Xt7-Player Changelog

What's new in Xt7-Player 3.5.4

Oct 13, 2014
  • FIX: Spurious osd messages removed
  • CHANGE: Alsa audio output driver tabstrip now fills a (non exhaustive) list of available alsa pcms
  • FIX: Out of bounds MplayerClass.Analyze.1738
  • FIX: Gb.image.effect isn't really needed.
  • New: *experimental* Dynamic Overbright in videoequalizer (similar to dynamic contrast)
  • New: "overbright" slider in video equalizer window.
  • FIX: Do not crash on radio tab select if network is down
  • FIX: Enable pulse audio driver controls
  • CHANGE: Do not use dyndns urls anymore
  • FIX: Playlist items move was broken, fixed.
  • FIX: Do not parse unavailable audio/video output drivers
  • FIX: Unvalidate cached options on profile load (??)

New in Xt7-Player 3.5.2 (Mar 17, 2014)

  • NEW: Hungarian Translation (thanks to Toroka)
  • NEW: Initial Icecast support
  • NEW: New Option (Generaloptions->Audio) to precise seek into mp3 streams. Enabled by default
  • NEW: New stereo3d video filter available
  • NEW: New option in Generaloptions->Network to prefer (or discard) 3D videos from youtube
  • NEW: New reset button in video equalizer window to restore default values
  • FIX: Try to keep the previously selected sub and audio stream across applies/mplayer restarts
  • FIX: "Related videos" wasn't needed/used since youtube tree navigation for related videos was introduced months ago.
  • FIX: Apply video equalizer settings (if auto apply is checked) and search for yt subtitles on apply/restart
  • FIX: Do not delete files if the user closes the window asking for confirmation!
  • FIX: Skip DASH (audio only or video only) youtube formats (youtube works again in git)
  • FIX: Detect *.googlevideo.* as youtube urls too
  • FIX: Workaround for date calculation on dvbt.
  • FIX: Drop dvbt event on wrong datediff
  • FIX epg search was broken, fixed
  • FIX: Lyrics finder didn't work, fixed
  • FIX: Do not crash when trying to play non existing files right from the album tab.
  • FIX: Dropped gb.xml and replaced bu gb.libxml; packagers should update deps.
  • FIX: fixed Simplified (and speedup) parsing of shoutcast feeds
  • CHANGE: Updated Russian Translation thanks to VictoR
  • CHANGE: Italian translation updates
  • CHANGE: Updated Russian Translation thanks to VictoR
  • CHANGE: Subtitles and audio stream choose buttons are now menu buttons.
  • WORKAROUND: Replace https urls with http ones due to mplayer limitation
  • WORKAROUND: Avoid 100% cpu use by replacing "FOR READ" with "FOR INPUT"

New in Xt7-Player 3.5.1 (Nov 11, 2013)

  • FIX: Shoutcast was broken in 3.5.0

New in Xt7-Player 3.5.0 (Nov 11, 2013)

  • FIX: Missing links on some youtube streams
  • FIX: Do not download thumbnails twice
  • FIX: Simplified (and speedup) parsing of youtube feeds
  • FIX: Removed deprecated (and not working anymore) youtube feeds from the tree
  • CHANGE: Reduced the lag at track change.
  • CHANGE: Ability to queue items to extract audio from and new skip/stop button
  • FIX: Better workaround for missing picture on fullscreen switch
  • FIX: xt7-player.png -> xt7-player in .desktop file (10x symbianflo)
  • CHANGE: Audio extraction/transcode capabilities for youtube, browse and playlist tabs
  • FIX: Vdpau overlay surface was always disabled (not saved), now it is under generaloptions->video amd get saved.
  • CHANGE: defaults to "NOT" disabling vdpau overlay surface, if you need, please manually check it and save the profile.
  • FIX: Typo in executable() which prevented idle mplayer from timeout
  • FIX: Removed the icon path from .desktop file (10x symbianflo)
  • CHANGE: Updated Russian translation from VictoR
  • FIX: Error when replacing playlists by an album tracks
  • FIX: Avoid out of range values in ladspahelper (by setting value=minvalue)
  • FIX: Possible runtime error on album browse
  • FIX: Explicitely pass proxy to mplayer if environment variable is defined
  • FIX: Use http_proxy (or https_proxy) environment variable and drop http_proxy option.
  • NEW: Ability to rename custom audio and video filters (buttons) and added 2 more custom filters
  • NEW: Lyrics finder via duckduckgo (click on the microphone icon when a music is playing).
  • NEW: Display jpg,png,bmp pictures by using mf:// protocol, panning and zooming are supported
  • NEW: New default hotkey: "del" will delete the playing file from disk after confirmtion.
  • FIX: Don't try to play directories
  • FIX: Update/sync views on file deletion
  • FIX: workaround for missing picture when unredirecting fs windows is enabled and mplayer is paused
  • FIX: Keep forced zoom mode across media

