v1.0.95 — Audio tracks and Multi-View

Kwick Player 1.0.95 (build 395)

New

Choose the audio track. Films and shows often carry several soundtracks and the app took whichever the file listed first. There is now an audio button in the player controls beside subtitles, on both video engines and inside Multi-View, where each pane has its own. Set a preferred language once in Settings > Playback and the app picks it by itself.

Getting that choice right took some care. A file listing IT - ENGLISH and ENGLISH - ENGLISH was read as English on the strength of the word appearing in both; a file offering en-IN alongside a plain English took the Indian English dub. The app now prefers a plain language tag over a regional variant, and a label that is the language over one that merely mentions it.

Multi-View. Watch up to four channels, films or episodes at once. It offers exactly as many panes as your line has connections, so a 2-connection account is offered 2 rather than being allowed to pick four and watch two fail. Panes start one at a time — devices have a limited number of video decoders, and starting four at once also hits your provider with four simultaneous opens from one address. Sound lives on one pane and moves with the remote or a tap. Reachable from the Live TV grid button, from inside any player, and from any channel, film or series page.

Fixed

One tap started two streams, and the second killed the first. Pressing play opened the same stream twice. The two shared one video engine, so the second one closing shut down the first — a black screen with no error, no crash, and two of your connections used for one tap. Live, films and episodes all affected.

The cause was nothing to do with playback: the decorative grid overlay switches off during fullscreen video, and the way it did that made Flutter discard and rebuild everything beneath it, including the router. Pressing play rebuilt the screen you had just opened.

The obvious fix was the wrong one and is now a regression test — deferring the flag by a frame moves the second build one frame later and leaves it there.

• "Couldn't load this series" on shows with no description. Panels answer with an empty array instead of an empty record for a show with no metadata, and the app gave up on the whole page — throwing away an episode list that was perfectly fine. Four other places had the same blind spot, including the one that reads your account details.
• A second account on the same service wouldn't load — every channel of the second account looked like a duplicate of the first and was rejected. Existing accounts keep identifying their channels exactly as before, so nothing needed converting and no favourites moved.
• Sources can be renamed, so two lines are not both just "KwickTV", and each has its own refresh button showing its channel and connection count. A line upgraded from 1 to 4 connections used to go unnoticed forever — which also silently disabled Multi-View.
• Leaving a series took more than one press of Back. Same root cause as the double-open above.
• The TV could sleep over a video that was still playing.
• Secure connections were being made insecurely and failed — the cause of missing posters and failed log uploads.
• The Resume button no longer looks doubled; plot and cast match the panel below them; Continue Watching resumes the right episode.

Also

Home opens with what you were watching, films and series filter by year, Sports has a search, Settings has a Media Bar section, error screens look like part of the app, and you can mark things as watched.

Behind the scenes

Test builds can no longer reach the live KwickTV server, and now say which server they are allowed to talk to on the first line of their log.