v0.7.0

dopeIPTV 0.7.0

The timeshift & catch-up release: scrub back into a channel's archive on a
live timeline, pause live TV, or jump to a specific past programme — plus
a reminders manager, search everywhere, customizable keyboard
shortcuts, and rock-solid video by default.

Highlights: live timeline to scrub the archive · DVR pause · play a specific past programme · archive-depth learning · reminders manager · category & left-column search · customizable keyboard shortcuts · software decode by default (hardware opt-in) · editable recordings.

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Timeshift, catch-up & DVR

• Live timeline on timeshift channels — scrub back into the provider's archive and watch what already aired.
• DVR-style pause — pause live TV and resume behind live; the player shows how far behind live you are and drops the LIVE tag the moment you pause.
• Pick a specific past programme from the guide and play just that show, with a seek bar clamped to the programme's own length.
• Archive-depth learning — the app learns how far back each channel really reaches, adapts the “go back” span to it, and recovers gracefully from over-deep requests instead of dropping the channel.
• Catch-up from History, a Go-live button, amber timeshift markers, and arrow-key scrubbing (fine-seek inside a segment, Shift+arrow for a coarse step).
• Per-channel reset — right-click a timeshift channel to clear its learned archive state.

Reminders & guide

• Reminders manager — find, review and multi-delete programme reminders in one place.
• Programme search across the whole guide — find a show by name anywhere in the EPG.
• Configurable “upcoming programmes” in the detail pane (default 5, adjustable), plus a guide Close button and deeper EPG fetches.

Search everywhere

• Category search — match category names and the channels inside them, with smart ranking.
• Left-column search in Favorites, Watch Later, Watched, Recordings and History.
• Jump-to-now-playing also selects the playing channel's category.

Keyboard & navigation

• Customizable keyboard-shortcuts editor with sensible per-OS defaults.

Video & playback

• Software decoding is now the default — like standalone mpv. Modern CPUs handle even 4K 10-bit HEVC/HDR comfortably, and it's immune to the GPU/driver render hazards that could black out hardware-decoded video with subtitles (e.g. the nvidia-open stack).
• Hardware decoding is an opt-in setting (Settings → Playback → Video), with mpv's software fallback as a safety net for genuine decoder failures.
• Video filters — optional deinterlace, sharpen and HDR tone-mapping, plus a Video menu in the in-player options.
• Faster channel switching via a light stream probe for live zapping.

Recordings

• Editable recording title & description, and recording stops cleanly when you switch the channel it's capturing.

Settings & polish

• Playback settings are grouped and scrollable, and scrolling the page never changes a control.
• Themed spin boxes (fixes the white-on-white “upcoming count” box) and a tidy Maintenance row.
• Fixed an exit segfault on newer Python; on macOS, arrow-key scrubbing works and Picture-in-Picture stays floating; audio no longer goes silent after switching a movie to a TV channel.

dopeIPTV 0.6.4

A stability-and-housekeeping release: 4K plays smoothly, the app no longer
bloats or slows down over time, and live TV recovers from drops on its own
— plus continue watching, EPG reminders, and a discreet update check.

Highlights: smooth 4K playback · caches that can't bloat over time · live auto-reconnect (with a toggle) · double-click to play TV · continue watching & reminders · discreet update badge.

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Smooth 4K & playback stability

• Fixed the periodic 4K stutter. The resume-position save was rewriting the whole multi-MB settings file every 12 s — it now lives in its own small file, so playback is never hitched by it.
• Fixed the video stutter when dragging the volume slider (and other quick settings): the big TMDB/Trakt caches shared that same file, so they've moved to a dedicated cache.ini and small writes are instant.
• Hardware decoding on by default (hwdec=auto-copy-safe) for smooth 4K across GPUs, with DOPEIPTV_HWDEC / DOPEIPTV_DEMUX_MAX / DOPEIPTV_VIDEO_SYNC escape hatches for tinkerers.
• Audio no longer goes silent after switching a movie to a TV channel (the audio track is reset per stream).

No bloat or slow-down over time

• TMDB caches are now capped so months of browsing can't grow them without bound.
• EPG guides are gzip-compressed on disk (hundreds of MB → tens) — both the raw guide and the parsed index.
• Orphaned EPG caches are cleaned up at startup — guides for playlists you've removed no longer pile up (this alone can reclaim gigabytes).
• New Settings → Playback → "Refresh guide now" and "Clear EPG cache".

Live TV

• Live streams reconnect on drop instead of freezing on the last frame.
• "Auto-reconnect live streams" toggle — turn it off on a single-connection/shared account so the app doesn't grab the connection back from another device.
• Zap conveniences: a "last channel" key and type-a-number to jump.
• Double-click to play a channel by default (single-click / arrow-key zapping is now an opt-in setting).
• Account status panel: expiry, days left, and connections for the selected provider.

Continue watching & Recently added

• Continue watching for partly-watched movies and episodes, with the series' artwork + name on episode rows — shown under both Movies and Series.
• Recently added — newest Movies and Series first.

EPG & reminders

• Programme reminders — get notified when a show starts, then tune straight in.
• Clearer loading: a centred spinner and a label that names exactly what's loading.

Player extras

• Next-episode button and auto-play the next episode at the end.
• Sleep timer — stop playback after a chosen number of minutes (presets or a custom value).
• Stats-for-nerds fixes (no more blank rows).

Trakt & Settings

• Simpler Trakt connect (connect via browser).
• Watched rows are named from Trakt's own title when TMDB has no match.

Polish & fixes

• Discreet update badge on the Settings button when a newer release is out (once-a-day background check; opt out in Settings → Interface).
• Sidebar rail collapses/expands smoothly within a single drag and snaps clean on release.
• Version numbers realigned, a latent startup crash fixed, and debug scaffolding removed.

Full changelog: v0.6.3...v0.6.4