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@silirim silirim released this 08 Nov 13:57
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VodMax 0.6.13 lets you take films, episodes and recordings with you: the Android app copies them from your home server to the phone, an SD card, or a USB stick or disk on Android TV and Fire TV, and you watch them without a network, in VLC or any other player.

Copy to the phone or to USB

  • What can be copied: anything already on the server's disk. That covers titles from your local collections, finished server downloads and finished recordings. A title from your playlist is first downloaded to the server with Download, then On the phone appears. The provider gets no new request, and nobody watching loses their connection.
  • Where the buttons are: on a film page, on a series page (a whole season or single episodes), next to a finished recording, and on finished downloads. On Android TV and Fire TV the button is To USB and shows up when a stick or disk is plugged in.
  • Where the files go: on phones, Movies/VodMax by default, with readable names: Title (Year).mkv, Series (Year)/Series S01E02 - Title.mkv, Registrazioni/Title - Channel date time.mp4. With Choose folder you pick an SD card, a USB stick or a disk. Files stay visible to the Gallery, VLC and other players, and they stay when VodMax is uninstalled.
  • On TV boxes the first copy asks for the folder on the stick or disk. Where Android has no folder picker (probably Fire TV with Fire OS 7), VodMax uses its own folder on the stick and tells you that those files go away if VodMax is uninstalled. FAT32 sticks cannot hold files over 4 GB, and VodMax says so.
  • Progress: a notification on phones, and a new On this device section in Downloads (folder, queue, progress, Cancel, Clear), usable with the remote.
  • Away from home: the copy goes through the address the app already uses, Cloudflare tunnels included. It resumes where it stopped after a dropped connection or a server restart, and it never saves a login page in place of a film. The link of each copy is tied to the device and expires after 48 hours.
  • Wi-Fi by default: copies wait for Wi-Fi or a cable and never run in roaming. Turn on Copy on mobile data too in On this device to allow mobile data on that device.
  • Not in the browser, on LG TVs, in kids profiles, or when the Android app runs on its own without a server.

This is new and has not been tried on every Android version or Fire TV model yet. If a copy misbehaves on your device, please open an issue with the device, the Android or Fire OS version and what the copy said.

Updating

Update the server (vodmax-update, or the new Docker image) and the Android app: the copy needs both. The database does not change.

In breve

Con la 0.6.13 l'app Android copia dal server di casa film, episodi e registrazioni sul telefono, su una scheda SD o, su Android TV e Fire TV, su una chiavetta o un disco USB, da guardare senza rete con VLC o un altro lettore. Si copia solo quello che è già sul disco del server: il provider non riceve richieste. Di base le copie vanno solo su Wi-Fi; riprendono da dove si erano fermate, anche fuori casa. Servono sia il server sia l'app aggiornati. Il database non cambia. È una funzione nuova, non ancora provata su tutti i dispositivi: segnalate i problemi.

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