Developer's small 4K Android and Windows player adds thermal-aware decoding and a metered-data mode

The developer of the RKMovies media player describes two changes made after testers reported overheating on budget phones and excess data use on metered connections. The player now listens for system thermal-status changes during playback and drops to a lighter decode profile under moderate heat, while capping bitrate when battery falls below 20 percent. It also runs a short test decode at session start to catch devices that silently fall back to slower software decoding, and it skips prefetching on metered networks or when Data Saver is active. The Android APK is 1.17 MB and the Windows build is 29.5 MB, and the developer, who discloses being the author, asks users on low-end phones to report whether the changes help.