mpvRx v2.0.0

2.0.0 — Major Release

🎵 Music Player & Audio Experience

• Dedicated Music & Audio Player Interface: Built a full-fledged audio player UI with responsive portrait/landscape layouts, dynamic theme backgrounds, transparent visualizers, cover art polish, and real-time metadata display.
• Tablet Landscape Dual-Pane Music Player: New tablet-optimized two-pane music player layout with smooth drag-and-drop playlist reordering.
• Interactive Audio Visualizers:
  • 3D Cuboid Warptunnel Visualizer: Ported native Compose Canvas 3D tunnel visualizer featuring dynamic tunnel radius, touch-steering controls, 3D rotation gestures, pinch-zoom, screen-filling scale, dynamic theme palettes, and interactive reactivity.
  • OpenGL Blob & Galaxy Visualizers: High-rate spectrum capture, FFT audio-capture energy processing, tuned frequency envelopes, frame-time-aware interpolation, and responsive beat decay for smooth, jump-free rendering.
  • PCM-based Visualizer Pipeline: New per-bin FFT texture pipeline for enhanced audio spectrum analysis with dual waveform/FFT capture.
• Separate Background Playback Controls: Introduced independent background playback settings for audio vs. video media with notification permission prompts, system brightness restriction to valid ranges, and automatic service cleanup.
• Smarter Media Notifications: Audio notifications now strip file extensions from track titles and fall back to embedded album art when MPV reports no thumbnail.
• Uninterrupted Background Music: Swiping back during audio playback keeps the song playing, the playback service stays alive when reopening the player from a notification, and toggling the background playback setting off no longer pauses active music.
• Equalizer & Audio Filters: Added a built-in equalizer with debounced MPV audio filter updates for smooth slider movement, A-B looping, and persistent pitch correction controls.
• Audio Playlist Management: Added drag-and-drop playlist item reordering, M3U/IPTV tvg-logo thumbnail fallbacks, square 1:1 artwork cards, and automatic sibling audio file list population.
• Audio Player Orientation & Controls: Added configurable audio player orientation settings, centered play/pause controls in portrait mode, and dedicated audio background playback toggle.
• Audio Mode UI Fixes: System bars no longer flicker when opening sheets in audio mode, and seekbar timer colors adapt to the active theme.

📺 Google Cast & Remote Controls

• Native Cast Integration: Added stateful Google Cast buttons to both portrait and landscape player control bars with layout migration support for existing configurations.
• Local & Remote Media Handoff: Casts remote HTTP(S) streams directly, while local file:// and content:// media are served over a secure, tokenized local HTTP server with byte-range seeking and CORS support.
• Remote Cast Controller: Full-featured remote control dialog supporting play/pause, volume adjustment, seeking, playback speed selection, and media track switching.
• Playback Continuity: Seamlessly synchronizes title, play state, duration, and position when transferring playback between local device and Cast receivers, restoring state on disconnect.
• Graceful Cast Degradation: The player stays fully functional when the Google Cast module is unavailable on a device.

⚡ Performance & Video Player Polish

• GPU View Transformations: Implemented hardware-accelerated GPU view transformations for ultra-smooth video panning and zoom.
• Refined Touch Gestures: Restricted video pan gestures to two-finger operations to prevent accidental screen shifts while scrubbing or adjusting volume/brightness. Decoupled video and subtitle gesture toggles.
• Snap-to-Preset Hold-Speed: Hold-speed gesture now snaps to fixed presets (0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 2.5x, 3x, 3.5x, 4x) displayed as a clean text pill, replacing the old overlay slider.
• Native Ported Thumbnail Pipeline: Integrated fast native video thumbnail extraction pipeline (ported from mpvRex) for instant seekbar scrubbing previews and refreshed visible thumbnail updates.
• YouTube-Style Ambient Lighting: Added ambient background mode that dynamically projects matching video color highlights around the player.
• Display Refresh Rate Auto-Matching: Automatically adjusts the display refresh rate to match video source frame rates for smooth, tear-free video output.
• Anime4K & Vulkan Upscaling: Added standalone Anime4K Ultra upscaling mode with gpu-next Vulkan requirement checks and optimized baseline profiles.
• HDR Mode Hardening: HDR modes are now properly gated by renderer support (GPU Next + Vulkan), colors are restored correctly when HDR is disabled, and your last selected HDR mode is remembered between sessions.
• Linear HDR Restored: Reverted Linear HDR to use mpv-native pipeline without hdr-toys shaders, fixing brightness issues on supported devices.
• Robust Player Sessions: Added an mpv session coordinator that reliably tears down and recovers sessions (no ghost players after crashes), sanitizes the mpv config, and collects player diagnostics.
• Negative Brightness Control: Support for negative brightness adjustment to dim the display below system default minimums.
• Instant Video Launch & Startup Optimization: Offloaded file loading to Dispatchers.Default to eliminate UI thread blocking. Deferred cold-start DB init, grammar pre-load, and auto-update checks to cut first-frame time significantly.
• Screenshot Timestamps & Templates: Re-worked screenshot templates (%F, %P, %p, %wH, %wM, %wS, %wT) to use exact video playback position instead of wall-clock time.
• Audio Decoder Fallback: Added audio decoder check and fallback for unsupported audio codecs in compressor.