New in Xt7-Player 3.4.4 (Jul 25, 2013)

  • CHANGE: Updated russian translation from VictoR2007
  • FIX: Removed qt4.webkit dependancy

New in Xt7-Player 3.4.2 (May 3, 2013)

  • NEW: Support for live youtube streams
  • NEW: Optionally display live video preview (P.I.P) on seek
  • NEW: Disable vdpau overlay surface by default (new option in vdpau driver window)
  • NEW: New Graphical layout
  • NEW: New library popup menu to search for album tracks
  • NEW: F5 and canc implemented in fileview; refresh clears selection.
  • NEW: Show total bitrate in mediaproperties tab (useful for mkv files)
  • CHANGE: Auto-Select the next stream from the tab containing the previous one
  • CHANGE: Use included volume,info and zoom icons
  • CHANGE: Add a small shade between the toolbar and the right side panel
  • FIX: A bunch of workaround for gambas 3.4.1
  • FIX: Try harder to keep pause state while switching fullscreen via dbl click.
  • FIX: Exception when taking another thumb on an early time
  • FIX: Prevent blank column on embedded picture errors
  • FIX: keep pause state (limited to mplayer ability) when changing volume
  • FIX: Prevent xt7 from going crazy when autoadvance is selectd but several unplayable media are in the play queue
  • FIX: Quit 40% faster if no setting has been saved.
  • FIX: Fix on key events in fileview
  • FIX: Engage play queue shutdown for browse and youtube tabs too.
  • FIX: Do not send anything to mplayer while it is pausing
  • FIX: Cleaned up some unused vars and functions
  • FIX: Updated Russian translation (thanks to victorr2007)
  • FIX: try to Keep track of osdlevel
  • FIX: (Warn and) Do not try to seek into unseekable streams via seek bar
  • FIX: Highlight the album under the mouse before trying to set a cover on menu popup
  • FIX: Taller button panel
  • FIX: Rewrote fileview selection code to be compatible with gambas 3.4.0

New in Xt7-Player 3.4.0 (Mar 8, 2013)

  • FIX: Workarounds to prevent gui glitches with gambas 3.4.0
  • FIX: Specific refresh and treeveiw fixes for gambas 3.4.0
  • FIX: Option to disable kde effects when in fullscreen works again
  • FIX: Youtube videos whose VideoID begins with "-" didn't play; fixed
  • FIX: Workarund for crash on exit with new libcurl 7.29.0
  • NEW: Youtube tree: span title/duration over 2 lines.
  • NEW: Goertzel filter (DFT alike visualizer)
  • FIX: Replace & with & in youtube titles
  • FIX: Audio meters display is 4x faster
  • NEW: A few of new icons (thanks to Alessandro Bompadre)
  • NEW: Keep pause state in some circumstances
  • FIX: Extra mouse buttons (4,5) should be recognized again
  • FIX: Composite mouse hotkeys (eg: right+wheel) where lost when moving the mouse
  • FIX: Don't use taglib for wav files as it fails to parse channel number (https://github.com/taglib/taglib/issues/92)
  • FIX: Vmeters spacing with channels number >2 was wrong

New in Xt7-Player 3.0.0 (Mar 28, 2012)

