SubMiner/changes/anime-browser.md

type: added area: anime

• Added an anime browser window that searches Aniyomi extension sources, shows cover art and episode lists, and plays an episode in mpv so the overlay and mining tools attach as usual.
• Added subminer anime and the --anime flag to open the browser, plus a "Browse Anime" tray entry.
• Anime extensions are read from <userData>/anime-extensions; drop Aniyomi .apk files there to add sources.
• Added a source settings tab so extensions that need configuration (server address, credentials, quality) can be set up from the browser; values persist per source.
• Added an Extensions tab for adding repository URLs and installing, updating, or removing extensions in place; extensions that fail to load are listed with the reason.
• Browse, Extensions, and Source settings are tabs, so each one gets the full window instead of sharing it with the search results.
• Repository URLs only need to be an https URL to a .json index; the file name is not restricted to index.min.json.
• The source picker offers "All sources", which searches every installed source at once. Results stream in as each source answers — a fast source is on screen while a slow one is still resolving, with per-source progress in the status bar. Results are tagged with the source they came from, and a source that fails is named in the status bar instead of blanking the grid.
• The Extensions tab opens with an Installed section listing every extension on disk with Remove — including ones added by hand or whose repository has since been removed — and Update where a configured repository still carries it.
• Added anime.repos, anime.extensionsDir, and anime.preferredQuality config keys. SubMiner ships no extension repositories and performs no discovery.
• Anime playback targets Japanese audio: dub-labelled entries are skipped when the source offers an alternative, alang prefers Japanese, and the source's own audio and subtitle tracks are loaded into mpv (Japanese selected) instead of being discarded, so all of them can be switched from mpv's track menu.
• The primary subtitle slot stays reserved for Japanese: a source that only has, say, English subtitles gets them added with a normalized language tag (English → en) but not selected, so the regular secondarySub auto-load can route them to the secondary slot instead.
• HLS streams pass through a local strip proxy that removes fake image headers some hosts glue onto their video segments, so streams ffmpeg would otherwise probe as "a PNG" and abandon now play in mpv.
• The strip proxy retries a failed segment fetch once after a short pause and logs upstream error statuses; a host that errors on the very first fetches right after an episode resolves no longer kills the whole playback.
• The strip proxy no longer forwards Range headers to the bridge: ffmpeg opens every HLS segment with Range: bytes=0-, the bridge answers some of those with 206, and a partial response bypassed the disguise strip, so whether an episode played depended on the bridge's cache state.
• A bridge that dies out from under the app (killed, crashed, or stopped mid-operation) no longer leaves the browser failing every request until an app restart: the exit is detected, surfaced in the status bar, and the bridge restarts on the next request.
• "Playing" is only reported once mpv actually configures a video output; when a stream fails to decode, the browser shows mpv's error instead of claiming playback started while no window ever appeared.
• The Linux x64 bridge bundle is verified and pinned, so the anime browser starts on Linux instead of refusing with "No pinned checksum for linux-x64-bundle.zip".
• The bridge bundle is fetched from the pinned release tag rather than whatever release is newest, so an upstream publish no longer breaks every install with a checksum mismatch.
• The Extensions tab's available list has a language chip row: pick one or more languages to narrow a repository index that otherwise lists every language it knows, or "All" to clear the filter. Rows name the language ("Japanese" instead of ja) and the Available heading counts what the filter leaves.
• A stream's subtitle tracks are downloaded to a temp directory and loaded into mpv as files rather than streamed from the source URL, so they can serve as the alass reference in Subsync the way Jellyfin subtitles do. The format is detected from the file's own content, a track that fails to download falls back to its URL so the episode still plays, and the directory is removed when the next episode starts or the app exits.
• An episode launched from the browser carries its series, season and episode number through the app instead of a single joined string: stats group by series (every stream previously landed in one entry named m3u8), rewatching reuses the existing entry, the Jimaku and TsukiHime modals prefill Title/Season/Episode from the source's own listing, AniList updates use those fields directly, and the mpv title reads Series S03E04 - Episode Name.
• Opening the browser shows a tray icon on every platform and — on macOS — puts the app in the Cmd+Tab switcher and Dock, so you can switch between it and mpv; the Dock icon is released again when the window closes during playback. Launching a video starts a regular SubMiner session, and in subminer anime standalone mode closing the window during playback no longer quits the app and kills the stream.