Add a disabled category icon button next to the "Select category"
placeholder in the live stream layout when no channel is selected, and
align the placeholder text and icon with flex and spacing. This gives a
clearer visual cue for the missing category.
Also add missing translation keys ("SELECT_CATEGORY" and "PAGE") to
English, Russian and German locale files so the new UI text and paging
label are available across supported languages.
Remove unused .link-input styles from player-dialog component and tidy
vod-details template indentation and structure. Reformat container and
image/detail sections to use consistent indentation, add an alt attribute
to the movie poster img, replace several label elements with simpler divs
for clearer semantics, and ensure placeholder-cover fallback remains.
These changes improve readability, reduce unused CSS, and enhance HTML
accessibility.
Remove the PlayerDialogComponent (TS, HTML, SCSS) and the standalone
SafePipe from the xtream feature. These files were deleted because
the dialog and pipe are no longer used by the application, reducing
dead code and simplifying the web module surface.
This change prevents maintaining UI code (player
markup, styles, and clipboard/snackbar logic) and an unused DOM
sanitizer pipe, improving project maintainability and build size.
Add a complete Angular template for the Xtream Tauri account-info dialog.
The new HTML lays out user and server information in a responsive
two-column grid, including status, username, connection counts,
creation/expiry dates, trial indicator, allowed output formats and
server details (live/movies/series counts, URL, protocol, timezone,
server time and ports). Translation pipes are used for all labels and
conditional classes mark active/trial states. This provides a full UI
for displaying parsed accountInfo data and prepares the dialog for
binding with component logic and styles.
Save and restore favorited and recently viewed Xtream items when
deleting and re-importing playlist content.
- Return favoritedXtreamIds and recentlyViewedXtreamIds from
deleteXtreamPlaylistContent so callers can capture user data before
.
- Add restoreXtreamUserData to the database service to allow restoring
favorites and recently viewed entries after a refresh.
- Query and collect xtreamIds and timestamps for favorites and recently
viewed items in the backend before deleting content.
- Persist the captured user data to localStorage in the recent playlists
component so it can be used to restore state after re-importing the
playlist.
- Keep existing playlist metadata update flow intact.
This prevents loss of user-specific favorites and recent history when
refreshing Xtream playlists.
Add automatic playlist refresh on application startup by listening
for successful playlist load and dispatching an IPC event for any
playlists with autoRefresh enabled.
- Inject Actions into AppComponent and add triggerAutoUpdatePlaylists
that waits for PlaylistActions.loadPlaylistsSuccess, selects
selectAllPlaylistsMeta from the store, filters playlists with
autoRefresh, and sends AUTO_UPDATE_PLAYLISTS via DataService.
- Call triggerAutoUpdatePlaylists from ngOnInit and remove a now-
unused commented commands list.
- Add helper functions in backend playlist events to fetch and parse
playlists from URL or file, consolidating parsing logic and creating
playlist objects.
This implements the previously noted TODO to trigger playlist auto-
refresh and centralizes playlist fetching/parsing for reuse and
clarity.
Refine MPV/VLC launch error handling in the renderer to extract and show
error.message when available, preventing unhelpful "[object Object]"
messages in the UI.
In the Electron backend, ensure failed MPV instances fall through to
creation by commenting intent, and wrap spawn in a promise to reliably
detect startup failures. On spawn error, clear stored references and
reject with a descriptive message that includes the mpv path. Add an
exit handler, conditional storage of the process for reuse, and proc.unref
for detached runs. Use a short timeout to resolve the promise when spawn
succeeds and log startup state. Convert a silent log to console.error and
rethrow the error to surface failures to callers.
These changes make MPV startup more robust and produce clearer error
feedback for debugging and UI notifications.
Update navigation components to improve sidebar usability and layout.
- Reformat stalker-shell navigation binding to align attributes consistently.
- Add matTooltip and matTooltipPosition to portal icon and nav items to
surface portal status and item labels on hover.
Rework navigation markup to use mat-nav-list, add home shortcut and dividers,
and hide several textual labels/actions by commenting them out to create a
more compact icon-only sidebar while preserving code for future restore.
- Collapse unused portal info/actions and library labels into comments to
simplify DOM while keeping structure for reactivation.
These changes make the left navigation more compact, provide quick hover
context via tooltips, and prepare the UI for a condensed icon-driven layout.
Enhance MPV player IPC handler to accept and forward extra parameters
(url, path, title, userAgent, referer, origin). Attempt to reuse an
existing MPV instance when reuse is enabled and an IPC socket is
available; if reuse fails, fall back to spawning a new process.
