OwnTV v4.1.0

v4.1.0 — 2026-07-11

✨ New features

• Playback error log in Settings. The last ~10 playback failures are now kept on the device —
  each with its plain-English reason, the stream's codec/resolution spec, the raw engine error, the
  engine (mpv/ExoPlayer), Live/VOD, and your device model/Android version. Open Settings →
  Playback → Playback error log to read (or clear) them, so you can report exactly what happened
  even after dismissing the error screen or restarting the app — no adb/logcat needed.
• Custom TMDB names are now in Backup & Restore. Titles/years you hand-corrected via long-press →
  Custom TMDB name (for providers with weird item names) now ride in the backup's Customizations
  section and are merged back on restore — any stale cached match for a restored key is dropped so the
  corrected name re-fetches. Two more backup upgrades ride along: your own TMDB API key is now
  included when (and only when) the backup is password-encrypted (same policy as source/proxy
  passwords), and recent searches are backed up with settings. Older backup files still restore
  fine; older app versions simply ignore the new blocks.
• Wider interface zoom range. Settings → Interface zoom now goes from 50% to 150%
  (previously 65%–140%), for tighter grids on big screens or larger UI on small/far ones. The
  existing low-memory warning below 85% still applies.

⚡ Performance & reliability

• Smaller app, faster cold start (R8). Release builds are now shrunk and optimized by R8 —
  dead code is stripped and the remaining code is optimized, so there's less to load on
  low-end TV boxes. Baseline profiles bundled by the UI/player libraries are now actually
  installed on sideloaded installs (via ProfileInstaller), pre-compiling the hot startup and
  scrolling paths instead of leaving them to the JIT on first run.
• Faster playlist import on huge playlists. The M3U parser now extracts all #EXTINF attributes
  in a single scan of each line (previously ~10 separate searches per channel), and the detailed
  per-item timing instrumentation in both the M3U and Xtream parsers is now off unless explicitly
  enabled for debugging (setprop log.tag.M3uParser DEBUG / log.tag.XtreamClient DEBUG) — removing
  millions of clock syscalls from a 100k+ item sync. The single-scan parser also fixes a subtle
  mis-parse where a key could match inside a longer key (e.g. type inside tvg-type="…").
• Scheduled syncs now retry after network blips. A playlist or EPG auto-refresh that failed on a
  transient error (offline, timeout, connection reset, server 5xx) previously gave up until the next
  scheduled window, leaving content stale. Both sync workers now ask WorkManager to retry with backoff
  (up to 3 attempts); permanent errors (bad credentials/URL, malformed data) still fail immediately.
  Xtream category-list fetches also get up to 3 HTTP attempts, and server 5xx/429 responses are retried
  safely (only when no data was consumed yet).
• Player stability hardening. The stream-info chips (fps / audio layout) no longer read libmpv
  properties on the UI thread — on a stalling stream those reads can block for seconds and caused
  potential freezes/ANRs. Queued freeze-frame callbacks are now cleared when the player is released, so
  they can never fire against a destroyed surface.
• More accurate playback error diagnosis. The plain-English error mapper no longer mis-labels
  errors whose stream URL merely contains digits like 509/403 as HTTP provider errors, and a
  spurious "out of memory" match on any -12 substring is fixed. The background codec-error log tail
  now restarts itself if the system kills it, so error details keep working for the whole session.
• Much faster global search on huge catalogs. Search-as-you-type now uses the full-text index
  instead of scanning every movie/series/channel name per keystroke — on a 170k-movie catalog each
  keystroke was a full table scan. Matching is now by word prefix ("harry pot" finds
  "Harry Potter…"); folder-scoped search keeps the old substring behaviour.
• Big folders page faster. Folders where you never used Move (manual reorder) now use the
  plain indexed query instead of the reorder-aware join that re-sorted the whole folder on every
  page turn. Folders with manual positions behave exactly as before.
• Smoother UI during large syncs. The live item-count badges (Live/Movies/Series and the EPG
  programme count) now refresh at most once per second during a bulk import instead of re-counting
  the whole table after every committed batch.
• Posters and channel logos are cached on disk. Artwork now survives app restarts (capped at
  250 MB) instead of re-downloading every session, loads offline once seen, and opaque poster
  bitmaps use half the memory.
• Faster, safer backup restore. Restoring thousands of favorites/history/resume records used to
  run one database transaction per record; they're now batched (500 per transaction). The
  profiles-and-sources restore is atomic: a crash mid-restore can no longer leave a half-restored
  database.
• Faster first launch when upgrading from v3.2.0 or older. The one-time database migration no
  longer de-duplicates the (huge) cached TV guide row-by-row — it clears the rebuildable guide cache
  instead, so the first launch after a big version jump is instant. The guide re-downloads on your
  next EPG sync. (Upgrades from any 4.x version are unaffected.)
• Less UI work while browsing. The most-passed-around UI models (channels, movies, series,
  home-screen state, EPG now/next, search results, weather, details panes) are now marked immutable
  for Compose, so screens can skip re-rendering unchanged parts instead of redrawing whole subtrees
  on every state tick.
• TMDB caches no longer grow forever. Metadata cached for items you haven't opened in 90 days is
  cleaned up after each playlist sync and simply re-fetches if you come back to them.

