v0.6.3
dopeIPTV 0.6.3
A stability-and-polish release: keyboard shortcuts across the player and
EPG guide, a calmer progress indicator, and a batch of playback
stability fixes — live streams reconnect on their own, a frozen picture
recovers, and moving the window no longer drops the stream. Behind the scenes
the app is now Flathub-ready (fully offline build) with fresh store
screenshots.
Highlights: keyboard shortcuts (player + EPG) · steadier progress indicator · auto-reconnect & stall recovery for live streams · no stream drop when moving the window · Flathub offline packaging.
Full release notes — click to expand
Keyboard shortcuts
- Global:
Ctrl+Gopens the EPG guide,Ctrl+Btoggles the sidebar rail,Ctrl+Shift+Mtoggles focus mode. - While the player is up:
Mmute,PPicture-in-Picture,Rrecord,Istream stats,←/→zap channels,↑/↓nudge the volume. Shortcuts stand down while you're typing in a search box. - In the EPG grid:
Njumps to now,Pto the playing channel,Enterplays the selected programme. - The full list lives in the Keyboard shortcuts section of the README.
Progress indicator
- The loading strip is now a steady indeterminate indicator instead of a percentage bar that could stick at "100%" or hang around after a load finished.
- A watchdog clears it automatically if a background job never reports back, so it can't get stuck on screen.
Playback stability
- Auto-reconnect — a live stream that drops on a network hiccup now retries quietly and keeps playing, instead of failing with "loading failed".
- Stall recovery — a watchdog notices a frozen picture (mpv idling mid-stream) and recovers it.
- No drop on window move — moving or reparenting the window (e.g. dragging between monitors) no longer tears down and rebuilds the video, which previously showed up as a stream failure.
- Longer network timeouts and mpv reconnect options for flakier providers.
Packaging
- Flathub-ready — the Flatpak manifest now builds fully offline from pinned, vendored Python wheels (only the running app needs the network, for streaming), plus a submission guide in
packaging/flatpak/FLATHUB.md. - Fresh store screenshots and an updated capture guide.
Full changelog: v0.6.2...v0.6.3