feat(stats): add TMDB metadata for live-action dramas in the Library (#252 )

chore(yomitan): update fork to upstream 26.9.8
fix(stats): restrict local requests and serve the dashboard over HTTP (#263 )
2026-09-21 05:16:20 -07:00 · 2026-09-21 00:10:00 -07:00 · 2026-09-21 00:09:48 -07:00 · 2026-09-20 23:36:55 -07:00 · 2026-09-20 23:35:48 -07:00 · 2026-09-20 23:19:03 -07:00
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@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+---
+name: subminer-release
+description: Prepare, cut, publish, or repair SubMiner stable and prerelease releases. Use for hands-on release work; do not use for general release questions.
+---
+
+# SubMiner release
+
+Carry out the requested release phase using the repository's current release process.
+
+## Source of truth
+
+Read `docs/RELEASING.md` completely before changing files or release state. Treat it as canonical. Read `changes/README.md` when the work touches change fragments or generated release notes.
+
+Do not copy release commands or policy into this skill. If this skill disagrees with the release guide, follow the guide and reconcile the skill before handoff.
+
+## Workflow
+
+1. Identify whether the request is for a stable release, prerelease, release preparation, publication, or repair.
+2. Inspect the current branch, worktree status, package version, pending change fragments, relevant tags, and latest CI state before making changes.
+3. Follow the matching procedure in `docs/RELEASING.md` in order. Review generated changelog and release-note Markdown before it can be committed or published.
+4. Run every required gate for the requested release phase. Do not treat a cheaper test lane as a substitute for the documented release gate.
+5. Before a stable tag, confirm the package and tag versions match and no pending `changes/*.md` fragments remain. Preserve fragments for prereleases as documented.
+6. Report the resulting version, completed checks, local commit and tag state, remote publication state, skipped platform checks, and any remaining manual work.
+
+## Authorization boundaries
+
+- A request to prepare a release stops before commit, tag, push, or remote publication unless the user also authorizes those actions.
+- A clear request to cut or publish a release includes the documented commit, tag, and push steps. Ask before the first remote mutation when the wording is ambiguous.
+- Do not edit an existing GitHub release, publish to the AUR, change secrets, or alter signing configuration unless the user explicitly requests that operation.
+- Do not switch branches without consent.
+
+## Stop conditions
+
+Stop and report the blocker when required CI or a release gate fails, authentication is missing, versions disagree, required artifacts are absent, or the worktree contains unexpected changes that overlap the release. Do not tag or publish a partially verified release.
@@ -32,9 +32,11 @@ jobs:
      - name: Guard stable docs tag shape
        id: tag_guard
        if: github.ref_type == 'tag'
+        env:
+          TAG_NAME: ${{ github.ref_name }}
        run: |
-          if [[ ! "${{ github.ref_name }}" =~ ^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
-            echo "::notice::Skipping non-stable docs tag ${{ github.ref_name }}"
+          if [[ ! "$TAG_NAME" =~ ^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
+            echo "::notice::Skipping non-stable docs tag $TAG_NAME"
            echo "stable_tag=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
            exit 0
          fi
@@ -0,0 +1,274 @@
+name: Package release
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+    secrets:
+      CSC_LINK:
+        required: true
+      CSC_KEY_PASSWORD:
+        required: true
+      APPLE_ID:
+        required: true
+      APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD:
+        required: true
+      APPLE_TEAM_ID:
+        required: true
+      # Project TMDB key baked into release artifacts; builds stay valid without it.
+      SUBMINER_TMDB_API_KEY:
+        required: false
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  build-linux:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Setup Bun
+        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
+        with:
+          bun-version: 1.3.5
+
+      - name: Cache dependencies
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/.bun/install/cache
+            node_modules
+            stats/node_modules
+            vendor/texthooker-ui/node_modules
+            vendor/subminer-yomitan/node_modules
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-${{ hashFiles('bun.lock', 'stats/bun.lock', 'vendor/texthooker-ui/bun.lock', 'vendor/subminer-yomitan/package-lock.json') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          bun install --frozen-lockfile
+          cd stats && bun install --frozen-lockfile
+
+      - name: Build texthooker-ui
+        run: |
+          cd vendor/texthooker-ui
+          bun install --frozen-lockfile
+          bun run build
+
+      - name: Download previous package size reports
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p .tmp/package-baseline
+          previous=$(gh api "repos/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/releases" --jq '[.[] | select(.draft == false and .tag_name != env.GITHUB_REF_NAME)] | sort_by(.published_at) | last | .tag_name // empty')
+          if [ -n "$previous" ]; then
+            gh release download "$previous" --pattern 'package-size-*.json' --dir .tmp/package-baseline || echo 'Previous release has no package size reports; size comparison will be skipped.'
+          fi
+
+      - name: Build AppImage
+        run: bun run build:appimage
+        env:
+          SUBMINER_TMDB_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.SUBMINER_TMDB_API_KEY }}
+
+      - name: Build unversioned AppImage
+        run: |
+          shopt -s nullglob
+          appimages=(release/SubMiner-*.AppImage)
+          if [ "${#appimages[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
+            echo "No versioned AppImage found to create unversioned artifact."
+            ls -la release
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          cp "${appimages[0]}" release/SubMiner.AppImage
+
+      - name: Smoke packaged runtime assets
+        shell: bash
+        run: xvfb-run -a bun run test:package "release/linux-unpacked/resources"
+
+      - name: Upload AppImage artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: appimage
+          path: |
+            release/*.AppImage
+            release/latest*.yml
+            release/*.blockmap
+            release/package-size-*.json
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  build-macos:
+    runs-on: macos-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Setup Bun
+        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
+        with:
+          bun-version: 1.3.5
+
+      - name: Cache dependencies
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/.bun/install/cache
+            node_modules
+            stats/node_modules
+            vendor/texthooker-ui/node_modules
+            vendor/subminer-yomitan/node_modules
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-${{ hashFiles('bun.lock', 'stats/bun.lock', 'vendor/texthooker-ui/bun.lock', 'vendor/subminer-yomitan/package-lock.json') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-
+
+      - name: Validate macOS signing/notarization secrets
+        run: |
+          missing=0
+          for name in CSC_LINK CSC_KEY_PASSWORD APPLE_ID APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD APPLE_TEAM_ID; do
+            if [ -z "${!name}" ]; then
+              echo "Missing required secret: $name"
+              missing=1
+            fi
+          done
+          if [ "$missing" -ne 0 ]; then
+            echo "Set all required macOS signing/notarization secrets and rerun."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+        env:
+          CSC_LINK: ${{ secrets.CSC_LINK }}
+          CSC_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.CSC_KEY_PASSWORD }}
+          APPLE_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_ID }}
+          APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD }}
+          APPLE_TEAM_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_TEAM_ID }}
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          bun install --frozen-lockfile
+          cd stats && bun install --frozen-lockfile
+
+      - name: Build texthooker-ui
+        run: |
+          cd vendor/texthooker-ui
+          bun install --frozen-lockfile
+          bun run build
+
+      - name: Download previous package size reports
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p .tmp/package-baseline
+          previous=$(gh api "repos/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/releases" --jq '[.[] | select(.draft == false and .tag_name != env.GITHUB_REF_NAME)] | sort_by(.published_at) | last | .tag_name // empty')
+          if [ -n "$previous" ]; then
+            gh release download "$previous" --pattern 'package-size-*.json' --dir .tmp/package-baseline || echo 'Previous release has no package size reports; size comparison will be skipped.'
+          fi
+
+      - name: Build signed + notarized macOS artifacts
+        run: bun run build:mac
+        env:
+          SUBMINER_TMDB_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.SUBMINER_TMDB_API_KEY }}
+          CSC_LINK: ${{ secrets.CSC_LINK }}
+          CSC_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.CSC_KEY_PASSWORD }}
+          APPLE_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_ID }}
+          APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD }}
+          APPLE_TEAM_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_TEAM_ID }}
+
+      - name: Smoke packaged runtime assets
+        shell: bash
+        run: bun run test:package "release/mac-arm64/SubMiner.app/Contents/Resources"
+
+      - name: Upload macOS artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: macos
+          path: |
+            release/*.dmg
+            release/*.zip
+            release/latest*.yml
+            release/*.blockmap
+            release/package-size-*.json
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
+  build-windows:
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          submodules: true
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Setup Bun
+        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
+        with:
+          bun-version: 1.3.5
+
+      - name: Cache dependencies
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: |
+            ~/.bun/install/cache
+            node_modules
+            stats/node_modules
+            vendor/texthooker-ui/node_modules
+            vendor/subminer-yomitan/node_modules
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-${{ hashFiles('bun.lock', 'stats/bun.lock', 'vendor/texthooker-ui/bun.lock', 'vendor/subminer-yomitan/package-lock.json') }}
+          restore-keys: |
+            ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          bun install --frozen-lockfile
+          cd stats && bun install --frozen-lockfile
+
+      - name: Build texthooker-ui
+        shell: powershell
+        run: |
+          Set-Location vendor/texthooker-ui
+          bun install --frozen-lockfile
+          bun run build
+
+      - name: Download previous package size reports
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p .tmp/package-baseline
+          previous=$(gh api "repos/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/releases" --jq '[.[] | select(.draft == false and .tag_name != env.GITHUB_REF_NAME)] | sort_by(.published_at) | last | .tag_name // empty')
+          if [ -n "$previous" ]; then
+            gh release download "$previous" --pattern 'package-size-*.json' --dir .tmp/package-baseline || echo 'Previous release has no package size reports; size comparison will be skipped.'
+          fi
+
+      - name: Verify managed Windows launcher
+        run: bun test src/main/runtime/managed-launcher.test.ts
+
+      - name: Verify Windows launcher bootstrap
+        run: bun test src/main/runtime/windows-launcher-bootstrap.test.ts
+
+      - name: Build unsigned Windows artifacts
+        run: bun run build:win:unsigned
+        env:
+          SUBMINER_TMDB_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.SUBMINER_TMDB_API_KEY }}
+
+      - name: Smoke packaged runtime assets
+        shell: bash
+        run: bun run test:package "release/win-unpacked/resources"
+
+      - name: Upload Windows artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: windows
+          path: |
+            release/*.exe
+            release/*.zip
+            release/latest*.yml
+            release/*.blockmap
+            release/package-size-*.json
+          if-no-files-found: error
@@ -16,201 +16,21 @@ jobs:
      contents: read
    uses: ./.github/workflows/quality-gate.yml

-  build-linux:
+  package:
    needs: [quality-gate]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-
-      - name: Setup Bun
-        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
-        with:
-          bun-version: 1.3.5
-
-      - name: Cache dependencies
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: |
-            ~/.bun/install/cache
-            node_modules
-            stats/node_modules
-            vendor/texthooker-ui/node_modules
-            vendor/subminer-yomitan/node_modules
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-${{ hashFiles('bun.lock', 'stats/bun.lock', 'vendor/texthooker-ui/package.json', 'vendor/subminer-yomitan/package-lock.json') }}
-          restore-keys: |
-            ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          bun install --frozen-lockfile
-          cd stats && bun install --frozen-lockfile
-
-      - name: Build texthooker-ui
-        run: |
-          cd vendor/texthooker-ui
-          bun install
-          bun run build
-
-      - name: Build AppImage
-        run: bun run build:appimage
-
-      - name: Build unversioned AppImage
-        run: |
-          shopt -s nullglob
-          appimages=(release/SubMiner-*.AppImage)
-          if [ "${#appimages[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
-            echo "No versioned AppImage found to create unversioned artifact."
-            ls -la release
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          cp "${appimages[0]}" release/SubMiner.AppImage
-
-      - name: Upload AppImage artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: appimage
-          path: |
-            release/*.AppImage
-            release/latest*.yml
-            release/*.blockmap
-          if-no-files-found: error
-
-  build-macos:
-    needs: [quality-gate]
-    runs-on: macos-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-
-      - name: Setup Bun
-        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
-        with:
-          bun-version: 1.3.5
-
-      - name: Cache dependencies
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: |
-            ~/.bun/install/cache
-            node_modules
-            stats/node_modules
-            vendor/texthooker-ui/node_modules
-            vendor/subminer-yomitan/node_modules
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-${{ hashFiles('bun.lock', 'stats/bun.lock', 'vendor/texthooker-ui/package.json', 'vendor/subminer-yomitan/package-lock.json') }}
-          restore-keys: |
-            ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-
-
-      - name: Validate macOS signing/notarization secrets
-        run: |
-          missing=0
-          for name in CSC_LINK CSC_KEY_PASSWORD APPLE_ID APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD APPLE_TEAM_ID; do
-            if [ -z "${!name}" ]; then
-              echo "Missing required secret: $name"
-              missing=1
-            fi
-          done
-          if [ "$missing" -ne 0 ]; then
-            echo "Set all required macOS signing/notarization secrets and rerun."
-            exit 1
-          fi
-        env:
-          CSC_LINK: ${{ secrets.CSC_LINK }}
-          CSC_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.CSC_KEY_PASSWORD }}
-          APPLE_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_ID }}
-          APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD }}
-          APPLE_TEAM_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_TEAM_ID }}
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          bun install --frozen-lockfile
-          cd stats && bun install --frozen-lockfile
-
-      - name: Build texthooker-ui
-        run: |
-          cd vendor/texthooker-ui
-          bun install
-          bun run build
-
-      - name: Build signed + notarized macOS artifacts
-        run: bun run build:mac
-        env:
-          CSC_LINK: ${{ secrets.CSC_LINK }}
-          CSC_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.CSC_KEY_PASSWORD }}
-          APPLE_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_ID }}
-          APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD }}
-          APPLE_TEAM_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_TEAM_ID }}
-
-      - name: Upload macOS artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: macos
-          path: |
-            release/*.dmg
-            release/*.zip
-            release/latest*.yml
-            release/*.blockmap
-          if-no-files-found: error
-
-  build-windows:
-    needs: [quality-gate]
-    runs-on: windows-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-
-      - name: Setup Bun
-        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
-        with:
-          bun-version: 1.3.5
-
-      - name: Cache dependencies
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: |
-            ~/.bun/install/cache
-            node_modules
-            stats/node_modules
-            vendor/texthooker-ui/node_modules
-            vendor/subminer-yomitan/node_modules
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-${{ hashFiles('bun.lock', 'stats/bun.lock', 'vendor/texthooker-ui/package.json', 'vendor/subminer-yomitan/package-lock.json') }}
-          restore-keys: |
-            ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-bun-
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          bun install --frozen-lockfile
-          cd stats && bun install --frozen-lockfile
-
-      - name: Build texthooker-ui
-        shell: powershell
-        run: |
-          Set-Location vendor/texthooker-ui
-          bun install
-          bun run build
-
-      - name: Build unsigned Windows artifacts
-        run: bun run build:win:unsigned
-
-      - name: Upload Windows artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: windows
-          path: |
-            release/*.exe
-            release/*.zip
-            release/latest*.yml
-            release/*.blockmap
-          if-no-files-found: error
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/package-release.yml
+    secrets:
+      CSC_LINK: ${{ secrets.CSC_LINK }}
+      CSC_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.CSC_KEY_PASSWORD }}
+      APPLE_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_ID }}
+      APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD }}
+      APPLE_TEAM_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_TEAM_ID }}
+      SUBMINER_TMDB_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.SUBMINER_TMDB_API_KEY }}

  release:
-    needs: [build-linux, build-macos, build-windows]
+    needs: [package]
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write
@@ -256,11 +76,11 @@ jobs:
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: bun install --frozen-lockfile

-      - name: Build Bun subminer wrapper
+      - name: Build launcher runtime artifacts
        run: make build-launcher

-      - name: Verify Bun subminer wrapper
-        run: dist/launcher/subminer --help >/dev/null
+      - name: Smoke launcher bundle
+        run: bun dist/launcher/subminer.js --help >/dev/null

      - name: Enforce generated launcher workflow
        run: bash scripts/verify-generated-launcher.sh
@@ -274,12 +94,18 @@ jobs:
            config.example.jsonc \
            plugin/subminer \
            plugin/subminer.conf \
-            assets/themes/subminer.rasi
+            assets/themes/subminer.rasi \
+            assets/thumbnailers/subminer-ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer \
+            resources/bun/licenses
+
+      - name: Package Bun corresponding source
+        run: bun scripts/package-bun-source.mjs

      - name: Generate checksums
        run: |
          shopt -s nullglob
-          files=(release/*.AppImage release/*.dmg release/*.exe release/*.zip release/*.tar.gz release/latest*.yml release/*.blockmap dist/launcher/subminer)
+          files=(release/*.AppImage release/*.dmg release/*.exe release/*.zip release/*.tar.gz release/latest*.yml release/*.blockmap dist/launcher/subminer dist/launcher/subminer.cmd)
+          files+=(release/package-size-*.json)
          if [ "${#files[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
            echo "No release artifacts found for checksum generation."
            exit 1
@@ -296,15 +122,22 @@ jobs:
        run: echo "VERSION=${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

      - name: Verify committed prerelease notes
+        env:
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}
        run: |
          if [ ! -s release/prerelease-notes.md ]; then
            echo "::error::release/prerelease-notes.md is missing or empty. Run 'bun run changelog:prerelease-notes --version <version>' locally and commit the file before tagging."
            exit 1
          fi
+          if ! bun run changelog:check-prerelease-notes --version "$RELEASE_VERSION"; then
+            echo "::error::release/prerelease-notes.md was not generated for $RELEASE_VERSION. Rerun 'bun run changelog:prerelease-notes --version $RELEASE_VERSION' locally, commit, and retag."
+            exit 1
+          fi

      - name: Publish Prerelease
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail

@@ -315,10 +148,13 @@ jobs:
            release/*.exe
            release/*.zip
            release/*.tar.gz
+            release/*.tar.gz.sha256
            release/latest*.yml
            release/*.blockmap
            release/SHA256SUMS.txt
+            release/package-size-*.json
            dist/launcher/subminer
+            dist/launcher/subminer.cmd
          )

          if [ "${#artifacts[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
@@ -326,27 +162,27 @@ jobs:
            exit 1
          fi

-          if gh release view "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            gh release edit "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" \
+          if gh release view "$RELEASE_VERSION" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            gh release edit "$RELEASE_VERSION" \
              --draft \
              --prerelease \
-              --title "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" \
+              --title "$RELEASE_VERSION" \
              --notes-file release/prerelease-notes.md
          else
-            gh release create "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" \
+            gh release create "$RELEASE_VERSION" \
              --draft \
              --latest=false \
              --prerelease \
-              --title "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" \
+              --title "$RELEASE_VERSION" \
              --notes-file release/prerelease-notes.md
          fi

          for asset in "${artifacts[@]}"; do
-            gh release upload "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" "$asset" --clobber
+            gh release upload "$RELEASE_VERSION" "$asset" --clobber
          done

-          gh release edit "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" \
+          gh release edit "$RELEASE_VERSION" \
            --draft=false \
            --prerelease \
-            --title "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" \
+            --title "$RELEASE_VERSION" \
            --notes-file release/prerelease-notes.md
@@ -7,6 +7,31 @@ permissions:
  contents: read

 jobs:
+  launcher-runtime:
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [windows-latest, macos-latest]
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Setup Bun
+        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
+        with:
+          bun-version: 1.3.5
+
+      - name: Verify native runtime staging
+        run: bun test src/main/runtime/managed-launcher.test.ts
+
+      - name: Verify Windows launcher bootstrap
+        run: bun test src/main/runtime/windows-launcher-bootstrap.test.ts
+
+      - name: Verify POSIX launcher bootstrap
+        run: bun test src/main/runtime/posix-launcher-bootstrap.test.ts
+
  quality-gate:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
@@ -60,17 +85,28 @@ jobs:

      - name: Install Lua
        run: |
-          sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y lua5.4
+          # Lua needs only Ubuntu sources; unrelated runner repositories can be unavailable.
+          test -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources
+          apt_sources=(-o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources -o Dir::Etc::sourceparts=-)
+          sudo apt-get "${apt_sources[@]}" update
+          sudo apt-get "${apt_sources[@]}" install -y lua5.4
          sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/lua5.4 /usr/local/bin/lua
          lua -v

-      - name: Test suite (source)
-        run: bun run test:fast
+      - name: Launcher unit and script suites
+        run: bun run test:launcher:unit:src && bun run test:scripts

      - name: Environment suite
        run: bun run test:env

+      - name: Upload launcher smoke artifacts (on failure)
+        if: failure()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: launcher-smoke
+          path: .tmp/launcher-smoke/**
+          if-no-files-found: ignore
+
      - name: Coverage suite (maintained source lane)
        run: bun run test:coverage:src

@@ -84,17 +120,6 @@ jobs:
      - name: Stats UI tests
        run: bun run test:stats

-      - name: Launcher smoke suite (source)
-        run: bun run test:launcher:smoke:src
-
-      - name: Upload launcher smoke artifacts (on failure)
-        if: failure()
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: launcher-smoke
-          path: .tmp/launcher-smoke/**
-          if-no-files-found: ignore
-
      - name: Build (bundle)
        run: bun run build

@@ -107,11 +132,11 @@ jobs:
      - name: Security audit
        run: bun audit --audit-level high

-      - name: Build Bun subminer wrapper
+      - name: Build launcher runtime artifacts
        run: make build-launcher

-      - name: Verify Bun subminer wrapper
-        run: dist/launcher/subminer --help >/dev/null
+      - name: Smoke launcher bundle
+        run: bun dist/launcher/subminer.js --help >/dev/null

      - name: Enforce generated launcher workflow
        run: bash scripts/verify-generated-launcher.sh
@@ -17,199 +17,21 @@ jobs:
      contents: read
    uses: ./.github/workflows/quality-gate.yml

-  build-linux:
+  package:
    needs: [quality-gate]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-
-      - name: Setup Bun
-        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
-        with:
-          bun-version: 1.3.5
-
-      - name: Cache dependencies
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: |
-            ~/.bun/install/cache
-            node_modules
-            stats/node_modules
-            vendor/texthooker-ui/node_modules
-            vendor/subminer-yomitan/node_modules
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-bun-${{ hashFiles('bun.lock', 'stats/bun.lock', 'vendor/texthooker-ui/package.json', 'vendor/subminer-yomitan/package-lock.json') }}
-          restore-keys: |
-            ${{ runner.os }}-bun-
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          bun install --frozen-lockfile
-          cd stats && bun install --frozen-lockfile
-
-      - name: Build texthooker-ui
-        run: |
-          cd vendor/texthooker-ui
-          bun install
-          bun run build
-
-      - name: Build AppImage
-        run: bun run build:appimage
-
-      - name: Build unversioned AppImage
-        run: |
-          shopt -s nullglob
-          appimages=(release/SubMiner-*.AppImage)
-          if [ "${#appimages[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
-            echo "No versioned AppImage found to create unversioned artifact."
-            ls -la release
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          cp "${appimages[0]}" release/SubMiner.AppImage
-
-      - name: Upload AppImage artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: appimage
-          path: |
-            release/*.AppImage
-            release/latest*.yml
-            release/*.blockmap
-
-  build-macos:
-    needs: [quality-gate]
-    runs-on: macos-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-
-      - name: Setup Bun
-        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
-        with:
-          bun-version: 1.3.5
-
-      - name: Cache dependencies
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: |
-            ~/.bun/install/cache
-            node_modules
-            stats/node_modules
-            vendor/texthooker-ui/node_modules
-            vendor/subminer-yomitan/node_modules
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-bun-${{ hashFiles('bun.lock', 'stats/bun.lock', 'vendor/texthooker-ui/package.json', 'vendor/subminer-yomitan/package-lock.json') }}
-          restore-keys: |
-            ${{ runner.os }}-bun-
-
-      - name: Validate macOS signing/notarization secrets
-        run: |
-          missing=0
-          for name in CSC_LINK CSC_KEY_PASSWORD APPLE_ID APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD APPLE_TEAM_ID; do
-            if [ -z "${!name}" ]; then
-              echo "Missing required secret: $name"
-              missing=1
-            fi
-          done
-          if [ "$missing" -ne 0 ]; then
-            echo "Set all required macOS signing/notarization secrets and rerun."
-            exit 1
-          fi
-        env:
-          CSC_LINK: ${{ secrets.CSC_LINK }}
-          CSC_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.CSC_KEY_PASSWORD }}
-          APPLE_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_ID }}
-          APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD }}
-          APPLE_TEAM_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_TEAM_ID }}
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          bun install --frozen-lockfile
-          cd stats && bun install --frozen-lockfile
-
-      - name: Build texthooker-ui
-        run: |
-          cd vendor/texthooker-ui
-          bun install
-          bun run build
-
-      - name: Build signed + notarized macOS artifacts
-        run: bun run build:mac
-        env:
-          CSC_LINK: ${{ secrets.CSC_LINK }}
-          CSC_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.CSC_KEY_PASSWORD }}
-          APPLE_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_ID }}
-          APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD }}
-          APPLE_TEAM_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_TEAM_ID }}
-
-      - name: Upload macOS artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: macos
-          path: |
-            release/*.dmg
-            release/*.zip
-            release/latest*.yml
-            release/*.blockmap
-
-  build-windows:
-    needs: [quality-gate]
-    runs-on: windows-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          submodules: true
-
-      - name: Setup Bun
-        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@v2
-        with:
-          bun-version: 1.3.5
-
-      - name: Cache dependencies
-        uses: actions/cache@v4
-        with:
-          path: |
-            ~/.bun/install/cache
-            node_modules
-            stats/node_modules
-            vendor/texthooker-ui/node_modules
-            vendor/subminer-yomitan/node_modules
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-bun-${{ hashFiles('bun.lock', 'stats/bun.lock', 'vendor/texthooker-ui/package.json', 'vendor/subminer-yomitan/package-lock.json') }}
-          restore-keys: |
-            ${{ runner.os }}-bun-
-
-      - name: Install dependencies
-        run: |
-          bun install --frozen-lockfile
-          cd stats && bun install --frozen-lockfile
-
-      - name: Build texthooker-ui
-        shell: powershell
-        run: |
-          Set-Location vendor/texthooker-ui
-          bun install
-          bun run build
-
-      - name: Build unsigned Windows artifacts
-        run: bun run build:win:unsigned
-
-      - name: Upload Windows artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: windows
-          path: |
-            release/*.exe
-            release/*.zip
-            release/latest*.yml
-            release/*.blockmap
-          if-no-files-found: error
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/package-release.yml
+    secrets:
+      CSC_LINK: ${{ secrets.CSC_LINK }}
+      CSC_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.CSC_KEY_PASSWORD }}
+      APPLE_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_ID }}
+      APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD }}
+      APPLE_TEAM_ID: ${{ secrets.APPLE_TEAM_ID }}
+      SUBMINER_TMDB_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.SUBMINER_TMDB_API_KEY }}

  release:
-    needs: [build-linux, build-macos, build-windows]
+    needs: [package]
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write
@@ -255,11 +77,11 @@ jobs:
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: bun install --frozen-lockfile

-      - name: Build Bun subminer wrapper
+      - name: Build launcher runtime artifacts
        run: make build-launcher

-      - name: Verify Bun subminer wrapper
-        run: dist/launcher/subminer --help >/dev/null
+      - name: Smoke launcher bundle
+        run: bun dist/launcher/subminer.js --help >/dev/null

      - name: Enforce generated launcher workflow
        run: bash scripts/verify-generated-launcher.sh
@@ -273,12 +95,18 @@ jobs:
            config.example.jsonc \
            plugin/subminer \
            plugin/subminer.conf \
-            assets/themes/subminer.rasi
+            assets/themes/subminer.rasi \
+            assets/thumbnailers/subminer-ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer \
+            resources/bun/licenses
+
+      - name: Package Bun corresponding source
+        run: bun scripts/package-bun-source.mjs

      - name: Generate checksums
        run: |
          shopt -s nullglob
-          files=(release/*.AppImage release/*.dmg release/*.exe release/*.zip release/*.tar.gz release/latest*.yml release/*.blockmap dist/launcher/subminer)
+          files=(release/*.AppImage release/*.dmg release/*.exe release/*.zip release/*.tar.gz release/latest*.yml release/*.blockmap dist/launcher/subminer dist/launcher/subminer.cmd)
+          files+=(release/package-size-*.json)
          if [ "${#files[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
            echo "No release artifacts found for checksum generation."
            exit 1
@@ -295,33 +123,40 @@ jobs:
        run: echo "VERSION=${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

      - name: Guard against pending changelog fragments
+        env:
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}
        run: |
          if find changes -maxdepth 1 -name '*.md' -not -name README.md -print -quit | grep -q .; then
-            echo "::error::Pending changelog fragments detected. Run 'bun run changelog:build --version ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}' locally and commit the polished CHANGELOG.md before tagging. CI no longer auto-builds the changelog because the polish step requires the local 'claude' CLI."
+            echo "::error::Pending changelog fragments detected. Run 'bun run changelog:build --version $RELEASE_VERSION' locally and commit the polished CHANGELOG.md before tagging. CI no longer auto-builds the changelog because the polish step requires the local 'claude' CLI."
            exit 1
          fi

      - name: Verify changelog is ready for tagged release
-        run: bun run changelog:check --version "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}"
+        env:
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}
+        run: bun run changelog:check --version "$RELEASE_VERSION"

      - name: Generate release notes from changelog
-        run: bun run changelog:release-notes --version "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}"
+        env:
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}
+        run: bun run changelog:release-notes --version "$RELEASE_VERSION"

      - name: Publish Release
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail

-          if gh release view "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+          if gh release view "$RELEASE_VERSION" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            # Do not pass the prerelease flag here; gh defaults to a normal release.
-            gh release edit "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" \
+            gh release edit "$RELEASE_VERSION" \
              --draft=false \
-              --title "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" \
+              --title "$RELEASE_VERSION" \
              --notes-file release/release-notes.md
          else
-            gh release create "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" \
-              --title "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" \
+            gh release create "$RELEASE_VERSION" \
+              --title "$RELEASE_VERSION" \
              --notes-file release/release-notes.md
          fi

@@ -332,10 +167,13 @@ jobs:
            release/*.exe
            release/*.zip
            release/*.tar.gz
+            release/*.tar.gz.sha256
            release/latest*.yml
            release/*.blockmap
            release/SHA256SUMS.txt
+            release/package-size-*.json
            dist/launcher/subminer
+            dist/launcher/subminer.cmd
          )

          if [ "${#artifacts[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
@@ -344,7 +182,7 @@ jobs:
          fi

          for asset in "${artifacts[@]}"; do
-            gh release upload "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" "$asset" --clobber
+            gh release upload "$RELEASE_VERSION" "$asset" --clobber
          done

  aur-publish:
@@ -420,9 +258,10 @@ jobs:
        if: steps.aur_prereqs.outputs.skip != 'true' && steps.aur_ssh.outputs.skip != 'true' && steps.aur_clone.outputs.skip != 'true'
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
-          version="${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}"
+          version="$RELEASE_VERSION"
          install -dm755 .tmp/aur-release-assets
          gh release download "$version" \
            --dir .tmp/aur-release-assets \
@@ -432,15 +271,17 @@ jobs:

      - name: Update AUR packaging metadata
        if: steps.aur_prereqs.outputs.skip != 'true' && steps.aur_ssh.outputs.skip != 'true' && steps.aur_clone.outputs.skip != 'true'
+        env:
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
-          version_no_v="${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}"
+          version_no_v="$RELEASE_VERSION"
          version_no_v="${version_no_v#v}"
          cp packaging/aur/subminer-bin/PKGBUILD aur-subminer-bin/PKGBUILD
          cp packaging/aur/subminer-bin/.SRCINFO aur-subminer-bin/.SRCINFO
          bash scripts/update-aur-package.sh \
            --pkg-dir aur-subminer-bin \
-            --version "${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}" \
+            --version "$RELEASE_VERSION" \
            --appimage ".tmp/aur-release-assets/SubMiner-${version_no_v}.AppImage" \
            --wrapper ".tmp/aur-release-assets/subminer" \
            --assets ".tmp/aur-release-assets/subminer-assets.tar.gz"
@@ -450,6 +291,7 @@ jobs:
        working-directory: aur-subminer-bin
        env:
          GIT_SSH_COMMAND: ssh -i ~/.ssh/aur -o IdentitiesOnly=yes
+          RELEASE_VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}
        run: |
          set -euo pipefail
          if git diff --quiet -- PKGBUILD .SRCINFO; then
@@ -459,7 +301,7 @@ jobs:
          git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
          git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
          git add PKGBUILD .SRCINFO
-          git commit -m "Update to ${{ steps.version.outputs.VERSION }}"
+          git commit -m "Update to $RELEASE_VERSION"

          attempts=3
          for attempt in $(seq 1 "$attempts"); do
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ tests/*
 !.agents/skills/
 .agents/skills/*
 !.agents/skills/subminer-change-verification/
+!.agents/skills/subminer-release/
 !.agents/skills/subminer-scrum-master/
 .agents/skills/subminer-change-verification/*
 !.agents/skills/subminer-change-verification/SKILL.md
@@ -56,6 +57,8 @@ tests/*
 .agents/skills/subminer-change-verification/scripts/*
 !.agents/skills/subminer-change-verification/scripts/classify_subminer_diff.sh
 !.agents/skills/subminer-change-verification/scripts/verify_subminer_change.sh
+.agents/skills/subminer-release/*
+!.agents/skills/subminer-release/SKILL.md
 .agents/skills/subminer-scrum-master/*
 !.agents/skills/subminer-scrum-master/SKILL.md
 favicon.png
@@ -1,5 +1,92 @@
 # Changelog

