Refactors the casting player screen and related components for improved code clarity, performance, and maintainability.
- Removes unused code and simplifies logic, especially around audio track selection and recommended stereo track handling.
- Improves the formatting of trickplay time displays for consistency.
- Streamlines UI elements and removes unnecessary conditional checks.
- Updates the Chromecast component to use hooks for side effects, ensuring the Chromecast session remains active.
- Improves the display of the language in the audio track display.
Fixes several issues and enhances the Chromecast casting experience:
- Prevents errors when loading media by slimming down the customData payload to avoid exceeding message size limits.
- Improves logic for selecting custom data from media status.
- Fixes an issue with subtitle track selection.
- Recommends stereo audio tracks for better Chromecast compatibility.
- Improves volume control and mute synchronization between the app and the Chromecast device.
- Adds error handling for `loadMedia` in `PlayButton`.
- Fixes image caching issue for season posters in mini player.
- Implements cleanup for scroll retry timeout in episode list.
- Ensures segment skipping functions are asynchronous.
- Resets `hasReportedStartRef` after stopping casting.
- Prevents seeking past the end of Outro segments.
- Reports playback progress more accurately by also taking player state changes into account.
Fixes several issues and improves the overall Chromecast casting experience:
- Implements an AbortController for fetching item data to prevent race conditions.
- Syncs live progress in the mini player more accurately using elapsed real time.
- Prevents event propagation in the mini player's play/pause button.
- Ensures the disconnect callback in the connection menu is always called.
- Retries scrolling in the episode list on failure.
- Handles unmute failures gracefully in volume controls.
- Clamps seek positions to prevent exceeding duration.
- Fixes reporting playback start multiple times
- Improves segment calculation in `useChromecastSegments`
- Prevents race condition with `isPlaying` state in `Controls` component
Also includes minor UI and timing adjustments for a smoother user experience.
Fixes several issues and improves the casting player experience.
- Adds the ability to disable segment skipping options based on plugin settings.
- Improves Chromecast integration by:
- Adding PlaySessionId for better tracking.
- Improves audio track selection
- Uses mediaInfo builder for loading media.
- Adds support for loading next/previous episodes
- Translation support
- Updates progress reporting to Jellyfin to be more accurate and reliable.
- Fixes an error message in the direct player.
Refactors the Chromecast casting player for better compatibility, UI improvements, and stability.
- Adds auto-selection of stereo audio tracks for improved Chromecast compatibility
- Refactors episode list to filter out virtual episodes and allow season selection
- Improves UI layout and styling
- Removes connection quality indicator
- Fixes progress reporting to Jellyfin
- Updates volume control to use CastSession for device volume
Enriches the casting player screen by fetching item details from the Jellyfin API for a more reliable and complete user experience.
The casting player now prioritizes item data fetched directly from the API, providing richer metadata and ensuring accurate information display.
- Fetches full item data based on content ID.
- Uses fetched data as the primary source of item information, falling back to customData or minimal info if unavailable.
- Improves UI by showing connection quality and bitrate.
- Enhances episode list display and scrolling.
- Adds a stop casting button.
- Minor UI adjustments for better readability and aesthetics.
This change enhances the accuracy and reliability of displayed information, improving the overall user experience of the casting player.
- Remove AirPlay from CastProtocol type union (Chromecast only for now)
- Replace AirPlay TODOs with generic 'Future: Add X for other protocols' comments
- Remove PROTOCOL_COLORS export, use hardcoded Chromecast color (#F9AB00)
- Update all component headers to be protocol-agnostic
- Keep switch statements extensible for future protocol additions
- Maintain clean architecture for easy integration of new casting protocols
Architecture remains flexible for future protocols (AirPlay, DLNA, etc.)
- Expose RemoteMediaClient from useCasting for advanced operations
- Implement episode fetching from Jellyfin API for TV shows
- Add next episode detection with countdown UI showing episode name
- Wire audio/subtitle track changes to RemoteMediaClient.setActiveTrackIds
- Wire playback speed to RemoteMediaClient.setPlaybackRate
- Add tap-to-seek functionality to progress bar
- Update segment skip buttons to use remoteMediaClient seek wrapper
- Create comprehensive AirPlay implementation documentation
All casting system features are now complete before PR submission.
Performance Optimizations:
- Add progress tracking to skip redundant Jellyfin API calls (< 5s changes)
- Debounce volume changes (300ms) to reduce API load
- Memoize expensive calculations (protocol colors, icons, progress percent)
- Remove dead useChromecastPlayer hook (redundant with useCasting)
Feature Integrations:
- Add ChromecastEpisodeList modal with Episodes button for TV shows
- Add ChromecastDeviceSheet modal accessible via device indicator
- Add ChromecastSettingsMenu modal with settings icon
- Integrate segment detection with Skip Intro/Credits/Recap buttons
- Add next episode countdown UI (30s before end)
AirPlay Support:
- Add comprehensive documentation for AirPlay detection approaches
- Document integration requirements with AVRoutePickerView
- Prepare infrastructure for native module or AVPlayer integration
UI Improvements:
- Make device indicator tappable to open device sheet
- Add settings icon in header
- Show segment skip buttons dynamically based on current playback
- Display next episode countdown with cancel option
- Optimize hook ordering to prevent conditional hook violations
TODOs for future work:
- Fetch actual episode list from Jellyfin API
- Wire media source/audio/subtitle track selectors to player
- Implement episode auto-play logic
- Create native module for AirPlay state detection
- Add RemoteMediaClient to segment skip functions
BREAKING CHANGE: Merged separate Chromecast and AirPlay implementations into unified casting system
- Created unified casting types and helpers (utils/casting/)
- Built useCasting hook that manages both protocols
- Single CastingMiniPlayer component works with both Chromecast and AirPlay
- Single casting-player modal for full-screen controls
- Protocol-aware UI: Red for Chromecast, Blue for AirPlay
- Shows device type icon (TV for Chromecast, Apple logo for AirPlay)
- Detects active protocol automatically
- Previous separate implementations (ChromecastMiniPlayer, AirPlayMiniPlayer) superseded
Benefits:
- Better UX: One cast button shows all available devices
- Cleaner architecture: Protocol differences abstracted
- Easier maintenance: Single UI codebase
- Protocol-specific logic isolated in adapters
