Odeon v2.6.0

Video Quality, Customization & Stability Improvements

This release focuses on video quality, visual customization, player refinement, and overall stability.

Key improvements include enhanced HDR and Dolby Vision playback, new themes, refined player animations, improved interface design, and performance optimizations.

✨ Features Added

• Added a Netflix-style theme with a refined Netflix-inspired interface and signature red accent.
• Added a Monochromatic theme for a minimal, distraction-free appearance.
• Added a Windows Default Accent style that follows the system accent color.
• Added a new glassmorphic play/pause indicator with smooth entrance and exit animations.
• Added a Keyboard Shortcuts popup with a Fluent-designed interface, acrylic styling, card-based rows, and keycap badges.
• Increased the Play Next page size for improved visibility and usability.
• Added smoother miniplayer transitions and updated Fluent controls and icons.
• Added improved HDR and Dolby Vision tone-mapping for better brightness, contrast, and highlight detail.
• Added dynamic HDR detection to automatically adapt to Windows HDR state changes.
• Improved full-range RGB output and video scaling for more accurate and detailed image reproduction.

🗑️ Features Removed

• Removed the need to manually install Futura PT Medium, as required fonts are now bundled with Odeon.

🐛 Bugs Removed

• Fixed HDR and Dolby Vision brightness, exposure, and color issues.
• Fixed incorrect color handling during video rendering and Windows DWM composition.
• Fixed HDR state synchronization when toggling Windows HDR.
• Fixed video scaling-related color and gradient issues.
• Fixed miniplayer resizing and transition issues.
• Fixed UI flickering and playback interruptions during player mode changes.
• Fixed play/pause indicator animations failing to trigger or re-trigger reliably.

⚡ Optimizations

• Optimized HDR/Dolby Vision processing and D3D11 color-space handling.
• Improved video scaling, rendering quality, and color accuracy.
• Optimized player animations using native Windows transitions.
• Reduced unnecessary compositor and UI animation overhead.
• Improved theme, media track, and null-safety handling.
• Performed additional under-the-hood optimizations across the player and UI.
• Improved overall performance, responsiveness, and stability.

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Author & Maintainer: Joel Biju ([@9ixe](https://github.com/9ixe))
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Odeon v2.5.0

UI, Stability & Performance Improvements

This release focuses on refining Odeon's interface, improving playback reliability, and addressing a large number of stability issues across subtitles, audio, playlists, navigation, and player controls.

Alongside the visible improvements, extensive under-the-hood changes were made to make Odeon more reliable and efficient during playback and UI interactions.

✨ Features Added

• Added chapter segments to the seekbar for clearer chapter navigation.
• Added chapter previews to the seekbar tooltip while hovering or scrubbing.
• Added dividers between playlist videos for clearer separation.
• Added smooth spring animations to subtitle, audio, and playlist panels.
• Added a dedicated subtitle position slider with live positioning and quick reset.
• Added improved controls and visual feedback throughout the player interface.

🗑️ Features Removed

• Removed Light Mode and made Odeon exclusively dark.
• Removed inconsistent theme options from Settings.
• Removed the previous glassmorphic button styling in favor of a unified button design.
• Removed the old subtitle up/down positioning buttons.
• Removed unnecessary focus behavior and default UI focus visuals.

🐛 Bugs Removed

• Fixed audio playback and audio device initialization issues.
• Fixed incorrect default audio track selection.
• Fixed custom audio device handling with libmpv/WASAPI.
• Fixed chapter loading and synchronization issues during startup.
• Fixed chapter visibility not updating immediately when toggled.
• Fixed seekbar expanding when simply hovering over it.
• Fixed volume boost not working beyond 100%.
• Fixed external subtitles not appearing correctly in the Subtitle panel.
• Fixed crashes when adding external subtitle or audio tracks.
• Fixed multiple playlist crashes when adding videos or rapidly switching between videos.
• Fixed playlist flyout state not resetting correctly when reopened.
• Fixed hover and selection animations becoming stuck on multiple items.
• Fixed selection and hover state conflicts in playlist multi-select mode.
• Fixed crashes caused by UI elements being updated while panels were collapsed or unloaded.
• Fixed asynchronous track updates from previous videos affecting newly opened videos.
• Fixed various playlist selection, animation, and synchronization issues.
• Fixed Spacebar closing flyouts while also triggering play/pause.
• Fixed Tab navigation and the unwanted white focus ring across the interface.

