path: root/Release_notes.txt

Version 16.6

 * Support for 2 in 1 computers with touch screens.
   SMPlayer includes now a 'tablet mode', available in the menu Options.
   When the option is turned on it makes some changes in the interface
   so that it would be easier to control SMPlayer by touching the
   screen.
   When the user changes the tablet mode in the Windows 10 action
   center, SMPlayer will detect it and ask if it should switch to the
   SMPlayer's tablet mode as well.
 * Option to send video to an external screen.
   Now it's possible to send the video to a second screen connected to
   the computer, while controlling the application in the computer's
   screen.
 * Support for high DPI screens.
   On high DPI (dots per inch) screens SMPlayer looked very tiny. Now
   the interface is automatically scaled so it looks correctly. There
   are also settings in Preferences -> Interface -> High DPI where you
   can adjust manually the scale factor or turn off this feature.
 * Global shortcuts.
   Now it's possible to use the media keys (play/pause, stop, volume+/-,
   etc.) as global shortcuts. That means that those keys will work even
   when SMPlayer is in the background. You can activate this option in
   Preferences -> Keyboard and mouse.
 * Settings are remembered for online streams too.
   This means that, for example, SMPlayer can resume playback or set
   bookmarks on YouTube videos or other online streams (as long as they
   are seekable).
 * SMPlayer is now built with Qt 5 by default.


Version 16.4

 * The Windows installer now includes mpv as well.
 * Now it's easier to switch between mplayer and mpv (Preferences -> General,
   select either mplayer or mpv as multimedia engine).
 * The extrastereo filter works again when using mpv.
 * Possibility to use the VLC shortcuts. (Preferences -> Keyboard and
   mouse, click the load button, select vlc.keys)
 * Possibility to enable mouse gestures (when the mouse is dragged up or down
   in the video window the volume changes. If dragged left or right it
   changes the time position).
   You can enable this option in Preferences -> Keyboard and
   mouse -> Mouse -> Drag function: seek and volume.
 * A fix for saving bookmarks.
 * The option for streaming sites in Preferences -> Network is
   different now, and allows these values:
     Disabled: support for video sites is turned off
     Auto: enables the internal support for YouTube and uses mpv + youtube-dl
     for the rest of sites
     YouTube: only the internal support for YouTube will be used
     mpv + youtube-dl: uses mpv + youtube-dl for all sites
 * An animated icon has been added in the status bar to indicate when the player
   is buffering.
 * A new layout is used to display the media information (Options -> View info and
   properties).


Version 16.1

 * Fix for YouTube.
 * The screenshots work again with older versions of mplayer/mpv.
 * Possibility to add bookmarks (menu Browse), which allows to mark your
   favorite parts of the video for a quick access.
 * New option 'Prevent window to get outside of screen' in
   Preferences -> Interface.


Version 15.11

 * Fix for YouTube.
 * (Experimental) Support for YouTube live streams.
 * The thumbnail generator is much faster now.
 * New options to seek to the previous or next subtitle (mpv only).
 * New option (Preferences -> General) to select the image format for
   screenshots (mpv only).
 * Fix a crash when changing the GUI.
 * New option (Preferences -> Interface) to center the window
   automatically.
 * Display a tooltip in the time slider with the corresponding time of
   the mouse position.
 * Now there's an option in the configuration of the find subtitles window
   which allows to specify if the language code should be appended to the
   subtitle filename.
 * (Fix for Windows) The main window will be centered if it's partially
   outside of the desktop after an auto resize.
 * When adding files to the playlist the first item is moved to its
   correct place in the list.
 * (Experimental) New action to start/stop capturing the playback stream.
   The captured stream will be saved to the folder specified in
   the smplayer.ini option "capture_directory" with the name
   capture_NNNN.dump.
   It only works correctly with mpeg. With other formats the
   dumped stream won't play back.
 * Disable the extrastereo and karaoke filters when using mpv.


