FreeFlix CLI v1.6.0

1.6.0

A big release — everything that landed since 1.5.9.

✨ Browse with posters (preview pane)

• Live preview pane (poster + title + genres / metadata) beside the result
  list on every source, updating as you navigate; type to filter.
• Covers per source: Anime-Sama, Coflix, French-Stream, French-Manga (TMDB
  thumbnails), GoldenMS (Cinemeta), GoldenAnime (AniList).
• Tuned for fluidity: per-URL image cache (no re-download on resize), two
  thread pools (downloads ×6 / chafa render ×2), on-demand repaint
  (auto_refresh off), debounced re-warm, fixed-height centered panel (no
  jump), animated spinner, footer key hints, narrow-terminal fallback.

🗂️ Grouped source menu

• Sources are now grouped: Anime / Manga first, then Films & Séries,
  under section headers.

📊 Progress bars (themed ▰▰▱)

• New progress module shared across the app.
• Launch splash with an animated loading bar.
• Dependency-install progress (big FreeFlix + bar tracking each tool).
• Download bar that filters yt-dlp / aria2c logs and shows speed +
  downloaded/total + ETA instead.

🖥️ Full-screen, resize-safe UI

• Header banners render inside the Live region; home & source menus use the
  alternate screen — no more headers/posters stacking or wrapping on resize.
• Full-screen, resize-safe search inputs.

🔌 Sources & extractors (major overhaul)

• GoldenMS: new multi-extractor backend (Hexa, Mapple, Videasy, Vidlink,
  Xpass) with subtitles and per-source quality labels.
• GoldenAnime: new extractors (AllAnime with AES decryption, Animetsu,
  AniZone, Sudatchi) with subtitles.
• French-Stream: rebuilt scraper (movies + series, per-language episodes,
  robust posters).
• Coflix: rides a cf_clearance cookie, clean "protected by Cloudflare"
  message with a token tip, and always-present og:image covers.
• player.py: thread-local curl_cffi sessions so parallel extraction is
  safe; thread-local player config; vidmoly fixed (live domain is .net;
  parked .to/.biz/.me remapped).

▶️ Playback & downloads

• Stream quality analysis before playing: per-quality resolution + bitrate
  via ffprobe; labels like 1080p ~5.0 · 720p ~2.5 Mbps. Bounded time budget
  so a slow host never freezes the menu.
• Faster downloads: yt-dlp + aria2c (16 connections) for HLS, 16 parallel
  fragments as fallback.
• Subtitle download fixed: gzip + zip decompression.
• Subtitle search on all sources (Cinemeta / IMDb lookup), toggleable.
• Data-used meter after playback.

☁️ Cloudflare handling

• New cloudflare module: cf_get cascade with a cf_clearance cookie and
  FlareSolverr auto-solve.
• 3 retries + system-DNS (no-DoH) fallback for "connection reset" / DNS
  hiccups.
• Settings: paste a cf_clearance token; configurable FlareSolverr URL.

⚙️ Setup & platform

• Resumable dependency gate: caches an "all good" flag; until then each
  launch re-checks and installs only what's missing.
• install.ps1 rewritten: pure ASCII (fixes the Windows PowerShell 5.1
  parse error), idempotent, installs Windows Terminal + CaskaydiaCove Nerd
  Font, writes a completion marker.
• Nerd Font option added to install.sh / install-mac.sh.
• FlareSolverr auto-install (Podman-first, systemd --user persistence).
• Settings: analyze-players toggle, subtitle-search toggle, icon style
  (emoji / Nerd Font), themed About panel.

🐛 Fixes & robustness

• Removed Wiflix entirely (handler, scraper, objects).
• Graceful handling of network failures in source flows — search / load no
  longer crash the app.
• Central emoji → Nerd Font conversion (iconify); no hardcoded emoji.
• Resize no longer stacks headers or pushes posters out of their frame.

📦 Install / upgrade

pip install -U freeflix-cli      # or: pipx upgrade freeflix-cli / uv tool upgrade freeflix-cli