Android TV/Fire TV Beta Notes

fancybot · January 5, 2023, 12:36am

v2023.01.05.0028

Updated internal audio/video libraries

fancybot · January 5, 2023, 12:56am

v2023.01.05.0043

Updated internal audio/video libraries (v5)

fancybot · January 5, 2023, 9:29pm

v2023.01.05.2115

Fixed playback issue on SHIELD with Hardware/Hybrid decoders (bug in previous build)

fancybot · January 6, 2023, 2:07am

v2023.01.06.0159

FIXED: Playback of mpeg2 channels on phones/tablets was not falling back to software mode automatically

fancybot · January 9, 2023, 4:11am

v2023.01.09.0400

• IMPROVED: Error message when remote stream fails

fancybot · January 9, 2023, 7:50pm

v2023.01.09.1928

FIXED: Crash when using Remote Shortcut for Live TV
IMPROVED: Updated internal libraries for subtitle rendering

fancybot · January 9, 2023, 8:27pm

v2023.01.09.2017

FIXED: Crash on startup in last build due to subtitle library issue

fancybot · January 9, 2023, 9:58pm

v2023.01.09.2148

• IMPROVED: Error messages when remote streaming fails

fancybot · January 14, 2023, 11:33pm

v2023.01.14.2322

• FIXED: HLS streams would fail instead of retrying on timeout

fancybot · January 15, 2023, 12:07am

v2023.01.14.2354

FIXED: Issues playing some streams with hardware decoding enabled

tmm1 · January 17, 2023, 12:45am

v4.6.1 is being released as stable.

fancybot · January 17, 2023, 7:29pm

v2023.01.17.1921

• IMPROVED: More metadata tags show for content (HD, 4K, Atmos, DTS, etc)

fancybot · January 28, 2023, 11:07pm

v2023.01.28.2258

IMPROVED: Buffering when tuning into live channel

fancybot · January 28, 2023, 11:14pm

v2023.01.28.2300

FIXED: Playback state could get reset to unwatched at the end of a recording

fancybot · February 1, 2023, 4:44am

v2023.02.01.0435

• FIXED: playing VC1 video with hardware decoder selected could show a blank screen

fancybot · February 3, 2023, 10:50pm

v2023.02.03.2239

• IMPROVED: Promote Original Quality Delivery setting to Playback menu to match iOS/tvOS

fancybot · February 26, 2023, 9:31pm

v2023.02.26.2115

IMPROVED: Software decoding option on Stream+

fancybot · February 27, 2023, 7:42pm

v2023.02.27.1934

FIXED: Server-side setting for Virtual Channels > Tuning In was not being set

fancybot · March 10, 2023, 9:13pm

v2023.03.10.2103

• IMPROVED: Caching for HLS (Remote) streaming to match iOS/tvOS implementation
• NEW: Support section in Settings now displays remote streaming cache size and a way to clear it
• NEW: Scheduled job to clean up old cached recordings daily

fancybot · March 12, 2023, 3:03am

v2023.03.12.0253

• FIXED: Seeking could cause playback to restart with certain recordings when Home Streaming is enabled