TVDB has no films, so ani.zip has no fanart or logo for one, and most of
the titles in a real library with nothing wide to draw were films. ani.zip
does name the TMDB entry of every AniList match. With a TMDB key stored
and AniList chosen, an entry left without a backdrop or a logo is asked
for /{movie,tv}/{id}/images: one request, by id, so no title name goes to
TMDB. A bare backdrop and a PNG logo in the viewer's language are
preferred, and a failure there only costs the art.
The TMDB key field is now offered with either provider, labelled optional
with AniList. TMDB as the provider fetches its logo the same way, and
backdrops at w1280 rather than w780. A forced run re-enriches hand-picked
titles too, so saving a key and matching everything again reaches them.
Scene releases name the episode in dotted words before their tags:
Game.of.Thrones.S01E01.Winter.Is.Coming.2160p... Read the words up to the
first quality, source or codec tag; a dotted run that no tag ends is not taken.
With AniList chosen, a title AniList has no match for is now searched on
TVmaze, keyless, before it is given up on. One provider for the whole library
left live-action shows in a share of anime unmatched, and switching to TMDB
would have dropped every AniList match, chain and shelf.
The service holds a chain of providers. A match is stored under the provider
that gave it, and enrichment and refreshes go to that provider; a miss is
stored under the last provider asked, and is_fresh only trusts a miss from the
end of the chain, so AniList misses stored before this are asked again at once.
A provider failure still ends the lookup instead of falling through.
The hand matcher searches every provider in the chain and labels each result
with its source. TVmaze is never offered in the settings and is not asked
about titles known to be films.
ani.zip sent each series' TVDB clear logo and every episode's running
time from the start, and neither was kept. Enrichment now stores the logo
in title_metadata.logo_url (kept across a refresh of the same entry, like
the fanart) and episode runtimes in episode_metadata.runtime, TVDB's
first and AniDB's length after it. AniList's duration lands in
TitleDetails::runtime; TMDB episode runtimes are kept too.
Schema v13 adds the two columns and marks AniList titles un-enriched
without deleting anything. TitleDetails::revision lets details written
before runtime existed refetch by id while the old ones stay on screen,
instead of blanking them in the migration as v10 did.
Clear logos are padded to a square, so each client crops them to their
visible pixels before drawing. The logo replaces the name on the
library's banner and the title page (not on a light theme's title page,
where lettering made for dark art can vanish). Episode rows show how long
they run, in place of the file size on Android and iOS; a film's runtime
joins its line of facts.
The preview drew every font in the app's own Inter, so picking one changed
nothing on screen. On Linux it now asks fontconfig for the face libass would
use — the family with the weight and slant wanted, or fontconfig's fallback
when it is not installed — loads it on a thread of its own and draws the
sample in it. A bold or italic the face lacks is made up, as libass does.
Windows and macOS have no fc-match and keep the app's font, as the hint there
still says.
The CJK fallback and the subtitle face are now both kept, so installing one
no longer drops the other.
mpv's default sub-ass-override, `scale`, hands an ASS track sub-scale,
and sub-pos reaches it under every mode but `no`. So with "Restyle
styled subtitles" off, the subtitle size and position settings still
resized and moved typeset dialogue and signs.
The override is now `yes` when restyling is off, which keeps sub-scale
off ASS. A styled track also ignores the style's position, and moves
only to stay clear of the player's controls. A frame from an ASS track
rendered with every other option changed now matches the untouched one
pixel for pixel. Plain (SRT) tracks still take the whole style.
The subtitle style was three fixed choices. It is now size, position,
font, bold and italic, free colours with opacity for the text, outline,
box and shadow, outline thickness, shadow distance and blur, and an
opt-in "Restyle styled subtitles" that repaints ASS dialogue too
(sub-ass-override=force). The defaults are mpv's own, so a viewer who
never opens the section sees no change.
Settings has a section of its own with a sample line drawn on a bright
and a dark picture. Every change also reaches the playing file at once,
and is written when the mouse is let go rather than once per frame of a
drag. The player's subtitle menu has size, position and a per-file
delay; Z and X shift subtitles by 0.1 s, as in mpv.
Every option is sent every time, so a change back to a default lands on
a live player. A refused sub-border-style still skips the border options
that depend on it, so an older libmpv loses the box rather than drawing
a smear.
The four Rebuild of Evangelion films in one folder were one series:
`- 1.11` read as episode 1, and every file took the folder's name, so
the whole folder matched a single film. A dash followed by a decimal is
now part of the film's name, and a folder whose files are all
unnumbered, outside any grouping folder and each named differently
gives each file its own title.