  • NEW: Popup menu to sort (only library) by album,artist or full path
  • NEW: "Opensubtitles.org" search,display,download by tags and moviehash
  • NEW: heuristic support For jpg embedded into mp4 and mkv containers (attachments)
  • NEW: Optionally (see button next to search bar) display tooltips when hovering media list items
  • NEW: Generaloptions->style: choose to show and generate video thumbnails
  • NEW: Allow to change library/playlist row size to display bigger icons (16->256px)
  • NEW: Support for jpgs embedded in mp3,ogg and flac files
  • NEW: Right clicking on the zoom icon will cycle through zoom modes to crop black bars
  • NEW: Added polish translation (eloaders)
  • NEW: New menu voice under subtitle menu list to load subtitles from disk apart of drag'n drop.
  • NEW: Support for more subtitle encodings
  • NEW: Dropping all old dbus code (will be hopefully replaced by mpris in the future)
  • NEW: Osd messages for contrast,gamma,hue,saturation,brightness
  • NEW: Start where you left functionality
  • NEW: Optionally use cddb to get audio cd information
  • CHANGE: don't use a window to popup volume information, works better with some WMs (metacity)
  • CHANGE: General appaerance improvements
  • CHANGE: Animate covers only when they change
  • CHANGE: Translation updates
  • CHANGE: Workaround a problem with wrong or no length reported by mplayer with *ts files
  • CHANGE: Use x11 as default subtitle preview driver (prevent crashes on buggy catalyst drivers)
  • CHANGE: Removed startup animation as it seems to cause problems on 64bit and/or catalyst due to xv driver
  • CHANGE: TrayIcon disabled by default: avoid problems in environments without system tray support
  • CHANGE: Some translations update may require you to reconfigure subtitle languages
  • CHANGE: Filters not supported by local mplayer now are disabled objects
  • ........And the user will be warned if it insists in using them
  • CHANGE: Drivers not supported by local mplayer now are disabled objects
  • FIX: When saving all forms settings at once, some options were restored to factory defaults
  • FIX: Allows to drag'n drop playlists (.m3u,.pls...) from browsers into the library or playlist
  • FIX: If present, display any custom item title (eg: youtube streams added to playlist) instead of url at play time
  • FIX: item highlighter was broken by long time, fixed
  • FIX: Bad inconsistency between gridview and the internal data structure
  • FIX: Remove cover caches when updating a library/playlist item
  • FIX: Prevent a possible runtime error when dropping urls from other applications
  • FIX: Display correct volume value when the maximum can be over 100%
  • FIX: Always use ISO-8859-1 (and convert from/to desktop charset ) to write and read tags from audio files.
  • FIX: Add /dev/sr* to the list of auto-guessed cd/dvd devices
  • FIX: Ass subtitle alignment was broken, fixed
  • FIX: Dvd playing was somehow broken, fixed
  • FIX: Several fixes in subtitle loading and handling
  • FIX: Unsharp video filter was deleted by mistake
  • FIX: Drag'n drop from gtk apps works again
  • FIX: Don't exit from fullscreen mode in playlisting mode.
  • FIX: Sometimes xt7 failed to switch profiles at runtime
  • FIX: Immediataly update message logs after when using new settings
  • FIX: Runtime error when enabling/disabling tooltips.

New in Xt7-Player 2.9.1028 (Nov 23, 2011)

  • NEW: New link shown when a translation for the current language doesn't exist, thanks to eloaders for this.
  • FIX: Don't leave alang or slang without values
  • IX: Save alang and slang options in cachedoptions
  • CHANGE: Make dbus support optional and disabled by default.(Will hopefully fix a segfault in gambas/Ubuntu 64-bit ?)
  • CHANGE: Do not force any audio driver in Factory_defaults profile.Enable softvol in Factory_defaults profile. Warn users about it (volume change issues with pulseaudio+mplayer under Ubuntu)

New in Xt7-Player 2.9.1019 (Nov 9, 2011)

  • FIX: color.merge -> color.gradient (due to gambas update)
  • FIX: key.esc -> key.escape (due to gambas update)
  • FIX: fixed parsing of scan output during DVBT tuning
  • FIX: Stupid bug preventing the application from registering to dbus
  • FIX: New dbus methods (doStop,doNext,doPrevious and so on) at: org.gambas.xt7.player -> xt7/org.gambas.xt7.player.dbusproperties/
  • FIX: Open the last used cached profile at startup, when a filename is given from the command line.
  • FIX: Don't wait for mplayer to cache the media vefore showing the gui when a filename is given from the command line.
  • FIX: Do not even try to overwrite the "Factory_default" profile, ask user what to do.
  • FIX: Italian translation updates
  • FIX: Close input socket as soon as possible on closing
  • FIX: Adjusted max cache size to 1048576
  • NEW: Added a textbox under vdpau driver configuration to write additional options
  • NEW: Bring player window to foreground when the player is already open and invoked a second time
  • NEW: Show an animation while buffering
  • NEW: Can Import standard channels.conf file into dvbt list (open simple dvb tuner to do that)
  • NEW: vaapi driver support
  • NEW: cache-min options for files and dvd too (was network and dvb only)
  • CHANGE: Use a cache for gui options to speedup playing the very first media
  • CHANGE: Different search box for library and playlist

