Player settings on tvOS showed the previous video's tracks after queue
advance because availableStreams was never cleared on a video change and
playQueuedVideo only seeded a single pre-resolved stream. Reset the list
on a new video, then fetch the full streams in the background for global
videos, and repoint state.currentStream/currentAudioStream to the
refreshed entries so the picker checkmarks land on the playing tracks.
Lets the Apple TV switch its HDMI output to match the playing video's
frame rate and dynamic range via AVDisplayManager.preferredDisplayCriteria,
driven from MPV's container-fps and video-params/gamma. Two opt-in toggles
(default off) live under Playback → Display on tvOS; both are no-ops on
other platforms. Anchor an AVKit class symbol so the linker keeps AVKit
linked — Swift only autolinks AVFoundation here, and without AVKit the
UIWindow.avDisplayManager category isn't loaded at runtime.
If the MPV backend was retrying a failed load and the user switched to
another video before retries exhausted, the eventual error was published
to the player UI even though that video was no longer active. Guard the
catch block with a loadingVideoID check so stale errors are dropped.
When the same video was already loaded (typically paused), opening it
again via the URL scheme, a deep link, or a remote-control loadVideo
command did nothing — the player just stayed paused. Now the same-video
early-return path resumes playback if paused and seeks to the supplied
startTime, so timestamps from URLs and remotes are honoured even when
the video is already loaded.
URLRouter gains a parseTimestamp helper that reads t/time/start query
params in plain-seconds and YouTube-style (1h2m3s) forms, and the deep
link handler now forwards that timestamp through to openVideo.
Surfaces the existing iOS/macOS Background Playback setting in the tvOS
Playback settings, defaulting to off so audio stops when the user leaves
the app via the TV button. Pauses playback on .background/.inactive when
the toggle is off, regardless of audio route — the user's setting wins
over AirPlay/HomePod handoff. Also auto-shows the tvOS player controls
when returning to foreground so the paused state is immediately visible
and actionable.
On tvOS, registering MPRemoteCommandCenter handlers makes the system
classify the app as a long-form video media app. When audio is routed
to AirPlay 2 endpoints (HomePods), the system then enforces a ~2s
look-ahead buffer in the AVAudioSession → AirPlay 2 pipe for
multi-speaker sync. The result is a 2-3 second audio drain on pause
and refill on resume.
The buffer lives downstream of mpv, so no mpv command (ao-reload,
seek-flush, audio-add) can flush it; AVAudioSession setCategory
overrides (mode/policy) and setActive(false)/setActive(true) cycles
are also ignored once the app is media-classified.
Workaround: detect the active audio route via routeChangeNotification
on tvOS. While AirPlay/HomePod is the output, suppress
MPNowPlayingInfoCenter publication and disable every MPRemoteCommand
so tvOS un-classifies us. When the route returns to local outputs,
republish the cached Now Playing info and reconfigure remote commands.
A latch defers all media integration until the audio session has been
activated at least once, so no commands are registered before the
route can be evaluated.
Trade-off: while playing to HomePods, the Control Center widget and
external Siri Remote play/pause are not available — but pause/resume
is responsive.
Subscribe to mpv log messages and capture END_FILE error code/string so
load failures bubble up specific causes (HTTP 404/403, DNS failure,
demuxer errors) instead of a generic 10s timeout.
After iOS reinstall/restore the app container UUID rotates, which left both
the persisted source.url and the security-scoped bookmark pointing at a
no-longer-current path. Files derived a stale absolute path that got appended
onto the resolved bookmark, producing doubled URLs that MPV could not load.
- Resolve the base URL by picking whichever of the bookmark or source.url
actually exists on disk.
- Compute MediaFile relative paths against the resolved root so they survive
later container changes.
- Hold the security-scoped resource access for the source's lifetime via a
shared resolver, so MPV can open files long after the directory enumeration
that resolved the bookmark has returned.
- Normalize legacy absolute paths embedded in old recents/history video IDs
so they re-resolve under the current container.
Drop comments restating what the code shows; hoist allowSoftwareDecodedFormats
out of the recommendedVideoStreams filter closure so the bridge property is
read once per render instead of once per stream.
Lets the auto stream selector pick formats whose codec isn't hardware
decoded on the current device. Defaults off; when on, 4K VP9/AV1 can be
auto-selected on Apple TV models without those decoders. Software-decoded
streams also move into the Recommended section so the selection stays
visible without enabling advanced stream details.
The proxy auto-detect path (when proxiesVideos is off) HEADed a
googlevideo URL with a 5 s timeout on every video. The verdict is a
property of the network, not the video, so the cost was paid for no
reason on videos 2..N. On a network where the CDN is blocked the full
5 s timeout was added to playback startup every single time.
Two changes:
1) ProxyDetectionCache (actor, per-instance, 10 min TTL). First miss
pays the HEAD once and caches the verdict; subsequent videos hit
the cache synchronously. Concurrent callers share one in-flight
probe. The last-seen sample CDN URL is retained so future probes
don't need a fresh URL from the current video.
2) PlayerService kicks off InvidiousAPI.prewarmProxyDetection() in
parallel with the videoWith... API call. By the time streams come
back, the verdict is usually already cached and proxyStreamsIfNeeded
is a sync lookup. Cheap when there's nothing to prewarm.
Cache invalidation:
- on InstancesManager.update (URL change, proxy toggle flip)
- on InstancesManager.remove
- TTL covers the network-change case for now (no NWPathMonitor yet)
- Move Close to a top-right circular icon; bottom row reorganizes into
left (Settings/Info/Comments), center transport (Previous/PlayPause/Next),
and right (Queue) clusters with equal side frames so transport stays
geometrically centered.
- Introduce a circular icon-only `TVTransportButtonStyle` (primary variant
for Play/Pause) mirroring the new Close button look.
- Always render Previous/Next so Play/Pause position is fixed; dim and
disable when unavailable.
- Share `isTransportDisabled` on `PlayerState` and reuse it on iOS and
tvOS; apply it (plus symbol replace transition) to the tvOS Play/Pause
button.
Extract shared TimeInterval.formattedAsTimestamp replacing 8 identical
formatTime/formattedTime implementations across player views. Remove
unused currentTime parameter from GestureSeekPreviewView. Consolidate
duplicated geometry math in MacOSControlBar into seekPreviewPosition().
- Fix BGTaskScheduler assertion crash on Mac Catalyst by guarding all
iOS background task APIs with isMacCatalystApp check
- Fix iPad popover crash in UIPopoverPresentationController by adding
.presentationCompactAdaptation(.sheet) to all 27 confirmationDialogs
- Fix SwiftData assertion crash when accessing deleted Bookmark model
properties during SwiftUI hit testing in BookmarkRowView
- Fix UICollectionView invalid item count crash on queue swipe-to-delete
by using ID-based removal with withAnimation instead of stale index
- Fix Range crash in storyboard download when storyboardCount is zero
Adds a "Proxy videos" toggle in instance settings that routes video
streams through the instance instead of connecting directly to YouTube
CDN. Includes auto-detection of 403 blocks and live re-application of
proxy settings without requiring app restart or video reload.
Back the in-memory authorCache with a JSON file in ~/Library/Caches/AuthorCache/.
Disk is lazy-loaded on first lookup and saved asynchronously on each cache update.
Capped at 500 entries to prevent unbounded growth.
- Cache author data from video detail API responses (PlayerService, VideoInfoView)
- Replace ChannelView's private CachedChannelHeader with shared CachedChannelData
- Enrich author with cached avatar/subscriber count in VideoChannelRow, TVDetailsPanel, VideoInfoView
