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@mamaclapper mamaclapper released this 15 Jun 21:11
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VortX (0.3.5)

StremioX is now VortX. This release puts on the new name, a new gold-on-obsidian icon, and an animated VortX intro, and it adds Backup & Restore so your settings can travel with you. It is an in-place update: your library, add-ons, history, and settings stay exactly as they are. A handful of player and Apple TV fixes ride along too, including a smarter best-stream picker.

Added

  • The app is now VortX. A new name, a new gold-on-obsidian app icon, and an animated VortX launch screen on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Same app and same account underneath, so nothing resets.
  • Backup & Restore on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. In Settings you can save your profiles, theme, and playback preferences to a file and restore them later. Built for the road ahead: your library and watch history always return when you sign in, and this carries your local settings across too. On Apple TV a scan-with-your-phone backup is on the way; for now signing in restores your library there.

Fixed

  • The Apple TV "Up Next" prompt shows reliably at the end of an episode. It now takes the corner the moment the credits begin, in place of the old Skip Credits button, and the buttons no longer wrap or look uneven.
  • Best stream is smarter: a true remux now beats a merely bigger file. The picker ranks source type (remux over Blu-ray over web) and HDR/Dolby Vision and audio above raw file size, with size only breaking ties.
  • The Apple TV "All sources" list scrolls all the way down again even when the first entry is a non-playable one (like a Ratings add-on).
  • The Apple TV top menu bar comes back reliably after returning from the Home screen or switching profiles.
  • Search suggestions on Apple TV interleave movies and series instead of burying all the series behind the movies. Contributed by OrigamiSpace.
  • The streaming server holds up better under load thanks to a larger background worker pool.

What is next

VortX in full: the rest of the rebrand, plus native debrid, a richer Home, in-app add-on install, and more.

Install

Mac (.dmg, easiest, never expires). Download VortX-macOS-v0.3.5-ci.dmg, drag VortX into Applications, then clear Apple's one-time quarantine: open it once, click Done, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/VortX.app). Full guide: Install on Mac.

iPhone, iPad, Apple TV (sideload the IPA). The IPAs are unsigned, because VortX is open-source and distributed outside the App Store with no Apple Developer ID yet, so you re-sign them yourself with Sideloadly, AltStore / SideStore, or Signulous. No jailbreak. Full guide: Installing on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.

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