One-tap updates on Android, and a d-pad that behaves

Updating on Android is one tap

Settings → About checks for a new version, downloads the APK and hands it straight to Android's own installer - no browser, no file manager, no hunting for the right build. Your library and settings are kept, as always.

Remote control

The d-pad got a big pass over it:

• Settings tabs are reachable again - Appearance could never get to Background or Display.
• The player's subtitle and track menus keep focus, scroll to their last row, and close on BACK like any dialog.
• BACK at the home screen backgrounds the app instead of killing it, which is what made reopening Ventic crash on some televisions.
• Predictive back on Android 13 and later is handled properly, so BACK stops walking backwards through pages you never visited.

New

• Next episode. When an episode ends, the next one is one press away - or rolls in by itself after 10 seconds, with the countdown on the button so you can stop it.
• Automatic subtitles. Pick a language once and every film opens with it on. Changing language while watching updates the setting too.
• Hide sound descriptions - drops "(electricity buzzing)" and "MAN:" from subtitles written for the hard of hearing.
• Progress that means something: a series card shows how far through the show you are, not the last file, and names the episode you would carry on with.
• Flags in the language picker, and a lot more of the app translated.
• Settings → Support, the Ko-fi supporters list, read live.
• Desktop windows reopen at the size and position you left them, and the torrent picker has a filter box.

Fixes

• No more white or dark flashes while the app starts, on Windows and Android.
• Poster cards no longer flicker or go blank while scrolling.
• If the app ever fails to start, it now says why on screen instead of showing a black rectangle.
• Various speed-ups on the browse and library pages.