REX Player v5.1.0

This release introduces dual-mode video clip export, Material 3 Expressive grouped settings, responsive adaptive player panels, Jellyfin remote playback casting, and configurable playback resume controls.

Dual-Mode Video Clip Export

Video clipping now features a dedicated dual-mode export sheet, giving you complete control over export speed and frame precision:

• Fast Lossless Cut: Instant keyframe extraction via native FFmpeg stream copying without re-encoding or quality loss.
• Frame-Accurate Hardware Transcoding: Millisecond-precise trimming for exact start and end frames with hardware acceleration.
• Redesigned Export Sheet: Interactive sheet featuring high-precision timestamp intervals, formatted duration badge, and one-tap mode selection.
• Automatic Media Library Indexing: Saved clips in Movies/REX Player are immediately indexed and ready to share or play.

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✨ New Features

• Material 3 Expressive Connected Grouped Settings: Comprehensive UI refresh applying Material 3 Expressive connected grouped lists, polished cards, and rounded shapes across all preference screens.
• Responsive Adaptive Player Panels: Redesigned video settings, subtitle settings, and delay panels that adaptively dock as side sheets in landscape mode and bottom sheets in portrait mode.
• Jellyfin Remote Playback Target (Cast to REX): Cast media from Jellyfin directly to REX Player as a remote playback target via WebSocket Play with background keepalive service (#315). (Thanks @Crisp79!)
• Configurable Resume Playback Modes: Choose how playback resumes with options for "Always", "Ask every time" (with interactive dialog), or "Always start afresh", plus a transient quick-restart pill (#309).
• Interactive Notification Playback Controls: Added repeat mode (Off / Repeat All / Repeat One) and shuffle toggle buttons directly inside the active media playback notification with refined button styling.
• Dynamic Gesture Speed Memory: Option to remember adjusted playback speed multipliers modified via dynamic long-press swipe gestures (#304).
• Storage Permission Bypass: Allow skipping storage permission requests during first-run onboarding for users who exclusively use network streaming or external file managers (#308).
• Force LTR Direction & Arabic Codepage Detection: Added toggle to force Left-to-Right text direction and enhanced codepage autodetection for Arabic subtitles (#271).
• Ukrainian Translation: Added comprehensive Ukrainian localization (#326). (Thanks @vladdrako007!)
• German Translation: Added full German localization. (Thanks @feuersternX!)
• Hindi Translation: Added full Hindi localization. (Thanks @PrimePax!)
• Russian Translation Updates: Updated Russian localization with latest UI strings (#327). (Thanks @blxckhundred!)
• Brazilian Portuguese Translation Updates: Updated Portuguese localization across all preference screens. (Thanks @𝟰𝗞𝘼𝙭𝙡 𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙚𝟰𝗞ᶤ ᶫᵒᵛᵉᵧₒᵤ!)
• Arabic Translation Updates: Updated Arabic translation strings. (Thanks @yarushu!)
• Bengali Translation Updates: Updated Bengali localization.

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⚡ Performance & Optimizations

• Native FFmpeg Stream Copying: Integrated native fast clipping for instant lossless exports with zero CPU/GPU transcoding overhead.
• Fluid Panel Animations: Removed outer container bounds distortion in player panels for smooth orientation switching and side-sheet transitions.

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🐛 Stability & Bug Fixes

• Secondary Subtitle Overlap & Positioning: Resolved subtitle collision by ensuring secondary subtitles render cleanly without overlapping primary text, with dedicated position offset controls (#302).
• BiDi & RTL Metadata Reversal: Fixed reversed text and number-unit ordering in Media Info and multi-selection info sheets when running under Right-to-Left (RTL) locales (#303).
• Slider Text Wrapping in Player Panels: Resolved text collapsing and scattered slider labels in audio/video panels with standardized vertical column layouts.
• Jellyfin Remote Connection Security: Hardened WebSocket authentication to rely strictly on secure headers, sanitized logging URLs, and added insecure HTTP connection warnings (#315). (Thanks @Crisp79!)

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REX Player v5.0.0

REX Player v5.0.0 is here! 🎉
This release brings a local HTTP Web Share server with two-way file transfers, indexed fast search with multi-selection, on-demand .nomedia folder browsing, and a welcome onboarding flow.

