Beta 0.3.27

Improvements & Fixes

• Added an automatic startup update notification that checks the latest stable GitHub release, displays its release notes, and directs TV users to Nuvio WebTV Installer when a newer version is available. (@WhiteGiso)
• Improved Home performance on constrained Samsung Tizen and LG webOS televisions through incremental catalog loading, smaller initial rendering batches, bounded metadata concurrency, progressive Continue Watching rendering, and fewer repeated lazy-image layout measurements during D-pad navigation. (@WhiteGiso)
• Improved Continue Watching next-episode backfill by continuing past candidates without an available next episode, increasing the bounded lookup window, and limiting concurrent requests to avoid overloading TV runtimes. (@WhiteGiso)
• Improved Home startup responsiveness by allowing the initial interface to render after a bounded Continue Watching resolution window while slower enrichment continues in the background. (@WhiteGiso)
• Improved More Like This loading by starting recommendations independently from slower artwork, credits, and cast enrichment, and fixed series detection when the route identifies TV content before episodes are available. (@WhiteGiso)
• Added episode runtime parsing and IMDb episode ratings to detail cards, including correct support for Season 0 Specials and IMDb-first lookup with TMDB fallback. (@WhiteGiso)
• Improved the Still Watching experience with episode artwork, clearer Play and Exit actions, system-aligned presentation, correct autoplay-threshold handling, and reliable return to title details when exiting. (@WhiteGiso)
• Updated the player clock to respect the television’s system 12-hour or 24-hour time preference. (@WhiteGiso)
• Added 0.25x playback speed on supported playback engines while preserving the restricted speed set required by Samsung AVPlay. (@WhiteGiso)
• Fixed Samsung AVPlay audio-track switching performing an unnecessary playback seek, preventing avoidable jumps or interruptions when changing audio tracks. (@WhiteGiso)
• Fixed Samsung AVPlay subtitles failing to reappear when reselecting native or HTML-rendered subtitle tracks. (@josippapez)
• Fixed older asynchronous subtitle requests replacing a newer subtitle selection after their network response completed. (@josippapez)
• Fixed LG webOS playback remaining indefinitely in startup loading by bounding stalled startup recovery and reducing repeated empty embedded-track probes. (@josippapez)
• Improved recovery from transient LG webOS playback stalls by restarting the current source while preserving playback state instead of leaving playback paused indefinitely. (@WhiteGiso)
• Improved LG webOS navigation on large source lists by removing per-card layout measurements and reusing sorted and filtered stream results between renders. (@jaydeep-pipaliya)
• Fixed Search excluding custom addon catalog types even when those catalogs explicitly support the search extra. (@WhiteGiso)
• Fixed Continue Watching backfill stopping before reaching valid next episodes when earlier candidates had no available follow-up episode. (@WhiteGiso)
• Fixed the profile selection grid overlapping its hint text when exactly four profiles and the Add Profile card were displayed. (@roobtoob)
• Added missing subtitle-setting descriptions, subtitle-position labels, and affected playback-error translations across all supported non-English locales. (@jaydeep-pipaliya)
• Fixed the Swedish stream filter falling back to the English “All” label, and removed an unreachable duplicate Swedish resource that unnecessarily increased Tizen and webOS package sizes. (@jma8774)
• Standardized project formatting and added a Prettier pre-commit check to prevent new formatting drift. (@josippapez)
• Removed obsolete stream-performance comparison screenshots from the repository package. (@WhiteGiso)