+## v0.19.6 (2026-09-04)
+
+### Added
+
+- **Card Timing Review**:
+  - Optional pre-generation timing review for word, sentence, and audio cards, with a speech-weighted waveform that flattens background noise so dialogue edges stand out clearly.
+  - The clip end automatically snaps back to where the line's dialogue actually ends once the waveform loads, with drag and keyboard adjustments available.
+  - Audio preview includes a sweeping playhead that plays the clip to its true end, even on high-latency outputs like Bluetooth headphones.
+  - Previous and next subtitle lines can be pulled onto the card with `P`/`N` (or the Prev/Next steppers) and removed with Shift; the sentence preview and waveform markers update automatically.
+  - Cancelling lets you keep a card without media, and the review can be toggled on or off for the session.
+- **Senren Field Grouping**:
+  - Enable `ankiConnect.isSenren` to merge duplicate mined cards using Senren's scene-switching markup, grouping sentence, furigana, audio, picture, and misc-info fields.
+  - Supports the same auto/manual/disabled modes as Kiku, including the manual merge modal; only one of Senren or Kiku can be enabled at a time.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **Remote Stream Mining Performance**: Mining a card from a remote stream (Jellyfin and other HTTP sources) now downloads the clip window once and reuses it for the timing review waveform, audio preview, audio extraction, and screenshot, instead of re-fetching the stream at each step; the temporary file is cleaned up after ten minutes of inactivity or on exit.
+- **TsukiHime Release Filtering**: The TsukiHime modal's Japanese and secondary-language tabs now filter the release list by the subtitle languages each release actually carries, and report when no release has subtitles for the active tab.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Subtitle & Mining Accuracy**:
+  - Broadcast-style captions that split one sentence across two on-screen rows (e.g. Crunchyroll Japanese subs) now merge into a single line for the sidebar and mined cards, while separate speakers, sound effects, and labeled turns still stay on their own lines.
+  - Mining from the overlay no longer pulls in a lingering row from the previous caption; the mined sentence and clip timing now match what's actually on screen.
+  - Multi-line copy and mining now select lines backward in timeline order after seeking, instead of in playback encounter order.
+  - Copying a subtitle, mining a sentence, or recording immersion stats no longer includes the separate furigana line that broadcast ASS captions place above a word.
+- **Card Update Notifications**: Dismissed lingering overlay card-update progress when notification settings switch to OSD before an update finishes.
+- **Overlay Stability on Hyprland**: Opening a modal window (timing review, Jimaku, session help, and others) while mpv is fullscreen no longer causes the overlay to flicker while the modal loads; the overlay now stays on screen untouched until the modal is ready.
+- **Jellyfin Subtitle Sync**: Jellyfin subtitle files now load with zero mpv delay instead of inferring and saving an offset from Japanese and English cue timelines.
+- **Secondary Subtitle Visibility**: Native mpv secondary subtitles stay hidden when switching secondary subtitle tracks during playback.
+
+## v0.19.5 (2026-08-30)
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Anki Card Update Progress**: The card-update spinner now stays visible until audio and image updates finish, instead of disappearing early.
+- **Anki Word-Card Fields**: Word-card enrichment now writes sentence text and audio to the fields configured in AnkiConnect, while the dedicated sentence-card and audio-card actions keep their existing compatible field names.
+- **Overlapping Subtitles**:
+  - Subtitle lines that start while another line is still on screen now appear alongside it, instead of staying hidden until a track switch or seek.
+  - Subtitles shown at the same time now stack by their authored screen position, with top signs and song lines above bottom dialogue.
+  - Half-size ASS furigana is no longer shown as if it were a dialogue line.
+- **YouTube Auto Captions**:
+  - Auto-generated captions now follow their intended timing and two-row roll-up layout.
+  - Long speech is paged instead of covering the video with a wall of text.
+  - Explicitly timed sound cues like `[音楽]` no longer cover later dialogue.
+
+## v0.19.4 (2026-08-25)
+
+### Added
+- **Library Merge & Move**: Duplicate library cards for the same show can now be combined. Select cards in the library grid and use "Merge Selected" to pick which entry to keep and move every episode onto it, preserving sessions, mined cards, and watch time. Episodes can also be reassigned individually via the "→" button, useful when a file lands under a stray title; manual assignments survive later filename parsing, Jellyfin refreshes, and season repair. Exact AniList title matches with compatible seasons now merge automatically, while fuzzy matches surface as dismissible "Possible duplicate" reviews instead of merging silently.
+- **Duplicate Line Cleanup Tool**: The Vocabulary tab's new "Duplicates" button scans a chosen time window (7 days through all time) for old karaoke/typeset duplicate-line bursts, shows what it found, and collapses each run to one line once confirmed; `subminer stats cleanup --duplicate-lines` does the same from the terminal, with `--dry-run` and `--lookback-days <n>` options. Watch time and lines-seen totals are left unchanged.
+
+### Changed
+- **Prerelease Release Notes**: Prerelease notes now open with a "Changes since" section listing only what changed versus the previous beta/RC of the same version, above the cumulative highlights, and CI rejects prerelease tags whose committed notes were generated for a different beta/RC.
+
+### Fixed
+- **Subtitle & Karaoke Duplication**:
+  - Karaoke and animated signs are reconstructed once from their authored text and shown only while actually sung, with original word spacing preserved, instead of flooding the overlay, subtitle sidebar, immersion history, mining, or stats with glyph fragments, per-frame color phases, and repeated animation events.
+  - Decorative layers (highlight sweeps, glow/shadow copies, symbol-font decoration, particle swarms, hidden or zero-scaled text) stay out of published text, while ordinary repeated dialogue, positioned signs, wrapped lyric rows, and multi-row CC-style blocks still display correctly.
+  - Embedded subtitle tracks on network-mounted (SMB/NFS) media are extracted and parsed again instead of falling back to live-text-only, restoring karaoke reconstruction, sidebar cues, and mining for releases that only ship subtitles inside the container.
+  - Secondary subtitles go through the same deduplication pipeline as primary subtitles and no longer clip display after about four lines.
+  - Event-heavy karaoke files that previously stalled subtitle loading for several seconds now parse in well under a second.
+- **Character Dictionary Reliability**:
+  - Generation, merged rebuilds, and imports no longer freeze the app on large dictionaries; snapshot I/O, archive building, and image/name lookup caches moved off the UI's critical path.
+  - Dictionaries are reused instead of regenerated when MeCab finds no name splits.
+  - Cached portraits restore correctly after the portrait index finishes loading post-tokenization.
+  - Desktop progress notifications on Linux AppImage installs update in place instead of flickering, fixing a bug where the AppImage's bundled libraries broke the system notification helper.
+- **Overlay Startup & Modals**:
+  - The macOS window-tracking helper targets macOS 12.0+ instead of requiring the build machine's exact macOS version, fixing crashes on older systems like Ventura that left the overlay stuck on "Overlay loading".
+  - mpv IPC connection attempts time out and retry, showing an actionable error if content still isn't ready after 30 seconds.
+  - Dedicated overlay modals are prewarmed on macOS and Windows so shortcuts open them promptly.
+  - On macOS, reused modals and the stats window open above fullscreen mpv on its current Space instead of jumping to another desktop.
+- **Wayland File Drop**: Fixed native Wayland drag-and-drop from file managers such as Thunar, so subtitle and video files dropped on the visible overlay are resolved and forwarded to mpv.
+- **Windows Mouse Lag**: Fixed system-wide mouse lag on Windows while SubMiner is running, caused by the overlay's global mouse hook for click-through forwarding and by the mpv window tracker blocking the app on repeated PowerShell lookups.
+- **Sentence Mining Audio & Clips**: Sentence-audio generation no longer times out on slow network-mounted media with many subtitle/font streams (bounded FFmpeg probing, two-minute extraction budget, clearer error reporting), and mined audio/animated AVIF clips now capture the subtitle line that was actually mined by snapshotting the clip range at lookup time instead of reading live mpv state later.
+- **Stats Performance & Reliability**: Immersion stats storage now sets its SQLite busy timeout before WAL setup, avoiding transient lock errors under concurrent writes. Deletes in the stats dashboard no longer freeze the UI, run proportional to what's deleted instead of rebuilding full lifetime summaries, retry safely if the delete worker crashes, and no longer rescan the whole library when deleting very common words; a new index also makes large session deletes drop from minutes to milliseconds. Library merges, video moves, and AniList reassignments got the same lifetime-summary fix.
+- **Vocabulary Stats Accuracy**: Vocabulary totals and charts now count all tracked vocabulary instead of only the first page, new-word history uses corrected daily rollups (fixing legacy timestamp and time-zone issues), summary cards refresh automatically after edits to the exclusion list, and rapid exclusion edits no longer race each other.
+- **Rofi MKV Thumbnails**: Fixed missing MKV thumbnails in the Linux rofi picker when system thumbnailer registrations only advertise legacy Matroska MIME aliases.
+
+<details>
+<summary>Internal changes</summary>
+
+### Internal
+- Docs Site Indexing: Excluded the `/main/` and `/v/<version>/` docs trees from search indexing (self-referential canonical, `noindex,follow`, matching `X-Robots-Tag`) so crawlers focus on current docs instead of ~30 archived copies of every page, and restored `<lastmod>` dates in the docs sitemap that were silently dropped by production builds.
+
+</details>
+
 ## v0.19.3 (2026-08-13)

 ### Added
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@

 APP_NAME := subminer
 THEME_SOURCE := assets/themes/subminer.rasi
+THUMBNAILER_SOURCE := assets/thumbnailers/subminer-ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer
 LAUNCHER_OUT := dist/launcher/$(APP_NAME)
 THEME_FILE := subminer.rasi
+THUMBNAILER_FILE := subminer-ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer

 # Default install prefix for the wrapper script.
 PREFIX ?= $(HOME)/.local
@@ -158,14 +160,8 @@ build-macos-unsigned: deps
 	@bun run build:mac:unsigned

 build-launcher:
-	@printf '%s\n' "[INFO] Bundling launcher script"
-	@install -d "$(dir $(LAUNCHER_OUT))"
-	@bun build ./launcher/main.ts --target=bun --packages=bundle --outfile="$(LAUNCHER_OUT)"
-	@if ! head -1 "$(LAUNCHER_OUT)" | grep -q '^#!/usr/bin/env bun'; then \
-		{ printf '#!/usr/bin/env bun\n'; cat "$(LAUNCHER_OUT)"; } > "$(LAUNCHER_OUT).tmp" && mv "$(LAUNCHER_OUT).tmp" "$(LAUNCHER_OUT)"; \
-	fi
-	@chmod +x "$(LAUNCHER_OUT)"
-	@printf '%s\n' "[INFO] Launcher artifact: $(LAUNCHER_OUT)"
+	@printf '%s\n' "[INFO] Building launcher runtime artifacts"
+	@bun run build:launcher

 clean:
 	@printf '%s\n' "[INFO] Removing build artifacts"
@@ -221,11 +217,13 @@ docs-dev: ensure-bun


 install-linux: build-launcher
-	@printf '%s\n' "[INFO] Installing Linux wrapper/theme artifacts"
+	@printf '%s\n' "[INFO] Installing Linux wrapper/support artifacts"
 	@install -d "$(BINDIR)"
 	@install -m 0755 "$(LAUNCHER_OUT)" "$(BINDIR)/$(APP_NAME)"
 	@install -d "$(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/themes"
 	@install -m 0644 "./$(THEME_SOURCE)" "$(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/themes/$(THEME_FILE)"
+	@install -d "$(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/thumbnailers"
+	@install -m 0644 "./$(THUMBNAILER_SOURCE)" "$(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/thumbnailers/$(THUMBNAILER_FILE)"
 	@install -d "$(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/plugin/subminer"
 	@cp -R ./plugin/subminer/. "$(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/plugin/subminer/"
 	@if [ -n "$(APPIMAGE_SRC)" ]; then \
@@ -234,7 +232,7 @@ install-linux: build-launcher
 		printf '%s\n' "[WARN] No release/SubMiner-*.AppImage found; skipping AppImage install"; \
 		printf '%s\n' "       Build one with: make build"; \
 	fi
-	@printf '%s\n' "Installed to:" "  $(BINDIR)/subminer" "  $(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/themes/$(THEME_FILE)"
+	@printf '%s\n' "Installed to:" "  $(BINDIR)/subminer" "  $(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/themes/$(THEME_FILE)" "  $(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/thumbnailers/$(THUMBNAILER_FILE)"

 install-macos: build-launcher
 	@printf '%s\n' "[INFO] Installing macOS wrapper/theme/app artifacts"
@@ -275,8 +273,9 @@ uninstall:
 uninstall-linux:
 	@rm -f "$(BINDIR)/subminer" "$(BINDIR)/SubMiner.AppImage"
 	@rm -f "$(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/themes/$(THEME_FILE)"
+	@rm -f "$(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/thumbnailers/$(THUMBNAILER_FILE)"
 	@rm -rf "$(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/plugin/subminer"
-	@printf '%s\n' "Removed:" "  $(BINDIR)/subminer" "  $(BINDIR)/SubMiner.AppImage" "  $(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/themes/$(THEME_FILE)" "  $(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/plugin/subminer"
+	@printf '%s\n' "Removed:" "  $(BINDIR)/subminer" "  $(BINDIR)/SubMiner.AppImage" "  $(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/themes/$(THEME_FILE)" "  $(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/thumbnailers/$(THUMBNAILER_FILE)" "  $(LINUX_DATA_DIR)/plugin/subminer"

 uninstall-macos:
 	@rm -f "$(BINDIR)/subminer"
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Integrates Yomitan and mpv - on-screen lookups, mine to Anki, and track immersio
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/ksyasuda/SubMiner?style=flat-square&color=1a1a2e)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0)
 [![TypeScript](https://img.shields.io/badge/TypeScript-1a1a2e?style=flat-square&logo=typescript&logoColor=3178c6)](https://www.typescriptlang.org)

-[![SubMiner demo](./assets/minecard.webp)](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/89e61895-e2b7-4b47-8d50-a35afe4132b2)
+[![SubMiner demo](./assets/minecard.webp)](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7abab8a9-4e4e-4f06-9f3c-9783e15a3807)

 </div>

@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ Browse sibling episode files and the active mpv queue in one overlay modal. Open
    <td><b>Jimaku</b></td>
    <td>Search and download Japanese subtitles</td>
  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td><b>Local Subtitle Generation</b></td>
+    <td>Generate Japanese subtitles from local audio in a standalone modal (<code>Ctrl+Shift+G</code>), the sidebar button, or launcher, with progress and optional managed model downloads. Requires whisper.cpp and FFmpeg. Optional Silero speech detection prioritizes dialogue in separately timed passages. <a href="https://docs.subminer.moe/main/subtitle-generation">Setup guide</a></td>
+  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><b>TsukiHime</b></td>
    <td>Search and download subtitles extracted from anime releases, with Japanese and secondary-language tabs (<code>Ctrl+Shift+T</code>) — no API key, requires <code>xz</code> on your <code>PATH</code></td>
@@ -191,7 +195,9 @@ wget https://github.com/ksyasuda/SubMiner/releases/latest/download/SubMiner.AppI
 && chmod +x ~/.local/bin/SubMiner.AppImage
 ```

-The AppImage is all you need. The optional `subminer` command-line launcher runs on [Bun](https://bun.sh), and first-run setup can install both for you. To grab it manually instead, install Bun first, then:
+The AppImage is all you need. First-run setup can install the optional `subminer` command-line launcher. Every current launcher uses Bun included with the app, so you do not need Bun installed or on `PATH`.
+
+You can also download the launcher wrapper directly:

 ```bash
 wget https://github.com/ksyasuda/SubMiner/releases/latest/download/subminer -O ~/.local/bin/subminer \
@@ -212,6 +218,8 @@ Download the latest DMG from [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/ksyasuda/SubMi

 Download and run the latest installer (`.exe`) from [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/ksyasuda/SubMiner/releases/latest).

+For terminal use, download `subminer.cmd`. It locates the installed app and uses its private Bun runtime.
+
 </details>

 <details>
@@ -223,14 +231,14 @@ See the [build-from-source guide](https://docs.subminer.moe/installation#from-so

 ### 2. Launch & Set Up

-Run SubMiner and the first-run setup wizard will guide you through importing Yomitan dictionaries and optionally installing the `subminer` command-line launcher.
+Run the installed app and the first-run setup wizard will guide you through importing Yomitan dictionaries and optionally installing the `subminer` command-line launcher. Setup records a custom app location when needed, and the wrapper runs with the app's private Bun runtime.

 ```bash
 # Linux
-subminer app --setup
+~/.local/bin/SubMiner.AppImage --setup

-# macOS — open SubMiner.app, or:
-subminer app --setup
+# macOS
+open -a SubMiner --args --setup
 ```

 On **Windows**, just run `SubMiner.exe` and the setup will open automatically on first launch.
@@ -262,6 +270,7 @@ SubMiner builds on the work of these open-source projects:
 | [Anacreon-Script](https://github.com/friedrich-de/Anacreon-Script)                          | Inspiration for the mining workflow                                     |
 | [asbplayer](https://github.com/killergerbah/asbplayer)                                      | Inspiration for subtitle sidebar and logic for YouTube subtitle parsing |
 | [Bee's Character Dictionary](https://github.com/bee-san/Japanese_Character_Name_Dictionary) | Character name recognition in subtitles                                 |
+| [Bun](https://github.com/oven-sh/bun)                                                       | Bundled runtime for the `subminer` command-line launcher                |
 | [GameSentenceMiner](https://github.com/bpwhelan/GameSentenceMiner)                          | Inspiration for Electron overlay with Yomitan integration               |
 | [jellyfin-mpv-shim](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim)                          | Jellyfin integration                                                    |
 | [Jimaku.cc](https://jimaku.cc)                                                              | Japanese subtitle search and downloads                                  |
@@ -271,4 +280,6 @@ SubMiner builds on the work of these open-source projects:

 ## License

-[GNU General Public License v3.0](LICENSE)
+SubMiner is released under the [GNU General Public License v3.0](LICENSE).
+
+Release packages also bundle an unmodified copy of [Bun](https://github.com/oven-sh/bun), which is MIT licensed and statically links JavaScriptCore (LGPL 2.0) and TinyCC (LGPL 2.1). Its license texts and third-party notices ship inside the app under `resources/bun/licenses`, and each release publishes `bun-v1.3.5-source.tar.gz` with the corresponding source. See [Bundled Bun runtime](https://docs.subminer.moe/installation#bundled-bun-runtime).
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[Thumbnailer Entry]
+TryExec=ffmpegthumbnailer
+Exec=ffmpegthumbnailer -i %i -o %o -s %s -f
+MimeType=video/matroska;video/matroska-3d;video/x-matroska;video/x-matroska-3d;
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{
+  "schemaVersion": 1,
+  "version": "1.3.5",
+  "bunRevision": "1e86cebd74a5723e818b5c0555276b646bcf0e4c",
+  "releaseTagCommit": "fa5a5bbe556a4bda5bde77b4013aa6c3bb4ec9ab",
+  "artifacts": {
+    "darwin-arm64": {
+      "file": "bun-darwin-aarch64.zip",
+      "sha256": "db17588a4aea8804856825d4bead3f05e1f37276ca606f37e369b4f72f35d3fb"
+    },
+    "darwin-x64": {
+      "file": "bun-darwin-x64-baseline.zip",
+      "sha256": "34b9a56b851058dafa1bc9d61233f2c383aa996889bba30b3180f5ccc2cff1b2"
+    },
+    "linux-arm64": {
+      "file": "bun-linux-aarch64.zip",
+      "sha256": "ed01000f85bd97785228ad2845dc92a1860b8054856826d7317690ac8f8ee74b"
+    },
+    "linux-x64": {
+      "file": "bun-linux-x64-baseline.zip",
+      "sha256": "6bddacd6a65855698b9816f2d74871eda4dd0b7fa921140c6445248f94a742fd"
+    },
+    "win32-x64": {
+      "file": "bun-windows-x64-baseline.zip",
+      "sha256": "bf447dcc3b06aba9b9706a9db46fcd65e06a4d47d31439922313825d06eb47ca"
+    }
+  },
+  "licenseInventoryStatus": "source-and-notices-pinned-to-binary-revision",
+  "sourceManifest": "build/bun-source-manifest.json",
+  "correspondingSourceAsset": "bun-v1.3.5-source.tar.gz"
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+{
+  "schemaVersion": 1,
+  "version": "1.3.5",
+  "releaseTag": "bun-v1.3.5",
+  "releaseTagCommit": "fa5a5bbe556a4bda5bde77b4013aa6c3bb4ec9ab",
+  "bunRevision": "1e86cebd74a5723e818b5c0555276b646bcf0e4c",
+  "archiveName": "bun-v1.3.5-source.tar.gz",
+  "sources": [
+    {
+      "name": "bun",
+      "repository": "oven-sh/bun",
+      "revision": "1e86cebd74a5723e818b5c0555276b646bcf0e4c",
+      "destination": "bun",
+      "sha256": "3a766087902a62a4920e5ac5452dbc7143ff97ea19721f945146629fc9f2d82c",
+      "licensePaths": ["LICENSE.md"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "WebKit",
+      "repository": "oven-sh/WebKit",
+      "revision": "6d0f3aac0b817cc01a846b3754b21271adedac12",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/WebKit",
+      "transport": "git-sparse",
+      "exclude": ["JSTests", "LayoutTests", "ManualTests", "PerformanceTests", "WebDriverTests"],
+      "licensePaths": ["Source/JavaScriptCore/COPYING.LIB"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "boringssl",
+      "repository": "oven-sh/boringssl",
+      "revision": "f1ffd9e83d4f5c28a9c70d73f9a4e6fcf310062f",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/boringssl",
+      "sha256": "af8fd325793bb261c70114d09a24f36092fbe252be8ec040f0054ec9455f0ea3",
+      "licensePaths": ["LICENSE"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "brotli",
+      "repository": "google/brotli",
+      "revision": "ed738e842d2fbdf2d6459e39267a633c4a9b2f5d",
+      "upstreamReference": "v1.1.0",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/brotli",
+      "sha256": "aaa739962a45b508b2e783b915e6b2b57ed3b12bd4b0feac73acfb144dffa54f",
+      "licensePaths": ["LICENSE"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "cares",
+      "repository": "c-ares/c-ares",
+      "revision": "3ac47ee46edd8ea40370222f91613fc16c434853",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/cares",
+      "sha256": "8c94116cb366ae4a44e487da4d9f7e736287d329efa6f88fdf077cd2d0a2e4b8",
+      "licensePaths": ["LICENSE.md"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "hdrhistogram",
+      "repository": "HdrHistogram/HdrHistogram_c",
+      "revision": "be60a9987ee48d0abf0d7b6a175bad8d6c1585d1",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/hdrhistogram",
+      "sha256": "811c5e5ae5303a75ade50688880af6aad5d2f951ec5785f68186bd18635cdfc9",
+      "licensePaths": ["COPYING.txt", "LICENSE.txt"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "highway",
+      "repository": "google/highway",
+      "revision": "ac0d5d297b13ab1b89f48484fc7911082d76a93f",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/highway",
+      "sha256": "a7a816f4b62a0414ff0d39c0a8875847468dd6f7c9ad71781a24469a756cdea7",
+      "licensePaths": ["LICENSE"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "libarchive",
+      "repository": "libarchive/libarchive",
+      "revision": "9525f90ca4bd14c7b335e2f8c84a4607b0af6bdf",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/libarchive",
+      "sha256": "944db9ab58a3cbdb5d947db4f04a3cc15f83b3147fcf7830ada592ba8d4a102c",
+      "licensePaths": ["COPYING"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "libdeflate",
+      "repository": "ebiggers/libdeflate",
+      "revision": "c8c56a20f8f621e6a966b716b31f1dedab6a41e3",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/libdeflate",
+      "sha256": "1e5cc06bdbf3e1245d8b89c9e3588f507e3c8bc53fe8b8229770a9e8661dea81",
+      "licensePaths": ["COPYING"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "libuv",
+      "repository": "libuv/libuv",
+      "revision": "f3ce527ea940d926c40878ba5de219640c362811",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/libuv",
+      "sha256": "46040d51e8aa86a7c84e377e224d427c35022ec6e3ed8ed399493b0d8574d0cf",
+      "licensePaths": ["LICENSE"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "lolhtml",
+      "repository": "cloudflare/lol-html",
+      "revision": "d64457d9ff0143deef025d5df7e8586092b9afb7",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/lolhtml",
+      "sha256": "893b77b460f4c4f4634c973f72cf35e38ebe30646d14a92db3f50ee7e586c0ad",
+      "licensePaths": ["LICENSE"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "lshpack",
+      "repository": "litespeedtech/ls-hpack",
+      "revision": "8905c024b6d052f083a3d11d0a169b3c2735c8a1",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/lshpack",
+      "sha256": "07d8bf901bb1b15543f38eabd23938519e1210eebadb52f3d651d6ef130ef973",
+      "licensePaths": ["LICENSE"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "mimalloc",
+      "repository": "oven-sh/mimalloc",
+      "revision": "1beadf9651a7bfdec6b5367c380ecc3fe1c40d1a",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/mimalloc",
+      "sha256": "317ec2a83462ece78c344c4955c6fee103b412a8e6a0d6ddf9ec8963ed9c0881",
+      "licensePaths": ["LICENSE"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "picohttpparser",
+      "repository": "h2o/picohttpparser",
+      "revision": "066d2b1e9ab820703db0837a7255d92d30f0c9f5",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/picohttpparser",
+      "sha256": "637ff2ab6f5c7f7e05a5b5dc393d5cf2fea8d4754fcaceaaf935ffff5c1323ee",
+      "licensePaths": ["picohttpparser.c", "picohttpparser.h"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "tinycc",
+      "repository": "oven-sh/tinycc",
+      "revision": "29985a3b59898861442fa3b43f663fc1af2591d7",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/tinycc",
+      "sha256": "813cc09aafd6cea9c1ae6b745781e6b27576a0c103f49b63b5c8a732bbe3d290",
+      "licensePaths": ["COPYING"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "zlib",
+      "repository": "cloudflare/zlib",
+      "revision": "886098f3f339617b4243b286f5ed364b9989e245",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/zlib",
+      "sha256": "14bf449df8308696af52f87de88f54c9eb9c91ec5e280587f9d37f7a3f6ed9bb",
+      "licensePaths": ["LICENSE"]
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "zstd",
+      "repository": "facebook/zstd",
+      "revision": "f8745da6ff1ad1e7bab384bd1f9d742439278e99",
+      "destination": "bun/vendor/zstd",
+      "sha256": "4b0bd1f0cfb25e61b9103c35f27395530ff5b4c0d2513a00fd745849e85ea52c",
+      "licensePaths": ["COPYING", "LICENSE"]
+    }
+  ]
+}
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
        "ws": "^8.21.0",
      },
      "devDependencies": {
+        "@electron/asar": "3.4.1",
        "@types/node": "^24.10.0",
        "@types/ws": "^8.18.1",
        "electron": "42.6.0",
@@ -34,14 +35,14 @@
    "@discordjs/rest@2.6.1": "patches/@discordjs%2Frest@2.6.1.patch",
  },
  "overrides": {
-    "@xmldom/xmldom": "0.8.13",
+    "@xmldom/xmldom": "0.8.15",
    "app-builder-lib": "26.15.3",
    "brace-expansion": "5.0.9",
    "electron-builder-squirrel-windows": "26.15.3",
-    "fast-uri": "3.1.5",
+    "fast-uri": "3.1.6",
    "form-data": "4.0.6",
    "ip-address": "10.2.0",
-    "js-yaml": "4.3.1",
+    "js-yaml": "4.3.2",
    "lodash": "4.18.0",
    "minimatch": "10.2.5",
    "picomatch": "4.0.4",
@@ -226,7 +227,7 @@

    "@xhayper/discord-rpc": ["@xhayper/discord-rpc@1.3.4", "", { "dependencies": { "@discordjs/rest": "^2.6.1", "@vladfrangu/async_event_emitter": "^2.4.7", "discord-api-types": "^0.38.47", "ws": "^8.20.0" } }, "sha512-ff0uEXuibh9wi+l4vOj7xInLUjtlTaQBje/SCyQkeXZ0j2V0y+Zge5PQIQFRHH9TjjGaYJkTofEcQhncM2q7/w=="],

-    "@xmldom/xmldom": ["@xmldom/xmldom@0.8.13", "", {}, "sha512-KRYzxepc14G/CEpEGc3Yn+JKaAeT63smlDr+vjB8jRfgTBBI9wRj/nkQEO+ucV8p8I9bfKLWp37uHgFrbntPvw=="],
+    "@xmldom/xmldom": ["@xmldom/xmldom@0.8.15", "", {}, "sha512-/5NV/vDALVFDXgLmfsy9TRCBlKwO2LNBFzpzvb9iIj+jR+eSc6DLYYvVOdivT/jm7MtU6TebYuRmzEOI7w40UA=="],

    "abbrev": ["abbrev@4.0.0", "", {}, "sha512-a1wflyaL0tHtJSmLSOVybYhy22vRih4eduhhrkcjgrWGnRfrZtovJ2FRjxuTtkkj47O/baf0R86QU5OuYpz8fA=="],

@@ -406,7 +407,7 @@

    "fast-levenshtein": ["fast-levenshtein@2.0.6", "", {}, "sha512-DCXu6Ifhqcks7TZKY3Hxp3y6qphY5SJZmrWMDrKcERSOXWQdMhU9Ig/PYrzyw/ul9jOIyh0N4M0tbC5hodg8dw=="],

-    "fast-uri": ["fast-uri@3.1.5", "", {}, "sha512-gHwA1O9LDIcKunMKhObS/HimwtehO1nPUECKAu5TpKgaO19fcWEl4bliWe1jWxVFvIXztJjjQ4L8XQ1EU9f7Jw=="],
+    "fast-uri": ["fast-uri@3.1.6", "", {}, "sha512-7Ical1vFEMr0onbVzEDIreM22I4khW+fzyQPwvAFWBp1iwdshSZRsL4jjRvPG9JP1uiqMHRto+YU6R2/CzDz5Q=="],

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@@ -498,7 +499,7 @@

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+    "js-yaml": ["js-yaml@4.3.2", "", { "dependencies": { "argparse": "^2.0.1" }, "bin": { "js-yaml": "bin/js-yaml.js" } }, "sha512-SFNOvSJ+Dgf/9An904Yx+CgSlIPCkIpao4qo51lpee25TIRejdH3rhR4EZMGoNx3/TP3O+wzWuiTFl4sqbltzA=="],

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@@ -42,13 +42,14 @@ How fragments turn into a release:

 - At release time, `bun run changelog:build` (and `bun run changelog:prerelease-notes`) pipes every pending fragment through `claude -p` to merge related items, drop noise, and rewrite into a clean user-facing release body. Write fragments as raw, informative notes — don't worry about polished prose, deduping across PRs, or line-by-line phrasing. The polish step handles all of that.
 - The polish step treats pending fragments as the final release outcome, not prerelease history. If a feature is added and then renamed or fixed before the stable cut, ship the final feature bullet instead of separate prerelease-only breaking/fix entries.
- GitHub release notes and prerelease notes use short top-level items with nested bullets for the change, user benefit, and any useful action note. The stable `CHANGELOG.md` can stay in compact single-line bullets.
+- `CHANGELOG.md`, GitHub release notes, and prerelease notes all use short top-level items with one nested bullet per distinct change, instead of packing a release's worth of detail into a single paragraph bullet. An item with only one thing to say stays inline on the top-level bullet. Release notes and prerelease notes additionally cover user benefit and any useful action note in their nested bullets.
 - `internal` fragments stay in `CHANGELOG.md` (inside a collapsed `<details>` block) but are dropped from the GitHub release notes entirely.
 - The polished `CHANGELOG.md` and `release/release-notes.md` are committed and reviewed before tagging — edit the Markdown by hand if Claude misses something.

 Prerelease notes:

 - prerelease tags like `v0.11.3-beta.1` and `v0.11.3-rc.1` reuse the current pending fragments to generate `release/prerelease-notes.md`
+- from the second prerelease of a base version onward, the notes also open with a `## Changes since <previous tag>` section generated from the fragment diff against the previous beta/RC tag; keep fragment edits meaningful. Editorial-only rewording is filtered out of that section, while genuinely changed behavior and deleted fragments (reverted changes) are reported
 - existing prerelease notes are a reviewed baseline; later prerelease runs should replace stale beta/RC wording with the current outcome instead of appending fix churn
 - prerelease note generation does not consume fragments and does not update `CHANGELOG.md` or `docs-site/changelog.md`
 - the final stable release is the point where `bun run changelog:build` consumes fragments into the stable changelog and release notes
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: Anki media
-
- Fixed sentence-audio generation timing out on slow network-mounted MKV files with many subtitle and font-attachment streams. Selected audio tracks now use bounded FFmpeg probing and a two-minute extraction budget, and missing output reports a clear FFmpeg error instead of raw `ENOENT`.
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+type: docs
+area: launcher
+
+- Documented private-runtime launcher installation, simplified first-run setup, custom app locations, legacy launcher migration, and package-managed updates. Updated release-note download guidance for the bundled runtime and Windows launcher.
+- Documented the bundled Bun runtime's MIT and LGPL licensing, where the notices live in the app, and the corresponding-source release asset. The AUR package now lists the bundled runtime licenses and installs their notices under `/usr/share/licenses/subminer-bin`, and `subminer-assets.tar.gz` includes the same notices.
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+type: changed
+area: launcher
+
+- Made every installed and downloadable launcher use the Bun runtime included with SubMiner. Added a Windows `subminer.cmd` download, persistent private runtime caches for Linux and Windows, and migration for recognized legacy launchers. Deferred migrations survive overlapping update checks and remain pending when startup cannot safely refresh the launcher.
+- Simplified first-run setup to a single optional launcher control, with runtime repair guidance shown only when needed.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: internal
+area: ci
+
+- Removed duplicate source and launcher smoke executions from the reusable quality gate while preserving every distinct test lane and failure artifact.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: internal
+area: verification
+
+- Replaced mislabeled dist source reruns with a small Electron-runtime smoke check for compiled stats startup, HTTP service, native SQLite, port conflicts, and cleanup.
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+type: changed
+area: sync
+
+- Sync uses compressed, incremental rsync transfers on compatible macOS and Linux machines, caching the last received snapshot per peer to reduce traffic on subsequent syncs. Cache helpers work through the launcher; older apps and launchers fall back to compressed transfers without an upload cache.
+- Machines without compatible rsync, including Windows endpoints, automatically use compressed scp transfers.
+- Rsync explicitly uses SSH and aborts transfers that exceed 30 minutes before merging.
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: dictionary
-
- Character dictionary generation, merged rebuilds, and imports no longer freeze the app (and trigger the compositor's "application not responding" dialog) on large dictionaries; snapshot reads/writes, archive building, and the character image/name lookup caches now do their heavy work off the UI's critical path.
- Desktop progress notifications now update in place on Linux AppImage installs too: the AppImage's bundled libraries broke the system notify-send helper, which silently forced the flickering close-and-reopen notification fallback.
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-type: internal
-area: docs
-
- Excluded the `/main/` and `/v/<version>/` docs trees from search indexing with a self-referential canonical, `noindex,follow`, and a matching `X-Robots-Tag` header, so crawlers spend their budget on the current docs instead of ~30 archived copies of every page.
- Restored `<lastmod>` dates in the docs sitemap, which were silently dropped because production builds render from an untracked release snapshot.
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: stats
-
- Typeset subtitles no longer flood the stats. Karaoke openings and animated signs are authored as one subtitle event per animation frame, and immersion tracking counted every frame, which was enough to put an OP lyric at the top of "Top Repeated Words" for good. Lines are now collapsed on the way in using the same rules the subtitle sidebar already applies: matching parsed timings record exactly the cues the sidebar shows, while shifted, changing, or unparsed sources use a strict fallback where identical, contiguous, sub-0.1s lines stop counting after a few frames. Ordinary repeated dialogue and rewatches are unaffected.
- Added a cleanup for stats already affected. The Vocabulary tab has a **Duplicates** button that scans a chosen window (7 days through all time), shows the bursts it found and the word and kanji counts they added, and collapses each run to one line once confirmed. `subminer stats cleanup --duplicate-lines` does the same from the terminal, with `--dry-run` and `--lookback-days <n>`. Only subtitle lines and the vocabulary counts they feed are touched; watch time and lines-seen totals are left as recorded.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: anki
+
+- Added `ankiConnect.fields.wordAudio` to read word audio separately from the generated sentence-audio destination, fixing animated images that start moving immediately when `fields.audio` points to `SentenceAudio`.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: config
+
+- Validate direct AnkiConnect, Kiku, and Senren settings before admitting them to runtime config, with warnings and defaults for invalid values.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: startup
+
+- Fixed first launch exiting on macOS when the SubMiner config directory did not yet exist by creating it before acquiring the startup lock.
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+type: fixed
+area: jellyfin
+
+- Set the mpv title before loading Jellyfin streams and reject URL-derived titles from metadata lookups, Anki source fields, Discord presence, and stats.
+- Keep authenticated stream URLs out of stats identities even when playback metadata has not arrived.
+- Remove previously cached credential-bearing Jellyfin stream parser metadata without changing unrelated anime metadata, watch history, or library assignments.
+- Use safe media identities for persisted AniList retry keys, discard URL-derived queued searches, and skip updates and retries whose media identity is empty.
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: overlay
-
- Dedicated overlay modals are prewarmed on macOS and Windows so shortcuts open them promptly on the first press. Windows now refreshes the hidden modal renderer between sessions to keep later modals interactive. On macOS, reused modals and the in-app stats window also open above fullscreen mpv on its current Space instead of appearing on another desktop or forcing a Space change.
- Updated subtitle ASS observation to mpv's current `sub-text/ass` property, removing its deprecation warning.
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: overlay
-
- Fixed the overlay getting stuck on "Overlay loading" forever when startup stalls: mpv IPC connection attempts now time out and retry, switching sockets aborts obsolete attempts, and the plugin replaces its spinner with an actionable error if overlay content is still not ready after 30 seconds.
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: overlay
-
- Fixed native Wayland drag-and-drop from file managers such as Thunar so subtitle and video files dropped on the visible overlay are resolved and forwarded to mpv.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: overlay
+
+- Clicking a subtitle sidebar cue releases row focus, and Space no longer seeks back to a focused cue. Enter still seeks the focused cue, and Space keeps its configured playback action.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: stats
+
+- Reject malformed resource IDs and partly invalid ID lists before stats library mutations or cover backfills run.
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+type: fixed
+area: stats
+
+- Stats server startup reports port conflicts without crashing SubMiner, shares concurrent startup requests, and shows in-app startup errors through configured status notifications.
+- Background stop cancels pending background startup without disconnecting foreground-only dashboards. Shutdown bounds the wait for active HTTP requests and awaits tracker finalization before exit, with a deadline for forced application exit.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: anki
+
+- Closing the overlay while media timing review is still loading now cancels setup and modal retries, restores playback if the review paused it, and cleans up the hidden preview player.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: anki
+
+- Treat `ankiConnect.media.maxMediaDuration: 0` as unlimited for stats dashboard mining, matching overlay mining and configuration.
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: overlay
-
- Fixed system-wide mouse lag on Windows while SubMiner is running: the overlay no longer installs Electron's global mouse hook for click-through forwarding, and the mpv window tracker no longer blocks the app on repeated PowerShell command-line lookups.
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: docs
-area: documentation
-
- Hid the unfinished feature demos page from the documentation sidebar while keeping its direct URL available.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: overlay
+
+- Keep Hyprland recovery dialogs above SubMiner windows so overlay placement updates do not cover their Wait and Close buttons.
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+type: docs
+area: subtitles
+
+- Explain how dialogue generation retains uncertain audible sections, why songs may also be transcribed, how detected speech starts guide long-passage cuts to reduce early subtitles, and why each passage uses a fresh Whisper process.
+- Document automatic loaded subtitle references, English dialogue preference, signs/songs filtering, fallback behavior, and the limits of reference-guided timing.
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+type: added
+area: subtitles
+
+- Generate local Japanese SRT subtitles with whisper.cpp from a standalone modal opened with Ctrl+Shift+G, the empty subtitle sidebar's generation button, or `subminer generate-subs`, with shared progress reporting, cancellation, safe output files, and automatic loading into the matching mpv video. The sidebar button hides while subtitle lines are loaded.
+- Configure an existing multilingual model in Settings or choose an official multilingual model, including quantized variants, in the modal or launcher. The modal shows download sizes, speed and accuracy guidance, and a recommended starting model before explicitly downloading a verified SubMiner-managed model. Executable paths are optional overrides; empty fields find whisper-cli, ffmpeg, and ffprobe on PATH. The modal's Local tools check and the launcher name any missing executable and its setting before downloading a model or extracting audio, and generation confirms the destination directory grants write and search permissions up front.
+- Optionally select Focus on spoken dialogue in the modal and use Download speech detection model to install the separate Silero model with progress and cancellation. The choice lasts for the session; a configured VAD model path sets the default. Retain uncertain audible sections so VAD rejection does not discard dialogue under music, accepting that songs may also be transcribed. Keep passages intact within Whisper's audio window, split longer passages near detected speech starts or quiet pauses with overlapping context to reduce early subtitle timing, and combine overlapping duplicate cues even when punctuation differs. Run each passage in a fresh Whisper process to prevent repeated-character output caused by state carried between files, at the cost of reloading the model per passage. Preserve original media timing and separate repeated dialogue.
+- Recommend large-v3-turbo in the model picker when NVIDIA hardware and CUDA device support in the selected Whisper executable are confirmed; recommend small otherwise. Preserve configured and session model selections. Use a wider generation modal to reduce text wrapping and scrolling, while keeping it within smaller player windows.
+- Automatically use an eligible embedded or external subtitle track loaded in mpv to guide long-passage cuts, preferring English dialogue and excluding tracks marked signs, songs, forced, or generated. Honor active subtitle delays, retain unreferenced audio, and fall back to audio timing when references cannot be read. Available in the overlay and launcher, with or without VAD. The launcher captures audio selection, reference tracks, and delays before model setup so playback changes during a download do not mix inputs from different times, and rejects an unverified media snapshot before using mpv's selected audio stream.
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+type: docs
+area: jellyfin
+
+- Explain how Jellyfin media titles, unknown-title fallbacks, and stats identities keep stream credentials out of metadata.
+- Document AniList rejection of empty media identities and the conditions for clearing cached Jellyfin parser metadata.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: added
+area: jimaku
+
+- Jimaku modal gains Anime / Live action tabs so searches can pull from Jimaku's live action catalogue instead of only anime entries (Arrow Left / Right switch tabs).
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-type: added
-area: stats
-
- Library: duplicate cards for the same show can now be combined. Press "Select" above the library grid, tick the cards, and use "Merge Selected"; the dialog picks which entry to keep and moves every episode onto it. Sessions, mined cards, and watch time are preserved, the emptied entries disappear, and remembered title aliases keep future episodes on the merged card.
- Library: episodes can be reassigned to another library entry from the "→" button on an episode row, which is the fix when one file lands under a stray title (e.g. an episode name parsed as the series). Manual assignments now survive later filename parsing, Jellyfin refreshes, and season repair. Local episodes in the same directory reuse a uniquely corrected destination unless they parse to a title that already has its own library entry, while conflicting seasons or manual destinations are not forced together. Emptying an entry this way removes it and returns to the grid.
- Library: exact AniList title matches with compatible seasons fold duplicate cards automatically. Fuzzy same-AniList matches appear as dismissible "Possible duplicate" reviews instead of changing the library without confirmation; conflicting explicit seasons are left alone.
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: notifications
-
- Character dictionary progress notifications on Linux now update in place instead of flickering off and reappearing on every status change.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: docs
+area: mining
+
+- Document independent screenshot selection in media timing review.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: added
+area: mining
+
+- Choose a still screenshot independently of the audio in media timing review, with a live preview, a separate time slider, and decoded-frame stepping. Local video and seekable remote streams such as Jellyfin are supported.
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: anki
-
- Mined audio and animated AVIF clips now capture the subtitle line that was actually mined. The clip range is snapshotted once at Yomitan lookup time (and reused for both audio and image), instead of each generator reading the live mpv subtitle when it starts — which clipped whatever line was on screen after slow audio extraction finished, producing too-short or misaligned AVIF clips.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: added
+area: overlay
+
+- The overlay discovers non-conflicting keyboard bindings from mpv defaults, input.conf, and loaded scripts in the background. SubMiner controls and explicitly disabled bindings take precedence. Discovered bindings stay session-only and do not appear in SubMiner's help menu.
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+type: changed
+area: release
+
+- Reduced installer and unpacked app size by excluding documentation demo media, dependency source maps, TypeScript files, test and fixture directories, other development files, and unused Koffi platform binaries, and sharing the existing Japanese UI font across windows.
+- Added package content checks, published size reports with release comparisons, and packaged asset/native-module smoke checks to the shared stable and prerelease build workflow. Size growth is reported without blocking releases.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: overlay
+
+- Cancel pending Linux overlay window replacements during teardown so a delayed close callback cannot reopen the overlay.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: docs
+area: config
+
+- Clarified live-setting save feedback, mixed restart warnings, and subtitle-generation reload behavior.
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+type: fixed
+area: config
+
+- Settings marked LIVE now use the same reload policy as save results, fixing false restart warnings for notifications and subtitle generation.
+- Mixed saves apply live changes and list only sections with changed fields that require a restart.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: added
+area: overlay
+
+- Select dialogue across subtitle sidebar rows and copy it without timestamps using Ctrl/Cmd+C or the Copy button. Selection keeps the excerpt in view during playback and does not seek or require mining a card.
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-type: fixed
-area: stats
-
- Stats deletes no longer freeze the stats dashboard: the delete worker module now resolves when running from source, so deletes actually run off the serving thread instead of silently falling back to it.
- Deletes now subtract their exact contribution from lifetime summaries instead of rebuilding them from retained sessions, making delete cost proportional to what is deleted and preserving lifetime totals older than the session retention window.
- If the delete worker crashes, the delete now retries on the current thread instead of failing.
- Library merges, video moves, AniList reassignments, and `subminer stats cleanup -l` also stopped rebuilding lifetime summaries from retained sessions; they now recompute from per-episode history, so those operations are faster and no longer erase lifetime totals older than the session retention window.
- Deleting content that contains very common words no longer rescans every occurrence of those words across the whole library; first/last-seen dates are refreshed with index seeks instead.
- Session deletes on large databases dropped from minutes to milliseconds: an index on the subtitle-line event reference now prevents each deleted session event from scanning the whole subtitle-line table for foreign-key enforcement.
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+type: changed
+breaking: true
+area: stats
+
+- Reject requests from untrusted browser origins and hosts before stats data, media, or Anki operations run, and require JSON for mutation bodies.
+- Load the in-app stats overlay from the local server so it uses the same origin protection as the browser dashboard.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: fixed
+area: subtitles
+
+- Keep the subtitle sidebar near playback during gaps when the subtitle file has a cue starting at zero.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: docs
+area: sync
+
+- Documented compressed transfers, incremental sync cache storage, and compatibility with older peers.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: docs
+area: stats
+
+- Documented provider reassignment, merge compatibility, and TMDB credential command caching and retry cooldown.
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+type: added
+area: stats
+
+- Live-action dramas and movies in the stats Library now get posters, synopses, and titles from TMDB. Release builds include a project key, so it works out of the box; `tmdb.apiKey` (or `tmdb.apiKeyCommand`) overrides it, and is required when running from source.
+- Unlinked titles that AniList cannot match are looked up on TMDB automatically when the parsed filename matches a Japanese live-action title exactly; otherwise use the new **Link to TMDB** action on a title to pick it by hand.
+- Entries linked to the same TMDB title are merged into one card even when they came from different season folders, and the Library kind selector gained a Live Action option alongside Anime and YouTube.
+- Provider reassignment preserves the previous link and artwork if the replacement download fails, and refreshes completion totals when the episode count changes. Merges and sync keep conflicting AniList and TMDB identities separate, and the merge dialog explains when a selection mixes the two instead of failing.
+- TMDB credential commands cache successful output and wait 30 seconds before retrying failed or empty output, using the bundled key in the meantime when available.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: docs
+area: anki
+
+- Documented the separate word-audio mapping for animated-image synchronization and that existing images need regeneration to pick up the corrected freeze.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: changed
+area: yomitan
+
+- Updated bundled Yomitan with upstream 26.9.8 changes, including historical Japanese kana transformations, Ukrainian language support, and improvements to Anki duplicate searches and audio retrieval.
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+type: docs
+area: stats
+
+- Document YouTube channel filtering and video statistics in the Library.
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+type: added
+area: stats
+
+- Store YouTube channels as a separate media kind and migrate existing channel entries without changing viewing history or manual video assignments, including channels created after temporarily returning to an older build.
+- Add All Titles, Anime, and YouTube Library filters, identify channel pages, and keep channels out of AniList matching, season repair, and duplicate recommendations.
+- Keep same-title anime and YouTube records separate in storage and sync while repairing legacy channel classification.
+- Refuse merges and video moves that would mix an anime entry with a YouTube channel; the move picker and merge selection only combine entries of the same kind.
@@ -6,6 +6,23 @@
 */
 {

+  // ==========================================
+  // Japanese Subtitle Generation
+  // Generate timed Japanese subtitles from local audio using whisper.cpp.
+  // Configure an existing GGML model path or explicitly download a SubMiner-managed model.
+  // Hot-reload: settings apply to the next generation or model download.
+  // ==========================================
+  "subtitleGeneration": {
+    "whisperPath": "", // Optional path override for whisper.cpp. Leave empty to find whisper-cli on PATH.
+    "modelPath": "", // Path to an existing multilingual whisper.cpp GGML model. Leave empty to use a SubMiner-managed model. A configured path always takes precedence.
+    "managedModel": "small", // Multilingual whisper.cpp model to use when modelPath is empty. Download it explicitly from the generation modal or launcher. Values: tiny | tiny-q5_1 | tiny-q8_0 | base | base-q5_1 | base-q8_0 | small | small-q5_1 | small-q8_0 | medium | medium-q5_0 | medium-q8_0 | large-v1 | large-v2 | large-v2-q5_0 | large-v2-q8_0 | large-v3 | large-v3-q5_0 | large-v3-turbo | large-v3-turbo-q5_0 | large-v3-turbo-q8_0
+    "threads": 4, // Positive integer CPU thread count for whisper.cpp Japanese transcription.
+    "ffmpegPath": "", // Optional FFmpeg path override for audio extraction. Leave empty to find ffmpeg on PATH.
+    "ffprobePath": "", // Optional FFprobe path override for audio tracks and timing. Leave empty to find ffprobe on PATH.
+    "vadModelPath": "", // Path to a whisper.cpp Silero VAD model. Enables dialogue-focused generation while retaining uncertain audible sections, which may include songs. Leave empty to transcribe the full audio.
+    "vadPath": "" // Optional speech detector executable override. With vadModelPath configured, leave empty to find whisper-vad-speech-segments or vad-speech-segments on PATH.
+  }, // Generate timed Japanese subtitles from local audio using whisper.cpp.
+
  // ==========================================
  // Visible Overlay Auto-Start
  // Show the visible subtitle overlay automatically after managed mpv playback starts SubMiner.
@@ -206,6 +223,7 @@
    "openRuntimeOptions": "CommandOrControl+Shift+O", // Accelerator that opens the runtime options modal.
    "openJimaku": "Ctrl+Shift+J", // Accelerator that opens the Jimaku subtitle search modal.
    "openTsukihime": "Ctrl+Shift+T", // Accelerator that opens the TsukiHime subtitle search modal (configured secondary/Japanese primary tabs).
+    "openSubtitleGeneration": "Ctrl+Shift+G", // Accelerator that opens the standalone Japanese subtitle generation modal.
    "openSessionHelp": "CommandOrControl+Slash", // Accelerator that opens the session help / keybinding cheatsheet.
    "openControllerSelect": "Alt+C", // Accelerator that opens the controller selection and learn-mode modal.
    "openControllerDebug": "Alt+Shift+C", // Accelerator that opens the controller debug modal with live axis/button readouts.
@@ -523,7 +541,7 @@
  // ==========================================
  // AnkiConnect Integration
  // Automatic Anki updates and media generation options.
-  // Hot-reload: ankiConnect.ai.enabled, media.normalizeAudio/mirrorMpvVolume, knownWords, nPlusOne, fields.word/audio/image/sentence/miscInfo, behavior.autoUpdateNewCards, isLapis.sentenceCardModel, isKiku.fieldGrouping, and lapisKiku.wordCardKind update live while SubMiner is running.
+  // Hot-reload: ankiConnect.ai.enabled, media.normalizeAudio/mirrorMpvVolume/reviewTiming, knownWords, nPlusOne, fields.word/audio/wordAudio/image/sentence/miscInfo, behavior.autoUpdateNewCards, isLapis.sentenceCardModel, isKiku.fieldGrouping, isSenren.fieldGrouping, and lapisKiku.wordCardKind update live while SubMiner is running.
  // Shared AI provider transport settings are read from top-level ai and typically require restart.
  // Most other AnkiConnect settings still require restart.
  // ==========================================
@@ -544,6 +562,7 @@
    "fields": {
      "word": "Expression", // Card field for the mined word or expression text.
      "audio": "ExpressionAudio", // Card field that receives generated sentence audio.
+      "wordAudio": "ExpressionAudio", // Existing word-audio field read to time the frozen first frame of animated images. This mapping is only used for synchronization.
      "image": "Picture", // Card field that receives the captured screenshot or animated image.
      "sentence": "Sentence", // Card field that receives the source sentence text.
      "miscInfo": "MiscInfo", // Card field that receives the miscellaneous info pattern (see ankiConnect.metadata.pattern).
@@ -569,9 +588,10 @@
      "syncAnimatedImageToWordAudio": true, // For animated AVIF images, prepend a frozen first frame matching the existing word-audio duration so motion starts with sentence audio. Values: true | false
      "normalizeAudio": true, // Normalize generated sentence audio loudness during media extraction. Changes apply live. Values: true | false
      "mirrorMpvVolume": true, // Apply mpv's current software volume curve to generated sentence audio. Changes apply live. Values: true | false
+      "reviewTiming": false, // Review and preview subtitle media timing before SubMiner creates or enriches a mined card. Values: true | false
      "audioPadding": 0, // Seconds of padding appended to both ends of generated sentence audio and animated AVIF clips.
      "fallbackDuration": 3, // Fallback clip duration in seconds when subtitle timing data is unavailable.
-      "maxMediaDuration": 30 // Maximum allowed media clip duration in seconds.
+      "maxMediaDuration": 30 // Maximum allowed media clip duration in seconds. 0 disables the cap.
    }, // Media setting.
    "knownWords": {
      "highlightEnabled": false, // Enable fast local highlighting for words already known in Anki. Values: true | false
@@ -606,6 +626,11 @@
      "fieldGrouping": "disabled", // Kiku duplicate-card field grouping mode. Values: auto | manual | disabled
      "deleteDuplicateInAuto": true // When Kiku field grouping is "auto", delete the duplicate source card after grouping completes. Values: true | false
    }, // Is kiku setting.
+    "isSenren": {
+      "enabled": false, // Enable Senren-specific duplicate handling (scene-switching field grouping, including miscInfo grouping). Mutually exclusive with isKiku.enabled. Values: true | false
+      "fieldGrouping": "auto", // Senren duplicate-card field grouping mode (scene switching). Values: auto | manual | disabled
+      "deleteDuplicateInAuto": true // When Senren field grouping is "auto", delete the duplicate source card after grouping completes. Values: true | false
+    }, // Is senren setting.
    "lapisKiku": {
      "wordCardKind": "word-and-sentence" // Card-type flag SubMiner marks on Kiku/Lapis word cards. Only one flag is set at a time; the others are cleared. Requires isKiku.enabled or isLapis.enabled. Values: word-and-sentence | click | sentence | audio | none
    } // Lapis kiku setting.
@@ -634,6 +659,16 @@
    "maxSearchResults": 10 // Maximum TsukiHime search results returned.
  }, // TsukiHime subtitle search configuration for Japanese primary and configured secondary subtitles. No API key required.

+  // ==========================================
+  // TMDB
+  // TMDB (The Movie Database) metadata for live-action dramas and movies in the stats Library: posters, synopses, and grouping by show.
+  // Hot-reload: TMDB changes apply to the next TMDB request.
+  // ==========================================
+  "tmdb": {
+    "apiKey": "", // Your own TMDB API key or read access token for live-action posters and synopses in the stats Library. Release builds bundle a project key, so set this only to use your own quota or when running from source (free under Settings > API on themoviedb.org).
+    "apiKeyCommand": "" // Shell command that prints the TMDB API key to stdout. Used instead of apiKey to avoid storing the key in plain text.
+  }, // TMDB (The Movie Database) metadata for live-action dramas and movies in the stats Library: posters, synopses, and grouping by show.
+
  // ==========================================
  // YouTube Playback Settings
  // Defaults for managed subtitle language preferences and YouTube subtitle loading.
@@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ const sidebar: DefaultTheme.SidebarItem[] = [
      { text: 'Jellyfin', link: '/jellyfin-integration' },
      { text: 'YouTube', link: '/youtube-integration' },
      { text: 'Jimaku', link: '/jimaku-integration' },
+      { text: 'Subtitle Generation', link: '/subtitle-generation' },
      { text: 'TsukiHime', link: '/tsukihime-integration' },
      { text: 'AniList', link: '/anilist-integration' },
      { text: 'AniSkip', link: '/aniskip-integration' },
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SubMiner Docs
+# SubMiner docs

 In-repo VitePress documentation source for SubMiner.

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# AniList Integration
+# AniList integration

-SubMiner can sync your watch progress to [AniList](https://anilist.co) automatically. When you finish an episode, SubMiner detects the title and episode number from the filename, finds the matching AniList entry, and updates your progress via the GraphQL API. Failed updates are retried with exponential backoff in the background.
+SubMiner syncs your watch progress to [AniList](https://anilist.co). Finish an episode and it reads the title and episode number off the filename, finds the matching AniList entry, and updates your progress through the GraphQL API. A failed update retries in the background with exponential backoff.

-AniList data also powers two additional features: [cover art](#cover-art) for the stats dashboard and the [Character Dictionary](/character-dictionary) for in-overlay name lookup.
+The same AniList data feeds [cover art](#cover-art) in the stats dashboard and the [Character Dictionary](/character-dictionary) for in-overlay name lookup.

-[AniList](https://anilist.co) is a free website for tracking which anime you have watched. An **access token** is a private key SubMiner stores so it can update your list on your behalf - you approve it once during setup, and you never paste a password into SubMiner.
+[AniList](https://anilist.co) is a free anime tracking site. The **access token** is a private key SubMiner keeps so it can update your list for you. You approve it once during setup, and your AniList password never touches SubMiner.

 ## Setup

@@ -32,21 +32,23 @@ If the embedded auth UI fails to render, SubMiner opens the authorize URL in you
 You can also set `anilist.accessToken` directly in config to skip the setup flow entirely. When blank, SubMiner uses the locally stored encrypted token.
 :::

-## How Tracking Works
+## How tracking works

-SubMiner monitors playback and triggers an AniList progress update when an episode is considered "watched" -- at least 85% of the episode duration viewed and a minimum of 10 minutes watched.
+SubMiner watches playback and pushes an AniList progress update once an episode counts as watched. That means at least 85% of its duration, and at least 10 minutes either way.

 The update flow:

-1. **Title detection** -- SubMiner extracts the anime title, season, and episode number from the media filename and path. Season folders such as `Season 2` are treated as a strong season signal. SubMiner tries [`guessit`](https://github.com/guessit-io/guessit) first for accurate parsing, then falls back to an internal filename parser if guessit is unavailable.
-2. **AniList search** -- The base title (with any `Season N` / `SN` marker stripped) is searched against the AniList GraphQL API, and SubMiner picks the best match by comparing titles (romaji, English, native, synonyms) and filtering by episode count. AniList has no notion of numbered seasons -- sequels are separate entries with their own titles (`Zoku`, `Kan`, `2nd Season`), so searching `<title> Season 3` finds nothing. For season 2 and later, SubMiner instead walks `SEQUEL` relations from the season 1 entry, preferring the TV line, and falls back to ordering the franchise's TV entries by air date when the relation chain is incomplete. If neither locates the season, SubMiner **skips the update** rather than writing progress to the season 1 entry, and tells you to pin the right entry with a [character dictionary override](/character-dictionary#correcting-anilist-matches).
-3. **Progress check** -- SubMiner fetches your current list entry for the matched media. The media must already be in Planning or Watching; otherwise SubMiner shows an MPV message explaining that the update is not possible. If your recorded progress already meets or exceeds the detected episode, the update is skipped.
-4. **Mutation** -- A `SaveMediaListEntry` mutation sets the new progress and marks the entry as `CURRENT`, or `COMPLETED` when the watched episode is the final episode of the season (the "already at this progress" skip is bypassed for the final episode so completion still lands).
+1. **Title detection** - SubMiner extracts the anime title, season, and episode number from the media filename and path. Season folders such as `Season 2` are treated as a strong season signal. SubMiner tries [`guessit`](https://github.com/guessit-io/guessit) first for accurate parsing, then falls back to an internal filename parser if guessit is unavailable.
+2. **AniList search** - The base title (with any `Season N` / `SN` marker stripped) is searched against the AniList GraphQL API, and SubMiner picks the best match by comparing titles (romaji, English, native, synonyms) and filtering by episode count. AniList has no notion of numbered seasons - sequels are separate entries with their own titles (`Zoku`, `Kan`, `2nd Season`), so searching `<title> Season 3` finds nothing. For season 2 and later, SubMiner instead walks `SEQUEL` relations from the season 1 entry, preferring the TV line, and falls back to ordering the franchise's TV entries by air date when the relation chain is incomplete. If neither locates the season, SubMiner **skips the update** rather than writing progress to the season 1 entry, and tells you to pin the right entry with a [character dictionary override](/character-dictionary#correcting-anilist-matches).
+3. **Progress check** - SubMiner fetches your current list entry for the matched media. The media must already be in Planning or Watching; otherwise SubMiner shows an MPV message explaining that the update is not possible. If your recorded progress already meets or exceeds the detected episode, the update is skipped.
+4. **Mutation** - A `SaveMediaListEntry` mutation sets the new progress and marks the entry as `CURRENT`, or `COMPLETED` when the watched episode is the final episode of the season (the "already at this progress" skip is bypassed for the final episode so completion still lands).

-## Update Queue and Retry
+## Update queue and retry

 Failed AniList updates are persisted to a retry queue on disk and retried with exponential backoff.

+Updates are skipped if the media path cannot produce a safe, nonempty identity. Invalid entries are discarded when loading or adding to the retry queue.
+
 | Parameter        | Value      |
 | ---------------- | ---------- |
 | Initial backoff  | 30 seconds |
@@ -58,7 +60,7 @@ After 8 failed attempts, the update is moved to a dead-letter queue and no longe

 Use `--anilist-retry-queue` to manually process one ready item from the queue.

-## Cover Art
+## Cover art

 SubMiner fetches cover art from AniList for display in the stats dashboard. When a new video starts playing, the cover art fetcher:

@@ -69,13 +71,15 @@ SubMiner fetches cover art from AniList for display in the stats dashboard. When

 A no-match result is cached for 5 minutes before SubMiner retries, preventing repeated API calls for unrecognized media.

+When AniList has no match, SubMiner tries [TMDB](/configuration#tmdb) next so live-action dramas and movies get a poster and synopsis too. See [Immersion tracking](/immersion-tracking#library) for how live-action entries are grouped.
+
 If the automatic match is wrong, use **Change AniList Entry** on a title in the stats Library. Relinking rewrites the cached art for every episode of that title, and both the detail view and the Library grid pick up the new cover right away: the grid refetches after a relink, and cover responses carry an ETag and are revalidated on each request instead of being cached for a day.

-## Rate Limiting
+## Rate limiting

 All AniList API calls go through a shared rate limiter that enforces a sliding window of 20 requests per minute. The limiter also reads AniList's `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `Retry-After` response headers and pauses requests when the server signals throttling. This applies to both episode tracking and cover art fetching.

-## Configuration Reference
+## Configuration reference

 ```jsonc
 {
@@ -107,7 +111,7 @@ All AniList API calls go through a shared rate limiter that enforces a sliding w

 There is no `characterDictionary.enabled` key: character dictionary sync is enabled by `subtitleStyle.nameMatchEnabled`. See the [Character Dictionary](/character-dictionary) page for full details on the character dictionary feature, including name generation, matching, auto-sync lifecycle, and dictionary entry format.

-## CLI Commands
+## CLI commands

 | Command                 | Description                                                   |
 | ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -124,10 +128,10 @@ There is no `characterDictionary.enabled` key: character dictionary sync is enab
 - **Token issues:** Run `--anilist-status` to check token state. If the token is invalid or expired, run `--anilist-setup` or `--anilist-logout` and re-authenticate.
 - **Updates failing repeatedly:** Run `--anilist-status` to see retry queue counters. Items that fail 8 times are moved to the dead-letter queue. Check network connectivity and AniList API status.
 - **Cover art missing:** Cover art is fetched on a best-effort basis using title matching. If the filename is hard to parse, the search may return no results. The fetcher retries after 5 minutes.
- **Encryption unavailable on Linux:** If you see warnings about safeStorage, try `--password-store=basic_text` as a workaround, or ensure your desktop keyring (gnome-keyring, KWallet) is running.
+- **Encryption unavailable on Linux:** If you see warnings about safeStorage, try `--password-store=basic_text` as a workaround, or start your desktop keyring (gnome-keyring, KWallet).

 ## Related

- [Character Dictionary](/character-dictionary) -- AniList-powered character name dictionary for Yomitan
- [Configuration Reference](/configuration) -- full config options
- [Jellyfin Integration](/jellyfin-integration) -- media server integration
+- [Character Dictionary](/character-dictionary) - AniList-powered character name dictionary for Yomitan
+- [Configuration Reference](/configuration) - full config options
+- [Jellyfin Integration](/jellyfin-integration) - media server integration
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# AniSkip Integration
+# AniSkip integration

-SubMiner integrates with [AniSkip](https://aniskip.com) to automatically detect anime intro intervals and let you skip them with a single key press.
+SubMiner looks up anime intro timings from [AniSkip](https://aniskip.com) so you can jump past the OP with one key.

-Intro detection runs in the SubMiner app over the mpv IPC socket. It is available whenever the overlay is connected to mpv - not just at launch - and covers every local file loaded during an mpv session, including playlist advances.
+Intro detection runs in the SubMiner app over the mpv IPC socket. It works whenever the overlay is connected to mpv, not only at launch, and covers every local file loaded during the session including playlist advances.

 ## Setup

@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ For best title and episode detection, install [`guessit`](https://github.com/gue
 python3 -m pip install --user guessit
 ```

-Without `guessit`, SubMiner falls back to an internal filename parser which handles most common naming conventions but may miss unusual formats.
+Without `guessit`, SubMiner falls back to its own filename parser. That handles the usual release naming, but unusual formats slip past it.

-## How It Works
+## How it works

 On each local file load:

@@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ On each local file load:

 When a custom key (other than `TAB` or `y-k`) is configured, the legacy `y-k` chord is also bound as a fallback skip trigger.

-Results are cached per file for the app session; only definitive "no intro found" results are cached, so transient lookup failures are retried on the next file load. Reload detection is also handled: if mpv reloads the same file, SubMiner re-applies the chapter markers without a new API lookup.
+Results are cached per file for the app session. Only a definitive "no intro found" is cached, so a failed lookup gets retried on the next load rather than sticking. If mpv reloads the same file, SubMiner re-applies the chapter markers without hitting the API again.

 ## Triggering from mpv

-You can trigger AniSkip actions from mpv script-messages:
+AniSkip actions are also reachable from mpv script-messages:

 | Command | Effect |
 | ------- | ------ |
 | `script-message subminer-skip-intro` | Skip to the intro end immediately (same as pressing the key) |
 | `script-message subminer-aniskip-refresh` | Force a fresh lookup for the current file, discarding any cached result |

-These are handled by the SubMiner app over the IPC socket.
+The SubMiner app handles both over the IPC socket.
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Anki Integration
+# Anki integration

 SubMiner uses the [AnkiConnect](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2055492159) add-on to create and update Anki cards with sentence context, audio, and screenshots.
 This project is built primarily for [Kiku](https://kiku.youyoumu.my.id/) and [Lapis](https://github.com/donkuri/lapis) note types, including sentence-card and field-grouping behavior.
@@ -19,28 +19,29 @@ This project is built primarily for [Kiku](https://kiku.youyoumu.my.id/) and [La

 AnkiConnect listens on `http://127.0.0.1:8765` by default. If you changed the port in AnkiConnect's settings, update `ankiConnect.url` in your SubMiner config.

-## Auto-Enrichment Transport
+AnkiConnect and Kiku/Senren settings follow the [configuration validation rules](/configuration#configuration-file): invalid values produce a warning and fall back to the option's default. Use JSON booleans such as `true`, not strings such as `"true"`, and a positive number for `ankiConnect.pollingRate`.

-When you add a word via Yomitan, SubMiner detects the new card and fills in the sentence, audio, image, and translation fields automatically. Two detection methods are available:
+## Auto-enrichment transport

-**Proxy mode** (default) - SubMiner runs a local _proxy_: a small middleman server that sits between Yomitan and Anki. Yomitan sends new cards to SubMiner, SubMiner enriches them, then passes them along to Anki. This makes enrichment instant.
+When you add a word via Yomitan, SubMiner detects the new card and fills in the sentence, audio, and image fields automatically. Two detection methods are available:

-**Polling mode** (fallback, when the proxy is disabled) - SubMiner asks AnkiConnect every few seconds whether any new cards were added, then enriches them. Simpler setup, but with a short delay (~3 seconds).
+**Proxy mode** (default) - SubMiner runs a small local server between Yomitan and Anki. Yomitan sends the new card to SubMiner, SubMiner fills in the media fields, and the finished card goes on to Anki. There is no polling delay.

-Use proxy mode if you want immediate enrichment. Use polling mode if your Yomitan instance is external (browser-based) or you prefer minimal configuration.
+**Polling mode** (fallback, when the proxy is disabled) - SubMiner asks AnkiConnect every few seconds whether new cards showed up, then fills them in. Less to configure, at the cost of roughly a 3 second delay.
+
+Use proxy mode unless your Yomitan runs in a browser rather than the bundled instance, in which case polling is the simpler path.

 In both modes, the enrichment workflow is the same:

 1. Checks if a duplicate expression already exists (for field grouping).
 2. Updates the sentence field with the current subtitle.
 3. Generates and uploads audio and image media.
-4. Fills the translation field from the secondary subtitle or AI.
-5. Writes metadata to the miscInfo field.
+4. Writes metadata to the miscInfo field.

 Polling mode uses the query `"deck:<ankiConnect.deck>" added:1` to find recently added cards. If no deck is configured, it searches all decks (`added:1`). In Settings, the AnkiConnect deck dropdown auto-fills and persists Yomitan's current mining deck when available, then falls back to the decks reported by AnkiConnect; stats-dashboard mining also falls back to Yomitan's mining deck when `ankiConnect.deck` is empty.
 Known-word sync scope is controlled by `ankiConnect.knownWords.decks`.

-### Proxy Mode Setup (Yomitan / Texthooker)
+### Proxy mode setup (Yomitan / texthooker)

 ```jsonc
 "ankiConnect": {
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ In Yomitan, go to Settings → Profile and:

 This is only for non-bundled, external/browser Yomitan or other clients. The bundled profile auto-update logic only targets the active profile when its server is blank or still default.

-### Proxy Troubleshooting (quick checks)
+### Proxy troubleshooting (quick checks)

 If auto-enrichment appears to do nothing:

@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ curl -sS http://127.0.0.1:8766 \
 - Launcher log: `launcher-YYYY-MM-DD.log`
 - mpv log: `mpv-YYYY-MM-DD.log`

-4. Ensure config JSONC is valid and logging shape is correct:
+4. Check that the config JSONC parses and the logging shape is right:

 ```jsonc
 "logging": {
@@ -117,28 +118,34 @@ curl -sS http://127.0.0.1:8766 \

 `"logging": "debug"` is invalid for current schema and can break reload/start behavior.

-## Field Mapping
+## Field mapping

 SubMiner maps its data to your Anki note fields. Configure these under `ankiConnect.fields`:

 ```jsonc
 "ankiConnect": {
  "fields": {
-    "word": "Expression",           // mined word / expression text
-    "audio": "ExpressionAudio",    // audio clip from the video
-    "image": "Picture",             // screenshot or animated clip
-    "sentence": "Sentence",         // subtitle text
-    "miscInfo": "MiscInfo",         // metadata (filename, timestamp)
-    "translation": "SelectionText"  // secondary sub or AI translation
+    "word": "Expression",        // mined word / expression text
+    "audio": "SentenceAudio",    // sentence audio clip cut from the video
+    "wordAudio": "ExpressionAudio", // existing Yomitan word audio, read for animation sync
+    "image": "Picture",          // screenshot or animated clip
+    "sentence": "Sentence",      // subtitle text
+    "miscInfo": "MiscInfo"       // metadata (filename, timestamp)
  }
 }
 ```

+`fields.audio` receives the **sentence** audio SubMiner cuts from the video, not word audio. Yomitan writes its own dictionary audio when you mine, so point this at a separate field such as `SentenceAudio` to keep the two apart. The built-in default is still `ExpressionAudio`, which collides with Yomitan on note types that use that field for word audio.
+
 Field names are matched against your Anki note type case-insensitively (an exact match wins, then a lowercase comparison). If a configured field does not exist on the note type, SubMiner skips it without error.

+`fields.wordAudio` selects the existing dictionary-audio field used to calculate the animated image's opening freeze. This mapping only reads audio; `fields.audio` still controls where generated sentence audio is written. See [config.example.jsonc](/config.example.jsonc) for defaults.
+
+These mappings always control normal word-card enrichment, including Yomitan proxy/polling updates and manual clipboard updates. Enabling Lapis or Kiku does not replace the configured word-card sentence and audio fields with `Sentence` and `SentenceAudio`. The dedicated sentence-card and audio-card shortcuts still use those Lapis/Kiku field names.
+
 Two related options live alongside `fields`: `ankiConnect.deck` (target deck; empty falls back as described above) and `ankiConnect.tags` (tags added to mined cards, default `["SubMiner"]`; set `[]` to disable tagging). The `miscInfo` content is controlled by `ankiConnect.metadata.pattern` (default `[SubMiner] %f (%t)`; tokens: `%f` filename, `%F` filename with extension, `%t` timestamp, `%T` timestamp with milliseconds, `<br>` newline).