Note on Rebranding: mpvRex is now REX Player
Same app, same package (xyz.mpv.rex), same install — your library, database, and settings remain untouched. No action is required.

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🔥 Highlighting: Local HTTP Web Share Server

REX Player now allows you to stream, share, and transfer media files directly across devices on your local Wi-Fi network:

• In-Browser Media Streaming: Stream video and audio directly to any phone, PC, tablet, or smart TV browser without installing extra software (#298).
• Two-Way File Uploads: Upload media files from connected browser clients directly into your device's Download folder.
• QR Code & Direct Pairing: Connect nearby devices using generated QR codes or direct IP links.
• HTML5 Web Interface: Web media player with playback controls and one-click file downloads.
• System Share Sheet Integration: Send media from external apps directly into Web Share.
• Access Security: Toggle optional persistent PIN/token authorization to restrict access to streaming sessions.

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✨ New Features

• Unified Fast Search & Multi-Selection: Dedicated search screen powered by indexed queries, supporting multi-selection batch operations (rename, delete, copy/move, playlists) and scoped folder filtering (#301).
• On-Demand .nomedia Folder Browsing: Option to discover and browse .nomedia directories in the folder browser with a quick toggle in the sort dialog.
• Welcome Onboarding Flow: First-run setup guiding new users through storage permissions, basic preferences, and core navigation.
• In-App Language Switcher: Change the app's display language directly inside Appearance preferences without altering system locale settings.
• Persistent Media Index: Database-backed media index for faster folder navigation, background metadata enrichment, and thumbnail fallbacks.
• Scan Roots & Excluded Folders: Configure custom library scan roots and exclude specific directories directly from Media Library preferences.
• Interactive FastScrollbar: Touch-draggable scroll indicator across media lists with improved touch targeting and navigation insets (#296).
• Shorts Media Sharing: Added a direct share button inside the Shorts player menu sheet.
• Community & Support Dialog: Replaced the top bar button with a periodic reminder dialog (with 10-day follow-up) for feedback and support channels to keep the header clean.
• Branded Splash Screen: REX Player splash branding with dynamic Material 3 color matching.
• Russian Translation: Added comprehensive Russian localization (#300). (Thanks @blxckhundred!)
• Arabic Translation Updates: Completed full Arabic translation across all new screens and preferences (#266, #285). (Thanks @AhmedRX20!)

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⚡ Performance & Optimizations

• Duration & Metadata Resolution: Resolves missing durations on media lists using indexed bucket queries and first-frame cache resolution.
• Optimistic Media Deletion: File deletion updates the UI and Room database immediately, eliminating the previous full-refresh delay.
• Network Browser List State: Preserved list state across recompositions to prevent duplicate SMB listings and cancelled scroll gestures (#281). (Thanks @freeorca!)
• Pause Latency Fix: Restored direct hardware decoding (hwdec) and stream queue handling to eliminate delay when pausing playback.

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🐛 Stability & Bug Fixes

• Volume Gesture Scaling on OEM Devices (Xiaomi, Oppo, Realme): Dynamically scales vertical swipe volume sensitivity based on the stream's maximum volume, resolving hyper-sensitive volume gestures on MIUI, HyperOS, ColorOS, and custom ROMs.
• Embedded Thumbnail Track Fix: Prevented embedded album and thumbnail tracks from overriding the main video stream during surface initialization.
• Search UI Overflow: Fixed layout overflow on long folder and path names in search results.
• Browser Bottom Bar Layout: Positioned the bottom bar properly above the Mini Player and Navigation Bar with consistent spacing (#279).
• Folder Audio Filtering: Folder item counts and visibility now strictly respect the showAudioFiles preference (#272).
• Folder Badge Updates: Fixed "new video" folder badge counters to decrement immediately upon playback.
• Loading State Synchronization: Synchronized folder item loading states to eliminate empty state flashing during navigation.

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mpvRex v4.5.0

This release introduces a brand new in-app Mini Player with background playback, video clip cutting, persistent track memory, massive SMB streaming performance improvements, and an upcoming app rename preview.

📢 Upcoming Rebranding Notice: mpvRex will be changing its name to REX Player in a future release! You'll notice a smooth header title transition on the home screen looping between mpvRex and REX Player as a sneak peek of our new identity.

