NuvioForLinux v0.3.5

NuvioForLinux v0.3.5

Mostly groundwork for a second, much cheaper video player — off by default, and the existing
player is unchanged for everyone who does not go looking for it. One privacy fix that applies
to everybody.

Added

• An experimental libmpv player, off by default. The player Nuvio has always used cannot
  hardware-decode video on Linux: libVLC refuses hardware decoding whenever it is asked to hand
  frames back to the application, which is how Nuvio draws them, so a 4K film is decoded entirely
  in software. The new engine has no such restriction and hands the decoded frame straight to the
  screen without ever copying it back. On the same 4K HEVC episode, measured end to end in the
  app: around 20–27% of a CPU core instead of around 380%, and about 1.1 GB of memory instead
  of 6.4 GB.

  It is not enabled unless you ask for it, it is still being tested, and VLC remains both the
  default and the automatic fallback if anything about the new engine fails to start:

  NUVIO_MPV=1 NUVIO_EGL=1 ./Nuvio-0.3.5-x86_64.AppImage

  Both variables are needed — the second puts Nuvio's own rendering on EGL, and without it the
  new engine cannot reach the zero-copy path and falls back to a slower one. It needs libmpv
  (libmpv2, mpv 0.36 or newer); the .deb now recommends it, and the AppImage uses your
  system's copy if you have one. Please report anything you see: a frozen picture, a spinner that
  never clears, wrong colours, or audio drifting away from the video.

• Card rows can be dragged with the left mouse button. Grab a row of posters and pull it
  sideways, instead of reaching for the scroll wheel or the arrows.

Fixed

• Stream links are no longer written to the log in full. Debrid and scraper links carry your
  account API keys inside the URL itself, and those links were being logged verbatim — including
  by the log-collection script people use when reporting bugs. Only the provider and the file
  name are logged now. If you have shared a Nuvio log publicly, consider rotating your debrid API
  key.

Notes

• The AppImage no longer bundles libva. It was shadowing the copy your graphics driver expects,
  which silently disabled hardware decoding for the new player. This has no effect on the default
  VLC player, which does not hardware-decode on Linux either way.

⬇️ Which file do I download?

File	For	Notes
Nuvio-0.3.5-x86_64.AppImage	Any modern distro	Self-contained, bundles VLC. Needs glibc ≥ 2.35 (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS+, Debian 12+, Fedora, Arch, Mint).
nuvio_0.3.5_amd64.deb	Debian / Ubuntu / Pop!_OS / Mint	Installs system-wide; uses your system VLC (vlc-plugin-base | vlc).

# AppImage
chmod +x Nuvio-0.3.5-x86_64.AppImage
./Nuvio-0.3.5-x86_64.AppImage

# .deb
sudo apt install ./nuvio_0.3.5_amd64.deb

💡 Using AppImageLauncher and the file disappears or won't start? Run it from a
terminal with APPIMAGELAUNCHER_DISABLE=1 ./Nuvio-*.AppImage, or update AppImageLauncher.