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.
The wrong-type recovery only covered reads that went through a
BaseSharedPreferencesService instance. The three stores that hold
credentials read the shared cache directly, so a mistyped value there
still threw a raw TypeError or, for Seerr, was swallowed by a catch-all
and reported as "no session" — the registry documented protection it did
not actually provide.
readPreferenceTolerantly now takes the cache, so CredentialVault,
TrackerAccountStore and SeerrSessionStore get the same classification as
the settings layer. CredentialVault's post-write re-read moves outside
its catch: a wrong-typed value written by another isolate was swallowed
there, and the process then returned a key that never durably landed,
making every ciphertext written under it unreadable on the next launch.
Those stores are consulted long after startup, where a throw is an
unhandled provider error rather than a repair prompt, so SettingsService
initialization now walks the cached key set once and reads every
sensitive key. That puts the failure inside a fatal gate step while the
store is still open and a surgical single-key repair is possible.
The remaining direct reads in settings and storage are routed too; the
only ones left are the library-density dual-type migration, which probes
both types deliberately, and an untyped switch that is type-safe by
construction.
Since 2.10.0 the whole app sits behind one all-or-nothing initialization
gate, and that gate discarded the only evidence of its own failure. It
caught the error, logged nothing but `error.runtimeType`, rendered an
icon plus the word "Error" plus Retry, and never reported the error
because catching it kept the crash reporter from ever seeing it. There
is no log file on any platform, the buffer is in memory only, a
double-clicked Windows release build has no console, and the log viewer
lives in Settings, behind the gate that just failed. #1732 is the result:
a Windows 11 user whose app will not boot and who cannot produce a single
byte of diagnostic detail.
The gate now names its phases. Each step is wrapped so a throw carries
the phase it came from, replacing a `Future.wait` that discarded every
error but the first and could not attribute it to any of four concurrent
steps. The failure screen renders the phase, the exception type, the
message and an expandable stack, plus copy and upload actions that reuse
the existing log-relay flow. The record is persisted next to the database
so the next successful launch can surface it in Settings > Logs, and it
is reported to the crash reporter explicitly.
Only preferences and the database still gate the launch. Window chrome,
locale, crash-reporting init, TV/performance detection, the image-cache
budget and download storage are best-effort and time-bounded, so a
stalled platform thread degrades instead of holding the splash forever.
Sentry no longer receives the startup work as its `appRunner`: that made
a startup failure indistinguishable from a Sentry failure, and the guard
would then have re-run migrations and the database open a second time.
The two remaining fatal steps become recoverable. Preference reads
tolerate a value whose stored type no longer matches, dropping the key
and defaulting instead of failing the boot. A store that cannot be parsed
is detected before either desktop plugin backend can memoise it, which is
what makes an in-process repair possible at all. Repair is never
automatic: it states what it will cost, salvages the credential-vault key
and every tracker and Seerr session it can validate out of the damaged
bytes, reseeds them, and moves the original aside rather than deleting
it. Servers and profiles survive a salvaged key because their tokens are
ciphertext in the database; tracker and Seerr sessions are plaintext
preference entries, so the copy says they may still need reconnecting.
Nothing derived from the store reaches a diagnostic. `FormatException`
prints an excerpt of whatever it failed to parse, and during startup that
document holds the vault key, refresh tokens and session cookies while
the redaction manager still has nothing registered, so the wrapper keeps
only the cause's type and offset and the record is an allowlist of
already-redacted fields. The quarantined copy is labelled as containing
credentials, is never offered for upload, and can be deleted from the
dialog.
Also self-heals orphaned WAL/SHM sidecars on desktop rather than only
tvOS, makes every `createTable` migration step idempotent, keeps MSVC
link by-products out of the Windows bundle, and asserts bundle contents
in CI.
Refs #1732
With the new playback setting enabled, episode advance carries no audio or
subtitle preference at all, so both resolve from the streams selected on
the server for each individual episode. This serves setups that curate
selections server-side (e.g. Plex Auto Languages) and is independent of
"Remember track selections", which keeps gating only the write-back of
manual changes.
close#1717
Plezy declares appCategory="video", so on Android Automotive OS it is a
parked app bound by car app quality DD-2/DD-3: audio must stop when the
vehicle starts driving and must not be resumable while driving. Two paths
kept audio alive. Music playback ran under a mediaPlayback foreground
service whose lifecycle observer was registered for Apple TV only, so it
never paused when Android backgrounded the app. Video pausing hung off
AppLifecycleState.hidden, which Flutter only synthesizes once Android
delivers onStop; a car without the Automotive compatibility mode delivers
onPause alone, which maps to AppLifecycleState.inactive and the player
ignored.
Gate every path that can start audio on a new lifecycle predicate,
automotivePlaybackAllowed, which permits playback on a car only while the
app is resumed and fails closed on an unknown lifecycle state. That covers
explicit play, gapless arming and track transitions, live retry and
channel switch, frame-rate-match resume, VOD/live startup, and the queue
navigation commands of the OS media session, plus a last-resort pause for
when the platform player resumes itself on native audio-focus regain.