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🔥 Highlighting:

mpvRex now features a full-featured persistent mini player and background audio system:

• Persistent Mini Player: Keep media playing in a floating mini player while browsing your library or playlists.
• Swipe-Up Morphing Layout: Smoothly expand the mini player into full screen or collapse it with fluid touch gestures.
• Swipe-to-Skip Gestures: Swipe left or right on the mini player bar to quickly switch between tracks.
• Background Playback Modes: Choose when background playback activates — Always, Audio files only, Video files only, or Never.
• Direct Mini Player Playback: Play files directly into the mini player from the file browser without opening the full player screen.

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✨ New Features

• Video Clip Cutting: Cut and export video clips directly from the A-B repeat overlay — set your loop points and save.
• Smart Track & External Audio Memory: Remembers selected audio/subtitle tracks and external audio files per-video, automatically restoring them on reopen (#113, #220).
• Device Codec Support Info: View supported hardware (HW) and software (SW) decoders directly in settings (Closes #238).
• Seekbar Customization: Added preferences to hide chapter markers and buffered read-ahead indicators on the seekbar (#152, #236).
• Gesture & Controls Options: Added option to disable "Release to cancel" gesture overlay (#180), reverse double-tap seek direction toggle, and double-click chapter buttons to skip chapters.
• App & Navigation Tweaks: Picture-in-Picture priority over mini player, home screen back press minimizes app, and dynamic app name in settings backup files (#226).
• Localization Updates: Added Simplified Chinese (Thanks @wcxu21!), updated Spanish (Thanks @FFSA47!), completed Arabic localization (Thanks @AhmedRX20!), and extracted hardcoded button & filter preset strings (#243, #244).

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⚡ Performance & Optimizations

• High-Speed SMB Network Streaming: A new double-buffered prefetching engine for SMB streams boosts network throughput up to 4x (~20 MB/s), with SMB session reuse for faster seeks (#258, #263). (Thanks @freeorca!)
• Instant Folder Browsing: Video metadata is cached before rendering, eliminating chip reflow and item flickering (FPS, resolution, subtitle tags) when browsing folders (#239, #215).
• Faster Shorts Thumbnails: Isolated Shorts player thumbnail generation to the first frame for quicker loading.

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🐛 Stability & Bug Fixes

• Orientation & UI Thread Deadlock Fix: Resolved UI thread deadlocks during orientation changes by using non-blocking coroutines.
• Surface & Playback Fixes: Prevented video surface stretching when rotating while paused, fixed paused seekbar position updates, and eliminated frame flashes when switching videos.
• Scoped Storage Access: Improved external file playback compatibility using fallback content URIs for unreadable paths.
• Text & Input Fixes: File rename dialog now automatically places text cursor at the end (#197), and removed unnecessary haptic vibration on control long-press.

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mpvRex v4.4.1

mpvRex v4.4.1

Maintenance release: HyperOS subtitle fix, Simplified Chinese support, expanded Arabic translations.

🔥 Highlight: HyperOS Subtitle Fix

Fixed subtitles rendering without spaces (HelloWorld → Hello World) on Xiaomi HyperOS (Android 15 & 16).

✨ New

• Simplified Chinese (zh-rCN) support added (#224) — thanks @wcxu21!
• Arabic translations expanded for Shorts actions, ambient mode, and zoom controls (#225, #231, #232) — thanks @AhmedRX20!

🐛 Fixes

• Item-count plurals fixed in delete confirmation dialogs (#232)
• Hardcoded UI strings extracted into resources for full localization (#231, #232) — thanks @AhmedRX20!

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mpvRex v4.4.0

mpvRex v4.4.0 is here! This release introduces a beautiful new Glass Theme player UI, customizable circular seek animations, embedded cover art thumbnails, advanced zoom controls, a redesigned MoreSheet, significant playback performance improvements, and dozens of stability and localization fixes.

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🔥 Glass Theme Player UI

The entire player interface has been reimagined with a sleek glass-morphism design language:

• Glass Controls & Seekbar: Player controls, buttons, title bar, sliders, OSD, and slide-to-unlock all render with translucent glass backgrounds.
• Glass Seekbar Container: Seekbar and timestamps are wrapped in a unified glass container row with refined capsule paddings.
• Glass Speed Indicator: A compact glass-themed speed indicator with animated speed button transitions.
• Glass Shorts Controls: Shorts player controls now use the glass style with a toggleable back button and outlined tab icons.
• White Progress Bar: Added a toggle for a clean white video progress bar on the player screen.