AniList needs every query word in a title, and a film's version number
is not in it, so a search that finds nothing is retried without it.
All four films now match their own entries.
Plain-text subtitles (SRT) were drawn in mpv's bare default, thin white
text that bright scenes swallow. Settings → Playback now picks a size,
an outline or a dark box, and white or yellow text. Styled (ASS) tracks
keep their own look and take only the size.
The box options are mpv 0.38's, so they are set best effort: an older
libmpv logs and plays on. The style syncs with the other playback
settings, and the Android bridge keeps the stored style instead of
resetting it on save.
The mark's box centred on x=73 of the 64-centred tile, so it sat visibly
right. It now centres x=70, between its box and its centroid, as the
Android and iOS icons already do. icon-256.png and the Windows .ico are
rendered again from the SVG.
Adapt sign-in to the 0.8 account API and use what it adds:
- Key passphrases are KeyPassphrases now, wiped on drop. The stored
session keeps its JSON shape and converts on unlock.
- The mailbox password is checked with AccountClient::unlock(), one
core/v4/users request instead of loading every address, and a wrong
one is recognised as ProtonError::KeysLocked instead of any
InvalidOperation.
- KeysLocked from a resumed session counts as signed out: the mailbox
password changed, and only signing in again derives passphrases that
unlock the keys.
- A sign-in Proton answers with code 2028 (Blocked) says so, instead of
showing the server text that claims the app version is outdated.
Also picked up without code changes: a token refresh that outlives its
caller and is never replayed (0.8.2).
Anime releases often carry two subtitle tracks in one language, the
dialogue and a "Signs & Songs" track, and the second is as often as not
the one marked default or forced. mpv, picking by language, played it.
pstr_core::subtitles reads a track's name and forced flag for whether it
is the dialogue, and every client asks it once per file, after mpv has
made its own pick, whether to switch to a track in the same language
that is. A subtitle track the viewer chose by name stays, and subtitles
that are off stay off.
fc-match reports a variable font's named instance in the high 16 bits of
%{index}. Fedora's variable Noto Sans CJK answered 262144, egui read that
as a face index, and panicked on the font it could not parse. Keep only
the face, and parse the fallback with skrifa first so a font egui cannot
read is left out instead.
Fixes#1
crawl_for_news crawls the shares due a look that were crawled here
before, and returns per title how many files first appeared during it and
the first of them. A share crawled for the first time is left out, since
every file in it is new.
The bridge's open_subtitles opens and publishes them and names the one to
turn on. The native player holds them until mpv has the episode loaded,
adds them with sub-add, and releases them instead when another episode
was loaded in the meantime.
A crawl now keeps .srt/.ass/.ssa/.vtt files and pairs each with a video by
name: the video's name followed by a dot or nothing, the same inside a
Subs folder, the Subs/<video>/ layout, and failing those the only video in
the folder. The words past the video's name give the language and the
picker's title. They go in a new sidecars table (schema v12), rebuilt by
every crawl.
The desktop opens them while mpv opens the video and adds them with
sub-add through the stream registry once the file has loaded. One in the
preferred language is turned on when subtitles are on and the file has
none of its own playing; the rest wait in the subtitle menu.
A transport failure's text is reqwest's "error sending request for url
(…)", and the cause sits further down its source chain. Error::describe
appends the causes and drops the URL, so the reason fits on a share row.
A crawl is hundreds of listings and the first failure ended it. The SDK
replays a timeout or a refused connection, not a request whose connection
dropped, which is what a phone sees after the OS tears down its sockets or
hands over between networks. A listing is read-only, so the crawl retries
it after 1, 3 and 9 seconds.
The bridge's open_stream started no fetch until mpv asked, so every
open was the head and then the tail, one after the other. It now warms
both edges as the desktop does, and the resume block too when the
episode resumes.
warm_episode fetches another episode's opening blocks into the cache
without playing it. Both phones call it for the next episode in the
last two minutes or once the credits start, as the desktop already
did, so autoplay starts from the cache.
Resuming loaded the file from the start and sought on FileLoaded. By
then mpv's demuxer had begun reading ahead from the beginning, so the
blocks the seek wanted queued behind ones fetched to be thrown away.
Player::play_from sets mpv's start option instead, and puts it back
once the file has loaded.
VideoStream::warm_resume fetches, beside the two edge blocks, the block
the resume position falls in, estimated from the running time saved
with the watch state. A video's bitrate is uneven, so it can land a
block off; then it is one block for nothing, against a round trip saved
when it lands.
