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
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.
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
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
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.
Jellyfin and Emby users had no way to record live TV from Plezy at all: no
record button in the EPG guide's program menu, and nothing in the recordings
UI, because every recording surface was gated behind a Plex-only DVR adapter.
The recording surfaces are now backed by a MediaBrowser DVR adapter that
synthesizes the neutral (Plex-shaped) payload models from the timer APIs:
- Template comes from `GET /LiveTv/Timers/Defaults?programId=`, offering a
"Record Episode" entry and, for series airings, "Record Series". The
defaults DTO travels JSON-encoded in the template's opaque `parameters`
and setting ids are DTO field names, so the existing template-driven
record-options sheet renders and round-trips them unchanged.
- Create POSTs the mutated defaults whole to `/LiveTv/Timers` or
`/LiveTv/SeriesTimers`; a duplicate one-off create answers 400, which the
adapter rethrows as `RecordingConflictException` so the sheet can show
"Already scheduled" without a backend check.
- Scheduled recordings read `/LiveTv/Timers` minus `Cancelled`/`Completed`
tombstones, rules read `/LiveTv/SeriesTimers` with their child timers
nested. Rule keys carry a `timer:`/`series:` prefix so cancel, edit and
delete dispatch to the right timer space inside the adapter.
Guide programs now carry their recording state: the program id doubles as the
record seed, and `TimerId`/`SeriesTimerId` become the rule keys that drive the
guide's scheduled dot and the Manage action. The series key is stamped only
when an airing actually records, so an episode a series rule skips does not
show a false indicator.
Three neutrality fixes on the shared UI: the record-options sheet only demands
a target library when the template declares one (MediaBrowser records into its
own configured folder), and "Re-evaluate rules" is hidden unless a connected
DVR supports it, since only Plex has that endpoint.
`fetchDvrs` deliberately stays empty so the synthesized per-server Live TV
identity that channel fetches, favorites and playback key off is preserved.
Verified end-to-end against a disposable jellyfin/jellyfin:10.11.11 container
with an M3U tuner and XMLTV guide, driven through the real client: template,
create, duplicate conflict, cancel, series create with child grabs, edit
round-trip and delete.
close#1645
A cleared skip-marker regex saved as an empty pattern, and RegExp('') matches every chapter title: all synthetic markers became intros or credits, and an end-of-file credits marker could auto-advance the episode. Blank input is now rejected at both validation and save, and the chapter fallback treats already-persisted blank patterns as absent.
Plex "Other Videos" libraries returned items as type=movie with
subtype=clip, which mapped to MediaKind.movie and rendered 2:3 poster
cards that cropped the generated 16:9 video-frame thumbs.
Items keep the movie kind so downloads, add-to, delete-from-server, and
detail navigation stay available, but subtype=clip now renders wide with
the thumb-first artwork clips already use. Sections marked subtype=clip
in /media/providers map to the clip library kind, giving Plex home-video
libraries the same folder-first grouping and wide grid cells as
MediaBrowser homevideos views. Wide-only hubs also keep 16:9 cards in
the poster episode modes, matching the TV rail's gate.
close#2036
Two private formatters mapped the canonical server resolution label to
display text (media_quality_labels, media_version) with edge-case
drift, and several single-consumer helpers added indirection without
callers:
- add shared resolutionDisplayLabel in resolution_label.dart and
migrate MediaVersion.displayLabel and the quality-label builder to it
- drop the resolutionLabelFromHeight compat re-export from
jellyfin_mappers (no remaining consumers) and its stale doc note
- delete TraktCatalogSource.membershipKeysFor, byte-identical to the
CatalogWatchlistMachinery default
- derive the rating sheet backend label from
MediaBrowserDialect.productName instead of a hardcoded switch
- inline EndpointFailoverManager into failover_http_client.dart, its
only importer, and remove endpoint_failover_interceptor.dart
Removing an item from Continue Watching on Emby posts HideFromResume,
which only the dedicated /Users/{uid}/Items/Resume route honors: the
IsResumable /Items query and the per-series /Shows/NextUp lookups kept
returning hidden rows, so removed items blipped back on every refresh.
Emby's dedicated route conflates both shelves (in-progress items plus
one zero-position next episode per started series), so every playback
surface now reads one hide-aware window from it and splits the rows by
PlaybackPositionTicks: positive rows feed Continue Watching, zero-
position episode rows feed Next Up. The 1+N per-series Next Up
reconstruction is deleted; one recency scan still supplies the play
dates and the NextUpDateCutoff window. Jellyfin request strings are
unchanged.
close#2003
Browsing artwork showed PMS PhotoTranscoder log lines flagged
"upscaled: 1" on every request. The flag merely echoes the upscale=1
query param Plezy sent on every cover request (PMS prints it before
locating the source, including on cache hits and pure downscales), but
the param had a real cost: whenever the requested box exceeded the
source — hero art at the 4K display budget (3840x2160 requests against
the near-universal 1920x1080 agent art), portrait backdrops on >1080p
phones — PMS genuinely enlarged the image server-side. Verified against
PMS 1.43: ~2.5x the transcode time and transfer bytes for zero rendered
detail, since the client covers the slot on the GPU regardless and the
fit-policy decode bounds never enlarge.
