* feat(playback): Up Next episode rail for the inline series player
On wide windows the inline series player now docks left and fills the
leftover stage column with a Netflix-style "Up Next" rail: the rest of the
current season plus next-season spillover, the playing episode highlighted,
and watch-progress bars from playback positions. Clicking an episode plays
it inline through the host's existing episode flow (Xtream serial-details
and Stalker series view).
- New app-up-next-rail component + buildUpNextRailItems() util in
ui/playback; entries carry the host's raw episode object so selection
needs no id lookup.
- PortalInlinePlayerComponent measures the theater stage with a
ResizeObserver and docks the rail only when the leftover beside the 16:9
player is >= 320px; narrower stages keep the centered theater/ambient
behavior from #1223. Movies and live never show the rail.
- New playerUpNextRail setting (Settings > Playback, default on, built-in
web players only), mirroring playerAmbientMode; enforced at runtime for
non-web engines.
- i18n: SETTINGS.PLAYER_UP_NEXT_RAIL(+_DESCRIPTION) and PORTALS.UP_NEXT in
all 18 locales.
- The rail renders as an opaque panel on top of the stage, so the ambient
fill stays behind it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(playback): address Greptile review on the Up Next rail
- Stage overflow: `.player-shell__viewport` had no border-box sizing (the repo
has no global reset), so the docked-rail modifier's 12px padding widened the
stage past its container and the right edge was clipped.
- Width gate: compute the width the rail actually receives (stage minus the
docked layout's padding, the height-driven 16:9 player, and the flex gap)
instead of raw stage slack, and observe the stage's border box so the
modifier's own padding cannot feed back into the measurement.
- Stalker lazy seasons: Ministra VOD-series seasons hold no episodes until
opened, so the rail's next-season spillover stopped at the current season.
Prefetch the following season while an episode plays inline.
Adds regression coverage for the gate boundary, gate stability across the
padding toggle, and the lazy-season prefetch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(stalker): stop the rail spillover prefetch from retrying forever
A failed or genuinely empty Ministra season resets isLoading while leaving
episodes empty, so the prefetch effect re-requested the same season on every
emission for as long as inline playback continued. Remember which seasons this
view already requested and ask at most once each.
Regression test asserts the empty-response case fetches exactly once and does
not retrigger on further playback in the same season.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(stalker): let a failed spillover prefetch recover on the next episode
The previous guard was permanent, so a transient network or authorization
failure disabled the rail's next-season prefetch for the component's lifetime.
Distinguish the two outcomes instead:
- Answered (even with zero episodes) — a real answer, never asked again.
- Failed — the claim is released, but pinned to the episode that triggered it,
so the retry waits for the next playback change. Retrying immediately would
loop, since the failure itself flips isLoading and re-runs the effect.
The claim is taken synchronously; awaiting first let the isLoading flip re-run
the effect and fire a duplicate request before the answer arrived.
`loadEpisodesForSeason` now reports whether the portal answered; existing
callers ignore the result and are unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tmdb): purge obsolete search cache rows
* feat(playback): theater stage and opt-in ambient fill for the inline portal player
On wide-short windows the VOD/series inline player left a strip of app
surface next to the video: with `width: auto`, the viewport's `max-height`
transferred through `aspect-ratio` into a max-width (CSS transferred size
constraints), re-clamping the stage to 16:9 and leaving the leftover
outside it.
- Theater stage: give `.player-shell__viewport` a definite `width: 100%`
so it always fills the content row; the player renders as the largest
16:9 box that fits the stage height, centered — the leftover is always
the stage's black background, never app surface (YouTube-style
letterbox). Applies to every inline engine.
- Ambient fill: new `playerAmbientMode` setting (default off, Settings >
Playback, web players only) renders a blurred, dimmed copy of the
poster behind the player, filling the letterbox margins. Enforced at
runtime too: Embedded MPV never gets the extra DOM layer. Live channels
and non-http(s) poster URLs are excluded.
Verified live via CDP at 1720x760 (stage 1362x532, player 946x532 with
symmetric 208px margins) and 1280x950 (stage exactly 16:9, no bars).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(i18n): add ambient-mode setting keys to all remaining locales
The i18n drift gate requires SETTINGS.PLAYER_AMBIENT_MODE and its
description in every locale; the feature commit only covered en and ru.
