Sleeping the device mid-video with "Ask for profile on app open" enabled
left the app wedged on an unresponsive Choose Profile screen (Nvidia
Shield). The picker is pushed on the root navigator, but the player's
focus self-heal only consulted its own nested profile-session route, so
it yanked D-pad focus back behind the picker whenever it lost it.
Route currency now walks every enclosing navigator (isRouteChainCurrent)
before the player reclaims focus, primes loading-phase navigation focus,
or claims the surface on window focus. The resume-time prompt is also
skipped entirely while a video player is active: waking mid-stream
resumes the stream instead of stacking the picker over the session.
close#2034
When mpv bitstreams (audio-spdif), audio-params describe the IEC 61937
carrier - 192 kHz "stereo" for E-AC-3 - so the performance overlay told
users their 5.1 track was playing as 2ch stereo. Every recent "EAC3
downgraded to PCM" report in #1300 reads back this string while the
receiver route stays healthy.
Show the source track's channel layout and sample rate instead, plus an
explicit Passthrough row naming the bitstreamed codec, on both the
mpv-channel and Android mpv-fallback stats paths.
The custom sidebar read as an ad-hoc widget: collapsed rows were the
expanded layout clipped to the strip, the libraries tree used a
staircase of indents and mixed row heights, and hover expansion pushed
the whole content area sideways.
Rebuild the rail on M3 Expressive geometry: collapsed destinations are
icon-only 56x32 pills centered in an 80px strip (48px icon-only on TV),
expanded rows are fixed-height destinations with a full-width stadium
indicator, and the two layouts crossfade/lerp during the width morph
instead of clipping. The libraries section is flattened into full-width
destination rows under a chevron header at standard destination
metrics, hover/touch expansion overlays content as a rounded, shadowed
panel over a dimmed scrim instead of pushing it, and rail width, item
morphs, content translate, and bleed all share one duration/curve.
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
There was no way to tell from the detail screen that a movie or episode
has multiple versions (theatrical/extended cuts, 1080p/4K encodes); the
only entry point was the hidden Play Version item in the overflow menu.
The Play button now becomes a Material 3 Expressive split button when
the item carries more than one version and its server is reachable: the
main segment keeps plain Play (which already resumes the remembered
version), and a narrower chevron segment runs the existing Play Version
flow (version picker, quality picker when the backend can transcode,
preference save). The flow itself is extracted from the context menu
into a shared promptAndPlayVersion helper, and FocusableActionBar gains
per-action spacingBefore so the joined pair can sit tighter than the
rest of the row. Transcode-only quality picking stays in the overflow
menu so the chevron keeps signaling a real version choice.
close#1881
Changing playback speed, shader preset, aspect ratio, or a sync offset in
the player always rewrote the global default, so a show watched at 1.5x
forced 1.5x onto movies, an Anime4K pick followed the user into
live-action libraries, and a file-specific subtitle offset leaked onto the
next title.
Each of those settings now has a scope under Settings > Video Playback >
Remember Player Changes: don't save, everywhere (default, pre-existing
behavior), per library, or per show/movie. Player writes route through the
configured scope; playback start and in-place item changes resolve the
value for the current item, falling back to the global default. Items
without the needed identity (live TV placeholders, Jellyfin/Emby downloads
without a stamped library) keep the global behavior. Resolution consults
only the configured scope, so entries saved under a previous scope become
inert instead of shadowing the new one.
close#1984close#1322close#1616
Square-card (music) grids had zero delegate spacing - the only
separation was each card's internal 3px padding, and square shapes are
excluded from the full-card spacing path, so playlist and album tiles
sat nearly edge to edge. Square grids now get an 8px cross/main gutter
(automotive keeps its larger spacing); poster, list, and full-card
layouts are unchanged.
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.
