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Ventic 0.5.3

Your library follows you between screens. What you have watched, how far you
got, your favourites and your watchlist can now be kept in step across every
device — with no Ventic account and no server of ours in the middle. Under
Settings → Account, paste the address of a folder on storage you already have
(anything that speaks WebDAV: a hosted drive, a Nextcloud, a NAS, your own
server) and every device reads and writes one small file in it.

  • Two screens are merged, not one overwritten by the other. Removing
    something from a list removes it everywhere.
  • Three switches for what travels: watch history, sources, preferences.
    Preferences is off — subtitles sized for a laptop are wrong across a room.
  • Downloads, playlists and anything holding a password never leave the device.
  • It runs on its own: at startup, every few minutes, when a film ends, and
    whenever you put the app away or come back to it.

Fixes

  • Links from debrid sources play again. A resolved link was checked before
    playback with a request the webview wouldn't show us the answer to, so a good
    link was reported as "could not be reached" fifteen seconds later. Live
    channels and cast streams were on the same path.
  • Casting starts the film instead of spinning. Picking a device now stops
    the network scan first — 253 probes were competing with the television pulling
    the film. Casting the same film to the same screen twice works now too.
  • The pairing code is yours to choose — editable to a number you actually
    remember, or switched off entirely for your own front room. Still on by
    default.
  • Subtitle fonts do what they say. Roboto, Verdana and Georgia all drew as
    the same fallback serif in the preview and in the Android player.
  • Detail pages fit a phone. A film, an episode, a season and a person all
    opened with the poster stranded above a column of empty space.
  • Text fields can be walked past with a remote without Android's keyboard
    covering the screen. OK opens the field and brings the keyboard with it.
  • All 72 languages translated, including everything above.
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