MovieBox-Tui

Fixed

• Providers & Stream Resolution:
  • Extracted signed CDN MP4 streams from MovieBox subject detector links (/subject-api/get), restoring movie streaming and multi-resolution playback after upstream restricted play-info with deprecation clips.
  • Reported explicit error causes when MovieBox serves placeholder clips instead of generic "no streams available", and surfaced upstream HTTP failure statuses directly to the user.
• Download Engine & Batch Queue:
  • Recorded only flushed bytes to .part.json segment progress during downloads, preventing aborted or paused workers from leaving zero-byte gaps and file corruption on resume.

Changed

• Dependencies & Build Infrastructure:
  • Upgraded tokio to 1.54.1, scraper to 0.29.0, lru to 0.19.0, zip to 9.1.0, sha2 to 0.11.1, open to 5.4.5, libc to 0.2.191, and serde_json to 1.0.154.

Fixed

• Media Playback & Subtitle Engine:
  • Removed --play-and-exit from VLC player invocations so the player stays active across adaptive and HLS chunk transitions.
  • Reset legacy Android player defaults in graphical X11 and Wayland sessions so native Linux players take precedence over external Android intent dialogs.
  • Prioritized native Linux media player paths over foreign container fallbacks on Linux systems and preserved dynamic auto-player resolution for unconfigured sessions.
• Providers & Stream Resolution:
  • Recovered playable signed MP4 streams via /resource-position/v2 when MovieBox returns deprecation notice clips, querying exact seasons and episodes and reporting accurate file sizes.
  • Stripped the DASH Referer header on direct MP4 streams to prevent CDN HTTP 429 throttling.
  • Bumped the MovieBox stream cache schema to v2_ to discard stale cached deprecation notices.
  • Filtered out unhosted MovieBox /hls/ signed cookie targets in manifest resolution, which stops unplayable H.264 stream entries from failing with HTTP 404 during downloads or media playback.
• Download Engine & Batch Queue:
  • Fixed season batch downloads by arming is_waiting_for_download_stream during queue steps, eliminating immediate empty-list download calls that aborted multi-episode queues.
  • Reset the download resolution state lock on 4KHDHub resolver timeouts and errors so failed mirror resolutions do not block subsequent download attempts.
  • Added sequential single-connection fallback to the internal HTTP downloader when multi-worker segmented range requests receive HTTP 403, 429, or network disconnects.

Added

• In-App Updater Lifecycle:
  • Tracked target executable path before staging updates and resolved deleted inode suffixes ( (deleted)) on Linux to restart the new binary automatically after popup self-update.
  • Scoped Snap package detection to SNAP_NAME matching moviebox-tui to prevent false positive Snap environment detection when launched inside unrelated host sandboxes.

Changed

• Dependencies & Build Infrastructure:
  • Upgraded zip to 9.0.5, rustls to 0.23.46, quinn-proto to 0.11.19, rustls-webpki to 0.103.16, and webpki-roots to 1.0.10, resolving RustSec security advisories.
  • Upgraded sha2 to 0.11 with chunked streaming hash updates, preserving non-blocking checksum verification for release archives.
  • Upgraded dirs to 7.0, futures to 0.3.34, and zip to 8.6 across platform config paths, async tasks, and updater archive extraction.

Fixed

• Media Playback & Subtitle Engine:
  • Preserved native Windows \ path separators for --sub-file in VLC (C:\...) and passed --no-one-instance on Windows and Linux so running VLC windows keep subtitle, header, and resume flags.
  • Stripped query strings and fragments before parsing subtitle extensions (.srt, .vtt, .ass, .ssa, .sub) so signed CloudFront and OSS URLs keep their true format and DASH MIME type.
  • Pre-downloaded subtitles locally for mpv with remote URL fallback, parallelized subtitle downloads with StreamRelay sidecar startup, appended an 8-char URL hash to subtitle filenames, and sanitized commas in --script-opts.
  • Mounted xdg-cache/moviebox-tui:ro, xdg-data/moviebox-tui, and /tmp:ro in flatpak run while keeping custom user Flatpak flags so sandboxed mpv and VLC can read subtitles and write watch progress.
  • Served Termux private-storage subtitles over the local StreamRelay /sub/ loopback endpoint when Android shared storage is unavailable, and restricted startup subtitle cleanup to internal cache and temp folders.
  • Parsed player stderr and exit codes to report specific failure reasons (HTTP 403, HTTP 404, HTTP 410, timeout, connection refused), and added deterministic cross-platform contract integration tests (tests/player_contract.rs) asserting VLC Win32/UNC paths, IINA CLI option schemas, and header support across OSes.
  • Unified IINA command construction with standard --mpv-* argument schemas across platforms, and restricted macOS IINA header disqualification to GUI app fallbacks missing command line tools.
  • Standardized player display labels to uppercase acronyms (MPV, IINA, VLC) across player selection popups, settings, and notifications.
• StreamRelay Proxy & Downloader:
  • Forwarded User-Agent and Referer while isolating stream cookies (Cookie: Edge-Cache-Cookie=...) to same-host requests across StreamRelay, subtitle pre-downloads, and media downloads.
  • Capped .m4s segment chunk fetching in StreamRelay to batches of 16 concurrent Range requests, registered in-flight segment wait futures under lock, and required http:// or https:// schemes on /proxy?url= routes.
  • Increased MovieBox DASH yt-dlp --concurrent-fragments from 8 to 32 (3.77 MiB/s -> 11.13 MiB/s, +195% live CDN throughput) and scaled the direct HTTP multi-segment engine to 4 to 16 workers with Range: bytes=0-0 size discovery, 1 MiB write buffers, and a single end-of-file sync_data flush.
  • Reported specific subtitle and DASH download errors (HTTP status, timeout, missing yt-dlp vs ffmpeg) and matched "at" after "of" in yt-dlp progress lines.
• Providers & Disk Cache:
  • Removed the broad "notice" substring filter in MovieBox stream adaptation while keeping /notice.mp4 and known deprecation hashes, which restores streams for titles like Red Notice and Burn Notice.
  • Advanced the active MovieBox host index immediately on connection or HTTP retry errors, removed the duplicate /subject-api/resource preflight round-trip in InitStreamPool, and removed the 120ms delay on cached episode switches.
  • Streamed 4KHDHub mirror resolution directly into preflight probes via FuturesUnordered without waiting for slow mirrors, cached fetched detail pages across details and releases in 4KHDHub, Dramachi, and CircleFTP, and bounded CircleFTP HEAD size probes to 1.2 seconds.
  • Required a leading 'S' prefix in 4KHDHub season count parsing so release years after "Score" do not parse as season counts, and cached static HTML selectors in 4KHDHub parsers.
  • Matched Dramachi episode numbers across Unicode boundaries and quality suffixes, parallelized Stremio addon movie/series catalog searches and M3U playlist loads, and inserted /manifest.json before query parameters in addon URLs.
  • Evicted cached poster images only when file age exceeds the 30-day TTL so valid cache files survive minor cloc