Send upscale=0 on cover requests too: downscale output is byte-identical
and oversized requests now return the native image. Jellyfin needs no
change — MaxWidth/MaxHeight never enlarge.
close#1975
Exiting the player after enough progress moved the played item to the front of Continue Watching left D-pad focus at its old position, now occupied by a completely different item.
TvBrowseRail and HubSection now remap the focused index to follow the focused item identity when a hub reorders underneath it, falling back to the same series replacement entry when a finished episode is swapped for the next one, and HubSection focus memory is remapped so re-entering the row lands on the same item.
close#1987
Artist pages showed one flat album grid, unlike Plex's own clients.
Plex listing rows never carry Format/Subformat tags (even with
resolveTags=1), so fetchArtistDiscography follows the unchanged album
listing with one batched /library/metadata/{ids} request - whose rows
do include the tags - and classifies each album individually
(EP/Single, then live, then compilation, case-insensitively). A failed
tag fetch degrades to the flat list, and single-album artists skip the
lookup entirely. Jellyfin/Emby carry no album taxonomy on the wire and
return a single albums group.
The artist screen renders one titled section per non-empty group
(single-group artists keep the flat grid), with the grid focus index
space offset per section so D-pad traversal crosses section
boundaries.
Plex emits an auto-generated composite mosaic for every playlist, so the
displayImagePath fallback order (composite first) meant a poster the user
assigned in Plex could never appear. Prefer thumbPath and fall back to the
composite; no-op for Jellyfin/Emby, which never set a composite.
Plex Live TV lost DVB subtitles when 2.10 moved the live path to HLS
(#1983): the transcode starts with subtitles=none, which drops a
tuner's bitmap subtitle streams from the output entirely - unlike
in-band CEA captions, they are separate elementary streams.
The tune response now surfaces the part's embedded bitmap subtitle
streams as selectable tracks in the player's subtitle menu. Picking one
points the part's server-side selection at that stream and rebuilds the
live transcode with subtitles=burn, preserving the time-shift position.
Off stays the default so tuner captions are never auto-burned (#1590),
and channels without bitmap streams keep the native track list. The
selection survives stream recovery by re-mapping onto the re-tuned
session's streams and resets on channel zap. Jellyfin live sessions
record subtitle selection as intentionally unsupported: their one
negotiated URL has no rebuild to deliver it through.
PlexMediaItem.subtitleMode/extraType were mapped from DTOs and never read (subtype stays — the detail screen's trailer picker destructures it); MediaPlaylist.copyWith, PagedMediaListState.mapItems, isMusicContent/isCollection, and MediaHub.copyWith's eight never-passed params had zero call sites; LiveTvActivityResult wrapped reloadGuide results nobody unwrapped (now Future<void>); PlayerLogLevel.none was unreachable — nothing parses or produces it; MediaSourceInfo.getPartId() was an accessor over its own public field.
PlayQueue was a freezed union whose Plex variant was never constructed (server queues flow through PlayQueueResponse), whose pattern getters had zero call sites, and whose backendId was written but never read — it is now a plain four-field LocalPlayQueue. The MediaItem compatibility factory re-listed the entire ~65-field union surface twice while every caller passes at most 22 fields; it now declares exactly that union. fetchLibraryContent had zero production callers (the UI pages through fetchLibraryPagedContent), so the interface method and both implementations are gone, with Jellyfin's drain folded into its paged entry point.
Two part mixins re-declared members owned by siblings (five playback methods with full 17-parameter signatures, _safeFetchItemsArray with four lint suppressions), violating jellyfin_client.dart's own 'declared exactly once' contract — they now live on _JellyfinClientInternals, with _safeFetchItemsArray declared as its positional core so no suppressions survive. LiveTvSupport.resolveStreamUrl's only caller anywhere was Jellyfin's own startPlayback, so it is now a private negotiation step and Plex drops its permanent null stub; the negotiation tests observe the same contract through startPlayback and the heartbeat wire. JellyfinApiCache's unpinForOffline/isPinnedItemId (zero callers, kept only for Plex symmetry) are gone, as are MediaSubscriptionCreateRequest's never-populated hints/params/providers expansions in the Plex live-TV serializer.
Connection.status was write-only health state (only the Jellyfin refresh wrote it, nothing read it — MultiServerManager owns real server status), ConnectionKind duplicated MediaBackend line for line, the token-to-PlexAccountConnection pipeline existed three times (sign-in, dev-token seed, legacy migration) with drifting label/dedup policy, and JellyfinConnectionAuthService.validate/refresh/signOut had no production callers.
Connection.kind is now MediaBackend (persisted 'plex'/'jellyfin'/'emby' strings are identical, no migration); buildPlexAccountConnection in plex_account_setup.dart owns identity resolution with the three callers keeping only their genuine deltas; the test-only auth trio and its jellyfinSignOut timeout constant are gone.