Version 15.9

 * Support for the 3D stereo filter.
 * We added support for mpv, which is a player based on MPlayer with
   new features and bug fixes.
 * Now it's possible to select a secondary subtitle track which is
   displayed on top of the screen (mpv only).
 * New option to set a template for screenshots (mpv only).
 * Now it's possible to play videos from streaming sites (besides Youtube)
   like DailyMotion, Vimeo, Vevo and many more (mpv only).
 * Option to step back one frame (mpv only).
 * The Windows installer now allows to choose the playback engine to install:
   mplayer or mpv.
 * Better support for YouTube (VEVO videos).
 * Possibility to set a proxy.
 * Allow duplicate items in the playlist.
 * New action (assigned by default to key "I") shows the current playback
   time, total time and percentage, for 2 seconds on the OSD.
 * Add the possibility to use the mouse buttons for "next chapter" and
   "previous chapter".
 * New option to delete a file in the playlist from the filesystem.
 * Add support for MPRIS2.
 * Possibility to compile SMPlayer without mplayer or mpv support.
 * The new H2O theme is now the default theme.


Version 14.9.

 * Fix for Youtube.
 * New option to shut down the computer when playback has finished.
 * The themes and skin icons are loaded from resource files (*.rcc).
 * New fix for searching subtitles from opensubtitles.org that should
   return more results.


Version 14.3.

 * Possibility to play (non-protected) blu-ray discs.
 * The control for fullscreen mode has been rewritten and improved.
   Now it is displayed over the video.
 * (Windows) New option in Preferences -> Subtitles to enable or
   disable the use of the Windows font directory. Disabling this option
   prevents the annoying font scanning.
 * Some presets have been added to the audio equalizer.
 * Better support for multimedia keys. This can help control SMPlayer with
   a remote control.
 * The option "Move the window when the video area is dragged" has been fixed.
 * (Windows) Now it's possible to open Windows shortcuts (symlinks).
 * Better support for Youtube.
 * (Windows) Better screensaver disabling.
 * Many bugfixes.
 * Possibility to compile with Qt 5.


Version 0.8.6.

 * SMPlayer can now update its internal Youtube code so it's not necessary
   to update smplayer everytime Youtube makes a change.
 * A section "Updates" has been added to the preferences dialog, where 
   it's possible to configure or disable the update checker.
 * SMPlayer could still fail to find some subtitles from 
   opensubtitles.org. Hopefully this is fixed.
 * (Windows) The autoload of subtitles with non latin1 filenames has been 
   fixed.
 * The Windows installer gives the possibility to delete most of the
   configuration files of smplayer. This can be useful if the configuration
   files have been corrupted or smplayer has been misconfigured.
   Linux users can use the command "smplayer -delete-config".
 * Several other bugfixes. See the Changelog for details.


Version 0.8.5.

 * Due to changes in opensubtitles.org, smplayer couldn't find
   subtitles anymore. This has been fixed.
 * The interface with support for skins is now the default.
 * An option to enter url(s) in the playlist has been added.
 * The options to change the size of the main window work now 
   even if the autoresize is set to never.
 * Two new options for Audio -> Stereo mode: Mono and Reverse.
 * The option "Move the window when the video area is dragged" is
   now disabled by default because it has some issues that need to
   be addressed.
 * (Linux) The problem with mplayer2 and the -fontconfig option has been 
   fixed (sort of).
 * New translation: Malay.
 * Some configuration options are changed to new defaults after installation
   to ease upgrade from old versions.


Version 0.8.4.

 * New option to select the fps for external subtitles.
 * The video equalizer dialog has been rewritten.
 * Now smplayer checks for updates automatically and notifies the user if 
   a new version is found.
 * Support for encoding ISO-8859-16 for subtitles.
 * New translations: Thai and Hebrew.
 * Some bugfixes.


Version 0.8.3.

 * Fix for youtube playback.


Version 0.8.2.

