Aetherstream v0.3.0

A remote and a television

The window is now a remote control beside a television. The remote is the left column and never changes: a display, power, mute and Home, a number pad that dials pinned channels, channel and volume rockers with the guide and weather keys between them, transport, subtitles, audio and the gear, and a line at its foot saying what is on. Fold the window and only the remote stays.

Beside it, the picture and a home screen laid out like a tablet: one line saying what is on, a grid of app icons with the services' own marks, and a dock along the bottom with Search, Paste a link, Watch party and Setup. Every panel that used to be a tab or a shelf is an app. Open one and it takes the screen with a Home button in the corner. Setup, System has a tick box per app to put away the ones you never open.

Search in the dock: type something, then pick which app to look in, and it opens with the search run.

New sources

• Jellyfin and Emby. Sign in with a name and password once; only the token is kept. Your libraries, continue watching with progress on the tiles, a search across films, series and episodes, and a series opened into its episodes with the rest queued. The file streams as it sits on disk. Verified against Jellyfin's public demo; Emby is written to its documentation.
• Pluto TV on demand: free films and series, with Pluto's own ad breaks. Pluto moved its stitcher mid-way through this release; the plugin now uses the new path through its loopback relay, and a film plays where it showed a "so sad" slate before.
• Red Bull TV: films, documentaries, shows and replays.
• PBS: NOVA, Nature, FRONTLINE and a dozen more. Passport titles are left off, since they need a member login.
• NASA+: documentaries, series, launches, by topic, with a search.
• TED: the newest talks, TED's playlists, a search. Pasting a talk address into Paste a link works too, since yt-dlp's TED support is broken at the moment.
• Dailymotion: trending in English, by channel, and a search; plays through yt-dlp.
• YouTube shelf: search, playlist and channel links, and with a signed-in browser set under Setup, Sources, your recommended, subscriptions, watch later and history. Floorp, LibreWolf, Waterfox and Zen count as Firefox for the cookies.
• Twitch shelf: who is live among the channels you follow, the top streams, a game, a search, and DJs and Music chips.

Fixes

• Plex posters show again; a Plex path was being mistaken for a disk path.
• The Info and Shows channels always play the bundled lounge tracks; the music source you choose plays under the Ambience channels only.
• An empty music source falls back to the bundled tracks and says so, instead of silence.
• The window's picture is no longer squashed by a fit meant for the furnishing.
• Unloading the plugin no longer fails while the live TV health check is running.
• Long lists of shelf categories are a dropdown rather than rows of chips.