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
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
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
On Linux the Home page, a library's Recommended tab and movie/show detail
pages could not be scrolled at all, while Browse, Collections, Playlists,
search, downloads and settings scrolled normally. Those three screens are
exactly the ones whose viewport is covered by horizontal hub rows.
A wheel, trackball, trackpoint or button-scroll event expresses one-axis
intent, but the host reports both axes in the same event: on Linux only
touchpad-sourced scrolling becomes a pan/zoom sequence that resolves in the
gesture arena, and everything else arrives as one PointerScrollEvent
carrying whatever dx the device produced. A Scrollable claims a scroll
signal as soon as the delta along its own axis is non-zero, and the deepest
claimant wins the PointerSignalResolver, so a tenth of a pixel of dx handed
the whole event to the horizontal row and the page behind it never moved.
Collapse a scroll signal onto its dominant axis in the binding, before hit
testing - the last point where the delta can still be corrected, because a
Scrollable has already registered with the resolver by the time it sees the
event. Pan/zoom events are left alone, so trackpad panning keeps both axes,
and a horizontal wheel or tilt still scrolls the row it points at.
close#2081
Two cold-start findings from the same pass. They share a call site in
`MainScreen`'s post-frame block, so they land together.
## Cronet was 33% of time-to-interactive
`createPlatformClient()` built the shared `CronetEngine` inline, so whichever
consumer happened to create the first HTTP client paid for it — and that landed
between `database_ready` and `credentials_loaded`, i.e. squarely on the path to
the first usable screen.
Measured on the Amlogic SC2 box, phase marks relative to `dart_main`, by
temporarily forcing the existing `_cronetBroken` fallback so no engine is ever
built:
| phase | engine built inline | engine never built |
|---|---|---|
| database_ready | +455 | +456 |
| credentials_loaded | +1171 | +703 |
| binding_settled | +1331 | +827 |
| main_screen | +1394 | +932 |
So ~462 ms, fully serial. Logcat shows where it goes: `DynamiteModule
loadModule2NoCrashUtils` then `HttpFlagsLoader` reading
`com.google.android.gms/app_httpflags/flags.binarypb`. The cause is provider
*enumeration*, not selection — `CronetEngine.Builder(Context)` calls
`isEnabled()` on every registered provider, and `PlayServicesCronetProvider`
answers that by installing the Play services Dynamite module. `play-services-cronet`
arrives transitively through `media3-datasource-cronet`, and `package:cronet_http`
offers no way to choose a provider, so the only lever available in Dart is *when*
the cost is paid.
Android's `createPlatformClient()` now returns a client that resolves its
delegate per request: the tuned IOClient that already backstops a broken Cronet
until the shared engine exists, Cronet afterwards. Per-request matters — a
`MediaServerHttpClient` builds its client in a constructor initializer and lives
for the process, so deciding once at construction would have pinned primary
media-server traffic to HTTP/1.1 forever, which is a silent steady-state
regression rather than a fix. `warmUpPlatformHttpClient()` then builds the engine
from `MainScreen`'s post-frame block.
Result: `main_screen` +1394 -> +915 ms, and logcat carries both client lines
(`IOClient (Android fallback)` then `CronetClient`), proving the swap. The build
now runs from +1023 to +1419, entirely after the first screen, and produces no
Choreographer or Davey report — the UI is static waiting on hub content there, so
there are no frames to drop.
## Plex Home refresh raced the offline decision
`PlexHomeService.start()` conflated disk hydration with going live: it decoded
the cached `plex_home_users_*` entries *and* subscribed to connection changes,
installed a refresh timer and fired `_refreshAll()`. It was invoked straight from
a provider `create:`, so on a box with no network — or the flaky 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi
these devices typically have — it started requests that would time out during the
exact window the startup gate needs. Its immediate neighbour
`ActiveProfileBinder` is explicitly not auto-started for this reason and says so
in a comment; the same argument applied here and had simply not been followed.
`start()` is now the live/network entry point and `hydrate()` is the disk-only
half, coalesced and lifecycle-guarded like `start()` already was. The provider
`create:` hydrates; `_reloadSnapshot` and `reloadFromStorage` hydrate; the borrow
picker hydrates, because it reads `current` immediately and is reachable while
offline. Only `MainScreen` goes live, gated on `!_isOffline`, with
`_handleOfflineStatusChanged` picking it up if the session later regains network —
otherwise an airplane-mode launch would never refresh Plex Home again.
Hydration still `_emit()`s, so `stream`'s replay contract holds even when the
network side never starts, which is what keeps a late listener behind a
`combineLatest` off a permanent spinner.
Cold start on the target TV box reaches its first frame 21 ms after `dart_main`,
so nothing Dart-side gates the splash. Everything below is on the path to the
first *useful* frame, which is a strictly serial chain and where the viewer
actually waits.