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✨ New Features

• Mark As New: Introducing a new "Mark As New" media state — manually mark any video as New and it renders a forced NEW badge, even on older files. Watched state is cleared on last played, with active batch-based global last played highlighting for media and folders and per-folder watched/active highlight resolution.
• Circular Double-Tap Seek: Implemented a fully customizable circular double-tap seek overlay with configurable summary, default-on for new users, and smooth transition animations.
• Embedded Cover Art Thumbnails: Support for extracting embedded cover art and sibling external artwork as local video thumbnails (closes #158, closes #190).
• Advanced Zoom Controls: Independent video scaling and black bar removal controls. (Thanks @jhaiian!)
• MoreSheet Tabs: Added Aesthetics, Gestures, and Controls tabs to the MoreSheet bottom sheet with preference-style orientation selector.
• Bottom Controls Layout: Added bottom controls below seekbar and "Show controls on play start" toggle to ControlsTab.
• Add to Playlist in Library: Enabled "Add to Playlist" action in Media Library view mode.
• Playlist Grid Columns: Playlist grid now respects folder column settings with center-aligned folder titles.
• Updated mpv-lib: Bumped mpv-lib to v0.0.7 and replaced local AAR with remote dependency from GitHub Pages.
• Spanish Translation: Updated Spanish translation and fixed typos in GPU error messages (#214). (Thanks @FFSA47!)
• Arabic Translation: Continued Arabic localization with new strings, pluralization fixes, and hardcoded string extraction (#196, #201, #219). (Thanks @AhmedRX20!)
• i18n Hardcoded Strings: Extracted hardcoded strings in player controls, Advanced settings, PlaylistSheet, About, ConfigEditor, Appearance, and Gesture screens (#192, #202, #204, #208, #211). (Thanks @AhmedRX20!)

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⚡ Performance & Optimizations

• Per-Instance MPV Observers: Observe all UI-consumed properties (time-pos, duration, tracks) per-instance to survive background resume and prevent frozen UI.
• Gesture JNI Elimination: Eliminated per-event JNI reads during pan and zoom gestures for smoother interaction.
• Reactive StateFlow: Replaced volatile polling loop with reactive StateFlow in MainScreen and consolidated playback state observers into debounced flows.
• Coroutine Sub-Seek: Replaced handler delay with coroutines for mpv sub-seek position diff calculation.
• Theme Palette Update: Updated default theme palette to match app logo color #3B82F6.
• Grid/List Styling: Left-aligned grid view card elements, aligned font weight with list view, and made scrollbars conditional and fixed size.
• Default Preferences: Pan/zoom disabled by default for new installs; seekbar style defaults to Standard; showSeekBarWhenSeeking disabled by default.

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🐛 Stability & Bug Fixes

• Native Teardown Crash: Synchronized libmpv native teardown and surface detachment to prevent crashes (Fixes #216).
• ANR Prevention: Added bounded timeout to runBlocking in onDestroy to prevent UI thread ANRs.
• Frame Flash Fix: Suppressed first frame flash during video switching and on video resume using paused load.
• Subtitle Deletion Bug: Prevented local subtitle file deletion on track remove and wrapped download response in use block.
• Playback State Lookups: Prioritized file path matching over display name in playback state lookups.
• Slot-Table Corruption: Hoisted conditional remember and LaunchedEffect calls to prevent slot-table corruption in file browser and Shorts player.
• Browser Selection: Persisted selection manager across reloads, fixed hard refresh on resume, and aligned card/list selection outlines.
• Seek Layout Clipping: Eliminated circular seek layout bounds clipping during transitions and fixed chevron glitch.
• Navigation Bar Padding: Conditionally applied bottom navigation bar padding to player controls.
• Subtitle Source Fix: Selecting "All" subtitle sources now correctly checks all sources (#198). (Thanks @sharifmdathar!)
• Pluralization Fix: Fixed Arabic/Spanish plural handling for horizontal video duration string (#217). (Thanks @AhmedRX20!)

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mpvRex v4.3.0

mpvRex v4.3.0 introduces a major overhaul of the Shorts player with advanced filters and UI controls, M3U playlist loading, interactive playlist drag-and-drop reordering, theme transition animations, and extensive localization enhancements.