One server with overlapping libraries (movies in both an HD and a 4K
library, shows duplicated per language) returns search results that
cannot be told apart, forcing users to open each copy to find the
right one (#1970).
Each search row now carries a source line under the summary: backend
icon, server name, and library name, shown whenever the owning server
has more than one library. Plex rows name their section inline, with
sectionKey-only rows back-filled from the loaded libraries; Jellyfin
and Emby send no library field on search hits, so search always runs
the per-library scoped fan-out that previously only served
hidden-library exclusion and stamps every hit with its library. The
Jellyfin detail lookup adds a best-effort /Items/{id}/Ancestors stamp
so full metadata stays attributed, row refreshes merge instead of
dropping the stamp, and the mapper no longer misreads SeriesStudio or
ParentId as library identity.
Episode rows trade one summary line for the source line so the
wide-thumb row keeps its height, and the badge paints slightly below
the line-box center to sit on the text's optical middle.
close#1970
Videos take noticeably long to start. On Plex, tapping Play refetched
/library/metadata/{id} network-first even though the detail screen wrote
a strict superset of that exact payload under the same cache key seconds
earlier. On Jellyfin/Emby, playback start issued a full-detail item GET
before the PlaybackInfo negotiation, and the video controls issued the
same heavy GET again while the stream was opening (#1784) — the most
expensive queries a small home server serves, paid two to three times
per start.
Add ApiCache.getIfFresh over the existing cachedAt column and serve
rows younger than playbackMetadataCacheFreshness (5 min) without a
round trip. Plex guards with the strict stream-detail check
(_plexMetadataHasStreamDetail) so a thin row written by
getPlaybackExtras' lean fetch still goes to the network; Jellyfin's
row has a single full-shape writer, so fetchPlaybackBundle and
fetchPlaybackExtras share the new fetchItemFreshCacheFirst. Any miss,
stale, thin, or malformed row falls through to the unchanged
network-first path, and offline behavior is untouched.
lib/media declared two different enums named MediaStreamKind — a 4-value one in media_stream.dart and a 7-value one in media_file_info.dart — so any file importing both libraries silently picked one by import order.
media_stream.dart's enum now carries the full member set (image/data/lyric added before unknown; the original four ordinals are preserved) and media_file_info.dart re-exports it instead of declaring its own.
close#1952
Shows whose Season 0 holds aftershow featurettes (e.g. House of the
Dragon "Inside the Episode") share air dates with the episodes they
accompany, so the air-date interleave from #1416 queued them between
regular episodes: playing S03E04 offered S00E76/S00E84 as up next.
Air date alone cannot separate canon Specials from featurettes, so
Specials placement is now a three-way preference, defaulting to
"follow server order":
- respectServer: Plex keeps its server-built /allLeaves queue (aired
order, Specials interleaved, as before); the Jellyfin queue now
preserves the /Shows/{id}/Episodes response order, which is
Jellyfin's native watch order — Specials placed only via explicit
AirsBefore* metadata per the server-wide DisplaySpecialsWithinSeasons
setting (the endpoint ignores SortBy except Random). Client-side
selections with no server order to respect (offline next/prev,
download "next N", offline OnDeck) fall back to Specials-last.
- airDate: the #1416 aired interleave on every surface.
- specialsLast: Specials strictly after the regular seasons (#1414);
Plex builds its show queue from /children.
Scrubbing an Emby video showed no preview thumbnails on the timeline
while Plex and Jellyfin both worked: Emby's scrubThumbnails capability
was off, so the player never attempted a load. It was off because the
4.9.5 test server answered the preview endpoints with empty payloads —
its extraction task had not run.
Emby's preview transport is a Roku-format BIF at
/Videos/{id}/index.bif?Width=320, the same wire format Plex serves, so
the existing BIF parser handles it unchanged. Enable the capability and
route Emby previews through the shared BifThumbnailService, whose load
now takes a bytes callback instead of a Plex-typed client. MediaBrowser
sources also carry videoAspectRatio from the video stream so the
tooltip sizes itself to the stream. A server without extracted frames
still answers a header-only BIF, which parses to zero frames and keeps
the tooltip suppressed.
close#1930
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
Pausing an episode on one device, finishing it on another and pressing
Refresh left the first device showing the old "minutes left". Restarting the
app showed the right value. Two independent defects produce that, and either
alone reproduces the report.
The first is the watch-state overlay. Every local watch event lands in
WatchStateStore as a patch, and WatchStateSnapshot.apply overwrites
viewOffsetMs unconditionally; isNewerThan only ever orders one patch against
another, never against the server row underneath. Nothing expires a patch and
nothing clears the map except a profile switch, so the Mac's own paused
position kept winning over every subsequent fetch until the process died.
A patch exists to bridge the gap between a local action and the next server
read of that item, so it should stop applying once that read happens. The
store now records the watermark at which a successful authoritative response
returned each key, and suppresses an acknowledged session patch at or below
it. Only a watermark is stored, never the observed state: WatchStateSnapshot
cannot hold a container's leaf counts, and keeping max() per key makes the
order two concurrent responses complete irrelevant. Suppression is a
read-time predicate, so nothing mutates during build.