New in Xt7-Player 2.9.1007 (Sep 2, 2011)

  • CHANGE: Exit from fullscreen at the end of the media or stop
  • FIX: Prevent an mplayer window to popup when updating library/playlist items (regression)
  • FIX: ExportFile names are now random
  • FIX: Updated Italian translation
  • NEW: Panscan (Zoom) button (roll mouse wheel over it)
  • FIX: Fixed some youtube issues when using 'next' button
  • NEW: Youtube search: "More results" arrow at the end of any search result
  • FIX: Sometimes codec list didn't show up
  • FIX: Possible runtime error when using vmeters
  • FIX: Don't throw an error if trying to disable kwin effects without kwin
  • FIX: Updated some symbols to be compatible with new gambas release
  • CHANGE: Made a version check; gambas 2.99.2 is strictly required.
  • NEW: several dbus properties exported at: org.gambas.xt7.player -> xt7/org.gambas.xt7.player.dbusproperties/
  • CHANGE: FileSize is expressed in Kbytes now (library rebuild needed to not break sorting by size)
  • FIX: Clear zoom level now restores 1:1 zoom and not 10:1
  • FIX: Changed youtube backend to rely on youtube-dl python script (now required)
  • CHANGE: Youtube stream download now works only when using wget or aria2c download manager

New in Xt7-Player 2.9.948 (May 10, 2011)

  • FIX: DVB channels sort works again
  • FIX: DVB Tuner works again
  • FIX: Global hotkeys works again
  • FIX: endless loop in stop routine
  • NEW: Cache bar and total cache printed on window title
  • FIX: wrong font size in shoutcast tab
  • NEW: allow autonext in browse mode too
  • NEW: show autonext button in browse and youtube tabs too
  • NEW: allows fast profile switch by popup menu over tabs
  • NEW: Allow prev/next/autonext fetures to work with browse tab too
  • FIX: Get rid of "_NuLl_nUlL" subfile
  • FIX: Sometimes youtube subtitles were not detected
  • FIX: Ignore 'nop_streaming_error' if cache size is higher than the stream size
  • FIX: Better handling of youtube formats: 360,480,720,1080p works correctly now
  • FIX: .desktop bug, not showing the terminal window anymore at start

New in Xt7-Player 2.9.917 (Apr 20, 2011)

  • FIX: exception on library sync
  • FIX: Don't force an ass style if no options to force it are selected
  • FIX: open xt7, go to profiles tab, click load -> crash.
  • FIX: Hotkeys could not be loaded/saved
  • FIX: better audio panel appaerance when an high default font used

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.299 (Jan 12, 2011)

  • FIX: Audio filter parsing fix
  • FIX: support for new shoutcast protocol
  • FIX: glitch on toolbar icon
  • CHANGE: Added .ogv to the common video extension list
  • CHANGE: shrink toolbar height only if screen height < 601 px.
  • FIX: Better handling of fullscreen panels
  • NEW: Support for 8 (7.1) channels
  • FIX: Better handling of nop_streaming_error on youtube seeks
  • FIX: possible runtime error on rss feeds retrieval
  • FIX: possible runtime error on youtube thumbnails retrieval
  • FIX: problems when default shell is not bash
  • NEW: print cache fill status next to the window title
  • NEW: added "-framedrop option" (useful to display 24p streams on 24hz modelines)
  • NEW: handle more youtube urls
  • FIX: better look on dark themes

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.272 (Dec 10, 2010)

  • FIX: youtube works again
  • FIX: removed ogg demuxer from mplayer_idle as it leads to missing informations in the firs file added 'use audiotag instead (slower...)
  • FIX: Http get operations doesn't block the ui anymore
  • FIX: Better handling of temp files
  • FIX: Display correct youtube stream title in playlist mode
  • FIX: Higher network timeouts
  • NEW: Download podcasts and youtube streams in background with kioclient,kfmclient,wget,aria2 or a user defined command.

