UniDL 2.3.3

Windows progress

• Fixed download progress cards that could remain empty in narrow Windows terminals, including Python 3.14 environments.

Track selection

• Added detailed language, codec, audio-profile, channel, subtitle-type and quality selection controls with safe manual picker recovery.
• Added a detailed track-selection guide covering the filters, ranking behavior and manual fallback.

UniDL 2.3.2

Changelog

[2.3.2] - 2026-10-06

Windows paths

• Hardened nested temporary, resume, decryption, subtitle, live-pipe and post-processing paths so derived filenames stay within the Windows legacy path limit.

Windows live recording

• Added native Windows named-pipe support for real-time FFmpeg audio/video muxing while preserving the existing POSIX FIFO path on macOS and Linux.

Track selection

• Added hard audio codec/profile/channel, subtitle-kind, language and best/worst quality filters, with manual Track Picker recovery when no automatic combination matches.

[2.3.1] - 2026-10-05

Windows paths

• Shortened Windows output and temporary paths when legacy path limits would otherwise cause WinError 206 during download, post-processing, or cleanup.

Service diagnostics

• Allowed service authors to disable persisted Debug/API diagnostics with DEBUG_LOGGING = False while keeping the user-visible TUI notice.

Service registration

• Preserved registered services across temporary discovery failures and recovered registrations cleared by older startup logic.

Terminal status

• Centered the status information row across the available terminal width.

[2.3.0] - 2026-10-04

Service discovery

• Discovered service code installed through pip, source checkouts, and user service folders so registered services are available without an extra uv sync step.

Track metadata

• Kept clear DASH/ISM audio tracks from being marked as encrypted when only the video requires DRM.

Terminal layout

• Corrected terminal cell widths for Thai and other combining characters so translated labels and track details remain aligned.

[2.2.9] - 2026-10-03

Windows input and paste

• Fixed Windows Terminal account-field paste events so copied credentials are
  inserted into the focused field.
• Preserved printable Unicode characters such as @ while ignoring modifier
  and synthetic control records that could incorrectly open Settings.

Filename formats

• Added selectable dot, space and hyphen filename styles under Files & naming
  while keeping custom title and release templates available.

[2.2.8] - 2026-10-02

Batch track selection

• Expanded queued video track pickers into the available terminal space and hid
  stale delivery panels, keeping later batches selectable in short windows.

Windows console input

• Stabilized Windows console input mode and mouse reporting, including recovery
  when the host resets the mode and cleanup of pending reports on exit.

Selected-track KIDs

• Reported KIDs from the selected rendition and initialization data so Core,
  the delivery screen and the native downloader show the same key identity.

Windows temporary paths

• Bounded temporary directory and section names to avoid legacy Windows path
  length failures while retaining resume identity through stable digests.

[2.2.7] - 2026-10-01

CDM identity

• Displayed the selected CDM's authoritative security level and Widevine system
  ID in the service identity row when the device provides those values.

Windows Terminal compatibility

• Disabled incompatible Kitty keyboard negotiation on Windows and kept the TUI
  on a reliable 256-colour path, restoring mouse input and Ctrl+S settings access
  on affected Windows Terminal and Python 3.14 installations.

[2.2.6] - 2026-09-30

Live recording

• Fixed Pluto TV live Matroska recording when independent HLS AAC audio needs
  to be probed before FFmpeg writes the output header.

HDR metadata

• Detected HDR10+ and related video-range markers from DASH media BaseURL
  metadata when adaptation-level fields are absent.

BBC iPlayer and dependencies

• Kept BBC iPlayer subtitle sidecars in their provider format without requiring
  the optional external subtitle helper.
• Updated the MonaLisa DRM and HTTP SOCKS dependency metadata and lockfile.

[2.2.5] - 2026-09-29

HLS audio decryption

• Corrected clear Apple HLS audio fragments that contain ordinary roll
  sample groups, while retaining strict handling for encrypted CBCS/CENC data.

Subtitle handling

• Treated valid empty WebVTT, TTML and SRT sidecars as tracks with no cues
  instead of reporting a misleading ffmpeg conversion failure.

Local binaries

• Added project-level binaries/ lookup as a fallback after the operating
  system PATH, without overriding system-installed tools.