MemoryLogOutput extended LogOutput but was never wired as a Logger output (storage happens in the printer); DeletionNotifier/WatchStateNotifier's forServer/forItem filtered streams and WatchStateEvent.mediaType had no production consumers (tests now filter .stream directly); context.hiddenLibraries/profileSettings and toPlexUrl had zero call sites; MonoTokens.splashFactory was never read; OptimizedMediaImage's enableTranscoding/cacheKey chains, FocusableMediaCard.width/height/forceGridMode, TvBrowseRail's constant-zero gap functions, and media_image_helper's scaleFactor were never varied by any caller. The sha1 LRU stays (rebuild-hot artwork URLs); TvRailTrailing.none and the mono-theme copyWith stay live (lerp delegates to copyWith). Also carries the MusicPlayContext.id argument drops in the music screens and remaining sweep test updates.
classifyPosition's return enum was discarded by its only production caller (rearm is the side effect that matters); the latch's tolerance/retry knobs were never tuned; _loadAdjacentEpisodes' result was unread by all three callers; countsAsApplied carried a subsumed disjunct and _syncMediaControlsAvailability a stale-generation guard with no suspension point before it; _SettingsView.audioSync/subtitleSync could never be current (both routes early-return into the sync bar); PerformanceStats.dvRpuOutputTooSmall/dvPlaybackReason and ContentStrip.chaptersLoaded were written but never read.
plex_pin_auth_flow's QR knobs, ProfileNameField's navigation params, MusicDetailHeader.wideArtworkSize, and _buildReorderableList's bool were never passed; DownloadType.manage was never constructed; MediaContextMenu.onTap was declared but never invoked — removed with its four card passes (each card's own gesture handlers stay); the pin dialog's obscure chain was always true and _PinKey.label's icon branches unreachable; libraries_screen._isInitialLoad was write-only; LiveTvActionsMixin loses dead findChannel (the generic parameter stays — required by the on-clause, the report was wrong); add_jellyfin's focus-map removal branch ran only against an empty map; the recommended tab's hub-key null fallback was dead behind _ensureHubKeys. media_card also loses its always-false seasonal-rank comparison from the CatalogRankScope removal.
The screen's player stream subscriptions were enumerated by hand in four places (re-wire, rollback, dispose, plus a parallel nulling list) kept in sync only by prose — _cancelPlayerStreamSubscriptions is now the single cancel-and-null authority, living beside the fields. PlayerChromeFocusTarget was a one-value enum with request/consume plumbing, now a bool with identical post-frame consumption timing. The desktop tap and controls-overlay tap duplicated the click-toggles-playback/double-click-fullscreen contract around shared state, now one helper. SyncOffsetControl shipped two layouts of which production only ever rendered compact — the full layout existed solely for tests, which now cover the shipped layout. TrackControlsState's never-non-null onLoadSeekTimes/onSyncOffsetChanged sheet-compat callbacks are gone.
_getButtonCount re-implemented every button-visibility condition from build() and had already drifted: the screen-lock button incremented the built index but was never counted, so with rotation lock and screen lock both visible the reported total was one short and arrowRight on the last button silently died. Navigation now bounds against the actual built list, so there is no condition table left to drift; the dead onLoadSeekTimes sheet-compat callback invocation goes with it.
Grep-verified dead surface across shared widgets: the app-menu system's minWidth/maxWidth/childPadding/alignmentOffset knobs threaded through four layers with no caller ever passing them; FocusableListTile's suppressInitialSelect/hoverColor/textColor/iconColor machinery (~55 lines) reachable by no call site; OptimizedMediaImage.playlist with zero constructions; TvSpotlightBackground's primary-action button that neither caller can render; MediaGridDelegate.createDelegate whose only caller was a test (MediaGridGeometry.resolve is the single delegate composition now); and the CustomAppBar->Config->DesktopTopBar chain collapsed onto DesktopSliverAppBar with its ~11 never-passed passthrough params (snap kept — real callers pass it).
The audio-playlist play flow, the playlist download flow (including its inline MediaItem synthesis), the delete-with-confirm flow, and the fetch-artist-then-navigate flow each existed twice — once in MediaContextMenu and once in the playlist/album/now-playing screens, with 'Match PlaylistDetailScreen' comments standing in for shared code. They now live in music_navigation.dart and download_utils.dart with per-caller strings preserved; the menu's collection/playlist download handlers fold into one parameterized handler, its duplicated sync/download menu tree is built once, and the generic picker dialogs move to collection_picker_dialog.dart (pure move).
The catalog detail screen and the card badges each kept their own enum-to-i18n switches; the genuinely shared mappings (season name, rank scope, request state, status/format/relation labels) now live in catalog_labels.dart, while badge precedence and the deliberately different availability/4k wording stay local with comments naming the divergence.