-### Minimal Config
+### Minimal config

 If you only want sentence and audio on your cards:

@@ -147,14 +154,16 @@ If you only want sentence and audio on your cards:
  "enabled": true,
  "fields": {
    "sentence": "Sentence",
-    "audio": "ExpressionAudio"
+    "audio": "SentenceAudio"
  }
 }
 ```

-## Media Generation
+## Media generation

-SubMiner uses FFmpeg to generate audio and image media from the video. FFmpeg must be installed and on `PATH`.
+SubMiner shells out to FFmpeg for audio clips and screenshots, so FFmpeg has to be installed and on `PATH`.
+
+For remote streams such as Jellyfin playback, SubMiner downloads the clip's time window once into a temporary Matroska file (a stream copy, no re-encoding) and reads the timing review waveform, audio preview, audio, and image from that file instead of fetching the stream again for each step. The window covers the clip plus padding, plus the visible timeline in timing review, and grows when you reveal more of the timeline. It is deleted when a different window replaces it, after ten minutes without use, or when SubMiner exits. If the download fails, media generation reads the remote stream directly as before.

 ### Audio

@@ -166,6 +175,7 @@ Audio is extracted from the video file using the subtitle's start and end timest
    "generateAudio": true,
    "normalizeAudio": true,      // normalize generated clip loudness
    "mirrorMpvVolume": true,     // apply the current mpv volume level
+    "reviewTiming": false,       // review and adjust timing before media generation
    "audioPadding": 0,           // optional seconds before and after subtitle timing
    "maxMediaDuration": 30       // cap total duration in seconds
  }
@@ -178,7 +188,35 @@ Output format: MP3 at 44100 Hz. If the video has multiple audio streams, SubMine

 The audio is uploaded to Anki's media folder and inserted as `[sound:audio_<timestamp>.mp3]`.

-### Screenshots (Static)
+Overlay and stats-dashboard mining use the same `media.maxMediaDuration` limit. See the [configuration example](/config.example.jsonc) for its default and how to disable the cap.
+
+Set `media.reviewTiming` to `true` to pause playback and check the clip before its media is generated. It applies to word, sentence, and audio cards.
+
+The review opens on the subtitle range plus your configured audio padding. Subtitles usually hang around after the dialogue has stopped, so once the waveform loads, an untouched clip end pulls back to just after the last speech in the line. The Line end rail still marks the original subtitle timing, Reset puts it back, and a line whose speech runs right through its end is left alone.
+
+**Adjusting the clip.** Drag either edge to trim, drag the middle to slide the whole clip without changing its length, or click anywhere on the waveform to snap the nearer edge there. A focused edge also moves with the arrow keys: 100 ms per press, or 500 ms with Shift. The 100 ms buttons do the same thing. Earlier and Later each reveal two more seconds of timeline without moving the selection.
+
+**Choosing the screenshot.** With still images enabled, drag the screenshot slider or use the Frame buttons to choose a video frame independently of the audio. Earlier and Later reveal more time for both sliders. The image follows the audio midpoint until you pick a frame, then stays fixed while you trim audio. Reset below the image restores automatic selection; the audio Reset affects only the audio. The screenshot slider also supports arrow keys, Home, and End.
+
+The picker supports local video and seekable remote streams, including Jellyfin, without seeking the main player. A selected frame must load before you can confirm; if it fails, choose another frame or Reset. The picker is hidden when image generation is disabled or animated AVIF is selected. Animated images continue to use the reviewed audio range.
+
+**Keys.** Space previews the selection with a playhead sweeping the clip. The preview ends when the hidden player has actually played the last sample, so Bluetooth output latency does not clip the tail. Enter confirms and Escape cancels.
+
+**The waveform.** SubMiner reads a center channel when one carries dialogue and falls back to a mono mix otherwise, keeps only the 250 to 3500 Hz speech band, and draws each slice's loudness against the clip's own noise floor. Steady background music flattens out and dialogue stands up, which makes it much easier to tell adjacent lines apart. The mined subtitle appears as a tinted band with labeled line-start and line-end rails. If waveform analysis fails, the timing controls still work.
+
+The range you confirm is used exactly as-is; SubMiner does not add audio padding a second time. Static screenshots take its midpoint, and animated AVIF clips cover the whole range.
+
+**Pulling in adjacent lines.** Press `P` or `N`, or use the Prev and Next steppers above the sentence preview, to add the previous or next subtitle line. Repeat for as many lines as exist. Shift+`P` and Shift+`N` remove them again. The sentence preview lists every included line with the mined one highlighted, so you always see the sentence field before confirming. The clip bounds and the waveform rails follow the outermost added line, keeping the review's audio padding.
+
+Confirming writes the combined lines to the sentence field. Reset drops the added lines along with any timing changes. Adjacent lines come from the parsed subtitle track when one is loaded; otherwise you only get lines that already played. A clip capped by `media.maxMediaDuration` still keeps the full combined sentence even when the audio cannot stretch to cover every added line.
+
+**Canceling.** You can go back to editing, finish with the original timing, create the card without audio or an image, or discard it. Discard deletes an existing Yomitan or audio card, and skips creation entirely for a direct sentence card. A failed audio preview does not block confirmation or card creation.
+
+Clipboard updates and stats-dashboard mining never open timing review. The option is off by default and hot-reloads. **Review Media Timing** in the runtime options palette (`Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+O`) toggles it for the current session.
+
+If SubMiner closes the overlay while a timing review is still loading, it cancels pending setup and modal retries and restores playback if the review paused it. A new timing review can start after the overlay reopens.
+
+### Screenshots (static)

 A single frame is captured at the current playback position.

@@ -195,9 +233,9 @@ A single frame is captured at the current playback position.
 }
 ```

-### Animated Clips (AVIF)
+### Animated clips (AVIF)

-Instead of a static screenshot, SubMiner can generate an animated AVIF covering the subtitle duration.
+SubMiner can produce an animated AVIF spanning the subtitle duration instead of a still frame.

 ```jsonc
 "ankiConnect": {
@@ -212,9 +250,9 @@ Instead of a static screenshot, SubMiner can generate an animated AVIF covering
 }
 ```

-Animated AVIF requires an AV1 encoder (`libaom-av1`, `libsvtav1`, or `librav1e`) in your FFmpeg build. Generation timeout is 60 seconds. `media.syncAnimatedImageToWordAudio` (default `true`) prepends a frozen first frame matching the existing word-audio duration, so the motion starts together with the sentence audio.
+Animated AVIF requires an AV1 encoder (`libaom-av1`, `libsvtav1`, or `librav1e`) in your FFmpeg build. Generation timeout is 60 seconds. `media.syncAnimatedImageToWordAudio` (default `true`) prepends a frozen first frame matching the existing audio duration in `fields.wordAudio`, so the motion starts together with the sentence audio. The freeze is baked into the image when mined; changing the mapping does not repair previously generated images.

-### Behavior Options
+### Behavior options

 ```jsonc
 "ankiConnect": {
@@ -233,42 +271,9 @@ Animated AVIF requires an AV1 encoder (`libaom-av1`, `libsvtav1`, or `librav1e`)

 When media is available, mined-card overlay and system notifications include the same current-frame thumbnail.

-`overwriteAudio` applies to automatic card updates and duplicate-card enrichment. Manual clipboard subtitle updates (`Ctrl/Cmd+C`, then `Ctrl/Cmd+V`) always replace generated sentence audio, while leaving the word audio field unchanged.
+`overwriteAudio` applies to automatic card updates and duplicate-card enrichment. Manual clipboard subtitle updates (`Ctrl/Cmd+C`, then `Ctrl/Cmd+V`) always replace generated sentence audio in `ankiConnect.fields.audio`, even when `overwriteAudio` is disabled.

-## AI Translation
-
-SubMiner can auto-translate the mined sentence and fill the translation field.
-Secondary subtitle text still wins when present. AI translation is only attempted when `ankiConnect.ai.enabled` is `true` and no secondary subtitle exists.
-
-```jsonc
-"ai": {
-  "enabled": true,
-  "apiKey": "sk-...",
-  "apiKeyCommand": "",
-  "baseUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/api",
-  "requestTimeoutMs": 15000
-},
-"ankiConnect": {
-  "ai": {
-    "enabled": true,
-    "model": "openai/gpt-4o-mini",
-    "systemPrompt": "Translate mined sentence text only."
-  }
-}
-```
-
-`ankiConnect.ai` controls feature-local enablement plus optional `model` / `systemPrompt` overrides.
-Provider credentials and request transport settings live in top-level `ai`.
-
-Translation priority:
-
-1. If a secondary subtitle is available, use it as the translation.
-2. If `ankiConnect.ai.enabled` is `true` and top-level `ai.enabled` is `true`, call the shared AI provider.
-3. If AI translation fails and no secondary subtitle exists, fall back to the original sentence text.
-
-The built-in translation request asks for English output by default. Customize that behavior through `ankiConnect.ai.systemPrompt`.
-
-## Sentence Cards (Lapis)
+## Sentence cards (Lapis)

 SubMiner can create standalone sentence cards (without a word/expression) using a separate note type. This is designed for use with [Lapis](https://github.com/donkuri/Lapis) and similar sentence-focused note types.

@@ -287,9 +292,11 @@ Sentence card creation and audio card marking require a non-empty `ankiConnect.i

 Trigger with the mine sentence shortcut (`Ctrl/Cmd+S` by default). The card is created directly via AnkiConnect with the sentence, audio, and image filled in.

+The dedicated sentence-card and audio-card shortcuts use the Lapis/Kiku-compatible `Sentence` and `SentenceAudio` fields. This does not affect the configured fields used to enrich normal word cards.
+
 To mine multiple subtitle lines as one sentence card, use `Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+S` followed by a digit (1–9) to select how many recent lines to combine.

-## Word Card Type (Kiku/Lapis)
+## Word card type (Kiku/Lapis)

 Word cards get a card-type flag when SubMiner fills their sentence, whether that comes from Yomitan auto-enrichment, a manual clipboard update, or stats-dashboard word mining. By default the flag is `IsWordAndSentenceCard`; pick a different one with `ankiConnect.lapisKiku.wordCardKind`.

@@ -304,9 +311,9 @@ Word cards get a card-type flag when SubMiner fills their sentence, whether that

 `click` marks `IsClickCard`, `sentence` marks `IsSentenceCard`, `audio` marks `IsAudioCard`, and `none` leaves the flags untouched for templates that manage them elsewhere. Whichever flag is chosen, the other card-type flags are cleared so the note never claims two card types. The setting is only read when `isKiku` or `isLapis` is enabled, and cards mined with Mine Sentence or Mine Audio keep their own flag.

-## Field Grouping (Kiku)
+## Field grouping (Kiku/Senren)

-When you mine the same word multiple times, SubMiner can merge the cards instead of creating duplicates. This is designed for note types like [Kiku](https://github.com/youyoumu/kiku) that support grouped sentence/audio/image fields.
+When you mine the same word multiple times, SubMiner can merge the cards instead of creating duplicates. This is designed for note types that support grouped fields: [Kiku](https://github.com/youyoumu/kiku) and [Senren](https://github.com/BrenoAqua/Senren) (which calls the feature scene switching).

 ```jsonc
 "ankiConnect": {
@@ -318,6 +325,18 @@ When you mine the same word multiple times, SubMiner can merge the cards instead
 }
 ```

+For Senren note types, enable `isSenren` instead. Kiku and Senren write incompatible markup into the same fields, so only one can be enabled at a time; if both are enabled, Kiku wins and a config warning is emitted.
+
+```jsonc
+"ankiConnect": {
+  "isSenren": {
+    "enabled": true,
+    "fieldGrouping": "auto",           // "auto" (default), "manual", or "disabled"
+    "deleteDuplicateInAuto": true      // delete new card after auto-merge
+  }
+}
+```
+
 ### Modes

 **Disabled** (`"disabled"`): No duplicate detection. Each card is independent.
@@ -326,17 +345,20 @@ When you mine the same word multiple times, SubMiner can merge the cards instead

 **Manual** (`"manual"`): A modal appears in the overlay showing both cards. You choose which card to keep, preview the merge result, then confirm. The modal has a 90-second timeout, after which it cancels automatically.

-### What Gets Merged
+### What gets merged

-| Field    | Merge behavior                                |
-| -------- | --------------------------------------------- |
-| Sentence | Both cards' sentences kept as grouped entries |
-| Audio    | Both cards' `[sound:...]` entries kept        |
-| Image    | Both cards' images kept                       |
+| Field    | Merge behavior                                  |
+| -------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
+| Sentence | Both cards' sentences kept as grouped entries   |
+| Audio    | Both cards' `[sound:...]` entries kept          |
+| Image    | Both cards' images kept                         |
+| MiscInfo | Both cards' source info kept as grouped entries |

 Identical values from both cards are kept as separate grouped entries; the merge does not deduplicate.

-### Keyboard Shortcuts in the Modal
+The merge markup depends on the note type. Kiku entries are wrapped in `<span data-group-id="...">` spans ordered newest first. Senren entries follow the [scene switching](https://github.com/BrenoAqua/Senren/blob/main/docs/scene_switching.md) format: sentence, sentenceFurigana, and miscInfo entries use `group` spans when ordinal order is sufficient and numbered `groupN` spans when they need an absolute scene target. Audio and pictures are appended positionally, and the number of sentenceAudio entries drives Senren's scene count. Ungrouped legacy content is wrapped into a group span on first merge, and source `groupN` spans are rebased after the kept note's existing audio scenes.
+
+### Keyboard shortcuts in the modal

 | Key         | Action                             |
 | ----------- | ---------------------------------- |
@@ -345,7 +367,7 @@ Identical values from both cards are kept as separate grouped entries; the merge
 | `Backspace` | Go back from the merge preview     |
 | `Esc`       | Cancel (keep both cards unchanged) |

-## Full Config Example
+## Full config example

 ```jsonc
 {
@@ -363,11 +385,10 @@ Identical values from both cards are kept as separate grouped entries; the merge
    },
    "fields": {
      "word": "Expression",
-      "audio": "ExpressionAudio",
+      "audio": "SentenceAudio",
      "image": "Picture",
      "sentence": "Sentence",
      "miscInfo": "MiscInfo",
-      "translation": "SelectionText",
    },
    "media": {
      "generateAudio": true,
@@ -390,11 +411,6 @@ Identical values from both cards are kept as separate grouped entries; the merge
    "metadata": {
      "pattern": "[SubMiner] %f (%t)",
    },
-    "ai": {
-      "enabled": false,
-      "model": "", // e.g. "openai/gpt-4o-mini"
-      "systemPrompt": "",
-    },
    "isKiku": {
      "enabled": false,
      "fieldGrouping": "disabled",
@@ -405,12 +421,5 @@ Identical values from both cards are kept as separate grouped entries; the merge
      "sentenceCardModel": "Lapis",
    },
  },
-  "ai": {
-    "enabled": false,
-    "apiKey": "",
-    "apiKeyCommand": "",
-    "baseUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/api",
-    "requestTimeoutMs": 15000,
-  },
 }
 ```
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Within the desktop app, `src/main.ts` is a composition root that wires small run
  - services compose through explicit inputs/outputs
  - orchestration is separate from implementation

-## Project Structure
+## Project structure

 ```text
 launcher/                 # Standalone CLI launcher wrapper and mpv helpers
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ plugin/
                          #   state · messages · hover · ui · options · environment · log
                          #   binary · session_bindings · version)
 src/
-  ai/                      # AI translation provider utilities (client, config)
  main-entry.ts           # Background-mode bootstrap wrapper before loading main.js
  main.ts                  # Entry point - delegates to runtime composers/domain modules
  preload.ts               # Electron preload bridge
@@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ src/
  anki-integration/        # AnkiConnect proxy server + note-update enrichment workflow
 ```

-### Service Layer (`src/core/services/`)
+### Service layer (`src/core/services/`)

 - **Overlay/window runtime:** `overlay-manager.ts`, `overlay-window.ts`, `overlay-visibility.ts`, `overlay-bridge.ts`, `overlay-runtime-init.ts`, `overlay-content-measurement.ts`
 - **Shortcuts/input:** `shortcut.ts`, `overlay-shortcut.ts`, `overlay-shortcut-handler.ts`, `shortcut-fallback.ts`, `numeric-shortcut.ts`
@@ -98,7 +97,7 @@ src/
 - **Config/runtime controls:** `config-hot-reload.ts`, `runtime-options-ipc.ts`, `cli-command.ts`, `startup.ts`
 - **Domain submodules:** `anilist/*` (token/update queue/updater), `immersion-tracker/*` (storage/session/metadata/query/reducer)

-### Renderer Layer (`src/renderer/`)
+### Renderer layer (`src/renderer/`)

 The renderer keeps `renderer.ts` focused on orchestration. UI behavior is delegated to per-concern modules.

@@ -136,12 +135,12 @@ src/renderer/
    platform.ts            # Layer/platform capability detection
 ```

-### Launcher + Plugin Runtimes
+### Launcher + plugin runtimes

 - `launcher/main.ts` dispatches commands through `launcher/commands/*` and shared config readers in `launcher/config/*`. It handles mpv startup, app passthrough, Jellyfin helper commands, and playback handoff.
 - `plugin/subminer/main.lua` is the mpv entrypoint: it sets up the module path and loads `init.lua`, a thin shim that boots the modular Lua files: `bootstrap.lua` (startup), `lifecycle.lua` (connect/disconnect), `process.lua` (process management), `state.lua` (shared state), `messages.lua` (IPC), `hover.lua` (hover-token highlight rendering), `ui.lua` (OSD rendering), `options.lua` (config), `environment.lua` (detection), `log.lua` (logging), `binary.lua` (path resolution), `session_bindings.lua` (configurable session keybindings), `version.lua` (version metadata). AniSkip intro detection lives in the SubMiner app (`src/main/runtime/aniskip-runtime.ts`), which drives mpv chapters and the skip key over the IPC socket.

-## Flow Diagram
+## Flow diagram

 The main process orchestrates a single primary overlay window plus modal surfaces: `main.ts` delegates to composition modules that wire together domain services. Subtitle layers (primary + secondary bar) are rendered in the same overlay renderer process, connected through `preload.ts`. External runtimes (launcher CLI and mpv plugin) operate independently and communicate via IPC socket or CLI passthrough.

@@ -224,7 +223,7 @@ flowchart TB
  style ExtRt fill:#363a4f,stroke:#494d64,color:#cad3f5
 ```

-## Composition Pattern
+## Composition pattern

 Most runtime code follows a dependency-injection pattern:

@@ -261,14 +260,14 @@ Additional conventions in the current code:
 - Domain barrels in `src/main/runtime/domains/*` re-export runtime handlers + main-deps builders, while composers in `src/main/runtime/composers/*` assemble larger runtime clusters.
 - Many runtime handlers accept `*MainDeps` objects generated by `createBuild*MainDepsHandler` builders to isolate side effects and keep units testable.

-### IPC Contract + Validation Boundary
+### IPC contract + validation boundary

 - Central channel constants live in `src/shared/ipc/contracts.ts` and are consumed by both main (`ipcMain`) and renderer preload (`ipcRenderer`) wiring.
 - Runtime payload parsers/type guards live in `src/shared/ipc/validators.ts`.
 - Rule: renderer-supplied payloads must be validated at IPC entry points (`src/core/services/ipc.ts`, `src/core/services/anki-jimaku-ipc.ts`) before calling domain handlers.
 - Malformed invoke payloads return explicit structured errors (for example `{ ok: false, error: ... }`) and malformed fire-and-forget payloads are ignored safely.

-### Runtime State Ownership (Migrated Domains)
+### Runtime state ownership (migrated domains)

 For domains migrated to reducer-style transitions (for example AniList token/queue/media-guess runtime state), follow these rules:

@@ -278,7 +277,7 @@ For domains migrated to reducer-style transitions (for example AniList token/que
 - Reducer boundary: when a domain has transition helpers in `src/main/state.ts`, new callsites should route updates through those helpers instead of ad-hoc object mutation in `main.ts` or composers.
 - Tests for migrated domains should assert both the intended field changes and non-targeted field invariants.

-## Playback Startup Flow
+## Playback startup flow

 Before the app boots, something has to launch mpv, inject the plugin, and bring the overlay up. SubMiner-managed launches own this step - the `subminer` launcher, the app's own playback, and the packaged Windows shortcut all follow the same path. The launcher reads `config.jsonc`, spawns mpv with the IPC socket and the bundled plugin, and passes runtime settings as `--script-opts`. The plugin never reads a config file: the shipped `subminer.conf` is intentionally empty so command-line opts always win.

@@ -315,7 +314,7 @@ flowchart TB

 The runtime sockets in this flow are detailed in [IPC + Runtime Contracts](./ipc-contracts#runtime-sockets).

-## Program Lifecycle
+## Program lifecycle

 - **Module-level init:** Before `app.ready`, the composition root registers protocols, sets platform flags, constructs all services, and wires dependency injection. `runAndApplyStartupState()` parses CLI args and detects the compositor backend.
 - **Startup:** If `--generate-config` is passed, it writes the template and exits. Otherwise `app-lifecycle.ts` acquires the single-instance lock and registers Electron lifecycle hooks.
@@ -387,7 +386,7 @@ flowchart TB
  style Loop fill:#363a4f,stroke:#494d64,color:#cad3f5
 ```

-## Subtitle Prefetch Pipeline
+## Subtitle prefetch pipeline

 SubMiner can pre-tokenize upcoming subtitle lines before they appear on screen. When an external subtitle file (SRT, VTT, or ASS) is detected on the active track, the `SubtitlePrefetchService` parses all cues via the subtitle cue parser (`subtitle-cue-parser.ts`), identifies a priority window of upcoming lines based on the current playback position, and tokenizes them in the background through the same pipeline used for live subtitles. Results are stored directly into the `SubtitleProcessingController` cache, so when a subtitle actually appears during playback, it hits a warm cache and renders in ~30-50ms instead of ~200-320ms.

@@ -417,7 +416,7 @@ flowchart TB
  style Render stroke-width:2px
 ```

-## Why This Design
+## Why this design

 - **Smaller blast radius:** changing one feature usually touches one service.
 - **Better testability:** most behavior can be tested without Electron windows/mpv.
@@ -428,7 +427,7 @@ flowchart TB
 - **Split MPV service layers:** MPV internals are separated into transport (`mpv-transport.ts`), protocol (`mpv-protocol.ts`), and properties/render metrics modules for maintainability.
 - **Config by domain:** defaults, option registries, and resolution are split by domain under `src/config/definitions/*` and `src/config/resolve/*`, keeping config evolution localized.

-## Extension Rules
+## Extension rules

 - Add behavior to an existing service in `src/core/services/*` or create a focused runtime module under `src/main/runtime/*`; avoid ad-hoc logic in `main.ts`.
 - Add new cross-process channels in `src/shared/ipc/contracts.ts` first, validate payloads in `src/shared/ipc/validators.ts`, then wire handlers in IPC runtime modules.
@@ -1,5 +1,92 @@
 # Changelog

+## v0.19.6 (2026-09-04)
+
+**Added**
+
+- **Card Timing Review**:
+  - Optional pre-generation timing review for word, sentence, and audio cards, with a speech-weighted waveform that flattens background noise so dialogue edges stand out clearly.
+  - The clip end automatically snaps back to where the line's dialogue actually ends once the waveform loads, with drag and keyboard adjustments available.
+  - Audio preview includes a sweeping playhead that plays the clip to its true end, even on high-latency outputs like Bluetooth headphones.
+  - Previous and next subtitle lines can be pulled onto the card with `P`/`N` (or the Prev/Next steppers) and removed with Shift; the sentence preview and waveform markers update automatically.
+  - Cancelling lets you keep a card without media, and the review can be toggled on or off for the session.
+- **Senren Field Grouping**:
+  - Enable `ankiConnect.isSenren` to merge duplicate mined cards using Senren's scene-switching markup, grouping sentence, furigana, audio, picture, and misc-info fields.
+  - Supports the same auto/manual/disabled modes as Kiku, including the manual merge modal; only one of Senren or Kiku can be enabled at a time.
+
+**Changed**
+
+- **Remote Stream Mining Performance**: Mining a card from a remote stream (Jellyfin and other HTTP sources) now downloads the clip window once and reuses it for the timing review waveform, audio preview, audio extraction, and screenshot, instead of re-fetching the stream at each step; the temporary file is cleaned up after ten minutes of inactivity or on exit.
+- **TsukiHime Release Filtering**: The TsukiHime modal's Japanese and secondary-language tabs now filter the release list by the subtitle languages each release actually carries, and report when no release has subtitles for the active tab.
+
+**Fixed**
+
+- **Subtitle & Mining Accuracy**:
+  - Broadcast-style captions that split one sentence across two on-screen rows (e.g. Crunchyroll Japanese subs) now merge into a single line for the sidebar and mined cards, while separate speakers, sound effects, and labeled turns still stay on their own lines.
+  - Mining from the overlay no longer pulls in a lingering row from the previous caption; the mined sentence and clip timing now match what's actually on screen.
+  - Multi-line copy and mining now select lines backward in timeline order after seeking, instead of in playback encounter order.
+  - Copying a subtitle, mining a sentence, or recording immersion stats no longer includes the separate furigana line that broadcast ASS captions place above a word.
+- **Card Update Notifications**: Dismissed lingering overlay card-update progress when notification settings switch to OSD before an update finishes.
+- **Overlay Stability on Hyprland**: Opening a modal window (timing review, Jimaku, session help, and others) while mpv is fullscreen no longer causes the overlay to flicker while the modal loads; the overlay now stays on screen untouched until the modal is ready.
+- **Jellyfin Subtitle Sync**: Jellyfin subtitle files now load with zero mpv delay instead of inferring and saving an offset from Japanese and English cue timelines.
+- **Secondary Subtitle Visibility**: Native mpv secondary subtitles stay hidden when switching secondary subtitle tracks during playback.
+
+## v0.19.5 (2026-08-30)
+
+**Fixed**
+
+- **Anki Card Update Progress**: The card-update spinner now stays visible until audio and image updates finish, instead of disappearing early.
+- **Anki Word-Card Fields**: Word-card enrichment now writes sentence text and audio to the fields configured in AnkiConnect, while the dedicated sentence-card and audio-card actions keep their existing compatible field names.
+- **Overlapping Subtitles**:
+  - Subtitle lines that start while another line is still on screen now appear alongside it, instead of staying hidden until a track switch or seek.
+  - Subtitles shown at the same time now stack by their authored screen position, with top signs and song lines above bottom dialogue.
+  - Half-size ASS furigana is no longer shown as if it were a dialogue line.
+- **YouTube Auto Captions**:
+  - Auto-generated captions now follow their intended timing and two-row roll-up layout.
+  - Long speech is paged instead of covering the video with a wall of text.
+  - Explicitly timed sound cues like `[音楽]` no longer cover later dialogue.
+
+## v0.19.4 (2026-08-25)
+
+**Added**
+- **Library Merge & Move**: Duplicate library cards for the same show can now be combined. Select cards in the library grid and use "Merge Selected" to pick which entry to keep and move every episode onto it, preserving sessions, mined cards, and watch time. Episodes can also be reassigned individually via the "→" button, useful when a file lands under a stray title; manual assignments survive later filename parsing, Jellyfin refreshes, and season repair. Exact AniList title matches with compatible seasons now merge automatically, while fuzzy matches surface as dismissible "Possible duplicate" reviews instead of merging silently.
+- **Duplicate Line Cleanup Tool**: The Vocabulary tab's new "Duplicates" button scans a chosen time window (7 days through all time) for old karaoke/typeset duplicate-line bursts, shows what it found, and collapses each run to one line once confirmed; `subminer stats cleanup --duplicate-lines` does the same from the terminal, with `--dry-run` and `--lookback-days <n>` options. Watch time and lines-seen totals are left unchanged.
+
+**Changed**
+- **Prerelease Release Notes**: Prerelease notes now open with a "Changes since" section listing only what changed versus the previous beta/RC of the same version, above the cumulative highlights, and CI rejects prerelease tags whose committed notes were generated for a different beta/RC.
+
+**Fixed**
+- **Subtitle & Karaoke Duplication**:
+  - Karaoke and animated signs are reconstructed once from their authored text and shown only while actually sung, with original word spacing preserved, instead of flooding the overlay, subtitle sidebar, immersion history, mining, or stats with glyph fragments, per-frame color phases, and repeated animation events.
+  - Decorative layers (highlight sweeps, glow/shadow copies, symbol-font decoration, particle swarms, hidden or zero-scaled text) stay out of published text, while ordinary repeated dialogue, positioned signs, wrapped lyric rows, and multi-row CC-style blocks still display correctly.
+  - Embedded subtitle tracks on network-mounted (SMB/NFS) media are extracted and parsed again instead of falling back to live-text-only, restoring karaoke reconstruction, sidebar cues, and mining for releases that only ship subtitles inside the container.
+  - Secondary subtitles go through the same deduplication pipeline as primary subtitles and no longer clip display after about four lines.
+  - Event-heavy karaoke files that previously stalled subtitle loading for several seconds now parse in well under a second.
+- **Character Dictionary Reliability**:
+  - Generation, merged rebuilds, and imports no longer freeze the app on large dictionaries; snapshot I/O, archive building, and image/name lookup caches moved off the UI's critical path.
+  - Dictionaries are reused instead of regenerated when MeCab finds no name splits.
+  - Cached portraits restore correctly after the portrait index finishes loading post-tokenization.
+  - Desktop progress notifications on Linux AppImage installs update in place instead of flickering, fixing a bug where the AppImage's bundled libraries broke the system notification helper.
+- **Overlay Startup & Modals**:
+  - The macOS window-tracking helper targets macOS 12.0+ instead of requiring the build machine's exact macOS version, fixing crashes on older systems like Ventura that left the overlay stuck on "Overlay loading".
+  - mpv IPC connection attempts time out and retry, showing an actionable error if content still isn't ready after 30 seconds.
+  - Dedicated overlay modals are prewarmed on macOS and Windows so shortcuts open them promptly.
+  - On macOS, reused modals and the stats window open above fullscreen mpv on its current Space instead of jumping to another desktop.
+- **Wayland File Drop**: Fixed native Wayland drag-and-drop from file managers such as Thunar, so subtitle and video files dropped on the visible overlay are resolved and forwarded to mpv.
+- **Windows Mouse Lag**: Fixed system-wide mouse lag on Windows while SubMiner is running, caused by the overlay's global mouse hook for click-through forwarding and by the mpv window tracker blocking the app on repeated PowerShell lookups.
+- **Sentence Mining Audio & Clips**: Sentence-audio generation no longer times out on slow network-mounted media with many subtitle/font streams (bounded FFmpeg probing, two-minute extraction budget, clearer error reporting), and mined audio/animated AVIF clips now capture the subtitle line that was actually mined by snapshotting the clip range at lookup time instead of reading live mpv state later.
+- **Stats Performance & Reliability**: Immersion stats storage now sets its SQLite busy timeout before WAL setup, avoiding transient lock errors under concurrent writes. Deletes in the stats dashboard no longer freeze the UI, run proportional to what's deleted instead of rebuilding full lifetime summaries, retry safely if the delete worker crashes, and no longer rescan the whole library when deleting very common words; a new index also makes large session deletes drop from minutes to milliseconds. Library merges, video moves, and AniList reassignments got the same lifetime-summary fix.
+- **Vocabulary Stats Accuracy**: Vocabulary totals and charts now count all tracked vocabulary instead of only the first page, new-word history uses corrected daily rollups (fixing legacy timestamp and time-zone issues), summary cards refresh automatically after edits to the exclusion list, and rapid exclusion edits no longer race each other.
+- **Rofi MKV Thumbnails**: Fixed missing MKV thumbnails in the Linux rofi picker when system thumbnailer registrations only advertise legacy Matroska MIME aliases.
+
+<details>
+<summary>Internal changes</summary>
+
+**Internal**
+- Docs Site Indexing: Excluded the `/main/` and `/v/<version>/` docs trees from search indexing (self-referential canonical, `noindex,follow`, matching `X-Robots-Tag`) so crawlers focus on current docs instead of ~30 archived copies of every page, and restored `<lastmod>` dates in the docs sitemap that were silently dropped by production builds.
+
+</details>
+
 ## v0.19.3 (2026-08-13)

 **Added**
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-# Character Dictionary
+# Character dictionary

-SubMiner can build a Yomitan-compatible character dictionary from [AniList](https://anilist.co) metadata so that character names in subtitles are recognized, highlighted, and enrichable with context - portraits, roles, voice actors, and biographical detail - without leaving the overlay. (AniList is an online anime/manga database; SubMiner pulls each show's character list from it.)
+SubMiner builds a Yomitan-compatible dictionary of a show's characters from [AniList](https://anilist.co), the online anime and manga database. Once it is loaded, character names in subtitles get recognized and highlighted, and hovering one shows the portrait, role, voice actor, and biography without leaving the overlay.

-This is helpful because proper names rarely appear in normal dictionaries, so character names would otherwise be flagged as "unknown" words and clutter your mining. Recognizing them keeps your N+1 highlighting focused on real vocabulary.
+Proper names rarely appear in ordinary dictionaries, so without this every character name reads as an unknown word. That wrecks N+1 highlighting, since a line naming two characters looks like a line with two unknowns. Recognizing them keeps the highlighting pointed at real vocabulary.

 The dictionary is generated per-media, merged across your recently-watched titles, and auto-imported into Yomitan. When a character name appears in a subtitle line, it gets highlighted and becomes available for hover-driven Yomitan profile lookup.

-## How It Works
+## How it works

 The feature has three stages: **snapshot**, **merge**, and **match**.

@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ The feature has three stages: **snapshot**, **merge**, and **match**.

 3. **Match** - During subtitle rendering, Yomitan scans subtitle text against all loaded dictionaries including the character dictionary. SubMiner only accepts character entries for the current AniList media when that media ID is known, then flags matching tokens with `isNameMatch` and highlights them in the overlay with a distinct color.

-## Enabling the Feature
+## Enabling the feature

 Character dictionary sync is disabled by default. To turn it on:

 1. Enable **Name Match** in Settings → Subtitle Style, or set `subtitleStyle.nameMatchEnabled: true` in your config.
-2. Start watching - SubMiner queries AniList's public GraphQL API (no authentication required) and imports the merged dictionary into Yomitan automatically.
+2. Start watching. SubMiner queries AniList's public GraphQL API, which needs no authentication, and imports the merged dictionary into Yomitan.
 3. Optionally enable **Name Match Images** (Settings → Subtitle Style) to show inline circular character portraits next to matched names in subtitles.

 ```jsonc
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ AniList character data is fetched via public GraphQL queries - no account or acc
 If `yomitan.externalProfilePath` is set, SubMiner switches to read-only external-profile mode. In that mode SubMiner can reuse another app's installed Yomitan dictionaries/settings, but SubMiner's own character-dictionary features are fully disabled.
 :::

-## Name Generation
+## Name generation

 A single character produces many searchable terms so that names are recognized regardless of how they appear in dialogue. SubMiner generates variants for:

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ A single character produces many searchable terms so that names are recognized r
 - Family name alone: 須々木
 - Given name alone: 心一

-Unspaced native names (AniList often stores 渡辺真奈美 without a separator) are split into family/given parts with MeCab when it is available: person-name POS tags (姓/名) decide the boundary, validated against AniList's romanized first/last name readings. Without MeCab, a length heuristic based on the romanized readings guesses the boundary — and because that guess can be ambiguous (東紫乃 could be 東+紫乃 or 東紫+乃), terms are generated for the top two candidate boundaries so the real surname still matches. Snapshots built without MeCab are regenerated automatically once MeCab becomes available, upgrading them to the exact splits.
+Unspaced native names (AniList often stores 渡辺真奈美 without a separator) are split into family/given parts with MeCab when it is available: person-name POS tags (姓/名) decide the boundary, validated against AniList's romanized first/last name readings. Without MeCab, a length heuristic based on the romanized readings guesses the boundary. That guess can be ambiguous, since 東紫乃 could be 東+紫乃 or 東紫+乃, so SubMiner generates terms for the top two candidate boundaries and the real surname still matches. Snapshots built without MeCab are regenerated automatically once MeCab becomes available, upgrading them to the exact splits.

 **Middle-dot removal** (common in katakana foreign names):

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Unspaced native names (AniList often stores 渡辺真奈美 without a separator)

 This means a character like "太郎" generates entries for 太郎, 太郎さん, 太郎先生, 太郎君, 太郎ちゃん, and so on - all with correct readings.

-## Name Matching
+## Name matching

 Name matching runs inside Yomitan's scanning pipeline during subtitle tokenization.

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Name matches are visually distinct from [N+1 targeting, frequency highlighting,
 | `subtitleStyle.nameMatchImagesEnabled` | `false`   | Show small AniList portraits beside names |
 | `subtitleStyle.nameMatchColor`         | `#f5bde6` | Highlight color for matched names         |

-## Inline Character Portraits
+## Inline character portraits

 When `subtitleStyle.nameMatchImagesEnabled` is enabled, SubMiner injects a small circular portrait image directly into the subtitle line next to each matched character name.

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ The portrait size is controlled by the surrounding subtitle font size and render
 Inline portraits help you quickly associate names with faces while building vocabulary - especially useful for shows with large casts where you're still learning who's who.
 :::

-## Dictionary Entries
+## Dictionary entries

 Each character entry in the Yomitan dictionary includes structured content:

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ The three collapsible sections can be configured to start open or closed:
 }
 ```

-## Auto-Sync Lifecycle
+## Auto-sync lifecycle

 When `subtitleStyle.nameMatchEnabled` is `true`, SubMiner runs an auto-sync routine whenever the active media changes.

@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ These phases are emitted through the configured notification surface. Some phase

 The `maxLoaded` setting (default: 3) controls how many media snapshots stay in the active set. When you start a 4th title, the oldest is evicted and the merged dictionary is rebuilt without it.

-## Manual Generation
+## Manual generation

 You can generate a character dictionary from the command line without auto-sync:

@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ SubMiner.AppImage --dictionary

 This creates a standalone dictionary ZIP for the target media and saves it alongside the snapshots.

-## Correcting AniList Matches
+## Correcting AniList matches

 SubMiner uses `guessit` to infer the anime title from the active filename before searching AniList. Some filenames can still resolve to the wrong title. For example, `Re - ZERO, Starting Life in Another World (2016)` can be misread as a different `Re...` series.

@@ -223,11 +223,11 @@ SubMiner.AppImage --dictionary-select --dictionary-anilist-id 21355 --dictionary
 subminer app --session-action '{"actionId":"openCharacterDictionaryManager"}'
 ```

-SubMiner stores manual selections in `character-dictionaries/anilist-overrides.json`. The episode's parent directory **and detected season** define the override scope, so later episodes in the same season keep the selected AniList ID even if their filename guesses differ, while a different season never inherits the override -- including when every season sits in one flat folder. When you replace a wrong match, SubMiner removes that stale media ID from the merged dictionary's active set and rebuilds/imports the merged character dictionary.
+SubMiner stores manual selections in `character-dictionaries/anilist-overrides.json`. The episode's parent directory **and detected season** define the override scope, so later episodes in the same season keep the selected AniList ID even if their filename guesses differ, while a different season never inherits the override - including when every season sits in one flat folder. When you replace a wrong match, SubMiner removes that stale media ID from the merged dictionary's active set and rebuilds/imports the merged character dictionary.

 An override also pins the entry used for [AniList watch progress](/anilist-integration), so correcting a wrong match once fixes both the character dictionary and progress tracking.

