Nivio-v2.2.3

🚀 New Features & Enhancements

• Media Kit Core Engine Migration: Replaced the ExoPlayer-based better_player_plus engine with media_kit (using MPV/libmpv) for high-performance, hardware-accelerated video rendering, robust stream demuxing, and universal format support.
• Video Debanding (Color Smoothing): Added a new Video Debanding setting dynamically toggleable inside the player settings overlay and configurable globally on the Profile page. Reduces color-banding artifacts on compressed video streams.
• Premium Custom Subtitles Rendering: Integrated a custom overlay subtitle view with carriage return and null-byte stripping to prevent visual layout bugs. Exposed comprehensive configuration controls in both the player settings drawer and global Profile page, supporting transparent/semi-transparent/solid backgrounds and outline styles (drop shadow vs outlines).
• Wakelock Keep-Screen-On Integration: Integrated the screen wakelock (wakelock_plus) across both the main video player screen and fullscreen trailer player to prevent the device screen from dimming or turning off during video playback.
• Ultra-sharp 4K TMDB Artwork: Upgraded TMDB poster and backdrop media details to request maximum resolution original quality image variants instead of compressed w500 versions, resulting in crystal clear details on high-density and large screens.
• Unified Episode Header Title: Updated the TV show/anime player screen header to display the specific episode title and number (e.g. S1 E1 - Title) as the primary heading instead of the redundant show/series title.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Logic Improvements

• Android Back Gestures WebView Hijack Protection: Wrapped the fullscreen trailer screen in a custom PopScope and disabled the built-in YouTube player fullscreen button to prevent Android's native WebView predictive back gestures from intercepting navigation events and locking the user in the player screen.
• Faked PNG Download Headers Cleansing: Added stream detection and stripping for faked PNG magic headers prepended by Animepahe (Kwik) CDN segments, resolving "Failed to recognize file format" error loops when merging/transcoding TS segments via FFmpeg.
• Seek-Stabilization & Continue Watching Resume Fix: Fixed a timing bug where resuming media or switching tracks reset playback position to 0:00. Rewrote the seek scheduler to wait for initial stream packet decoding before executing seek commands.
• Local File URI Prefixing: Configured player loaders to automatically prefix absolute offline local paths with the file:// scheme to ensure compatibility with media_kit's format-recognition system.
• Dynamic Track Highlights & Local Cache Persistence: Fixed subtitle and audio track highlights inside selection panels to use ID/URL matching. Cached user choices locally to avoid double-tap selection latency.
• Unified Download Prompt: Consolidated multiple sequential download sheets into a single, cohesive "Download Settings" prompt featuring dynamic M3U8 video resolution parsing on server load and automatic selection of the highest quality track.
• Mojibake & Code Comments Cleanup: Scanned and purged corrupted Unicode characters (Mojibake comments e.g., âââ, •) project-wide, replacing them with standard clean formatting.
• Package Cleanup: Deleted the unused local /packages/better_player_plus library folder.

Nivio-v2.2.2

🚀 New Features & Providers

• Software Volume Boost (Up to 200%): Rebuilt the native Kotlin playback engine using Android's LoudnessEnhancer to support boosting volume up to 200% (+20dB gain) via swiping and D-pad/TV keys, complete with a visual orange-accented HUD.
• Custom Subtitle Loading & Persistence: Added options in player settings to load subtitles locally from your device (using native file picker) or paste direct URLs from the internet. The app securely remembers and auto-loads your custom subtitles on subsequent playbacks.

📦 Massive Dependency Upgrades

• File Picker Integration: Added file_picker (v12.0.0-beta.7) resolving complex win32 version conflicts and Gradle namespace errors.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Logic Improvements

• Screen Brightness Restoring: Fixed a bug where exiting the player left the device locked to the player's brightness level. Brightness now correctly resets back to system default upon exit.
• Downloader Subtitle Extraction: The direct parallel/sequential downloader now correctly downloads external subtitle tracks or extracts embedded ones into .srt format upon download completion.
• Subtitle Storage Auto-Cleanup: Deleting a downloaded video now automatically deletes its associated .srt file from storage, preventing orphan subtitle clutter.

Nivio-v2.2.1

🚀 New Features & Providers

• Brand New Anime Scrapers: Added powerful new streaming sources for anime, specifically Animetsu, Animex, and Miruro.
• Miruro Bypass Service: Implemented a brand new, dedicated Cloudflare bypass service specifically tailored to handle Miruro streams.
• New Nivio server Migration: Successfully ported and upgraded from the old net11 servers to the brand new Nivio (net27) servers for improved streaming stability and speed.

🗑️ Deprecations & Removals

• Killed AnimePahe: Completely wiped out the AnimePahe scraper, including its complex Cloudflare bypass widgets and kwik_extractor_service.dart.
• Removed Kwik Player: The legacy kwik_native_player.dart has been entirely removed from the project as part of the move away from Animepahe.
• NewTV Cleanup: Stripped down newtv_scraper.dart, removing over 700 lines of bloated or legacy scraping logic.
• Media Kit: Removed media_kit, media_kit_video, and media_kit_libs_video from the dependencies.

