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- Fixed broken and outdated build workflows.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.Jsondependencies. - Removed obsolete
Secrets.csbuild 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.
Author & Maintainer: Joel Biju ([@9ixe](https://github.com/9ixe))
License: GNU General Public License v3.0