English users saw English text in a dozen places and blank labels in
sixteen more.
The English came from sites that produce their copy away from the widget
that renders it, which is what the structural hardcoded-string check
cannot see: picture-in-picture refused with a raw literal instead of the
pipErrors.notSupported key that already existed; the two Jellyfin/Emby
auth throws missing display: rendered their developer message on the
add-server form; ServerParsingException.toString() fed its English into
the localized "Failed to load servers" wrapper; Watch Together
interpolated the whole PeerError, so a failed create read "Failed to
create session: PeerError(PeerErrorType.timeout): Timed out creating
session" and join printed its prefix twice; the hub and playlist
continuation footers rendered exception.toString(); shader rows showed an
English title over an already translated subtitle; the player queue fell
back to the raw Dart enum name; a Plex home user with no title showed
"Unknown"; a failed player start showed "Exception: Failed to initialize
player"; and the tvOS top-shelf header was hardcoded in an extension that
has no Flutter engine.
The blanks came from three recent features that added English keys
without translations. clean_translations.py filled all 21 siblings with
empty strings, so the Android TV resolution switch, every Jellyfin/Emby
recording-rule field, the demuxer row, the Companion Remote address
caption and the Seerr blocklist pill rendered nothing at all.
Two fixes are structural rather than key swaps. ContinuationStatusSliver
now takes an errorContext and calls a new non-logging
localizedLoadErrorText, so no future throw can leak through it. lib/mpv
stays free of user-facing copy: it raises a PlayerInitializationException
sentinel and a PlayerError.playerInitFailed cause tag that the player
screen resolves to localized text. The tvOS section title travels in the
shelf payload, additively, so an older cache still renders.
Sub-4K content on a 4K TV was always upscaled by the playback device, so the TV's own (usually better) upscaler never received the native signal and could not apply resolution-specific processing.
Adds a Match Content Resolution setting on Android TV: playback picks the smallest display mode that still contains the video — never downscaling it — and rate-matches within that resolution when frame rate matching is also enabled. A resolution-only switch keeps the refresh rate as close to the current one as possible, and the settle watchdog now verifies the requested mode id so such switches still trigger the Android MPV decoder refresh. Transcodes get their target from decoded dimensions on the post-first-frame path. Mode selection is extracted into a pure, JVM-tested DisplayModeSelector.
close#2073
In-player subtitle search always ended with "Subtitle downloaded, but it
could not be selected": the apply flow polls getVideoPlaybackData for the
new external stream, but the fresh-cache-first fast path (be9197ed) served
the pre-download /library/metadata row for every iteration — playback
start leaves a fresh row, and the first network poll re-stamps it, so the
new stream was never observed and the flow timed out.
Add forceRefresh to PlexClient.getVideoPlaybackData (mirroring
getPlaybackExtras) and pass it from the download poll loop. The forced
fetch still rewrites the cache row, so the subsequent source switch sees
the new track.
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