The auto-remove-watched-downloads rule existed twice (DownloadProvider's sweep and OfflineWatchProvider's single-item copy) — the kind/completed/delete/title core now lives once on DownloadProvider, with the watched judgment staying per caller because the offline path fires before metadata can reflect a local mark. OfflineWatchProvider drops five members with no production callers (isSyncing, getPendingSyncCount, isWatched, getViewOffset, getEpisodesWithWatchStatus) plus the sync-service listener that only served them. The downloads screen's three verbatim 'suppressAutoFocus flipped — focus the first item' didUpdateWidget blocks are now one mixin.
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
Several Play entry points gave no feedback while their network round
trips ran: a show or season Play button silently awaited a seasons
fetch (with a 10 s completer window) and a first-episode fetch, and
Plex collection/playlist launches showed no spinner at all. Where a
spinner did exist, the first request was gated on the dialog's first
frame instead of running concurrently with it.
Extract executeWithLoading's dialog plumbing into
ScopedLoadingDialogController (mount-aware dismissal, idempotent,
never pops a foreign route) and reuse it for the show/season Play
path. Start the launcher operation before awaiting the dialog frame so
the first round trip overlaps the render, and show the loading
indicator for Plex list launches too.
Hovering the back button in bottom sheet headers drew the circular
highlight 12px right of the arrow: the 48px hit target was positioned
from the stack's padded origin while the glyph sits flush at the
leading content edge. Move the horizontal padding onto the header row
and position the target so the InkResponse box centers on the glyph.
Media buttons on HID remotes (USB/Bluetooth keyboards, common on Android
TV) are delivered as key events to the focused window instead of the
MediaSession, so they only worked while the app was backgrounded. A
global handler now routes play/pause, next/previous, stop, and
fast-forward/rewind to the live music session anywhere in the app and
consumes the key burst, so a press can neither leak to Android's
fallback MediaSession dispatch nor start a focused library item. Same
lifecycle as the OS media session; video playback never coexists with it
because claiming video disposes the music session first.
close#1948
The sync delay slider spanned ±60s with 100ms steps, making fine
adjustment between e.g. 100ms and 200ms impractical on touch and mouse.
The slider now covers ±10s at 50ms per step (taps and D-pad included),
while the +/- step buttons still reach the ±60s absolute limit via
long-press, so existing large saved offsets keep working and display
their true value.
close#1907
4443b761 staged the system-back path (strip/fullscreen/hide/exit), so on
Android a back with the controls visible hid them instead of closing the
player. The PlayerNavigationCoordinator now takes an exitPlayerBeforeChrome
policy; the player enables it on mobile, restoring immediate exit on Back
while TV/desktop keep the staged chrome handling.
Collapsing Libraries in the sidebar only lasted until the app closed. The
next launch always came back expanded, which buries the rest of the nav
menu for anyone running a lot of libraries.
The expansion flag was plain widget state on SideNavigationRailState. It
survived tab navigation only because MainScreen pins the rail with a
GlobalKey, and died on relaunch, profile switch or a layout change. It now
lives in the librariesSectionExpanded preference, so the rail reads and
writes the persisted value and follows a settings reset or import too.
close#1896
ExoPlayer reports RFC 6381 codec IDs (mp4a.40.2, ec-3, dtsc) where mpv
reports ffmpeg names, so the audio track picker and performance overlay
showed raw identifiers instead of friendly names on the ExoPlayer path.
Normalize RFC 6381 audio IDs in CodecUtils.formatAudioCodec, route the
performance overlay's audio codec through it, and cover the video IDs
(hvc1/hev1, av01, vp09) that fell through the overlay's matcher.
close#1899
On TV, a movie carrying a full set of attributed scores pushed the resolution and audio labels past the right edge of the detail metadata line, which silently clipped them.
The line now sheds its least useful parts when it overflows -- surplus rating badges first, then the whole ratings slot, then quality labels -- instead of hard-clipping the tail. It also leads with the year instead of the redundant "Movie"/"TV Show" label, matching the desktop hero chip order, and the Discover spotlight line gets the same fitting. Branded badge icons are pinned to their SVG viewBox aspect so the fit is measured exactly.
close#1893
After activating Skip Intro with the remote, the next Select only raised
the player controls and pausing took a second press. The skip button
autofocuses on TV, and every path that hides it dropped focus out of the
controls subtree - the screen node reclaimed the remote and its self-heal
consumed the next key to raise the chrome instead of toggling playback.