[2.2.4] - 2026-09-28

Audio and clear-track metadata

• Preserved Amazon E-AC-3/AC-3 5.1 channel metadata when a generic MP4 init
  field reports stereo.
• Prevented clear audio tracks with provider bookkeeping KIDs from being
  labelled as encrypted CENC tracks.

Export and vault handling

• Reduced native export size by omitting unused service-private title payloads
  while keeping older exports readable.
• Queried remote key vaults using both canonical and PlayReady byte-order KID
  aliases.

Dependencies

• Updated the public dependency and lock metadata for the current service
  integrations.

[2.2.3] - 2026-09-27

BBC iPlayer playback

• Updated BBC source profiles to UHD, FHD and HD while preserving compatibility
  with existing resolution settings.
• Added multi-source VOD selection, chapter metadata and shared subtitle
  references for BBC playback.

DASH and HLS delivery

• Preserved the selected HLS rendition KID in exported downloader commands by
  requesting the matching media playlists when needed.
• Accepted explicitly clear fragmented MP4 tracks even when a provider marks
  their adaptation set as encrypted, while retaining strict CENC/CBCS handling
  for encrypted media.

[2.2.2] - 2026-09-27

Compiled service loading

• Improved source-free compiled service loading by discovering sibling native
  extensions and preserving canonical package namespaces for relative imports.

DRM key vault matching

• Corrected vault key inventory handling when services declare authoritative KIDs
  even when selected stream rows are not marked encrypted.
• Allowed explicitly selected PSSH metadata to participate in selected-track
  licensing without reintroducing unrelated manifest KIDs.

[2.2.1] - 2026-09-26

Shared subtitle sidecars

• Added the generic augment_tracks() service hook for subtitle inventories
  returned by separate provider APIs.
• Added service-owned subtitle sidecars to the shared track picker and applied
  the shared sub_langs selection before prepare_download() fetches files for
  muxing.
• Included selected sidecar subtitle rows in command records and documented
  the service integration contract.

[2.2.0] - 2026-09-26

Fragmented media postprocessing

• Corrected timestamp restamping when one HLS/CMAF segment contains multiple
  MP4 fragments, preventing accumulated audio/video drift.

Windows state storage

• Made settings, service registration, token, cookie and cache writes work on
  Windows where os.fchmod is unavailable.

[2.1.9] - 2026-09-25

Playback metadata

• Added optional actual video bitrate sampling for the selected video tracks.
• Corrected audio channel metadata from the selected MP4 initialization segment
  when a manifest reports a stale channel count.
• Refreshed the download details view after the metadata probes complete.

Remote CDM and live recording

• Fixed PlayReady remote CDMs being omitted from service-level CDM choices when
  older configuration entries still declared system: widevine.
• Showed a stored-value hint when editing remote CDM and vault secrets without
  rendering the credentials themselves.
• Reduced live recording finalization space usage by releasing each full-size
  intermediate as soon as the next stage is verified, with recovery of the
  raw recording or a valid MP4 fallback when finalization fails.

[2.1.8] - 2026-09-25

Title attachments

• Added per-service poster, thumbnail and artwork attachments with optional TUI previews.
• Preserved attachment aspect ratios in native terminal image widgets with letterboxed rendering.
• Downloaded enabled attachments as separate files without muxing them into media.
• Added attachment metadata to native exports and imports.

[2.1.7] - 2026-09-24

Compiled-only service compatibility

• Added ABI- and platform-aware selection for services that ship several
  compiled-only variants in one package.
• Load the selected native service and API extensions under their canonical
  service namespace, preserving normal relative imports and isolating
  incompatible variants without blocking other services.
• Expanded compiled-service documentation with multi-variant packaging and
  compatibility guidance.

[2.1.6] - 2026-09-24

DRM and chapter compatibility

• Added a PlayReady KID-only PSSH fallback that builds the minimal WRMHEADER
  needed by licence services when a manifest omits a full PRO payload.
• Added chapters_file support to audio conversion, so chapter metadata can be
  embedded in MP3, M4A, FLAC and ALAC output as well as video containers.
• Kept chapter validation and automatic mux decisions consistent for selected
  audio and video tracks.

