Changes

What is New

Large update, addressing many bugs, implementing a new .ass subtitles renderer that is more accurate, dynamic library page sizing, faster loading times with caching for near instant navigation, a ghost mode to watch media without reporting playback if you quickly want to see a scene, profile pin lock thanks to @kyuuk, new icon pack thanks to @krishhari2105, Emby server support, and much more.

New Features:

• Implement libass-wasm .ass subtitles renderer used in jellyfin-web.
• Dynamic grid sizing in the library page, changeable from the view mode modal.
• Homepage caching for instant back without loading.
• Add ghost mode, watch without playback reporting.
• Allow changing icon variants and make it even easier to add future icon styles.
• Add Material 3 Icon style thanks to @krishhari2105 .
• Add opt-in per-profile PIN lock thanks to @kyuuk .
• Support Emby server auth so everything works there as well with @krishhari2105 help.
• Allow hiding the my media header title in the sidebar.
• Easier manual server input with 3 split inputs.
• Clickable headers that redirect to a library like Jellyfin-web for the favorites page.
• Add normal build with oblong icon.
• Make the logo icon also clickable to go to show details from episodes and season pages.
• Focus restoration and correct back navigation for the live TV page.
• Allow forcing mp2 codec state for playback.
• Add 2 new bundled fonts thanks to @Saulimedes.
• Update background opacity slider to cover all player menus and overlays.

Bug fixes:

• sidebar: fix hover jumping
• login: fix multiple issues with the new fields, auto connect when selecting discovered servers
• sidebar: fix sidebar not collapsing when moving the cursor away
• scrolling: fix GPU-accelerated scrolling in webos
• homescreen: fix carousel not included in cache
• logo-icons: better logo icons size handling
• live-tv: fix live tv page focus restoration from guide
• details: new option to use secondary text color instead of primary to fix very dark colors having secondary titles unreadable
• subtitles: use videos framerate for libass-wasm
• library: remove duplicate fetch library info call
• details: improve and optimize initial loading
• homescreen: make the home screen caching optional to allow disabling it if there was any issues
• loading: multiple optimizations to load home screen faster
• settings: fix show mdb list awards badges setting
• player: fix switching audio tracks not switching playback mode
• loading: fix loading skeleton alignment with loaded data
• subtitles: fix remember tracks for session resetting on items with no subtitles
• plugin-manager: defer initialization to after a user is selected to avoid errors
• navigation: fix route replacement for live tv and web browsers
• subtitles: option to skip animations and lower canvas quality + some optimizations for libass-wasm
• player: fix pre selected tracks and media source not being respected on retry option
• player: fix selecting different source sometimes not applying
• fonts: fix kitty font
• trueHD: fix dts and truehd not being disabled in auto mode
• details: fix favorite icon in person details page
• scroll: fix details page not returning to top unless you double press up
• details: fix action buttons focus behavior by making it a grid
• player: fix mark as "watched" in Trakt with plugin
• playback: removed force_mp3 transcode option in webprofile
• player: make await tracks on by default and add a 15 timeout on subtitle tracks to avoid infinite waiting
• live-tv: improved codecs support
• player: update transcode profiles per audio codec to make the server correctly choose the user specifed audio codec.
• webos: fix audio track switching 2
• fix(emby): resolved is:emby check in cold-start and wrong episode playback
• library: fix dynamic library rows requested image quality
• library: fix static library grid going off screen
• icons: address visual inconsistencies
• tizen: fix auto transcoding audio codec on tizen
• details: fix mark icon inside modals
• webos: fix audio track switching
• ultra-legacy: fix crashing because of the pathSegList pollyfill
• fixed bug where watched icon disappeared in dynamic & filled mode
• fix activeStyle after the merge
• icons: fix details page audio icon
• tizen: guard setSubtitleStreamIndex with early state check
• tizen: use seekTo callbacks and add LIVE DVR range validation
• tizen: guard getTotalTrackInfo and setSubtitlePosition with state check
• tizen: correct TEXT track state guard from READY to PAUSED
• tizen: guard post-play proactive subtitle silence with state check
• tizen: guard timer-based subtitle re-applies with state check
• tizen: guard setAudioStreamIndex with state check and defer to pending
• tizen: guard audio track selection in _applyPendingTracks with state check
• tizen: fix SET_MODE_4K conditions
• tizen: fix usage of FIXED_MAX_RESOLUTION to follow api docs and not only use 4k resloution
• home: fix carousel ignore watched content option not ignoring tv shows
• auth: enforce profile PIN on auto-resume and SmartHub deep links
• auth: require current PIN before disabling or changing it

📦 Which version to use?

Litefin provides 4 distinct build variants per platform (Tizen & webOS) to ensure compatibility across all hardware generations.

Note: If you are unsure, try the Normal build first. If the app feels sluggish or fails to load, move down to Legacy.

New Contributors

• @krishhari2105 made their first contribution in #228

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0