📱 UI & Modern Tablet Dual-Pane Design

• Telegram-Style Floating Pill Navbar: Redesigned bottom navigation bar with a modern floating pill design, smooth sliding indicator animations, and gesture-synced pill motion that follows finger swipes across tabs.
• Horizontal Pager Tab Navigation: Implemented swipeable horizontal pager transitions across main navigation tabs (MainScreen).
• Tablet & Foldable Dual-Pane Layouts: Full dual-pane interface support for Folder List, File System Browser, and Settings screens with active folder card highlights and animated navigation pills.
• Dynamic Grid & Column Layouts: Independent grid/list view toggles for folders and video lists with custom column counts, side-by-side column sliders, and haptic feedback ticks on snap.
• Quick Play FAB & Direct Play Toggle: Added Quick Play Floating Action Button (FAB) with action menu (Open File, Recently Played, Open Link) and a new Direct Quick Play setting to immediately launch recent media without showing the menu.
• Tree View Path Compression: Configurable single-child folder flattening (Off, 1–5, Unlimited) applied per navigation step.
• FAB Alignment & Exit Animations: Aligned FAB Y-positions across Home, Recents, and File System screens, and preserved floating action bar buttons during exit animations.
• Navbar & Toolbar Polish: Fixed floating navbar bottom inset padding, added a smooth animated selection toolbar, and fixed the bottom navbar hiding in the audio library.
• Unified Blur Theme Transitions: Consistent blur-based theme transitions throughout the app.
• Rounded Material Symbol Icons: All app icons unified onto rounded Material Symbols with a cleaner icon pipeline.
• Header Theme Toggle: Single tap on app name/screen title now toggles dark/light theme with circular reveal animation (always enabled).

🌐 Syncplay & Network Streaming

• Synchronized Room Playback: Complete Syncplay client implementation featuring server connections, room creation/joining, MD5 password authentication, latency compensation, protocol version handshakes, and user list sync with background reconnection fixes.
• Native HLS/DASH Streaming: Direct media URLs (.m3u8, .mpd, .mp4, .ts) bypass yt-dlp to use MPV's native ffmpeg demuxers for faster, crash-free playback.
• Expanded Protocol Support: Added native stream detection and intent filter handling for gopher://, sctp://, data://, and MIME-only external player intents.
• WebDAV Connectivity Enhancements: Depth-zero PROPFIND connection checks for compatibility with servers like FileBrowser Quantum, with consistent trailing slash handling.
• yt-dlp Audio Quality Selection: Preferred audio stream quality selector (Auto, 64, 128, 192, 256 kbps) for network media links.
• Lua Script Module Syncing: Automatically syncs script-modules/ to internal storage so Lua require() calls locate custom MPV modules.

🤖 AI Providers & Smart Tools

• Multi-Provider AI Engine: Integrated support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, OpenRouter, Together AI, and OpenCode.
• Resilient AI Parsing: Added reasoning-block stripping, fallback JSON parsers, and provider-specific model memory for smart file renaming and subtitle cleanup.

🔍 Subtitle System & Search

• Real-Time Subtitle Merging: Online subtitle search results from SubHub and Wyzie stream in live as requests complete.
• Anime Skip Integration: Added Anime Skip provider integration (GraphQL api.anime-skip.com) for intro/ending detection, and removed obsolete TMDB mirror.
• Hitbox & Gesture Adjustments: Dynamic multi-line wrapped text hitbox calculations under zoom/pan, option to invert swipe subtitle gesture direction, and automatic secondary subtitle position offset using primary hitbox to prevent overlap.
• Subtitle Track Roles: Subtitle track sheet now displays track roles (primary/secondary) for multi-role subtitle tracks.
• Stream Subtitle Fix: Subtitles load reliably on network streams without breaking background playback.
• Korean Subtitle Fix: Fixed broken Korean Jamo rendering using NFC Unicode normalization.
• Subtitle Persistence & Search Keyboard Fix: Subtitles persist across sessions reliably (addSubtitleSuspend), and soft keyboard no longer covers the subtitle search dialog (adjustResize).

