OwnTV v4.1.5

✨ New features

• 💬 Subtitle appearance — size, colour, position and background, each optional (#96)
• 📶 Prefer HLS for Live TV — per source, with format auto-detection (community PR #97 by @codeVerine)
• 🆕 Date added — sort Movies and Series by what arrived most recently (community PR #94 by @cotol1985)
• ↕️ Series sorting — season and episode order, set per show (community PR #94 by @cotol1985)
• 📺 Channel numbers — type a number on the remote to tune in Live TV
• 💾 A proper backup file — .own, with your wallpaper inside and real encryption
• 🗂️ Browsing & lists — decide what Live TV, Movies and Series come back to
• 🌍 Metadata language — descriptions and posters in your language
• 🎞️ Auto frame rate — match the TV's refresh rate to the video
• 🖼️ Guide channel logos — take logos from your XMLTV feed
• ↕️ Span move — reorder a whole block of categories at once
• 📺 Live TV full screen — redesigned top bar, and a History channel list
• 🗂️ Category browser in the player — switch Live TV category without leaving full screen (community PR #95 by @cotol1985)
• 📼 Catch-up from Live TV, and catch-up in the player of your choice
• ▶️ External player — Live TV support, and a default per section
• 🛡️ Database recovery screen — Try again or reset, instead of silent data loss
• 🔁 Resync now vs Resync and remove missing titles
• ⬇️ Downloads keep running in the background, with a notification
• 🚀 Faster cold start with a branded splash screen
• ⚡ Fast from the first launch after install, not after a few days

🐛 Fixes

• Switching category kept the previous category's scroll position
• The + / − buttons became unreachable once a setting hit its maximum (#88)
• Choosing ExoPlayer for a channel that had fallen back to mpv did not stick
• Auto frame rate did nothing on Android 10 and older devices (Fire OS 7)
• A schema problem could wipe your whole library
• A half-finished sync could delete your catalog
• A provider reorder rewrote the entire catalog
• Manual ordering was lost after a re-sync
• Interrupted restores and unreadable backups were silent
• Live TV gave up after a single hiccup, and stopped retrying too early
• Live TV did not resume by itself after a network outage
• Raw MPEG-TS channels dropped the connection every 10–15 seconds
• 4K channels fell back to compatibility mode when tuning from one to the next
• Audio-only content showed a false playback error
• Compatibility mode and the engine choice did not stick on Stalker portals
• Short clips were marked watched at position 0
• New episodes never appeared in a series you had already opened
• A truncated guide download was trusted for 24 hours
• Channels added during a guide sync never got programmes
• Paused downloads re-downloaded data they already had
• A removed USB/SD card made a download continue into internal storage
• Subtitle timing offset froze the interface
• Stalker portals with a "virtual" MAC were rejected at setup
• Picking a new background image did nothing until the app was restarted
• The full-screen ◀ channel list showed the wrong channels
• Live channels reported "no external player found" with VLC and MX installed
• Switching engine during a catch-up recording jumped to the live programme
• "Failed on both engines" on items that played fine on the next try
• A live channel opened from the Guide did not appear in History
• Live preview played sound on surround channels with preview audio off
• The Preview audio setting did not apply to a preview already playing
• Resolution badge under-reported wide-format streams (1920×800 read as 720p)
• CH+ and D-pad Up went to the previous channel instead of the next in full screen (#84)