The barrier covers the parentChain too. patchForItem picks the newest of the
item's own entry and its ancestors', so retiring only the item's entry would
let an older season mark win and render watched/0 -- worse than either the
stale value or the fresh one. An authoritative read of a child already
reflects any container mark that preceded it, so the child's observation
judges its ancestors as well; a newer container action still wins.
Provenance decides what may be suppressed at all. WatchStateEvent now carries
serverAcknowledged, defaulting to false so an unclassified emit site degrades
to today's behaviour rather than silently becoming retireable. An offline
write is owed to the server and a read must never retire it, so it stays
until a WatchPatchPromotionNotifier promotion says the queue replayed it. That
channel is deliberately not a WatchStateEvent: OfflineWatchSyncService reacts
to watched/unwatched by purging queued progress, so replaying one there would
delete a newer rewatch. Promotion matches an exact WatchPatchId -- session
minted for live crossings, derived from the persisted (profile, row, revision)
for queued ones so it still joins after a restart.
Report acceptance is not delivery: PlaybackReportSession resolves true for a
same-state startup heartbeat it drops, so acknowledgement now keys on
onDelivered. A MediaBrowser Started saves play count and last-played date but
not the position, so it cannot acknowledge an offset. No report-derived
watched crossing is acknowledged on any backend -- Jellyfin hard-codes its
threshold and Plex never loads the server pref that would tell it the real
one -- so only an awaited explicit markWatched settles one.
The second defect is that a failed Refresh reported success. Plex _fetchHubs
and the Jellyfin hub legs both degrade a failure to an empty list, and the
library prefetch discarded its failures, so a server whose every hub request
failed was recorded as succeeded; DiscoverProvider then kept the previous rows,
set loaded and surfaced nothing. Worse, the background Continue Watching
refresh wiped the row outright on zero success.
Hub legs now report what they degraded through a HubFetchDiagnostics sink,
which keeps partial rows alongside the failure and leaves every existing
caller untouched. Failures ride through the aggregation results, a leg that
could not run because discovery failed contributes that failure rather than a
successful no-op, and loaded-server ids became succeeded - failed - cancelled
so one bad leg no longer caches a server as covered and blocks its retry. The
toolbar awaits a DiscoverRefreshOutcome and shows the existing unableToLoad
snackbar on failure while the retained rows stay on screen. Rollback after a
mid-pass exception is version-guarded, refilters against the current hidden
libraries and no longer publishes a system shelf the pass never committed.
Observations are staged with the pass and flushed only once the same disposal,
generation and exception checks that authorise committing those rows have
passed, so a discarded or rolled-back response can never suppress a patch.
Also fixes a live data-loss race the promotion work would have built on:
upsertProgressAction stamped a millisecond timestamp and updated the row in
place, so a rewatch queued during an in-flight replay was deleted by id.
Revisions are now strictly monotonic per row, replay deletes and retry updates
compare against them, and the upsert resets the retry fields because a new
revision is a new logical action.
close#1829
A coalesced key-repeat skip pins its target so a slow backend cannot make
the next press rebase off a position the seek has not reached yet. Nothing
retired that pin when something else moved the playhead, so for the ten
seconds it survived, a skip taken after a timeline tap, a chapter jump, an
OS media control or a peer sync resumed from the superseded target and threw
the user back across their own jump.
Publish every playhead movement on the player and retire the pin whenever
the announced destination is not the accumulator's own commit. Overlapping
seeks and backend-chosen relocations arbitrate by which operation the
backend accepted, so a request that was merely asked for cannot speak for
where the playhead ended up.
close#1819
Marking a movie or episode watched left it sitting in Continue Watching with a
checkmark, and the only way to shift it was to play it and skip to the end.
Continue Watching membership on a MediaBrowser server is derived from
UserData.PlaybackPositionTicks alone; Played is never consulted. Marking played
normally zeroes that position as a side effect, so the row usually disappears
and nothing ever checked that it had. When something writes a position back
afterwards the item is left played *and* resumable, which the resume route
happily keeps returning forever. markWatched now reads the UserItemDataDto the
mark already returns and clears the bookmark itself when the server left one
behind, so the postcondition holds however the item got into that state. The
follow-up write costs a request only when the invariant is actually broken.
The writer putting items there is our own offline queue. insertWatchAction
already drops queued progress for an item when the mark is itself queued, but
the online mark writes straight to the server and queues nothing, so a progress
row recorded earlier survived and replayed afterwards — pending actions go out
oldest first — restoring the very position the mark had cleared. The sync
service now listens for watch-state events and discards queued progress for
that item as the mark lands. Progress recorded after a mark is a rewatch and is
queued later, so it is untouched. Plex never showed this because it forwards the
recorded-at timestamp and lets the server discard a stale replay; the
MediaBrowser stop report has nowhere to put one.
