edde746 bbed260169 fix(player): start the TV player with its chrome down
A television raised the whole OSD and timebar on every playback start. The
chrome controller is born visible, and its auto-hide clock cannot arm until the
first frame lands, so the controls did not merely appear early: they appeared
exactly when the picture did, and then sat over the opening five seconds of
every movie and episode. The timeline is gated behind the first frame, so the
bar materialised on top of the video rather than over the loading spinner,
which is what makes it read as a pop-up rather than as chrome that was already
there.

The route now opens with no chrome on TV. Nothing is lost: the loading spinner
and buffering overlay are their own overlays, the screen focus node owns back,
and the first D-pad press raises the controls the way it already does after
every auto-hide. Pointer and touch platforms keep the chrome, where the
viewer's hand is on the surface and the title and back affordance belong over
the spinner.

Initial presentation now follows initial visibility. They were separate:
seeding only visibility would leave the route claiming its chrome was still
presented, so PlayerNavigationCoordinator would read back as "hide the chrome",
hide() would no-op against chrome that was never up, and the press would be
swallowed instead of leaving the player.

Controls that mount with the chrome already down now claim focus themselves.
Focus normally reaches them through the hide transition, and their own
autofocus cannot win it back because the screen node took it during the loading
phase. Left alone, the screen node kept primary focus and its self-heal raised
the entire OSD on the first D-pad press, which put the chrome straight back
over the picture and bypassed the transient seek and transport indicators.

Both player spinners now carry a label. They were bare progress indicators, so
a screen reader announced nothing at all while the picture was coming up, and
the TV Maestro flows had no way left to tell a loading player from a playing
one once the Pause button stopped appearing on its own.

The two TV flows are repaired to match. They waited on that button, and now
wait for the labelled spinner to clear, which cannot happen before the media is
opened. 05 additionally reaches Search by D-pad rather than a percentage
coordinate, because a tap flips InputModeTracker to pointer mode and collapses
the rail it is aiming at, and it gates on the play-next prompt's own Cancel
action: "Next Episode" is also the credits skip button, so the old assertion
could pass without the prompt ever opening.

close #1765
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Plezy Logo Plezy

A modern client for Plex and Jellyfin on desktop, mobile, and TV. Built with Flutter for native performance and a clean interface.

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Platform Download
macOS DMG (x64, arm64)
Linux x64 .deb · .rpm · .pkg.tar.zst · portable tar.gz
Linux arm64 .deb · .rpm · .pkg.tar.zst · portable tar.gz

Package managers:

  • Nix - Community package by @mio-19 and @MiniHarinn
  • Homebrew (macOS):
    brew tap edde746/plezy https://github.com/edde746/plezy
    brew install --cask plezy
    
  • AUR (Arch Linux) - Community maintained by @jianglai:
    yay -S plezy-bin
    
  • WinGet (Windows):
    winget install edde746.Plezy
    

Features

Browse & Discover

  • Libraries, collections, and playlists — video and audio
  • Discover hub — Continue Watching, Next Up, trending, and recommendations
  • Cross-server search across every connected Plex and Jellyfin server
  • Filtering, sorting, and alphabetical jump navigation
  • Folder browsing and folder playback — home-video libraries open in folder view
  • Resolution, HDR/Dolby Vision, and audio-format badges on cards and detail pages
  • Favorites and unwatched library filters1
  • Extras — trailers, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes

Explore & Requests

  • Explore tab — watchlist, trending, popular, and recommendation rows from Plex Discover2 , Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, Simkl, and Seerr3
  • Search any connected catalog source
  • Catalog titles matched back to your own libraries by external ID
  • Seerr — request movies and shows with per-season, 4K, and advanced destination options, and see request status inline
  • Watchlist sync — add and remove titles on Plex, Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, and Simkl from anywhere in the app

