2.19.0

New features

• Separate Off, Show button, and Automatic modes for intro and credits skipping
• Audio, subtitle, and video-format previews on detail pages
• Collection headers with artwork, summaries, and item counts
• A Show Watched Indicators toggle
• An optional Remember Brightness Level setting

Performance

• Faster D-pad scrolling on Android TV and Fire TV
• Smoother TV home navigation
• Smoother software-decoded playback on lower-end Android GPUs
• Faster loading of large download lists
• Opening large logs no longer freezes or crashes the app
• Server connections no longer stall on an unavailable IPv4 or IPv6 path

Playback

• Fewer dropped frames with subtitles or audio passthrough on Android
• Subtitle Render Resolution works on the Android mpv backend
• Subtitles stay on the picture with ambient lighting enabled
• Dolby Vision profile 7 and Dolby Vision/HDR10+ files play on affected Fire TV devices
• High-bitrate HEVC plays without green flashes or smeared frames on affected Fire TV devices
• Faster H.264 High 10 playback startup on Android devices without a compatible hardware decoder
• Unsupported AV1 profiles play without green or black video on Android
• Deinterlacing works for software-decoded video on Android and Linux
• Dolby and DTS passthrough works with more Android receiver setups
• Passthrough audio recovers after HDMI route changes
• 44.1 kHz 5.1 audio stays in surround on Android
• Closing hardware-decoded playback no longer hangs on Android
• Special characters survive in Android media titles and subtitle paths
• External players start unwatched items from the beginning on Android
• Audio selection follows playback preferences rather than the library language
• Long opening chapters no longer trigger Skip Intro

Plex

• Live TV honors the selected quality preset
• Live TV seeks land at the correct time after tuning or replacing a stream
• Other Videos libraries appear in search results
• Watchlist actions work for library and Explore titles
• A Play Smaller Videos at Original Quality toggle
• Local connections stay local after device sleep
• Plex Home playback picks up Account preferences changes
• Subtitle selection follows the server setting

Jellyfin & Emby

• Jellyfin Live TV works with MPEG-TS-only tuners
• Jellyfin Live TV honors the selected quality preset
• Jellyfin Live TV supports compatible direct-play streams
• Playback, subtitles, scrub previews, and library notifications work with Jellyfin 12
• Emby quality-limited playback works on devices with AV1 support

Explore & trackers

• Find library copies under native, romaji, and localized titles
• Report unchecked servers without losing known library copies
• Seerr request actions reflect current account permissions
• Seerr authentication-proxy errors no longer disconnect valid sessions
• Advanced Seerr anime requests use Sonarr anime defaults
• Editable tags on advanced Seerr requests

Watch Together

• Transfer hosting to another participant without leaving the room
• Speed-change notifications name the participant
• Rooms stay synchronized through buffering and system clock changes
• Reconnecting no longer silently joins a reused room code
• Self-hosted relays need updating before clients for automatic room recovery

Downloads

• Downloaded episodes show resume progress
• Download queue failures show an error
• Collection downloads respect cellular-download restrictions

UI

• Home and libraries refresh automatically when server content changes
• D-pad focus stays on the same title after sorting or refreshing
• Phones support rotation with side navigation in landscape
• Phone detail pages center their logos, metadata, and actions
• Android Automotive screens stay clear of side system bars
• Grid Spacing applies to horizontal media rows
• The first sidebar library selection opens the correct library
• Deleting an item closes its detail page, not the screen above it
• Hero titles and logos stay legible in light theme
• Live TV channel logos stay legible on light backgrounds
• The player clock stays hidden on portrait phones
• Tighter spacing around search filters

TV

• Show details display the focused episode title
• Play follows the focused episode on show details
• Edit mpv.conf line by line with the system keyboard
• Profile pickers and players keep remote focus
• Explore descriptions are reachable with the D-pad
• Audio passthrough defaults on for Apple TV
• ExoPlayer plays DTS-HD audio on receivers without DTS-HD support

Desktop

• Windows starts without a preinstalled Vulkan loader
• Windows remembers snapped window size and position
• Less HDR-to-SDR playback overhead on Qualcomm Windows GPUs
• Steam Input no longer doubles controller actions on Linux