Changes
What is New
A Hotfix update to address most of the issues encountered in 1.8.0.
Note:
If you updated to Jellyfin 12.x, you need to update the litefin plugin to 1.12.0 for it to work, if not, do not update and stay on 1.6.1.0.
New Features:
- Add a performance toggle for a lighter music player, for smoother playback on older TVs.
- Add a setting to select the best audio track that will allow direct playback, on by default.
- Support starting JellyEmu games (performance sucks tho).
- Add a hide button to the error dialog in the player.
Bug fixes:
- exit-dialog: fix focus being lost when pressing back on the exit app dialog
- homepage: fix exit app dialog having focus stolen by homepage
- webos: fix deserialization failing on some devices
- games: improve library and add favorites support
- library: fix library next page losing its original query
- homepage: fix homepage row ordering
- skip-intro: improved support for the server plugin
- player: fix initial track fallback failing or causing an error
- player: fix player not remembering selected tracks
- fonts: stop asking Jellyfin server for fallback fonts frequently
- details: update more from season rows items limit to 100
- expanding-posters: fix poster not correctly expanding on hover
- player: invalidate pre-warm manager cache when changing tracks inside the player
- webos: fix VideoCodecTagNotSupported error
- expanding-posters: fix episodes list items
- exit-dialog: fix exit dialog focus race
- homescreen: fix focus stuck on home carousel
- login: fix modern layout issues with too many users
- scroll: small improvement to scrolling from carousel after last fix
- scroll: fix native scroll weird repeating animation bug
- low-vram: fix progress bar being hidden, add another setting to hide it
- scroll: slower fast scroll to reduce visual issues
- library: fix pagination on alpha picker
- player: remember resume position on player error retry
- webOS: skip restart since it is the default track, the TV hardware is already bitstreaming it over eARC natively
- library: fix webOS mouse wheel scrolling
- webOS: Fix cursor disappearing in player in WebOS26
- library: fix alpha picker results pagination
- scroll: small improvement to scrolling performance
- webOS: fix ts/m2ts DV direct playback in webOS
- library: fix lazy loader aggressively hiding list view mode items
- i18n: strip hash/search from file:// base URL before building locale path
- tizen: include the 130 icon in tizen builds as well
📦 Which version to use?
Litefin provides 4 distinct build variants per platform (Tizen & webOS) to ensure compatibility across all hardware generations.
| Build Variant | Hardware Target | Platform Version |
|---|---|---|
| Modern | Modern high-end sets (2021+) | Tizen 6.5+ / webOS 22+ |
| Normal | Most smart TVs (2019+) | Tizen 5.0+ / webOS 6.0+ |
| Legacy | Mid-lifecycle sets (2017/2018) | Tizen 4.0+ / webOS 4.0+ |
| Ultra Legacy | Vintage hardware (Pre-2017) | From Tizen 3.0 and below / webOS < 4.0 |
Note: If you are unsure, try the Normal build first. If the app feels sluggish or fails to load, move down to Legacy.
Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.30