🐛 Fixes

• Dialogs no longer get cut off on small screens. On low-resolution/overscanned TVs, tall popup
  dialogs (New profile, context menus, Settings dialogs, catch-up & EPG-match pickers, the setup
  wizard, and more) could extend past the screen with no way to reach the lower buttons — profile
  creation could not be completed at all. Every popup is now scrollable (D-pad focus scrolls
  off-screen controls into view) and list pickers cap their height to the screen.

• Grids keep your place through background refreshes. The Movies/Series/Live lists and grids now
  track items by identity instead of position, so a background re-sync or list update no longer
  scrambles D-pad focus or recomposes every visible poster.

• A–Z sorting now applies to categories too. The sort chip in Live TV, Movies and Series only
  reordered the items inside a folder — the category rail itself always stayed in provider order.
  Switching the chip to A–Z now also sorts the category folders alphabetically (by their displayed
  name, so renamed categories sort under their custom name), and the TV Guide's category picker follows
  the Live TV setting the same way. Categories you manually reordered in Settings → Customize
  stay pinned at the top in your custom order in every mode; the rest sort below them. Provider
  (and Rating) modes keep the playlist order exactly as before. The fixed rail entries (All,
  Favourites, Recent…) never move.

🔧 Under the hood

• CI dev builds are now release builds. Every push now produces a release-signed, R8-shrunk
  OwnTV-dev-<sha>.apk artifact (previously debug), versioned 99.99.99 so it installs straight
  over any published release for testing. Publishing a GitHub Release still only happens on v*
  tags. Fork PRs (no signing secrets) still build debug.
• Player timing constants named. The ~15 bare delay() literals in the playback engine
  (decoder-release waits on mpv↔ExoPlayer handoffs, live-reconnect pause, surround/decode
  verification windows, retry beats) are now named companion constants documented in one place —
  no behavior change.
• Dependency updates. Koin 4.1.1 → 4.2.2, Coil 3.3.0 → 3.5.0, WorkManager 2.10.0 → 2.11.2.
  (core-ktx/lifecycle/Compose BOM stay put — their latest versions require compileSdk 37; OkHttp 5
  is deferred as its own change.)
• Sync engine de-duplicated. The three near-identical Xtream phase implementations
  (Live/Movies/Series: fresh-vs-stable upsert, per-category 512 fallback, prune) are now one generic
  phase parameterized per content type, so future fixes to the sync logic land once instead of three
  times. Behavior-identical; the category refresh also drops a redundant second database lookup.
• Media3 (ExoPlayer) bumped 1.10.0 → 1.10.1. ExoPlayer drives the image-subtitle (PGS/VOBSUB/DVB)
  handoff and the VOD mpv→Exo fallback, so this patch release lands fixes directly on those paths:
  a crash when recovering from decoder errors with renderer prewarming (the fallback triggers this),
  an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException during HLS stream fallback when the active track set is a subset
  of the manifest (#3161), and HLS init segments not carrying over across playlist updates when
  #EXT-X-MAP isn't repeated (#3105). It also stops needless MediaCodec resets at frame-rate changes on
  API < 30. libmpv is unchanged at 1.0.0 (still the latest).

Full Changelog: v4.0.3...v4.1.0