Settings > Appearance offers 90% to 150%, applied as egui's zoom factor
so controls grow with the text. Ctrl+plus and Ctrl+minus already zoomed
through egui; what they settle on is now kept too, so Settings shows it
and the next launch opens at it. It lives in the desktop-only settings:
what reads well depends on the screen, not on the viewer's other
devices.
eframe now builds with its accesskit feature, so the widget tree reaches
the platform screen reader. Buttons drawn as an icon glyph were read as
the icon font's private code point, and the hand-painted ones (play,
poster tiles, the watched mark, download rings, the seek bar) as
nothing. A Named trait gives them a name, and hint() makes the existing
hover text that name.
A position save every five seconds marked the whole library view stale,
which re-grouped franchises, re-picked shelves and re-arranged the grid
on every save. Only the history and Continue watching lists move then,
unless the grid itself is filtered or sorted by watching.
ShareStore::rename changes only the name; the id that the catalog, watch
state and offline files are keyed by stays the same. Sync carries the
change as it does any other change to the share's register. The desktop
renames in the share's row. The phones rename from the share's menu.
Before, the name given at add time was permanent short of removing the
share.
The phones have had this, and the desktop could only set languages from
the player, after a file had already opened in the wrong one. Settings
now has an audio language and a subtitle choice: off, the file's
default, or a language. The names come from the list pstr-player already
names tracks with, now exported as LANGUAGES.
The library filter moves from the desktop into pstr_core::browse and
gains a Downloaded filter: titles with at least one episode kept on the
device. The bridge's arrangement() takes the filter. Android and iOS get
a row of filter chips above the grid. The choice is remembered per
device, and shelves stay hidden under a filter, as on the desktop.
The bridge gains stop_crawl(). A running crawl watches for it and returns
without an error. Shares already read stay stored, and a queue of new
shares stops instead of going on to the next. The activity banner shows
Stop while a crawl runs, because listing a large share can take minutes
and holds the connection the player wants.
- Turning metadata off or switching provider forgets every stored answer,
including matches chosen by hand. The desktop now asks first and says
how many hand-picked matches go. The phones' settings dialog says so
above Save.
- Forgetting a hand-picked match on the desktop, and any match on the
phones, is asked about first.
- Downloading a season, a show, or everything from a library tile asks
first, with the episode count and their size.
- Android confirmations that delete something use an error-toned text
button rather than the filled accent, which read as the safe choice.
- A link with a password of its own, added without one, now fails as
"This link has a password of its own" instead of the handshake's
refusal. The link's public flags are only asked for after a refusal.
The desktop form turns its password toggle on.
- After the first share is added, all three clients go to the library.
While that share is being listed, the empty library says so instead of
offering to add a share.
- The desktop library offers posters and synopses once there is a
library to put them on. The offer says what is sent, links to
Settings, never turns anything on, and "Not now" is remembered.
The click used to leave the viewer on the title page with a small line in
the bottom bar until the file had opened, which over a public link can be
seconds. The player page now comes up at once with the title's art dimmed
behind the episode's name and a spinner, and Back still works. A file that
fails to open goes back to the page it was asked from.
Filter, sort and franchise folding reset on every launch, so someone who
browses by Recently added chose it again each time. They are kept in the
desktop's own settings file, alongside the cache budget.
- A finished download on the desktop could only be deleted from the
Downloads page; watching it meant finding it in the library. Finished
rows gain Play, from wherever the library says it was left, and Open.
- Android showed "Queued" for a download WorkManager was holding back
on mobile data because of Wi-Fi only, or for want of any connection,
which reads as stuck. Those now say "Waiting for Wi-Fi" and "Waiting
for a connection".
Marking was per episode on the title page, or the whole title from the
library's menu. Someone joining a show at season three had to tick every
earlier episode one by one. Season headers now have Mark season watched
(or unwatched), and right-clicking an episode's tick offers Mark watched
up to here. Both go through one MarkEpisodes action with an Undo, which
SetTitleWatched now uses too.
A keyring that was reset, or a link password that changed, left a share
the desktop could only remove and add again, losing its catalog, watch
history and downloads. The phones have had a way back since B18; the
desktop's share rows now have Re-enter link, which stores the new
secret through ShareStore::replace_secrets, reopens the share and
crawls it.
- The full player overlay had no Stop: Esc leaves the page and keeps
playing, so ending an episode took a trip to the bar underneath. It has
a Stop button now, and stopping from fullscreen leaves fullscreen.
- `F` toggled the app's own idea of fullscreen, which the window manager
could change behind it (F11, a title-bar double-click). The flag now
follows the window.
