Rules took only a scalar, so the documented list syntax raised LanguageTagError after the mux. Normalise every condition, treat an invalid tag as no match, guard the surrounding post-mux config reads, and let a rule match dual, multi and dubbed so a release can carry its own tag.
Strip cue classes, <v>/<lang>/ruby and karaoke timestamps before conversion, decode entities for SRT/SSA/ASS, load pysubs2 as utf-8-sig, and route sdh_method: filter-subs through convert_before_strip instead of raising.
Gate a title on audio or video languages that must exist, independent of what -l/-al/-vl select. --require-subs joins the same gate: its --s-lang conflict and download-all side effect are gone, so -sl now decides what to keep. Requiring a language that is also excluded fails at parse time.
Grow the service session pool to downloads * workers before track downloads, run mkvmerge jobs concurrently (muxing.concurrency, default 4), lock DRM preparation per key set instead of globally, and query local vaults first then remote vaults together.
--anilist supersedes --animeapi (REST: anilist_id); the keyless AniList
GraphQL provider joins the registry with title search, mal: ID lookup,
an ANILIST mkv tag, and the anilist_title_language config option.
Services mark anime via Service.ANIME / Title.anime for anilist-first
metadata resolution with fall-through.
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