Continue Watching also drops the row locally now instead of waiting a round trip
for the refetch to confirm it, matching what removal events already did, and
marking a season or show takes its on-deck episode with it.
Watched items are deliberately still not filtered out of the shelf: Jellyfin
keeps Played set when new progress arrives, so a rewatch in progress is
indistinguishable from a stuck row, and filtering would hide it.
close#1812
"Delete from server" read identically for an episode, a season and a
whole show: same menu label, same dialog title, same red button, and a
body that named nothing. The menu header did not disambiguate either,
because MediaItem.displayTitle collapses an episode to its show name.
A reporter deleted a whole series from the detail hero's ⋮ believing it
acted on the episode he had highlighted, and the confirmation gave him
nothing to catch it with. Every one of those strings now names the kind,
and the body names the exact item — show, season and episode number, and
episode title.
Deleting a single item also destroyed files the confirmation never
mentioned: a Plex multi-episode file (S01E01-E03.mkv) takes its other
episodes with it, and a split item takes every part. The dialog now
reports that up front and, on success, emits deletion events for the
siblings the server destroyed so their rows do not linger.
The scope behind that warning is only asserted when it is established.
MediaItem.allPartFiles drops parts with no path, so a non-empty set
proves nothing about the ones it filtered out; a version is trusted only
when every part reports a file. A browse row that omits paths is missing
evidence rather than proof of a distinct file, so both the target and
each candidate sibling fall back to the detail endpoint before any
conclusion — otherwise a thin row, including the file-less part
PlexMappers fabricates for an empty payload, would look like a server
that withholds paths. When the answer cannot be established the dialog
says so in an error-tinted block and its button reads "Delete anyway",
separating a transient probe failure from a server that never sends
paths. It deliberately does not refuse: Plex withholds paths from
restricted users the server itself authorizes to delete, so failing
closed would take the feature away from them permanently.
Probing a season stays bounded in both directions. Siblings resolve one
at a time, so a season of thin rows cannot fan out a detail request per
episode, and expiry cancels the walk rather than merely abandoning it —
`Future.timeout` completes the future the caller awaits but leaves the
work behind it running, which would resume on the next sibling once the
outstanding request answered. A cooperative flag is checked before each
lookup, so at most the one already in flight outlives the deadline; the
neutral client exposes no abort handle for item lookups, so that one
cannot be recalled.
The spinner covering the probe was only barrierDismissible, which does
not stop system back. Back dismissed it and the cleanup pop then closed
the screen underneath, dropping the user out of the detail page
mid-flow. It now traps back, matching the non-dismissible contract its
own doc claims, which also repairs the log uploader and the file-info
sheet.
Coverage splits by what each layer owns. The dialog, its copy and the
DELETE wiring are backend-neutral and stay in the menu widget tests.
Plex — the backend multi-episode files actually come from — gets the
resolver over a real PlexClient and a mocked transport: a row with no
media at all, scope recovered from /library/metadata/{id}, siblings and
paths from /children, a Part that names no file, a sibling whose path
never resolves, the request count a sixty-episode thin season may cost,
and the rating key the DELETE carries. Those are plain async tests
because the Plex metadata cache is a real database whose I/O the widget
tester's fake clock never drives. Deadline behaviour needs the opposite,
so it is pinned separately under fakeAsync against a gated fake client,
with no wall-clock waiting anywhere.
close#1781
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.
Jellyfin has no equivalent of Plex's bundled `?includeOnDeck=1`, so a show
detail open chained `/Shows/NextUp` behind the item fetch and the screen sat
on a spinner for both round trips. The second one is not needed to paint:
everything except the play button's episode label comes from the item.
`fetchItemWithOnDeck` now takes an `onItemReady` callback and invokes it as
soon as the item is known, when that is strictly before on-deck settles.
Plex returns both together and never invokes it.
Phone and desktop only. TV keeps its own reveal gate — `_isTvDetailReadyToReveal`
holds the foreground at opacity 0 until extras, related hubs, seasons and the
first episode page have all loaded, and those still run after the on-deck
lookup settles, so TV sees no change. Both halves are pinned by tests.
Measured on a remote Jellyfin server, 15 interleaved show-detail opens per
version: time to content 1264ms -> 1042ms (-18%), with the rest of the load
unchanged.
Seasons and extras deliberately still start after the whole lookup settles.
Starting them at the early paint measured worse (time to settled +21%)
because they contend with the on-deck request instead of overlapping it — the
same reason `/Shows/NextUp` is not fired in parallel with the item fetch.
That trade-off is also why TV was left alone rather than being unblocked by
moving those loads earlier.
Two ordering hazards the early paint introduces, both covered by
`media_detail_screen_test.dart`:
- The early call must not write on-deck. `_loadFullMetadata` runs again after
playback, and clearing there would blank the play button for the length of
the round trip. `onDeckSettled` marks the authoritative write, so a reload
that finds the series finished still clears it.
