1.3.19

Changelog

Player / Playback

• Core/Player: Possibly regain compatibility with Audio Offset Manager
• Player: Adjust resume point by user setting
• Player: Embedded subtitles: Fix parsing mis-tagged Kodi subtitle offset (stream tagged as "pt (BR)" for example gets parsed by Kodi as "pt-", which is invalid)
• Player: Avoid "skipping intro" blip when starting fresh with automatically skipping behind intro on start
• Player: After playback, wait 0.5s to allow for enough time for codec teardown (might hang with a black screen due to kodi dialogs otherwise)
• Player: Don't error on close when seekdialog is already deleted
• Player: Only fix embedded subtitles by short seekback if we're not CE p3i >= T2 (T2 fixes this issue already)
• Core/Player: Don't end up with a broken UI when playback failed due to missing file (wait for the failure dialog to be dismissed by the user, for up to 10 seconds)
• Core/Player: Fix double pausing on Alternate Seek and edge case (both cosmetic)
• Core/Player: Only switch LAV modes if not already LAV Full or SB

Seek / SeekDialog

• CoreELEC/SeekFix: Store reported seek player time and use it, if it massively differs from what the player tells us
• CoreELEC/SeekFix: Stabilize fast seek fix (thanks @peaceoutt32)
• CoreELEC/SeekFix: Wait until player actually paused when pausing for seek
• CoreELEC/SeekFix: Prefer reported seek time over reported current player time if set and valid
• CoreELEC/Seek back on start/SeekDialog: Implement a blackout screen during seeking back on start
• Core/Player/Blackout: Show blackout until seek completely done
• Core/Player: SeekBackOnStart: Add delay between forward and backward seek to give decoders time to stabilize (fixes VC-1 24p HW stuttering at least); default: 500ms
• SeekDialog/Episodes/Movies: Increase scroll speed for too-long titles (5/15 to 35)
• SeekDialog: Don't react to SELECT/ENTER events on skip marker buttons during seek
• SeekDialog: Allow pressing UP on the big seek chapter list with chapters disabled to access the skip marker button
• Player/Seekdialog: Pre-skip markers before the resume point to avoid race conditions with tick()

Seamless Branching / LAV / Codecs

• Core: Detect CE U3k builds above B9 that implement the alternative LAV filters for future auto-fixing of seamless branching titles
• Core/Player: Auto switch to LAV Full/SB if possible (CoreELEC U3k B9+ detected)
• Core/SB: Update seamless branching titles (thanks @korbus)
• Core: Detect avdvplus as dynamic seamless branching fix enabled build, starting with R2
• Core: Detect CoreELEC p3i build as auto seamless branching fix capable build
• VideoInfo: Show seamless branching state on audio streams of affected videos
• Core/Codecs: Improve JOC audio detection substantially in some cases; lower JOC bitrate likelihood to 736kbit due to Plex server calculation bug (was 768)

Episodes

• Episodes: Fill episodes after deletion (thanks @andybkma)
• Episodes: Fix long scrolling episode titles cutting off remaining time pill
• Episodes: Fix deleting an episode created a pagination placeholder
• Episodes: Drastically improve initial loading time of episode view (> x10)
• Episodes: Reduce wait on initial episode select
• Episodes: Fix To Show and To Section in rare circumstances
• Episodes: Be more resilient against missing item data and hung connections when closing window
• Episodes: Delay initial busy state for 2.5 seconds
• Episodes: Use thread for changing background on initial load
• Episodes: Improve load times by batch fetching all to-be-reloaded episodes' data in one go
• Episodes: Optimize task load order
• Episodes: Improve resilience against closing during initial load
• Episode: During initial load, wait up to 4 seconds before executing user actions and debounce other input during that time

Watchlist

• Watchlist: Adhere to new plex.tv watchlist limit of 100 items (was: 300; unannounced)
• Watchlist: Fix watchlisted shows "To Show" menu option error on other than current server
• Watchlist: Fix fully watched TV Shows not properly removed from Watchlist
• Core/Watchlist: Show notification once an item has been automatically successfully removed from the watchlist
• Core/Watchlist: Check for item watchlist existence before blindly trying to remove it
• Watchlist/Movies: Don't attempt to set codec info on watchlist items

