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@prehakanson-art prehakanson-art released this 19 Aug 18:29
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Everything that changed since v3. Two builds are attached, both unsigned — sign them with Sideloadly or your own tool.

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Accounts

  • New Accounts hub. Settings → Accounts now holds Orivio, Stremio, sync status, add-on health and backups in one screen, instead of scattering them across Integrations.
  • Stremio sync now goes both ways. Add-on collection, library, Continue Watching and Watched push back to Stremio as well as pull from it, on a 30-second auto-sync plus a Sync Now button. v3 only pulled.
  • Sign in with Orivio, Stremio, or both, from the same place, by QR.
  • Sync status you can actually read. A persisted log of the last 80 events (time, area, outcome), the pending queue, the last error, and a provider check you can run on demand.
  • Local backups. Export your add-ons, plugin repositories, library, Continue Watching and Watched as plain JSON and paste it back on another box — no account needed.
  • Add-on health check. Measures how fast every installed manifest responds, so you can find the slow or dead provider behind long Home and source loading. It only reads manifests; it changes nothing.
  • Export and re-import your add-on setup as a list of manifest URLs.

Sync fixes

  • Removed items stopped coming back. Library removals now go into a durable pending-delete queue with tombstones that get reasserted right before a pull. Previously a removal was only a debounced push and a 3-minute in-memory grace — kill the app, go offline, or let a token expire in that window and the next full snapshot resurrected the item permanently.
  • Continue Watching stops bloating. It's rebuilt from the account snapshot instead of piling up device-local rows that nothing ever cleared.
  • No more bare tt1234567 rows. Titles and artwork missing from Cinemeta are now resolved through TMDB by IMDb id and backfilled onto existing rows — without touching playback position, timestamps, or triggering a push. A real title is never regressed back to an id.
  • Stremio series pointers no longer fake progress. Stremio can store a series pointer with no runtime and no offset; importing those as 0/1s progress made hundreds of old library entries show up as in-play.

Playback

  • Fixed: the picture never came back after a pause. Any load following a pause — switching episodes, an Up Next advance, changing source or engine while paused, a failover armed while backgrounded — swapped the URL in and never opened it, because KSPlayerLayer.set(url:) only opens a stream while autoplay is still armed and pause() clears that flag. The 30-second watchdog fired, then every failover candidate died the same silent way until "every available source was tried".
  • Fixed: crashes on 4K and high-bitrate 1080p. KSPlayer's ThumbnailController unrefs a packet once per pass rather than once per read, so every read after the first leaked its buffer — the leak scaled with bitrate, not file size. Replaced with our own ScrubThumbnailer, which unrefs every packet, can be interrupted mid-read through an AVIO callback, carries a wall-clock budget, and caps thread count.
  • Fixed: the buffer ceiling was never enforced on Auto. The Auto profile skipped the byte cap entirely and relied on a seconds cap, which is bitrate-blind — 36 seconds of "unknown" tier is a few tens of MB on an ordinary stream and hundreds on a high-bitrate 4K one, which is what got the app jetsammed. On Auto the byte budget now acts as a ceiling that can shrink the seconds cap but never inflate it; an explicitly chosen profile still wins in both directions.
  • VLC audio routing. VLC never goes through KSPlayer, so a VLC-only session ran under tvOS's default soloAmbient — the wrong ducking, interruption and route policy for long video. It sets the playback category itself now.
  • Exit is immediate once you confirm it. The confirmation button is still the guard against a stray Back press; after that there's no extra display-mode wait.

Browsing

  • Content rating on the meta line (PG-13, R, TV-MA…) on every theme, in the APK's order: Type • Rating • Genre • Runtime • Year • IMDb.
  • Per-episode cast, plus a taller description on the focused episode card.
  • Up Next rows on Home, with remaining-time and new-episode badges on Continue Watching cards.
  • Artwork filled in on synced rows that arrived with none, from whatever the catalogs already loaded.
  • A slow add-on no longer freezes the app. Home hands over focus and sidebar input after the first frame instead of waiting for every catalog request to finish.
  • Apple TV HD (A8, 2 GB) drops recurring animation and compositing cost while keeping the artwork; focus stays legible through rings and borders.
  • Community Collections logo migration moved off the launch path — it runs when you open the screen, not when the app opens.

Also in v4 (landed after the v3 tag)

  • Collections: account-wide library with per-profile visibility, per-folder visibility with a profile drill-down, and switching whole collections off account-wide.
  • Collection focus artwork: animated GIF support with three quality modes, off by default on constrained boxes; static focus art; full-bleed covers and uniform row height.
  • Catalog pages stream into the grid instead of loading everything before anything appears.
  • Two-way sync propagates deletions, auto-syncs every 30 seconds, and offers a manual account sync.
  • Fixed an Apple TV 4K gen 1 freeze at launch, GIF choppiness/overflow/grey squares, doubled focus-art URLs, and made the 30-second auto-sync cheap enough not to stutter on A10X.

Known gaps. Series per-episode watched history still isn't synced from Stremio (it's a compressed bitfield that needs the full episode list to decode); movies-watched, all Continue Watching and all saved items are. Top Shelf remains off — it needs an App Group, which a free Apple ID cannot grant.

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