Hand the remote back to the player surface whenever the skip button
disappears while focused: after a skip seek, when the playhead leaves the
marker window, and when the auto-dismiss timer hides the button. The
credits-at-end path is exempt because the play-next flow requests its own
focus.
close#1890
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
Video on Linux went through a Flutter texture: 8-bit sRGB, which cannot carry
HDR at all, and which forced a whole-window Flutter recomposite for every video
frame. This moves it onto a wl_subsurface stacked below the Flutter surface, with
mpv rendering into an EGL window surface on it through the libmpv render API. The
subsurface is desynchronized, so video and UI now present independently.
With the plane in place HDR follows: the surface is described to the compositor
through wp_color_manager_v1 as the source's own curve and gamut - PQ or HLG,
BT.2020 - carrying whatever HDR10 static metadata the stream actually declares.
The description and the buffer it describes land on the same commit, staged and
validated before mpv is switched, so a PQ frame is never presented labelled sRGB.
A five-second watchdog bounds the one wait a compositor could otherwise leave
hanging. A session that cannot host the plane - X11, or a compositor without
wl_subcompositor - fails initialize with VIDEO_PLANE_UNSUPPORTED naming the
reason: the texture path is gone, and refusing by name beats degrading to
something the user cannot see. An SDR output, a missing capability or an 8-bit
config keep the plane and simply leave it undescribed.
The output's colour state is trusted only when it has been earned. Every landed
property step records itself as it lands; a reset or sequence that cannot
finish downgrades its result to unknown and marks the applied-output cache
untrusted until a clean apply earns it back. A plane whose output state cannot
be named is quarantined - hidden, its description withdrawn - and the
quarantine is recorded state: an unrelated visibility change cannot put a
mislabelled plane back on screen, and only a commit that resolves to a nameable
outcome lifts it. A rect collapsing to zero detaches the buffer exactly as
hiding does, a refused setVideoRect drops the Dart-side sent-rect cache so the
next layout pass retries for free, and a refused tone-mapping pick tells the
user instead of dying in a log.
NVIDIA's Wayland EGL (through at least 610.xx) offers no 10-bit unorm window
configs, so the plane takes half-float as the tier between 10-bit unorm and
8-bit, declares the whole surface opaque so the compositor never reads the
alpha those configs carry, and states GL_RGBA16F rather than a 10-bit lie.
Whether the output is in HDR is read from luminance headroom above its own
reference white rather than from the preferred transfer function, which current
KWin no longer answers PQ for; the margin is half a stop, because KWin reports
an undimmed maximum over a software-dimmed SDR white. Validated on an RTX 4090
(driver 610.57.04) under KWin 6.7.4 with locked-exposure photographs.
Who tone-maps is a user choice. The default is the compositor: photographed on a
400-nit HDR output against a PQ chart it keeps 400 -> 1000 nits monotonic and
separated where the player leg flattens them, because the player path drives
mpv's legacy vo_gpu, whose own standalone output scores the same. The gap is the
renderer, not the wiring.
The decision itself - what the source carries, what the output supports, what to
tell mpv and what to tell the compositor - lives in hdr_metadata.h, free of
Wayland and GTK so its luminance validation can be tested without a display
server. Sending an incoherent luminance set is a protocol error that disconnects
the client, so the rules are worth a unit test.
The deb, rpm and pacman packages now declare wayland-client, wayland-egl and EGL:
the plane links them directly and bundle-libs.sh deliberately never bundles them,
since they are coupled to the running compositor and GPU driver.
lib/dev/harness_main.dart is a second entrypoint for measuring this on hardware -
it drives one clip with scripted mpv properties and reports the colour state mpv
actually settled on. Nothing imports it, so it is tree-shaken out of the app.
Verified on a Steam Deck against an external 400-nit HDR display: the compositor
reports PQ / BT.2020, the connector carries HDR_OUTPUT_METADATA, and against mpv
vo=gpu-next on the same frame the shipped build sits 4.90 counts away overall -
closer to the reference HDR player than to its own SDR fallback.
