ShowShark Release Notes

Coming soon.

Overview At first I thought it’d be pretty simple to implement downloads and offline playback. I’d need a workaround for the realtime pacing that happens on the server while transcoding (ie, transcode as fast as possible), and I’d need to save it to “disk” (client side) for offline playback. What

watchOS App * New Apple Watch client with full media browsing, playback, and server connectivity. The watch app connects to the ShowShark Server via HTTP long-polling (since watchOS blocks direct WebSocket connections) and streams media using HLS * HLS video and audio playback on watchOS with optimized transcoding (198x242 at 400 kbps)

This release was much faster in the making than I expected, given the long todo list I was left with when I finally decided to draw the line and push the first release to the App Store. There remain a handful of “odds and ends” I could tackle. The only

ShowShark v2026.02.16 Release Notes ShowShark is a personal media server and client system. The server runs on macOS, managing your media library and streaming content to client apps on iOS, tvOS, macOS, and visionOS. This is the first public release of ShowShark, representing a full-featured media streaming platform