- The speed menu stopped at 2x while `]` went to 3x.
Delete season, Delete show, the episode's Done badge and the Downloads
page's Delete all went straight to removing the files, with no question
and no undo - gigabytes of a season a misclick away. They now share one
confirmation that names what goes and says the share keeps the files.
The empty library said to add a link "under Shares, then refresh" with
nothing to press on the phones, and on the desktop only switched page.
All three now open the add form from there, the desktop with the caret
in the link field; and adding already crawls, so there is nothing to
refresh.
A share's name was required before the viewer had seen anything to name.
It is optional now: without one, ShareStore::add_verified takes the
shared folder's own name from the link it has just opened. The link
comes first in each form. The desktop form submits on Enter, and the
Android link field has an eye to check what was pasted.
No client crawled a share unless someone pressed Refresh, so a new
episode stayed out of the library until then, and nothing said how stale
the library was.
Catalog schema v11 adds share_crawls: when each share's last crawl
finished and was attempted, how many files it stored and how many were
new, and why the last attempt failed. A failure keeps the last good
crawl's numbers.
Every client now crawls, quietly, any share not looked at for six hours:
the desktop at launch and every half hour while open, the phones at
launch and on their existing catch-up timer. A quiet crawl says only
news ("anime: 3 new files") and leaves failures on the share's row
rather than in a toast.
Share rows on all three show "120 files - crawled 2 h ago", or the last
failure until a crawl succeeds.
Continue watching listed only part-watched episodes, so finishing one -
the most ordinary moment to want the next - dropped the show from the
shelf. Title::continue_with now reads the episode touched last: a
part-watched one is resumed, a finished one offers the episode after it
("Next: S01E04"), and one reset to the start (what leaving the shelf
does) keeps the title off. A few seconds of an episode are passed over.
The phones computed their own shelf from episode records. The bridge now
exports the engine's choice as TitleRecord.continue_index, and Play on a
title lands there on every client.
Undo on the phones re-saved a watch state with a fresh time, which both
reordered the shelf and could not express "never played". A new
restore_watch_state puts the state back as it was read.
The up-next countdown only ran over a credits chapter, so a file with no
chapters - most that are not anime - cut straight into the next episode
with no warning and no way to stay. Such a file now shows the same card
over its last ten seconds, counted on the file's own clock so it reaches
zero at the end of file, and its second button is Cancel rather than
Watch till the end.
On the phones, an episode that ends with nothing after it - the last one,
autoplay off, or cancelled - left a black screen. It now says so, with
Play next or Watch again, and Close.
Android also:
- saves the resume position from PlaybackService rather than the player
screen. With background audio on the service outlives the activity, and
a position only the screen kept stopped being saved when it went. A swipe
from Recents saves and stops instead of playing on with nothing to
return to.
- shows "Opening <episode>..." while the stream opens, where there was a
black screen for as long as the share session and block list took.
A file mpv gave up on partway ended the desktop player without a word:
the page went back to the title and the film was simply gone. It now
leaves an error toast naming where it stopped, with Retry reopening the
episode at that position.
The phone players already showed an error, but its only button was
Dismiss, so a dropped connection meant backing out and finding the
episode again. They gain Retry, which opens a fresh stream (through the
session refresh) from where the failed one stopped. A stall that lasts
twenty seconds now says so and offers the same, rather than showing
"Buffering…" for ever.
The age check and the one retry behind a refresh (B22) lived only in the
Android bridge. The desktop opened streams, offline copies and crawls
against whatever session the share was opened with, so a window left open
for a few hours failed to play or recrawl until it was restarted.
The logic moves to pstr-core as SessionAges, owned by SharedLibrary and
reached through SharedLibrary::reauthenticating. Both engines go through
it for play, warm, offline copy and (desktop) crawl.
Metadata was only fetched after adding a share (mobile) or from the
Settings buttons (desktop), so a show or episode that turned up in an
existing share stayed bare. Every crawl is now followed by a match run
when enrichment is on; `plan` makes no requests for a library that is
already matched. A stored episode guide is fetched again when a file
newer than it has no named entry, and daily for two weeks while an
aired episode is still unnamed.
