Feature Request: Local Smart Filters for Playlists & Continue Watching for External Players

[Ashyer0xi]

Feature Request: Smart Filtering/Sorting Engine & External Player Progress Sync

🚀 Problem Statement / Motivation

In large IPTV playlists (M3U / Xtream Codes), users often struggle with massive amounts of cluttered, unfiltered content (e.g., unwanted languages, missing subtitles, or mixed sources). Furthermore, while external players (like VLC or MX Player) offer great playback features, users lose the "Continue Watching" progress tracking because external players don't natively sync their playback position back to the app.

💡 Proposed Solution

1. Smart Filtering & Dynamic Sorting Engine:

   • Conditional Filtering: Allow users to apply local rules to filter out unwanted content (e.g., show only items matching specific language criteria, subtitles, or preferred sources).
   • "Date Added" Smart Sorting: Implement sorting based on when the item was actually added/available in the playlist (e.g., sorting newly added titles from 2025/2026 to the top, regardless of the media's original production year like 2005).
   • Safe & Local Processing: All filtering and sorting should happen 100% locally on the client-side (using cached metadata) to avoid any extra server requests or triggering rate limits/bans from providers.

2. Continue Watching Support for External Players:

   • Implement a mechanism (via Android Intents return results, file state polling, or IPC callbacks where supported) to capture the playback timestamp/position when users return from an external player, ensuring the "Continue Watching" progress list stays accurate and up-to-date.

✅ Benefits

• Transforms the app into a clean, personalized media center tailored to the user's exact preferences.
• Keeps the seamless "Continue Watching" experience intact, even for users who prefer external video players.
• Keeps all data management lightweight and local without stressing the provider's server.

[infinitel8p]

Hey, most of the filtering/sorting half is already in the app. The View menu on /movies and /series has "Recently added" (sorts on the provider's added / last_modified timestamp, so new 2026 uploads of a 2005 movie land on top), plus a language filter, "group languages" and "hide watched". On top of that there's per-category visibility (hide whole groups you never watch), genre categories, and the actor filter, and there's a whole /recently-added page and hub strip. All of it runs off the local IndexedDB catalog cache at display time, so no extra provider calls. If you want a hand-picked subset, custom playlists (Playlists -> new custom playlist) let you curate channels across your other playlists.

Plain M3U playlists have no "added" attribute at all, so date sorting is Xtream-only right now. Subtitle filtering isn't really possible without a per-title detail call for every item, which is exactly the rate-limit problem you're trying to avoid.

As for Progress sync: we already pass the resume position into MPV/VLC, and the in-app Android player reports its position back, but third-party apps are launched fire-and-forget. I don't want to chase per-app hacks for that, since only some of them can report anything back at all. The plan is an embedded mpv on every platform instead, which gives us the playback position directly for free and makes this work the same everywhere. That's a bigger job, so no ETA, but it's the direction rather than app-specific workarounds.

Closing this since the filtering side is mostly covered, but feel free to reply here if you have more on it. New ideas are better off as their own discussion.

[Ashyer0xi]

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation! I really appreciate your time and the deep technical insight. You've built an incredible, feature-rich app, and I'm genuinely impressed by how well-structured and powerful Extreme-InfiniTV is.

Regarding the external player progress sync, your plan for an embedded MPV sounds like the ultimate and cleanest solution for the long term.

In the meantime, for anyone using MPV as an external player right now who wants automatic progress tracking, subtitle memory, and resume functionality, I found a clean workaround using MPV's native configuration. You can easily set it up by going to the menu (the three lines on the left) and clicking 'edit config file', then adding these lines to your mpv.conf:

save-position-on-quit=yes
watch-later-options=start,aid,sid,volume,mute
resume-playback=yes
write-filename-in-watch-later-config=yes

watch-later-dir="C:\path\to\your\watch_later" # (Optional: set a custom path if needed)

This remembers your exact stopping point, preferred subtitle (sid), and audio tracks automatically when quitting.

Thanks again for your amazing work and for keeping this project so open and flexible. Keep up the fantastic work!

[infinitel8p]

Fix is coming now to beta