Android.v3.0.0

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Android.v2.1.4

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PotFlix Desktop v2.0.0 (Windows & Linux)

🍿 PotFlix Desktop v2.0.0 (Windows & Linux)

PotFlix Desktop v2.0.0 is a milestone release marking the transition from a basic VLC stream launcher into a modern, fully-featured standalone streaming application. This release introduces a built-in native player, a comprehensive subtitle suite, automated binge-watching with TheIntroDB, cross-device cloud synchronization, and multi-platform distribution.

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🚀 Major Highlights

🎬 Native Custom Player & VLC Hybrid Engine

• Built-in HTML5/HLS Player: Stream media directly inside PotFlix with custom controls, seekbar, buffer visualization, volume gestures, and keyboard shortcuts.
• VLC Direct Streaming Fallback: Retain the ability to launch external VLC Media Player with one click for specialized high-bitrate 4K media.

💬 Advanced Subtitle Subsystem

• Companion Server Auto-Discovery: Automatically queries FTP directories and CDN endpoints for companion .srt, .vtt, and .ass subtitle files.
• Precision Timing Sync: Live offset stepper controls (-0.5s, +0.5s, Reset) to eliminate audio/subtitle sync drift in real time.
• Font Scaling & Presentation: Customizable text sizing presets (Small, Normal, Large, Huge) with contrast background pills for optimal readability across any monitor.
• Local File Picker: Drag-and-drop or load external subtitle files directly from disk with automatic character encoding detection (UTF-8, Windows-1252, Latin-1).
• Available Tracks Manager: Multi-track switching interface with provenance badges (AUTO, SRT, LOCAL, EMBED).

⚡ Automated Binge-Watching & TheIntroDB

• Smart Intro & Outro Skipping: Integrated with TheIntroDB API to detect episode opening and closing sequences, offering instant skip prompts.
• Seamless Next-Episode Transition: Automatically queues consecutive episodes in a season with an on-screen countdown and transition prompt.

☁️ Cloud Sync & Smart Watchlist

• Firebase Synchronization: Sync your watchlist and playback history across Android and Desktop, with zero-login Guest Mode support.
• Strict Media Categorization: Advanced heuristic classifier (isTvMedia) cleanly segregates TV shows and multi-season anime from standalone films in your library.

🎯 Enhanced TMDB Metadata & Trailers

• Exact-Year Matching Engine: Resolved title collisions between regional releases and classic titles by strictly anchoring queries against TMDB release years.
• In-Modal YouTube Trailers: Instant 16:9 trailer playback embedded directly within the title details sheet.

📦 Distribution & Brand Identity

• Refreshed Visual Identity: High-resolution vector brand assets integrated across the main application window, taskbar, desktop shortcuts, and installers.
• Cross-Platform Installers:
  • Windows: NSIS Setup Installer with shortcut generation + Zero-install Portable standalone executable.
  • Linux: Pre-packaged .tar.gz and .zip distributions compatible with major x64 Linux distributions.

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📥 Downloads

Platform	Format	Architecture	Size	Direct Link
Windows	Setup Installer (.exe)	x64	~97 MB	Download Setup
Windows	Portable Executable (.exe)	x64	~97 MB	Download Portable
Linux	Compressed Tarball (.tar.gz)	x64	~120 MB	Download .tar.gz
Linux	Zip Package (.zip)	x64	~120 MB	Download .zip

For direct VLC streaming fallback, ensure VLC Media Player is installed on your operating system.

Android.v2.1.2

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Android.v2.1.1

🚀 PotFlix v2.0.0 - The Mega Update!

Welcome to PotFlix v2.0.0! This is one of our biggest updates yet, completely overhauling how the app handles data in the background to bring you a much faster, richer, and more reliable movie-watching experience.

✨ What's New

• In-App Updates: You never have to manually check GitHub again! Head over to the Settings page and tap "Check for Updates" to seamlessly download new versions of PotFlix directly inside the app.
• Background Downloads: We've introduced a brand-new, dedicated DownloadService. Your movie downloads will now continue reliably in the background, even if you minimize the app!
• Automated Catalog Syncing: Say goodbye to long loading screens. A new intelligent SyncWorker now runs quietly in the background to keep your movie catalog fresh and up-to-date automatically.

🛠️ Under The Hood Improvements

• Massive Database Overhaul: We've completely redesigned our internal SQLite database (adding full support for Genres and advanced Video entities) to make searching and browsing significantly faster.
• Pre-Packaged Catalog: The app now ships with a massive, pre-populated offline database (movies.db) for instant access the second you open it!
• Enhanced Scraper & TMDB Integration: Upgraded our internal FTP crawlers and TMDB API connections to pull richer metadata, higher quality posters, and more accurate movie descriptions.

📥 Installation Instructions

Download the app-release.apk file attached below.
If prompted by Google Play Protect, click More details -> Install anyway.
Enjoy the show! 🍿

Android.v1.0.0

📱 PotFlix Mobile v1.0.0 (Initial Release)

PotFlix officially goes mobile! Take your local media server anywhere around the house with a beautifully crafted Android experience.

📥 Installation

1. Under Assets below, download PotFlix-v1.0.0.apk.
2. Transfer it to your Android device, install, and start streaming!

PotFlix Streamer v2.0

🎬 PotFlix Streamer v2.0.0

PotFlix Streamer officially enters version 2.0.0 with a brand-new, polished UI and vastly improved features for local FTP movie streaming.

✨ What’s New in This Release:**

🔥 Native YouTube Trailers: A seamless new "Watch Trailer" button now appears in the movie details popup. It automatically fetches official TMDB trailers and plays them beautifully right inside the app using a sleek 16:9 cinematic dark overlay.

🧠 Smart Search Deduplication: Previously, searching would pull multiple identical posters if a movie had multiple qualities (e.g., both a 720p and 1080p folder). The backend search index now intelligently merges identical movies, automatically presenting the highest-available video quality.

🎯 Exact-Year Metadata Matching: Fixed a bug where massive Hollywood classics (like The Godfather 1972) would forcibly overwrite the metadata of contemporary regional releases (like the Indian GodFather 2022). The TMDB search algorithm now utilizes strict release-year mapping to guarantee exact metadata matches.

🖥️ UI & Layout Polish: Resolved visual overlapping and padding bugs. The Browse, Search, and Category views are now cleanly pushed beneath the transparent navigation bar on all pages. Included the "♥ By Reduan" portfolio credit directly inside the app navbar!

⚡ Blazing Fast Background Caching: Rebuilt the startup logic to write indexing to disk (search_cache.json). The app boots dramatically faster by loading local data and completely bypasses heavy FTP fetches until data hits a 12-hour timeout.

📥 Installation

• Under Assets below, download PotFlix Setup 2.0.0.exe.

• Run the installer and stream straight to VLC Media Player!