(cherry picked from commit fea2b417)

(cherry picked from commit d473feca)

(cherry picked from commit b2e32188)

playback controller: rework media list handling, remove capability to play individual files, handle TV show episodes in the playlist way (fixes #14589, #14794, #14800)

(cherry picked from commit 2cca9d0b)

(cherry picked from commit 881ecd30)

Signed-off-by: Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>
(cherry picked from commit b9c80ed6)

Signed-off-by: Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>
(cherry picked from commit 1cad30ae)

(cherry picked from commit 0a056307b5d6a52c56bbadfbeab9993776d4d138)

(cherry picked from commit edb8335a6eb5ceb6406a36a6e2b1fd85041c7899)

(cherry picked from commit 45ae9c3c0436ddc2a291d046743c817b7d02da4c)

(cherry picked from commit 151994495281246687e390c153630d9b6a7ceb87)

(cherry picked from commit b31c2a76e6116022165f0f2c1e2ea7b38c8713b7)

(cherry picked from commit fd768d34390d3a2ab482e02ac8690ed701c7df0c)

(cherry picked from commit e12e68580f7d0de77d6e68fb8cf9e6e536c1a65f)

plex: clean-up the implementation to remove mutable states from APIs, mutable states from iterations, to save ObjC selector dispatches and to never perform network operations on the main thread

(cherry picked from commit 4de4e74e9d18edeea10a5e7b834c6ea646ae9cf9)

(cherry picked from commit 62910e94b88926ac5092c9443fb262f7e848c828)

(cherry picked from commit 8bd2da2d1b2e1a593ef609913fd9c21bed999c66)

(cherry picked from commit fad950f2)

(cherry picked from commit 110cc191)
Signed-off-by: Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit c4736292)
Signed-off-by: Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit 15c7907c)

(cherry picked from commit 31b830cd)

(cherry picked from commit 29bb59ad)

(cherry picked from commit fbd205af)

this fixes opening any subtitles format as well as a handful of audio and video formats from third party apps

(cherry picked from commit e015547e)

(cherry picked from commit 154031c7)

(cherry picked from commit 77f2355c)
Signed-off-by: Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit 4ef903a6)
Signed-off-by: Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>

(cherry picked from commit 4672a88d)

(cherry picked from commit 814faecc)

(cherry picked from commit 63081a97)

(cherry picked from commit 44ec83df)

(cherry picked from commit a8b1544f)

(cherry picked from commit d301d16a)

(cherry picked from commit 5c6cd73a)

(cherry picked from commit 9e0c6135)

(cherry picked from commit 7a82cd2d)

(cherry picked from commit 629c7f10)

(cherry picked from commit 9ced6556)