📦 Massive Dependency Upgrades

• Version Bump: App version upgraded from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1.
• Firebase Overhaul: Major version bumps for firebase_core (v3 to v4), firebase_auth (v5 to v6), and cloud_firestore (v5 to v6).
• Navigation & UI: Upgraded go_router drastically (from v14 to v17.3.0) and swapped out flutter_markdown for the actively maintained flutter_markdown_plus.
• Core Packages: Major updates to youtube_player_flutter, flutter_local_notifications (v18 to v22), package_info_plus, and connectivity_plus.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Logic Improvements

• Strict Anime Classification: Fixed global bugs where the app mistakenly treated standard Japanese live-action TV shows as anime. The app now strictly relies on the explicit mediaType == 'anime' flag from AniList.
• Crunchyroll Provider Page Fix: Solved the "Empty Crunchyroll page" issue by bypassing TMDB anime filters specifically for Provider pages. Japanese shows launched from TMDB provider pages will now seamlessly play using the robust standard TV scrapers.
• Build Fixes: Bumped coreLibraryDesugaring in Gradle to 2.1.4 to fix strict dependency requirements introduced by the new flutter_local_notifications package.

🏗️ Major Core Refactors

• Player Screen: Saw an immense 750+ line refactor primarily to strip out the old Kwik logic, adapt to the new stream result models, and fix provider selection logic.
• Download Engine: Over 1,000 lines changed across the download service and prompt to stabilize downloads and ensure compatibility with the newly added anime scrapers.
• UI Overhauls: Both media_detail_screen.dart and watchlist_screen.dart received 400-600+ lines of refactoring to support the new data flows and clean up the UI layer.

Nivio-v2.2.0

✨ New Features & Enhancements

• ⏩ Upgraded Skip Intro/Outro UI: The "Skip Intro" and "Skip Outro" buttons have been completely redesigned with a much thicker, bolder white background for a premium, highly visible OTT experience.
• 📦 Massive APK Size Reduction: Reduced the primary GitHub Release APK size from ~300MB down to a lightning-fast ~90MB! We introduced a custom Python stripper script to automatically generate Shorebird-compatible arm64-v8a APKs out of the universal .aab file.

🛠️ Bug Fixes & Improvements

• AnimePahe Native Stream Proxy Fix: Fixed a critical issue where direct .m3u8 streams extracted from Kwik (AnimePahe) were failing to play on the native media_kit player due to strict CORS and referer policies. Implemented a robust local HlsProxyService to securely proxy the master playlist and dynamically rewrite segment URLs with the correct headers, allowing native stream playback!
• "Lock Upp" Series Split-Season Fix: Fixed a major metadata mapping bug where highly popular split-season Indian shows (like Lock Upp) would fail to play because TMDB grouped their episodes entirely differently than source providers. The scraper now intelligently falls back and cross-references "Season 1" entries!
• Kwik Embed Provider Stability: Fixed a bug where viewing an Anime via the Kwik Embed player would mistakenly trigger a "Provider Failed" error and switch sources if a background Kwik analytics script failed. The engine now ignores harmless background HTTP 404s so the video plays flawlessly!
• Outro Skipping Edge Case Fixed: Fixed a bug where skipping the Outro would accidentally skip vital post-credits scenes in anime.
• Massive Codebase Cleanup: Purged a variety of dead code, unused providers, and redundant null-aware expressions across the downloads_screen, media_detail_screen, and download_service. dart analyze now reports 0 issues!

Nivio-v2.1.0

✨ New Features & Enhancements

• 🎉 Watch Party Chats & Reactions: The ultimate watch party experience is here! You can now chat in real-time and send live emoji reactions while watching movies perfectly synced with your friends!
• ⚡ Parallel Better Downloads: Completely revamped the download engine to support significantly faster, highly reliable parallel downloading!
• 📱 Picture-in-Picture (PiP) Support: The highly anticipated PiP mode is here! Watch movies in a floating window while multitasking. What's even better? Watch Party sync works flawlessly while in PiP mode!
• 🔗 Native Deep Link Sharing: Say goodbye to broken share links! Sharing a movie or show now generates an elegant web-redirect link that works perfectly across all social apps and deep-links directly into the exact movie inside Nivio!
• ❤️ GitHub Sponsors Integration: You can now accept donations directly! A shiny new "Sponsor Nivio" button with a pink heart has been added to the Profile screen. (Your repository also has a sponsor button now thanks to the new FUNDING.yml!)

Important

❤️ A Special Note on Donations

Nivio is built with love, sweat, and countless hours of coding. We've officially enabled GitHub Sponsors!
If you enjoy using the app to watch movies and anime, please consider tapping the Sponsor Nivio button in the app's Profile section. Every little bit helps keep the servers running, fuels the coffee machine, and ensures Nivio stays free, ad-free, and constantly updated! Thank you for your support!