Every tracker auth dialog (Trakt/Simkl/MDBList device-code and MAL/AniList
OAuth proxy) now shares the same PendingAuthDialog affordances: a QR code for
the sign-in URL, a large copyable URL with the scheme stripped, the browser
launch button (hidden on Apple TV, which has no browser), and the polling
spinner. On wide viewports (TV logical 960x540, desktop, phone landscape) the
QR pane sits beside the instructions so the dialog no longer clips on tvOS,
and the content is scrollable as an overflow safety net. Device activation
codes scale down instead of wrapping.
Watchlist membership was only reachable from Explore cards and the
detail screen's action row, which drops the bookmark first on narrow
screens with no fallback in the overflow menu. Add an entry to
MediaContextMenu for movies and shows whenever a connected catalog
source can hold the item, covering card long-press everywhere and the
detail screen's overflow.
External-id resolution is session-cached per item on
CatalogSourcesProvider and shared with the detail screen. A cold cache
labels the entry "Add to Watchlist" and always adds (idempotent), so a
press can never turn into a surprise removal; "Remove" is offered once
cached membership proves it. Several capable sources open the same
per-source chooser the detail screen uses.
close#1822
The Explore tab appears for every Plex-backed profile because the Plex
Discover catalog source connects implicitly, with no way to opt out
short of a Jellyfin-only profile. Add a Show Explore Tab switch to
Appearance > Navigation that hides the tab in the bottom navigation and
side rail. UI-only: catalog sources stay connected so watchlist
surfaces keep working while the tab is hidden.
close#1844
Two regressions since 2.9.1 broke subtitles on transcoded playback. Since
a1b6a8971 sidecars load with the media behind a 10s open guard, so a
subtitle URL the server is slow to serve — Jellyfin extracting an
embedded stream while its transcoder spins up — tripped the guard: stop,
reopen without subtitles, "Selected subtitles could not be loaded"
snackbar, and an emptied subtitle menu. Since 2b3853a88 every embedded
Plex subtitle was handed to the player as a sidecar whose URL is the
original container, so a transcode also range-read and demuxed the
source over HTTP — for a 40 GB remux, purely to find a subtitle track —
which is also why PGS never appeared: the client was handed a container
to demux rather than a rendition to play.
Delivery is the server's job again, backported from the AVPlayer branch
(42ba01440, the subtitle subset of 6852ac274, and a3da81e83) and adapted
to main's mpv backend:
Plex burns every embedded track (subtitles=burn); only a real external
file with a /library/streams key stays a client-fetched sidecar. A burn
is a re-encode, so directPlay is withdrawn — a real PMS answers HTTP 400
to directPlay=1 with burn — and the burn is aimed by selecting the
stream on the part first via the selectStreams PUT, because the decision
endpoint ignores subtitleStreamID alongside subtitles=burn. An
unaimable or undeliverable burn (dvb_teletext) refuses the transcode and
falls back to warned direct play rather than welding the wrong language
in or silently dropping the caption. Main's per-preset
directPlay/directStream pinning is kept; verified against a live PMS
that burn works under directStream=0.
Jellyfin never offers image formats as External, so bitmaps fall through
to Encode and are burned; text External is withheld per request when the
effective selection — including the server's DefaultSubtitleStreamIndex —
is embedded, and offered when it is a real file, so a file is delivered
as a file and never fetched twice. The burned row is excluded from the
sidecars; remaining text rows stay extractable, which is how a secondary
track still renders over a transcode. Sidecar URLs now use the format
extension the endpoint expects instead of the reported codec name.
The controls and selection layers learn what burning means: burn
eligibility is the codec's property, so burned rows stay selectable in
the menu; any change away from a burned selection renegotiates with the
server instead of pretending a local switch worked; the visibility
shortcut explains itself instead of doing nothing; and the track manager
is told when the primary is server-rendered so it stops waiting out a
thirty-second deadline for a native track that is already pixels.