Removing a share now carries its watch state to any other share holding
the same file, `pstr remove` drops the share's catalog rows, and the app
forgets catalog rows of shares no longer configured — an older `pstr
remove` left them, and every episode showed twice.
iOS, for a slow iPad:
- swipe back on a settings page uses its own edge strip; on the whole
page it also pressed the row under the finger and opened the metadata
sheet
- "Change match" from the tile menu opens once the menu has dismissed,
not after a guessed 350 ms that a slow device missed
- the activity banner tracks each running line by itself (also Android),
so overlapping work no longer leaves it spinning forever
- buttons, tiles and rows draw their press; marking watched shows at
once; remove/repair share, sign out and deletions show the banner;
the player says "Opening…" while the stream opens
- posters are read into a reserved buffer instead of a byte at a time
Sync carried only watch positions, so a second device started empty. The
per-installation history file now also carries per-key registers
(pstr-core::profile): every share with its link and custom password, the
playback, appearance and metadata settings, the TMDB key, hand-picked
matches and per-title track choices. Newer updated_at wins per key, a
removal travels as an empty register, and a first sync stamps at 0 so a
fresh install takes the library the other devices have instead of
overwriting it with defaults. Volume, mute and the device-only settings
(cache budget, Wi-Fi only, background audio, hardware decoding) stay out.
The secrets live only in the end-to-end encrypted Drive file, never in
shares.json. FORMAT_VERSION stays 1; an older build ignores the registers.
Adding a share stored it before opening the link, so a first failure left a
broken entry and every retry said "already configured". add_verified opens
the link first and stores nothing on failure, and only the new share is
crawled afterwards, so another broken share cannot fail the add.
Android drops picture-in-picture: the window sized the video wrongly and
background audio already covers leaving the app.
iOS sizes the Metal drawable on every layout, so the picture no longer
stretches after a rotation or a Split View resize. Settings show a save at
once rather than after the match run, and a failed save reverts and says
why. Both phone clients gain an activity banner naming what is running, and
the add-share, metadata and change-match forms show progress and errors in
place.
Moves to proton-sdk / proton-drive-rs 0.7.3.
The stored Proton session now holds, per account key, the passphrase derived
from the mailbox password at sign-in, and resumes through
`ProtonDriveClient::with_key_passphrases`. The mailbox password — on a
single-password account, the login password — and the key salts are no longer
stored. A session in the earlier shape, which only development builds of
1.2.0 wrote, reads as signed out: signing in again replaces it.
An account whose only second factor is a security key is refused at sign-in
with a reason, rather than asked for a code that can only fail as a wrong one.
The code prompts now say plainly that security keys are not supported.
- Desktop shows Proton's CAPTCHA instead of failing the sign-in: a wry webview
in a child process of the app (`pstr-app::verify`), confined to
https://*.proton.me, hands the token back and the sign-in is retried. Linux
packages and CI gain WebKitGTK 4.1; the Windows zip and MSI ship
WebView2Loader.dll, without which a -gnu build does not start.
- The desktop keyring splits a secret too long for one entry across several,
so a Proton session with many key salts survives Windows' 1280-unit cap.
Short secrets stay one entry, so every existing secret still reads.
- `WatchSync` runs against a small `HistoryDrive` trait and is tested end to
end against an in-memory Drive: two devices, newer wins, no re-upload of an
unchanged history, a missing file written again, an unreadable own file
never overwritten, a newer-format file left alone.
- An installation's file unwritten for 90 days is retired by the next device
to sync, after its entries are merged and carried in that device's file.
- Removing a share keeps its watch state: sync would bring it back from the
other devices anyway, and re-adding the share picks up where it left off.
- Watch history syncs once more on desktop exit (bounded to 3 s) and, on
Android, through a WorkManager job enqueued when the app leaves the screen.
- The second-factor prompts say security keys are not supported.
A Proton account is now optional alongside public links. Signing in (password,
then a second-factor code and a mailbox password where the account has them;
a CAPTCHA gate is solved in the Android app) stores one session blob in the OS
credential store under `proton-account`, writing back every refreshed token
since refresh tokens are single-use. With an account, folders of the viewer's
own Drive — My Files, other devices, shared with me — can be added as shares
through the same `ShareClient` surface as a public link.
Watch history syncs through a `proton-stream` device in that Drive: one
`watch-history/<installation>.json` per installation, so no two devices ever
write the same file. Each sync reads the others and merges per episode, newer
`updated_at` wins, with a deterministic tie-break. It runs at launch, after
sign-in, whenever the player closes and every five minutes. A session that can
no longer refresh signs the app out instead of failing on every launch.
The CLI gains `login`, `logout`, `account`, `browse` and `sync`.
Also in this change:
- Android offline downloads no longer look stuck (B64): two transfer at once,
through a copy stream with no read-ahead, with a smoothed transfer rate.
- Choosing a metadata match by hand now enriches the title too, instead of
keeping the old match's episodes and artwork.
The catalog schema is unchanged.
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