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@bobsupra bobsupra released this 27 Jul 20:48
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tvOS Beta 3.2

Important: This IPA is unsigned because no tvOS signing identity is configured on this machine.

Beta 3.2 is a broad reliability and polish release spanning Home, metadata, Continue Watching, synchronization, details, and playback. Please test it with your own add-ons and providers—especially on physical Apple TV hardware—and report the stream, provider, and steps needed to reproduce any problem.

Home, catalogs, and profiles

  • Holds the Home transition behind the profile switch cover until the new profile's rows are ready, preventing content and focus from assembling under the user.
  • Adds loading skeleton rows, avoids automatic retries for permanently failing add-ons, and lets Home catalog settings hide, restore, and reorder both add-on and built-in Cinemeta rows.
  • Improves add-on settings with manifest artwork, a direct uninstall action, and synchronized removal.
  • Fixes grid and row mode transitions, vertical focus restoration, sidebar behavior, full-bleed backdrops, and poster geometry across Home and Search.
  • Adds a URL-keyed poster disk cache with bounded storage and network timeouts, while keeping missing-artwork placeholders stable instead of spinning indefinitely.
  • Persists profile avatar catalogs and retries cold-launch rate limits, and resets category scroll position when moving between Settings sections.
  • Refreshes focused non-Cinemeta hero metadata to recover missing runtime and ongoing status while preserving the source add-on's artwork and description.
  • Accepts Stremio cast, director, and writer fields as either arrays or comma-separated strings so an optional metadata shape cannot discard the entire catalog page.

Continue Watching and synchronization

  • Moves large progress and Simkl caches out of UserDefaults into file-backed storage, including startup migration and cleanup, to avoid oversized tvOS preferences.
  • Reconciles confirmed Nuvio Sync deletions without treating an ambiguous empty response as permission to erase local progress, and preserves unsent or concurrently changed rows.
  • Queues and rate-limits provider pulls, refreshes stale account state on foreground and Home re-entry, and reports expired credentials as a sign-in requirement without logging users out for ordinary offline errors.
  • Scopes rendered Continue Watching caches to the active profile and memoizes large decoded progress ledgers for faster Home rebuilds.
  • Makes episode watched actions clear the rendered card, raw ledger, and optimistic provider checkpoint immediately without disturbing other episodes.
  • Adds batch mark-watched and unwatch actions for a full season with a single local/provider update.
  • Lets Up Next prefer either the furthest episode reached or the most recently watched episode.
  • Tightens New Episode and New Season badges to real post-watch releases, sorts new drops by air date, and filters unreleased episodes using their full release date.
  • Retires stale Simkl paused rows when cards are removed or an episode is marked watched, with improved cache invalidation and file cleanup.

Details, metadata, and navigation

  • Adds Simkl community rating, vote count, rank, drop rate, and More Like This recommendations, with fallback between Simkl, Trakt, and TMDB.
  • Resolves Simkl recommendation identifiers before opening them and adds a nested Details back stack so Back returns to the previous recommended title.
  • Hydrates missing related-title posters and restores episode focus after stream selection.
  • Adds season-wide watched controls and updates episode progress and watched badges immediately.
  • Opens the stream picker directly in a loading state and transfers focus to the first result as soon as streams arrive.

Playback, audio, and subtitles

  • Upgrades AetherEngine from 5.14.1 to 5.23.3 and FFmpegBuild from 2.1.3 to 2.2.0.
  • Fixes HEVC streams that could freeze at 00:00 when codec parameters arrive in-band and improves hardware/software route selection.
  • Keeps slow VOD seeks anchored to the requested position, improves tail and end-of-media recovery, and lets seek-to-end playback restart cleanly.
  • Improves HLS and live playback cadence, low-latency playlist reloads, startup time, reconnect recovery, backpressure, memory use, and HEVC transport-stream fallback.
  • Strengthens E-AC-3 JOC Atmos detection and confirmation, fixes lingering audio after player teardown, and expands EAC3, FLAC, and live AAC fallback paths.
  • Converts PGS, DVB, and DVD bitmap subtitles into a native rendition for PiP, AirPlay, and external displays while improving PGS seek landing, clear events, and subtitle packet memory limits.
  • Preserves track selection across AirPlay and background reloads, adds disk-aware whole-film prebuffering, and improves deinterlacing and software-decoder recovery.
  • Makes source and episode switches close the panel immediately, show a labeled loading state until playback begins, and use the same default source ordering as Details.

Tests

  • Adds regression coverage for flexible Stremio people fields, watched-progress cleanup, Up Next selection, remote-deletion reconciliation, unsent-row retention, release-date filtering, new-release badge semantics, and Simkl paused-row retirement.
  • Expands AetherEngine coverage for Atmos confirmation, audio teardown, HEVC signaling and parameter sets, live cadence and backpressure, slow seeks, PGS/OCR subtitles, route recovery, cold starts, and HLS target duration.

Known issues

  • The attached IPA is unsigned and must be installed with a compatible tvOS sideloading/signing workflow.
  • Provider and playback behavior still needs testing on real Apple TV hardware with real accounts, HDMI displays, HDR modes, and Atmos receivers.
  • Simkl and Trakt require user-created API credentials; Client IDs stay local to the Apple TV and are not included in Nuvio account sync.
  • Automatic next-episode playback remains intentionally disabled; use the manual Next Episode card.
  • Stream, subtitle, metadata, and recap availability still depends on configured add-ons and their upstream providers.
  • The Apple TV Simulator cannot reproduce physical HDMI mode switches or play AV1 video.
  • Bitmap subtitle OCR is inherently lossy; fullscreen playback continues to use the original pixel-accurate bitmap path where available.
  • ASS/SSA karaoke, sign positioning, and custom typesetting are flattened to the app subtitle style.
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