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🔥Overhauled Shorts Player

We have completely redesigned the Shorts player experience to be faster, highly configurable, and visually seamless:

• Session Free Mode & Speedups: Lock the overlay sheet, trigger side double-tap speedups, and run in session-wide Free Mode.
• Clean UI Mode: Relocated the back button and added a Clean UI Mode that hides all overlays during active playback.
• Directory Source Filters: Select exactly which folders are scanned and watched for Shorts content (#127).
• Reactive MPV Observers: Replaced CPU-heavy JNI polling loops with reactive MPV property observers, reducing battery drain and improving responsiveness.

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✨ New Features

• M3U Playlist Support: Support for loading M3U playlists and custom stream titles.
• Drag-and-Drop Reordering: Drag-and-drop playlist reordering and multi-selection deletion (selected items highlighted in red).
• Recent Links: Added a "Recent Links" section in the Network Streaming screen for quick access.
• Controls Preference: Added a preference option to show controls on play start.
• Video Zoom Restored: Restored the dedicated VIDEO_ZOOM button and VideoZoomSheet controller (#157).
• Shorts Source Filters: Added directory selection source filters for Shorts to scan only chosen folders (#127).
• Delete Shorts Option: Added a delete short option with safety release handle.
• Theme Transition Animation: Added a premium circular reveal transition animation when toggling between light and dark themes.
• Arabic Translation: Completed full Arabic localization (#159, #172, #178). (Thanks @AhmedRX20!)
• Bengali Translation: Added full Bengali (BD) language translation and Droidlate metadata.
• Droidlate Workflow: Introduced the Droidlate translation workflow and detailed contributing guidelines (#179).

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⚡ Performance & Optimizations

• Shorts Scanning: Optimized scanner performance and resolved zero dimensions metadata bug.
• Theme Toggle Performance: Optimized theme circular reveal transition performance and correctness.
• Explorer Spacing: Reduced in-between spacing of explorer list/grid items for a more compact and elegant layout.
• Playlist Layout: Removed customMaxWidth from the playlist sheet to match standard sheet width.
• Resource Cleanup: Pruned untranslatable strings from localized resources.

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🐛 Stability & Bug Fixes

• Tree View Progress Bars: Fixed progress bars not displaying in the Tree (file manager) view (#177). (Thanks @dmitriy-bty!)
• Chapters Auto-scroll: Fixed repeated auto-scroll triggering when navigating chapters.
• Playlist Referrer: Fixed playlist navigation and referrer leaking on stream changes.
• Shorts Race Conditions: Resolved stale video loading race condition on entry to Shorts.
• Externalized Strings: Extracted dozens of hardcoded strings in dialogs, sheets, and activities to strings.xml (#160, #169, #174, #184, #187, #189). (Thanks @AhmedRX20 and @mattvanhorn!)

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mpvRex v4.2.1

mpvRex v4.2.1 introduces manual video zoom and pan controls, unified view option toggles across sort dialogs, deconflicted panning gestures, and essential stability and navigation fixes.

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✨ New Features

• Manual Zoom & Pan Sliders: Added interactive sliders for Zoom and Horizontal Pan adjustments inside the Aspect Ratio Sheet. Toggling the "Custom..." chip dynamically reveals custom aspect ratio inputs.

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🛠️ Fixed & Improved

Preferences & UI Refinements

• Unified View Option Toggles: Standardized the availability and order of the 12 visibility preference toggles (such as Path, Duration, Resolution, Date, Progress Bar, and Subtitle Indicator) across Folder, Video, and FileSystem sort dialogs.

Gestures & Controls

• Panning Deconfliction: Resolved an issue where single-finger panning when zoomed conflicted with vertical swipe gestures for volume, brightness, or seeking.

Browser & Navigation

• View Mode Navigation: Automated popping to the root backstack when changing view modes, and enabled view option toggles inside Tree subdirectories.
• Auto-scroll Persistence: Fixed a bug where auto-scrolling to the last played video reset the scroll state on back navigation.
• Tree Mode Playlist Sorting: Fixed playlist playback order in Tree mode by correctly sorting sibling files using tree sorting preferences.

Documentation

• Weblate Translations: Added a dedicated translations contribution section to the project README.
• Feature Overview: Refined, modernized, and organized the feature presentation inside the main README file.

