New features
- Audio and subtitle sync sliders cover ±10 seconds in 50 ms steps
- The bundled ffmpeg enables the loudnorm filter for volume normalization
Playback
- Plex video transcodes use fMP4 HLS, so HEVC presets stop corrupting
- Plex transcodes seek in-band instead of pre-warming at the resume offset
- Same-day Specials no longer hijack up next
- Episode advances that fail on a transient server blip are retried
- Playback no longer fails when a preference write is refused
- TrueHD offers its MAT carrier on Android 10–12 audio routes
- Timeline heartbeats stop once a Plex server terminates the session
- ExoPlayer track labels say AAC instead of mp4a.40.2
- Emby scrub previews load from the server's BIF index
- iOS and tvOS keep HDR and Dolby Vision when the video is zoomed
- tvOS schedules frames with more presentation lead
Subtitles
- Korean glyphs render on the MPV path via a bundled Hangul font
- Disabling subtitles clears the displayed ASS cue immediately
- ASS frames that overflow the glyph atlas render as a flattened composite
- External subtitle files load with the media whether or not they are selected
- Android renders every PGS composition object and keeps the PGS display-plane aspect
Music
- Hardware media keys work while the app is in the foreground on Android
- iOS music playback gains lock-screen and headphone controls
Plex
- Live TV favorite updates persist again
- PIN sign-in keeps polling after transient network errors
Watch Together
- Lobby guests are told the room's control mode
Downloads & profiles
- The parallel download limit stays intact on slow networks
- Offline downloads stay visible when a profile's servers are unreachable
Android, TV & automotive
- MKV files with late track metadata play again
- A backgrounded TV stops the server session when it releases the player
- Quality labels stay visible when rating badges crowd the detail line
- TV pauses on the first Select press after skipping the intro
- Parked playback is no longer blocked when the car service gives no verdict
- The background Watch Next refresh is removed
UI
- The sidebar's Libraries section stays collapsed across restarts
- Phone back exits the player even with the controls up
- Escape leaves fullscreen instead of quitting the app on desktop
- Player, downloads and server-setup text that was left in English is now translated
macOS
- Every audio format, including compressed formats, routes through CoreAudio
Windows
- The MSVC runtime is bundled, so an outdated redistributable no longer crashes launch
Linux
- VAAPI hardware decode and AV1 software fallback are restored in the bundled libmpv
- The Flutter-texture fallback is removed; video always renders on the native Wayland plane
- HDR transactions and plane presentation are bounded against unacknowledged frames