MpvRx v1.5.0-preview.1

1.5.0-preview.1 — Preview Release

📦 MpvLib Update

• Updated mpv library and its dependencies

⚡ Performance & Stability

• Startup optimization: Deferred cold-start DB initialization, grammar pre-load, and auto-update check to cut first-frame time significantly
• Memory leak fixes: Plugged 5 memory leaks across PlayerActivity (screen-state receiver), PlayerViewModel (LRU caches, temp subtitle cleanup), MediaPlaybackService (bitmap leak), MainActivity (unused scope), and NetworkLifecycleObserver (uncancelled coroutine)
• UI smoothness: Optimized seekbar spring animation, precomputed skip-segment colors, memoized immutable copies in PlayerControls, hoisted per-card preference collectors
• Player crash fix: Resolved a crash in PlayerActivity during stream initialization
• Streaming optimizations: Load network streams on Dispatchers.IO instead of Default to reduce CPU pool contention

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Dynamic Grids: Added responsive grid layouts — auto-adjusts column count based on screen width across FileSystemBrowser, FolderList, VideoList, Playlist, and RecentlyPlayed screens
• Centered controls: Play/pause and navigation buttons now center in portrait mode
• Haptic feedback: Sort dialog sliders now provide haptic ticks on snap
• Slider layout: Column sliders placed side-by-side for better space usage
• Theme refresh: Boosted container saturation and surface tints across all themes (light/dark) for vivid, non-washed-out appearance
• Subtitle sheet redesign: Inline SeriesSelectionControls directly in the OnlineSubtitleSearchSheet search row
• Compressor back-press fix: Video compressor overlay now handles system back press correctly

🎥 Player & Streaming

• HLS/DASH streaming fix: Direct media URLs (.m3u8/.mpd/.mp4/.ts) now bypass yt-dlp and use mpv's native ffmpeg HLS demuxer — these streams previously failed in yt-dlp's generic extractor
• yt-dlp audio selection: New audio track selector in the yt-dlp panel; preferred languages sanitization for better auto-selection
• Collapsible advanced settings: YtdlpSettingsScreen now organizes advanced options under collapsible sections
• Console option: Added Console toggle in MoreSheet stats rows — opens the mpv debug console via script-message
• Subtitle hitbox fixes: Dynamic hitbox detection for multi-line wrapped text; fixed hitbox under zoom/pan; lowered minimum subtitle scale limit
• Subtitle loading fix: Fixed subtitle loading and player overlay issues with IntentSubtitleLoadPolicy and M3uPlaybackPolicy
• Negative brightness: Added negative brightness range support in vertical sliders
• Streaming overlays: Fixed streaming playback overlays and thumbnail rendering

🔍 Anime Skip Provider

• New Anime Skip provider (api.anime-skip.com GraphQL) for intro/ending detection — searches via MAL ID, pairs consecutive timestamps
• Removed dead db.videasy.net TMDB mirror (providers now skip IMDB resolution without it)
• Cleaned up WyzieSearchRepository: removed fallback mirror logic and dead VideasyTmdbTrendingResponse

📁 Media Search Engine

• New MediaSearchEngine: Dedicated search engine for searching files/folders with optimized indexing
• FolderListScreen integration: Search across folders and videos using the new engine with VideoFolder references
• Multiple refactors: Cleaned up search logic, improved readability, and added Kotlin smart-casting clarifications

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed mpv console ytdl_hook warnings (removed invalid 'all_subtitles' option)
• Fixed video-aspect-override deprecation warnings
• Resolved player crash during stream playback
• Fixed subtitle swipe gesture hitbox
• Fixed dynamic grid rendering edge cases

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What's Changed

• Refactored Search Functionality by @hamzamusht550 in #154
• ui: center player controls, fix subtitle hitbox under zoom/pan, and lower min subtitle scale limit by @Arnab11 in #159
• perf(startup): defer cold-start work to cut first-frame time by @jonymonejony in #160
• fix: sync script-modules/ to internal storage for Lua require() support

Full Changelog: v1.4.1-final...v1.5.0-preview.1