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
A 404 on the media stream means the server resolved the item but could not
open the file behind it — moved, deleted, or on storage that went away.
Jellyfin maps the resulting FileNotFoundException to 404, and PlaybackInfo
never stats the file, so negotiation succeeds and only the stream request
fails. Playback then died with a snackbar reading "Failed to open
[REDACTED_URL]" before popping the route, which tells the user nothing and
leaves nothing useful in a bug report.
Generalize the HTTP-500 log probe into PlayerError.httpStatusFromLog and
latch every status in fatalPlaybackHttpStatuses. Each latches on its own so
the 503 that stream-lavf-o deliberately retries cannot mask the fatal status
behind it. A 404 now raises a dedicated modal naming the cause and the fix.
On Android a 404 previously failed the "Response code: 500" string test and
fell through to the ExoPlayer→MPV fallback, showing "switching to compatible
player" before failing again on the same request. Read the real status off
HttpDataSource.InvalidResponseCodeException instead and skip the fallback:
an HTTP status is not a codec problem.
Trakt was the one service outside the tracker abstraction. TraktScrobbleService
re-implemented the whole playback lifecycle beside TrackerCoordinator, and
TraktSyncService pushed watched state from its own WatchStateNotifier
subscription, so the player called two objects at every lifecycle point and one
watch could be written twice. TraktTracker now implements RealtimeScrobbleTracker
like Simkl; the duplicated player call sites collapse to one each, and Trakt
shares the coordinator's ID resolver instead of re-fetching show ids every
episode.
Capabilities are split so a tracker declares what it is rather than being
special-cased: ScrobblePolicy carries each service's own resend/seek rules,
EpisodeHistoryTracker names the remote row a per-item history write targets, and
SeriesProgressTracker covers one-counter-per-series services. Writes from all
four trackers go through a shared TrackerWriteQueue, generalised from the
Trakt-only queue, with the legacy Trakt payload migrated on load. Trakt becomes
the fourth TrackersProvider slot and TraktAccountProvider is deleted, so one
object owns the active session per profile.
Two failure paths found while consolidating are fixed here too.
The queue's retries only ran on profile bind, connect and app foreground, so a
network blip mid-session left queued watches waiting for the next foreground.
OfflineModeProvider now notifies on connectivity changes, not just offline-state
or WiFi-flag changes, and main.dart flushes the queue when the network returns.
The queue also counted every failure toward the five attempts that permanently
drop an item, so a rate limit or a service having a bad hour could discard a
pending watch - the loss the queue exists to prevent. Only an answer about the
write itself now spends an attempt: 4xx counts, while rate limits, 5xx,
recoverable token-refresh failures and requests that never arrived do not. A
back-off answer also defers that service for the rest of the flush, so a queue
holding many rows does not fire all of them at a service that just asked for
quiet.
Simkl only heard about an item once playback crossed the media server's
watched threshold, so stopping partway recorded nothing at all: no resumable
position, no watch. Drive Simkl's /scrobble/start, /pause and /stop from the
player lifecycle instead, carrying the measured progress. Seeks report
nothing, as Simkl asks.
The terminal stop owns watched state for in-player playback, so real-time
trackers are excluded from the threshold markWatched fan-out and one watch
never produces two writes. Progress is reported as measured — it doubles as
the user's resume position — so when a server threshold configured below
Simkl's own 80% rule would leave the watch unrecorded, the tracker records it
through /sync/history rather than inflating progress. Manual, container,
offline-replay and external-player marks keep using /sync/history. Only
/scrobble/stop accepts a 409, which is the sole action documented to return
one.
Reports go out one at a time because Simkl serialises scrobble writes per
user and fails queued ones with a 400; overflow sheds the oldest non-terminal
report so an episode swap cannot drop the previous item's stop. A playback
session is pinned to the account bound when it began and every send re-checks
that binding, so a profile switch or a disconnect/reconnect can neither
redirect a queued report nor misfile the watched fallback.