-## Managing Loaded Entries
+## Managing loaded entries

 Open the manager with `Ctrl/Cmd+D` (`shortcuts.openCharacterDictionaryManager`). The manager shows the merged dictionary's active MRU entries, marks the current anime, and lets you adjust eviction priority for the other loaded entries.

@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ Open the manager with `Ctrl/Cmd+D` (`shortcuts.openCharacterDictionaryManager`).

 The current anime cannot be removed while you are watching it; it stays loaded until playback changes.

-## File Structure
+## File structure

 All character dictionary data lives under `{userData}/character-dictionaries/`:

@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ merged.zip
  img/                        # Embedded character and VA portraits
 ```

-## Configuration Reference
+## Configuration reference

 | Option                                                                 | Default   | Description                                                     |
 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -280,11 +280,11 @@ merged.zip
 | `subtitleStyle.nameMatchImagesEnabled`                                 | `false`   | Show small AniList portraits beside matched names               |
 | `subtitleStyle.nameMatchColor`                                         | `#f5bde6` | Highlight color for character-name matches                      |

-## Reference Implementation
+## Reference implementation

 SubMiner's character dictionary builder is inspired by the [Japanese Character Name Dictionary](https://github.com/bee-san/Japanese_Character_Name_Dictionary) project - a standalone Rust web service that generates Yomitan character dictionaries from AniList and VNDB data.

-The reference implementation covers similar ground - name variant generation, honorific expansion, structured Yomitan content, portrait embedding - and additionally supports VNDB as a data source for visual novel characters. Key differences:
+The reference implementation covers the same ground: name variant generation, honorific expansion, structured Yomitan content, and portrait embedding. It also reads VNDB as a source for visual novel characters. Key differences:

 |                        | SubMiner                                     | Reference Implementation              |
 | ---------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
@@ -8,11 +8,13 @@ outline: [2, 3]
 import { withBase } from 'vitepress';
 </script>

-SubMiner is configured through a single file (`config.jsonc`). Most settings are also editable from the in-app **Settings** window - you rarely need to edit the file by hand. This page is the full reference: it explains the Settings window, where the config file lives, and documents every option grouped by topic. New to SubMiner? The Quick Start below plus the [Settings window](#settings) cover everything most users need.
+One file, `config.jsonc`, holds everything. Most of it is also editable from the in-app **Settings** window, so hand-editing is rarely necessary.

-## Quick Start
+This page is the full reference. It covers the Settings window, where the config file lives, and every option grouped by topic. If you are just starting out, the Quick Start below and the [Settings window](#settings) are enough.

-For most users, start with this minimal configuration:
+## Quick start
+
+Start here:

 ```json
 {
@@ -35,11 +37,11 @@ For most users, start with this minimal configuration:

 Use the known-word deck map to choose which Anki decks and note fields feed the known-word cache.

-Then customize as needed using the sections below.
+Everything else is optional; the sections below cover it.

 ## Settings

-SubMiner includes a dedicated **Settings** window accessible from the tray menu, the app `--settings` flag, or launcher commands such as `subminer --settings` and `subminer settings`. It is the primary way to configure SubMiner - all changes are written directly to `config.jsonc`, so manual file editing is not required for most users.
+Open the **Settings** window from the tray menu, the app's `--settings` flag, or `subminer settings`. It writes straight to `config.jsonc`, so anything you change there is a normal config edit you can inspect afterward.

 The Settings window groups options by workflow instead of mirroring the raw config-file shape:

@@ -57,11 +59,11 @@ Each field still writes to its current `config.jsonc` path. For example, subtitl

 The Settings window preserves existing JSONC comments, trailing commas, and unrelated keys. Resetting a field removes the explicit config path so the built-in default applies.

-Secret fields do not display stored values. They show whether a value is configured; entering a new value writes it, and reset clears the explicit path. Prefer command-based secret options such as `ai.apiKeyCommand` when available.
+Secret fields do not display stored values. They show whether a value is configured; entering a new value writes it, and reset clears the explicit path. Prefer command-based secret options such as `jimaku.apiKeyCommand` when available.

-Saving validates the candidate config before writing. Live-reloadable changes are applied immediately; other changes return a restart-required banner in the window.
+Saving validates the candidate config before writing. Saving only fields marked **LIVE** shows "Saved. Live settings applied." If a save also changes fields that need a restart, the banner lists only the sections containing those changed fields. Live changes still apply in the same save.

-## Configuration File
+## Configuration file

 The Settings window writes to `config.jsonc` directly, so most users do not need to edit the file by hand. The config file and the option reference below are provided for advanced use, scripting, or cases where you prefer editing config directly.

@@ -95,15 +97,15 @@ For valid JSON/JSONC with invalid option values, SubMiner uses warn-and-fallback

 On macOS, these validation warnings also open a native dialog with full details (desktop notification banners can truncate long messages).

-### Hot-Reload Behavior
+### Hot-reload behavior

 SubMiner watches the active config file (`config.jsonc` or `config.json`) while running and applies supported updates automatically.

 Hot-reloadable settings include subtitle appearance, sidebar controls, keybindings,
 shortcuts, notifications, logging level, selected source-language preferences,
-Jimaku/Subsync settings, AniSkip settings (`mpv.aniskipEnabled`, `mpv.aniskipButtonKey`),
+Jimaku/Subsync and subtitle-generation settings, AniSkip settings (`mpv.aniskipEnabled`, `mpv.aniskipButtonKey`),
 stats keys (`stats.toggleKey`, `stats.markWatchedKey`), the secondary-subtitle default
-mode, and the Anki deck, known-word, N+1, field, sentence-card, AI, and Kiku options
+mode, and the Anki deck, known-word, N+1, field, sentence-card, and Kiku options
 listed in the reference tables below.

 When these values change, SubMiner applies them live. Invalid config edits are rejected and the previous valid runtime config remains active.
@@ -111,11 +113,10 @@ When these values change, SubMiner applies them live. Invalid config edits are r
 Restart-required changes:

 - Any other config sections still require restart.
- Shared top-level `ai` provider settings still require restart.
 - AnkiConnect transport/proxy/media/tag fields still require restart unless listed above.
 - SubMiner shows an on-screen/system notification listing restart-required sections when they change.

-### Configuration Options Overview
+### Configuration options Overview

 The configuration file includes several main sections:

@@ -146,16 +147,16 @@ The configuration file includes several main sections:

 **Anki Integration**

- [**Shared AI Provider**](#shared-ai-provider) - Canonical OpenAI-compatible provider config shared by Anki and YouTube subtitle fixing
 - [**AnkiConnect**](#ankiconnect) - Automatic Anki card creation with media
- [**Kiku/Lapis Integration**](#kiku-lapis-integration) - Sentence cards and duplicate handling for Kiku/Lapis note types
+- [**Kiku/Lapis Integration**](#kiku-lapis-integration) - Sentence cards and duplicate handling for Kiku/Lapis/Senren note types
 - [**N+1 Word Highlighting**](#n-1-word-highlighting) - Known-word cache and single-target highlighting
- [**Field Grouping Modes**](#field-grouping-modes) - Kiku/Lapis duplicate card merging
+- [**Field Grouping Modes**](#field-grouping-modes) - Kiku/Senren duplicate card merging

 **External Integrations**

 - [**Jimaku**](#jimaku) - Jimaku API configuration and defaults
 - [**TsukiHime**](#tsukihime) - Multi-language subtitle search and download
+- [**TMDB**](#tmdb) - Posters and synopses for live-action dramas and movies in the stats Library
 - [**Subtitle Sync**](#subtitle-sync) - Sync current subtitle with `alass`/`ffsubsync`
 - [**AniList**](#anilist) - Optional post-watch progress updates
 - [**Yomitan**](#yomitan) - Reuse an external read-only Yomitan profile
@@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ The configuration file includes several main sections:
 - [**Updates**](#updates) - Automatic update checks, notifications, and prerelease testing
 - [**Notifications**](#notifications) - Overlay notification placement

-## Core Settings
+## Core settings

 ### Logging

@@ -243,13 +244,13 @@ Configure where overlay notification cards appear:

 #### Notification history panel

-Every overlay notification shown during a session is also recorded in a notification history panel. Press `Ctrl/Cmd+N` (configurable via [`shortcuts.toggleNotificationHistory`](#shortcuts-configuration)) to toggle the panel; the binding works whether the overlay or mpv has focus. The panel slides in from the same edge the notifications use — left when `overlayPosition` is `"top-left"`, and right for `"top-right"` or `"top"` (centered). Character dictionary sync uses one live card but records each distinct phase in history. Each entry can be removed individually, or use **Clear** to empty the history. History is session-only and is not persisted across restarts.
+Every overlay notification shown during a session is also recorded in a notification history panel. Press `Ctrl/Cmd+N` (configurable via [`shortcuts.toggleNotificationHistory`](#shortcuts-configuration)) to toggle the panel; the binding works whether the overlay or mpv has focus. The panel slides in from the same edge the notifications use, so left when `overlayPosition` is `"top-left"` and right for `"top-right"` or `"top"` (centered). Character dictionary sync uses one live card but records each distinct phase in history. Each entry can be removed individually, or use **Clear** to empty the history. History is session-only and is not persisted across restarts.

 Startup tokenization, subtitle annotation, and character dictionary status follow the configured notification surface. When the surface is `"overlay"` or `"both"`, SubMiner queues those startup notifications until the overlay renderer is ready instead of falling back to mpv OSD. If loading and ready states both finish before the overlay can paint, the loading card is delivered first and then updates to ready shortly after. With `"both"`, character dictionary checking/building/importing/ready status also goes to system notifications; building and importing are only emitted when that work is actually needed. The bundled mpv plugin only shows its startup OSD messages when `ankiConnect.behavior.notificationType` is set to `"osd"` or `"osd-system"` in `config.jsonc`; AniSkip prompts and skip result messages are playback feedback and still route to overlay notifications when configured.

 The equivalent direct CLI command is `--playback-feedback <text>` (`playbackFeedback` internally). It sends that one non-empty feedback string through the same route controlled by `ankiConnect.behavior.notificationType`; it does not change the saved config.

-### Auto-Start Overlay
+### Auto-start overlay

 Control whether the overlay automatically becomes visible when it connects to mpv:

@@ -267,7 +268,7 @@ When you launch through the SubMiner app or the `subminer` wrapper, the launcher

 On Windows, packaged plugin installs also rewrite the plugin socket path to `\\.\pipe\subminer-socket`.

-### Startup Warmups
+### Startup warmups

 Control which startup warmups run in the background versus deferring to first real usage:

@@ -293,7 +294,7 @@ Control which startup warmups run in the background versus deferring to first re

 Defaults warm local tokenizer/dictionary work (`true` for `mecab`, `yomitanExtension`, and `subtitleDictionaries`) with `lowPowerMode: false`; Jellyfin remote session warmup is opt-in (`false` by default). Setting a warmup toggle to `false` defers that work until first usage.

-### WebSocket Server
+### WebSocket server

 The overlay includes a built-in WebSocket server that broadcasts plain subtitle text to connected clients for external processing.

@@ -357,9 +358,9 @@ See `config.example.jsonc` for detailed configuration options.
 | `launchAtStartup` | `true`, `false` | Start texthooker automatically with SubMiner startup (default: `false`) |
 | `openBrowser`     | `true`, `false` | Open browser tab when texthooker starts (default: `false`)              |

-## Subtitle Display
+## Subtitle display

-### Subtitle Style
+### Subtitle style

 Customize the appearance of primary and secondary subtitles:

@@ -457,7 +458,7 @@ Secondary subtitle styling lives in the secondary subtitle CSS object. Any CSS p

 **See `config.example.jsonc`** for the complete list of subtitle style configuration options.

-### Subtitle Sidebar
+### Subtitle sidebar

 Configure the parsed-subtitle sidebar modal.

@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ For full details on layout modes, behavior, and the keyboard shortcut, see the [
 | `N4` | `#8bd5ca` | JLPT N4 underline color |
 | `N5` | `#8aadf4` | JLPT N5 underline color |

-### Subtitle Position
+### Subtitle position

 Set the initial vertical subtitle position (measured from the bottom of the screen):

@@ -537,7 +538,7 @@ Set the initial vertical subtitle position (measured from the bottom of the scre

 In the overlay, you can fine-tune subtitle position at runtime with `Right-click + drag` on subtitle text.

-### Secondary Subtitles
+### Secondary subtitles

 Display a second subtitle track (e.g., English alongside Japanese) in the overlay:

@@ -563,8 +564,6 @@ Secondary subtitles do **not** auto-load by default. To turn them on for local a

 These two settings apply to local and Jellyfin playback only. YouTube secondary selection is fixed to English and ignores them; see [YouTube Integration](/youtube-integration#secondary-subtitle-languages). `defaultMode` still controls how the loaded secondary bar is displayed in every case.

-Because the mined-card translation field is filled from the secondary subtitle when one is present, leaving `autoLoadSecondarySub` off means local-file cards fall back to AI translation (when configured) or the original sentence text.
-
 The secondary-subtitle language list also acts as the fallback secondary-language priority for managed startup subtitle selection on local playback and YouTube playback.

 **Display modes:**
@@ -575,7 +574,7 @@ The secondary-subtitle language list also acts as the fallback secondary-languag

 **See `config.example.jsonc`** for additional secondary subtitle configuration options.

-## Keyboard & Controls
+## Keyboard and controls

 ### Keybindings

@@ -637,11 +636,16 @@ See `config.example.jsonc` for detailed configuration options and more examples.

 **Supported commands:** Any valid mpv JSON IPC command array (`["cycle", "pause"]`, `["seek", 5]`, `["script-binding", "..."]`, etc.)

+Supported, unclaimed single-key keyboard bindings from the connected mpv session are also available
+in the overlay automatically. Configured SubMiner bindings, including `null` entries,
+take precedence. See [mpv binding discovery](/shortcuts#automatic-mpv-bindings) for session refresh
+behavior and limitations.
+
 Subtitle delay commands (`sub-delay`, `sub-step`) show a native mpv OSD notification after the command runs. Subtitle-position and subtitle-track proxy commands (`sub-pos`, `sid`, `secondary-sid`) show playback feedback through the configured notification surface.

 **See `config.example.jsonc`** for more keybinding examples and configuration options.

-### Shortcuts Configuration
+### Shortcuts configuration

 Customize or disable the overlay keyboard shortcuts:

@@ -702,7 +706,7 @@ Set any shortcut to `null` to disable it.

 Feature-dependent shortcuts/keybindings only run when their related integration is enabled. For example, Anki/Kiku shortcuts require `ankiConnect.enabled` (and Kiku-specific behavior where applicable), and Jellyfin remote startup behavior requires Jellyfin to be enabled.

-### Controller Support
+### Controller support

 SubMiner can read controllers through the Chrome Gamepad API and map them onto the existing keyboard-only overlay workflow.

@@ -818,7 +822,7 @@ If you update this controller documentation or the generated controller examples

 Tune `scrollPixelsPerSecond`, `horizontalJumpPixels`, deadzones, repeat timing, and profile `buttonIndices` to match your controller. See [config.example.jsonc](/config.example.jsonc) for the full generated comments for every controller field.

-### Manual Card Update Shortcuts
+### Manual card update shortcuts

 When automatic card updates are disabled, new cards are detected but not automatically updated. Use these keyboard shortcuts for manual control:

@@ -845,7 +849,7 @@ When automatic card updates are disabled, new cards are detected but not automat

 These shortcuts are only active when the overlay window is visible and automatically disabled when hidden.

-### Session Help Modal
+### Session help modal

 The session help modal opens from the overlay with `Ctrl/Cmd+/` by default. The mpv plugin also exposes it through the `y-h` chord. It shows the current session keybindings and color legend.

@@ -869,13 +873,14 @@ The list is generated at runtime from:

 When config hot-reload updates shortcut/keybinding/style values, close and reopen the help modal to refresh the displayed entries.

-### Runtime Option Palette
+### Runtime option palette

 Use the runtime options palette to toggle settings live while SubMiner is running. These changes are session-only and reset on restart.

-Current runtime options cover automatic card updates, known-word highlighting,
-known-word maturity coloring, N+1 annotation, JLPT underlines, frequency
-highlighting, known-word match mode, and Kiku field grouping mode.
+Current runtime options cover automatic card updates, media timing review,
+known-word highlighting, known-word maturity coloring, N+1 annotation, JLPT
+underlines, frequency highlighting, known-word match mode, and Kiku field
+grouping mode.

 Annotation toggles only apply to new subtitle lines after the toggle. The currently displayed line is not re-tokenized in place.

@@ -888,39 +893,7 @@ Palette controls:
 - `Enter`: apply selected value
 - `Esc`: close

-## Anki Integration
-
-### Shared AI Provider
-
-This is the single, shared connection to an OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint. Configure it **once** here at the top level, and SubMiner reuses it wherever AI is needed (Anki translation/enrichment and YouTube subtitle fixing). Per-feature toggles and prompt/model tweaks live in their own sections (for example `ankiConnect.ai` and `youtubeSubgen.ai`) and inherit this transport.
-
-```json
-{
-  "ai": {
-    "enabled": false,
-    "apiKey": "",
-    "apiKeyCommand": "",
-    "model": "openai/gpt-4o-mini",
-    "baseUrl": "https://openrouter.ai/api",
-    "requestTimeoutMs": 15000
-  }
-}
-```
-
-| Option             | Values               | Description                                                                          |
-| ------------------ | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| `ai.enabled`       | `true`, `false`      | Enable shared AI provider features (default: `false`)                                |
-| `apiKey`           | string               | Static API key for the shared provider                                               |
-| `apiKeyCommand`    | string               | Shell command used to resolve the API key (preferred over a plaintext `apiKey`)      |
-| `model`            | string               | Default model identifier requested from the provider (default: `openai/gpt-4o-mini`) |
-| `baseUrl`          | string (URL)         | OpenAI-compatible base URL (default: `https://openrouter.ai/api`)                    |
-| `systemPrompt`     | string               | Default system prompt sent with requests (default: a translation-engine prompt)      |
-| `requestTimeoutMs` | integer milliseconds | Shared request timeout (default: `15000`)                                            |
-
-SubMiner uses the shared provider for:
-
- Anki translation/enrichment when Anki AI is enabled
- YouTube generated-subtitle fixing when `youtubeSubgen.fixWithAi` is enabled (with optional `youtubeSubgen.ai.model` / `systemPrompt` overrides)
+## Anki integration

 ### AnkiConnect

@@ -942,16 +915,10 @@ Enable automatic Anki card creation and updates with media generation:
    "deck": "Learning::Japanese",
    "fields": {
      "word": "Expression",
-      "audio": "ExpressionAudio",
+      "audio": "SentenceAudio",
      "image": "Picture",
      "sentence": "Sentence",
-      "miscInfo": "MiscInfo",
-      "translation": "SelectionText"
-    },
-    "ai": {
-      "enabled": false,
-      "model": "",
-      "systemPrompt": ""
+      "miscInfo": "MiscInfo"
    },
    "media": {
      "generateAudio": true,
@@ -967,6 +934,7 @@ Enable automatic Anki card creation and updates with media generation:
      "animatedCrf": 35,
      "normalizeAudio": true,
      "mirrorMpvVolume": true,
+      "reviewTiming": false,
      "audioPadding": 0,
      "fallbackDuration": 3,
      "maxMediaDuration": 30
@@ -1008,17 +976,15 @@ This example is intentionally compact. The option table below documents availabl
 | `tags`                                            | array of strings                            | Tags automatically added to cards mined/updated by SubMiner (default: `['SubMiner']`; set `[]` to disable automatic tagging).                                                                                                   |
 | `ankiConnect.deck`                                | string                                      | Restrict duplicate detection and card enrichment to this Anki deck. Leave empty to use the Yomitan mining deck when available. In Settings, this dropdown auto-fills and persists Yomitan's current mining deck when available. |
 | `fields.word`                                     | string                                      | Card field for mined word / expression text (default: `Expression`)                                                                                                                                                             |
-| `fields.audio`                                    | string                                      | Card field for audio files (default: `ExpressionAudio`)                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| `fields.audio`                                    | string                                      | Card field for the generated sentence audio clip (default: `ExpressionAudio`). Set this to a dedicated field such as `SentenceAudio` so it does not collide with the word audio Yomitan writes.                                  |
+| `fields.wordAudio`                                | string                                      | Existing word-audio field read for the animated image's opening freeze. Independent of the sentence-audio destination in `fields.audio`; this mapping does not write audio. See [config.example.jsonc](/config.example.jsonc) for defaults. |
 | `fields.image`                                    | string                                      | Card field for images (default: `Picture`)                                                                                                                                                                                      |
 | `fields.sentence`                                 | string                                      | Card field for sentences (default: `Sentence`)                                                                                                                                                                                  |
 | `fields.miscInfo`                                 | string                                      | Card field for metadata (default: `"MiscInfo"`, set to `null` to disable)                                                                                                                                                       |
-| `fields.translation`                              | string                                      | Card field for sentence-card translation/back text (default: `SelectionText`)                                                                                                                                                   |
-| `ankiConnect.ai.enabled`                          | `true`, `false`                             | Use AI translation for sentence cards. Also auto-attempted when secondary subtitle is missing.                                                                                                                                  |
-| `ankiConnect.ai.model`                            | string                                      | Optional model override for Anki AI translation/enrichment flows.                                                                                                                                                               |
-| `ankiConnect.ai.systemPrompt`                     | string                                      | Optional system prompt override for Anki AI translation/enrichment flows.                                                                                                                                                       |
 | `media.generateAudio`                             | `true`, `false`                             | Generate audio clips from video (default: `true`)                                                                                                                                                                               |
 | `media.normalizeAudio`                            | `true`, `false`                             | Normalize generated sentence-audio loudness during media extraction (default: `true`). Set to `false` to keep raw source loudness. Changes apply live.                                                                          |
 | `media.mirrorMpvVolume`                           | `true`, `false`                             | Apply mpv's cubic software-volume curve to each generated sentence-audio clip (default: `true`). This ignores mpv's separate mute state, falls back to unity scaling if volume cannot be read, and applies changes live.        |
+| `media.reviewTiming`                              | `true`, `false`                             | Pause playback and review word, sentence, and audio card timing before media generation (default: `false`). Clipboard updates and stats-dashboard mining do not open the review.                                                |
 | `media.generateImage`                             | `true`, `false`                             | Generate image/animation screenshots (default: `true`)                                                                                                                                                                          |
 | `media.imageType`                                 | `"static"`, `"avif"`                        | Image type: static screenshot or animated AVIF (default: `"static"`)                                                                                                                                                            |
 | `media.imageFormat`                               | `"jpg"`, `"png"`, `"webp"`                  | Image format (default: `"jpg"`)                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
@@ -1032,7 +998,7 @@ This example is intentionally compact. The option table below documents availabl
 | `media.syncAnimatedImageToWordAudio`              | `true`, `false`                             | Whether animated AVIF includes an opening frame synced to sentence word-audio timing (default: `true`).                                                                                                                         |
 | `media.audioPadding`                              | number (seconds)                            | Optional padding around generated sentence media timing (default: `0`). Animated AVIF clips include the same padded source range as sentence audio.                                                                             |
 | `media.fallbackDuration`                          | number (seconds)                            | Default duration if timing unavailable (default: `3.0`)                                                                                                                                                                         |
-| `media.maxMediaDuration`                          | number (seconds)                            | Max duration for generated media from multi-line copy (default: `30`, `0` to disable)                                                                                                                                           |
+| `media.maxMediaDuration`                          | number (seconds)                            | Maximum generated clip duration for overlay and stats-dashboard mining. See the [configuration example](/config.example.jsonc) for the default and disabling the cap.                                                           |
 | `behavior.overwriteAudio`                         | `true`, `false`                             | Replace existing audio on updates; when `false`, new audio is appended/prepended using the configured media insert mode; manual clipboard updates always replace generated sentence audio (default: `true`)                     |
 | `behavior.overwriteImage`                         | `true`, `false`                             | Replace existing images on updates; when `false`, new images are appended/prepended using the configured media insert mode (default: `true`)                                                                                    |
 | `behavior.mediaInsertMode`                        | `"append"`, `"prepend"`                     | Where to insert new media when overwrite is off (default: `"append"`)                                                                                                                                                           |
@@ -1051,11 +1017,9 @@ This example is intentionally compact. The option table below documents availabl
 | `metadata.pattern`                                | string                                      | Format pattern for metadata: `%f`=filename, `%F`=filename+ext, `%t`=time, `%T`=time with milliseconds, `<br>`=newline                                                                                                           |
 | `isLapis`                                         | object                                      | Lapis/shared sentence-card config: `{ enabled, sentenceCardModel }`. Sentence/audio field names are fixed to `Sentence` and `SentenceAudio`.                                                                                    |
 | `isKiku`                                          | object                                      | Kiku-only config: `{ enabled, fieldGrouping, deleteDuplicateInAuto }` (shared sentence/audio/model settings are inherited from `isLapis`)                                                                                       |
+| `isSenren`                                        | object                                      | Senren-only config: `{ enabled, fieldGrouping, deleteDuplicateInAuto }`. Merges duplicates using Senren's scene-switching markup. Mutually exclusive with `isKiku.enabled`.                                                     |

-`ankiConnect.ai` only controls feature-local enablement plus optional `model` / `systemPrompt` overrides.
-API key resolution, base URL, and timeout live under the shared top-level [`ai`](#shared-ai-provider) config.
-
-### Kiku/Lapis Integration
+### Kiku/Lapis integration

 SubMiner is intentionally built for [Kiku](https://kiku.youyoumu.my.id/) and [Lapis](https://github.com/donkuri/lapis) workflows, with note-type-specific behavior built into Anki settings.

@@ -1080,9 +1044,10 @@ SubMiner is intentionally built for [Kiku](https://kiku.youyoumu.my.id/) and [La
 - Enable `isKiku` to turn on duplicate merge behavior for mined Word/Expression hits.
 - When both are enabled, Kiku behavior is applied for grouping while sentence-card model settings are still read from `isLapis`.
 - `isKiku.fieldGrouping` supports `disabled`, `auto`, and `manual` merge modes; see [Field Grouping Modes](#field-grouping-modes).
+- For [Senren](https://github.com/BrenoAqua/Senren) note types, enable `isSenren` instead of `isKiku`. Duplicate merges then use Senren's scene-switching markup (including grouped `miscInfo` entries), and `isSenren.fieldGrouping` supports the same three modes (default: `auto`). Kiku and Senren are mutually exclusive; if both are enabled, Kiku wins and Senren is turned off with a config warning.
 - `lapisKiku.wordCardKind` picks the card-type flag set on word cards; see [Word Card Type](#word-card-type). It is read only while `isLapis` or `isKiku` is enabled.

-### Word Card Type
+### Word card type

 When SubMiner fills the sentence on a mined word card - from Yomitan auto-enrichment, a manual clipboard update, or stats-dashboard word mining - it marks which card that note should generate. `ankiConnect.lapisKiku.wordCardKind` chooses the flag:

@@ -1096,7 +1061,7 @@ When SubMiner fills the sentence on a mined word card - from Yomitan auto-enrich

 The other card-type flags are cleared so a note never claims two card types at once. Notes are skipped when the note type has no field for the chosen flag, and when the note was already mined as a sentence or audio card. Cards created by Mine Sentence and Mine Audio keep their own flag regardless of this setting.

-### N+1 Word Highlighting
+### N+1 word highlighting

 When known-word highlighting is enabled, SubMiner builds a local cache of known words from Anki to highlight already learned tokens in subtitle rendering.

@@ -1133,7 +1098,7 @@ To refresh roughly once per day, set:
 }
 ```

-### Field Grouping Modes
+### Field grouping modes

 | Mode       | Behavior                                                                                                                   |
 | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -1152,7 +1117,7 @@ When the manual merge popup opens, SubMiner pauses playback and closes any open

 <a :href="withBase('/assets/kiku-integration.webm')" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Open demo in a new tab</a>

-## External Integrations
+## External integrations

 ### Jimaku

@@ -1194,7 +1159,41 @@ The keyboard shortcut lives under `shortcuts.openTsukihime` (default `Ctrl+Shift

 See [TsukiHime Integration](/tsukihime-integration) for the modal workflow, language tabs, and troubleshooting.

-### Subtitle Sync
+### TMDB
+
+TMDB (The Movie Database) supplies posters, synopses, and show grouping for live-action dramas and movies in the stats [Library](/immersion-tracking#library). AniList only covers anime, so TMDB is what gives live-action titles a cover and a description.
+
+Release builds ship with a project TMDB key, so nothing needs to be configured. Set your own key to use your own quota, or when running SubMiner from source, where no key is bundled. Create one for free under **Settings > API** on [themoviedb.org](https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api); either the short API key or the long "API Read Access Token" works.
+
+```json
+{
+  "tmdb": {
+    "apiKey": "",
+    "apiKeyCommand": "cat ~/.tmdb_key"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+| Option               | Values | Description                                                                                        |
+| -------------------- | ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `tmdb.apiKey`        | string | Your own TMDB API key or read access token; overrides the bundled key (default: empty)             |
+| `tmdb.apiKeyCommand` | string | Shell command that prints the key to stdout, used instead of `apiKey` to keep it out of the config |
+
+Successful `apiKeyCommand` output is cached for the running client until `tmdb.apiKey` or `tmdb.apiKeyCommand` changes. Failed or empty command output uses the bundled key when available and waits 30 seconds before the next request can retry the command. Changing either credential setting resets this cooldown.
+
+Changes apply to the next TMDB request without a restart.
+
+This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
+
+### Japanese subtitle generation
+
+Open the standalone modal with `Ctrl+Shift+G`, configurable through `shortcuts.openSubtitleGeneration`, or use the subtitle sidebar button. See [shortcuts](/shortcuts) for the shared mpv and overlay keybindings.
+
+`subtitleGeneration` configures local Japanese transcription for both the launcher and overlay. In **Settings → Integrations → Japanese Subtitle Generation**, set `modelPath` to an existing multilingual whisper.cpp GGML model, or leave it empty and choose a `managedModel` as the default. The generation modal lets you select another model for the current session, with download sizes and accuracy versus speed guidance. Downloads are explicit. Leave `whisperPath`, `ffmpegPath`, and `ffprobePath` empty to find the executables on `PATH`, or set them to override the executable paths. `threads` controls the CPU thread count. Settings apply to the next operation. See [subtitle generation](/subtitle-generation) for setup and behavior, and the [generated configuration example](/config.example.jsonc) for defaults.
+
+The generation modal offers an optional **Focus on spoken dialogue** checkbox and a separate Silero model download. Set `subtitleGeneration.vadModelPath` to a Silero GGML VAD model to make dialogue mode the default. `vadPath` overrides the speech detector executable. See [dialogue generation setup](/subtitle-generation#prioritizing-spoken-dialogue) for session behavior, the additional tool, and limitations.
+
+### Subtitle sync

 Sync a subtitle track from the overlay picker using `alass` or `ffsubsync`. The picker lets you choose which track gets retimed (the active primary track by default) and, for alass, which reference it is aligned against (the secondary subtitle track by default). Both are **optional external tools** that must be installed separately and available on your `PATH` (or configured via the path options below).

@@ -1219,8 +1218,6 @@ Sync a subtitle track from the overlay picker using `alass` or `ffsubsync`. The
 | `ffmpeg_path`    | string path     | Path to `ffmpeg` (used for internal subtitle extraction). Empty or `null` falls back to `/usr/bin/ffmpeg`.                |
 | `replace`        | `true`, `false` | When `true` (default), overwrite the active subtitle file on successful sync. When `false`, write `<name>_retimed.<ext>`. |

-Stats dashboard sentence mining also uses `alass_path` when available to align a local English sidecar against the local Japanese sidecar before filling the card translation field. This stats-only retime writes a temporary cached copy and never edits the original subtitle files.
-
 Default trigger is `Ctrl+Alt+S` via `shortcuts.triggerSubsync`.
 Customize it there, or set it to `null` to disable.

@@ -1384,7 +1381,7 @@ Jellyfin playback auto-launched through SubMiner loads the mpv plugin the same w

 When Jellyfin is enabled with a server URL and SubMiner is running, the tray menu also shows a `Jellyfin Discovery` checkbox. It starts or stops discovery for the current runtime session only and does not write config. Starting discovery still requires a valid stored or environment-provided Jellyfin auth session.

-### Discord Rich Presence
+### Discord rich presence

 Discord Rich Presence is enabled by default. SubMiner publishes a polished activity card that reflects current media title, playback state, and session timer unless you turn it off.

@@ -1431,7 +1428,7 @@ Troubleshooting:
 - If images do not render, confirm asset keys exactly match uploaded Discord asset names.
 - If Discord is closed/not installed/disconnects, SubMiner continues running and quietly skips presence updates.

-### Immersion Tracking
+### Immersion tracking

 Enable or disable local immersion analytics stored in SQLite for mined subtitles and media sessions. This data also powers the stats dashboard:

@@ -1505,7 +1502,7 @@ Set `dbPath` only if you want to relocate the database (for backup, syncing, or

 See [Immersion Tracking Storage](/immersion-tracking) for schema details, query templates, dashboard access, retention/rollup behavior, backend portability notes, and the dedicated SQLite verification command.

-### Stats Dashboard
+### Stats dashboard

 Configure the local stats UI served from SubMiner and the in-app stats overlay toggle:

@@ -1536,7 +1533,7 @@ Usage notes:
 - The dashboard reads from the same immersion-tracking database, so keep `immersionTracking.enabled` on if you want data to appear.
 - The UI includes Overview, Library, Trends, Vocabulary, Search, and Sessions tabs.

-### MPV Launcher
+### MPV launcher

 Configure the mpv executable, profile, and window state for SubMiner-managed mpv launches (launcher playback, Windows `--launch-mpv`, and Jellyfin idle mpv startup):

@@ -1578,7 +1575,7 @@ Launch mode behavior:
 - **`maximized`** - mpv starts maximized via `--window-maximized=yes`, keeping taskbar access.
 - **`fullscreen`** - mpv starts in true fullscreen via `--fullscreen`.

-### YouTube Playback Settings
+### YouTube playback settings

 Set defaults used by managed subtitle auto-selection and the `subminer` launcher YouTube flow:

@@ -1622,6 +1619,6 @@ Track selection:

 These settings come from `config.jsonc` (or built-in defaults); there are no CLI flags or environment variables for subtitle language selection.

-#### YouTube Subtitle Generation (`youtubeSubgen`)
+#### YouTube subtitle generation (`youtubeSubgen`)

-An advanced, template-hidden section for Whisper-based YouTube subtitle generation: `whisperBin`, `whisperModel`, `whisperVadModel`, `whisperThreads` (default `4`), and `fixWithAi` (default `false`), which post-processes generated subtitles through the [Shared AI Provider](#shared-ai-provider) with optional `youtubeSubgen.ai.model` / `systemPrompt` overrides. These keys are accepted in `config.jsonc` but intentionally omitted from the generated template.
+An advanced, template-hidden section for Whisper-based YouTube subtitle generation: `whisperBin`, `whisperModel`, `whisperVadModel`, and `whisperThreads` (default `4`). These keys are accepted in `config.jsonc` but the generated template omits them.
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
-# Feature Demos
+# Feature demos

-Short recordings of SubMiner's key features and integrations from real playback sessions. A few terms you'll see below: _Yomitan_ is the pop-up dictionary used for word lookups, _Jimaku_ is a community subtitle database, _alass_ and _ffsubsync_ are tools that retime subtitles to match the audio, _Jellyfin_ is a self-hosted media server, and a _texthooker_ is a web page that mirrors the current subtitle as selectable text for browser-based tools.
+Short recordings from real playback sessions.
+
+Some vocabulary for what follows. _Yomitan_ is the pop-up dictionary. _Jimaku_ is a community subtitle database. _alass_ and _ffsubsync_ retime subtitles against the audio. _Jellyfin_ is a self-hosted media server. A _texthooker_ is a web page that mirrors the current subtitle as selectable text so browser tools can read it.

 <script setup>
 import { withBase } from 'vitepress';

-const v = '20260301-1';
+const v = '20260819-1';
 </script>

-## Anki Card Mining & Enrichment
+## Anki card mining and enrichment

-Mine vocabulary cards from Yomitan or directly from subtitle lines. SubMiner automatically attaches the sentence, a timing-accurate audio clip, a screenshot, and a translation.
+Mine a card from Yomitan or straight from a subtitle line. SubMiner attaches the sentence, an audio clip cut to the line timing, and a screenshot.

 <video controls playsinline preload="metadata" :poster="withBase(`/assets/minecard-poster.jpg?v=${v}`)">
  <source :src="withBase(`/assets/minecard.webm?v=${v}`)" type="video/webm" />
@@ -20,9 +22,9 @@ Mine vocabulary cards from Yomitan or directly from subtitle lines. SubMiner aut
  </a>
 </video>

-## Subtitle Download & Sync
+## Subtitle download and sync

-Search and download subtitles from Jimaku, then retime them with alass or ffsubsync - all from within SubMiner.
+Search Jimaku, download a track, then retime it with alass or ffsubsync without leaving SubMiner.

 <!-- <video controls playsinline preload="metadata" :poster="withBase(`/assets/demos/subtitle-sync-poster.jpg?v=${v}`)">
  <source :src="withBase(`/assets/demos/subtitle-sync.webm?v=${v}`)" type="video/webm" />
@@ -32,9 +34,9 @@ Search and download subtitles from Jimaku, then retime them with alass or ffsubs
 ::: info VIDEO COMING SOON
 :::

-## Jellyfin Integration
+## Jellyfin integration

-Browse your Jellyfin library, cast to devices, and launch playback directly from SubMiner. Watch progress syncs back to your Jellyfin server.
+Browse your Jellyfin library, cast to a device, and start playback from SubMiner. Watch progress goes back to the Jellyfin server.

 <!-- <video controls playsinline preload="metadata" :poster="withBase(`/assets/demos/jellyfin-poster.jpg?v=${v}`)">
  <source :src="withBase(`/assets/demos/jellyfin.webm?v=${v}`)" type="video/webm" />
@@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ Browse your Jellyfin library, cast to devices, and launch playback directly from

 ## Texthooker

-Open subtitles in an external texthooker page for use with browser-based tools and extensions alongside the overlay.
+Mirror subtitles to an external texthooker page so browser extensions can read them while the overlay runs.

 <!-- <video controls playsinline preload="metadata" :poster="withBase(`/assets/demos/texthooker-poster.jpg?v=${v}`)">
  <source :src="withBase(`/assets/demos/texthooker.webm?v=${v}`)" type="video/webm" />
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-# Building & Testing
+# Building and testing

-For internal architecture/workflow guidance, use `docs/README.md` at the repo root. This page stays focused on contributor-facing build and test commands.
+Architecture and workflow guidance lives in `docs/README.md` at the repo root. This page covers build and test commands only.

 ## Prerequisites

 - [Bun](https://bun.sh)
 - A system `lua` interpreter for `bun run test:launcher` / `bun run test:plugin:src`
- macOS builds compile a Swift helper via `scripts/build-macos-helper.sh` (skip with `SUBMINER_SKIP_MACOS_HELPER_BUILD=1`)
+- macOS builds compile a Swift helper via `scripts/prepare-build-assets.mjs` (skip with `SUBMINER_SKIP_MACOS_HELPER_BUILD=1`)

 ## Setup

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ make build-launcher

 `bun run build` includes the Yomitan build step. It builds the bundled Chrome extension directly from the `vendor/subminer-yomitan` submodule into `build/yomitan` using Bun.

-## Launcher Artifact Workflow
+## Launcher artifact workflow

 - Source of truth: `launcher/*.ts`
 - Generated output: `dist/launcher/subminer`
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ dist/launcher/subminer --help >/dev/null
 bash scripts/verify-generated-launcher.sh
 ```

-## Running Locally
+## Running locally

 ```bash
 bun run dev    # builds + launches with --start --dev
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ bun run format:check:src
 - `bun run format:check:src` checks the same scoped set without writing changes.
 - `bun run format` remains the broad repo-wide Prettier command; use it intentionally.

-## Config Generation
+## Config generation

 ```bash
 # Generate default config to ~/.config/SubMiner/config.jsonc (or %APPDATA%\SubMiner\config.jsonc on Windows)
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Convenience wrappers still exist:
 - `make generate-config`
 - `make generate-example-config`

-## Documentation Site
+## Documentation site

 The docs site now lives in `docs-site/` inside the main repo.