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mpvRex v4.2.0

mpvRex v4.2.0 introduces major battery and performance optimizations, seek cancellation support, a keyboard-free Sleep Timer bottom sheet, and interactive gesture tutorials.

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🔥 Highlighting: Battery Optimization

Significant reduction in CPU overhead and playback battery consumption.

• Battery Optimization: Major reduction in CPU overhead and playback battery consumption.

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✨ New Features

• Seek Cancellation: Implemented intuitive seek cancellation gesture with dynamic pointer scale animations (#139).
• Keyboard-Free Sleep Timer: Refactored the Sleep Timer dialog into a touch-friendly, keyboard-free bottom sheet.
• Seek Capsule OSD: Re-engineered double-tap seeking feedback into a clean, modern capsule-style overlay positioned at the top of the player.
• Gesture Tutorials: Added interactive onboarding tutorials (PlayerTutorialManager) to help users learn the speed lock and subtitle drag-to-reposition gestures.
• Custom Audio File Picker: Added a custom audio file picker dialog to easily select and load external audio tracks.
• Dynamic A-B Loop & Floating Frame Navigation: Added vertical bias adjustments for the A-B loop interface and refactored Frame Navigation controls into a non-colliding floating overlay.
• Refactored Pan & Zoom Toggle: Moved the Pan & Zoom toggle directly into Player Settings, removed the dedicated zoom button/sheet, and automated zoom resetting when switching video aspect ratios.

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🛠️ Fixed & Improved

Performance Optimizations

• Battery Optimization: Substantially reduced CPU overhead during video position tracking, significantly improving playback battery life.
• UI Responsiveness: Polished rendering and layout calculations for player controls and the seekbar to ensure smooth, stutter-free playback navigation.
• Wavy Seekbar Animation: Offloaded seekbar flattening animations to prevent any blocking of the main UI thread during seeking.
• Foreground Service Optimization: Only starts the playback service in the foreground when the app is backgrounded, reducing active system resource footprint.
• Verbose Logging Cleanup: Restricted detailed background logs to debug builds only, reducing execution overhead in production.

Preferences & UI Refinements

• Layout Updates: Refined default player preferences and polished the control bar layout for better usability.
• Flicker Reduction: Prevented folder list flickering in the tree view by delaying the initial load until the storage root path is fully resolved.
• Branding & Links: Updated the permission request dialog branding from mpvEx to mpvRex and updated the GitHub repository URL.
• Localization: Updated the Spanish translation strings for various player preferences (#142).

Stability & System

• ViewModel Crash Fix: Resolved a startup crash caused by the initialization order of properties inside the browser viewmodels.

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mpvRex v4.1.0

mpvRex v4.1.0 brings HDR-to-SDR tone-mapping (hdr-toys) shader support, a complete package namespace refactor, refined player gesture controls with edge-swipe protection, and critical stability fixes.

✨ New Features

• HDR-to-SDR Shaders Integration: Added complete hdr-toys GLSL shader support for tone-mapping and gamut-mapping, configurable via Decoder Preferences.
• Hide Player OSD Text Preference: Added a setting to hide the default mpv OSD text during seeking or gesture seeking, which also dynamically suppresses the custom double-tap and gesture seek text overlays for a distraction-free screen.

🛠️ Fixed & Improved

Player & UI Refinements

• Edge Swipe Protection: Excluded screen edges (24dp) from triggering volume and brightness gestures to prevent conflicts with Android's system back and home gestures.
• Enhanced Gesture Controls: Improved volume/brightness sensitivity, resolved conflicts with zoom panning gestures, and tuned panning speed (#87).

Browser & Discovery

• Auto-Scroll Alignment: Aligned folder auto-scroll matching index logic with highlight checking rules to correctly scroll to the recently played folder in list views.

Stability & System

• Fixed Large Number Sorting Crash: Resolved an IllegalArgumentException in comparison utility functions when sorting files with extremely large numbers in their names.
• Fixed ViewModel NPE: Resolved a NullPointerException initialization crash in BaseBrowserViewModel.

Project & Build

• Package Namespace Refactoring: Migrated the application namespace to xyz.mpv.rex and relocated all source files under main/kotlin for a cleaner Kotlin-first project structure.

