Your phone is the keyboard

Settings → Use your phone shows a QR code. Point a phone at it and a small page opens on the phone, served by this device over your own network, so there is nothing to install and nothing leaves the house. What you type there arrives here.

• It takes a source, a Live TV playlist, an Xtream login, or the WebDAV folder your library syncs with.
• This device asks before it keeps anything, showing the address in full with any password masked. Nothing sent from outside the app changes what Ventic searches, plays or syncs with on its own.
• Both devices have to be on the same network. The page is only served while that screen is open, and the phone has to type a code shown on the TV before anything it sends is accepted.

A release that isn't coming, and a way past it

Some releases have no seeders that will talk to you. Ventic used to say so only once playback had failed outright, and even then it often blamed the wrong thing.

• "Try a different release" is a button now, on the buffering notice and on the failure screen. It gives up on the release that stalled, deletes what it fetched and starts the next best one.
• The notice arrives while you wait: nothing arriving for 45 seconds and a player with nothing to show is what raises it.
• A swarm that never answers stops being waited on. Asking peers for a magnet's details now gives up after 90 seconds and says which part failed, instead of spinning for ever.
• The black rectangle at 0:00 is gone, and a film cast to another screen now shows the speed, peers and buffer of the device sending it.

The remote scrolls the page

• Pressing up off the Play row scrolls to the title, poster and synopsis instead of jumping straight to the toolbar and leaving them unreachable.
• Presses that land mid-scroll aim from where the page is going, so holding a direction moves smoothly instead of crawling and then lurching.
• Something scrolled off the screen is no longer measured as though it were still on it, so a press lands on what you can see.
• A trailer on a television fills the screen, and Back closes it.

Also

• Sizes and seeder counts written the European way are read correctly. "2,5 GB" was read as 5 GB, and "1,234" seeders as one.
• A release labelled only "UHD" is ranked as 4K instead of below every 480p.
• An anime pack plays the episode you asked for, and finds its subtitles, even when the file names it as a bare number.
• Progress is no longer lost because the torrent engine and a source wrote the same info hash in different capitals.
• The player's controls no longer flicker on Linux, and touch screens no longer leave tooltips stuck open.
• Every new setting and message is translated into all 72 languages.