 * A skinnable interface has been added. Several skins are included.
 * Support for 6.1 and 7.1 audio output.
 * A "Privacy" section in the preferences dialog has been added. You can
   disable saving the recent files or URLs.
 * The main window can be moved by dragging the video area.
 * Fix for a freeze that may happen on Windows XP.
 * (Windows) The font cache is created before showing the GUI.


Version 0.8.1.

 * Fix youtube.


Version 0.8.0.

 * A toolbar editor has been added. Now it's possible to select the buttons 
   and controls that want to appear in the toolbars.
 * New video filters: gradfun, blur and sharpen.
 * Now it's possible to change the GUI (default, mini, mpc) at runtime,
   no restart required.
 * sub files from opensubtitles should work again.
 * (Youtube) Recognize short urls (like this one: http://y2u.be/F5OcZBVPwOA)
 * Better support for chapters in video files.
 * Bug fix: remote m3u files work from the favorites menu or command line.
 * Internal changes in the single instance option (switch to 
   QtSingleApplication).


Version 0.7.1.

This version include some bug fixes, some of them important. It's highly
recommended to update.

Fixes:
 * SMPlayer took more than 10 seconds to show when running for the very
   first time.
 * The links to download subtitles from Opensubtitles were wrong.
 * SMPlayer crashed in the favorite editor when trying to select a file if
   the KDE open dialog was used.
 * Some translations were missing in the Windows package.

New:
 * By default the screenshots are saved in the user's pictures folder instead
   of the SMPlayer's config folder.
 * Now it's possible to change the opensubtitles server.
 * Youtube: seeking is slow with flv videos, so now flv videos have the 
   lowest priority.
 * Youtube: now it's possible to search and download videos from youtube.
   This is provided by an external application (in linux you have to install
   an independent package: smtube).


Version 0.7.0.

Most important changes since 0.6.10:

* New favorite menu, where you can add your favorite videos, music, streams,
  youtube videos... It's also possible to add submenus.
* Support for youtube. Now you can open urls like 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=..... using the Open -> URL dialog or 
  dragging a link from a browser to the smplayer window.
* Support for mplayer2 (http://www.mplayer2.org). It's a fork of mplayer with
  interesting features like precise seeking, ordered chapters in mkv videos and
  better pause handling (e.g. seek works while the video is paused).
* New translation: croatian.


Version 0.6.10.

Most important changes since 0.6.9:

* New vdpau configuration dialog, which allow to select the vdpau codecs to use.
* Port for eCS, OS/2 (by Silvan Scherrer).
* New menu to select the closed caption channel (requires mplayer >= r32607).
* Possibility to select the seeking method (absolute or relative).
* Possibility to sort the items of the playlist.


Version 0.6.9.

Most important changes since 0.6.8:

* A serious bug has been fixed: sometimes smplayer failed to find subtitles 
  in opensubtitles.org.
* Implemented the possibility to mark an A-B section, to play a part of the
  file only.
* (Linux) smplayer doesn't use alsa as default audio driver anymore. It should
  fix freezing problems on Ubuntu.
* Possibility to display the video resolution and frames per second in the
  status bar.
* Audio: selection of left or right channel does work now.
* (Linux) Improved support for vdpau.


Version 0.6.8.

Most important changes since 0.6.7:

* Added support for TV (more info in Watching_TV.txt).
* New option to enable a global volume.
* (Linux) Support for vdpau.
* New option to take consecutive screenshots.
* Possibility to add some of the submenus to the toolbars.
* Better support for *.ts files (requires mplayer >= r29381).
* Added the Vietnamese translation.
* Added the Estonian translation.
* (Windows) New options to try to disable the screensaver.


Version 0.6.7.

