2.14.0

New features

• Audio and subtitle sync sliders cover ±10 seconds in 50 ms steps
• The bundled ffmpeg enables the loudnorm filter for volume normalization

Playback

• Plex video transcodes use fMP4 HLS, so HEVC presets stop corrupting
• Plex transcodes seek in-band instead of pre-warming at the resume offset
• Same-day Specials no longer hijack up next
• Episode advances that fail on a transient server blip are retried
• Playback no longer fails when a preference write is refused
• TrueHD offers its MAT carrier on Android 10–12 audio routes
• Timeline heartbeats stop once a Plex server terminates the session
• ExoPlayer track labels say AAC instead of mp4a.40.2
• Emby scrub previews load from the server's BIF index
• iOS and tvOS keep HDR and Dolby Vision when the video is zoomed
• tvOS schedules frames with more presentation lead

Subtitles

• Korean glyphs render on the MPV path via a bundled Hangul font
• Disabling subtitles clears the displayed ASS cue immediately
• ASS frames that overflow the glyph atlas render as a flattened composite
• External subtitle files load with the media whether or not they are selected
• Android renders every PGS composition object and keeps the PGS display-plane aspect

Music

• Hardware media keys work while the app is in the foreground on Android
• iOS music playback gains lock-screen and headphone controls

Plex

• Live TV favorite updates persist again
• PIN sign-in keeps polling after transient network errors

Watch Together

• Lobby guests are told the room's control mode

Downloads & profiles

• The parallel download limit stays intact on slow networks
• Offline downloads stay visible when a profile's servers are unreachable

Android, TV & automotive

• MKV files with late track metadata play again
• A backgrounded TV stops the server session when it releases the player
• Quality labels stay visible when rating badges crowd the detail line
• TV pauses on the first Select press after skipping the intro
• Parked playback is no longer blocked when the car service gives no verdict
• The background Watch Next refresh is removed

UI

• The sidebar's Libraries section stays collapsed across restarts
• Phone back exits the player even with the controls up
• Escape leaves fullscreen instead of quitting the app on desktop
• Player, downloads and server-setup text that was left in English is now translated

macOS

• Every audio format, including compressed formats, routes through CoreAudio

Windows

• The MSVC runtime is bundled, so an outdated redistributable no longer crashes launch

Linux

• VAAPI hardware decode and AV1 software fallback are restored in the bundled libmpv
• The Flutter-texture fallback is removed; video always renders on the native Wayland plane
• HDR transactions and plane presentation are bounded against unacknowledged frames