Verified: analyzer parity, clean_translations --check --strict, full
flutter test (5749), and decision-level runs against live Plex and
Jellyfin servers — text and PGS burn decisions, the directPlay=1+burn
400, External file delivery, an unchanged no-burn baseline, and a real
burn session serving its playlist. The pre-commit aggregate was bypassed
for pre-existing main-state findings outside this diff: 21 format-drifted
files and three unused test seams in lib/main.dart.
close#1738
Refs #1815, #1622.
ffmpeg's reconnect loop deliberately retries 503 without bound (#1520), so a
server that keeps refusing the stream at open time left a silent black screen:
ExoPlayer fell back to MPV, MPV reconnected forever, and no error ever reached
the screen. A new open-phase watchdog arms on the first 503 seen before any
frame renders and, after 20s without one, synthesizes a server-http-503 error
that shows an actionable dialog. Mid-stream 503s and live TV keep their
existing ride-out paths.
close#1830
The clock renders through the existing formatClockTime helper driven by
MediaQuery.alwaysUse24HourFormatOf, so it follows the OS 12/24-hour
setting instead of introducing an app preference. It re-arms a one-shot
timer onto each wall-clock minute boundary rather than polling, and
resyncs on resume because a suspended process runs no timers.
The player header is shared by the mobile and desktop/TV controls, so one
insertion point covers every form factor: the player is fullscreen
everywhere, so it never has an OS clock to defer to. Home is the
exception and only gets one on TV, where a leanback app hides the system
clock; a phone status bar and a desktop menu bar already show the time.
Sheets rendered at the host's maximum height regardless of content, so a
one-item player queue or a two-track picker filled ~75% of a desktop window
with empty space.
BottomSheetPageScaffold now always lays out Column(mainAxisSize: .min) plus
Flexible(child:), and each sheet body shrink-wraps its own scrollable. The
scaffold's shrinkWrap flag is gone: its old true branch put the child on an
unbounded axis, where an over-tall list overflowed instead of clamping and
scrolling. Measured on a 1600x1000 window, the chapter sheet goes from 750px
to 118px for one chapter and the two-column track sheet from 750px to 154px
for one audio and one subtitle track, both still clamping at the cap.
Add SheetSplitColumns for the three side-by-side sheet layouts. A bare
VerticalDivider has no intrinsic height, so it inflated those rows to the cap
on its own; the rule now paints from a Positioned.fill that cannot size the
Stack. IntrinsicHeight is not an option because a Viewport has no intrinsics.
Because sheets are bottom-anchored, a content-driven height moves the sheet's
top edge and everything above the change point. Three surfaces opt out for
that reason and say so at the call site: SubtitleSearchSheet and its language
picker keep filling, since both refilter under an autofocused field;
FiltersBottomSheet holds the outgoing page's height through its loading
transient; and RatingBottomSheet no longer hides MAL/AniList rows
asynchronously, which used to slide live rating controls down two rows several
hundred ms after open. Wrap the shared StateMessageWidget at the filters sheet
boundary rather than editing a widget with 33 filling call sites.
The host gains an AnimatedSize keyed per sheet session so nested pushes ease
while a replacing show adopts its own height, a 720px absolute height ceiling
on desktop windows only, and a min(max(25%, 96px), 60%) drag-dismiss threshold
so short sheets neither close on a nudge nor become undismissable.
Add videoControls.noAudioDevicesAvailable so the audio output page shows a
placeholder instead of a bare header while devices load.
Pressing Enter over the player put the whole app into keyboard mode and
dropped focus onto Play/Pause, even with Video Player Navigation off. Two
independent paths did it. InputModeTracker promoted on any key satisfying
isNavigationKey, a set that unioned activation, dismissal and the menu key
with the arrows and consulted no setting at all; separately the surface's
Select handler always asked the chrome for focus. Escape had the same effect,
which on desktop reads as the mouse cursor vanishing mid-playback.
Both now ask one predicate. eventRequestsFocusNavigation decides whether the
app switches to keyboard mode and whether a key may hand focus to the chrome,
so the two cannot disagree and focus can never land on a control while focus
chrome is still suppressed. Activation and dismissal act on what already has
focus, so they answer no; Tab, the menu key, a remote's OK or BACK, and an
arrow that will really traverse answer yes. The one input the predicate cannot
read off the event, whether the focused feature owns arrow keys, rides on the
node as DirectionalShortcutFocusNode instead of on a subtree, so every sheet,
prompt and OSD button stays an ordinary traversal target with nothing to
re-enable.
playerDirectionalNavigationEnabled and videoPlayerNavigationPreference replace
five hand-copied pref-or-isTV expressions and a screen-level cache that
disagreed with the live getter after a toggle. Services whose input is
synthesized past HardwareKeyboard announce themselves through
InputModeTracker.reportNonPointerInput rather than two static callbacks and
three copies of a highlight-strategy write. That registration is now
identity-guarded: the bootstrap-to-app tree swap disposed the outgoing tracker
after the incoming one initialised and cleared both callbacks, so gamepad and
companion remote input had stopped switching to keyboard mode entirely.
