Orbital v1.6.0

Huge update: new horizontal Nebula top nav bar across all screens, Nebula is now the default theme, a completely rebuilt 14-sport Sports Bar (football, NFL, UFC, boxing, F1, rugby, cricket, darts, snooker, tennis, golf, basketball, hockey, baseball, AFL) with live channel matching, D-pad scrolling fix, EPG auto-refresh with a progress indicator and a safer low-memory guide loader, and safer update downloads (checksum-verified).

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Orbital v1.5.6

Fixed subtitles not appearing during playback (missing renderer view).

Player: pressing Back while the on-screen controls (HUD) are open now closes the HUD instead of exiting playback — Back only exits when the HUD is already hidden.

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Orbital v1.5.5

Live TV: D-pad navigation overhaul — category list remembers your place, Back now steps out through the TV Guide tab with an exit confirmation instead of quitting instantly.
Sports Bar: pinned games auto-clear after full-time and at next launch, added Scottish Premiership, league tabs now navigate down into Games/Table, fixed standings row colour striping.
Emby: smaller, denser poster grid.
EPG: fixed guide data sometimes only partially loading on app launch.

v1.5.4

New: Goal Flash — pop-up alert (bottom-right, adjustable duration in Settings) when a team you're following in Sports Bar scores, or has a goal disallowed by VAR.

Sports Bar (renamed from Sports):

• Fixed scores/fixtures and standings not loading — ESPN's Akamai bot protection was blocking the app's requests; standings were also still calling a now-dead third-party API
• Added NFL
• Removed World Cup (not relevant for years)

Home screen: redesigned the top navigation — angled parallelogram tabs with icons instead of rounded pill buttons.

v1.5.3

Every D-pad focusable item across the app (menus, tabs, list rows, buttons) now draws a visible accent-coloured box when focused, instead of just a subtle colour swap — much easier to track from the couch.

v1.5.2

Rolled back the v1.5.1 live-buffer/stall-watchdog changes — they were causing more playback issues than they fixed. Back to v1.5.0's playback behaviour, on a newer version number so this update reaches everyone.

v1.5.1

Fixed

• Silent live-stream stalls: some broadcast-grade MPEG-TS streams would freeze on the last decoded frame with no error and no retry (ExoPlayer's TsExtractor just stops advancing). A watchdog now detects a stuck position or prolonged buffering on live channels and forces a reconnect, in both normal Player and TV Mode.
• TV Mode never had a Player.Listener attached — playback errors (dropped connection, bad HTTP status, decoder failure) left the frozen frame on screen with no retry. It now retries automatically, capped and backed off, same as normal Player.
• Live playback buffering tuned to stay within ~3s of real time instead of ExoPlayer's VOD-oriented ~50s default.

v1.5.0

TorBox

• New Interactive setting to enter your TorBox API key
• Browse your TorBox downloads from Box Office, explore files inside each download, and play anything in a compatible format
• Position-preserving auto-retry for flaky streams; auto-mutes audio after repeated decoder errors on files with a broken E-AC-3 track (video keeps playing — use "Open in VLC" for full audio on those)

Recently watched channels

• Live TV's ★ FAVOURITES now shows your last 5 watched channels ahead of your manually-favourited ones, in both Home and TV mode

TV Mode overhaul

• Channel panel: press RIGHT to navigate into the inline EPG column for the focused channel, RIGHT again closes the panel (matches the old channel-list behaviour)
• Selecting the current show tunes the channel; selecting any other show opens a recording/reminder popup — now with a poster, same as normal mode
• Fixed the full EPG guide (Main Menu → FULL EPG GUIDE) closing itself instantly after opening
• New TRANSPARENCY setting for the left nav panel, HUD bar and news ticker
• Recordings added to the Box Office menu

Other

• Dialogs now consistently follow your selected theme (e.g. BLACK & WHITE) instead of a hardcoded style in a few remaining spots

v1.4.1

Patch fix

• Fixed a bug in TV Mode where selecting a channel in the channel panel would break D-pad UP/DOWN navigation — you had to press LEFT then RIGHT to get back into the list before you could move again. Now you can keep flicking through channels without leaving the panel.

v1.4.0

TV Mode

• Short EPG strip for the current channel, plus a full EPG guide accessible from the left menu (with category switching)
• Pressing RIGHT while watching now toggles back to your previous channel instead of jumping through the channel list
• Bubble-style EPG cells, fixed a duplicate-listing bug that let the "now playing" highlight bleed through cell gaps
• Fixed frozen video on channel switching (audio kept playing, picture stuck on old frame)

Normal mode

• General GUI improvements
• Tapping a show in the EPG now shows info and tries to find a poster — uses TMDB if you've set an API key in Settings, otherwise falls back to searching your VOD/series catalog

Dolby 5.1/7.1 (testing)

• New toggle in the top HUD while something is playing, to opt into real device audio capabilities instead of the default safe stereo-only mode
• The toggle is only shown at all when the stream's currently playing audio track actually is 5.1/7.1 — hidden otherwise

Other

• Fixed several out-of-memory crashes by moving large catalog fetches (live channels, VOD, series) to a streaming parser instead of loading the whole response into memory
• Another attempt at fixing the on-screen keyboard not opening on some Firesticks when adding a server