- A settled empty on-deck must not drop the episode-derived fallback that
`_ensureFallbackOnDeckEpisode` supplies.
close#1784
The context menu only offered File Info for movies and episodes, so a
track's path, container, and audio stream detail were unreachable even
though both backends already answer getFileInfo for them.
Gate the entry on the new MediaKind.hasFileInfo instead of a literal
kind list: movies, episodes, tracks, and clips are leaf items with real
files, while shows, seasons, artists, albums, collections, playlists,
and folders carry no Media/MediaSources and would only ever produce the
"not available" snackbar.
Also fix the Plex stream classifier, which mapped streamType 4 to an
embedded image although PlexStreamType.lyrics is 4. Only music tracks
carry that type, so a track's lyric stream rendered under "Embedded
Images" with the video field block. Type 5 was invented outright and is
now unknown.
close#1747
Plezy reported a completed playback twice: the /:/timeline heartbeats let
the server mark the item played on its own, and the in-player auto-scrobble
then sent an explicit /:/scrobble for the same watch. On PMS 1.30 that adds
a second Play History row; on 1.43 the row is suppressed but viewCount still
lands on 2 for one playback.
Measured against PMS 1.43 to find what the server acts on: a watched-threshold
crossing observed inside one session. Consecutive above-threshold reports mark
nothing, a resume point left by an earlier session does not arm a new one, and
a report at position zero is inert while one at a single second is enough. So
the explicit mark now goes out only for sessions that gave the server no
crossing to observe.
That decision cannot be made while the session is live. A session beginning
past the threshold has no crossing yet, but rewinding and playing forward
creates one, and the server records it — marking eagerly and then hitting that
path leaves viewCount at 2 again. The mark is therefore deferred to the
terminal stop, and rides its future so callers that await the stop before
tearing the player down do not drop it. Deferring also covers a crossing
coalesced away during startup and a seek back below the threshold before
stopping.
Crossing state is tracked from reports the backend actually received rather
than from PlaybackReportSession.report()'s bool, which resolves true for a
same-state snapshot dropped during startup.
The same-file sibling hook (#1500) still runs exactly once, on the transition
to a settled mark rather than at the local crossing, so sibling episodes are
never marked watched while the episode actually played is not.
Local watched state and Continue Watching removal still happen on the observed
crossing, so the only behaviour that moves is the redundant server call.
close#1740
Jellyfin search rows do not expose their owning collection, so hidden libraries cannot be filtered after the response. Scope searches to visible libraries, stamp the returned rows, reuse the latest loaded views, propagate cancellation, and fail closed when views cannot be loaded.
Keep full candidate budgets and split music libraries into parallel album, audio, and artist requests. Album requests disable UserData and use the existing album field set to avoid recursive per-album work from #1552; audio requests retain cheap leaf play state.
close#1770
Jellyfin never consults IsAdministrator when authorizing a library
delete: BaseItem.IsAuthorizedToDelete looks at EnableContentDeletion and
the per-library grant, and only the first user a server creates gets the
former for free. Gating the "Delete from server" entry on the admin bit
therefore offered a destructive action that answers 401 to later
administrators, and hid it from plain users who do hold the grant.
Ask the server per item instead, through the new
MediaDeletionPermissionClient capability: BaseItemDto.CanDelete already
folds the global grant, the per-library grant, and item state such as
missing files or an in-progress recording. The probe runs when a menu
opens on a deletable kind, costs ~0.5 KB, carries a whole-request
deadline because the client's own budget covers connect and receive
separately, and fails closed on anything unknown. Plex keeps its
account-level owner/admin gate; it has no per-item permission on the
wire.
close#1749
`MediaServerClient.findByExternalIds` returned `MediaItem?`, so the Explore
"In these libraries" chooser could never show more than one copy per server.
A movie held by both a 4K library and an HD library on one Plex server
therefore resolved to whichever copy came back first, with no way to reach
the other.
Return every id-verified match instead. `/library/all` is already
server-wide and each `Metadata` entry carries its own `librarySectionID`,
so both copies come back labelled with no extra request; Plex was simply
taking `Metadata[0]` and the title ladder was returning on its first hit.
An exact-guid hit no longer short-circuits the title search either — a
library still on a legacy agent has a different primary guid and is
invisible to the `guid=` filter.
Copies are deduped by global key and ordered best-first, and each row now
states its resolution, since library names need not mention it.
Resolution passes merge rather than replace: the cross-server fan-out logs
and skips per-server failures, so a later pass can come back short a server
that answered an earlier one, and a failed pass no longer claims the title
left the library. Duplicate keys fold field by field, because Jellyfin's
library stamp is a best-effort ancestors lookup that returns the item bare
when it fails and an unstamped row is indistinguishable from its sibling.
Focus nodes are keyed by copy and reclaimed after a merge re-sorts the
rows, so a dpad user is not thrown to a different copy.
close#1754
Plezy rendered exactly one score per item. MediaRatingBadge._ratingDataFor
took `rating` and fell back to `audienceRating` only when it was null, so a
Plex movie carrying four attributed scores surfaced one, and which one was
whatever the server happened to put in the scalar slot. #1755 asked for a
setting to choose the source; showing all of them answers it without one.
