Every release, written out
What changed, why it changed, and what it fixes - one note per release, dated the day it shipped.
All releasesVentic is on Google Play
Android phones, tablets and Android TV can now install Ventic from the Play Store and let Play keep it up to date. The APK is still on GitHub, and nothing changes on the desktop.
Read this noteYour phone is the keyboard
Setting up a TV no longer means typing a web address with a remote: scan a code and type on your phone instead. A release that is never going to arrive now says so while you wait, and the remote scrolls the page instead of jumping off it.
Read this noteXtream logins, a search box in Settings, and torrents tied to a VPN
Live TV takes the login an IPTV subscription actually hands out. Settings can be searched. Torrents can be tied to a VPN so they stop when it drops. And a pack plays the film you asked for, not the biggest file in it.
Read this noteXviD films play on Android
One fix, for Android: some XviD films stopped at 0:00 with a decoding error, on phones and TVs alike, while the same file played fine everywhere else.
Read this noteA film no longer has to fit on your device
Ventic can now stream a torrent instead of downloading all of it: it keeps a few minutes around what is playing, fetches ahead of the picture, and deletes the lot when you stop.
Read this noteEvery source read properly, and an Android freeze found
Results read the same whatever addon they came from, a freeze on Android devices with an SD card is gone, a film from your own disk can be cast, and the home screen looks like a home screen.
Read this noteClosing the window keeps your downloads going
Downloads carry on with the window closed, the tray icon behaves like a tray icon, and the menu on the Downloads page does what it says.
Read this noteRedrawn for a phone in a hand and a television across a room
A bar along the bottom on phones, a menu on every card you can hold, no sliders for a remote to fight, a player bar built for every screen, and your own keyboard shortcuts.
Read this noteA remote that gets answered, and casts that start
Three things that looked like the app ignoring you: a search box that swallowed the OK button, a cast that spun until it gave up, and a download that played and was then forgotten.
Read this noteYour library follows you between screens
What you have watched, how far you got, your favourites and your watchlist can now stay in step across every device - with no Ventic account and no server of ours in the middle.
Read this noteDolby audio on Android, and macOS opens again
Two platforms that could fail before a film ever started.
Read this noteCasting and live TV, fixed on Android
A patch for the two things 0.5.0 shipped that Android would not let through.
Read this noteCast a film to another screen
Ventic on one device can hand what you are watching to Ventic on another - plus live TV, files you already own, and a preferred quality.
Read this noteOne-tap updates on Android, and a d-pad that behaves
Settings → About now downloads and installs the new APK itself, and the remote-control pass fixes every place focus used to get stuck.
Read this noteThe app speaks 72 languages
Ventic is translated - interface, film data and subtitle language names alike - and every settings section is now a real page.
Read this noteSubtitle auto-sync, rewritten
Auto-sync now matches on speech instead of raw loudness, and Favourites, Watchlist and History get filtering and sorting.
Read this noteA white screen now explains itself
A diagnostics screen that runs before the app does, for the Android TV boxes whose webview is too old to read it.
Read this noteA redrawn home screen
A small release, hours after 0.2.0: the home screen was redrawn, and nothing else changed.
Read this noteIn-app updates
Ventic now tells you when a new version is out - and where it installed itself, it installs the update itself too.
Read this noteBring your own TMDB token
A small follow-up to the first release: your own TMDB key, and no more colour flash while a title's artwork loads.
Read this noteThe first release
The first public build: a media library over an embedded BitTorrent engine, playing into a real mpv window.
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