Extreme InfiniTV v1.7.1

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Extreme InfiniTV v1.7.1 is the "listen closely" release: the app gets a voice (a launch chime and gentle navigation ticks, synced to a rebuilt boot animation), a redesigned Settings page, audio-only mode and mono downmix for Live TV, subtitle delay controls, and rock-solid VOD audio track switching. Under it all: reliable live playback on macOS, the 1.7.0 Android crashes fixed, a rendering safe mode for Linux, and the app now ships to the Snap Store, Windows on ARM, and Raspberry Pi.

TL;DR

• Interface sounds. A soft chime on launch (the boot animation builds in time with it) and gentle ticks when moving around with a remote or keyboard, plus a confirm note when you star a favorite. Mouse and touch stay silent by design; a Settings toggle controls it all.
• Settings, redesigned. Related settings now live together in grouped boxes with compact rows instead of one card per setting, the section nav mirrors the page, and search filters down to the individual row. Works just as well on a phone as on a squeezed desktop window.
• Audio-only mode for Live TV. Collapse a talk or music channel into the radio panel (logo, now-playing, elapsed time) and save the video decoding - remembered per channel and playlist.
• Mono audio. Downmix playback to a single channel for one-earbud listening, toggleable from Settings or right from the Live TV player menu mid-stream.
• Subtitle delay. Nudge subtitle timing with Z/X on movie and series pages, or through the new Subtitle delay dialog - so touch and remote users get it too.
• VOD audio track switching is stable now. Switching languages mid-movie no longer produces irregular timestamps, apparent low framerate, or a dead stream minutes later. Thanks @damiano9813 for fix: stabilize VOD audio track switching #128.
• macOS live playback is reliable. Channels that showed a black picture with working audio (or froze silently) now play: live streams run through a smarter engine with automatic recovery, and AC-3 channels hand off to the system player once and remember it.
• Android stability. The crashes and freezes reported for 1.7.0 are fixed: a startup deadlock, DASH channels crashing the native player, and more. Touch actions like starring a favorite now give a tiny haptic tick.
• Linux rendering safe mode. Known-problematic setups (Raspberry Pi, Nvidia proprietary drivers, VMs) get the right WebKit workaround applied automatically, with a Settings "Rendering" card to override and a self-reverting "faster rendering" trial.
• Wider distribution. Linux users can snap install extreme-infinitv, Windows on ARM gets a native installer, and Raspberry Pi 4/5 gets ARM64 .deb, .rpm, and AppImage builds.
• Kodi metadata for downloads. Opt-in .nfo sidecars (title, year, plot, poster) written next to each finished download, so a Kodi/Jellyfin/Emby library pointed at your downloads folder indexes everything properly.
• Quality of life. "Open folder" buttons for downloads, app data, and logs; Channel-Up/Down on TV remotes switches channels; the update download progress bar actually moves now; fresh installs follow your OS light/dark preference; light mode is warmer, tinted from your accent color; Windows users can enable HEVC playback straight from Settings > Playback.

Downloads

The Microsoft Store, Google Play and Snap Store are the easiest path on Windows, Android and Linux. For direct downloads, expand the table and pick the file that matches your device.

All downloads (Windows, Windows on ARM, macOS, Linux x64/ARM64, Android)

Platform	File
Windows 10/11 (recommended installer)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.7.1_x64-setup.exe
Windows on ARM (Snapdragon laptops)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.7.1_arm64-setup.exe
Windows (MSI alternative)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.7.1_x64_en-US.msi
macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.7.1_universal.dmg
Linux Snap (most distros)	Snap Store or sudo snap install extreme-infinitv
Linux Debian / Ubuntu / Mint	Extreme InfiniTV_1.7.1_amd64.deb
Linux ARM64 - Raspberry Pi 4/5 (64-bit OS), Debian / Ubuntu	Extreme InfiniTV_1.7.1_arm64.deb
Linux Fedora / openSUSE / RHEL	Extreme InfiniTV-1.7.1-1.x86_64.rpm
Linux Fedora / openSUSE / RHEL (ARM64)	Extreme InfiniTV-1.7.1-1.aarch64.rpm
Linux portable (any distro)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.7.1_amd64.AppImage
Linux portable (ARM64, any distro)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.7.1_aarch64.AppImage
Android sideload (APK)	Extreme InfiniTV_1.7.1.apk

What about the .sig files, latest.json and the macOS .app.tar.gz?

