github lennylxx/webos-iptv-player v1.4.0

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webOS IPTV Player v1.4.0

✨ Features

  • Live DVR — timeshift within a live stream's seekable window (distinct from catch-up): press OK to pause, Rewind/Fast-Forward to scrub, and Go-to-Live to jump back to the edge, with a dedicated DVR OSD bar and Magic-Remote pointer controls.
  • Xtream Codes account support — add a portal by URL, username, and password from a new Xtream Account section in Settings; a Check button verifies the credentials, and the account loads as its own channel tab through the existing M3U/EPG pipeline.
  • Stream info in the Channel Info OSD — a colour-coded resolution badge (4K/1080p/720p/SD), HDR/HLG and frame-rate pills, video/audio codec names (including Dolby Vision, TrueHD, and Atmos), plus the active audio track and subtitle, updated live as ABR switches resolution.
  • Closed-caption toggle — a native Closed Captions entry appears in the subtitle picker for streams that declare in-band CEA-608/708, drawn by the TV's compositor and remembered per channel.
  • WebVTT cue positioning — self-rendered subtitles now honour their authored line/position/size/alignment instead of being pinned bottom-centre.
  • Ranked channel search — search results are ordered by relevance (exact › prefix › word-start › mid-word) in both the channel list and the player sidebar.

🚀 Performance & UX

  • Native stall watchdog — a frozen live stream that never fires an error now reloads in place and escalates to the next channel after repeated failures, so a dead feed no longer hangs on a black screen.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed self-rendered subtitles turning themselves on by default — they now stay off unless a rendition is FORCED=YES or you've picked one.
  • Fixed the "Reconnecting…" OSD message staying frozen on screen after a stalled stream had already recovered.
  • Fixed OSD channel-title jitter caused by a failed-to-load programme icon.
  • Fixed opening Settings via the gear auto-adding a blank playlist card.

🧰 Internal & Docs

  • Documented live DVR and Xtream Codes in the README, added subtitle and DVR-timeshift preview screenshots, and reorganised the HLS-subtitles write-up around the three in-manifest caption types.
  • Added a tv.sh device helper (ssh/scp, headless DevTools logs, and live JS eval over CDP) and AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md agent-onboarding docs.
  • Regrouped the e2e tests by feature with shared helpers.

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.4.0

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