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.262 (Nov 15, 2010)

  • NEW: Initial youtube support (youtube tab), choose between 360p,720p,1080p in network preferences
  • NEW: Added -cache-min option in network preference (very useful for youtube streams)
  • NEW: Added -cache-seek-min option in network preference( very useful for youtube streams)
  • CHANGE: added gb.web dependancy
  • NEW: Added -prefer-ipv4 option in network preference
  • NEW: stream address in log window
  • CHANGE: max cache value raised to 100MB
  • FIX: explicitely ignore any config file (-noconfig all)
  • FIX: update shoutcast gave a runtime error
  • FIX: disable all video filters for vaapi
  • FIX: drag'n drop bug due to a packaging mistake
  • FIX: Sometimes trayicon video thumbnail didn't show up
  • FIX: (SortOf) force ogg demuxer for ogg streams in order to read ogg audio tags.

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.249 (Oct 26, 2010)

  • FIX: drag'n drop bug due to a packaging mistake
  • FIX: Sometimes trayicon video thumbnail didn't show up

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.245 (Oct 6, 2010)

  • FIX: (SortOf) force ogg demuxer for ogg streams in order to read ogg audio tags.

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.241 (Sep 28, 2010)

  • FIX: Runtime Error when dropping some m3u files into library/playlist tabs
  • FIX: runtime audio level callback was broken
  • NEW: Detect a stalled mplayer and try to restart it
  • FIX: Local hotkeys recognition fixes
  • FIX: runtime error at startup if shoutcast tab was hidden
  • FIX: In come cases, wrong media was chosen after hitting "use"
  • FIX: Sometime mouse stays hidden on video area when exit from fullscreen
  • NEW: Basical Filesystem browser under "browse" tab
  • NEW: File requester in generic "add uri" window
  • NEW: Snap to window borders when on Panscan (zooming-in) operations
  • NEW: Allow realtime Aspect ratio change
  • NEW: started to implement themable icon themes (nothing visible for now)
  • NEW: Move playlist items up/down using buttons and/or mouse wheel
  • FIX: Save of unsorted playlist/library items.
  • FIX: missing unsharp mask filter under chains window
  • FIX: Just deleted items don't appears instead of new dropped ones anymore (library and playlist)
  • NEW: Allow user to specify additional known extensions
  • CHANGE: Faster startup and shutdown (gridviews_data functions tweaks)
  • FIX: Reset ProgressBar on new Cover fetch
  • CHANGE: SpeedUp column autosize method
  • NEW: Experimental cover display in listviews (enable/disable under style tab in general options window)
  • NEW: mouseover effect in listview item (enable/disable under style tab in general options window)
  • FIX: Better font rendering in the black audio panel
  • FIX: Library wont scroll to right anymore when dropping items

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.183 (Mar 30, 2010)

  • FIX: startup runtime error in SubAndOsd (thanks to alberto from MIB-Team)
  • FIX: Better xt7-mplayer sync routine (no more 0 length size files in playlist/library)
  • NEW: autosync option
  • FIX: make xt7-player work even if mplayer was compiled without libdvdread support
  • FIX: Random play is back (thanks nickinicki)
  • FIX: set -nocache parameter for dvdnav streams (news on mplayerhq.hu)
  • FIX: LogWindow: don't repeat the same (mplayer) log message more than 20 times
  • FIX: open containing folder crash if no item selected
  • NEW: Allows to add podcasts to library and/or playlist
  • NEW: AutoDetect Cdrom and dvdrom devices.
  • NEW: AudioCd support (no cddb:// due to slow freedb server)
  • CHANGE: Uses different cache sizes for network,dvd audiocd,and local file
  • NEW: Search and, if found, launch qt3 configuration tool.
  • FIX: The first element in playlist and library was always lost whan closing and reopening xt7
  • FIX: Podcast Url(s) wasn't saved on disk if "save all settings to profile on program exit" was checked

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.162 (Feb 18, 2010)

  • FIX: lavdopts options parsing
  • NEW: thread number options
  • FIX: some language dependant code removed (thanks Jacky Bamière)
  • FIX: If vdpau video driver is selected (which doesn't means used), video filter chain is cleared (mplayer+vdpau+video filters doesn't play at all)
  • FIX: workarounded an mplayer 'bug' with some hotkeys when ladspa filters are used (see bug: http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=1334)
  • FIX: Update a podcast rss fixed
  • NEW: Shoutcast radio support
  • NEW: Display total selection length in playlist and library
  • FIX: Dvd navigation via mouse
  • FIX: *faster* startup time
  • FIX: Interface colors with dark themes
  • FIX: Bug in profile manager routines, save settings to new profiles was impossible.
  • FIX: Subtitles and osd window rearranged to fit 1024x600 netbook resolutions
  • NEW: simplified Chinese translation added (thanks shimingzhou)
  • NEW: Preliminary support to dvd menus (not 100% stable, but usable)
  • NEW: added dvd navigation hotkey configuration
  • FIX: workarounded form geometry save/load to work the same way with kwin3+kwin4+compiz (expect a glitch with compiz if you use close animation)
  • FIX: Less glitches when switching Fullscreen
  • NEW: Gradfun video filter (very recent mplayer version needed!)