Falling out of the same rule: a companion heartbeat no longer flips an idle
desktop host into keyboard mode, analog-stick drift promotes only past the
deadzone that actually navigates, Enter keeps toggling playback once the
chrome is up, Tab both reaches and traverses the OSD, and the player surface
claims the remote from mount rather than only when the chrome starts hidden,
so the first key on a desktop route is a playback shortcut instead of the
screen node's chrome-raising self-heal.
isNavigationKey becomes isReservedControlKey, since its real meaning is a
shell key rather than a text character and the old name is what invited the
conflation. The unreachable PlayerChromeFocusTarget.timeline goes with it.
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
ExoPlayer's DefaultLoadControl was built with hard-coded durations picked from
one memory tier, so read-ahead stopped at 50s on any device reporting 2GB or
less free, with no way to raise it. On hardware where mpv cannot render at all
that ceiling is the whole buffer budget.
Playback Buffer offers Auto, Large and Extra Large. The durations are taken
from jellyfin-androidtv and jellyfin-android so the same words mean the same
thing across Jellyfin clients; Auto keeps the memory-tiered values that
shipped. Named tiers rather than a duration because a duration would be a
promise the load control cannot keep: prioritizeTimeOverSizeThresholds is
disabled, so targetBufferBytes stops the loader even below minBufferMs and the
byte cap binds first above roughly 23 Mbit/s.
The tier crosses the method channel as a string and resolves in the core,
where an unrecognised name falls back to Auto. LoadControlPolicy clamps the
resulting pair: media3 validates the ordering with Guava Preconditions, an
unconditional throw R8 does not elide, so a bad pair would be an
IllegalArgumentException out of player construction rather than a bad buffer.
The two play-start thresholds stay fixed even though the Jellyfin tiers move
them. BufferingStallPolicy.MIN_BUFFER_AHEAD_MS is a const derived from
BUFFER_FOR_PLAYBACK_AFTER_REBUFFER_MS, so a runtime value there would make the
stall watchdog indict a player that is obeying its own load control.
That leaves the byte target as a second, often smaller ceiling, and nothing
surfaced either. The resolved values now reach getStats, and the overlay's
Buffer section gains a Cache Limit row reading "120s / 128MB" next to the
buffered-ahead duration, so a tier that appears to do nothing on a
high-bitrate file explains itself.
close#1816
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.
Tunneled playback on an AFTMM judders continuously through 23.976p direct play.
The #1802 reporter isolated it: turning off Tunneled Playback with every other
setting unchanged makes it smooth, and their log shows tunneling active for the
whole session with E-AC3 bitstreamed and the decoded-PCM guard never firing.
Audio Passthrough looked like the trigger only because it is the one user-facing
switch that decides it. Passthrough off, or Downmix to Stereo on, both force the
Dolby track to decode to PCM, which trips the #1458 guard and takes tunneling
down with it. Passthrough on with downmix off is the only combination that keeps
a bitstreamed track, so it is the only one that stays tunneled.
Withdraw tunneling on that model for content at or below 30fps. The cut-off
keeps 4K50/60 tunneled, which is the workload Amazon documents the feature for.
The mechanism stays unconfirmed: tunneling fires no VideoFrameMetadataListener
and stops media3 counting frames in the codec, so nothing app-side can measure
the cadence. Only the trigger is established, and the quirk is scoped to it.
That needs a frame rate the app did not have. Neither MatroskaExtractor nor
Mp4Extractor populates Format.frameRate, and a tunneled session renders no
frames back for the native detector, so the server's rate now rides on the open
call. It is sent only for direct play, matching _primeDisplayCriteria: a
transcode's metadata describes the source, not what the server is about to send.
Also move Audio Passthrough out of the in-player settings sheet. It configures
the audio output route rather than the current playback, and applying it
mid-stream bounces the audio renderer and re-decides tunneling. Settings > Video
Playback already owns it, next to Tunneled Playback, which is applied the same
way. That description now mentions stutter, not only black HDR video, so the
workaround is findable on hardware this quirk does not cover.