Translated via the i18n-fill workflow (per-locale patch + mechanical
merge, glossary-matched against each existing file).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(settings): include playerAmbientMode in expected default settings
settings.component.spec asserts the persisted settings object with
toEqual; the new default-off field has to be part of the fixture.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dashboard Continue Watching now carries the exact saved season/episode into
Xtream series details and starts it at the persisted offset. Successful
external MPV/VLC launches persist the launched episode and retarget the
series CTA to "Play episode N". Recent-history rows keyed by an episode id
resolve their parent series before navigation.
Includes maintainer follow-ups: no zero-offset resume on failed position
loads, seriesXtreamId-gated resume targets for legacy rows, and patch
coverage raised from 76.7% to 93.9%.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(ui): slim ContentHero to non-scrolling hero block
The page scroll container moves out of the hero into the upcoming
PortalDetailShellComponent; the hero no longer hosts a default content
slot for player/seasons/extras.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(ui): add PortalDetailShellComponent with browse/watch states
Two-state detail layout shell: owns page scroll, hero collapse animation
(~300ms, reduced-motion aware), Escape-to-close-player handling, and an
About block that re-stamps host-provided *detailTags/*detailMeta
templates in watch state. The [detail-player] slot is never wrapped in a
shell conditional so the host-owned player subtree survives state
changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(playback): restyle inline player header as now-playing bar
Adds a back button (emits the existing closed output — in watch state
back returns to browse, not route navigation) and replaces the
hardcoded header strings with i18n keys (PORTALS.NOW_PLAYING,
CLOSE_PLAYER, BACK_TO_BROWSE).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(xtream): migrate VOD and serial detail templates to detail shell
Hero chips/meta/actions become *detailTags/*detailMeta/*detailActions
templates; the inline player moves to the full-width [detail-player]
slot; trailer and similar rail move to [detail-extras]. Escape and the
now-playing back button close the inline player back to browse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(stalker): migrate shared VodDetails and series view to detail shell
The shared VodDetailsComponent (Stalker VOD, collections, search) and
StalkerSeriesViewComponent move their hero content into
*detailTags/*detailMeta/*detailActions templates and host the inline
player in the full-width [detail-player] slot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(ui): season tabs replace two-level seasons navigation
SeasonTabsComponent renders a pill row (dropdown beyond 6 seasons), an
optional season description and a back-to-playing chip. The season
container auto-selects a season (inline-playing episode's season →
most recent in-progress → first), emits seasonSelected for
auto-selections so lazy-load/enrichment hooks keep firing, highlights
the inline-playing episode, and loses the seasons grid + 'Back to
seasons' button. Download/progress helpers move to pure utils; season
strings are now translatable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(portals): season descriptions under the season tabs
Xtream reads season overviews from get_series_info; Stalker exposes the
TMDB season overview through TmdbEnrichmentService.getSeason (same
cache rows as the episode enrichment) and keys it per tmdbId so views
reused across detail navigations cannot leak descriptions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: document two-state detail layout and season tabs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ui): app-prefix detail template directive selectors, build fixes
detailTags/detailMeta/detailActions → appDetailTags/appDetailMeta/
appDetailActions per @angular-eslint/directive-selector; type the
Escape host listener as Event; drop a redundant ?? in season tabs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(i18n): translate new detail-page keys across all 17 locales
13 PORTALS.* keys (now-playing bar, About block, season tabs, episode
empty states) translated via the i18n-fill workflow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(playback): keep now-playing bar actions inside the viewport
The nowrap title made the header grid track grow to min-content and
pushed Copy/Close out of the page; min-width: 0 on the header/title row
lets the title truncate instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(ui): expandable season description and episode info dialog
Season descriptions get the same show more/less toggle as the hero
(new shared ExpandableTextComponent); episode cards and list rows get
an info button that opens a dialog with the full plot, duration, air
date and a Play action — card heights stay fixed and click-to-play
semantics stay intact. Also: drop the per-frame backdrop blur on the
player card and make the watch-enter scroll instant so the hero morph
stops competing for frame budget.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(portals): re-run TMDB season enrichment when the show match arrives
With season tabs the first seasonSelected fires as soon as seasons
load — usually before the async show-level TMDB enrichment has written
tmdb_id — so the season fetch silently no-oped and was never retried,
leaving episode stills/plots and the season description empty. Both
detail hosts now key the fetch on (tmdb_id, selected season) in an
effect, so it runs whichever arrives last. Also adds breathing room
above the About divider in watch state.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ui): move episode info button into the card body, compact overlay actions
Three overlay buttons crowded the thumbnail on hover and the new info
button had no styling at all. Info belongs with the content text: it
now sits as a quiet ghost button at the end of the title row (revealed
on card hover, MDC touch target clamped so it cannot swallow the
play-on-click card area). Download + watched-toggle stay on the
artwork, shrunk to 28px with a subtle edge border. List view already
used the shared action style and is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ui): single watched indicator-toggle on episode cards
Watched state was signalled three times on one card: the green badge,
the hover toggle in the top-right cluster, and a checkmark appended to
the title. Now one control does both jobs — a toggle at the top-left
of the artwork that looks like the old green badge when watched
(always visible) and appears as a ghost circle on hover when not.