- `monoTheme` is a pure function of two bools that builds a full `ColorScheme`, an
applied-and-copied 15-style `TextTheme`, ~14 sub-themes and then clones the whole
`ThemeData` again. It was rebuilt five times per cold start, two of them before
`runApp`, and twice more per app-shell rebuild. It is memoized now, keyed by
palette plus `TargetPlatform` -- the platform matters because `ThemeData()`
derives tap target size, visual density and typography from
`defaultTargetPlatform`, so a palette-only key would be wrong under a debug or
test platform override.
- `initializeDateFormatting` ignores its locale argument and builds CLDR symbols
and patterns for all 121 locales synchronously. It blocked the gate ahead of the
database open for data that only content screens use.
- `DownloadStorageService.initialize` ended in a `path_provider` round trip plus
mkdir at the tail of the gate, contradicting the comment above it that already
explained offline artwork is not a launch requirement.
- `recoverInterruptedDownloads()` and `TrackerCoordinator.initialize()` ran from
`initState` of the widget whose first build produces the first app frame, and
the RSS watchdog installed a periodic timer there whose first useful sample is
15 s away regardless.
- `CredentialVault` decrypted every token with pure-Dart AES-GCM on the main
isolate, uncached, on every registry read and on every Drift re-emit -- and the
binder writes tokens during the startup sweep, so writes re-triggered reads.
Decryption is memoized by ciphertext, with `invalidateCache()` wired into the
preference-store repair path so a repaired install cannot serve stale plaintext.
- `reloadFromStorage` now coalesces in-flight callers. The two serial awaits around
the legacy migration are deliberately not merged; only genuinely concurrent
callers share a snapshot.
- `_sameConnections` ran two `jsonEncode` calls per connection on every Drift emit
purely to compare, allocating two maps and two strings each time.
- The splash rendered one `CircularProgressIndicator` per pending server on top of
the aggregate one, so N+1 tickers scheduled a frame every vsync for the whole of
`awaitBindingSettle` -- competing with the startup work they were reporting on.
Measured on device in a settled dexopt state: time to `main_screen` 1495 -> 1400 ms,
`credentials_loaded` 1238 -> 1128 ms, `database_ready` 501 -> 443 ms. First frame is
unchanged at ~18 ms, as expected.
Tapping Repair on the startup-failure screen always threw: the repair flow received the gate State's own context, which has no Navigator, MaterialLocalizations, or ScaffoldMessenger, so both the confirm dialog and the fallback error snackbar raised instead of rendering. Thread the bootstrap home builder's context (below the MaterialApp) into the repair flow and its failure snackbar.
Closing the window now runs a graceful exit (so trackers get their
terminal scrobble), but the teardown kept the window on screen for
seconds while screens visibly emptied as servers disconnected.
Hide the window as the first step of exit teardown, bounded so a
stalled platform channel cannot hold an already-accepted exit open, and
cover every graceful-exit entry (window X, Cmd+Q, OS-initiated), not
just the close button. Add a terminal MultiServerManager.shutdown() that
closes the status streams before draining clients: the still-mounted
widget tree must never observe an "all servers gone" snapshot mid-exit,
which would flip the app into offline UI and dismantle screens (and
with it the teardown-driven AppLifecycleListener used-after-dispose
assert). A health result landing after shutdown is a silent no-op.
Supersedes the flag-based approach in #1999.
connections.isDefault was maintained by three write paths (upsert preservation, remove-promotion, setDefault) that no production code ever read back; api_cache.cached_at was documented 'optional future use' and written on every cache store. Both columns are dropped in a v21 migration with row-preservation coverage; the dead write machinery, recordAuthSuccess, updateSyncRuleLastExecuted, getDownloadOwnerCount, and OfflineActionType.fromId (rejection semantics live in the sync service's explicit switch) go with them.
Recovery-image compatibility: committed tvOS snapshots written by older builds still carry isDefault in connections rows, and the restore decoder deliberately rejects rows that do not round-trip exactly. A retired-columns allowlist now strips such keys before the strict check, so pre-retirement images stay restorable — the legacy-plaintext restore test caught this and now pins it. _bindServerStatusListener in main.dart also loses its unused provider param and resolver indirection.
A Portuguese user reported "Skip Intro" rendering in English on Android TV.
The locale files were not the problem - all 22 were structurally complete.
skip_marker_button.dart simply never imported strings.g.dart and assigned
'Skip Intro' / 'Skip Credits' / 'Next Episode' as plain literals. An audit of
lib/ found ~120 more sites in the same state, in four shapes that need
different fixes:
A literal in a file that never imported the i18n layer is the easy one -
skip_marker_button, performance_stats, track_label_builder and codec_utils all
render text with no `t` in the file at all. TrackLabelBuilder._compose now takes
a fallbackLabel builder instead of an English fallbackPrefix, so the caller
supplies t.audioTracks.track / t.videoControls.subtitleTrack and every unnamed
audio and subtitle row in the track menus is localized.