🛠️ UI Tweaks & Improvements

• Share Icon Repositioning: Moved the share icon to a more convenient location alongside the other media action buttons for easier access.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Premature Download Merge Fix: Fixed a major bug where unstable networks would cause the parallel downloader to silently drop connections and prematurely merge incomplete files. The engine now features strict byte-verification and dynamically adjusts HTTP Range headers to seamlessly resume from the exact failed byte without corrupting the file!
• Audio Track Reversion Bug: Fixed a bug where resuming HLS streams would occasionally cause the player to abandon your preferred audio language and switch to an unnamed track. The player is now fully aware of dynamic chunk loading and strictly enforces your preferred track at all times.
• Player Exit Crash Fix: Fixed a "Bad state" crash that occurred when backing out of the video player, caused by attempting to read Riverpod providers while the widget was unmounting.
• Video Player UI Crash Fix: Fixed a layout rendering exception in the custom player controls that caused a solid white error overlay to appear instead of the video.
• Anime Batch Download Quality Selector: Fixed a bug where batch downloading a full season of anime would skip the quality/language selector. It now correctly prompts you to choose your preferred resolution and Sub/Dub variation!
• Parallel Download Corruption Fix: Fixed a critical bug where anime episodes downloaded via the new parallel engine would sometimes be corrupted or unplayable due to missing FFmpeg packet-fixing flags. The parallel engine is now just as bulletproof as the sequential one.
• Auto-PiP Glitch Fixed: Fixed an extremely annoying bug where the app would mistakenly enter Picture-in-Picture mode even after you fully backed out of the player and went to the home screen. PiP will now strictly only trigger if the video player is actually open!
• System UI Navigation Fix: Fixed a UI glitch where swiping back from the video player would cause the Android bottom navigation bar to permanently stick on the screen. The app now properly re-applies immersive mode to stay full-screen!

Nivio-v2.0.1

✨ New Features & Enhancements

• 🧠 Smart Preferences Memory: The player now securely remembers your manually selected Audio Track, Subtitle Track, Video Quality, and Streaming Provider (e.g. Netflix vs Amazon) on a per-movie/per-show basis, automatically applying them the next time you hit play!
• 🖼️ Cinematic Continue Watching: The "Continue Watching" row now elegantly uses horizontal thumbnails (backdrops) for both Movies and TV Episodes instead of standard vertical posters.
• 📡 Live TV Multi-Playlist: You can now add an infinite number of IPTV M3U playlists at the same time and switch between them using the new Playlist Manager!
• ❤️ Live TV Favorites: Tap the heart icon on any channel to instantly save it. Your favorites will now automatically pin to the very top of your channel list!
• 🗂️ Live TV Filtering: Easily filter your Live TV channels to show only your Favorites with the new dropdown category option!
• 📱 Native Playback: Brought native playback to both anime and movies for a smoother, superior viewing experience!
• 🎉 In-App Changelog: Added an elegant, auto-triggering popup to view release notes directly in the app!
• 📥 Full Download Support: You can now download your favorite movies and anime episodes for offline viewing!
• 🎥 Brand New Video Player: A completely rebuilt and improved video player experience!
• ⏩ Double-Tap Seeking: Polished incremental double-tap to seek (10s, 20s, 30s) just like Netflix!
• 🔠 Subtitle Resizing: Added the ability to dynamically resize subtitles for a perfectly tailored viewing experience!
• 📺 Better Studio Screens: Overhauled the studio screens for OTT platforms giving them a much more premium look!
• 🎬 TV Show Episode Titles: The player now beautifully displays the specific episode title while you're watching!
• 🛡️ Animepahe Bypass Indicator: Added a visual indicator when bypassing Animepahe's Cloudflare protection!
• 🗂️ Provider Categories: Added better categorization to easily find and switch between stream providers!

🛠️ Bug Fixes & Under the Hood

• 🔄 Provider Stability: Fixed a player crash that occurred when rapidly switching between streaming providers.
• 🎧 Dynamic Track Switching: Fixed dynamic audio and subtitle track switching specifically for anime!
• 🎌 Animepahe Improvements: Massive under-the-hood fixes for Animepahe direct streams, mapping, and stability!
• 🚀 Performance Boosts: Completely refactored IPTV data storage to the local device drive to prevent memory-limit crashes on massive 30MB+ playlists!
• ⚡ Smoother UI: Fixed several UI jank issues for buttery smooth scrolling across the app!
• ⏱️ Watch Tracking: Fixed and improved watch history tracking so you never lose your place!
• 🔧 Provider Fixes: Fixed and improved the bypass for direct providers and the episode picker!
• 💾 More Reliable Downloads: Improved download stability for anime and general media!

Nivio - v1.1.2

Changed theming and ui.
Added more direct providers.
Implemented watch parties.
Better controls for player.

Nivio-1.0.0+1

ui updates and ota integration

Nivio

1. Added caching to reduce network usage and api calls.
2. Added autoplay to next episode after an episode is totally over.
3. Added a episode switcher or lister at the top of the player screen.
4. Added google authentication for watchlist support throghout all your devices.
5. Added Notifications for release of new episodes of your watchlisted shows or release of your watchlisted movies.
6. Better watch history tracking accurate to 5 seconds.
7. Skip intro and outro only for anime.
8. Fixed windows specific fullscreen bug.

Nivio

v1

Readme update