The right cluster keeps only the download action; the title checkmark
is gone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(playback): back arrow in watch mode navigates straight to the list
Leaving the theater took two clicks: back to browse, then back to the
list. Watch state already shows everything browse offers (episodes,
About, extras), so the bar's back arrow is now route-level back
(new backClicked output wired to each host's goBack), while Close
player and Escape keep exiting to browse without navigating. Replaces
PORTALS.BACK_TO_BROWSE with a generic top-level BACK key (all locales).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(ui): compact episode stills in the list view
When a season has genuinely distinct per-episode art (TMDB stills or
provider images), list rows show a 96x54 thumbnail with the episode
number riding on it instead of the number square. When every episode
repeats the same image (providers often send the series poster), the
plain number square stays — a column of identical posters is worse
than none.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(ui): compact list-thumbnail spec under the max-lines limit
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ui): address Greptile review — real fallback asset, untracked overflow measure
default-episode.png never existed (pre-existing in the grid card, copied
into the list thumbs) — both onerror handlers now fall back to the real
default-poster.png. The expandable-text and content-hero measuring
effects read the expanded signal via untracked so toggling show
more/less no longer rebuilds their ResizeObservers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds experimental embedded MPV support for Windows and Linux, expands packaging/runtime validation, and updates CI coverage for the cross-platform native addon.
Split the Electron external-player IPC monolith into focused launch-context, playback-request, runtime, MPV session, and VLC session modules. Includes Greptile follow-up fixes for Homebrew Cask VLC path resolution and VLC spawn-error promise handling, with regression coverage.
VLC was unconditionally spawned per click — VLC's own single-instance
preference fails because the per-launch RC args defeat its D-Bus
forwarder. Mirror the existing MPV reuse pattern so users can opt in to
driving one tracked VLC via its RC interface (clear + add) instead of
opening a new window every stream.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Entire-Checkpoint: f957cd9849e0
- Introduced tooling for building and staging the macOS `libmpv` runtime for IPTVnator's embedded MPV player.
- Added `build-macos-runtime.mjs` for building an LGPL-compatible runtime from source.
- Created `stage-macos-runtime.mjs` for staging the built runtime artifacts.
- Implemented validation for the packaged embedded MPV runtime in `electron-after-pack.cjs` and `embedded-mpv-macos.cjs`.
- Updated packaging scripts to ensure the embedded MPV runtime is correctly integrated and validated during the build process.
- Added README files to document the expected layout and usage for the embedded MPV runtime artifacts.
Entire-Checkpoint: c6e522b4276c
- Moved Stalker-related components and services from apps/web to libs/portal for better modularity.
- Introduced SQLite DB Worker to handle non-EPG database operations, improving UI responsiveness.
- Updated documentation for the Workspace Dashboard and Shell, detailing current implementation and routing structure.
- Added new EPG fixture scenarios to the Xtream mock server for testing purposes.
- Enhanced the overall architecture documentation to reflect recent changes and improvements.
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