Most important changes since 0.6.6:

* Added experimental (and uncomplete) support for dvd menus. Requires a mplayer
  build compiled with dvdnav support. Please read dvdmenus.txt to know how
  to enable it.
* Now loading an external subtitle file doesn't require to restart the mplayer
  process (except for idx/sub subtitles).
* (Playlist) When a file is added to the playlist, if it was already in the 
  list, it's moved to the end of the list.
* Options for mplayer: finally spaces in arguments between quotes are handled 
  properly.
* Added two options (in the audio and subtitle menus) to allow the user to 
  enter the audio and subtitle delay (in milliseconds).
* (ASS subtitles) The outline and shadow options now accept values with 
  decimals.
* (ASS subtitles) Possibility to change the color of the border and shadow.
* Now the default value for the "correct pts" option is auto.
* (Windows) Now the screensaver is allowed to turn on if the file is paused 
  or it's an audio file.
* (Windows) The direct3d video output is now the default for Windows Vista.


Version 0.6.6.

Most important changes since 0.6.5:

* Added an option to generate a preview (thumbnails) of the video.
* Added a new gui (mpcgui, a media player classic clone) developed by 
  Matthias Petri.
* Added some auto zoom options, to display the video without black borders.
* Implemented a new (and optional) method to save the file settings.
  This method uses an ini file per each played file. It's faster than the old
  one.
* Added a new option in Preferences->Video: add black borders on
  fullscreen. If this option is enabled, black borders will be added to
  the image in fullscreen mode. This allows subtitles to be displayed on
  the black borders.
* Increased the resolution of the seekbar. Allows a more accurate seeking.
* Added 3 modes for the stay on top option: always, never and while playing.
* Added a history to the open URL dialog.
* Added new action to cycle through all aspect ratios. Assigned by default to 
  key "A".
* It's possible to run some specified actions every time a file is loaded.
* Possibility to set up a proxy for internet connections (used for subtitle
  downloading).


Version 0.6.5.

Most important changes since 0.6.4:

* The subtitles when using the SSA/ASS library can now be further
  customized. It's possible to select the font, size, colors, bold,
  italic, outline, shadow... 
* (Linux) Now smplayer tries to follow the XDG Base Directory
  Specification for the config files. That means the now the configuration
  files will be saved under the directory $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/smplayer (or 
  $HOME/.config/smplayer if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined). 
  If you want to keep your preferences, copy or move the files from 
  $HOME/.smplayer to the new location.
* Added some options in Preferences->Interface to configure the floating 
  control.
* The commandline option -ini-path has been removed and replaced with
  -config-path, which specifies the directory where smplayer will store
  its data (not only smplayer.ini).


Version 0.6.4.

Most important changes since 0.6.3:

 * Now the dialog to find subtitles can also download the subtitle file and 
   load it in smplayer automatically.
 * (Linux) The black screen problem when using Compiz should really be fixed 
   now.
 * Added support for encoding autodetection for subtitle files. Requires a 
   mplayer compiled with enca support.
 * (Linux) Now it's possible to choose the audio device to be used with alsa 
   (needs the application "aplay").
 * (Windows) Now it's possible to choose the audio device to be used with 
   dsound.
 * (Windows) The menu Video->Screen displays now the actual available screens
   with their names.
 * Added the possibility to add consecutive files (video_01.avi, video_02.avi..)
   automatically to the playlist.
 * Bugfix: logout is not cancelled by smplayer.
 * Now the options in preferences display a tooltip with a help message.
 * Now it's possible to change the video track.
 * Added the Galician translation.


Version 0.6.3.1 (release for Windows only)

This release includes a fix for an important bug in 0.6.3 which affected
the version for Windows: the video window would be black on the first
video played, or always if the user opened the preferences dialog before
playing a video. In those cases "directx," was used as video driver but
the -colorkey option was not passed to mplayer producing the problem.
Windows Vista probably wasn't affected by this bug, as it uses a
different video driver as default.


Version 0.6.3.