Home / Hubs

• Home: Resolve old fixme for update exit event
• Home/LibraryHubs: Use poster view for in progress TV/Movie library hubs (was 16x9 view)
• Home/LibraryHubs: Add "Remove from continue watching" option to TV/Movie library's hubs in progress items as well
• Home/Main/UserSelect: Refresh home users when receiving a 401 from plex.tv when switching home users, as its protected bit might have changed (pin set), retry two times
• Home: Fix when entering a library quickly without showing its hubs, returning would show the wrong hubs
• Home: Reinitialize properly and update hubs when GoHome action was triggered by Home button bind
• Home: Consolidate multi list iteration for no reason
• Home: Fix hub stops paginating when returning from library hubs to home hubs without clean update

Library

• Library: Add PostersCompact and PostersSmallCompact views with no text (thanks @Rick_Williams)
• Library: Go home when screensaver is activated (saves CPU usage)
• LibraryWindow: Fix chunk callback edge case resulting in infinite recursion (rare case, when closing)

Movies

• Movies: Reload video info after clearing cache or refreshing metadata PMS-side
• Movies: Skip cache when reloading video info on reinit (returning from playback) (only when cache active)

Shows / Seasons

• Show/Seasons: Don't show fully watched state when an on-deck episode is being re-watched
• Episodes/Movies/Shows: Include or exclude directors in cast lists

PostPlay

• PostPlay: Fix wrong next-up item after re-playing the previously played item (e.g. played EP2, replaying EP2 from post-play, EP4 will be next up)

Settings (AddonSettings / User Interface / Video)

• Settings: Fix 'Video play completion behaviour' options and translations
• AddonSettings: CoreELEC Resume Seek Wait: Unclamp further down to 10ms, actually set correct default of 100ms
• AddonSettings: Add "Use alternate seek" prefer reported time; default: On
• AddonSettings: Add "Use alternate seek" wait for valid player time; default: Off
• Settings: Add setting to blackout the screen while seeking back to start (Default: Off, CE/LG: On)
• Settings/User Interface: Add setting to include or exclude directors in cast lists (user-setting, default: On (include))
• Settings: Add "Ensure Kodi Addon position" (default: On)
• Settings: Add setting to return home when screensaver is activated on a library screen (default: on)
• Settings/Video: Add setting for auto seamless branching LAV mode fix
• Settings/Videoplayer: Add setting to adjust resume points negatively on resume, to avoid lost content due to keyframes/seek behaviour (default: -3.5s)
• AddonSettings: Add "Seamless branching LAV mode (CoreELEC U3k B9+)", default: LAV SB
• AddonSettings: Allow specifying a custom background color (when dynamic backgrounds are disabled); overrides preset colors if set
• AddonSettings: Make Seek back on start delay configurable
• Main: Allow not showing any played/unplayed indicators at all
• Settings: Extend User Interface/Played indicators with option "None"

Core / Internal

• Core: Ensure we're updating our lastused value by running our plugin endpoint with a stub value after exiting
• Plugin-Endpoint: Support stub-run
• Core: Do not update lastused value when ran from plugin endpoint initially
• Core: Re-jig waitForOpen
• Core/SignIn/Auth: Fix wonky first start of plugin (home shown briefly after device auth and user select)
• Core: Future-proof template engine (ibis) (thanks @tuffghost)
• Core: Fix compatibility with Python 3.14 (3.14.2) (might break certain assumptions) (U3k B10)
• Core/Mixins: Implement TasksMixin
• Core/AddonSettings: Reduce default requests cache expiry from 7 days to 3 (increasing sqlite db size could yield diminishing returns)
• Core/Plexobjects: On data retrieval error, clear cache for item(s)
• PlexObjects: ListItems() and reload(): Allow returning and using raw etree data instead of parsing elements
• Seasons/Episodes/Movies: Postpone less important tasks to speed up initial load
• Main/Core: Show busy background on user switch

Theme Music

• ThemeMusic: Only locally cache theme music if server is remote (not on local LAN nor plex.tv/watchlist)
• ThemeMusic: When fading, only use sync/wait on final setVolume value, not on the intermediates (reduces blocking)

Translations

• i18n: Update Spanish and Hungarian translations