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1.16 (25-Apr-2016)
- video as UI element. Both for DUI and CUI. Multiple instances are allowed. Fullscreen view from UI element is possible. Like floating video window full screen has seek bar, proper reaction on foobar keyboard shortcuts, basic playback control from keyboard (volume by Up/Down, play/pause by Space) and exit full screen by Esc key. UI element is additional functionality, i.e. current floating video window (menu View » Visualisations » Youtube Video) stays as is and will be the only way to have video UI separated from main window (at least within the component, using popup panels this might be possible)
- video autoplay (configured per UI element, for floating window available as well). Enabled by default. Can be disabled using video frame context menu. If disabled, video wont start playing until it will be manually selected using video frame context menu
- local video caching has been changed a bit. Now at switching to different quality the previous one will be freezed (instead of removing) until track is playing. If any UI element or separated video frame will need the same quality, it will pick up existing one. Use Activity UI element if you wonder about details what is going on with media data that is being downloaded by the component
- (DUI-only) UI elements configuration related to UI element itself (rather than to functionality represented by it) is now available only in editing mode (UI element border etc.)
- fixed subtitles downloading. Embedded lyrics source also has been improved. Now it is possible to search subtitles on Youtube for tracks that are not Youtube tracks (disabled by default, should be enabled in 'Youtube Source' lyrics provider settings)
- check for beta version when running stable (disabled by default). Purpose is quite obvious and not new - there are no way to test everyting, so when one thing it getting fixed or improved, some other things may become broken. Beta is a period for few weeks to find these issues. If you want to get new features earlier by the price of possible problems then check appropriate option in Advanced component preferences
- minimal required version for LAV Video has been lowered to 0.59.1. Note, minimal version for LAV Splitter stays 0.67 to fully support MPEG DASH format
- force Runtime Config mode for LAV filter (LAV Splitter or LAV Video, independently) when local filter version is used. Runtime Config mode means use default filter settings and do not store them in the system. Component uses newer version of the filter. But when local filter has newer version, there are no easy way to not use global settings from older filter version. And there are no any way to display settings UI for local filter in this case. I.e. will be used local filter, but will be displayed settings UI of the filter registered in the system. To prevent possible issues because of all this, local filter now will always use Runtime Config mode
- advanced options to use Runtime Config mode for LAV Splitter and LAV Video. I.e. force it even when using filters registered in the system
- stop video when UI element is invisible. Video downloading will be paused at this time. This behavior is enabled by default and can be disabled using appropriate checkbox in preferences Advanced » Tools » Youtube Source » Video » 'Stop video when UI element is invisible'
- enhancement for Youtube related to better recognition of audio qualities brought by spatial audio (example playlist) i.e. they will be recognized without need for deep analysis (last option of Playback Start group). Note, to get them need to select third option in Playback Start (by default there is selected second one)
- internal ffmpeg updated to 3.0.1
- internal libcurl updated to 7.48
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