The data was already on the wire and being thrown away. `/library/metadata/
{id}` returns a `Rating[]` child array — IMDb, both Rotten Tomatoes panels,
TMDB — with no extra query parameter, but PlexMetadataDto declared no field
for it, so json_serializable dropped the key. The identical parse already
existed in plex_catalog_source for the Explore tab and had simply never been
wired to library items.
Model the scores as a list rather than widening the scalar pair. The neutral
MediaItem gains `ratings`; PlexMediaItem loses audienceRating, ratingImage
and audienceRatingImage, which the list subsumes — Plex sends those images
on listings too, so the same field covers both response shapes and no caller
narrows to a backend type to read a score any more. CatalogRatingSource is
promoted to lib/media as MediaRatingSource instead of growing a second
near-identical type beside it, and plex_catalog_source's _ratingsFor becomes
the shared plexRatingSources so one implementation serves both paths. There
is no persistence to migrate: MediaItem.toJson has no production caller, the
offline path re-parses raw Plex JSON through the same mapper, and Plex's
audienceRating sort is server-supplied data, not a model read.
Cards and the dashboard still show fewer scores than detail screens, and
that part is a real Plex limit rather than a shortcut. Section listings send
only the scalar pair; includeRatings, includeElements=Rating,
includeFields=Rating, includeChildren and includeExtras were each probed
against a live server and none surfaced the array, while includeGuids=1
demonstrably does add Guid[] — the probe works, the parameter does not
exist. Hydrating every card would be one request per row, so listings render
whatever their own response carried, which is one or two attributed scores
rather than the single one they showed before.
Jellyfin has no per-source array at all: the server collapses whatever its
fetchers found into CommunityRating and CriticRating. CommunityRating's
provenance is unknowable from the DTO — TMDB vote_average, IMDb via OMDb or
a local NFO, last writer wins — so it stays the generic `audience` source
with no brand mark. CriticRating is the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer as a
0-100 percent and is divided by ten explicitly rather than folded by
magnitude, because a Tomatometer of 9 means 9% and range-sniffing would have
promoted a rotten score to fresh. Photo rows are skipped, since Jellyfin
reuses CommunityRating for the EXIF 0-5 star.
The badges share one slot on every surface. On the phone hero the scores go
in a single pill because that chip row is a height-clipped Wrap and a chip
per source would push year, certification and runtime out of the visible
band on short heroes; on the TV detail line and the dashboard spotlight the
group occupies the one metadata slot so bullet separators do not multiply.
The group announces itself as a single semantics node naming each source,
because a bare row of four percentages tells a screen reader nothing about
which score is which. rating_utils drops parseRatingImage and
isRottenTomatoes — the URI vocabulary now lives only in the Plex mapper —
and the source-key resolver and label map, previously private to the Explore
detail screen, become the shared pair both screens use. The label strings
move from explore.ratingSource to common.ratingSource accordingly, which
costs no translations because every non-English value was empty; running
clean_translations also scaffolds startup.quitPlezy and
startup.restartRequiredBody, which were already drifted.
Verified against the live server the probes came from: a detail response now
yields TMDB 83%, IMDb 8.3 and Rotten Tomatoes audience 96% through the
production mapper and badge resolver, and the listing response for the same
title yields TMDB 83% alone. Both payloads are pinned verbatim as fixtures.
Coverage adds mapper ordering, dedupe against the array's repeat of the
scalar, out-of-range rejection, the Jellyfin scale and photo guard, the
CatalogItem conversion that feeds Explore's dashboard hubs, and the three
render surfaces including the semantics announcement.
close#1755
The sheet collapsed an item to `Media.first` / `MediaSources.first` and
rendered a fixed set of rows, so split files, extra versions, per-track
properties, HDR classification and Dolby Vision were all invisible.
Model the payload the way both servers shape it — versions own parts,
parts own streams — and project every property either backend populates
onto `MediaStreamDetails`. The field set comes from sweeping both test
servers in full through the clients' own request shapes (Plex 6842
Media / 6842 Part / 39864 Stream entries, Jellyfin 6349 sources / 37763
streams / 61224 attachments), so file presence, Dolby Vision layers,
dynamic range, sample rate, spatial audio, sidecar provenance, embedded
attachments, rotation and the lyric stream type all survive. A coverage
test fails when a server key is neither carried, folded into a sibling,
nor excluded with a reason.
File Info also stopped trusting the shared `/library/metadata/{id}`
cache row: `getPlaybackExtras` writes it without `includeStreams` /
`checkFiles`, so the sheet could render with no stream table at all.
Detect that shape and refetch once under the request context captured
before the cache read, so the outgoing token and the cache namespace
stay on one profile.
Rework the layout to match: a summary chip row, then flat tonal cards
with a two-column field grid that collapses to one column on narrow
viewports, per-stream cards with flag chips, and a copyable monospace
path row. The card fill is a tonal step off the text colour rather than
the `bg` token, which is one shade from the sheet surface on OLED.