@@ -200,14 +200,14 @@ bun run docs:test    # Docs regression tests

 Deployment: production docs are built with `bun run docs:build:versioned` and uploaded directly to Cloudflare Pages by the `docs-pages` GitHub Actions workflow using Wrangler (from `.tmp/docs-versioned-site`). Cloudflare's automatic Git-integration deployments are intentionally disabled - see `docs-site/README.md` for the deployment contract. Do not re-enable Pages build settings in the Cloudflare dashboard.

-## Makefile Reference
+## Makefile reference

 Run `make help` for a full list of targets. Key ones:

 | Target                      | Description                                                       |
 | --------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | `make build`                | Build platform package for detected OS                            |
-| `make build-launcher`       | Generate Bun launcher wrapper at `dist/launcher/subminer`         |
+| `make build-launcher`       | Generate launcher wrappers and CLI payload in `dist/launcher/`    |
 | `make install`              | Install platform artifacts (wrapper, theme, AppImage/app bundle)  |
 | `make deps`                 | Init submodules and install root/stats/texthooker-ui deps         |
 | `make pretty`               | Run scoped Prettier formatting for maintained source/config files |
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Run `make help` for a full list of targets. Key ones:
 | `make build-macos`          | Convenience wrapper for signed macOS packaging                    |
 | `make build-macos-unsigned` | Convenience wrapper for unsigned macOS packaging                  |

-## Contributor Notes
+## Contributor notes

 - To add/change a config default, edit the matching domain file in `src/config/definitions/defaults-*.ts`.
 - To add/change config option metadata, edit the matching domain file in `src/config/definitions/options-*.ts`.
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ Run `make help` for a full list of targets. Key ones:
 - Prefer direct inline deps objects in `src/main/` modules for simple pass-through wiring.
 - Add a helper/adapter service only when it performs meaningful adaptation, validation, or reuse (not identity mapping).

-## Environment Variables
+## Environment variables

 | Variable                           | Description                                                                    |
 | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
@@ -57,7 +57,19 @@ test('docs reflect current launcher and release surfaces', () => {
  expect(configurationContents).not.toContain('youtubeSubgen": {\n    "mode"');
  expect(configurationContents).not.toContain('youtubeSubgen.primarySubLanguages');
  expect(configurationContents).toContain('youtube.primarySubLanguages');
-  expect(configurationContents).toContain('### Shared AI Provider');
+  // The AI provider still exists in src/ai and ankiConnect.ai, but it is not
+  // exposed in the Settings window and is not documented for users. Keep the
+  // user-facing docs free of it so nobody configures a hidden surface.
+  expect(configurationContents).not.toContain('Shared AI Provider');
+  expect(configurationContents).not.toContain('ankiConnect.ai');
+  expect(ankiIntegrationContents).not.toContain('AI Translation');
+  // ankiConnect.fields.translation is a LEGACY_HIDDEN_CONFIG_PATHS key, so it
+  // must not be documented as a current setting.
+  expect(configurationContents).not.toContain('fields.translation');
+  expect(ankiIntegrationContents).not.toContain('SelectionText');
+  // fields.audio holds SubMiner's generated sentence audio; examples should not
+  // point it at the field Yomitan uses for word audio.
+  expect(ankiIntegrationContents).not.toContain('"audio": "ExpressionAudio"');

  expect(changelogContents).toContain('v0.5.1 (2026-03-09)');
 });
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-# Immersion Tracking
+# Immersion tracking

-SubMiner can log your watching and mining activity to a local SQLite database, then surface it in the built-in stats dashboard. Tracking is enabled by default and can be turned off if you do not want local analytics.
+SubMiner logs your watching and mining activity to a local SQLite database and shows it in the built-in stats dashboard. Tracking is on by default; turn it off if you would rather not keep the data.

-"Immersion" here means time spent watching and reading native Japanese content. **All data stays on your computer** - nothing is uploaded anywhere. (SQLite is just a single-file database; you do not need to install or manage anything.)
+"Immersion" here means time spent watching and reading native Japanese content. **All of it stays on your machine.** Nothing is uploaded anywhere. SQLite is a single file on disk, so there is no database server to install or run.

-When enabled, SubMiner records per-session statistics (watch time, subtitle lines seen, words encountered, cards mined) and maintains exact lifetime summary tables plus daily/monthly rollups. You can view that data in SubMiner's stats UI or query the database directly with any SQLite tool.
+Each session records watch time, subtitle lines seen, words encountered, and cards mined. SubMiner also keeps exact lifetime summary tables and daily and monthly rollups. Read it through the stats UI, or point any SQLite tool at the file.

 ::: tip For most users
-Just leave tracking on and use the built-in [Stats Dashboard](#stats-dashboard). The retention, performance, SQL, and schema sections further down are reference material for advanced users who want to inspect or tune the database - you can safely skip them.
+Leave tracking on and use the [Stats Dashboard](#stats-dashboard). The retention, performance, SQL, and schema sections below are reference material for querying or tuning the database yourself. Skip them.
 :::

 Episode completion for local `watched` state uses the shared `DEFAULT_MIN_WATCH_RATIO` (`85%`) value from `src/shared/watch-threshold.ts`.
@@ -25,19 +25,49 @@ Episode completion for local `watched` state uses the shared `DEFAULT_MIN_WATCH_

 - Leave `dbPath` empty to use the default location (`immersion.sqlite` in SubMiner's app-data directory).
 - Set an explicit path to move the database (useful for backups, cloud syncing, or external tools).
- To share stats and watch history between two machines, use [`subminer sync <host>`](/launcher-script#sync-between-machines) instead of file-level cloud sync — it merges both databases without one side overwriting the other.
+- To share stats and watch history between two machines, use [`subminer sync <host>`](/launcher-script#sync-between-machines) instead of file-level cloud sync. It merges both databases instead of letting one side overwrite the other.

-## Stats Dashboard
+## Stats dashboard

 The same immersion data powers the stats dashboard.

+The browser dashboard and in-app stats overlay both load from the local HTTP server.
+The server accepts loopback hosts only and rejects requests from other browser origins,
+including opaque origins such as `file://`. API clients without a browser origin can
+still use the local API. Mutation requests with a body must use `application/json`;
+bodyless deletion and Anki browse requests remain supported. Requests rejected by the
+host or origin checks receive `403`; mutation bodies without a JSON content type
+receive `415`.
+
+Use the loopback dashboard URL directly. Reverse-proxied dashboards and Tailscale
+Serve URLs are unsupported because their host or browser origin is not the local
+server's origin. SSH stats synchronization is unchanged.
+
+Scripts sending a JSON body must include the content type. For example, this
+requests a duplicate-line cleanup preview without changing the database. Replace
+the port if you configured a different `stats.serverPort`:
+
+```bash
+curl http://127.0.0.1:6969/api/stats/maintenance/duplicate-lines \
+  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+  -d '{"dryRun":true}'
+```
+
 - In-app overlay: focus the visible overlay, then press the key from `stats.toggleKey` (default: `` ` `` / `Backquote`).
 - Launcher command: run `subminer stats` to start the local stats server on demand (it also opens the dashboard in your browser when `stats.autoOpenBrowser` is enabled; the default is `false`).
 - Background server: run `subminer stats -b` to start or reuse a dedicated background stats daemon without keeping the launcher attached, and `subminer stats -s` to stop that daemon.
 - Maintenance commands: run `subminer stats cleanup` or `subminer stats cleanup -v` to backfill/repair vocabulary metadata (`headword`, `reading`, POS) and purge stale or excluded rows from `imm_words` on demand; `subminer stats cleanup -l` repairs lifetime summary tables non-destructively (recomputed from per-episode history, so lifetime totals older than the session retention window are kept); `subminer stats cleanup --duplicate-lines` collapses repeated lines left behind by typeset subtitles (see [Repeated Line Cleanup](#repeated-line-cleanup)). `subminer stats rebuild` and `subminer stats backfill` rebuild or backfill rollup data.
 - Browser page: open `http://127.0.0.1:6969` directly if the local stats server is already running.

-### Dashboard Tabs
+SubMiner waits for the local server to bind before reporting that the dashboard is available. If another process already uses the configured port, the command reports the startup error and the desktop app stays open. Opening the in-app dashboard also reports startup failures through your configured status notifications.
+
+`subminer stats -s` stops a background stats server or cancels a pending background start. It leaves a foreground-only server running, so an open in-app dashboard stays connected. Shutdown gives active HTTP requests one second to finish before closing their connections and finalizing stats.
+
+### Stats API resource IDs
+
+Resource IDs in URLs must be positive safe integers written as decimal digits without leading zeros, fractions, or exponent notation. ID lists in JSON bodies must contain positive safe integer numbers. Invalid IDs or list entries return `400` before any mutation; bulk requests do not apply just the valid subset. Pagination limits keep their existing rounding and bounds.
+
+### Dashboard tabs

 #### Overview

@@ -53,14 +83,16 @@ Local files and Jellyfin items with detected season numbers are split into seaso

 When older stats already grouped multiple seasons under one series entry, SubMiner moves parsed episodes into the season-specific entries on startup and rebuilds the affected summaries.

+**Live-action dramas and movies.** Anime covers come from AniList, which has no live-action titles. A title that AniList cannot match is looked up on [TMDB](/configuration#tmdb) instead (release builds bundle a key; source builds need your own): only a Japanese-language, non-animated result whose known titles match the parsed filename exactly is accepted, and it supplies the poster, synopsis, English and Japanese titles, and episode count. If nothing matches automatically, open the title and use **Link to TMDB** to search and pick it by hand. A TMDB show spans all of its seasons, so entries that resolve to the same TMDB title are merged into one card regardless of the season folder they came from, and the merged season titles are remembered so later episodes land on the same card. The **All Titles** / **Anime** / **Live Action** / **YouTube** selector above the grid narrows the Library to one kind, and a title's detail view shows whether it is a drama or a movie. Linking a title to AniList again turns it back into an anime entry. Changing providers downloads the replacement cover before saving the new link; a failed download leaves the previous link and artwork intact. A title without a cover clears the previous artwork. Automatic TMDB matching leaves existing AniList links unchanged.
+
 Jellyfin stream URLs are normalized to stable item links before stats titles are shown, so playback query parameters are not displayed in the dashboard.

-When YouTube channel metadata is available, the Library tab groups videos by creator/channel and treats each tracked video as an episode-like entry inside that channel section.
+When YouTube channel metadata is available, the Library tab groups videos by creator/channel. Use the kind selector above the grid (**All Titles**, **Anime**, **Live Action**, **YouTube**) to filter the library. Channel pages show tracked videos and their stats without AniList controls. Existing channel entries are classified as YouTube automatically on startup, preserving viewing history and manual video assignments. Anime and YouTube entries with the same normalized title remain separate, including during stats sync. Channels are excluded from anime metadata matching, season repair, and duplicate recommendations.

 A library entry is identified by its parsed title plus any detected season, so the same show can end up on several cards when releases disagree about the title or omit the season tag. Two fixes are available:

- **Merge duplicates.** Hit **Select** above the grid, tick the cards that are the same show, and choose **Merge Selected**. Pick which entry to keep in the dialog; every episode moves onto it and the other cards are removed. Nothing is deleted, so sessions, mined cards and watch time all carry over. SubMiner remembers the merged title variants, so future episodes parsed with one of those names join the kept entry instead of recreating a duplicate card.
- **Move a single episode.** Hover an episode row in a title's episode list and use the **→** button to reassign it to another library entry. The correction is remembered, so later filename parsing or Jellyfin metadata cannot move that episode back. For local files, later episodes in the same directory inherit the correction when their detected seasons are compatible and every manual correction there points to the same entry; a file that parses to a title which already has its own library entry keeps that identity instead. Conflicting seasons or manual destinations are left for review. If the move empties the old entry, that card is removed and you are returned to the grid.
+- **Merge duplicates.** Hit **Select** above the grid, tick the cards that are the same show, and choose **Merge Selected**. Pick which entry to keep in the dialog; every episode moves onto it and the other cards are removed. Nothing is deleted, so sessions, mined cards and watch time all carry over. AniList-linked and TMDB-linked entries cannot be merged together, and YouTube channels cannot be merged with anime or live-action entries. SubMiner remembers the merged title variants, so future episodes parsed with one of those names join the kept entry instead of recreating a duplicate card.
+- **Move a single episode.** Hover an episode row in a title's episode list and use the **→** button to reassign it to another library entry. Anime and live-action entries are interchangeable here, but a YouTube video can only move between channels. The correction is remembered, so later filename parsing or Jellyfin metadata cannot move that episode back. For local files, later episodes in the same directory inherit the correction when their detected seasons are compatible and every manual correction there points to the same entry; a file that parses to a title which already has its own library entry keeps that identity instead. Conflicting seasons or manual destinations are left for review. If the move empties the old entry, that card is removed and you are returned to the grid.

 Once cover art resolves a series to an AniList entry, cards with compatible seasons are folded together automatically only when the searched title exactly matches an AniList title or synonym. A fuzzy result that points at an AniList entry already used by another card appears as a **Possible duplicate** review above the Library grid instead. Choose **Review merge** to compare the cards and pick which one to keep, or **Not duplicates** to dismiss that suggestion permanently. Entries with conflicting explicit season numbers are left alone rather than merged or suggested.

@@ -70,7 +102,7 @@ Open a title and use **Delete Entry** in its header to remove a mistakenly track

 #### Trends

-Grouped into Activity (per-day/month watch time, cards, words, sessions), Cumulative Totals (running totals incl. new words seen and episodes), Efficiency (words/min, cards/hour, lookups per 100 words), Patterns (watch time by day of week and hour), and per-anime Library charts — all with configurable date ranges and grouping.
+Grouped into Activity (per-day/month watch time, cards, words, sessions), Cumulative Totals (running totals incl. new words seen and episodes), Efficiency (words/min, cards/hour, lookups per 100 words), Patterns (watch time by day of week and hour), and per-anime Library charts. Every chart takes a configurable date range and grouping.

 ![Stats Trends](/screenshots/stats-trends.png)

@@ -82,7 +114,7 @@ Expandable session history with new-word activity, cumulative totals, and pause/

 #### Vocabulary

-Top repeated words (click a bar to open the word), new-word timeline, cross-title and frequency rank tables with Hide Known / Hide Kana filters, kanji breakdown, word exclusion list, and click-through occurrence drilldown with Mine Word / Mine Sentence / Mine Audio buttons.
+The summary cards show all unique vocabulary and kanji recorded in the local tracking database; **New This Week** is the only weekly figure and uses a rolling seven-day window. The word and kanji tables load first while those complete totals calculate separately. Top Repeated Words and New Words by Day use complete tracking history rather than the table's browsing page. New-word history is maintained as a permanent daily lexical rollup using the same token-visibility rules as the totals, including normalization of older timestamps stored in either seconds or milliseconds and retroactive corrections when tracked material is removed or reprocessed. On the first launch after an applicable upgrade, that history is version-rebuilt in the background and the chart refreshes when it is ready; if it remains unavailable, polling stops and an inline Retry control appears. The cards and charts also refresh automatically after the word exclusion list changes. The rest of the tab includes cross-title and frequency rank tables with Hide Known / Hide Kana filters, kanji breakdown, word exclusion list, and click-through occurrence drilldown with Mine Word / Mine Sentence / Mine Audio buttons.

 ![Stats Vocabulary](/screenshots/stats-vocabulary.png)

@@ -108,7 +140,7 @@ Stats server config lives under `stats`:
 - `markWatchedKey` toggles the watched state of the highlighted entry inside the stats dashboard.
 - `serverPort` controls the localhost dashboard URL.
 - `autoStartServer` starts the local stats HTTP server on launch once immersion tracking is active, or reuses the dedicated background stats server when one is already running. Background app launches (`subminer app`) start the stats server immediately, registering it so later launches reuse it instead of starting another one.
- `autoOpenBrowser` controls whether `subminer stats` launches the dashboard URL in your browser after ensuring the server is running.
+- `autoOpenBrowser` decides whether `subminer stats` opens the dashboard URL in your browser once the server is up.
 - `subminer stats` forces the dashboard server to start even when `autoStartServer` is `false`.
 - `subminer stats -b` starts or reuses the dedicated background stats daemon and exits after startup acknowledgement.
 - The background stats daemon is separate from the normal SubMiner overlay app, so you can leave it running and still launch SubMiner later to watch or mine from video.
@@ -116,7 +148,7 @@ Stats server config lives under `stats`:
 - `subminer stats` fails with an error when `immersionTracking.enabled` is `false`.
 - `subminer stats cleanup` defaults to vocabulary cleanup, repairs stale `headword`, `reading`, and `part_of_speech` values, attempts best-effort MeCab backfill for legacy rows, and removes rows that still fail vocab filtering.

-## Mining Cards from the Stats Page
+## Mining cards from the stats page

 The Search tab and the Vocabulary tab's word detail panel both mine from subtitle lines in your viewing history. Search matches sentence text and media titles, and **Search by headword** is enabled by default so dictionary-form searches such as `知らない` can find tracked subtitle lines with inflected variants. Turn that toggle off for exact text/title matching only. Each line with a valid source file offers sentence-card mining; word/audio mining is available when the selected word or searched word appears in the sentence:

@@ -126,18 +158,20 @@ The Search tab and the Vocabulary tab's word detail panel both mine from subtitl

 All three modes respect your `ankiConnect` config: deck, model, field mappings, media settings (static vs AVIF, quality, dimensions), audio padding, metadata pattern, and tags. Media generation runs in parallel for faster card creation.

-Secondary subtitle text (typically English translations) is stored alongside primary subtitles during playback and can be used as the translation field when mining sentence cards from Search or vocabulary occurrences. The Search tab does not use that text for display or matching.
+Secondary subtitle text is stored alongside primary subtitles during playback, but the Search tab does not use it for display or matching.

-### Word Exclusion List
+### Word exclusion list

 The Vocabulary tab toolbar includes an **Exclusions** button for hiding words from all vocabulary views. Excluded words are stored in the immersion database, with older browser localStorage exclusions imported on first load after upgrade. They can be managed (restored or cleared) from the exclusion modal. Exclusions affect stat cards, charts, the frequency rank table, and the word list.

-### Repeated Line Cleanup
+### Repeated line cleanup

 Karaoke openings and animated signs are authored as one subtitle event per animation frame, all carrying the same text. Playback reports every one of those frames, so a single OP lyric could be recorded hundreds of times and dominate "Top Repeated Words".

 Recording now collapses those runs as they happen, matching what the subtitle sidebar shows:

+- When a typeset ASS file stores a clean lyric or sign in a timed authoring comment, or in full-line events surrounding generated fragments, the matching complete line is recorded once. The repeated glyph or clip-animation frames are not recorded. Dialogue spoken while such an animation is on screen records as itself, without the fragment lines beside it.
+- When karaoke styling redraws the same complete lyric across consecutive color or highlight phases, those phases are combined into one line with their full timing. Repeated ordinary dialogue remains separate.
 - When the active subtitle source has been parsed, its cue list has already had duplicate events and animation bursts merged. A line landing inside a surviving cue but after that cue's start is a frame the sidebar merged away, and is not recorded.
 - When no parsed cue covers the live timing, including while a subtitle source is changing or shifted, the strict metadata-free rule applies: a run of identical, contiguous lines each shorter than 0.1s stops being recorded after a few frames. Runs are tracked per line of text, so dual-line karaoke (a kanji and a romaji line frame-flipped together) collapses both lines. Ordinary repeated dialogue, and lines held for a normal beat, always record.

@@ -160,7 +194,7 @@ The cleanup chains runs per line of text, so interleaved dual-line karaoke colla

 Runs never cross a session boundary, so rewatching an episode keeps both watches. Session telemetry (watch time, lines seen, tokens seen) and the rollups derived from it are left as recorded: they are cumulative samples taken during playback, and cannot be recomputed for sessions whose raw rows have since been pruned.

-## Retention Defaults
+## Retention defaults

 By default, SubMiner keeps all retention tables and raw data (`0` means keep all) while continuing daily/monthly rollup maintenance:

@@ -180,10 +214,11 @@ In practice:
 - Anime and episode pages keep lifetime totals from summary tables while session drill-down still reads retained sessions directly. With the current defaults, both are kept forever.
 - Trends can read the full available history because daily/monthly rollups are also kept forever by default.
 - Vocabulary and kanji totals are cumulative and not bounded by the raw session retention knobs.
+- New-word charts use their own permanent lexical daily rollups, which are not pruned by activity-rollup retention.

-## Storage / Performance Model
+## Storage / performance model

-The tracker is optimized for "keep everything" defaults:
+The defaults keep everything, and the schema is shaped around that:

 - Exact all-time totals live in dedicated lifetime summary tables (`imm_lifetime_global`, `imm_lifetime_anime`, `imm_lifetime_media`).
 - Ended-session totals are persisted onto `imm_sessions`, so most dashboard reads do not need to rescan raw telemetry.
@@ -192,7 +227,7 @@ The tracker is optimized for "keep everything" defaults:
 - Cover-art binaries are deduplicated through a shared blob store so episodes in the same series do not each carry duplicate image bytes.
 - Hot tables have dedicated indexes for session time ranges, telemetry sample windows, frequency-ranked vocabulary, and cover-art lookup keys.

-## Configurable Knobs
+## Configurable knobs

 All policy options live under `immersionTracking` in your config:

@@ -215,7 +250,7 @@ All policy options live under `immersionTracking` in your config:
 | `lifetimeSummaries.anime`      | Maintain per-anime lifetime totals                                 |
 | `lifetimeSummaries.media`      | Maintain per-media lifetime totals                                 |

-## Query Templates
+## Query templates

 ### Session timeline

@@ -313,7 +348,7 @@ ORDER BY rollup_month DESC, video_id DESC
 LIMIT ?;
 ```

-## Technical Details
+## Technical details

 - Write path is asynchronous and queue-backed. Hot paths (subtitle parsing, render, token flows) enqueue telemetry and never await SQLite writes.
 - Queue overflow policy: drop oldest queued writes, keep newest.
@@ -324,14 +359,16 @@ LIMIT ?;
 - Large-table reads are index-backed for `sample_ms`, session time windows, frequency-ranked words/kanji, and cover-art identity lookups.
 - Workload-dependent tuning knobs remain at defaults unless you change them: `cache_size`, `mmap_size`, `temp_store`, `auto_vacuum`.

-### Schema (v18)
+### Schema (v24)

 The exact schema version lives in `SCHEMA_VERSION` (`src/core/services/immersion-tracker/types.ts`) and is recorded in the `imm_schema_version` table.

 Core tables:

 - `imm_videos` - video key/title/source metadata
- `imm_anime` - anime/series metadata referenced by videos and lifetime tables
+- `imm_anime` - series or YouTube channel metadata referenced by videos and lifetime tables, including the media kind (`anime`, `live_action` or `youtube`) and the AniList or TMDB link
+- `imm_anime_title_aliases` - alternate titles that resolve to the same anime row
+- `imm_anime_merge_recommendations` - candidate duplicate-series merges surfaced in the dashboard
 - `imm_sessions` - session UUID, video reference, timing/status, final denormalized totals
 - `imm_session_telemetry` - high-frequency session aggregates over time
 - `imm_session_events` - event stream with compact numeric event types
@@ -349,6 +386,7 @@ Rollup tables:

 - `imm_daily_rollups`
 - `imm_monthly_rollups`
+- `imm_lexical_daily_rollups` - permanent first-discovery counts for vocabulary and kanji chart history
 - `imm_rollup_state` - incremental rollup progress bookkeeping

 Vocabulary tables:
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ titleTemplate: Immersion Mining Workflow for MPV
 hero:
  name: SubMiner
  text: Immersion Mining for MPV
-  tagline: Watch media, mine vocabulary, and craft anki cards without leaving the scene.
+  tagline: Watch, look up a word, and get an Anki card with audio and a screenshot. Without pausing your show.
  image:
    src: /assets/SubMiner.png
    alt: SubMiner logo
@@ -24,63 +24,63 @@ features:
      src: /assets/mpv.svg
      alt: mpv icon
    title: Built for mpv
-    details: Tracks subtitles via mpv IPC in real time. Launch with the wrapper script or the mpv plugin - no external bridge needed.
+    details: Reads subtitle state over mpv's IPC socket. Launch with the wrapper script or the mpv plugin. There is no separate bridge process to run.
    link: /usage
    linkText: How it works
  - icon:
      src: /assets/yomitan-icon.svg
      alt: Yomitan logo
    title: Bundled Yomitan
-    details: Ships with a built-in Yomitan instance for instant word lookups and context-aware card creation directly from subtitle text.
+    details: A Yomitan instance is bundled and preconfigured. Hover a word in the subtitle overlay to look it up and mine it.
    link: /mining-workflow
    linkText: Mining workflow
  - icon:
      src: /assets/anki-card.svg
      alt: Anki card icon
-    title: Anki Card Enrichment
-    details: Auto-fills card fields with sentence, audio clip, screenshot, and translation so you can focus on learning.
+    title: Anki card enrichment
+    details: New cards get the subtitle line, an audio clip cut to the line timing, and a screenshot from that moment.
    link: /anki-integration
    linkText: Anki integration
  - icon:
      src: /assets/highlight.svg
      alt: Highlight icon
-    title: Reading Annotations
-    details: N+1 targeting, character-name matching, frequency highlighting, and JLPT tagging - all layered on subtitle text in real time.
+    title: Reading annotations
+    details: N+1 targeting, character-name matching, frequency highlighting, and JLPT tagging, drawn onto the subtitle line as it plays.
    link: /subtitle-annotations
    linkText: Annotation details
  - icon:
      src: /assets/video.svg
      alt: Video playback icon
-    title: YouTube Playback
-    details: Play YouTube URLs or ytsearch targets directly - SubMiner automatically selects and loads subtitles for the video.
+    title: YouTube playback
+    details: Pass a YouTube URL or a ytsearch target. SubMiner picks a subtitle track for the video and loads it.
    link: /usage#youtube-playback
    linkText: YouTube playback
  - icon:
      src: /assets/jellyfin.svg
      alt: Jellyfin icon
-    title: Jellyfin Integration
-    details: Browse your Jellyfin library, pick media interactively, and play through mpv with full subtitle and mining support.
+    title: Jellyfin integration
+    details: Browse your Jellyfin library from the overlay and play a title through mpv. Subtitles and mining work the same as with local files.
    link: /jellyfin-integration
    linkText: Jellyfin setup
  - icon:
      src: /assets/subtitle-download.svg
      alt: Subtitle download icon
-    title: Subtitle Download & Sync
-    details: Search and pull subtitles from Jimaku, then retime subtitles with alass or ffsubsync - all from the overlay.
+    title: Subtitle download and sync
+    details: Search Jimaku or TsukiHime and download a track, then retime it with alass or ffsubsync. Both run from the overlay.
    link: /jimaku-integration
    linkText: Jimaku integration
  - icon:
      src: /assets/tokenization.svg
      alt: Tracking chart icon
-    title: Stats Dashboard
-    details: Browse session history, streak calendars, vocabulary frequency, and per-series progress in a local dashboard - then mine cards straight from your viewing history.
+    title: Stats dashboard
+    details: A local dashboard with session history, streak calendars, word frequency, and per-series progress. You can mine cards from lines you already watched.
    link: /immersion-tracking
    linkText: Dashboard & tracking
  - icon:
      src: /assets/cross-platform.svg
      alt: Cross-platform icon
-    title: Cross-Platform
-    details: Runs on Linux (Hyprland, Sway, X11), macOS, and Windows with compositor-aware window positioning and platform-native integration.
+    title: Cross-platform
+    details: Runs on Linux (Hyprland, Sway, X11), macOS, and Windows. Overlay positioning is handled per compositor rather than assuming one window manager.
    link: /installation
    linkText: Platform setup
 ---
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ features:
 <script setup>
 import { withBase } from 'vitepress';

-const demoAssetVersion = '20260223-2';
+const demoAssetVersion = '20260819-1';
 </script>

 <div class="landing-shell">
@@ -98,38 +98,38 @@ const demoAssetVersion = '20260223-2';
      <div class="workflow-step" style="animation-delay: 0ms">
        <div class="step-number">01</div>
        <div class="step-title">Start</div>
-        <div class="step-desc">Launch with the wrapper or existing mpv setup and keep subtitles in sync.</div>
+        <div class="step-desc">Launch through the wrapper, or from an mpv setup you already have.</div>
      </div>
      <div class="workflow-connector" aria-hidden="true"></div>
      <div class="workflow-step" style="animation-delay: 60ms">
        <div class="step-number">02</div>
        <div class="step-title">Lookup</div>
-        <div class="step-desc">Hover a token in the interactive overlay, then trigger Yomitan lookup to open context.</div>
+        <div class="step-desc">Hover a token in the overlay to open the Yomitan popup for that word.</div>
      </div>
      <div class="workflow-connector" aria-hidden="true"></div>
      <div class="workflow-step" style="animation-delay: 120ms">
        <div class="step-number">03</div>
        <div class="step-title">Mine</div>
-        <div class="step-desc">Create cards from Yomitan or mine sentence cards directly from subtitle lines.</div>
+        <div class="step-desc">Add the word from Yomitan, or mine the whole line as a sentence card.</div>
      </div>
      <div class="workflow-connector" aria-hidden="true"></div>
      <div class="workflow-step" style="animation-delay: 180ms">
        <div class="step-number">04</div>
        <div class="step-title">Enrich</div>
-        <div class="step-desc">Automatically attach timing-accurate audio, sentence text, and visual evidence.</div>
+        <div class="step-desc">SubMiner fills in the audio clip, the sentence, and a screenshot from that moment.</div>
      </div>
      <div class="workflow-connector" aria-hidden="true"></div>
      <div class="workflow-step" style="animation-delay: 240ms">
        <div class="step-number">05</div>
        <div class="step-title">Track</div>
-        <div class="step-desc">Open the stats dashboard to review sessions, vocabulary trends, and mine cards from past viewing history.</div>
+        <div class="step-desc">Review past sessions and word trends, and mine anything you missed the first time.</div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </section>

  <section class="demo-section">
    <h2>See it in action</h2>
-    <p>Subtitles, lookup flow, and card enrichment from a real playback session.</p>
+    <p>Recorded from an actual playback session: subtitle hover, lookup, and the card that comes out the other end.</p>
    <div class="demo-window">
      <div class="demo-window__bar">
        <span class="demo-window__dot"></span>
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # Installation

-SubMiner is a desktop app that draws an interactive layer - an **overlay** - on top of the [mpv](https://mpv.io) video player. As you watch native Japanese media, you can click or hover any word in the subtitles to look it up, then turn it into an Anki flashcard without pausing to switch apps. Building flashcards from real content you're watching is called **sentence mining**, and it's what SubMiner is built for. It bundles its own copy of **Yomitan** (a pop-up dictionary) and talks to **AnkiConnect** (an add-on that lets other programs add cards to Anki) so cards get filled in automatically.
+SubMiner draws an interactive overlay on top of the [mpv](https://mpv.io) video player. While you watch Japanese media, hover any word in the subtitles to look it up, then turn it into an Anki card without switching apps.
+
+Building cards from the content you are actually watching is called **sentence mining**, and it is the whole point of SubMiner. It bundles its own copy of **Yomitan** (a pop-up dictionary) and talks to **AnkiConnect** (the add-on that lets other programs write cards into Anki), so the sentence, audio, and screenshot fields get filled in for you.

 Three steps to get started:

@@ -8,11 +10,15 @@ Three steps to get started:
 2. **Install SubMiner** - from the AUR, or download from GitHub Releases
 3. **Launch the app** - first-run setup walks you through dictionaries, the launcher, and everything else

-## 1. Install Requirements
+## 1. Install requirements

-Only **mpv** is strictly required to run SubMiner. Everything else enhances the experience but is optional.
+Only **mpv** is strictly required. Everything else is optional, though you will want ffmpeg unless you are fine with cards that have no audio or screenshot.

-Several entries below exist only for the `subminer` command-line launcher, which is Linux and macOS only. On Windows you launch playback with the **SubMiner mpv** shortcut instead, so you can ignore those rows.
+Some rows below matter only for the `subminer` command-line launcher's picker features. On Windows, the **SubMiner mpv** shortcut remains the recommended playback entry point.
+
+[Local Japanese subtitle generation](/subtitle-generation) additionally requires whisper.cpp's `whisper-cli`, FFmpeg, and `ffprobe`. Configure their executable paths in Settings if needed. SubMiner can download a speech model explicitly, or use your existing multilingual GGML model.
+
+Optional [dialogue-focused generation](/subtitle-generation#prioritizing-spoken-dialogue) also uses whisper.cpp's speech segment detector and a separate Silero GGML VAD model.

 | Dependency           | Status      | Platforms    | What it does                                                                                                                                                   |
 | -------------------- | ----------- | ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -39,7 +45,7 @@ Several entries below exist only for the `subminer` command-line launcher, which
 - **X11 / Xwayland** - for X11 sessions or any other Wayland compositor (uses `xdotool` and `xwininfo`)

 ::: warning Wayland support is compositor-specific
-Wayland has no universal API for window positioning - each compositor exposes its own IPC, so SubMiner needs a dedicated backend per compositor. Only Hyprland and Sway have native Wayland backends. If you run a different Wayland compositor (GNOME, KDE Plasma, river, etc.), both mpv **and** SubMiner must run under X11 or Xwayland. The `subminer` launcher handles this automatically when `--backend x11` is set or the X11 backend is auto-detected.
+Wayland has no universal API for window positioning. Each compositor exposes its own IPC, so SubMiner needs a backend per compositor. Only Hyprland and Sway have native Wayland backends. If you run a different Wayland compositor (GNOME, KDE Plasma, river, etc.), both mpv **and** SubMiner must run under X11 or Xwayland. The `subminer` launcher handles this automatically when `--backend x11` is set or the X11 backend is auto-detected.
 :::

 <details>
@@ -203,13 +209,13 @@ There is no equivalent setting for ffmpeg: SubMiner invokes it by bare name when

 **Optional extras:** [MeCab for Windows](https://taku910.github.io/mecab/#download) with the UTF-8 dictionary improves annotation accuracy; it is not in any package manager, so install it from that page. `xz` is needed only for [TsukiHime](/tsukihime-integration) subtitle downloads and is not packaged by winget or Chocolatey, so use `scoop install main/xz` or download [XZ Utils](https://tukaani.org/xz/) and add its folder to `PATH`.

-The `subminer` command-line launcher and its picker tools (`fzf`, `rofi`, `chafa`, `ffmpegthumbnailer`) are Linux/macOS only; on Windows you use the **SubMiner mpv** shortcut instead.
+The launcher's picker tools (`fzf`, `rofi`, `chafa`, `ffmpegthumbnailer`) are for Linux and macOS. On Windows, use the **SubMiner mpv** shortcut for playback or install the optional `subminer` terminal wrapper during setup.

 ## 2. Install SubMiner

 ### Arch Linux (AUR) {#arch-aur}

-Install [`subminer-bin`](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/subminer-bin) from the AUR. The package includes the SubMiner AppImage and the `subminer` launcher.
+Install [`subminer-bin`](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/subminer-bin) from the AUR. The package includes the SubMiner AppImage and its launcher wrapper. Bun is included with the app, so the package has no Bun dependency. Install updates through your AUR helper or package manager.

