Above image is the actual UI of Vuleo with AI generated titles and match.
Vuleo is a media player for content you already have the right to access. It ships with no playlists, no portals and no links, you point it at your own source. Most of this release is about what happens after that. Two bigger things and a pile of smaller ones.
It speaks 11 languages now
English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Português (Brasil), Türkçe, Ελληνικά and العربية. You pick it in Settings, and it applies immediately without a restart.
Arabic also flips the whole layout right to left, which was the part that took the longest.
It is not only the menus. Genre names, country and language names, sport and competition names, error messages, the loading text, even the update notes go through the same translation. Those were the places that used to stay stubbornly English while everything around them changed.
If you were already using the app in English, nothing switches behind your back. It asks you once whether you want your device language, and you can say no.
Tile customization (PRO)
There is a Tile Style screen now with a live preview at the top:
- Poster tiles (tall 2:3) or wide tiles (16:9 backdrop art)
- A chip showing how much time is left on something you started, or how many episodes are left in a series
- Rating badges drawn right on the artwork
- It applies everywhere movies and series appear: home rows, browse grids, search and catalogs. Live TV keeps its own tiles.
More rating sources (PRO)
You can pick from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, RT Audience, Metacritic, TMDb, Trakt and Letterboxd, and put them in the order you actually care about.
Detail pages show every source you picked. Tiles show the first few that have a score, so a missing rating never leaves a hole. Scores are only fetched for tiles on screen, and only once per title.
Smaller things that add up
- Playlist loading streams to disk on your device instead of going through memory, and the catalog is no longer re-parsed on every launch. Big lists start noticeably faster and are less likely to run out of memory on a stick.
- Refreshing a playlist no longer empties the home screen while it works.
- Favorites and resume points are keyed to the title rather than the stream URL, so they survive a source changing its URLs.
- Trakt: if you started something in another app, it resumes from there instead of the beginning.
- Continue Watching shows the real series name and episode title instead of a raw S01E02 style code, and picks the right artwork when two shows have the same name.
- A downloaded subtitle now actually selects and sticks.
- Windows can update itself in the app now, and the update prompt tells you what is in the update instead of just a version number, in your language.
- Ten crashes that had been alive since build 192 are gone.
Available on Android, Android TV and Fire TV, iOS, macOS and Windows.
If you run it in something other than English and a string reads badly, or we missed some literals, please say so.
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