You can ignore them.

• *.sig and latest.json are used by the built-in auto-updater to verify each download is genuinely signed. The app downloads them on its own when checking for updates.
• Extreme InfiniTV_universal.app.tar.gz is the macOS update bundle consumed by the same updater. For a fresh install on macOS, use the .dmg instead.

macOS: "Extreme InfiniTV.app" cannot be opened / "Apple could not verify..."

The macOS build is not yet notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper blocks it on first launch. After dragging the app from the .dmg into /Applications, remove the quarantine flag from a Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Extreme InfiniTV.app"

Then open the app normally. You only need to do this once per install.

Heads up

• Android 8.0 (API 26) is the new minimum. Android 7 devices crashed on every launch of 1.7.0 due to a framework incompatibility; 1.7.1 makes the requirement explicit.
• Theme default is "System" now. If you never picked a theme, the app follows your OS light/dark setting after this update. Your explicit choice, if you made one, is untouched.
• Interface sounds default on (except for reduced-motion setups, which stay quiet). Turn them off in Settings > Behavior if they are not for you.
• Snap confinement: inside the Snap, external players (MPV/VLC) and Discord Rich Presence are unavailable - the sandbox cannot launch outside programs. Settings explains this in place. Use the .deb/.rpm/AppImage if you need them.
• Windows on ARM ships as NSIS installer only (no MSI), and Kodi metadata is desktop-only and off by default.

Changelog v1.7.1

New

• Interface sounds ([Feature] Subtle UI sound effects (launch chime, navigation sounds) #126). Web-Audio-based launch chime, navigation ticks, select and confirm notes - gated to keyboard/remote input so mouse and touch stay silent, throttled, and skipped cleanly when the browser blocks autoplay. The splash build animation is paced against the chime. Settings toggle; reduced-motion setups default to quiet.
• Settings redesign. Grouped surface boxes with compact label/control rows and disclosure rows for the heavy editors; the sidebar nav mirrors the boxes, search filters at row level, and container queries reflow every box from phone portrait to narrow desktop windows. Touch targets meet 44px and RTL layouts align correctly.
• Audio-only mode for Live TV. Per-channel toggle driving the radio panel, persisted per playlist; a manual "off" is respected even when the stream reports no video picture.
• Mono audio. Web Audio downmix behind a Settings toggle and a Live TV menu item, applied to streams played by the built-in engines; direct-played files keep their stereo rather than risk being silenced.
• Subtitle delay. Z/X keys plus a stepper dialog (with reset) on movie and series pages, appearing only while a subtitle track is showing; shifts already-displayed and not-yet-loaded cues alike.
• Touch haptics on Android. A tiny vibration when you star a favorite or add to your watchlist by touch, following the system touch-feedback setting. Own Settings toggle, default on.
• Kodi metadata sidecars. Opt-in "Write Kodi metadata" toggle in Settings > Downloads: every finished movie or episode download gets a Kodi-compatible .nfo (title, year, plot, genres, rating, runtime, poster) next to the media file, built from data the app already fetched; deleting the download removes it.
• Open folder buttons. The Downloads page and Settings can open the downloads folder in your file manager; Settings also opens the app data folder (where playlists and preferences live) alongside the existing log folder button.
• Channel-Up / Channel-Down on TV remotes switch to the next / previous channel on Live TV.
• HEVC install row ([Playback] FOX NEWS #131). Windows: Settings > Playback shows whether your system decodes HEVC and installs Microsoft's HEVC Video Extension on demand - previously this fix was only reachable from a correctly-classified playback failure.
• Linux rendering safe mode. Per-hardware WebKitGTK workarounds applied automatically (Raspberry Pi, Nvidia proprietary, VMs), a Settings "Rendering" card to override, and a "faster rendering" trial that reverts itself unless you confirm the app still renders correctly.
• Snap Store, Windows on ARM, Raspberry Pi. Stable releases publish to the Snap Store; Windows ARM64 and Linux ARM64 builds join the release matrix, with the ffmpeg sidecar built for every new platform (including a universal macOS binary).