 ```bash
 paru -S subminer-bin
@@ -234,9 +240,7 @@ chmod +x ~/.local/bin/SubMiner.AppImage
 ```

 ::: tip Launcher install is optional
-First-run setup can install [Bun](https://bun.sh) and the `subminer` command-line launcher for you automatically. You don't need to download the launcher separately.
-
-If you prefer to install it manually, see [manual launcher install](#manual-launcher-install-linux).
+First-run setup can install the `subminer` command-line launcher for you. It uses Bun bundled with the AppImage, so it does not need a separate Bun installation or a Bun entry on `PATH`. The downloaded wrapper works the same way. See [manual launcher install](#manual-launcher-install-linux).
 :::

 ### macOS (DMG) {#macos-dmg}
@@ -255,21 +259,20 @@ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SubMiner.app
 2. Enable SubMiner in the list (add it if it does not appear)

 ::: tip Launcher install is optional
-First-run setup can install [Bun](https://bun.sh) and the `subminer` command-line launcher for you automatically. You don't need to download the launcher separately.
-
-If you prefer to install it manually, see [manual launcher install](#manual-launcher-install-macos).
+First-run setup can install the `subminer` command-line launcher for you. It uses Bun bundled inside `SubMiner.app`, so it does not need a separate Bun installation or a Bun entry on `PATH`. The downloaded wrapper works the same way. See [manual launcher install](#manual-launcher-install-macos).
 :::

-### Windows (Installer) {#windows-installer}
+### Windows (installer) {#windows-installer}

 Download the latest installer from [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/ksyasuda/SubMiner/releases/latest):

 - `SubMiner-<version>.exe` - installer (recommended)
 - `SubMiner-<version>-win.zip` - portable fallback
+- `subminer.cmd` - optional terminal launcher wrapper

 Make sure `mpv.exe` is on your `PATH`, or set `mpv.executablePath` in the config during first-run setup.

-### From Source
+### From source

 <details>
 <summary><b>Linux</b></summary>
@@ -286,6 +289,8 @@ bun run build:appimage

 Bundled Yomitan is built during `bun run build`.

+Source and development commands use Bun installed on your system.
+
 </details>

 <details>
@@ -321,9 +326,13 @@ bun run build:win

 </details>

-## 3. Launch & First-Run Setup
+### Bundled Bun runtime {#bundled-bun-runtime}

-Launch SubMiner and the setup wizard will open automatically:
+Every package includes an unmodified copy of Bun 1.3.5 that runs the command-line launcher. Bun is MIT licensed and statically links JavaScriptCore under LGPL 2.0 and TinyCC under LGPL 2.1. The license texts, third-party notices, and a `SOURCE.md` describing the corresponding source ship inside the app under `resources/bun/licenses` (`SubMiner.app/Contents/Resources/bun/licenses` on macOS). Each GitHub release also publishes `bun-v1.3.5-source.tar.gz` with the matching Bun, WebKit, and dependency sources and instructions for rebuilding Bun against a modified JavaScriptCore.
+
+## 3. Launch and first-run setup
+
+Launch SubMiner and the setup wizard opens on its own:

 ```bash
 # Linux (AUR install)
@@ -342,15 +351,17 @@ The setup wizard walks you through:

 - **Config file** - auto-created at `~/.config/SubMiner/config.jsonc` (Linux/macOS) or `%APPDATA%\SubMiner\config.jsonc` (Windows)
 - **Yomitan dictionaries** - import at least one dictionary so word lookups work
- **Bun + `subminer` launcher** _(optional)_ - installs the command-line launcher into a writable PATH directory
+- **`subminer` launcher** _(optional)_ - installs a wrapper into a writable terminal PATH directory. The wrapper uses Bun packaged with the app, with no separate runtime setup. If the included runtime is unavailable, the launcher controls show an error asking you to reinstall SubMiner.
 - **Windows shortcut** _(Windows only)_ - create a `SubMiner mpv` Start Menu/Desktop shortcut

-The `Finish setup` button requires a config file and at least one Yomitan dictionary. Bun and the launcher are optional and never block setup completion.
+The `Finish setup` button requires a config file and at least one Yomitan dictionary. The launcher is optional and never blocks setup completion.
+
+On Linux and macOS, setup selects a writable directory already on your terminal `PATH`. If it cannot find one, it creates `~/.local/bin` and shows the `export PATH=...` command to run. Add that command to your shell configuration yourself if you want it in future terminals. Setup never edits shell configuration files. On Windows, setup adds only the wrapper directory to the user `PATH`. Setup stores a custom app location so the wrapper can find an AppImage or app bundle outside the usual install directories.

 > [!TIP]
 > You can re-open the setup wizard at any time with `subminer app --setup` or `SubMiner.AppImage --setup`.

-### Play a Video
+### Play a video

 Once setup is complete:

@@ -358,13 +369,13 @@ Once setup is complete:
 subminer video.mkv
 ```

-You should see the overlay appear over mpv. If subtitles are loaded, they will appear as interactive text in the overlay.
+The overlay appears over mpv. If a subtitle track loaded, its text shows up in the overlay as hoverable words.

 On **Windows**, the recommended way to play video is with the **SubMiner mpv** shortcut created during setup - double-click it, or drag a video file onto it.

-### Verify Setup
+### Verify setup

-Run the built-in diagnostic to confirm everything is working:
+Run the built-in diagnostic:

 ```bash
 subminer doctor
@@ -372,7 +383,7 @@ subminer doctor

 This checks for the app binary, mpv, ffmpeg, yt-dlp, fzf, rofi, your config file, and the mpv socket path. Only the app binary and mpv are hard failures; the rest are reported as optional. Fix any hard failures before continuing.

-## Anki Setup (Recommended)
+## Anki setup (recommended)

 If you plan to mine Anki cards:

@@ -392,21 +403,21 @@ subminer -u
 subminer --update
 ```

-SubMiner verifies AppImage, launcher, and Linux support-asset downloads against `SHA256SUMS.txt`. On Linux those support assets include the launcher-managed runtime plugin copy under `SubMiner/plugin/subminer` plus the rofi theme at `SubMiner/themes/subminer.rasi`. If the binary is in a protected path, SubMiner shows the exact command to run rather than elevating itself.
+SubMiner verifies AppImage, launcher, and Linux support-asset downloads against `SHA256SUMS.txt`. On Linux those support assets include the launcher-managed runtime plugin copy under `SubMiner/plugin/subminer`, the rofi theme at `SubMiner/themes/subminer.rasi`, and the scoped Matroska thumbnailer registration under `SubMiner/thumbnailers`. If the binary is in a protected path, SubMiner shows the exact command to run rather than elevating itself.

-The tray "Check for Updates" entry installs the new app automatically on Linux, macOS, and Windows. On Linux it replaces the running `.AppImage` in place via `electron-updater` and refreshes the managed support assets from `subminer-assets.tar.gz`; AppImages managed by a system package (for example the AUR `/opt/SubMiner/SubMiner.AppImage`) are skipped so the package manager stays in charge.
+The tray "Check for Updates" entry installs the new app automatically on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Current `subminer` wrappers remain small bootstraps that locate the installed app and its private runtime. On Linux the updater replaces the running `.AppImage` in place via `electron-updater` and refreshes managed support assets from `subminer-assets.tar.gz`. The next launcher invocation detects the changed AppImage fingerprint and prepares the matching Bun and CLI cache before running the command. App startup also refreshes this payload and migrates recognized writable legacy launchers, including the launcher path an update deferred. AppImages managed by a system package, for example the AUR `/opt/SubMiner/SubMiner.AppImage`, are skipped so the package manager stays in charge.

-`subminer -u` also performs the AppImage, launcher, and managed support-asset updates directly from the launcher process, which is useful when SubMiner is not currently running.
+On Linux, `subminer -u` updates the AppImage and managed support assets directly, even when the app is not running. The launcher cache refreshes when the app fingerprint changes. AUR installs remain under package-manager control and should be updated through the package manager.

-## How It All Fits Together
+## How it all fits together

-SubMiner is an overlay that sits on top of mpv. It connects to mpv through an IPC socket, renders subtitles as interactive text using a bundled Yomitan dictionary engine, and optionally creates Anki flashcards via AnkiConnect.
+SubMiner is an overlay window that sits on top of mpv. It talks to mpv over an IPC socket, renders each subtitle line as interactive text backed by the bundled Yomitan dictionary engine, and writes Anki cards through AnkiConnect when you ask it to.

 The `subminer` launcher handles mpv IPC socket setup automatically. If you launch mpv yourself or from another tool, you must pass `--input-ipc-server=/tmp/subminer-socket` (or `\\.\pipe\subminer-socket` on Windows) - without it the overlay starts but subtitles won't appear.

-The bundled mpv plugin is injected at runtime automatically - you don't need to install it separately. On Linux, the `subminer` launcher now checks for its managed runtime plugin copy and rofi theme before every mpv-managed launch and installs those support assets from the bundled app automatically if either one is missing. It provides in-player keybindings (the `y` chord) for controlling the overlay from within mpv. See [MPV Plugin](/mpv-plugin) for the full keybinding and configuration reference.
+SubMiner injects the bundled mpv plugin at runtime, so there is nothing to install separately. On Linux, the `subminer` launcher checks for its managed runtime plugin copy, rofi theme, and scoped thumbnailer registration before every mpv-managed launch and installs those support assets from the bundled app automatically if one is missing. For a rofi picker launch, this check runs before the picker opens. The plugin adds in-player keybindings (the `y` chord) for driving the overlay from mpv. See [MPV Plugin](/mpv-plugin) for the full keybinding and configuration reference.

-## Platform Notes
+## Platform notes

 ### macOS

@@ -415,9 +426,9 @@ The bundled mpv plugin is injected at runtime automatically - you don't need to
 - Apple Silicon (M1/M2): `/opt/homebrew/bin/mecab`
 - Intel: `/usr/local/bin/mecab`

-Ensure `mecab` is available on your PATH when launching SubMiner.
+`mecab` has to be on your PATH when SubMiner launches.

-**Fullscreen:** The overlay should appear correctly in fullscreen. If you encounter issues, check that accessibility permissions are granted.
+**Fullscreen:** The overlay follows mpv into fullscreen. If it does not, accessibility permission is the usual cause.

 ### Windows

@@ -426,16 +437,13 @@ Ensure `mecab` is available on your PATH when launching SubMiner.
 - IPC socket on Windows is `\\.\pipe\subminer-socket` - do not use `/tmp/subminer-socket`.
 - Config is stored at `%APPDATA%\SubMiner\config.jsonc`.

-## Manual Launcher Install
+## Manual launcher install

-The `subminer` launcher uses a [Bun](https://bun.sh) shebang, so Bun must be installed. First-run setup can handle this automatically, but if you prefer to do it yourself:
+Current launcher downloads use Bun included in the SubMiner app. The wrapper searches normal install locations and honors `SUBMINER_BINARY_PATH`; Linux also honors `SUBMINER_APPIMAGE_PATH`.

 ### Linux {#manual-launcher-install-linux}

 ```bash
-# Install Bun
-curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash
-
 # Download the launcher
 wget https://github.com/ksyasuda/SubMiner/releases/latest/download/subminer -O ~/.local/bin/subminer
 chmod +x ~/.local/bin/subminer
@@ -444,30 +452,35 @@ chmod +x ~/.local/bin/subminer
 ### macOS {#manual-launcher-install-macos}

 ```bash
-# Install Bun
-curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash
-
 # Download the launcher
 sudo curl -fSL https://github.com/ksyasuda/SubMiner/releases/latest/download/subminer -o /usr/local/bin/subminer
 sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/subminer
 ```

-## Optional Extras
+### Windows {#manual-launcher-install-windows}

-### Linux Support Assets
+Download `subminer.cmd` from GitHub Releases and place it in a directory on your user `PATH`. It finds the installed app in the normal per-user or Program Files location. Set `SUBMINER_BINARY_PATH` if you use a portable or custom install.

-SubMiner ships the Linux rofi theme plus the launcher-managed runtime plugin copy in `subminer-assets.tar.gz`:
+Launchers installed before the private-runtime change may still be bundled JavaScript with a Bun shebang. Those old files need system Bun until a current app startup migrates a recognized writable launcher, or until you replace one with the current release wrapper.
+
+## Optional extras
+
+### Linux support assets
+
+SubMiner ships the Linux rofi theme, scoped Matroska thumbnailer registration, launcher-managed runtime plugin copy, and the bundled Bun license notices in `subminer-assets.tar.gz`:

 ```bash
 wget https://github.com/ksyasuda/SubMiner/releases/latest/download/subminer-assets.tar.gz -O /tmp/subminer-assets.tar.gz
 tar -xzf /tmp/subminer-assets.tar.gz -C /tmp
 mkdir -p ~/.local/share/SubMiner/themes
 cp /tmp/assets/themes/subminer.rasi ~/.local/share/SubMiner/themes/subminer.rasi
+mkdir -p ~/.local/share/SubMiner/thumbnailers
+cp /tmp/assets/thumbnailers/subminer-ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer ~/.local/share/SubMiner/thumbnailers/
 mkdir -p ~/.local/share/SubMiner/plugin
 cp -R /tmp/plugin/subminer ~/.local/share/SubMiner/plugin/subminer
 ```

-`subminer -u` and the tray updater keep those Linux support assets in sync automatically once the `SubMiner` data dir exists. Normal Linux launcher playback also auto-installs the managed runtime plugin copy and rofi theme from the bundled app if either support asset is missing, so manual extraction is mainly useful for pre-seeding or custom setups.
+`subminer -u` and the tray updater keep those Linux support assets in sync automatically once the `SubMiner` data dir exists. Normal Linux launcher playback also auto-installs all three assets from the bundled app if one is missing, so manual extraction is mainly useful for pre-seeding or custom setups. Rofi receives the SubMiner data path through its process-local `XDG_DATA_DIRS`, so the thumbnailer registration does not change the desktop-wide configuration.

 Override the theme path with `SUBMINER_ROFI_THEME=/absolute/path/to/theme.rasi`.

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# IPC + Runtime Contracts
+# IPC + runtime contracts

-SubMiner's Electron app runs two isolated processes - main and renderer - that can only communicate through IPC channels. This boundary is intentional: the renderer is an untrusted surface (it loads Yomitan, renders user-controlled subtitle text, and runs in a Chromium sandbox), so every message crossing the bridge passes through a validation layer before it can reach domain logic.
+SubMiner's Electron app runs two isolated processes, main and renderer, and IPC channels are the only way they talk. That boundary is deliberate. The renderer is an untrusted surface: it loads Yomitan, renders subtitle text SubMiner did not write, and runs in a Chromium sandbox. Every message crossing the bridge goes through a validator before any domain code sees it.

-The contract system enforces this by making channel names, payload shapes, and validators co-located and co-evolved. A change to any IPC surface touches the contract, the validator, the preload bridge, and the handler in the same commit - drift between any of those layers is treated as a bug.
+Channel names, payload shapes, and validators all live together, so they change together. Touching an IPC surface means updating the contract, the validator, the preload bridge, and the handler in one commit. Drift between those four layers is a bug, not a style preference.

-## Message Flow
+## Message flow

 Renderer-initiated calls (`invoke`) pass through four boundaries before reaching a service. Fire-and-forget messages (`send`) follow the same path but skip the response leg. Malformed payloads are caught at the validator and never reach domain code.

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ flowchart TB
  style E fill:#ed8796,stroke:#494d64,color:#24273a,stroke-width:1.5px
 ```

-## Runtime Sockets
+## Runtime sockets

 The renderer↔main bridge above lives *inside* the Electron app. A separate set of OS sockets connects the app to the other runtimes - mpv and the launcher/plugin. These carry no renderer payloads and bypass the contract/validator layer; they are command and property channels between processes.

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ flowchart LR

 How these sockets are established during launch is covered in [Playback Startup Flow](./architecture#playback-startup-flow).

-## Core Surfaces
+## Core surfaces

 | File | Role |
 | --- | --- |
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ How these sockets are established during launch is covered in [Playback Startup
 | `src/core/services/anki-jimaku-ipc.ts` | Integration-specific IPC boundary for Anki and Jimaku operations. |
 | `src/main/cli-runtime.ts` | CLI/runtime command boundary. Handles commands that originate from the launcher or mpv plugin rather than the renderer. |

-## Contract Rules
+## Contract rules

 These rules exist to prevent a class of bugs where the renderer and main process silently disagree about message shapes - which surfaces as undefined fields, swallowed errors, or state corruption.

@@ -89,13 +89,13 @@ These rules exist to prevent a class of bugs where the renderer and main process
 - **Keep payloads narrow.** Send only what the handler needs. Avoid passing entire state objects across the bridge - it couples the renderer to internal main-process structure.
 - **Co-evolve all layers.** When a payload shape changes, update `contracts.ts`, `validators.ts`, `preload.ts`, and the handler in the same commit. Partial updates are treated as bugs.

-## Two Message Patterns
+## Two message patterns

 **Invoke (request/response):** The renderer calls a typed bridge method and awaits a result. The main process validates the payload, runs the handler, and returns a structured response. Used for operations where the renderer needs a result - lookups, config reads, mining actions.

 **Fire-and-forget (send):** The renderer sends a message with no response. The main process validates and handles it silently. Malformed payloads are dropped. Used for notifications where the renderer doesn't need confirmation - UI state hints, focus events, position updates.

-## Add a New IPC Action
+## Add a new IPC action

 1. Add the channel constant in `src/shared/ipc/contracts.ts`.
 2. Add or extend the payload validator in `src/shared/ipc/validators.ts`.
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ These rules exist to prevent a class of bugs where the renderer and main process
 5. Add tests for both valid and malformed payload cases in `src/core/services/*`.
 6. Update renderer tests when behavior or state transitions change.

-## Runtime State Notes
+## Runtime state notes

 - Prefer runtime/domain composition via `src/main/runtime/composers/*` and `src/main/runtime/domains/*`. IPC handlers should delegate to composers rather than containing orchestration logic.
 - Route shared mutable state updates through transition helpers in `src/main/state.ts` for migrated domains. Direct mutation from IPC handlers bypasses invariant checks.
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ These rules exist to prevent a class of bugs where the renderer and main process
 - **Renderer invoke fails:** Verify the preload bridge method exists and matches the channel constant. Check that the handler is registered and returning (not throwing).
 - **Contract drift:** When invoke calls return unexpected shapes, compare the shared contract, validator, preload bridge, and main handler signatures side by side. One of them was updated without the others.

-## Related Docs
+## Related docs

 - [Architecture](/architecture)
 - [Development](/development)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-# Jellyfin Integration
+# Jellyfin integration

-[Jellyfin](https://jellyfin.org) is a free, self-hosted media server - think of it as your own private streaming service for video you own. If you keep your anime on a Jellyfin server, SubMiner can play episodes through mpv with the full mining overlay.
+[Jellyfin](https://jellyfin.org) is a free, self-hosted media server, a private streaming service for video you already own. If your anime lives on a Jellyfin server, SubMiner plays episodes from it through mpv with the mining overlay attached.

 ::: tip Who needs this?
-This page is only relevant if you already run (or have access to) a Jellyfin server. If you watch local files or YouTube, you can skip it. The in-app setup window (`subminer jellyfin`) is the easiest starting point.
+This page only matters if you already run a Jellyfin server or have access to one. Watching local files or YouTube? Skip it. Otherwise start with the in-app setup window (`subminer jellyfin`).
 :::

-SubMiner can act as a **cast-to-device target** for Jellyfin (similar to jellyfin-mpv-shim). Sign in once, turn on discovery, and SubMiner shows up in the "Play on…" / cast menu of any Jellyfin app - web, phone, or TV. Pick an episode, cast it to SubMiner, and it plays in SubMiner's mpv window with the full overlay and Yomitan click-to-lookup.
+SubMiner can register itself as a **cast-to-device target**, the way jellyfin-mpv-shim does. Sign in once, turn on discovery, and SubMiner appears in the "Play on" menu of any Jellyfin client, whether that is the web app, your phone, or a TV. Cast an episode and it opens in SubMiner's mpv window with the overlay and Yomitan lookup live.

 This is the recommended way to use Jellyfin with SubMiner. A terminal-only option is covered in [Launcher playback](#launcher-playback) at the end.

@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ This is the recommended way to use Jellyfin with SubMiner. A terminal-only optio

 ## Quick start

-### 1. Start SubMiner
+### 1. start SubMiner

-Launch SubMiner so it's running in the system tray.
+Launch SubMiner and leave it in the system tray.

-### 2. Sign in to your server
+### 2. sign in to your server

 Open the tray menu and click **Configure Jellyfin**. In the window that opens, enter your **Server URL** (for example `http://127.0.0.1:8096`), **Username**, and **Password**, then click **Login**.

@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ On success, SubMiner:

 Reopen this window any time to switch servers or **Logout**.

-### 3. Turn on discovery
+### 3. turn on discovery

 Discovery is what makes SubMiner appear as a cast target. Two ways to enable it:

 - **For the current session** - open the tray menu and tick **Jellyfin Discovery**. (This item appears once you've signed in.)
 - **Automatically on every launch** - already on by default. After your first sign-in, SubMiner auto-connects to Jellyfin at startup, so the cast target is ready without touching the tray. You can change this under [Settings](#settings).

-### 4. Cast from any Jellyfin app
+### 4. cast from any Jellyfin app

 In the Jellyfin web UI or mobile app, start playing something, open the **cast / "Play on"** menu, and pick your device - SubMiner appears there named after your computer's hostname. Playback opens in SubMiner.

@@ -52,9 +52,12 @@ From then on, pause / resume / seek / stop and audio or subtitle track changes y
 - **mpv launches automatically.** If mpv isn't already running when you cast, SubMiner starts it with SubMiner defaults and the bundled mpv plugin, so keybindings work right away.
 - **The overlay is managed by SubMiner,** so your configured `subtitleStyle` controls how subtitles look. Use the [overlay-toggle shortcut](/shortcuts) to hide it for a session.
 - **Resume works.** If Jellyfin has a saved position for the item, SubMiner seeks there on load.
+- **Titles and credentials stay separate.** AniList, character dictionaries, Anki source fields, and Discord presence use media titles, never authenticated stream URLs. If a usable title is unavailable, lookups are skipped and source fields show an unknown-media label. Stats identifies Jellyfin videos by server and item ID without the stream URL or API key.
 - **Direct play first.** When the source allows it and the container is in your direct-play allowlist, SubMiner streams the original file; otherwise it requests a transcoded stream from Jellyfin.
 - **Japanese subtitles are auto-selected,** preferring Jellyfin's default and embedded tracks over external sidecar files when several match.
- **Subtitle timing is corrected when possible.** SubMiner removes Jellyfin's server-selected subtitle stream from the mpv load URL, suppresses the mpv plugin's one-shot subtitle auto-selection and overlay auto-start for managed Jellyfin loads, stages downloaded subtitle tracks without letting mpv auto-switch between tracks, then selects the Japanese track once after applying any saved or inferred timing delay. When Jellyfin provides both Japanese and English subtitle files, SubMiner compares their cue timelines and applies a global delay if one track is clearly offset. Manual delay shifts you make with SubMiner's adjacent-cue controls are saved per item and subtitle track, then restored the next time you select that track.
+- **Downloaded subtitles keep their original timing.** SubMiner removes Jellyfin's server-selected subtitle stream from the mpv load URL, suppresses the mpv plugin's one-shot subtitle auto-selection and overlay auto-start for managed Jellyfin loads, stages the subtitle files exposed by Jellyfin without letting mpv auto-switch between tracks, resets mpv's subtitle delay to zero, then selects the Japanese track. SubMiner does not compare Japanese and English cue timelines or save an inferred delay.
+
+On startup, SubMiner clears cached anime parser metadata containing both API-key text and Jellyfin stream markers. Metadata containing only one of these is preserved.

 ## Settings

@@ -1,34 +1,36 @@
-# Jimaku Integration
+# Jimaku integration

-[Jimaku](https://jimaku.cc) is a community-driven subtitle repository for anime - a shared online library of subtitle files contributed by other learners. SubMiner integrates with the Jimaku API so you can search, browse, and download Japanese subtitle files directly from the overlay - no alt-tabbing or manual file management required. Downloaded subtitles are loaded into mpv immediately.
+[Jimaku](https://jimaku.cc) is a community subtitle repository for anime and Japanese live action, built from files other learners uploaded. SubMiner talks to the Jimaku API, so you search, browse, and download Japanese subtitle files from inside the overlay. No alt-tabbing, no moving files around. A downloaded track loads into mpv right away.

 ::: tip Prerequisite: a free API key
 You need a Jimaku account and an API key (a personal access string) before this feature works. Create an account at [jimaku.cc](https://jimaku.cc), copy your key, and add it to your config as shown under [Configuration](#configuration) below. Without a key, the search modal will report "Jimaku API key not set."
 :::

-## How It Works
+## How it works

 The Jimaku integration runs through an in-overlay modal accessible via a keyboard shortcut (`Ctrl+Shift+J` by default).

-When you open the modal, SubMiner parses the current video filename to extract a title, season, and episode number. Common naming conventions are supported - `S01E03`, `1x03`, `E03`, and dash-separated episode numbers all work. If the filename yields a high-confidence match (title + episode), SubMiner auto-searches immediately.
+When you open the modal, SubMiner parses the current video filename to extract a title, season, and episode number. It handles `S01E03`, `1x03`, `E03`, and dash-separated episode numbers. If the filename yields a high-confidence match (title + episode), SubMiner auto-searches immediately.

 From there:

-1. **Search** - SubMiner queries the Jimaku API with the parsed title. Results appear as a list of anime entries (Japanese and English names).
-2. **Browse entries** - Select an entry to load its available subtitle files, filtered by episode if one was detected.
-3. **Browse files** - Files show name, size, and last-modified date. If a language preference is configured, files are sorted accordingly (e.g., Japanese-tagged files first).
-4. **Download** - Selecting a file downloads it to the same directory as the video (or a temp directory for remote/streamed media) and loads it into mpv as a new subtitle track.
+1. **Pick a catalogue** - The **Anime** and **Live action** tabs at the top of the modal choose which Jimaku catalogue to search. Switching tabs re-runs the current search. The choice persists until SubMiner restarts.
+2. **Search** - SubMiner queries the Jimaku API with the parsed title. Results appear as a list of entries (Japanese and English names).
+3. **Browse entries** - Select an entry to load its available subtitle files, filtered by episode if one was detected.
+4. **Browse files** - Files show name, size, and last-modified date. If a language preference is configured, files are sorted accordingly (e.g., Japanese-tagged files first).
+5. **Download** - Selecting a file downloads it to the same directory as the video (or a temp directory for remote/streamed media) and loads it into mpv as a new subtitle track.

 If no files match the current episode filter, a "Show all files" button lets you broaden the search to all episodes for that entry.

-### Modal Keyboard Shortcuts
+### Modal keyboard shortcuts

-| Key | Action |
-| --- | --- |
-| `Enter` (in text field) | Search |
-| `Enter` (in list) | Select entry / download file |
-| `Arrow Up` / `Arrow Down` | Navigate entries or files |
-| `Escape` | Close modal |
+| Key                          | Action                                        |
+| ---------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
+| `Enter` (in text field)      | Search                                        |
+| `Enter` (in list)            | Select entry / download file                  |
+| `Arrow Up` / `Arrow Down`    | Navigate entries or files                     |
+| `Arrow Left` / `Arrow Right` | Switch between the Anime and Live action tabs |
+| `Escape`                     | Close modal                                   |

 ## Configuration

@@ -41,30 +43,30 @@ Add a `jimaku` section to your `config.jsonc`:
    "apiKeyCommand": "cat ~/.jimaku_key",
    "apiBaseUrl": "https://jimaku.cc",
    "languagePreference": "ja",
-    "maxEntryResults": 10
-  }
+    "maxEntryResults": 10,
+  },
 }
 ```

-| Option | Type | Default | Description |
-| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| `jimaku.apiKey` | `string` | - | Jimaku API key (plaintext). Mutually exclusive with `apiKeyCommand`. |
-| `jimaku.apiKeyCommand` | `string` | - | Shell command that prints the API key to stdout. Useful for secret managers (e.g., `pass jimaku/api-key`). |
-| `jimaku.apiBaseUrl` | `string` | `"https://jimaku.cc"` | Base URL for the Jimaku API. Only change this if using a mirror or local instance. |
-| `jimaku.languagePreference` | `"ja"` \| `"en"` \| `"none"` | `"ja"` | Sort subtitle files by language tag. `"ja"` pushes Japanese-tagged files to the top; `"en"` does the same for English. `"none"` preserves the API order. |
-| `jimaku.maxEntryResults` | `number` | `10` | Maximum number of anime entries returned per search. |
+| Option                      | Type                         | Default               | Description                                                                                                                                              |
+| --------------------------- | ---------------------------- | --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `jimaku.apiKey`             | `string`                     | -                     | Jimaku API key (plaintext). Mutually exclusive with `apiKeyCommand`.                                                                                     |
+| `jimaku.apiKeyCommand`      | `string`                     | -                     | Shell command that prints the API key to stdout. Useful for secret managers (e.g., `pass jimaku/api-key`).                                               |
+| `jimaku.apiBaseUrl`         | `string`                     | `"https://jimaku.cc"` | Base URL for the Jimaku API. Only change this if using a mirror or local instance.                                                                       |
+| `jimaku.languagePreference` | `"ja"` \| `"en"` \| `"none"` | `"ja"`                | Sort subtitle files by language tag. `"ja"` pushes Japanese-tagged files to the top; `"en"` does the same for English. `"none"` preserves the API order. |
+| `jimaku.maxEntryResults`    | `number`                     | `10`                  | Maximum number of entries returned per search.                                                                                                           |

 The keyboard shortcut is configured separately under `shortcuts`:

 ```jsonc
 {
  "shortcuts": {
-    "openJimaku": "Ctrl+Shift+J"
-  }
+    "openJimaku": "Ctrl+Shift+J",
+  },
 }
 ```

-### API Key
+### API key

 An API key is required to use the Jimaku integration. You can get one from [jimaku.cc](https://jimaku.cc). There are two ways to provide it:

@@ -73,7 +75,7 @@ An API key is required to use the Jimaku integration. You can get one from [jima

 If both are set, `apiKey` takes priority.

-## Filename Parsing
+## Filename parsing

 SubMiner extracts media info from the current video path to pre-fill the search fields. The parser handles:

@@ -1,14 +1,22 @@
-# Launcher Script
+# Launcher script

-The `subminer` launcher is an all-in-one script that handles video selection, mpv startup, and overlay management. It is the recommended way to use SubMiner on Linux and macOS because it guarantees mpv is launched with the correct IPC socket and SubMiner defaults. It's a Bun script distributed as a release asset alongside the AppImage and DMG.
+The `subminer` launcher handles video selection, mpv startup, and overlay management in one script. It guarantees mpv starts with the right IPC socket and SubMiner defaults. On Windows, the **SubMiner mpv** shortcut remains the recommended playback entry point.
+
+The launcher is a small wrapper around the CLI bundled in the desktop app. It locates a normal SubMiner installation, or uses `SUBMINER_BINARY_PATH` when you set a custom executable. Linux also accepts `SUBMINER_APPIMAGE_PATH`. First-run setup records the selected app location for the wrapper. You do not need Bun installed or on `PATH`; only the directory containing `subminer` needs to be on `PATH`.
+
+On macOS, the wrapper runs Bun and the CLI directly from `SubMiner.app/Contents/Resources`. On Windows, `subminer.cmd` stages a versioned private Bun copy under `%LOCALAPPDATA%\SubMiner\launcher-runtime/<version>` and runs the CLI from the current app. Keeping the executable outside the app avoids locking an updater-owned file while a launcher is running. Old runtime versions are removed when no running launcher is using them.
+
+On Linux, the first launch caches Bun and its matching CLI and license files under `${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/SubMiner/launcher`. Later launches make one `stat` call against the AppImage and run the cache without starting Electron. A missing cache or changed app fingerprint rebuilds it. App startup also refreshes the managed payload after an update.
+
+The downloaded `subminer` and `subminer.cmd` release assets use the same private runtime flow. Older launcher scripts that were installed before this change cannot update their own code retroactively and still need system Bun until the app migrates them at startup or you download a current wrapper.

 ::: tip Windows users
 On Windows, the recommended way to launch playback is the **SubMiner mpv** shortcut created during first-run setup - double-click it, drag a file onto it, or run `SubMiner.exe --launch-mpv` from a terminal. See [Windows mpv Shortcut](/usage#windows-mpv-shortcut) for details.
 :::

-## Video Picker
+## Video picker

-When you run `subminer` without specifying a file, it opens an interactive video picker. By default it uses **fzf** in the terminal; pass `-R` to use **rofi** instead.
+Run `subminer` with no file and it opens an interactive picker. That is **fzf** in the terminal by default, or **rofi** with `-R`.

 ### fzf (default)

@@ -34,18 +42,22 @@ subminer -R -r -d ~/Anime              # rofi picker, recursive
 subminer -R /directory                 # rofi picker, directory shortcut
 ```

-rofi shows a GUI menu with icon thumbnails when available. SubMiner ships the rofi theme plus the Linux launcher-managed runtime plugin copy in the release assets tarball:
+rofi shows a GUI menu with icon thumbnails when available. SubMiner ships the rofi theme, a scoped `ffmpegthumbnailer` MIME registration, and the Linux launcher-managed runtime plugin copy in the release assets tarball:

 ```bash
 wget https://github.com/ksyasuda/SubMiner/releases/latest/download/subminer-assets.tar.gz -O /tmp/subminer-assets.tar.gz
 tar -xzf /tmp/subminer-assets.tar.gz -C /tmp
 mkdir -p ~/.local/share/SubMiner/themes
 cp /tmp/assets/themes/subminer.rasi ~/.local/share/SubMiner/themes/subminer.rasi
+mkdir -p ~/.local/share/SubMiner/thumbnailers
+cp /tmp/assets/thumbnailers/subminer-ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer ~/.local/share/SubMiner/thumbnailers/
 mkdir -p ~/.local/share/SubMiner/plugin
 cp -R /tmp/plugin/subminer ~/.local/share/SubMiner/plugin/subminer
 ```

-Once the `SubMiner` data dir exists, `subminer -u` refreshes both assets automatically. Normal Linux launcher playback also checks for the managed runtime plugin copy and rofi theme before mpv launch and installs them from the bundled app automatically if either one is missing.
+Once the `SubMiner` data dir exists, `subminer -u` refreshes these assets automatically. Normal Linux launcher playback checks for all three assets and installs them from the bundled app when one is missing. For `subminer -R`, this repair runs before rofi opens.
+
+When `ffmpegthumbnailer` is installed, SubMiner prepends its own data directory to `XDG_DATA_DIRS` for the rofi process only. This lets rofi recognize the canonical Matroska MIME types used by newer GLib versions without changing the desktop-wide MIME or thumbnailer configuration. An existing registration in your own `$XDG_DATA_HOME/thumbnailers` still takes priority.

 The theme is auto-detected from these paths (first match wins):

@@ -62,7 +74,7 @@ Override with the `SUBMINER_ROFI_THEME` environment variable:
 SUBMINER_ROFI_THEME=/path/to/custom-theme.rasi subminer -R
 ```

-## Watch History
+## Watch history

 `subminer -H` (or `--history`) browses your local watch history, sourced from the immersion tracker database. It works with both pickers: fzf by default, rofi with `-R -H`.

