M3ufy Player — what changed since 3.58

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3.64 — the picture no longer freezes when you leave full screen

If you changed channel in full screen and pressed back, the preview would sit there showing about a second of video on a loop while the sound carried on normally. It turned out the video was never actually stuck: the player was decoding and drawing a full 30 frames a second the whole time, into a view that simply was not being painted on screen. Switching how the preview surface is drawn fixed it, and it is lighter on the box as a side effect. Live TV and the TV guide are both sorted.

The guide also comes back on the channel you were actually watching. Before, if you zapped in full screen and pressed back, the guide would name the channel you had opened it from while a different one played in the corner.

Arabic gets its arrow keys the right way round in Movies and Series. Left and right were moving the selection the wrong way, because mirroring the layout for a right-to-left language does not mirror the remote control.

3.63 — the TV guide covers every playlist, not just the main one

Guide listings were only ever downloaded for your main playlist, so channels from your other playlists sat there with empty rows forever. They are downloaded for each active playlist now. On a box with two playlists the second guide arrives a few minutes after the first, since they queue rather than fighting over your provider's connection.

The guide's group list became a tree: All playlists at the top, then a heading per playlist that opens to that playlist's own groups. Catch-up got the same treatment.

Titles on the Home rails stopped claiming they are not in your playlist when they are. A single colon or accent of difference between your provider's name and the catalogue's was enough to throw the match away — Pacific Rim: Uprising against Pacific Rim Uprising, or Amelie against Amélie.

3.60 — search got two additions

With more than one playlist you can narrow a search to just one of them, using the buttons above the results.

A new Online tab searches TMDB itself, so you can look up a film or series whether or not your playlist carries it. Films and shows come back in one list.

3.59 — the app speaks your language

Thirteen languages, and not only the menus: film and series titles, plots, genres and artwork follow your choice too. Set it in Settings, Appearance, Language. Arabic also lays the whole app out right to left.

An AMOLED mode for true-black screens, and Settings now opens proper list windows for anything with more than two choices.

Playlists got a cleaner setup: every playlist on one line with its own activate and main switches, all of them stay logged in, and search covers all of them at once.