Improved

• VOD audio track switching (fix: stabilize VOD audio track switching #128): audio stays aligned with the video's keyframe pre-roll, the first chunk survives player reconnects, the player no longer aborts the local remux mid-session, a torn-down session reports itself instead of failing silently, and a paused movie no longer times the session out. The remux honors a custom ffmpeg path and warns once if that path is unusable instead of silently falling back.
• macOS live playback runs through an hls.js-first hybrid: streams that AVFoundation cannot latch onto (black picture, working audio) play correctly, AC-3 channels remount natively once and remember it per playlist, and black-picture / silent-freeze watchdogs re-tune with a bounded budget so off-air feeds surface a proper error instead of spinning forever.
• A tidier now-playing row. Picture-in-picture, Display mode, Audio only, and Mono audio fold into one overflow menu on Live TV, so the channel name gets its space back. Display mode and Subtitle delay dialogs open centered.
• The update download progress bar tracks the actual download: progress events are batched instead of flooding the interface, an unknown download size shows an indeterminate bar instead of sitting at 0%, and the bar reports its progress to screen readers.
• Lighter splash. The boot animation is pure CSS/SVG now - the WebGL backdrop and canvas comet are gone, which low-end TV boxes will feel.
• Light mode neutrals are tinted from your active accent color instead of near-white slate, and the version badge in the sidebar links straight to the update section.

Fixed

• Android 1.7.0 crashes and ANRs (from Play vitals): a synchronous filesystem deadlock froze the app during catalog warmup; DASH channels crashed the native player (they play natively now); native player launch failures toast and recover instead of killing the activity silently.
• macOS VLC handoff quit immediately with "unknown option" when reuse was enabled; reuse now routes through open -a.
• The What's new dialog collapsed its scroll area on macOS.
• The splash now reveals correctly under reduced motion, with a short anti-flash minimum instead of the chime pacing.
• Programme guide parsing genuinely runs off the main thread now - multi-megabyte XMLTV feeds no longer freeze the interface while loading.
• Fullscreen playback on Windows no longer shows a white strip at the bottom edge ([Bug] White line at the bottom screen edge during fullscreen playback (Windows) #112).
• Live channel search matches channel numbers and stream ids.
• "Add from website" vets and pins resolved IPs before probing captured stream candidates, hardening the sniffer against DNS-rebinding tricks.

Under the hood

• Visual regression CI. Every PR renders 18 reference screenshots (9 routes, desktop + phone) against a fixture provider with a frozen clock and diffs them pixel-by-pixel against committed baselines; merges to main refresh the baselines automatically.
• Tightened permissions. The wide filesystem scope is desktop-only now (Android keeps only what backup needs), and the folder-open capability is scoped to match.
• ffmpeg sidecar renamed to infinitv-ffmpeg, rebuilt with H.264/HEVC decoders for the VOD remux, and pinned by checksums committed in the repository across all six platform targets.
• Test suite at 878 tests across 37 files, including new suites for the NFO builders, catalog mappers, warmup planning, and subtitle delay.
• All 16 languages up to date. Every new string in this release ships translated.

Thanks

• @damiano9813 for reporting, debugging, and contributing the VOD audio switching stabilization (fix: stabilize VOD audio track switching #128) - their first contribution to the project
• @WVZR-1 for the playback report that led to the HEVC install row in Settings ([Playback] FOX NEWS #131)

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.7.1

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This discussion was created from the release Extreme InfiniTV v1.7.1.