@@ -83,7 +95,7 @@ After an episode ends or you close mpv, the launcher returns to an action menu f

 Series whose directories are not currently accessible (e.g. an unmounted network share) are hidden from the list. Watch history requires the immersion tracker database (`immersionTracking.dbPath`, default `<config dir>/immersion.sqlite`), which SubMiner populates during playback.

-## Sync Between Machines
+## Sync between machines

 `subminer sync <host>` merges immersion stats and watch history between two machines over SSH, so both end up with the union of sessions, lifetime totals, vocabulary counts, daily/monthly charts, and `--history` entries. `<host>` is anything `ssh` accepts (`user@hostname` or an ssh config alias); SubMiner must be installed on both machines at the same version. The sync engine runs only inside the app (`SubMiner --sync-cli sync ...`): the sync window spawns it that way, `subminer sync` is a thin proxy that forwards to the installed app, and the remote side is found automatically whether it has the launcher or just the app. The command-line launcher is optional everywhere.

@@ -97,10 +109,16 @@ subminer sync macbook --check          # test SSH + remote SubMiner without sync
 subminer sync --ui                     # open the sync window (also in the tray menu)
 ```

-How it works: each side takes a consistent snapshot of its database (`VACUUM INTO`), the snapshots are exchanged over `scp`, and each machine merges the other's snapshot into its own database. The merge is an insert-only union keyed on stable identifiers (session UUIDs, video keys, series title keys, word/kanji identity), so it is safe to re-run at any time. Syncing twice changes nothing, and nothing is ever overwritten or summed twice. Lifetime totals and rollup charts are updated incrementally, so history older than the session retention window is preserved on both sides.
+How it works: each side takes a consistent snapshot of its database (`VACUUM INTO`), the snapshots are exchanged over SSH, and each machine merges the other's snapshot into its own database. The merge is an insert-only union keyed on stable identifiers (session UUIDs, video keys, series title keys, word/kanji identity), so it is safe to re-run at any time. Syncing twice changes nothing, and nothing is ever overwritten or summed twice. Lifetime totals and rollup charts are updated incrementally, so history older than the session retention window is preserved on both sides.
+
+On macOS and Linux, sync automatically uses compressed `rsync` transfers when compatible `rsync` commands are available on both machines. The last successfully received snapshot supplies matching blocks for later transfers, so unchanged data can be reused without sending it again. Only unmatched data needs to cross the connection, with compression reducing it further. Without a cached snapshot, sync sends a full compressed snapshot. Windows endpoints and machines without compatible `rsync` use compressed `scp` automatically. No extra configuration is required, and both methods work across different networks, including Tailscale connections.

 For a one-way transfer, `--push` snapshots the local database and merges it into the host without changing the local database. `--pull` snapshots the host and merges it into the local database without changing the host. These modes add missing data; they do not delete destination-only data or make the destination an exact mirror.

+Each rsync transfer explicitly uses SSH and has a 30-minute time limit. A timed-out transfer stops the sync before merging the incomplete snapshot.
+
+Transfers write separate temporary files and verify the reconstructed content before merging. Cached comparison snapshots are preserved throughout the transfer. After a successful rsync sync, each receiver keeps one snapshot per peer/database identity in `sync-transfer-cache/` under its SubMiner config directory. This uses roughly one database-sized file per identity; deleting that cache is safe and only makes the next sync transfer more data. Missing or unwritable caches do not prevent syncing. Older peers without the cache helper still support compressed transfers, but cannot retain the upload comparison copy.
+
 Command-line sync defaults to a cold-start safety check: close SubMiner (and stop the background stats daemon with `subminer stats -s`) on both machines before running it, or pass `--force`. Syncs started from the Sync window use live mode automatically, including scheduled auto-syncs while SubMiner or playback is active. SQLite WAL provides a consistent snapshot, the transactional merge serializes with live writes, and each machine's unfinished session is excluded from the transfer; that session syncs normally after it finishes. The mpv safety check requires a live socket connection, so a stale socket file left after mpv exits does not block command-line sync. Both machines must be on the same SubMiner version; otherwise, the sync aborts on a stats schema mismatch.

 On the remote, sync looks for the `subminer` launcher first (PATH and `~/.local/bin`), then the app binary in `--sync-cli` mode (`SubMiner` on PATH, then the standard macOS `/Applications` and `~/Applications` installs), checking standard SubMiner and Bun locations (`~/.local/bin`, `~/.bun/bin`, Homebrew, `/usr/local/bin`, `/usr/bin`, and `/bin`) even when the non-interactive SSH shell omits them from `PATH`. An AppImage in a custom location can be addressed with `--remote-cmd /path/to/SubMiner.AppImage` (or symlink it as `SubMiner` somewhere on the remote PATH).
@@ -118,7 +136,7 @@ Unfinished sessions (a crash mid-playback) are skipped until the app finalizes t

 `subminer sync <host> --check` verifies a host without touching any data: it probes the SSH connection, locates SubMiner on the remote (launcher or app binary), and reports its version. `--json` switches any sync mode to machine-readable NDJSON progress output (this is what the sync window consumes).

-`sync --make-temp` creates a restricted temporary directory and prints its path; `sync --remove-temp <dir>` removes one created by that command. They are internal SSH transfer helpers, exposed for compatibility but normally invoked only by sync itself. `SubMiner --sync-cli sync ...` is the packaged app's headless compatibility entrypoint; use `SubMiner --sync-cli --help` for its sync-specific help. The `subminer sync` launcher command selects this entrypoint automatically and runs AppImages in Node-only mode, so remote sync does not require a graphical session.
+`sync --make-temp` creates a restricted temporary directory and prints its path; `sync --remove-temp <dir>` removes one created by that command. The internal `--transfer-cache <key>` option seeds the temporary directory from a previous received snapshot when creating it, or saves the received snapshot before removing it after a successful sync. Keys are 64-character lowercase hexadecimal identifiers. These are internal SSH transfer helpers, exposed for compatibility but normally invoked only by sync itself. `SubMiner --sync-cli sync ...` is the packaged app's headless compatibility entrypoint; use `SubMiner --sync-cli --help` for its sync-specific help. The `subminer sync` launcher command selects this entrypoint automatically and runs AppImages in Node-only mode, so remote sync does not require a graphical session.

 ### Sync window

@@ -131,7 +149,7 @@ Unfinished sessions (a crash mid-playback) are skipped until the app finalizes t

 Hosts with **Auto-sync** enabled are synced in the background on a configurable interval (default every 60 minutes), including during active playback; results surface as overlay notifications. The unfinished playback session is skipped until a later sync sees it finalized. Host bookkeeping lives in `<config dir>/sync-hosts.json`.

-## Common Commands
+## Common commands

 ```bash
 subminer video.mkv                      # play a specific file (managed launches auto-start the visible overlay by default)
@@ -155,6 +173,7 @@ subminer stats -b                       # start background stats daemon
 | `subminer stats rebuild` / `backfill`      | Rebuild or backfill rollup data                                                                   |
 | `subminer doctor`                          | Dependency + config + socket diagnostics (`--refresh-known-words` refreshes the known-word cache) |
 | `subminer settings`                        | Open the SubMiner settings window                                                                 |
+| `subminer generate-subs [video]`           | Generate [Japanese subtitles](/usage#generate-japanese-subtitles-locally) locally                 |
 | `subminer logs -e`                         | Export a sanitized local-date log ZIP and print its path                                          |
 | `subminer config path`                     | Print active config file path                                                                     |
 | `subminer config show`                     | Print active config contents                                                                      |
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
-# Mining Workflow
+# Mining workflow

-This guide walks through the sentence mining loop - from watching a video to creating Anki cards with audio, screenshots, and context.
+This guide walks the whole sentence mining loop, from starting a video to ending up with an Anki card that has audio, a screenshot, and the surrounding sentence.

 ## Overview

-_Sentence mining_ means turning real sentences you encounter while watching native video into Anki flashcards, so you learn vocabulary in the context where you actually met it. SubMiner automates the tedious parts of that loop.
+_Sentence mining_ means turning sentences you hit while watching native video into Anki cards, so you learn a word in the context where you first met it. The idea is old. The tedious part is everything between spotting the word and having a finished card, and that is the part SubMiner does for you.

-SubMiner runs as a transparent overlay on top of mpv (the video player). As subtitles play, the overlay displays them as interactive text. You hover a word, trigger a Yomitan dictionary lookup with your configured lookup key/modifier, then create an Anki card with a single action. SubMiner automatically attaches the sentence, an audio clip, and a screenshot to that card - no manual copy-pasting or screen capturing.
+SubMiner draws a transparent overlay on top of mpv and renders each subtitle line as interactive text. Hover a word, trigger a Yomitan lookup with your configured key or modifier, then add the card. SubMiner attaches the sentence, an audio clip, and a screenshot on its own, so there is nothing to copy-paste or screenshot by hand.

 > **Yomitan** is the popup dictionary that shows definitions when you hover or scan a word. **AnkiConnect** is the add-on that lets SubMiner talk to Anki. Both are set up during installation - see [Anki Integration](/anki-integration) if you have not configured them yet.

-## Creating Anki Cards
+## Creating Anki cards

 There are four ways to create or enrich cards, depending on your workflow.

-### 1. Auto-Update from Yomitan
+### 1. Auto-update from Yomitan

 This is the most common flow. Yomitan creates a card in Anki, and SubMiner enriches it automatically.

@@ -27,23 +27,22 @@ This is the most common flow. Yomitan creates a card in Anki, and SubMiner enric
   - **Sentence**: The current subtitle line.
   - **Audio**: Extracted from the video using the subtitle's start/end timing (plus optional configured padding).
   - **Image**: A screenshot or animated clip from the current playback position.
-   - **Translation**: From the secondary subtitle track, or generated via AI if configured.
   - **MiscInfo**: Metadata like filename and timestamp.

 Configure which fields to fill in `ankiConnect.fields`. See [Anki Integration](/anki-integration) for details.

-### 2. Manual Update from Clipboard
+### 2. manual update from clipboard

 If you prefer a hands-on approach (animecards-style), you can copy the current subtitle to the clipboard and then paste it onto the last-added Anki card:

 1. Add a word via Yomitan as usual.
 2. Press `Ctrl/Cmd+C` to copy the current subtitle line to the clipboard.
   - For multiple lines: press `Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+C`, then a digit `1`–`9` to select how many recent subtitle lines to combine. The combined text is copied to the clipboard.
-3. Press `Ctrl/Cmd+V` to update the last-added card with the clipboard contents plus audio, image, and translation - the same fields auto-update would fill.
+3. Press `Ctrl/Cmd+V` to update the last-added card with the clipboard contents plus audio and image, the same fields auto-update would fill.

-Manual clipboard updates always replace generated sentence audio, even when `ankiConnect.behavior.overwriteAudio` is disabled. The word audio field is left unchanged because the word itself does not change in this flow.
+Manual clipboard updates always replace generated sentence audio in `ankiConnect.fields.audio`, even when `ankiConnect.behavior.overwriteAudio` is disabled. Normal word-card updates use the configured sentence and audio fields even when Lapis or Kiku support is enabled.

-This is useful when auto-update is disabled or when you want explicit control over which subtitle line gets attached to the card.
+Use this when auto-update is off, or when the line you want on the card is not the line currently on screen.

 | Shortcut                   | Action                          | Config key                              |
 | -------------------------- | ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
@@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ This is useful when auto-update is disabled or when you want explicit control ov
 | `Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+C` + digit | Copy multiple recent lines      | `shortcuts.copySubtitleMultiple`        |
 | `Ctrl/Cmd+V`               | Update last card from clipboard | `shortcuts.updateLastCardFromClipboard` |

-### 3. Mine Sentence (Hotkey)
+### 3. mine Sentence (hotkey)

 Create a standalone sentence card without going through Yomitan:

@@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ The sentence card uses the note type configured in `isLapis.sentenceCardModel` a
 Sentence card creation requires `ankiConnect.isLapis.sentenceCardModel` to name a [Lapis](https://github.com/donkuri/lapis) or [Kiku](https://github.com/youyoumu/kiku) compatible note type that exists in Anki (default: `"Lapis"`). See [Anki Integration - Sentence Cards](/anki-integration#sentence-cards-lapis) for setup.
 :::

-### 4. Mark as Audio Card
+### 4. mark as audio card

 After adding a word via Yomitan, press the audio card shortcut (`Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+A` by default, `shortcuts.markAudioCard`) to mark the card as an audio card. This sets the audio-card flag and fills sentence, image, and metadata fields alongside the full-subtitle audio clip.

@@ -72,27 +71,27 @@ After adding a word via Yomitan, press the audio card shortcut (`Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+
 Audio card marking uses the same `ankiConnect.isLapis.sentenceCardModel` note type as sentence cards. See [Anki Integration - Sentence Cards](/anki-integration#sentence-cards-lapis) for setup.
 :::

-### Field Grouping (Kiku)
+### Field grouping (Kiku/Senren)

-If you mine the same word from different sentences, SubMiner can merge the cards instead of creating duplicates. This feature is designed for use with [Kiku](https://github.com/youyoumu/kiku) and similar note types that support grouped fields.
+If you mine the same word from different sentences, SubMiner can merge the cards instead of creating duplicates. This is built for [Kiku](https://github.com/youyoumu/kiku) and [Senren](https://github.com/BrenoAqua/Senren) note types that support grouped fields (Senren calls it scene switching).

 1. You add a word via Yomitan.
 2. SubMiner detects the new card and checks if a card with the same expression already exists.
-3. If a duplicate is found (this requires `ankiConnect.isKiku.fieldGrouping` to be set to `"auto"` or `"manual"`; it defaults to `"disabled"`):
-   - **Auto mode** (`ankiConnect.isKiku.fieldGrouping: "auto"`): Merges automatically. Both sentences, audio clips, and images are combined into the existing card. The duplicate is optionally deleted.
-   - **Manual mode** (`ankiConnect.isKiku.fieldGrouping: "manual"`): A modal appears showing both cards side by side. You choose which card to keep and preview the merged result before confirming.
+3. If a duplicate is found (this requires Kiku or Senren to be enabled with a field grouping mode of `"auto"` or `"manual"`):
+   - **Auto mode**: Merges automatically. Both sentences, audio clips, images, and source info are combined into the existing card. The duplicate is optionally deleted.
+   - **Manual mode**: A modal appears showing both cards side by side. You choose which card to keep and preview the merged result before confirming.

-See [Anki Integration - Field Grouping](/anki-integration#field-grouping-kiku) for configuration options, merge behavior, and modal keyboard shortcuts.
+See [Anki Integration - Field Grouping](/anki-integration#field-grouping-kiku-senren) for configuration options, merge behavior, and modal keyboard shortcuts.

-## Overlay Model
+## Overlay model

 SubMiner uses one overlay window with modal surfaces. It carries two subtitle bars - a primary reading bar and a secondary translation/context bar - plus modal dialogs that open on top.

 Toggle the entire overlay window with `Alt+Shift+O` (global) or `y-t` (mpv plugin).

-### Primary Subtitle Layer
+### Primary subtitle layer

-The primary bar renders subtitles as tokenized hoverable word spans. Each word is a separate element with reading and headword data attached. This plane is styled independently from mpv subtitles and supports:
+The primary bar renders each subtitle as separate hoverable word spans, each carrying its reading and headword. Its styling is independent of mpv's own subtitle rendering. It supports:

 - Word-level hover targets for Yomitan lookup
 - Auto pause/resume on subtitle hover (enabled by default via `subtitleStyle.autoPauseVideoOnHover`)
@@ -101,16 +100,17 @@ The primary bar renders subtitles as tokenized hoverable word spans. Each word i
 - Right-click + drag to reposition subtitles
 - **Reading annotations** - known words, N+1 targets, character-name matches, JLPT levels, and frequency hits can all be visually highlighted

-### Secondary Subtitle Bar
+### Secondary subtitle bar

-The secondary bar is a compact top-strip region in the same overlay window. It shows a secondary subtitle track (typically English) for translation/context while keeping the primary reading flow below. It is useful for:
+The secondary bar is a compact top-strip region in the same overlay window. It shows a secondary subtitle track, usually English, above the primary reading line. Use it to sanity-check your comprehension without breaking out of the mining flow.

- Quick comprehension checks without leaving the mining flow.
- Auto-populating the translation field on mined cards - when a card is created, SubMiner uses the secondary subtitle text as the translation field value (unless AI translation is configured to override it).
+For local media, SubMiner can parse supported embedded secondary tracks into timed cues. For remote URLs and files on network mounts, it uses mpv's live secondary subtitle text instead of scanning the media with ffmpeg.

-It is controlled by `secondarySub` configuration and shares its lifecycle with the main overlay window. Cycle which track feeds it with `Shift+J`.
+The `secondarySub` config controls it, and it opens and closes with the main overlay window. Cycle which track feeds it with `Shift+J`.

-### Display Modes
+SubMiner collapses duplicate ASS layers in parsed secondary tracks. Exact repeated lines collapse at any length, while distinct simultaneous short lines remain separate. Long dialogue and positioned-sign copies also collapse when they differ only in whitespace or terminal punctuation. Dense multi-row sign layouts, such as translated timetables, are excluded instead of being concatenated into the secondary bar.
+
+### Display modes

 Both the primary and secondary subtitle bars share the same three visibility modes, and each can be changed independently at runtime:

@@ -127,11 +127,11 @@ Cycle each bar's mode at runtime with its own shortcut:
 | `V`                | Cycle primary subtitle mode (hidden → visible → hover)   | overlay-local                  |
 | `Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+V` | Cycle secondary subtitle mode (hidden → visible → hover) | `shortcuts.toggleSecondarySub` |

-### Modal Surfaces
+### Modal surfaces

 Jimaku search, field-grouping, runtime options, and manual subsync open as modal surfaces on top of the same overlay window.

-## Looking Up Words
+## Looking up words

 1. Hover over the subtitle area - the overlay activates pointer events.
 2. Hover the word you want. SubMiner keeps per-token boundaries so Yomitan can target that token cleanly.
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Jimaku search, field-grouping, runtime options, and manual subsync open as modal
 4. Yomitan opens its lookup popup for the hovered token.
 5. From the popup, add the word to Anki.

-### Controller Workflow
+### Controller workflow

 With a gamepad connected and keyboard-only mode enabled, the full mining loop works without a mouse or keyboard:

@@ -151,11 +151,11 @@ With a gamepad connected and keyboard-only mode enabled, the full mining loop wo
 6. **Close** - press `B` to dismiss the Yomitan popup and return to subtitle navigation.
 7. **Pause/resume** - press `L3` (left stick click) to toggle mpv pause at any time.

-After controller support is enabled, the controller and keyboard can be used interchangeably - switching mid-session is seamless. Toggle keyboard-only mode on or off with `Y` on the controller.
+Once controller support is on, the controller and keyboard both stay live. You can drop the controller mid-episode and keep going with the keyboard. Toggle keyboard-only mode with `Y` on the controller.

 See [Usage - Controller Support](/usage#controller-support) for setup details and [Configuration - Controller Support](/configuration#controller-support) for the full mapping and tuning options.

-## Subtitle Sync (Subsync)
+## Subtitle sync (subsync)

 If your subtitle file is out of sync with the audio, SubMiner can resynchronize it using [alass](https://github.com/kaegi/alass) or [ffsubsync](https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync).

@@ -169,24 +169,22 @@ The reference and the out-of-sync subtitle must be different tracks; the referen

 For remote streams, including Jellyfin playback, the modal only offers alass with a subtitle reference. Jellyfin subtitle URLs are cached as temporary subtitle files so alass can read them, but the video stream is not downloaded. ffsubsync and the video-file reference need direct access to the local media file and are unavailable for stream URLs.

-When you mine a sentence card from the stats dashboard, SubMiner can also use `alass` automatically to align a local English sidecar against the matching local Japanese sidecar before filling the card translation field. The source subtitle files are not modified; SubMiner writes a temporary retimed copy and reuses it while the stats server is running.
-
 Install the sync tools separately - see [Troubleshooting](/troubleshooting#subtitle-sync-subsync) if the tools are not found.

 ## Texthooker

-SubMiner runs a local HTTP server at `http://127.0.0.1:5174` (fixed default port; overridable only via the mpv plugin's `texthooker_port` script-opt) that serves a texthooker UI. This allows external tools - such as a browser-based Yomitan instance - to receive subtitle text in real time.
+SubMiner serves a texthooker UI from a local HTTP server at `http://127.0.0.1:5174`. The port is fixed unless you override it with the mpv plugin's `texthooker_port` script-opt. External tools read subtitle text from it as lines arrive, which is how you would feed a browser-based Yomitan instance.

 The texthooker page displays the current subtitle and updates as new lines arrive. This is useful if you prefer to do lookups in a browser rather than through the overlay's built-in Yomitan.

 If you want to build your own browser client, websocket consumer, or automation relay, see [WebSocket / Texthooker API & Integration](/websocket-texthooker-api).

-## Related Features
+## Related features

-These features support the mining loop but have their own dedicated pages:
+These feed into the mining loop but each has its own page:

 - **[Jimaku subtitle search](/jimaku-integration)** - search and download anime subtitle files directly from the overlay (`Ctrl+Shift+J` by default), then load them into mpv.
- **[N+1 word highlighting](/subtitle-annotations#n-1-word-highlighting)** - cross-reference your Anki decks to highlight known words, making true N+1 sentences (exactly one unknown word) easy to spot during immersion.
+- **[N+1 word highlighting](/subtitle-annotations#n-1-word-highlighting)** - reads your Anki decks and highlights words you already know, so a line with exactly one unknown word stands out while you watch.
 - **[Immersion tracking](/immersion-tracking)** - log watching and mining activity to a local database and view session times, words seen, and cards mined in the built-in stats dashboard.

 Next: [Anki Integration](/anki-integration) - field mapping, media generation, and card enrichment configuration.
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-# MPV Plugin
+# MPV plugin

-**What this is:** mpv is the video player SubMiner overlays subtitles on. The SubMiner mpv plugin is a small Lua script that runs _inside_ mpv and gives you in-player keybindings to control the SubMiner overlay (start/stop/toggle, skip intro, etc.) without leaving the player window.
+The SubMiner mpv plugin is a small Lua script that runs _inside_ mpv. It binds in-player keys for controlling the overlay, so start, stop, toggle, and skip-intro all work without leaving the player window.

-**Who needs this page:** Most users never touch the plugin directly - SubMiner-managed launches (the app, the `subminer` launcher, or the Windows shortcut) inject the bundled plugin automatically for that session, so there is nothing to install into mpv's global `scripts` directory. Read on if you launch mpv from another tool and want SubMiner's in-player controls, or you want to script mpv against SubMiner.
+Most people never touch it. Any SubMiner-managed launch, whether from the app, the `subminer` launcher, or the Windows shortcut, injects the bundled plugin for that session, and nothing lands in mpv's global `scripts` directory. Keep reading if you launch mpv from some other tool and still want the in-player controls, or you want to script mpv against SubMiner.

-The plugin ships as a modular Lua package under `plugin/subminer/` (entry point `main.lua`, which loads `init.lua` and sibling modules). Earlier releases shipped a single global `main.lua`; runtime loading replaces it.
+The plugin is a modular Lua package under `plugin/subminer/`. `main.lua` is the entry point and loads `init.lua` plus its sibling modules. Earlier releases installed a single global `main.lua`; runtime loading replaced that.

-## Runtime Loading
+## Runtime loading

 Launch mpv through the SubMiner app, the `subminer` launcher, or the packaged Windows SubMiner mpv shortcut. These paths pass mpv a bundled plugin path for that playback session only, leaving regular mpv playback untouched.

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ The AniSkip key is **not** a `y` chord and is not bound by the plugin: the SubMi

 The bare `v` binding is a forced mpv binding. It overrides mpv's default primary subtitle visibility toggle and routes the action to SubMiner's primary subtitle bar instead.

-## Shared Shortcuts (Session Bindings)
+## Shared shortcuts (session bindings)

 The `y-*` chords above are built into the plugin. Everything else you configure under [`shortcuts.*`](/shortcuts) - plus any custom [`keybindings`](/configuration) and the stats toggle/mark-watched keys - is **injected into mpv at runtime**, so the same shortcut works both inside mpv and in the SubMiner overlay. You do not edit any mpv config to enable them.

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ SubMiner:

 Select an item by pressing its number.

-## Binary Auto-Detection
+## Binary auto-detection

 When `binary_path` is empty, the plugin searches platform-specific locations:

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ A PowerShell system lookup runs first (running SubMiner process, registry App Pa

 On Windows the plugin also normalizes a Unix-style `socket_path` (`/tmp/subminer-socket`) to the named pipe `\\.\pipe\subminer-socket` at runtime.

-## Backend Detection
+## Backend detection

 When `backend=auto`, the plugin detects the window manager:

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ When `backend=auto`, the plugin detects the window manager:
 Native Wayland support is only available for Hyprland and Sway. If you use a different Wayland compositor, auto-detection will fall back to X11 - both mpv and SubMiner must be running under Xwayland, and `xdotool` and `xwininfo` must be installed.
 :::

-## Script Messages
+## Script messages

 The plugin can be controlled from other mpv scripts or the mpv command line using script messages:

@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ For how the plugin's auto-start fits into the full launch sequence - including w
 - **MPV shutdown**: The plugin clears its hover/OSD/gate state on shutdown; the overlay app notices the closed IPC socket and shuts itself down.
 - **Texthooker**: When `texthooker_enabled=yes`, the plugin appends `--texthooker` to the overlay start command so the app starts the texthooker server alongside the overlay.

-## Using with the `subminer` Wrapper
+## Using with the `subminer` wrapper

 The `subminer` wrapper script handles mpv launch, socket setup, and overlay lifecycle automatically. You do not need the plugin if you always use the wrapper.

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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
sudacode	1508863dbb	feat(stats): add TMDB metadata for live-action dramas in the Library (#252 )	2026-09-21 00:10:00 -07:00
sudacode	4dd30f44d1	chore(yomitan): update fork to upstream 26.9.8	2026-09-21 00:09:48 -07:00
sudacode	ab48a5678e	fix(stats): restrict local requests and serve the dashboard over HTTP (#263 )	2026-09-20 23:36:55 -07:00
sudacode	2f21582666	fix(overlay): cancel pending window transitions and timing reviews (#262 )	2026-09-20 23:35:48 -07:00
sudacode	383aed8bad	fix(stats): harden server lifecycle and verify compiled runtime (#261 )	2026-09-20 23:19:03 -07:00
sudacode	f9c4e892dc	fix(stats): reject malformed resource IDs before mutations (#259 )	2026-09-20 22:49:27 -07:00
sudacode	7959e1a4e5	fix(anki): honor unlimited duration in stats mining (#258 )	2026-09-20 22:49:12 -07:00
sudacode	917d52dd94	fix(config): validate AnkiConnect and field grouping settings (#257 )	2026-09-20 22:48:54 -07:00
sudacode	05425cc5db	fix(anki): separate word audio mapping for animation sync (#256 )	2026-09-20 22:07:30 -07:00
sudacode	8097ed27e5	feat(stats): separate YouTube channels in the Library (#253 )	2026-09-20 19:57:32 -07:00
sudacode	76e43d7e6d	fix(config): align live save feedback with hot reload policy (#255 )	2026-09-20 19:51:45 -07:00
Abdulrazzaq Alhendi	4f0762e840	feat(mining): add a screenshot frame picker to media review (#254 )	2026-09-20 19:39:30 -07:00
sudacode	026d495fac	feat(jimaku): add live-action subtitle search (#251 )	2026-09-18 22:50:13 -07:00
sudacode	dd76782d30	fix(subtitles): widen subtitle generation modal - Reduce text wrapping and scrolling while retaining small-window support - Document the responsive layout change	2026-09-18 21:05:52 -07:00
sudacode	a8c16147ad	feat(subtitles): use loaded subtitles to guide generation timing (#249 )	2026-09-18 00:24:42 -07:00
sudacode	186d4a0640	fix(jellyfin): fix jellyfin media metadata (#250 )	2026-09-18 00:24:25 -07:00
sudacode	2831e05124	feat(subtitles): add local Japanese subtitle generation (#240 )	2026-09-15 21:43:11 -07:00
sudacode	6841a37a22	fix(sidebar): preserve Space playback after cue seeking (#247 )	2026-09-15 21:35:10 -07:00
sudacode	7c1eac03dc	feat(overlay): discover unclaimed mpv key bindings (#246 )	2026-09-15 18:26:45 -07:00
sudacode	e6dc9dfec5	test: clone VM results across Electron boundaries - Clone tokenizer VM results into the host realm - Expect null-prototype profile maps in IPC validation tests	2026-09-11 01:55:32 -07:00
sudacode	6d69a56574	fix(overlay): keep Hyprland recovery dialogs above overlays (#245 )	2026-09-11 01:52:01 -07:00
sudacode	0c37c665a2	build(release): reduce package size and report release sizes (#244 )	2026-09-11 01:15:36 -07:00
sudacode	8ae5bde6a4	test(stats): increase occurrence merge test timeout	2026-09-11 01:09:59 -07:00
sudacode	016a43b804	feat(launcher): bundle Bun and use it across all launchers (#243 )	2026-09-11 00:21:10 -07:00
sudacode	fb2d1a512b	perf(stats): use compressed incremental snapshot transfers (#241 )	2026-09-10 23:57:20 -07:00
sudacode	614a8ca912	fix(startup): create config directory before singleton lock (#242 )	2026-09-09 12:04:08 -07:00
sudacode	9eecb7358b	docs: refresh user-facing guides and examples - Clarify current integration, media review, and Anki behavior - Remove obsolete AI translation and configuration references - Standardize headings and prose across docs	2026-09-08 00:23:38 -07:00
sudacode	1e5d7747b4	feat(sidebar): add dialogue selection and copying (#238 )	2026-09-07 14:03:54 -07:00
sudacode	c14c690875	chore(release): prepare v0.19.6	2026-09-04 01:59:39 -07:00
sudacode	84f718043a	feat(anki): add media timing review before card creation (#203 )	2026-09-04 01:40:56 -07:00
sudacode	99266294b8	fix(tsukihime): filter releases by subtitle language (#235 )	2026-09-02 20:29:59 -07:00
sudacode	c055359be1	chore(deps): update fast-uri to 3.1.6	2026-09-02 20:16:08 -07:00
sudacode	ec5a147095	fix(subtitles): merge wrapped positioned caption rows (#234 )	2026-09-01 23:11:38 -07:00
sudacode	a0635f4360	fix(subtitles): drop ASS furigana from recorded cues (#233 )	2026-09-01 22:49:20 -07:00
sudacode	c0a78ef008	feat(anki): support Senren scene-switching field grouping (#230 )	2026-09-01 22:18:30 -07:00
sudacode	87b01155df	fix(mining): copy multi-line subtitles backward from current line (#231 )	2026-09-01 22:17:41 -07:00
sudacode	fc5c49e365	fix(subtitles): keep native secondary subtitles hidden (#232 ) - Reapply hidden visibility after secondary track changes - Relinquish suppression only after successful restoration	2026-09-01 00:49:37 -07:00
sudacode	a20269e9f5	fix(jellyfin): stop inferring subtitle delays (#227 )	2026-08-31 23:31:31 -07:00
sudacode	2ad491e95c	chore(release): prepare v0.19.5	2026-08-30 01:02:44 -07:00
sudacode	6fffcc731f	fix(youtube): keep auto captions on screen for their full span (#219 )	2026-08-29 13:18:55 -07:00
sudacode	5cc21113fd	fix(subtitles): drop ASS furigana from published cues (#224 )	2026-08-29 13:15:30 -07:00
sudacode	051140f910	fix(anki): respect configured fields for word-card enrichment (#223 )	2026-08-29 13:09:31 -07:00
sudacode	6e945f0872	fix(subtitles): keep overlapping lines that join an already active cue (#221 )	2026-08-27 23:13:29 -07:00
sudacode	c2c25c0da6	fix(anki): keep overlay progress visible through card updates (#218 )	2026-08-25 20:27:58 -07:00
sudacode	556de61756	chore(changelog): split release details into nested bullets - Update changelog generation guidance and tests - Reformat current release notes and document the new style	2026-08-25 12:39:45 -07:00
sudacode	a98fb0fddf	chore(release): prepare v0.19.4	2026-08-25 02:43:48 -07:00
sudacode	e816b3b371	fix(subtitles): recover positioned ASS word spacing and drop control debris (#217 )	2026-08-25 02:22:21 -07:00
sudacodeandsudacode	ed7d3f4c3d	feat(release): track prerelease deltas and validate committed notes (#216 ) Co-authored-by: sudacode <claude@lmaoxd.lol>	2026-08-23 15:24:18 -07:00
sudacode	509dc5bf7f	fix(subtitles): improve secondary subtitle extraction and display (#215 )	2026-08-23 01:56:49 -07:00
sudacode	0a0aa3ec98	chore(release): prepare v0.19.4-beta.4	2026-08-23 01:23:16 -07:00
sudacode	b87cc3cfdd	chore(workflow): add release skill	2026-08-23 01:14:03 -07:00
sudacode	8cb3c8c90a	fix(macos): pin window helper deployment target to fix older systems - Build the Swift window-tracking helper with an explicit `-target ...-apple-macos12.0` instead of letting swiftc stamp the build machine's OS, so the overlay attaches to mpv on older macOS (e.g. Ventura) instead of crashing at load - Fold the standalone build-macos-helper.sh into prepare-build-assets.mjs and update docs/tests to match	2026-08-23 00:58:24 -07:00
sudacode	03ea903927	fix(subtitles): preserve authored spaces in fragmented ASS karaoke - Only trim indentation before slicing ASS event fields so a trailing authored space at a fragment's end is kept, preventing words from being joined together when fragmented karaoke lines are reconstructed - Add regression test covering event-boundary word spacing	2026-08-22 23:32:35 -07:00
sudacode	3aea42e6f8	chore(release): prepare v0.19.4-beta.3	2026-08-21 23:25:37 -07:00
sudacode	88bb3edfa4	fix(subtitles): preserve lyric selection and deduplicate secondary text - Seek sidebar selections past overlapping karaoke exit spans - Collapse duplicate long ASS lines and omit reconstructed sign grids	2026-08-21 01:28:00 -07:00
sudacode	9445aef004	fix(subtitles): navigate by sanitized cues across ASS animation - Route subtitle navigation through parsed cue boundaries - Treat explicit short seeks as subtitle priming events	2026-08-20 00:20:51 -07:00
sudacode	c01bcd9d0f	fix(subtitles): collapse layered ASS lyrics across startup and seeks - Reconstruct fragment-only karaoke while preserving canonical animated signs - Reprocess live subtitles after initial playback and seek updates - Add a development launcher for playable media files	2026-08-19 22:55:10 -07:00
sudacode	695613b1e7	chore(release): prepare v0.19.4-beta.2	2026-08-19 02:19:40 -07:00
sudacode	20797772f8	fix(character-dictionary): cache completed MeCab refreshes (#212 )	2026-08-19 01:49:15 -07:00
sudacode	72c312810a	docs: link README demo to GitHub video playback - Use GitHub-hosted video playback for the README demo - Document the animated fallback behavior	2026-08-19 01:02:05 -07:00
sudacode	b61f050e78	docs: update mining demo and scale video crops - Refresh mining demo assets and documentation references - Scale mpv crop coordinates for resized OBS recordings	2026-08-19 00:55:31 -07:00
sudacode	2a77ba9dd4	fix(launcher): restore Matroska thumbnails in Linux rofi picker (#210 )	2026-08-18 20:30:58 -07:00
sudacode	4ed878270f	fix(stats): accept legacy lexical rollup state schemas	2026-08-18 02:24:49 -07:00
sudacode	1d1b0c7bb6	fix(subtitles): collapse duplicate primary ASS style layers - Use parsed cues when they fully explain mpv live text - Preserve unmatched overlapping dialogue and signs	2026-08-18 01:51:19 -07:00
sudacode	db61ce358d	fix(stats): preserve session rollups across schema upgrades - Stop deleting imm_daily_rollups/imm_monthly_rollups on unrelated schema version bumps; their source session/telemetry rows may already be pruned, so deleted buckets could not be rebuilt - Run startup session-rollup maintenance before the lexical rollup backfill takes the write lock, so recovery no longer races playback writes - Update the vocabulary summary totals changelog fragment to reflect that watch-time, activity, efficiency, and library charts are no longer cleared during rebuilds	2026-08-18 01:12:58 -07:00
sudacode	e9778a945a	fix(overlay): deduplicate secondary subtitle rendering (#208 )	2026-08-18 00:44:02 -07:00
sudacode	7de73e16a1	fix(stats): report complete vocabulary totals and new-word history (#202 )	2026-08-18 00:42:46 -07:00
sudacode	273652f781	fix(subtitles): recover canonical lines from ASS animation (#207 )	2026-08-18 00:30:48 -07:00