English reaching the user through an exception message is the widest one, and
it needs care: MediaServerException.message feeds both toString() - logs and
Sentry grouping - and verbatim UI display. Localizing it in place would make
bug-report logs follow the user's locale and split one Sentry issue into 22.
The MediaServer and Seerr families instead gain a nullable `display` alongside
the English `message`, and the six screens that print these errors read
`display ?? message`. PlaybackException keeps the opposite rule, because it
already carries a PlaybackFailureReason for logic and classifyPlaybackFailure
already builds it from t.messages: its stragglers are localized at the throw
site. That also removes the literal "Exception: " prefix Live TV users saw on
a tune failure, since PlaybackException.toString() returns the bare message.
Localized parts hand-concatenated with bare English are the shape no search for
Text('...') can find: '${t.common.pause} auto-scroll' on the home carousel,
'${day} at ${time}' on the Live TV schedule row, and an actor-screen count that
hand-rolled its plural as `n == 1 ? 'title' : 'titles'` - wrong for ru and pl
regardless of translation, now a real Slang plural.
Finally a literal assigned to provider state that a widget renders later:
DownloadProgress.errorMessage, and the four background_downloader notification
bodies, which sit inside a plugin config call where no widget-shaped search
reaches them.
Two things surfaced while converting. track_chapter_controls compared a track
label against 'Audio Track N' to swap in a localized version; once the builder
localized its own fallback that branch became unreachable, so it and the
orphaned _joinTrackLabel are gone. And discovery_view's PeerError fallback arm
looks like a leak but is not - its producers already localize, and a test says
so - so it stays as it is.
All 21 non-base locales are translated, including the 21 keys left empty by
earlier commits that were falling back to English. No locale has an empty value.
scripts/check_hardcoded_strings.py guards the three shapes a structural check
can see, and runs in ci_checks.sh after translation hygiene. Its first draft
passed its own tests while missing this very bug, because 'Skip Intro' is bound
to a local rather than handed to Text(); the name-bound rule that closes that
gap is restricted to phrase-shaped literals, or it cannot tell copy from the
identifiers this codebase binds constantly ('cast_row', 'auto', 'liveTv'). It
cannot see English inside a throw or assigned to a provider field - neither is
distinguishable from a log message without dataflow analysis - and the docstring
says so. label: and actionLabel: are deliberately unscanned: here they name a
diagnostic operation, and a check that is chronically red is a check that gets
switched off.
One commit rather than one per area: the keys, the 22 locale files and the
generated output are a single unit, and any partial split fails the repo's own
unused-key scan on the way through.
close#1856
The unused-code gate flags debugSetCrashReporterReady (referenced nowhere)
and the formFactorScaleForTesting/rootShellForTesting wrappers (referenced
only from tests, which the lib-scoped check cannot see). Delete the dead
setter and let the car-scale test build the real rootShell and
FormFactorScale directly.
Since 2.10.0 the app opens on a Flutter-owned startup frame, and that frame
paints an opaque themed Scaffold before any preference is readable. Its
themeMode defaults to system, so the theme comes from platform brightness --
and a TV has no system dark-mode toggle, so Fire TV and Shield report light.
The result was a near-white #F7F7F8 sheet held for the whole gate, from
prefs through Sentry to the database open, over an Android window the
television resource qualifier had already painted black. Before 2.10.0 the
gate ran ahead of runApp and no Flutter frame existed to cover it.
Nothing in the loading frame is worth covering the launch screen for. Android
composites Flutter in TransparencyMode.transparent over a window whose colour
MainActivity already restored from plezy_prefs, so the loading Scaffold is
transparent there and the launch screen carries the launch. Every other
platform composites opaquely with nothing behind Flutter, so they keep
painting their own background.
The spinner and the failure screen still need a colour, and platform
brightness is the wrong one for exactly the devices this bug is about, so the
startup frames now adopt the persisted theme once it can be read. TV
detection has to run before that read: the theme_mode default is TV-aware and
isTVSync answers false until its singleton exists, which would resolve a
fresh Android TV install to the light theme. Both singletons are memoised and
awaited again by the gate. The read is best-effort -- an unreadable store is
the gate's failure to report, not this path's -- and it also stops a startup
failure from rendering as a full-screen white error page on a TV.
darkThemeFor and materialThemeModeFor move onto ThemeProvider so the startup
frames and the provider resolve OLED from one mapping rather than two.