Playback

  • Wide codec support (HEVC, AV1, VP9, and more)
  • HDR and Dolby Vision4
  • Direct play, or transcode presets from 240p/320 kbps to 1080p/20 Mbps
  • Multi-version switching with per-version file details
  • Full ASS/SSA subtitles with customizable styling
  • Online subtitle search & download2
  • Audio & subtitle choices remembered per title, or follow the server's per-episode selections
  • Progress sync and resume
  • Auto-play next episode with skip intro / skip credits
  • Chapter navigation with thumbnail scrub previews
  • Playback speed from 0.25x to 8x, audio sync offset, sleep timer (fixed durations or end of video)
  • Video zoom 50-200% with pinch, presets, and hotkeys
  • Audio passthrough5 , stereo downmix with center-channel boost, and loudness normalization
  • File Info sheet — every version, file, and stream the server reports
  • Ambient lighting and GLSL shader presets6
  • Picture-in-Picture7
  • Refresh-rate matching8
  • External player launch (VLC, MX Player, etc.) with progress sync back9

Music

  • Music libraries — artist, album, and track browsing with square artwork
  • Album and artist screens with play, shuffle, and Instant Mix
  • Gapless playback with a full play queue — reorder, remove, play next, add to queue
  • Now Playing with synced lyrics10 , persistent mini-player, and sleep timer
  • Background playback with lock-screen, media-key, and notification controls11
  • Offline playback of downloaded albums and tracks
  • Streaming quality presets — Original, 320, 192, or 128 kbps

Live TV & DVR

  • Live TV channel browsing, tuning, and favorites
  • EPG guide with What's On and per-show schedules
  • DVR recording rules, scheduled recordings, and a rememberable recording target library2
  • Multi-server Live TV support where available

Downloads & Offline

  • Download movies, shows, and music for offline playback12
  • Background queue with pause / resume
  • Sync rules for automatic downloads, with per-show "Include Specials"
  • Offline browsing with watch state sync-back on reconnect

Watch Together

  • Synchronized playback with friends
  • Real-time play / pause / seek sync

Integrations

  • Discord Rich Presence13
  • Trakt, MyAnimeList, AniList, and Simkl — ratings, watched sync, and real-time scrobbling14
  • Plezy Remote — control desktop and TV from mobile
  • Watch Next row and tvOS Top Shelf15

Platform & Customization

  • Desktop, mobile, and TV — full D-pad, keyboard, and gamepad support
  • Multiple servers at once — Plex and Jellyfin side by side
  • Profiles with per-profile downloads, watch state, and settings; Plex Home switching with PIN
  • Jellyfin local-server discovery, multiple URLs per server, and Quick Connect sign-in
  • TV layout options — corner spotlight backdrop, full-card artwork, and Force TV mode on desktop
  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts13
  • Metadata and artwork editing
  • Settings import/export
  • Localized in English plus 21 translations

Building from Source

Prerequisites

  • Flutter SDK 3.44.0+
  • A Plex account or Jellyfin server with user credentials

Setup

git clone https://github.com/edde746/plezy.git
cd plezy
flutter pub get
scripts/codegen.sh
flutter run

Code Generation

After modifying model classes or other generated sources:

scripts/codegen.sh

After modifying translations:

dart run slang

Local Checks

scripts/ci_checks.sh

To install the same pre-commit checks locally:

scripts/setup_hooks.sh

End-to-end tests (Android emulator plus a Dockerized Jellyfin fixture):

python3 scripts/run_maestro.py basic

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development workflow, formatting, tests, and translation guidelines.

License

Plezy is licensed under GPL-3.0.

Acknowledgments


  1. Jellyfin only. ↩︎

  2. Plex only. ↩︎

  3. Requires connecting the service under Settings > Services. ↩︎

  4. In-app HDR toggle on Windows, macOS, iOS, and tvOS. Dolby Vision on Android and Apple TV. ↩︎

  5. Desktop, Android TV, and Apple TV. ↩︎

  6. Requires the mpv player backend — unavailable on iOS and tvOS, and Android defaults to ExoPlayer. ↩︎

  7. Android, iOS, and macOS — not on Android TV or Apple TV. ↩︎

  8. Windows, Android, and tvOS. ↩︎

  9. Progress sync on Android. ↩︎

  10. Where your server provides lyrics. ↩︎

  11. tvOS pauses music when the app is backgrounded. ↩︎

  12. Not available on tvOS. ↩︎

  13. Desktop only. ↩︎

  14. Real-time scrobbling on Trakt and Simkl; MyAnimeList and AniList update on completion. ↩︎

  15. Android TV / Fire TV and tvOS. ↩︎

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