Release mpvNova 2026-06-10 · Laskco/mpvNova

mpvNova 2026-06-10 improves Shield Hi10P playback, display matching, and player panel controls.

Universal Downloader shortcode: 2988717

New

Added in-player Preferred decoder mode and Shield Hi10P fallback rows to the Video drawer, so decoder behavior can be changed without leaving playback.
Added a custom Shield Hi10P fallback picker in both Settings and the player drawer, with the same shell design and described options.
Added display-mode feedback when mpvNova switches resolution or refresh rate, showing the chosen resolution and Hz.
Added finer subtitle controls: subtitle size now moves in 0.05 steps from 0.50 to 2.00, and subtitle position now moves in 1% steps.
(WARNING - You may need to reconfigure your subtitle settings.)

Changed

Reworked Shield Hi10P fallback into two G-NEXT software-decode flavors: G-NEXT SW - no tuning for stock playback, and G-NEXT SW - light tuning with non-reference deblocking skip, a 1-second audio buffer, Lanczos-sharp upscaling, and forced resolution matching.
Updated the README's Shield Hi10P fallback description to match the current behavior.
When auto fallback is turned off in the Video drawer, mpvNova now reveals and applies the preferred decoder mode immediately.
When Shield decoder mode is turned off, mpvNova clears Shield Anime as the preferred decoder and falls back to the normal default decoder mode.
Resolution-only display matching now keeps the refresh rate closest to the current mode instead of jumping to the highest refresh rate at the selected resolution.
The clock overlay now calculates "Ends at" using playback speed, so sped-up playback shows the real wall-clock finish time.
Repeat cycling now follows none -> playlist -> file -> none.
Bumped versionCode to 8120 and versionName to 2026-06-10.

Fixed

Fixed Shield Anime / Hi10P decoder picker focus so the selected row opens focused and D-pad scrolling works normally.
Fixed Shield Hi10P fallback from G-NEXT sessions so light tuning can apply instead of silently staying on standard tuning.
Fixed display mode switches causing brief player minification/resize flashes by covering the HDMI handoff and suppressing player activity transitions.
Fixed HDMI display-mode switches being mistaken for audio becoming noisy, which could pause playback during refresh/resolution matching.
Fixed gpu-next render fallback from reacting to transient errors during display-mode switching.
Fixed Resolution Match showing Off in the drawer when it was being forced on by Shield light tuning.
Fixed temporary audio filter detection/reset so Channel Downmix is included with the other audio filters.
Fixed support bundle export lifecycle cleanup so pending export flows cannot keep a destroyed Settings activity alive.
Fixed storage-volume reporting on older Android versions and tightened storage picker API guards.
Fixed the unused Shield fallback layout and ignored local scratch/tool files so they do not end up in commits.

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