⚙️ Settings, Lifecycle, i18n & Binary Footprint

• Dedicated MediaSearchEngine: High-performance search engine indexing files and folders with VideoFolder references.
• Incremental Folder Scanning: Hidden folder scanning is now incremental and DB-backed, so revisiting large libraries is dramatically faster.
• Settings Search & Suggestions: Dynamic reflection-based settings search with query history and real-time suggestions.
• App Language Preference: Added per-app language selection independent of system language settings.
• Redesigned Permission Setup: Storage permission page redesigned with separate File & Notification sections and a guided Next-button flow, now responsive across screen sizes.
• mpv Config Validation: The config editor validates mpv.conf before saving and properly closes editor streams to avoid file lockups.
• Folder Deletion Behavior: Media-only deletion mode by default (removes video/audio files while protecting documents/images) with full recursive deletion toggle in settings.
• Unified Background Playback Lifecycle: Streamlined PiP transitions, screen lock/unlock handling, and task removal behavior for Android 15/16.
• Android 16 Compatibility: Native libmpv subprocess handling updated for Android 16, with a cache-safe, coordinated MPV teardown process.
• Binary Footprint Optimization: Removed ~50 MB of unused libpython_bin.so binaries across all CPU architectures.
• Toast Notifications for Blocked Audio: Displays helpful toast alerts when background playback is restricted by notification settings.
• Memory Leak & Crash Fixes: Plugged 5 memory leaks across player activity, main activity, and background services, and fixed audio player back navigation crashes.
• Full Multi-Language Localization: Complete string key synchronization and translations across English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese.
• Code Cleanup: Removed dead code, extracted shared utilities, DRY/SOLID cleanup across codebase.

🔒 Secure Folder

• PIN Gate & Grid Screen: Secure Folder now requires PIN authentication before access, with a grid view of secured media.
• Biometric Authentication: Added fingerprint and face unlock support for quick access (when device supports BIOMETRIC_STRONG).
• Layout Mode: Enabled List/Grid layout toggle in Secure Folder sort options.
• Back Button Behavior: Pressing back in selection mode now deselects all items first before navigating back.
• Hide Entry Point: Option to hide Secure Folder from preferences (still accessible via title double-tap).
• Don't Ask Again Flags: Added "don't ask again" options for move, restore, delete, and hide entry point confirmations.
• Tablet Responsiveness: Improved Secure Folder UI for tablet and foldable devices.

🏷️ Branding, Licensing & Cleanup

• App Rename: The app is now branded mpvRx (renamed from "MpvRx") across UI, docs, and metadata.
• New License: Relicensed to CC BY-NC 4.0 with license headers applied across the codebase.
• Acknowledgements: Added credit for MpvRex and Pixel Player (UI and thumbnail pipeline inspiration) and AFinity.
• Code Quality: Added ktlint formatting enforcement and fixed AAPT resource and Kotlin compiler warnings.

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What's Changed

• feat(browser): add independent list/grid layout option for folder view by @Arnab11 in #233
• fix: list/grid switching in media library by @Arnab11 in #236
• perf(player): use GPU view transformations for smooth video zoom and pan by @Arnab11 in #242
• fix(player): decouple video and subtitle gesture toggles by @Arnab11 in #243
• Telegram-style floating pill navbar and align floating action button position by @Arnab11 in #244
• feat(audio-player): redesign music player UI inspired by AFinity by @Arnab11 in #250
• improvements in music player by @Arnab11 in #251
• Music player improvements by @Arnab11 in #252
• Added background playback option, Audio player orientation, increased blob size and localisations by @Arnab11 in #259
• fix(ui): fix navbar bottom inset padding and smooth selection toolbar animation by @Arnab11 in #260
• Multiple fixes by @Arnab11 in #267
• feat(ui): redesign permission setup page with File & Notification sections and Next button by @Arnab11 in #269
• Improvements in music player by @Arnab11 in #270
• add gesture-synced bottom navbar pill animation by @Arnab11 in #271
• long press visualiser options, record audio permission, removed duplicate video background playback by @Arnab11 in #274
• feat: add Secure Folder with PIN protection by @Utsavrajputt in #275
• feat(securefolder): enhance layout options, top bar styling, and tablet responsiveness by @Arnab11 in #276
• refactor(ui): remove copy button from selection top bar by @Arnab11 in #277
• refactor(securefolder): clean up by @Arnab11 in #278

New Contributors

• @Utsavrajputt made their first contribution in #275

Full Changelog: v1.4.0...v2.0.0