Most important changes since 0.6.2 (see the Changelog for the whole list):

 * Two fixes for Windows Vista. Now IPv4 is used by default (connection to
   networks are faster). And now it really uses "gl:yuv=2:force-pbo:ati-hack" 
   as the default video output driver. Note: this mode could give problems 
   with some graphic cards (specially ATI), if you experience any, try the
   other gl variants, or just directx.
 * (Linux) Added a fix for a black screen problem when using Compiz.
 * Added an option to select the number of threads that mplayer will use for
   decoding (only works for MPEG-1/2 and some H.264 videos).
 * Added the possibility to disable the audio equalizer. Seems to be necessary
   to use the S/PDIF output.
 * Added some options to increase/decrease the speed by 1% and 4%. This allows
   to play 24 fps movies at 25 fps speed and vice versa.
 * Fix: sometimes the playlist is not shown. Added a workaround for the problem.
 * Added some checks to avoid crashes when selecting subtitle tracks.
 * (Windows) Added a new submenu Video->Screen to select the screen which will
   display the video when using directx.
 * The settings in smplayer.ini have been reorganized in several sections. 
   (This also means most of your preferences will be lost and you will have to 
   reconfigure smplayer again).
 * Added an option to mirror the video. And now it's also possible to flip and
   rotate the subtitles along with the image.
 * Added a new shortcut set (sda.keys) which can be loaded in the shortcut 
   editor in preferences.
 * Added two new translations: Arabic and Kurdish.


Version 0.6.2.

Most important changes since 0.6.1:

 * Added an audio equalizer (please read Audio_equalizer.txt).
 * Added a dialog to search and download subtitles from opensubtitles.org
   (See Finding_subtitles.txt).
 * The toolbars can be configured. The user can remove, add or change the
   order of the buttons. Right now it can only be done by editing manually
   the configuration file. A graphical editor will be added in the next
   version. See Configuring_the_toolbars.txt.
 * The single instance port can now be chosen automatically by the application.
 * Possibility to compile a portable version which (by default) won't write 
   anything outside the smplayer's folder. It won't write either anything 
   in the Windows registry. See Portable_Edition.txt for details.
 * Added the Slovenian translation.


Version 0.6.1.

Most important changes since 0.6.0 final:

 * Now compact mode resizes the window, instead of leaving black borders.
 * Added an option in Preferences->Interface which allows the user to select
   his/her preferred GUI. This way it's easier to use the mini GUI, for those
   who prefer a simpler interface with few buttons.
 * One more fix for Qt 4.4. The option FAQ in the Help menu didn't work.
 * (Windows) Fix: zoom didn't work well (black blocks appeared) if using 
   directx.
 * Added the Catalan translation.


Version 0.6.0 final.

Most important changes since 0.6.0rc4:

 * (Bugfix) Two mplayer processes were run when opening a file. This could
   even make Aero in Windows Vista to be disabled.
 * Seeking with the time slider works much better.
 * Now it's possible to add directories recursively to the playlist.
 * Added a preferences dialog for the playlist.
 * The right mouse button can be configured.
 * (Linux) File managers should now display an option to enqueue files in
   the smplayer playlist.
 * (Fix) The playlist was shown for a small moment on startup. This caused
   problems if using compiz, as the window might not hide.
 * Fix for Qt 4.4, the logo didn't show.
 * Some translations have been updated (Simplified-Chinese, Italian, 
   Ukrainian, Dutch, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, 
   Spanish and German)
 * Now the file Install.txt contains updated info about how to compile and
   install smplayer.


Version 0.6.0rc4.

