Light Media Center 2.1.3 brings a touch-optimized interface for iPhone and iPad, Dolby Vision / HDR10+ hardware decoding on Android, and smoother photo viewing with lower memory usage.
New Features
- iOS: touch-optimized layout and controls for iPhone and iPad, and high refresh rate (ProMotion) display support.
- Video: Android hardware decoding now supports dynamic HDR metadata (Dolby Vision / HDR10+).
- Photos: zoom, pan, rotate, and swipe preview images while the full photo is still loading. On touchpads, a downward two-finger swipe closes the photo viewer.
Improvements
- Photos: smoother photo viewer gestures and swipe-down to dismiss, and faster photo rendering on Android.
- Photos: faster and more accurate photo search indexing.
- HDR and color: more stable dynamic tone mapping for Dolby Vision and HDR10+ content, and improved rendering precision for 16-bit and HDR content on mobile GPUs.
- Wayland: wide color gamut output is used by default when HDR output is not available, and HDR content can use the display's full brightness headroom.
- Linux: revealing a file now opens the file manager with the file selected.
- Improved memory usage for album art, remote video streaming, and audio separation.
- Localization: regional variants of supported languages (e.g. German (Austria), Chinese (Hong Kong)) now use the matching translation.
Known issues
- Server transcoding may not preserve certain metadata (e.g. Dolby Vision, interlace).
- HDR is not available on GNOME Wayland by default; perceptual HDR can be enabled manually (see installation docs).
- Wayland Picture-in-Picture video playback does not automatically pin the window on top of others. This is a Wayland protocol limitation.
- iOS Picture-in-Picture video playback does not support GPU shading (including all HDR tone mapping, Dolby Vision, built-in/custom scaling filters, deinterlacing, subtitles). Therefore, Dolby Vision P5 frames are displayed in wrong colors.
- Android system library does not support grouping by geo locations due to Android API limitation.