Also close the paths that lost the terminal report entirely: app exit flushes
it instead of dropping it, the desktop window button goes through the app
shutdown rather than exit(0), a detached VOD player reports a stop, and a
finished item reports completion at EOF instead of waiting for teardown. A
session that opened at 0% is still closed on stop, or Simkl keeps showing the
item as playing until its runtime elapses.
close#1719
Pressing pause or seeking while the player's on-screen controls were hidden raised
the entire OSD, covering the subtitles the viewer was rewinding to read. Transport
keys now answer with a transient indicator and leave the chrome down; Select,
D-pad Center and a centre tap remain the deliberate way to bring the controls
back.
Play/pause confirms with an icon-only translucent disc at the centre of the frame,
72px around a 44px glyph, which grows and fades in, holds half a second at rest,
then runs the same motion in reverse. Seeking shows the amount plus a single
chevron on the same line at the edge it travels toward, with no backdrop at all:
anything large enough to read as a surface is large enough to cover picture and
subtitles, so legibility comes from shadows instead. Only the chevron moves, and
it eases outward across most of its cycle and returns briefly, holding a visible
opacity floor rather than blinking out. Type is scaled per platform, since a
television is read from across the room. The existing text pill stays for genuine
notices - rate changes, chapter titles, zoom, errors - because an earlier centred
pill overlapped ASS \an8 subtitle placement, which is the readability complaint
this feedback exists to answer.
Every relative seek entry point now shares one coalescing primitive. The keyboard
shortcuts fell through to KeyboardShortcutsService and previously reported
nothing, and both they and the remote's chapter fallback rebased each press off
player.state.position, so a burst against a slow backend pinned every request near
one step while the indicator climbed to a total that was never committed. A
released key commits its pending target immediately and resets the acceleration
tier, including on live TV where seeks bypass the accumulator. A chapter seek with
nowhere to go, past the last chapter or already at the start, no longer announces a
jump it does not perform.
Rewind-on-resume follows the resolved intent rather than the current state, so a
directed pause on an already-paused video neither resumes nor rewinds. Indicators
carry their own liveRegion semantics nodes: their labels previously merged into the
full-screen "show playback controls" target, corrupting its accessible name, and
they keep announcing "Paused"/"Playing" and the seek amount from icon-only visuals.
close#1676
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.
Collapses indirection layers and one-caller abstractions across the video
player, shortcut dispatch, shader loading and context-menu code, including
the VideoPIPManager pass-through over PipService.
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.
Several pairs of near-identical code paths differ in one load-bearing
line. Each site now carries a comment naming the invariant that forces it
apart, backed by a characterization test so a future deduplication fails
loudly instead of silently changing behaviour.
Pinned: focusable wrapper vs. chip D-pad activation policy, profile
connection cleanup's raw-id vs. ServerId-typed server projections, live TV
tab loaders, video player display matching and playback service wiring,
track selection container ordering, tracker HTTP client status ladder, and
the MediaServerHttpClient shutdown/cancellation contract versus
ManagedHttpClient's closing guard.
New tests:
test/focus/dpad_activation_policy_test.dart
test/services/track_selection_container_ordinal_test.dart
test/services/trackers/tracker_status_ladder_test.dart
test/utils/media_server_http_client_shutdown_test.dart
Report the paused timeline every tick (~10s, matching official clients)
instead of every ~60s, and ping the Plex transcoder keepalive endpoint
alongside it while transcoding — PMS reaps idle transcode sessions that
timeline reports alone historically have not kept alive. Prevents the
transcode-variant of the #1520 stream death; the reporter's direct-play
case is covered by EOF classification and reconnect.
close#1520
Classify player EOF signals against the best-known duration: a mid-file
EOF means the stream died (transcode reaped or idle connection closed
during a long pause), not that the media ended — it must never mark the
item watched, prompt Play Next, or exit a movie. Recover with a bounded
in-place reload at the parked position; if the server is still refusing,
park on the old frame and rebuild the stream on user play/seek or when
the server-status monitor sees it come back online.
The platforms advertise stop, skip forward/backward, and playback-rate
commands by default, but both the music and video handlers silently
dropped them (Android Auto/Bluetooth stop and FF/rewind did nothing;
iOS/macOS showed a dead rate control). setControlsEnabled now manages
those controls: music handles Stop and in-track skips and stops
advertising a speed control; video handles Stop (exit, matching the
companion remote), skips via a shared relative-seek helper, and rate
changes through player.setRate. Skip commands stay off on iOS/macOS
where they would displace the next/previous lock-screen buttons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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