Most important changes since 0.6.0rc3:

 * (Bugfix) Now DVDs start to play at chapter #1, instead of chapter #2, 
   if using mplayer 1.0rc2 or older.
 * (Fix) A delay could happen on startup if there were non local files in 
   the recent's menu.
 * (Bugfix) When using the command line options -send-action or -actions, 
   some actions like aspect_4:3 didn't work.
 * Initial support for edl files. If a file with the same name of the file 
   to play but with extension .edl (or .EDL) exists, then smplayer will load 
   it automatically. An edl file allows to skip or mute parts of the video.
 * Possibility to automatically get info (length and name) about the files 
   added to the playlist. This option is enabled by defaul on linux and
   disabled on windows (it's slow in this OS).
 * Added in Preferences->General->Video an option to select the default 
   deinterlacer.
 * Added support for the mouse's buttons XButton1 and XButton2.
 * Some new options have been added to the list of available actions for
   mouse buttons.
 * Possibility to merge the 6 seeking buttons in the GUI into only two.
   It would only show the "rewind 10 secs" and "forward 10 secs" buttons. 
   Keeping them pressed for a moment would popup menu with the rest of the 
   buttons. This option is DISABLED by default and currently it can only be 
   enabled at compile time changing the MINI_ARROW_BUTTONS define in 
   src/guiconfig.h before compiling.


Version 0.6.0rc3.

Most important changes since 0.6.0rc2:

 * (Windows) Enqueuing multiple files in smplayer should work ok now even 
   if smplayer is not running.
 * Added new menu Video->Rotate, with options to rotate the image.
 * Added new option Play->Jump to, which will show a dialog where you can 
   enter the position (time) to jump.
 * Added two new options in the Subtitles menu: "Enable closed caption" and 
   "Forced subtitles only".
 * The software equalizer should work now with gl, gl2 and directx:noaccel.
 * Some multimedia keys should be recognized now in the shortcut editor.
 * Added help for all options in the preferences dialog.
 * New error dialog which will be shown if mplayer crashes, fails to start
   or finishes unexpectedly.
 * SMPlayer will try to use xv (or directx in windows) as default.
 * Added two new translations: Macedonian and Basque.


Version 0.6.0rc2.

This version includes some bugfixes.

Most important changes since 0.6.0rc1:

 * Fix for relative paths to the mplayer binary. The problem could cause that
   smplayer couldn't play anything if a directory or file named "mplayer"
   existed in the home directory.
 * The option Play -> Repeat has been improved.
 * The selection of chapters in mkv files didn't work well if using a recent
   mplayer from svn. This has been fixed now.
 * (Windows) Bugfix: the buttons to select the font color in
   Preferences->Subtitles->SSA/ASS didn't show the color.
 * (Windows) Now the screensaver should be disabled even if protected by 
   password (tested on Windows XP).
 * (Windows) Bugfix: don't try to convert to 8.3 short names files that
   don't exist. That could cause that URLs were corrupted.


Version 0.6.0rc1.

Most important changes since 0.5.62:

 * Added support for pls playlist files.
 * Better accuracy on subtitle selection. Fixes problems with mp4 embedded 
   subtitles. Requires mplayer svn r25158 or above.
 * Now the screensaver and powersave on Windows are really turned off, even on
   Windows Vista.
 * The cache setting is independent for each type of media.
 * Added an option which allows to fix the problem of loud volume on startup
   (requires a patched mplayer).
 * (Windows) The file associations code has been improved. Now it should work
   better in Windows Vista as well as other versions of Windows.
 * New option Video->Add black borders, which replaces the letterbox options 
   in Video->Aspect ratio.
 * (Windows) Work-around for a mplayer bug: now filenames with characters 
   outside the local codepage can be opened, by passing to mplayer the short 
   version of the filename. This can be enabled in Preferences->Advanced.
 * Now the H.264 loop filter can be disabled for High Definition videos only
   (720p and above).
 * Possibility to update the video while dragging the time slider.
 * New icons for the default theme.
 * SSA/ASS subtitles can also be resized during playback. Requires at least 
   mplayer r25843.
 * Now it's possible to zoom out the video image.
 * New Help->About dialog.
 * New option Help->FAQ which will show the FAQ.
 * Bugfix: the colorkey is passed properly to mplayer.
 * Added the Finnish and the Korean translations.