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mpvRex v4.0.0

mpvRex v4.0.0 introduces a fully unified strategy-driven explorer browser, interactive subtitle repositioning, a complete UI redesign of the Sort & View dialogs with improved contrast hierarchy, a new Community Hub, a brand new animated splash screen, massive SMB performance improvements, and critical stability fixes.

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🔥 Highlighting: Unified Browser Explorer

We have completely rewritten and unified all file, folder, tree, and playlist browsers into a single strategy-driven UI component.

• Consistent Experience: Unifies layout structure, list/grid styles, search behaviors, and gesture controllers across all browsing interfaces.
• Grid View in Tree View: Thanks to the unified explorer architecture, Tree View now fully supports grid layout mode alongside the classic list mode.
• Layout Flexibility: Adds independent list/grid section layout settings for Tree View, and restores proper scroll-to-top behaviors.
• Intuitive Discovery: Restores watched/unplayed folder dimming, last-played media highlighting, and unplayed badges.

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🔥 Highlighting: Reimagined Folder Cards & Icon Aesthetics

We have redesigned the core folder browsing visual rhythm to feel cleaner, more responsive, and modern:

• Minimalist Card Layout: Removed the heavy background container boxes from folder card icons to establish a more open, lightweight, and modern browsing layout.
• Softer Folder Accent: Softened the folder icon color by reducing its alpha opacity to 0.5f, ensuring it blends harmonized with dynamic system colors instead of drawing excessive attention.
• Tactile Touch Ripples: Restructured touch ripple propagation to prevent cut-off feedback, ensuring smooth and satisfying visual responses across the entire card surface.

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🔥 Highlighting: Modern Redesigned Sort & View Dialogs

The Sort & View Dialogs have received a major aesthetic and structural overhaul to maximize screen space and reduce visual load.

• Surface Contrast Hierarchy: Redesigned brightness levels (Dialog background -> Section cards -> Active controls) to enhance UI depth, improve readability, and prevent eye strain.
• Unified Chip Filtering: Cleaned up the fields filter section by introducing unified, elegant chips that align perfectly with the modern M3 guidelines.
• Duration Sorting: Added duration-based sorting (Shortest/Longest) for folders and videos in the browser views.

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✨ New Features

• Interactive Subtitle Drag & Position: Drag subtitles up or down directly on the screen for custom positioning during playback (#114). (Thanks @s-shahriar!)
• Community Hub Dialog: Toggle a dedicated Community Hub shortcut and view community links and icons directly in the Tree and Media View headers.
• Quick Copy Options: Copy folder paths, video paths, or file paths directly from the selection mode top bar (#116).
• Default Disabled Subtitles: Added a preference setting to disable subtitles by default (#129). (Thanks @s-shahriar!)
• Range Multi-Selection: Select multiple items instantly in the browser using long-press selection gestures.
• New Splash Screen & Brand Styling: Modern animated splash screen supporting light/dark themes, updated brand vectors, and fresh launcher icons.
• Path Breadcrumbs: Added a preference to toggle folder path breadcrumbs in Tree View.
• Spanish Translation: Added full Spanish language localization (#109). (Thanks @FFSA47!)

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⚡ Performance & Optimizations

• SMB Speedup & Network Proxy Thumbnails: Overhauled thumbnail extraction, uncapped SMB network bandwidth, and routed network thumbnails through a local proxy (#48). (Thanks @farhan112k!)
• Expressive M3 Toggles & Refresh: Modernized pull-to-refresh gesture animations and preference toggles to animated, tactile Material 3 styling (#104). (Thanks @farhan112k!)
• Asynchronous Folder Loading: Pre-loads direct child folders and retrieves media metadata asynchronously, preventing UI stuttering on large libraries.
• Battery Saver Seekbar: Optimized seekbar rendering and segment end rounding to lower CPU usage and reduce battery drain.

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🐛 Stability & Bug Fixes

• Seekbar Thumb Dragging: Fixed progress bar thumb getting stuck during long seeks.
• Chapters Sheet Lockup: Prevented screen lock crash when opening the chapters list with null current chapter.
• Auto-Scroll to Last Played: Fixed auto-scrolling issues on launch in tree and folder views.
• Grid Scroll-to-Top: Resolved scroll-to-top not firing in grid layouts.
• MediaInfo Integration: Corrected app name identification and disabled external MediaInfo intent redirection by default.
• Playlist Reordering: Fixed playlist drag handles and card size resetting on screen exit.

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