v0.6.2
dopeIPTV 0.6.2
A polish release: a collapsible sidebar, custom colours across the app, a
smarter M3U/EPG setup, and a batch of fixes — Picture-in-Picture no longer
quits the app, the colour picker no longer freezes, and the mini player keeps
its size after fullscreen.
Highlights: collapsible icon-rail sidebar · focus mode · custom colours for nav, categories, items & favourite folders · M3U auto-EPG · EPG grid marks timeshift channels & flags the playing one · click the logo to jump to what's playing.
Full release notes — click to expand
Sidebar & layout
- Collapsible sidebar — fold it down to a slim icon rail with the ☰ button or Ctrl+B, or just drag its divider: inward collapses to the rail, outward expands it again. You keep the TV/Movies/Series navigation as icons and reclaim the width for the content — handy on small screens.
- Solo category — a small disclosure arrow next to "Categories" collapses the list to only the active category (tidy for screenshots), without touching the navigation.
- Focus mode — the ⤢ button (or Ctrl+Shift+M) hides the whole content list for a rail-plus-player layout. A slim arrow strip on the player's edge brings the list straight back, so it can never get lost.
- The content list now has a minimum width, so dragging a divider can't accidentally hide it.
- Click the logo at the top of the sidebar to jump straight to whatever's playing — it switches section, opens "All", and selects the row.
Colours
- Left-column entries (TV … History) can each be given their own text and background colour — right-click an entry.
- Categories can be coloured too; a category's colour tints its own row in the left column.
- Individual channels, movies and series can be given a personal text/background colour from their right-click menu.
- Favourite folders can be coloured, and that colour applies to every favourite in the folder — a quick way to colour-code a whole group.
- Every colour choice has a Reset, and colours persist between sessions.
M3U & EPG
- Automatic EPG for M3U playlists — dopeIPTV now reads the
url-tvg/x-tvg-urlguide URL from a playlist's#EXTM3Uheader, so a plain M3U URL brings its programme guide with nothing extra to configure (an explicit per-playlist EPG URL still wins). - Gzipped XMLTV guides (
.xml.gz) are now decompressed transparently. - The EPG timeline grid flags the channel you're watching (with a "Playing" button to jump back to it), marks channels that have catch-up with a ⏪, outlines the programme you pick, and offers "Play this programme" for a finished slot on a timeshift channel.
Convenience
- Refresh playlist is now one right-click away on the TV / Movies / Series entries in the left column.
Fixes
- Picture-in-Picture — pressing the window's close button while in PiP now drops back to the normal mini player instead of quitting the whole app.
- Fullscreen / PiP — the panel widths are restored on the way out, so the mini player no longer comes back stretched wider than before.
- Colour picker — no longer freezes the app on some Linux setups (it now always uses the in-app dialog).
- Keep your place — opening Manage categories, or recolouring a category, no longer snaps the category list back to the top; your selection and scroll position stay put.
- The version shown in About (and in the artifact filenames) is correct again.
Full changelog: v0.6.0...v0.6.2