Notes on what’s shipping in main, why it’s shaped the way it is, and what’s
next. Mythos has not cut a tagged release yet — these posts track phases as
they land.
Retiring Tauri for Qt 6, and the library-admin polish round
The desktop client got rewritten from Tauri to Qt 6 + cxx-qt with libmpv rendered into a QQuickFramebufferObject and IPC over QWebChannel. The library-admin surface picked up Refresh-art, Stop-scan, per-series Rescan and Rematch, auto-rematch on directory rename, per-season poster download from TMDb, and a handful of nav and scanner fixes.
ReadA 4K ABR tier, source-aware pruning, and a manual quality picker
The ABR ladder gains a 2160p rung, the master playlist prunes tiers that would only upscale the source, the player gets a manual quality picker, and minimizing out of fullscreen finally stops eating the controls.
ReadSetup wizard, alphabet jump bar, mini-bar player, and a desktop client
A 3-step onboarding wizard, a Plex-style alphabet jump bar on library browse, a persistent mini-bar player that survives navigation, the start of a native Tauri desktop client, and a TMDb identifier that finally gets Blade Runner 2049 right.
ReadDocker images, title search, and a new player
Four pieces of work since Phase 3 landed: a published Docker image, a title-search box across movies and series, a media-chrome player rebuild, and the Tonemapx CPU pipeline.
ReadPhase 3 starts: TV lands, plus HDR→SDR tonemapping
TV scanner, schema, episode playback, continue-watching, auto-play-next — and an explicit HDR→SDR tonemap pipeline in the transcoder.
ReadPhase 5 — hardware-accelerated streaming lands
Multi-rendition ABR HLS, subtitle burn-in, and client-declared device profiles are all in main.
ReadHello, Mythos
Why I'm building another media server, and what's actually in it right now.
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