Fixed

• Search Navigation & Pagination Engine:
  • Gated background search pagination in src/tui/app/navigation.rs so arrow navigation on result sets smaller than the visible viewport never triggers background page fetches.
  • Added search_exhausted tracking in src/tui/state.rs and src/tui/app/requests.rs, stopping pagination crawls when provider search returns fewer than 15 items or zero query-matching results.
  • Preserved stable card slot positions during search pagination in src/tui/app/requests.rs by appending subsequent page items to the list rather than re-sorting the entire array out from under the cursor.
  • Removed redundant "Provider: {name}" status message override from the search bar on provider switch in src/tui/app/navigation.rs, preserving the clean search placeholder while the active provider pill displays on the right.
• Media Playback & Buffering Engine:
  • Prioritized native desktop media players (mpv, VLC) over Android intent openers in src/player.rs when an active X11/Wayland display server ($DISPLAY, $WAYLAND_DISPLAY) is detected, preventing Ubuntu Xfce (udroid/PRoot) and Termux:X11 desktop sessions from dispatching playback to external Android app choosers.
  • Routed DASH .mpd streams through the local StreamRelay proxy (src/proxy.rs, src/tui/app/playback.rs) across all media players (mpv, IINA, VLC, AndroidIntent), caching rewritten .mpd manifests in RAM, warm-prefetching initialization and opening segments on sidecar startup, fetching .m4s segments via concurrent 95 KB HTTP Range sub-requests (0.286s per segment vs 3.120s), and prefetching both the next 3 video segments (N+1..N+3) and synchronized audio segments (chunk-stream3-N..N+1).
  • Tuned mpv and IINA playback flags (--hwdec=auto-safe, --stream-buffer-size=4M, --cache-secs=120, --cache-pause-wait=3, --cache-pause-initial=no, and --ytdl=no on non-DASH direct streams) in src/player.rs, reducing 1080p cold-seek latency at 01:00:00 from 11.96s to 3.87s and boosting read-ahead buffer fill rate from 1 MB (9.3s) to 7 MB (53s).
  • Replaced aggressive VLC buffering flags (--network-caching=10000, --adaptive-logic=nearoptimal) with --network-caching=3000, --file-caching=3000, --http-reconnect, and --adaptive-logic=predictive in src/player.rs to stop demuxer stream restarts and reconnect cleanly on dropped HTTP streams.
  • Enforced max_height resolution limits in the loopback stream proxy manifest rewriter (src/proxy.rs, src/main.rs, src/tui/app/playback.rs), pruning representations exceeding the chosen ceiling so Android players and VLC respect 480p and 720p selections.
  • Parsed signed expiration timestamps (:t=) from MovieBox Edge-Cache-Cookie headers in src/cache.rs alongside CloudFront policies, automatically invalidating stale stream cache entries within 60 seconds of expiration to prevent HTTP 403 playback crashes.
  • Persisted selected stream filenames (stream_filename) in watch history (src/history.rs, src/player/tracker.rs, src/tui/app/playback.rs) and auto-focused matching stream rows on load (src/tui/app/requests.rs, src/tui/app/system.rs), restoring the user's previously chosen quality mirror when resuming multi-stream releases.
  • Enabled TCP nodelay (stream.set_nodelay(true)) and per-chunk immediate flushes on the local StreamRelay proxy in src/proxy.rs, eliminating 100–300ms time-to-first-frame buffering delays on loopback sockets.
  • Implemented negative caching (Option<Option<String>>) for media player detection (MPV_CACHED, VLC_CACHED, IINA_CACHED) in src/player.rs, eliminating redundant filesystem scans and registry lookups when players are absent.
  • Throttled Lua tracker periodic disk sync in src/player/tracker.rs when playback is paused or positional change is sub-second, cutting SSD writes by up to 90% during playback pauses.
  • Removed duplicate redundant `history