The mpv backend failing to start the same 4K file is a separate defect and is
not addressed here; its uploaded log is no longer retrievable.
"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
Returning to the desktop window with the chrome still up left arrow keys
navigating the OSD instead of seeking: the first press seeked and silently
moved focus onto Play/Pause, and every press after that walked the buttons.
A window blur drops Flutter's primary focus to the root scope, so the player
screen's reclaim parks it on its own node. The only handoff back down to the
controls was the chrome visible->hidden transition, so with the OSD up nothing
reclaimed it -- hence the reported workarounds of letting the controls hide, or
moving the pointer off the player and back. Pointer exit normally hides the
chrome and masks this, which is why it only shows when the pointer stays over
the player while another window takes focus.
Hand the surface back on window re-activation, next to the existing hide-path
claim, and rename the helper since it is no longer hidden-chrome specific. The
claim runs synchronously because a platform callback is not guaranteed to be
followed by a frame; the screen's reclaim re-tests hasFocus when it runs, so the
two no longer compete.
Also gate the screen's self-heal so a directional key no longer pulls focus into
the OSD when "Video Player Navigation" is off -- Tab and select keep their path
in, which the ungated return value would otherwise consume with nowhere to go.
Connects MDBList through its OAuth device-code grant, registered as a
Device Code app so no client secret or redirect URI ships in the binary
and TV, mobile and desktop all use the same flow.
MDBList omits `verification_uri_complete`, but its device page seeds the
code field from a `user_code` query parameter and the sign-in redirect
preserves the query string, so the activation link is built locally and
the dialog's open button lands on a filled-in form instead of an empty
one. A server-supplied complete URL still wins if one ever appears.
Poll state is read from the response body rather than the status code:
`authorization_pending` and `slow_down` both arrive as HTTP 400, and a
missing grant answers 404 `device_not_found`.
Writes go out as real-time `/scrobble/*` reports plus `/sync/watched`
for the marks that never pass through the player, with ratings on
`/sync/ratings`. Matching uses IMDb and TMDb only — MDBList's id block
has no `tvdb` field, so a TVDB-only item is skipped rather than written
under an empty id block.
Physical Escape inside the player resolved to exitFullscreenIfActive on
Windows and Linux whenever HTPC-style player navigation was off, so it dropped
the window out of fullscreen regardless of who put it there. For anyone running
with "start in fullscreen" (or who had toggled fullscreen from the browse UI),
backing out of a movie left the app windowed, with "exit fullscreen on player
close" switched off.
Track fullscreen ownership instead: FullscreenStateManager now exposes a scope
that the player opens in initState and closes in dispose, and setFullscreen —
the single funnel every desktop platform reports through (window_manager on
Linux, the Win32 runner callback on Windows, NSWindowDelegate on macOS) —
records whether the fullscreen currently active was entered inside that scope.
Escape only exits fullscreen the player itself entered; otherwise it is plain
Back. The scope is depth-counted so the next-episode swap, where the incoming
screen's initState runs before the outgoing screen's dispose, carries ownership
across rather than resetting it.
Nothing changes for a user who fullscreens from inside the player: Escape still
exits fullscreen first, then acts as Back. The fullscreen toggle button and its
shortcut are untouched, as is exitFullscreenOnPlayerClose.
Fixes#1624.
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.
Episode navigation carries the subtitle choice this screen has committed, so
a way of turning subtitles off that the screen never sees is undone by the
next episode.
ExoPlayer has no renderer-level visibility switch, so the player's hide
toggle is emulated by deselecting the track. That emulation lasted until the
next selection: the automatic pass after an episode change put subtitles
straight back on screen while the toggle still read "hidden", and un-hiding
then restored a track id belonging to the episode that had already ended.
Hiding is now sticky across media opens the way mpv's global sub-visibility
is, selections made while hidden become what un-hiding restores, and the
toggle no longer refuses to restore because the hidden track reads as Off.
Cycling subtitles over the native track list — downloads, and items whose
server exposes no subtitle rows — went straight to the track manager, which
owns the player selection and the server write-back but not the committed
choice. The screen records the cycled track now.
The three vertical faders read as an equalizer in a music context and
are the vertical twin of the video player's settings icon. Use
wand_stars, which names what the action produces and collides with no
neighbouring affordance in the action bar or the music context menu.
close#1629
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