ARVIO v1.9.983

Player, subtitles, and playback

• Moved ordinary subtitles into the full player viewport so they can use letterbox space instead of being forced above the bottom black bar.
• Preserved authored ASS/SSA/WebVTT positioning and bitmap subtitle coordinates while applying the new letterbox behavior to normal text subtitles.
• Fixed the Next Episode close button restarting its countdown instead of cancelling playback progression and returning to the show.
• Fixed duplicate source names causing a source-selector crash by guaranteeing stable, unique list keys.
• Restored trailer autoplay after profile and cloud settings are loaded.
• Remembered the last played episode and browsing season when returning from the player, including brief plays without a resume point. Contributor: @silentbil via #468.
• Fixed extensionless IPTV HLS redirects so redirected streams are detected and played with the correct media type.
• Made aborted Telegram source requests end quietly instead of surfacing as crashes.

Live TV, IPTV, and Continue Watching

• Fixed Live TV focus being trapped in search and reduced category/channel focus jumps while data is loading.
• Stabilized paged IPTV channel snapshots so channel windows remain available while navigating very large playlists.
• Added regression coverage for Live TV startup, channel availability, search focus, and guide-loading rules.
• Removed live channels and live-addon events from Continue Watching, including delayed live metadata results. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #492.
• Reused the web Live TV channel snapshot on entry to reduce unnecessary list rebuilding and improve startup responsiveness.

Catalogs, details, and integrations

• Added Catalog Packs so multiple catalogs can be discovered, installed, grouped, deep-linked, and removed together. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #463.
• Added MDBList as a remote sync provider alongside Trakt across Android TV, mobile, and web, with follow-up matching and sync fixes. Contributor: @silentbil via #488 and #489.
• Added a configurable episode-rating heatmap to TV and mobile details pages without additional metadata requests. Contributor: @NightCorpse via #469.
• Added compatibility for Nuvio-style JavaScript scraper plugins and redesigned plugin settings for TV and mobile. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #466.
• Preserved legacy catalog-kind fallback behavior so older catalog configurations continue to load.
• Switched AI subtitle translation to Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and improved MDBList integration behavior. Contributor: @silentbil via #489.
• Added rounded launcher icons and Android 13+ themed icon support. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #499.
• Corrected the Spanish translation resources. Contributor: @Aaronnn17 via #497.

Reliability and platform support

• Updated Android targeting to API level 36 while retaining support for older Android and Fire TV devices.
• Improved cancellation propagation, network diagnostics, regex reuse, and exception safety across catalogs, cloud sync, home servers, IPTV, Trakt, analytics, and playback. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #476.
• Fixed sideload production-plugin routing, extractor unloading, mobile routing, and TV focus limits. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #466.
• Fixed analytics compilation and logging consistency introduced by the broader reliability work. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #476.

ARVIO Cloud, security, and accounts

• Centralized web and TV-pairing authentication through auth.arvio.tv for a consistent ARVIO Cloud sign-in flow. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #472.
• Hardened Catalog Pack submissions with URL validation, SSRF protection, rate limiting, and safer manifest handling. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #463.
• Expanded disposable-email blocking for cloud account registration. Contributor: @mvanhorn via #496.
• Fixed web login redirect loops, stale-account profile leakage, signup routing, and login wordmark overlap. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #475.
• Added the ARVIO Web membership and trial flow while keeping the Android APK free.
• Improved linked Ko-fi entitlement refresh and made membership-trial failures report their actual cause.

Web app

• Added one-click external-player support for VLC and compatible players on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, including protocol setup and URL repair.
• Added TV-style D-pad spatial navigation and remote-key handling for browser-based TV platforms.
• Improved Chromium MKV direct play and added a remux watchdog for playback that stalls before video starts.
• Unified web source playability decisions so badges, filters, and Play buttons agree; unsupported sources no longer expose a broken Play action.
• Re-resolved expired debrid links before failing playback and detected Dolby Vision releases that could otherwise produce a black picture.
• Clarified provider-gated IPTV VOD sources and removed duplicated add-on names from their source descriptions.
• Replaced mislabeled TMDB scores with real IMDb ratings on movies, shows, and episodes.
• Aligned Continue Watching with Trakt Up Next, recovered expired Trakt sessions, and clamped invalid next-episode results.
• Added Telegram web integration. Contributor: @silentbil via #478.
• Improved MDBList, watched-state, and web synchronization behavior. Contributor: @silentbil via #488 and #489.
• Fixed home-server catalog titles and retained artwork placeholders for items without images. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #493.
• Fixed overlapping details metadata, genre chips, overview content, hero spacing, and stacked page padding. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #494.
• Refined the responsive settings navigation, sidebar focus, mobile overlay bounds, and active-state styling. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #474.
• Added a dedicated VLC integration section with Linux support and protocol diagnostics. Contributor: @Himanth-reddy via #473.
• Updated the website and README with ARVIO Web and iPad information.

Contributors

• @Himanth-reddy
• @silentbil
• @NightCorpse
• @Aaronnn17
• @mvanhorn

Full commit history: v1.9.982...v1.9.983