Playback authority on the media-session router is deliberately left alone:
the router consumes a denied event, so gating it would swallow PauseEvent
and leave the OS unable to stop audio. Reacting to lifecycle callbacks is
the mechanism the platform documents as sufficient, so no android.car
dependency is added.
The music queue no longer requests POST_NOTIFICATIONS on a car, where the
foreground service and its notification never start: there is nothing to
authorize, and the prompt would take focus and make the gate discard the
first play intent.
Detect the form factor too: FEATURE_AUTOMOTIVE now vetoes the Android TV
verdict, so a rotary-only head unit no longer inherits the leanback
experience. Picture-in-picture is gated on FEATURE_PICTURE_IN_PICTURE,
which cars lack, so the app's UI cannot stay on screen while driving, and
nothing forces a preferred orientation on a fixed-orientation display.
Groundwork for #1300. Establishes the session, buffering and route
handling Dolby's application guide prescribes, and adds the diagnostic
arm needed to find out whether Apple's sample-buffer renderer can carry
Atmos objects at all.
Audio session, per the guide's sequence:
- Adopt the long-form playback profile in one atomic call at app launch
and activate the session there. The SDK only accepts that policy with
category Playback, a Default/MoviePlayback/SpokenAudio mode and no
options, so it cannot be assembled from separate calls.
- Report the resolved rendering mode in the player, hidden unless the
system resolves it. Apple only resolves it for CarPlay and AirPlay, so
an unresolved value means unknown, never "not Dolby".
Diagnostics (Apple TV only, Settings > Video Playback > Atmos Output Test):
- Add a sample-buffer arm. It reads the asset with AVAssetReader at
outputSettings nil and hands the untouched compressed buffers and the
untouched format description straight to the renderer, with a variant
that rebuilds the description the way playback builds it. Every
existing mode went through AVPlayer, so nothing exercised the path
playback actually uses; this is what tells us whether the renderer or
our construction is at fault.
- Add an AirPlay route picker. AirPlay is the only route where the system
resolves the rendering mode and the supported channel layouts, so it is
what makes those observations reachable at all, and the AVPlayer arms
now allow external playback so every arm can be compared on the same
destination.
- Add a session-mode toggle for the one profile difference between the
guide and previous playback behaviour.
- Report the session profile, supported layouts, both format
descriptions, the magic cookie and the renderer status, and release the
session on stop so a failed run cannot contaminate the next one.
Also bumps MPVKit to 1.0.14, which carries the matching audio output
work: the channel layout AVFoundation itself uses for Dolby content, a
renderer-failure observer so the fallback to PCM can actually run, the
prescribed feed ordering and preroll, flush recovery that re-supplies the
discarded audio instead of shifting later audio into its place, and
capability-driven fallback on route and capability changes.
This does not yet fix#1300. Whether the sample-buffer renderer can carry
JOC is still unknown; it removes every difference from the documented
setup that could explain the failure, and gives us the arm to answer it
on real hardware.
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.
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.
Complete and revise every shipped locale against the current English source, preserve locale-specific plurals, and map script-specific Chinese locales through device, Intl, duration, and Plex boundaries.
Co-authored-by: emgeje <mgj@mgj.hu>
Co-authored-by: junyou1998 <junyou1998@gmail.com>
New TV-only Appearance toggle that pins the spotlight artwork to the
top-right corner (68% width, 72% height) with the left and bottom edges
feathered into the scaffold background, so the logo, metadata, and
shelves sit on a calm surface instead of the image. Default is off —
the full-bleed spotlight stays exactly as it is.
The artwork keeps its full-screen request size: the corner box only
crops the layout, so transcode URLs and image caches are unchanged and
toggling the setting stays instant.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(player): preserve volume when toggling mute
Muting now keeps the last volume level memorized. Unmuting restores that level, including amplified values allowed by the configured maximum.
* fix(player): preserve volume for companion remote mute
Route the companion remote through the shared mute transition so it no longer overwrites the persisted volume or restores to 100%. Also correct the Dartdoc formatting for the transition record fields.
Re-enables Audio Passthrough on Apple TV against the MPVKit EAC3-JOC
AVPlayer sink (pin bump to v1.0.8 follows), adds an AVPlayer test
harness + diagnostics screen for #1300, and makes loudnorm yield while
passthrough is active (fixes a latent spdif conflict on desktop too).
The aired-order rework can sweep correctly-placed Specials into "download
next N"; this toggle lets users opt out. Shown only for whole shows
(reusing FocusableSwitchListTile via an optional toggle on the shared
option-picker dialog), remembered across opens via a BoolPref
(default on = unchanged behavior). Filters Specials at the single
collect choke point (_collectPlayable), with a guard so explicitly
downloading the Specials season still queues its episodes.
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