⚡ Optimizations

• Optimized chapter loading and synchronization during playback.
• Optimized subtitle and audio track synchronization.
• Improved playlist queue synchronization to reduce unnecessary UI rebuilding.
• Improved handling of rapid playlist switching and playback transitions.
• Reduced redundant playback and track updates.
• Improved asynchronous operation safety when switching between videos.
• Optimized UI animations and removed unnecessary animation work.
• Added safeguards around UI operations involving unloaded or collapsed elements.
• Improved event handling and cleanup when switching between media files.
• Improved selection synchronization and reduced unnecessary property updates.
• Improved overall application stability, responsiveness, and reliability.
• Performed extensive under-the-hood code cleanup and performance optimizations across the player.

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Author & Maintainer: Joel Biju ([@9ixe](https://github.com/9ixe))
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Odeon v2.0.0

Major Playback & UI Overhaul

A major rebuild of Odeon focused on a new playback foundation, a redesigned interface, improved subtitle and audio controls, and a cleaner codebase.

The biggest change in this release is the complete migration from LibVLC to libmpv, providing a simpler and more modern foundation for playback.

✨ Features Added

• Migrated the playback engine from LibVLC to libmpv.
• Added a new Direct3D 11 video rendering pipeline.
• Added dedicated Subtitle and Audio side panels.
• Added subtitle and audio timing offset controls.
• Added subtitle font size customization.
• Added subtitle style override controls.
• Added subtitle background opacity controls.
• Added a redesigned Play Next interface.
• Added drag-and-drop queue reordering.
• Added multi-selection and bulk actions.
• Added queue management through a new context menu.
• Added the ability to add files directly to Play Next.
• Added redesigned Properties, Audio, and Subtitle interfaces.
• Added a new streaming-inspired visual design.
• Added rounded pill-style controls and acrylic context menus.
• Added automatic hiding of player controls when pressing Space or interacting with the player.

🗑️ Features Removed

• Removed the entire LibVLC playback infrastructure.
• Removed Chromecast and DLNA support.
• Removed VLC network login dialogs.
• Removed the previous custom subtitle extraction and processing system.
• Removed Playlists from the Home and Sidebar navigation.
• Removed Add to Playlist from the Play Next menu.
• Removed obsolete VLC services, renderers, dialogs, and dependencies.

🐛 Bugs Removed

• Fixed a release-build crash related to _open_osfhandle.
• Fixed mini-player state badge visibility.
• Fixed subtitle panel padding and layout issues.
• Fixed various UI alignment, spacing, and styling problems.
• Fixed multiple playback and stability issues.

⚡ Optimizations

• Simplified the playback architecture around libmpv.
• Improved video rendering with the D3D11 pipeline.
• Removed approximately 1,800 lines of custom subtitle-processing code.
• Removed obsolete VLC infrastructure and duplicate assets.
• Reduced overall codebase complexity.
• Optimized UI layouts, spacing, and styling.
• Improved application maintainability and overall performance.

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Author & Maintainer: Joel Biju ([@9ixe](https://github.com/9ixe))
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Odeon v1.0.0

Initial Release

The first release of Odeon, an independent, debloated, and customized fork of Screenbox.

This release establishes Odeon’s core identity with a cleaner interface, improved subtitle rendering, simplified playback controls, and a privacy-focused approach.

✨ Features Added

• Added Futura Cyrillic Medium throughout the application and subtitle renderer.
• Added improved ASS/SSA subtitle styling for cleaner and more consistent subtitles.
• Added support for extracting embedded MKV subtitles directly into memory.
• Added isolated subtitle caching without modifying original media files.
• Added a simplified playback time display.
• Added redesigned seekbar and chapter progress controls.
• Added complete Odeon branding across the application.

🗑️ Features Removed

• Removed Microsoft App Center Analytics.
• Removed Microsoft App Center Crash Reporting.
• Removed Sentry and its tracking infrastructure.
• Removed diagnostic and telemetry network requests.
• Removed chapter titles from the playback time display.
• Removed unnecessary upstream components and dependencies.

🐛 Bugs Removed

• Fixed broken and outdated build workflows.
• Fixed missing System.Text.Json dependencies.
• Removed obsolete Secrets.cs build requirements.
• Fixed inconsistent ASS/SSA subtitle rendering.
• Fixed unnecessary subtitle disk operations during playback.

⚡ Optimizations

• Optimized embedded subtitle extraction with in-memory processing.
• Reduced unnecessary disk I/O during subtitle playback.
• Reduced application dependencies by removing unused tracking services.
• Simplified the build and CI system.
• Improved overall UI consistency and playback responsiveness.

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Author & Maintainer: Joel Biju ([@9ixe](https://github.com/9ixe))
License: GNU General Public License v3.0