OwnTV v5.2.0

✨ New features

• 🏆 Sports: a new section with live scores, today's and tomorrow's matches, and match pages
• 🔎 Find channels: the channels in your guide that show a match, ranked, with a preview
• 📺 Broadcasts tab, venue and round on every match page
• 🏷️ Pick several sports and leagues at once on the Sports page
• ↕️ Hold OK to put your sports and leagues in your own order
• 🏠 Sports row on Home with a LIVE mark
• ⚙️ Settings → Sports: leagues, auto rebuild, live refresh, playlist and strict channel filters
• ↩️ Restore a category, or the playlists shown, to the playlist default (community PR #235 by @tvdev-android)
• 🔄 "Stream interrupted. Reconnecting…" while a live channel recovers (community PR #237 by @tvdev-android)
• 🖼️ Title art in Home's trending banner
• 📊 Progress bars on series posters
• ⏩ Page jumps in the channel list while watching (CH+/CH−, long press for first/last)
• 🎞️ Guide video preview on/off switch (Order ▾ › Show)
• 🎨 The player's channel list, history and categories in the Stage design
• ⭐ Favorites, Recently watched, Catch-up and All channels in the player's category list
• ⭐ Favourite movies and series rows on Home
• 🔎 Search finds TV programmes by title (On TV)
• ⏰ Schedule recording… on a channel: pick the day, start and end (#2)
• ⏹️ Stop recording from the channel's menu
• ☀️ Light theme across the whole app (Theme: System / Dark / Light)
• 🗓️ Auto-match EPG says when it has finished, even away from the Guide (community PR #251 by @camchis)
• 🔐 ClearKey channels whose playlist carries the key itself play
• 🔎 Search filter buttons: Live TV, TV Shows, Movies, Series
• 🎞️ Software decoding above 1080p (Video player switch)
• ⚡ Faster downloads over several connections
• 💬 A failed download says why
• 📺 Watch or keep downloading on a one-stream playlist
• 🗂️ Downloads and recordings whose file is gone say "File missing"

🐛 Fixes

• ↕️ Move opens straight from a category's menu and moves as many items as you like before Save
• 🌍 Channels named "UK: …" or "IT: …" get their country and language, like "UK| …"
• 🧹 Find channels leaves out playlist divider rows and other matches' event channels
• 📺 Broadcasts lists one channel per row, by country
• 🎨 Every popup, menu, form field and player control in the current design
• 📏 Multiview tile and category menus at the same size as every other menu
• 🖼️ Your own picture can be chosen while creating or editing any profile
• 📺 Series no longer show "No episodes" when one episode is oddly written by the provider
• 💬 A series the provider refused says why instead of "No episodes"
• 📺 Live TV falls back to the other player and gives up on time again
• 🔊 Opening a previewed channel keeps its volume; unmute returns to the level before
• 🔈 Changing sound settings during a film no longer starts a second copy
• 🗣️ Audio language and the episode queue survive a reload
• 🚫 A dead film link shows its error in seconds
• 🕒 Catch-up time zone "Automatic" uses the playlist's own zone
• ⏪ M3U catch-up and Xtream rewind start at the right moment
• ▶️ External player starts where you left off
• 🏷️ Categories keep their country ("UK|") when a list mixes countries
• ✏️ Bulk rename and ✨ Auto cleanup for categories
• 🔁 Retry works after a live channel gives up
• 👤 "Account already in use" says so, instead of loading forever
• 🔍 ◀ from a search opens the categories, with or without results
• 🌙 Home and the screensaver bring back the episode queue
• 🔤 Hebrew and Arabic subtitles read right to left on every line (#259)
• 🎯 ▶ into a page that is still opening no longer does nothing (community PR #264 by @Kevsosmooth)
• ⌨️ Settings search from More opens the keyboard on the first OK
• ▶️ External player picker offers Always again, so one player can be the default
• 📡 Pause and rewind live TV: a channel comes back by itself after a network outage
• ⚡ A single CH+/CH− press opens the channel without the half-second wait (community PR #255 by @sarmadsoomro)
• 🗓️ Auto-match EPG finishes in seconds on large playlists (community PR #252 by @camchis)
• 🎬 A longer Film buffer really holds more of a high-bitrate film (community PR ahXN00/OwnTV_Core#31 by @sarmadsoomro)
• ⚡ Opening a channel from its preview goes straight to full screen, no black gap (community PR #242 by @tvdev-android)
• 😴 The screensaver no longer starts when a film stops to buffer
• Customize no longer keeps a removed item's actions on screen
• 🎞️ Catch-up plays on the hardware decoder and freezes on its first frame less often (#229)
• 📡 A catch-up of a programme still on air switches to live instead of freezing
• 🎬 Films keep playing when the TV changes picture mode or the remote wakes up (#9)
• 🔔 The update notice no longer reappears during a session
• 📥 Downloads: the focused tab and Download folder no longer cover the text beside them
• 🎬 An automatic playlist or guide refresh waits until playback stops
• 💾 A first-run backup restore finishes before the app opens, even after Back
• 🔄 Restored playlists download straight away after a restore
• 🔑 Password fields use the password keyboard and show a Show button in setup
• ⚠️ First-run restore warns when Sources is unticked
• 📺 Channel logos with white lettering readable again, no white tile behind logos
• 📊 Progress bars and the watched ✓ back on film posters
• ⏱️ The seek bar's time no longer cut off at the top or the ends
• 🧭 The floating menu no longer flashes open when opening a page
• 🧭 Extra-wide menu shows its second line at large font sizes
• 🔠 Long film and series titles fit instead of being cut off, and show once in the browse panel
• 🇫🇷 Info and favourite buttons on Home's trending banner visible in every language
• 📋 The playlist picker scrolls to the last playlist
• 🌍 Backdrops fade on the correct side in Arabic and other right-to-left languages
• 🏠 Home's trending banner sits higher, showing more rows
• ⚙️ Settings cards show their whole text at large font sizes
• ↩️ Back from a series page returns to the show you opened
• 🏷️ Provider tags such as "|MULTI|" no longer lead film and series titles on their pages
• ⏺️ Recordings of some HLS channels were a few kB and would not play (#243)
• 💥 Error log and Backup & Restore no longer close the app on a 24-hour clock
• ⏯️ The remote's Play/Pause key pauses and resumes again
• 🔎 Search finds "Spider-Man" from "Spider-M" and lists every match, not the first 40
• 🔗 A provider's get.php M3U link is added as Xtream, so movies and series land in their own sections (#238)
• 📺 Shows with a Season 0 load all their episodes on Xtream
• 🔢 Xtream episodes with no number are numbered in order instead of all showing E0
• 🔁 A show's episode list retries once when the provider drops the connection
• ▶️ Play on a new show starts at Season 1 Episode 1; Specials come after the last season
• ⏭️ Auto-play continues past a missing season number instead of stopping
• 🔤 M3U episodes named "Season 1 Episode 5" or "S2019E05" are recognised
• 💾 Big downloads to a FAT32 USB stick fail with a clear reason