Verified on an Android TV emulator in television/notnight mode, clean install,
cold start: peak frame luma 228 for 78 frames before, 0 frames above 120
after, and the same on a returning launch.
close#1833
A head unit is a large screen sitting an arm's length further away than a phone,
and Plezy drew phone-sized controls on it: the primary button measured 8.3 mm
against the 64 dp a car needs. The whole surface is now scaled - 1.35 by default,
adjustable in Appearance - by giving the app a smaller logical viewport and
scaling the result back, so text, spacing and touch targets grow together instead
of a font size being nudged in isolation.
The scale sits above the messenger and the root Scaffold so snackbars and dialogs
are scaled too, and insets are divided back into the scaled space so a system bar
still reserves its physical size. A scaled surface is also a short one: the setup
screen's fixed offsets and the now-playing transport are laid out to survive it,
and a mistyped scale in a hand-edited settings file is clamped rather than
failing startup.
Emby is Jellyfin's upstream ancestor and speaks a near-identical MediaBrowser
API, so the existing Jellyfin stack is parameterised by a `MediaBrowserDialect`
rather than forked. `JellyfinClient`, its auth service, endpoint discovery, LAN
discovery, and the add/edit connection screens all take the dialect and keep one
implementation; `MediaBackend.emby` and `ConnectionKind.emby` carry it through
the neutral models, the Drift `kind` discriminator, downloads, and caches.
Every divergence below was measured against a live Emby 4.9.5 server, not
inferred from documentation, and each is documented at its capability getter.
Jellyfin's request strings stay byte-identical so nothing about its behaviour
changes.
Routes and auth
- Emby only accepts the pre-10.9 user-scoped item routes (`/Users/{id}/Items/…`,
`/Users/{id}/PlayedItems/…`, `/Users/{id}/FavoriteItems/…`); the unprefixed
forms Jellyfin 10.11 added return 404.
- The API is also served under a legacy `/emby` prefix, and both dialects accept
the token as `X-Emby-Token` or `api_key=`.
- Emby answers only its own LAN discovery datagram ("who is EmbyServer?") and
ignores Jellyfin's; its default HTTPS port is 8920.
- No `/QuickConnect` route exists, so Quick Connect stays Jellyfin-only.
Row fields Emby withholds
- `ProductionYear`, `OfficialRating`, `PremiereDate` and `DateCreated` are absent
from list rows unless named in `Fields`, which would otherwise strip the year
and age-rating badge from every card in the app.
- `UserData.LastPlayedDate` never appears on a list row under `Fields=UserData`,
`EnableUserData=true` or the user-scoped `Ids=` form — only on the single-item
detail route, or when the Emby-specific `UserDataLastPlayedDate` token is
requested. Without it every recency-ordered surface silently degrades to
library-add time, and `JellyfinApiCache.applyWatchState` stamps
`DateTime.now()` on watched rows, so an offline watch-state pull would rewrite
the cached play time of everything it walked.
Continue Watching and Next Up
- Emby computes Next Up per series only: the library-wide `/Shows/NextUp` query
returns nothing under every parameter combination tried. The shelf is
therefore reconstructed from a played-episode recency scan plus one
`/Shows/NextUp?SeriesId=` per distinct series, bounded by a shared wall clock
that covers the scan as well — per-request timeouts cannot bound the pass
because `MediaServerHttpClient` times the connect and receive phases
independently. Rows are stamped with their series' newest play from the same
response that ordered them, so no per-series enrichment request is needed.
- `/Shows/NextUp` ignores `NextUpDateCutoff`, and no server-side played-date
filter exists to delegate to (`MinDatePlayed` and `MinDateLastPlayed` are
ignored; `MinDateLastSaved`, `MinDateCreated` and `MinPremiereDate` filter
unrelated dates), so the 365-day window is applied to the scanned dates.
- The resume route returns items with no saved position, including plain next
episodes, so the Emby resume leg reads from `/Items?Filters=IsResumable`.
- Emby is ahead of Jellyfin in one place: `/Users/{id}/Items/{id}/HideFromResume`
makes Continue Watching removal a real capability.
Everything else
- `/Sessions/Playing` and `/Sessions/Playing/Progress` reject a body with no
`PlaySessionId` (HTTP 400), so playback reporting always sends one.
- Passing any `MediaTypes` value to the playlist query returns an empty list.
- There is no aggregate `/Items/Filters` route; the four filter facets are
reassembled from `/Genres`, `/OfficialRatings`, `/Studios` and `/Tags`.
- Metadata writes take name-pair lists (`Genres: [{'Name': 'Action'}]`); the
plain string array is accepted and then silently discarded.
- Custom artwork uploads must be base64 text, not raw bytes — which was broken
for Jellyfin too and is fixed for both.
- Trickplay, media segments and lyrics 404 on Emby, so scrub previews are absent
and intro/credit markers fall back to chapter names.
