OwnTV v3.1.1

v3.1.1 — 2026-06-21

✨ New features

• Near-instant Live TV (two playback engines) — live channels now play on a dedicated ExoPlayer
  engine: the channel-list preview comes up almost instantly as you scroll, and pressing OK promotes
  that same stream straight to full-screen with no reload — so opening a channel and zapping (CH± /
  D-pad) are immediate, especially on HLS/M3U. The robust mpv engine still runs all movies & series
  (4K/HDR direct path, broad stream compatibility) and automatically backs up any live stream ExoPlayer
  can't open. Live PiP/dock works on either engine.
• Import a playlist from a local file — adding an M3U / M3U8 source now has a "Choose a local
  file" button that opens an in-app, TV-friendly file browser, so you can load a .m3u/.m3u8 saved on
  the device (USB drive, Downloads, etc.) instead of a URL. The file is re-read on each refresh. (#24)

🔧 Changes

• EPG is now opt-in — adding a playlist no longer auto-downloads its guide (that could make every
  import slow). Add a guide when you want it via Settings → EPG sources, where the form pre-fills the
  playlist's own guide URL (Xtream xmltv.php / M3U url-tvg) — so it's still one step, just on demand.

🐛 Bug fixes

• Surround sound no longer stutters video — the v3.1.0 Surround passthrough toggle bit-streamed raw
  Dolby/DTS to the TV/receiver, but on some TVs (e.g. Realtek) the passthrough audio path returns no
  timing to the player, which starved the video into a 1–2 fps slideshow on Dolby/DTS titles (most
  noticeable on 4K). The setting is now simply Settings → Surround sound (on by default): OwnTV
  decodes Dolby/DTS to multichannel LPCM (5.1/7.1) over HDMI, so your TV or AV receiver still gets
  surround and the picture stays smooth on the fast 4K/HDR path. Turn it off for a stereo downmix.
  (Raw bitstream passthrough has been removed.)
• M3U live channels that wouldn't play now work — after v3.1.0's faster channel-zapping, some live
  channels from a plain M3U/HLS playlist could hang on a black screen (the trimmed startup probe
  couldn't open those streams), while Xtream live was unaffected. OwnTV now uses the full probe for
  HLS/non-TS live (as it did before), and keeps the fast trimmed probe for direct MPEG-TS (.ts) live
  — so M3U live plays again and TS zapping stays quick.
• 4K channel zapping no longer hangs — switching between 4K channels with the D-pad / CH± in
  full-screen could freeze the picture until you backed out and re-entered. The player now starts each
  4K-class channel on a fresh video surface, so zapping plays cleanly (a TV-decoder quirk on back-to-back
  4K decodes).
• Episodes now appear for every Xtream series — some providers return a series' episode data in a
  different JSON shape, which OwnTV didn't read, so those shows opened with no episodes (they worked in
  other apps). The parser now handles both shapes, so episodes populate. (#23)
• Global search opens the right series — picking a series from the main search now opens that
  show's episode list directly, instead of just jumping to the Series tab.

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v3.1.1