Service loading and packaging

• Added ABI/platform-aware compiled-only service registration and readiness
  reporting without requiring private service source code in the release.
• Standardized the public release-note format and kept package metadata and
  documentation aligned with the shipped feature set.

[2.1.5] - 2026-09-23

Diagnostics and safer batch handling

• Added timestamped session and per-task debug diagnostics with task IDs,
  request/response metadata, bounded response previews and full tracebacks.
• Redact credentials, cookies and bearer tokens in diagnostics while retaining
  signed manifest URLs and content keys; record licence challenge/response
  payloads only when a licence exchange fails.
• Keep debug logging active when the TUI replaces the normal log callback and...

UniDL v2.3.1

Windows paths

• Shortened Windows output and temporary paths when legacy path limits would otherwise cause WinError 206 during download, post-processing, or cleanup.

Service diagnostics

• Allowed service authors to disable persisted Debug/API diagnostics with DEBUG_LOGGING = False while keeping the user-visible TUI notice.

Service registration

• Preserved registered services across temporary discovery failures and recovered registrations cleared by older startup logic.

Terminal status

• Centered the status information row across the available terminal width.

UniDL v2.3.0

Service discovery

• Discovered service code across pip installs, source checkouts, and user service folders without requiring an extra uv sync step.

Track metadata

• Kept clear DASH/ISM audio tracks from being marked as encrypted when only the video requires DRM.

Terminal layout

• Corrected terminal cell widths for Thai and other combining characters so translated labels and track details remain aligned.

UniDL 2.2.9

Windows input and paste

• Fixed Windows Terminal account-field paste events so copied credentials are inserted into the focused field.
• Preserved printable Unicode characters such as @ while ignoring modifier and synthetic control records that could incorrectly open Settings.

Filename formats

• Added selectable dot, space and hyphen filename styles under Files & naming while keeping custom title and release templates available.

UniDL 2.2.8

Batch track selection

• Expanded queued video track pickers into the available terminal space and hid stale delivery panels, keeping later batches selectable in short windows.

Windows console input

• Stabilized Windows console input mode and mouse reporting, including recovery when the host resets the mode and cleanup of pending reports on exit.

Selected-track KIDs

• Reported KIDs from the selected rendition and initialization data so Core, the delivery screen and the native downloader show the same key identity.

Windows temporary paths

• Bounded temporary directory and section names to avoid legacy Windows path length failures while retaining resume identity through stable digests.

UniDL 2.2.7

CDM identity

• Added authoritative CDM security level and Widevine system ID to the service identity row.

Windows Terminal compatibility

• Disabled incompatible Kitty keyboard negotiation on Windows and restored mouse input and Ctrl+S settings access on affected Windows Terminal installations.

UniDL v2.2.6

Live recording

• Fixed Pluto TV live Matroska recording when independent HLS AAC audio needs to be probed before FFmpeg writes the output header.

HDR metadata

• Detected HDR10+ and related video-range markers from DASH media BaseURL metadata when adaptation-level fields are absent.

BBC iPlayer and dependencies

• Kept BBC iPlayer subtitle sidecars in their provider format without requiring the optional external subtitle helper.
• Updated the MonaLisa DRM and HTTP SOCKS dependency metadata and lockfile.

UniDL v2.2.5

HLS audio decryption

• Corrected clear Apple HLS audio fragments containing ordinary roll sample groups while retaining strict CBCS/CENC handling.

Subtitle handling

• Treated valid empty WebVTT, TTML and SRT sidecars as tracks with no cues instead of reporting a misleading ffmpeg conversion failure.

Local binaries

• Added project-level binaries/ lookup as a fallback after the operating-system PATH.

UniDL v2.2.4

Audio and clear-track metadata

• Preserved Amazon E-AC-3/AC-3 5.1 channel metadata when a generic MP4 init field reports stereo.
• Prevented clear audio tracks with provider bookkeeping KIDs from being labelled as encrypted CENC tracks.

Export and vault handling

• Reduced native export size by omitting unused service-private title payloads while keeping older exports readable.
• Queried remote key vaults using both canonical and PlayReady byte-order KID aliases.

Dependencies

• Updated the public dependency and lock metadata for the current service integrations.