Verified against a local Emby 4.9.5 and a Jellyfin 10.11.11 control server:
onboarding, browse, detail, playable stream URLs serving real bytes, subtitle
sidecars, watch-state write and restore, hubs, cross-server aggregation and
search across both backends simultaneously.
A local profile had no picture of its own and always fell back to
initials. It now borrows the user picture of the connection it was
linked to first — oldest Connection.createdAt, ties broken by
connection id, since the join table carries no creation time.
Jellyfin links resolve to /Users/{id}/Images/Primary, keyed by the
PrimaryImageTag now captured at authentication and refreshed from the
/Users/Me body checkHealth already fetches. That endpoint is anonymous
on every Jellyfin release, so the URL carries no api_key and the access
token stays out of the image cache key. Plex links resolve the Home
user the link points at against PlexHomeService's live cache, so no
account-level lookup is needed and the picture tracks Plex's own
refresh.
The picture is derived per snapshot and never written back onto a
Profile: ProfileDetailScreen upserts the model it holds, so a
persisted URL would go stale and outlive the connection it came from.
Plex Home profiles are untouched, including one whose Plex avatar is
unset — it keeps its initials rather than borrowing a lent connection's
picture.
close#1667
A reporter on #1732 ran three successive builds against a preference store of
10336 bytes, every one of them zero, and reported each as "still failing". The
gate classified it correctly every time and the consented repair would have
cleared it in-process, but nothing on the failure screen said so: Retry was
first, styled `FilledButton`, and autofocused, while `Repair storage` sat beside
it as a tonal afterthought. Retry re-reads the same document, so for a
corrupt-store failure it is an action that cannot succeed however many times it
is pressed — and it was the one the screen recommended.
Repair now takes the primary styling, the focus node and first position whenever
it is offered, and the body text says plainly that retrying will not help.
Retry keeps its place for every other failure, where a locked database or a
denied directory really can change between attempts.
The consent dialog was also promising an outcome it could not always deliver.
Servers and profiles survive a repair only because their tokens are ciphertext
in the database and the key that decrypts them lives in the store, so a store
the key cannot be read out of signs the user out of everything — exactly the
all-zero case. `PrefsRecovery.previewSalvage` reads the damaged file without
touching it, and the dialog now names the real cost from that. The retained copy is
labelled as holding credentials unless the bytes prove otherwise: what the
salvage recovered says nothing about what the file still contains, because a
store truncated mid-value keeps most of a vault key in plaintext while the
salvage pattern — which needs the value's closing quote — matches nothing at
all. Only an all-zero file drops the warning, so the one case that cries wolf
is the one that provably holds no secret.
`describe()` finally carries whether a repair was on offer. That line is the
difference between a report a maintainer can act on and two days of guessing
whether the button was even on screen.
close#1732
A seed-and-restart repair writes the salvaged credentials straight to disk and
leaves this process's store closed, because the plugin still holds the bad
document in memory. repairCorruptStore says so plainly — "nothing may write a
preference before that restart … the caller keeps the app on the failure
screen precisely so nothing does" — but the caller did not. Clearing the
repairing flag re-enabled Retry, and pressing it reopened onto the stale map,
whose first write would flush it back over the seed and orphan every
ciphertext token in the database.
The repair hook returned a bare bool, which cannot express the difference
between "retry now" and "never retry in this process", so replace it with
StartupRepairResult. The restart case latches terminal state on the bootstrap,
withdraws Retry and Repair rather than grey them out — a disabled control
still invites another press — and says what to do instead, which nothing did:
repairNeedsRestart was a dialog title with no body anywhere. Desktop gets a
Quit button through the existing AppExitService seam; Copy and Upload stay
live everywhere, because a stuck user still needs the diagnostic out.
close#1732
The persist-then-flush model had four ways to lose or corrupt the record
it exists to protect.
A no-op hub — which is what a failed or timed-out crash-reporting init
leaves behind, because that phase is best effort — accepts an event and
returns an empty id without throwing. "Did not throw" was treated as
delivery, so the record was marked reported and suppressed forever.
Delivery now requires a non-empty Sentry id, and init completion is
tracked explicitly rather than assumed.
Opting out, and building without a DSN, are deliberate suppression
rather than delivery failure: both mark the record resolved so it is not
rediscovered every launch. Everything else stays pending, and
consumption no longer deletes an unreported record — deleting it ended
the only retry there was, which made "the next launch tries again"
false.
The write path is now a queue. Record writes were launched unawaited
from the failure path, so a fast retry could flush before the file
existed, consume before a late write landed, or run two writers against
one file and let the older one finish last. markReported joins the same
queue and compares record identity before rewriting, because reading and
writing outside it let a concurrent record land in between and be
overwritten by the record it had just superseded. Records carry an id so
that comparison is meaningful.
