Episode advance carried live player state, so the viewer's choice only
survived while every episode could serve it: one episode without the
picked audio or subtitle fell back, and the fallback became the carry for
the rest of the session. The screen now keeps the last explicit audio,
subtitle, and secondary-subtitle choices for its lifetime; automatic
outcomes never overwrite them, so the choice retries on every following
episode and reattaches as soon as a catalog can serve it again.
Audio catches up with the subtitle carry from #1785. The old matcher
required raw language equality (a 'sv' pick never found a 'swe' row) and
otherwise took the first same-language track, flipping a commentary or
alternate-mix pick back to the main mix on every episode. Audio now uses
the same evidence bands as subtitles: bridged language parity is
authoritative, a unique title match vouches for untagged tracks, codec
and channel-count parity only break ties, and an ambiguous catalog
declines to the server's own choice instead of guessing. The synthesized
source descriptor also prefers the row's own title over the display title
that collapses to the bare language.
Episode advance previously sent no audio hint to negotiation at all, so a
transcode baked in the server's default audio no matter what was playing.
Both backends now resolve the carried semantics against the new episode's
streams: Jellyfin sends the resolved AudioStreamIndex, Plex feeds the
transcode decision, an explicit per-part stream id always wins, and a
failed match falls back to the server's pick.
close#1785
The cross-item subtitle intent required declared languages on both sides,
and a null on either side counted as a contradiction. Any untagged track -
common when a title like "Swedish" is the only signal - declined on every
episode advance, fell to the server's per-item priority, and turned the
viewer's subtitles off (a 2.11.0 regression from the #1716/#1717 hard
gates).
A unique real title match now vouches for a row when language evidence is
missing on either side. Declared languages that disagree still decline no
matter what the title says, forced-class parity is untouched, codec and
external parity only break ties within the title-matched set, and a
residual tie declines rather than guesses, so the wrong-track class of
#1716 stays closed.
A decline is also no longer laundered into a viewer decision: the resolver
keeps the unserved preference on the selection, the open flow hands it to
the track manager instead of a navigation-priority off (late native tracks
may carry the container tags the server rows lack), the next episode
boundary re-carries it instead of hardening it into an explicit off, and
progress reports withhold the -1 subtitle index that would otherwise come
back as the item's server-side default forever.
A pick the screen could not map to a source row (no subtitle catalog, or
an identity-matcher miss) previously never reached the committed session
selection at all, so the next episode carried the stale off while the
picked track was visibly on screen. Such picks now commit the raw native
track without source ids and demote to a semantic intent at the boundary.
close#1785
Formatting was clean through 53288116 and then drifted across three commits on
2026-07-30: 1bf7aac7 left one source unformatted, f13f5af6 a second, and
daab4f1e four more. CI's Verify formatting job checks the whole tree, so it has
had six files to report ever since. No pre-commit hook is installed in this
checkout, so the aggregate check never ran locally to catch them.
Formatted with the dart_style revision Dart 3.12.0 bundles, which is what the
pinned Flutter 3.44.0 CI toolchain runs, rather than with a newer local SDK; the
two disagree about some argument-list splits. The current stable formatter
accepts this result as well, so both report the tree clean.
Plex treats a subtitle stream as forced when its title says "Forced" even
with the API flag unset. Every forced comparison now uses that effective
forced-ness on both sides: the match scorer, the low-metadata hard gate,
the Jellyfin OnlyForced/Smart profile modes, and stream-index negotiation.
Carrying a track choice into the next episode no longer reuses the
same-item identity matchers. A sealed SubtitlePreference (off / track
reference / semantic intent) replaces the id-'navigation' pseudo-track
through the whole preference channel, and cross-item intents hard-require
language and forced-class parity. When the next episode has no track of
the same class, the intent declines and selection falls through to the
server's own per-episode choice instead of latching onto a full track by
position and persisting that mistake back to the server.
Intents wait for pending native tracks under the same catalog-completeness
rule as source ids, so an early decline cannot retire the selection
listener before the real track arrives.
Ref #1716
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
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