MAL/AniList season entries never matched the library show they belong to.
Both backends use the catalog title as a server-side filter before verifying
external ids, and a title like "Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2"
cannot reach a show stored as "Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation". Measured
against a 267-show Plex library, 3 of 113 mapped sequel entries matched.
The reverse lookup now takes two ordered title candidates instead of one: the
entry's own title and its season-stripped form, with typographic punctuation
normalised because both servers miss on a curly apostrophe. That matches 77 of
113. Widening it further to romaji/native/synonym variants reached only 81, so
the cap stays at two rather than spending up to five more requests per lookup
that finds nothing.
A sequel's year is its own season's, not the parent show's, so the +/-1 year
window is dropped for one - it would exclude the very show being looked for.
That also keeps a miss at the two requests the single-title lookup already
spent. A Plex Discover item additionally skips the title search entirely by
filtering on the plex:// guid its own rating key already is, which costs no
extra request and needs no cloud lookup.
A season 2+ entry only matches when the server really has that season, which
costs one children fetch on a match. Only a season both TVDB and TMDB agree on
is gated: which provider a library numbers its seasons by is a server setting
no dataset supplies and none of it is inferable from the ids an item exposes,
so a disagreeing reference is left ungated rather than gated on a guess.
The match cache is keyed per source and per entry rather than by canonical id,
which every season of a series shares: all five Mushoku Tensei entries collapse
to imdb:tt13293588, so one season-gated result would have poisoned the rest.
Entries whose Fribb row carries no provider id at all remain unmatched. That is
an upstream mapping gap, not something to guess around with extra lookups.
close#1704
Plezy's device profile declares every subtitle format with
`Method: External`, so Jellyfin answers PlaybackInfo with
`DeliveryMethod: External` and a `DeliveryUrl` even for streams embedded
in a direct-played container. Direct play never fetches those URLs, but
the rows kept the delivery URL as `MediaSubtitleTrack.key`, and keyed
rows only match a native track loaded from the same URL. No embedded
track could satisfy that, so `selectSubtitleTrack` reported "still
pending" forever: playback started with subtitles off and logged the
five- and thirty-second waits, and the server's default subtitle had to
be picked by hand on every item.
Restrict sidecar identity to the rows an open actually fetched as
sidecars. A row that stays in the container loses `key` and
`usesExternalDelivery` and matches on metadata again; genuine
`IsExternal` files keep theirs, and remuxed or transcoded renditions
still resolve their sidecars by URL.
Also declare every subtitle format Embed-first so a direct-played
container reports embedded delivery in the first place, and make the
pending contract match its purpose on every backend. The
complete-catalog escape is no longer Plex-only, so a Jellyfin row the
native player has not produced keeps the pass pending instead of
committing an unrelated default and retiring the listener that was
waiting for the real track. A source id absent from the catalog no
longer defers a decision that can never change, and the thirty-second
deadline resolves from what has arrived instead of re-deriving the same
deferral and applying nothing.
close#1696
Cycling backdrops reach a fallback path only once every rotating path
has failed to load, but every hero passed the rotation-agnostic backdrop
list as the rotation set and the aspect-ordered candidates as the
fallback. One servable wide backdrop was therefore enough to hide the
square background for good, so phone detail and Discover heroes
cover-fitted a 16:9 backdrop into a portrait box instead of showing the
square image Plex supplies.
Give the rotation set the same aspect-aware preference the candidate
list already has: near-square containers rotate the square background
alone and keep the backdrops behind it as fallbacks.
close#1700
Consolidates duplicated logic behind shared implementations — paginated
grid tabs, focus chrome, cached remote stores, sheet selection columns,
the server artifact store and a test fixture layer — and removes code
that had become unreachable. Net reduction of about 5,500 lines with no
behaviour change.
Where a fix had landed separately in code that moved into a shared
helper, the fix was re-applied inside the helper rather than left behind
in the copy that went away.
The search screens, the out-of-band auth dialogs, the live TV guide and the
list-download paths each carried their own copy of the same shell. Extracts
SearchInputField and PendingAuthDialog and routes the duplicated download
and guide helpers through one implementation.
Focus chrome was implemented twice, once in the focusable wrapper and once
in the focus builders; both now go through FocusChrome. TvColorPicker's
channel row was a copy of TvNumberSpinner and is now that widget in compact
density.
Also trims unused helpers and fields and simplifies the Jellyfin browse
paths.
- PaginatedCardGridTabState: the collections and playlists tabs were 95%
identical; they now supply only pageSize/fetchPage/idOf instead of each
duplicating the grid, memo, inflation budget and focus wiring.
- EtagCachedRemoteStore: the anime-lists and fribb mapping stores now share
one download/cache/isolate-parse/conditional-GET lifecycle.
- FocusableTileStateMixin manages its own initState/didUpdateWidget/dispose
instead of requiring every caller to forward three lifecycle hooks.
Also drops unused ServerCapabilities entries and dead code in
focusable_list_tile and music/track_row.
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.
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