Consumption also waits on a registered flush, so the success path cannot
delete the file mid-send.
Also routes the tvOS recovery marker through the tolerant read.
reconcile() runs inside AppDatabase.open, a fatal gate step, so a
wrong-typed marker vetoed the launch outright on a first-class TV
target. Both new guards have regression tests verified to fail without
the fix.
Reporting the failure inline was wrong for the phase that matters most.
The gate opens preferences before SentryFlutter.init, so a corrupt or
unreadable store — the likeliest cause of #1732 — was captured by a
NoOpHub and silently discarded, which is exactly the telemetry gap the
previous commit claimed to close. Initialising the reporter earlier is
not an option either: `_beforeSend` reads the crash-reporting opt-out
from settings, so events raised before settings load would bypass a
user's choice.
Every failure is now persisted first and flushed once the reporter is up
with settings loaded, which in practice is the user's own retry seconds
later in the same process. Records carry a `reported` flag so a send
happens exactly once, and a failed send leaves the flag clear so the
next launch tries again. The flush reads without consuming, so the
record still reaches Settings > Logs.
Also routes the tvOS recovery marker through the tolerant read:
`reconcile()` runs inside `AppDatabase.open`, a fatal gate step, so a
wrong-typed marker vetoed startup outright on a first-class TV target
despite the new default-instead-of-veto behaviour. An unreadable marker
tells us nothing, which is the same position as an absent one.
Since 2.10.0 the whole app sits behind one all-or-nothing initialization
gate, and that gate discarded the only evidence of its own failure. It
caught the error, logged nothing but `error.runtimeType`, rendered an
icon plus the word "Error" plus Retry, and never reported the error
because catching it kept the crash reporter from ever seeing it. There
is no log file on any platform, the buffer is in memory only, a
double-clicked Windows release build has no console, and the log viewer
lives in Settings, behind the gate that just failed. #1732 is the result:
a Windows 11 user whose app will not boot and who cannot produce a single
byte of diagnostic detail.
The gate now names its phases. Each step is wrapped so a throw carries
the phase it came from, replacing a `Future.wait` that discarded every
error but the first and could not attribute it to any of four concurrent
steps. The failure screen renders the phase, the exception type, the
message and an expandable stack, plus copy and upload actions that reuse
the existing log-relay flow. The record is persisted next to the database
so the next successful launch can surface it in Settings > Logs, and it
is reported to the crash reporter explicitly.
Only preferences and the database still gate the launch. Window chrome,
locale, crash-reporting init, TV/performance detection, the image-cache
budget and download storage are best-effort and time-bounded, so a
stalled platform thread degrades instead of holding the splash forever.
Sentry no longer receives the startup work as its `appRunner`: that made
a startup failure indistinguishable from a Sentry failure, and the guard
would then have re-run migrations and the database open a second time.
The two remaining fatal steps become recoverable. Preference reads
tolerate a value whose stored type no longer matches, dropping the key
and defaulting instead of failing the boot. A store that cannot be parsed
is detected before either desktop plugin backend can memoise it, which is
what makes an in-process repair possible at all. Repair is never
automatic: it states what it will cost, salvages the credential-vault key
and every tracker and Seerr session it can validate out of the damaged
bytes, reseeds them, and moves the original aside rather than deleting
it. Servers and profiles survive a salvaged key because their tokens are
ciphertext in the database; tracker and Seerr sessions are plaintext
preference entries, so the copy says they may still need reconnecting.
Nothing derived from the store reaches a diagnostic. `FormatException`
prints an excerpt of whatever it failed to parse, and during startup that
document holds the vault key, refresh tokens and session cookies while
the redaction manager still has nothing registered, so the wrapper keeps
only the cause's type and offset and the record is an allowlist of
already-redacted fields. The quarantined copy is labelled as containing
credentials, is never offered for upload, and can be deleted from the
dialog.
Also self-heals orphaned WAL/SHM sidecars on desktop rather than only
tvOS, makes every `createTable` migration step idempotent, keeps MSVC
link by-products out of the Windows bundle, and asserts bundle contents
in CI.
Refs #1732
Trakt was the one service outside the tracker abstraction. TraktScrobbleService
re-implemented the whole playback lifecycle beside TrackerCoordinator, and
TraktSyncService pushed watched state from its own WatchStateNotifier
subscription, so the player called two objects at every lifecycle point and one
watch could be written twice. TraktTracker now implements RealtimeScrobbleTracker
like Simkl; the duplicated player call sites collapse to one each, and Trakt
shares the coordinator's ID resolver instead of re-fetching show ids every
episode.
