- The reloading of items in the favorite widgets is now done async, so it does not block the UI when opening Home.
- Tasks that check for changes of the widget and favorites are now terminated when another view e.g. Subscriptions is opened.
- We only update the Favourites when the player is not in the foreground, to avoid unresponsiveness.
Invidious, by design, has no images attached to chapters, in contrast to Piped.
Since the majority of videos with chapters don't have chapter-specific images and only use the videos' thumbnail, there is no difference here when compared to Piped's native thumbnail support.
New options for captions in `Settings-Player`:
- Always show captions
- Default language
User can now select whether they want to show captions automatically when the video starts, and select the language.
Captions selector now shows proper name -> `English (en)` instead of only `en`
`cache-pause-initial` status can now be selected by the user.
Also, on macOS and iOS, a link next to the option leads the user to the info on the mpv website.
fixes#674
I accidentally broke PiP when using MPV. While testing this, I noticed that PiP sometimes does not start, so I tried to make MPV to PiP a bit more robust.
The History Widget in the Home View was hard-coded to 10 items. Now it uses the limit set in the settings.
The items weren't immediate updated when the limit was changed.
List Views had a hard-coded limit of 10 items. Now they use the limit supplied in the parameter.
This gives a huge increase in perceived performance. The UI is now much more responsive since some tasks are run in the background and don't block the UI anymore.
I added a new feature. When instances are not proxied, Yattee first checks the URL to make sure it is not a restricted video. Usually, music videos and sports content can only be played back by the same IP address that requested the URL in the first place. That is why some videos do not play when the proxy is disabled.
This approach has multiple advantages. First and foremost, It reduced the load on Invidious/Piped instances, since users can now directly access the videos without going through the instance, which might be severely bandwidth limited. Secondly, users don't need to manually turn on the proxy when they want to watch IP address bound content, since Yattee automatically proxies such content.
Furthermore, adding the proxy option allows mitigating some severe playback issues with invidious instances. Invidious by default returns proxied URLs for videos, and due to some bug in the Invidious proxy, scrubbing or continuing playback at a random timestamp can lead to severe wait times for the users.
This should fix numerous playback issues: #666, #626, #590, #585, #498, #457, #400
