v0.2.0

Features

• Murk now runs on Windows 10/11 with NSIS and MSI installers (#5).
• Watch progress and subtitle choice are kept per series in a sidecar file next to the media (#9).
• Resuming a series now plays immediately instead of starting paused (#8).
• Mark each folder as a movie or series, with matching shelf tabs (#12).

Bug fixes

• Only real sample files are skipped, not ones merely containing the word (#6).
• The chosen audio track no longer resets after a switch (#10).
• The audio track is remembered per series and subtitles stay off by default (#11).

Documentation

• Installation points at the release downloads; build steps moved into dedicated BUILDING guides.

Polish

• Webview scrollbar styled to match the player. (#7).

v0.1.0

Watch the series, not the timeline.

The first release of Murk — a desktop player for series and films that refuses
to spoil them. Ordinary players give the story away before the scene does: the
progress bar shows the resolution is three minutes off, the title names the
episode, a "12/24" counter says the season has barely started. Murk shows none
of that. It is not blurred and it is not behind a toggle — the numbers never
reach the screen, because the backend never sends them.

This is a pre-release: it works end to end and it is Linux-only.

What is in it

• 🙈 Nothing to spoil you. No episode title, number or season, no episode
  count, no seek bar, no position, duration or time left. Hidden values stay in
  the backend, so a layout bug, an open devtools window or a stray log line
  cannot leak them.
• 👀 Will you make it? Ask whether a film or an episode fits in 10–60
  minutes and get a yes or no — without the exact time left or where you are.
• 📚 A quiet library. A series is added as a folder, never as a file,
  because a filename can be a spoiler in itself. One button per card, Start or
  Continue. No episode lists, no hints, no indicators.
• ▶️ Endings that stay closed. The next episode starts right away, or an
  end-of-episode card appears — your profile decides.
• 🎬 Covers that give nothing away. No downloaded artwork: your own image
  file, or a plain colour field derived from the series name.
• 🗣️ English and Russian, following the system language and overridable in
  settings.

Three profiles — Total Murk, Standard and Soft — decide field by field what
the backend may send to the window, switchable at any time. The full table is in
the README.

Installing

Attached below: .deb (Debian, Ubuntu), .rpm (Fedora), an AppImage and a
Flatpak bundle, plus SHA256SUMS.

libmpv must be client API 2.x (libmpv.so.2, mpv ≥ 0.36). Distributions
still on libmpv.so.1 — notably Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian 12 — are served by the
AppImage or the Flatpak, which carry mpv themselves. Building from source takes
three commands and is described in the README.

Nothing is published to a distribution repository or to Flathub yet.

Known limits

• Linux and x86_64 only.
• No automatic updates; watch this page for the next release.

Murk is free software under the GPL-2.0-or-later.