Capabilities are split so a tracker declares what it is rather than being
special-cased: ScrobblePolicy carries each service's own resend/seek rules,
EpisodeHistoryTracker names the remote row a per-item history write targets, and
SeriesProgressTracker covers one-counter-per-series services. Writes from all
four trackers go through a shared TrackerWriteQueue, generalised from the
Trakt-only queue, with the legacy Trakt payload migrated on load. Trakt becomes
the fourth TrackersProvider slot and TraktAccountProvider is deleted, so one
object owns the active session per profile.
Two failure paths found while consolidating are fixed here too.
The queue's retries only ran on profile bind, connect and app foreground, so a
network blip mid-session left queued watches waiting for the next foreground.
OfflineModeProvider now notifies on connectivity changes, not just offline-state
or WiFi-flag changes, and main.dart flushes the queue when the network returns.
The queue also counted every failure toward the five attempts that permanently
drop an item, so a rate limit or a service having a bad hour could discard a
pending watch - the loss the queue exists to prevent. Only an answer about the
write itself now spends an attempt: 4xx counts, while rate limits, 5xx,
recoverable token-refresh failures and requests that never arrived do not. A
back-off answer also defers that service for the rest of the flush, so a queue
holding many rows does not fire all of them at a service that just asked for
quiet.
Simkl only heard about an item once playback crossed the media server's
watched threshold, so stopping partway recorded nothing at all: no resumable
position, no watch. Drive Simkl's /scrobble/start, /pause and /stop from the
player lifecycle instead, carrying the measured progress. Seeks report
nothing, as Simkl asks.
The terminal stop owns watched state for in-player playback, so real-time
trackers are excluded from the threshold markWatched fan-out and one watch
never produces two writes. Progress is reported as measured — it doubles as
the user's resume position — so when a server threshold configured below
Simkl's own 80% rule would leave the watch unrecorded, the tracker records it
through /sync/history rather than inflating progress. Manual, container,
offline-replay and external-player marks keep using /sync/history. Only
/scrobble/stop accepts a 409, which is the sole action documented to return
one.
Reports go out one at a time because Simkl serialises scrobble writes per
user and fails queued ones with a 400; overflow sheds the oldest non-terminal
report so an episode swap cannot drop the previous item's stop. A playback
session is pinned to the account bound when it began and every send re-checks
that binding, so a profile switch or a disconnect/reconnect can neither
redirect a queued report nor misfile the watched fallback.
Also close the paths that lost the terminal report entirely: app exit flushes
it instead of dropping it, the desktop window button goes through the app
shutdown rather than exit(0), a detached VOD player reports a stop, and a
finished item reports completion at EOF instead of waiting for teardown. A
session that opened at 0% is still closed on stop, or Simkl keeps showing the
item as playing until its runtime elapses.
close#1719
Every artwork budget in the image pipeline was tuned for 1080p surfaces:
the transcode request clamp (1920x1080), the per-type decode caps
(poster 720x1080, thumb 960x540, heroLogo 1000x500, ...) and the TV
image-cache bytes. Those numbers are exact on phones and on the many TV
boxes that composite the app at 1080p, but a TV compositing at 4K
renders every capped image below its slot and GPU-upscales the result:
hero backdrops by 2x, hero logos by ~1.8x, wide episode thumbs by ~1.3x,
shelf posters by ~1.13x - the softness reported against the official
Plex client in #1697, and the class #860's min-2x-DPR fix could not
reach.
DevicePerformance now latches a display budget factor - the display's
shortest physical axis over 1080, capped at 2x - whenever the image
cache budget is applied (startup, post-mount, effects-setting changes).
The transcode clamp, the full-tier decode caps and the TV cache bytes
all scale by it, so a 4K surface fetches and decodes 4K backdrops and
proportionally larger cards. The reduced tier stays pinned to 1.0, and
sub-2.5GiB hardware holds the factor at 1.5 so full-budget 4K art
(~33MB per decode) cannot starve mid-RAM boxes; latching once per
session keeps transcode URLs - and with them the disk cache keys -
stable across rotation and rebuilds.
Whether a given TV composites at 1080p or 4K decides whether any of
this can help, and logs never recorded it: the startup banner and the
log-upload header now carry a display line (physical, logical, DPR,
latched budget) so uploaded logs answer that question directly.
The two pre-existing Windows-host test failures (automotive auto-PiP
gate, backdrop temp-dir teardown lock) reproduce unchanged on the base
commit.
Detection now runs off the UI isolate and covers every platform where
the answer can be trusted.
Availability was a plain platform check, so Linux always listed VLC, mpv
and Celluloid, macOS always listed VLC and IINA, and Windows always
listed VLC and PotPlayer whether or not any of them existed. Each player
now has a detector that asks exactly the question its launcher asks:
`sh -c 'command -v'` for PATH launches so the kernel performs the
executable check, NSWorkspace/Launch Services for `open -a`, `where.exe`
plus the concrete install paths for Windows VLC, and the registered URL
handler for PotPlayer and the iOS players.