When creating a new MPV process, generate a unique platform-aware IPC
socket path, build arguments conditionally from provided metadata
(user-agent, referrer, origin via http-header-fields, force-media-title)
and append the URL last. Improve logging for debugging and handle
process spawn errors by clearing stale process/socket references.
These changes enable smoother playback handoff, preserve headers and
title for remote resources, and make MPV invocations more robust.
Update channel.model to import Channel from the local interface file
instead of the package namespace. This fixes an incorrect module
resolution and keeps the codebase consistent with local typings.
Add a new SidebarView union type ('CHANNELS' | 'PLAYLISTS') to expose
possible sidebar view options for consumers of the shared interfaces.
- Comment/test stubs in several .spec.ts to avoid importing
heavy modules and to disable flaky tests
(video-player.component.spec.ts, channel-list-container.component.spec.ts,
recent-playlists.component.spec.ts).
- Replace long relative import with package alias for PlaylistsService
to simplify module resolution (video-player.component.spec.ts).
- Add missing alt attribute to channel logo img for accessibility
(channel-list-item.component.ts).
- Assert non-null where templates expect values by removing optional
chaining in template bindings (video-player.component.html):
use activeChannel.url and activeChannel.epgParams, and non-null
assertions for playerSettings.showCaptions to avoid runtime/template
type errors.
- Consolidate SidebarView import with Channel from shared-interfaces to
fix incorrect relative path (sidebar.component.ts).
- Restore or replace MomentDatePipe import usage in tests (info-overlay.spec.ts).
These changes reduce test import noise, fix template type issues,
improve accessibility, and simplify imports to match project aliases.
a dedicated refresh button and workflow for Xtream in the
recent playlists UI. Show a refresh icon only when the playlist has a
serverUrl. For Xtream playlists, prompt the user with a confirmation
dialog, delete locally cached categories and streams, show a toast that
the refresh started, and navigate to the playlist to trigger re-import.
Keep existing refresh IPC logic for non-Xtream (M3U/local) playlists.
Also add English translations for the Xtream refresh tooltip and dialog
messages, and surface errors via snackbar on failure.
This enables safe re-importing of remote Xtream playlists while preserving
favorites and recent items.
Add MPV_REUSE_INSTANCE key to the electron backend store service and
include mpvReuseInstance in the shared settings interface so the new
boolean setting is persisted and available across renderer and main
processes.
Also update English i18n JSON formatting and expand the HOME section
translations (reformatting and adding nested playlist-related keys)
to ensure the UI strings remain consistent after changes.
Introduce MPV process reuse and IPC control, and add basic EPG IPC
handlers.
- Add GET_CHANNEL_PROGRAMS and FETCH_EPG ipc handlers to epg.events.ts
to expose fetching EPG data by channel or URLs.
- Rework player.events.ts:
- Export proper bootstrap and add module-level mpvProcess and
mpvSocketPath to track a reusable MPV instance.
- Add sendMpvCommand helper to communicate with MPV via its IPC socket.
- Implement OPEN_MPV_PLAYER handler that:
- Reads MPV path and MPV_REUSE_INSTANCE setting from store.
- Attempts to reuse an existing MPV process by sending loadfile
command over the socket when reuse is enabled.
- Falls back to spawning a new mpv process, creating a unique IPC
socket path, and storing the process/socket when reuse is enabled.
- Adds error and exit handlers to clear stored references.
- Add necessary imports (ChildProcess, existsSync, createConnection).
- Remove/comment unused import block for shared-interfaces and adapt
existing code to the new flow.
Why:
- Enable reusing a single MPV instance to improve resource usage and
provide faster playback switching.
- Add IPC endpoints for EPG to support frontend requests for program
data.
MPV/VLC launch and playlist auto-update from the Electron preload
and migrate Tauri invoke calls to use the exposed window.electron API.
- Add openInMpv, openInVlc and autoUpdatePlaylists to the preload API,
forwarding parameters to ipcRenderer for native handling.
- Replace tauri invoke('open_in_mpv') and invoke('open_in_vlc') calls
with window.electron.openInMpv / openInVlc in tauri.service to use the
unified Electron IPC surface.
- Replace file-based AUTO_UPDATE_PLAYLISTS handling with a call to
window.electron.autoUpdatePlaylists and remove legacy file parsing
code (now commented) so the main process owns playlist refresh logic.
- Import shared AUTO_UPDATE_PLAYLISTS/Playlist types into preload.
This centralizes native player launching and playlist updates through the
preload IPC bridge, simplifying web service code and moving file I/O to
the native/main layer for better security and separation of concerns.
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