Detection is asynchronous and memoised behind KnownPlayers.probe rather
than a Process.runSync in a static initialiser, which forked three
shells on the UI isolate during ExternalPlayerScreen.build. It is
prewarmed from startup, fails open when a probe throws, and keeps the
selected player listed when a detector misses it so a false negative
cannot leave the list with nothing selected.
iOS and tvOS gained LSApplicationQueriesSchemes entries for vlc and
infuse. Without them canOpenURL returns false for both schemes, so
_launchUrlScheme was already refusing to hand off to either player.
Android keeps the platform check: package visibility needs native
declarations, and a wrong answer there hides a working player.
Supplementary repair runs over downloads whose video is already complete, so
it no longer emits a downloading transition, and artwork updates carry the
row's real status instead of asserting downloading. Previously a reconnect
left completed downloads stuck at "downloading 0%" until the next DB read.
Storage exhaustion fails every active row in one transaction, so
failActiveDownloadsForStorageFull now returns the affected keys and each one
gets a failed event; only the triggering key was announced before.
The post-recovery database open also closes its handle before rethrowing. A
failing storage-full write abandoned a drift background isolate and its
SQLite handles on every retry.
Introduces shared seams for paginated views, D-pad reorder, media control
routing, async singletons and the device method channel, then points the
open-coded copies at them.
Also removes unused models and duplicated provider/server plumbing, folds
the twice-implemented artifact store in the server, and factors the
repeated Flutter toolchain prologue in CI into a composite action.
Drops dead code across services, models, utils and widgets, including the
connection auth service, which had no implementer, and the Live TV DVR
provisioning models, which had no caller.
Tests that only covered deleted behaviour are removed or trimmed. No
behaviour change.
Complete and revise every shipped locale against the current English source, preserve locale-specific plurals, and map script-specific Chinese locales through device, Intl, duration, and Plex boundaries.
Co-authored-by: emgeje <mgj@mgj.hu>
Co-authored-by: junyou1998 <junyou1998@gmail.com>
Player backends share static per-backend EventChannel names, so two
overlapping instances (episode handoff, quick exit/reopen) collide:
the newer instance's listen displaces the older sink, the older
instance's late cancel then tears down the newer stream — silently
freezing its events — and the final cancel earns the engine's
"No active stream to cancel" reply, which the framework can only
report as an uncatchable fatal FlutterError (363 events).
Track the owning instance per channel: only the current owner sends
the native cancel; a displaced instance drops its dead subscription.
Residual benign teardown races are dropped in beforeSend.
Android trim callbacks are best-effort — LMK can kill without ever
delivering one — yet the RSS watchdog only ran on desktop with a fixed
1.5GB bar no 2GB TV box ever reaches before dying. The watchdog now
runs on Android with a threshold scaled to device RAM, an eviction
floor and cooldown against refetch churn, and a lower backgrounded bar
since a paused app is LMK's first candidate.
The logs-screen header and startup line now record the renderer, the
effects tier with its raw hardware signals, and the boot RSS, so
uploaded reports answer whether the reduced tier engaged.
Ref #1349
Initialize TvDetectionService on every platform so the existing
force_tv_mode setting drives the 10-foot TV interface on Windows,
macOS, and Linux, and surface the toggle in appearance settings there.
Desktop keeps real-mouse behavior in TV mode: InputModeTracker still
flips between pointer and keyboard modes (cursor hidden while
keyboard-driven), segmented controls keep their hover affordance, and
the settings backup section stays available (only Android TV lacks a
document picker).
Adds PlatformDetector.debugSetIsDesktopOSOverride so TV-device
simulations in widget tests don't inherit the desktop test host's
platform.
close#1409
Impeller was blanket-disabled on TV in e759dafa as a precaution when the
Tensor/NVIDIA fallbacks landed, and #749 (API 30 Fire TV Cube freezing
until the Skia build) validated it. Flutter has since deprecated the
Impeller opt-out, so start walking the disable back where the hardware
can take it: TV devices on Android 12+ with a Vulkan 1.1 driver use
Impeller, while Fire OS (modern API levels on GPUs whose drivers can't
back it up), pre-12 boxes, and the existing NVIDIA/Huawei/e-waste quirks
stay on Skia. Tag Sentry events with the active renderer so TV
regressions are attributable while this rolls out.
Discover and libraries now fetch only the servers that came online since
the last pass and merge the results; already-loaded servers are not
refetched. Both providers also own their online-servers listener
(registered in the constructor, removed in dispose), so profile switches
no longer leak listeners that kept disposed providers refetching.
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