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.97 (Sep 16, 2009)

  • FIX: An endless loop in library syncronization routine
  • NEW: allow the user to choice a specific demuxer
  • NEW: Preliminary support for podcasts
  • FIX: Fullscreen resize bug
  • CHANGE: Switched to simplier file dialogs
  • FIX: Enabled Oss driver by default because of mplayer+alsa problems under ubuntu jaunty jackalope
  • FIX: Workarounded a problem with metacity+Gambas < 2.2.15.0 (jaunty jackalope) and volume panel popup.
  • Ubuntu (gnome) users should get latest gambas versions.
  • FIX: Updated code to new Amazon Services api to download covers (broken since 15 Aug 2009)
  • NEW: Log window search function
  • NEW: Integrated support for vdpau driver and codecs
  • FIX: Allows to restore the Factory default profile
  • CHANGE: Moved profile manager into left side tabs.
  • NEW: Allow to select which (left) tabs to show
  • FIX: Faster startup
  • FIX: Better default subtitle font and color values
  • NEW: Allows some interface customization
  • NEW: Catch temporary flash videos in /tmp folder and allows to download and watch them
  • (works on youtube,megavideo,yahoo video and more)
  • NEW: Trayicon
  • FIX: More robust Library sync process when dealing with corrupted media.
  • NEW: List to exclude some paths from being scanned during Library sync.
  • NEW: Read and update StreamTitle changes from Network streams (Webradios)
  • NEW: Shutdown options
  • FIX: ToolBar bkg color fix.
  • FIX: Sometimes video area didn't get correct Aspect Ratio.
  • FIX: Drag'n Drop didn't work on gnome-desktop
  • FIX: Restore video playback when exiting tag edit mode.
  • FIX: Fullscreen and windowed zoom are equals now.
  • NEW: Ability to set cover on a filename basis other than Artis/album.
  • FIX: Increased Maximum cache size to 99999KB
  • NEW: Network Streams icon
  • FIX: Segmentation fault when dropping a file into the audiobox while a media is playing

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.13 (May 25, 2009)

  • FIX: Bug which prevented to set and display a cover on flac files.
  • FIX: Fullscreen switch sometimes didn't correctly arrange the controls.

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.9 (May 15, 2009)

  • NEW: es_ES translation (thanks to i92guboj)
  • FIX: Center windows to be "multi-head"(twinview,xinerama) friendly
  • FIX: Some beryl/compiz workarounds.
  • FIX: Critical fix in pt_BR translation (esd audio driver)
  • FIX: better .desktop file (thanks wackenroader)
  • FIX: missed runtime error handling on dvd play routine
  • CHANGE: few fixes to gui
  • NEW: Multiple tag editing capabilities
  • FIX: Workarounded an mplayer bug in sub_load slave cmd (spaces in filenames)
  • NEW: Resizable upper panel (playlist etc) in fullscreen mode
  • NEW: Import/Export .xpl .m3u,and .pls playlists, export with absolute paths only.
  • NEW: Dragging and droppping supported playlist files in library or playlist will append them
  • FIX: Dropdown and popup menus reorganization
  • FIX: Follow sym links
  • FIX: SpeedUp the library sync process.
  • FIX: correct icon for wmv files
  • FIX: Workarounded mplayer bug with dots/commas when using ladspa filters
  • NEW: Cover fetcher via amazon services or file on disk
  • NEW: Show cover and info when playing an audio file
  • FIX: Runtime error "access denied" on library sync

New in Xt7-Player 0.9.1 (Jan 23, 2009)

  • NEW: pt_BR translation (thanks to wackenroader)
  • NEW: Added http_proxy option
  • NEW: Added subtitle fuzziness option
  • FIX: Added a menu item to disable subtitles display
  • FIX: First dropped or synched item usually generates a timeout.
  • NEW: Allow custom names in library/playlist when adding new items
  • NEW: Ask user to remove non existent files from library.
  • FIX: Change media while paused safe now.
  • NEW: Configurable Toolbar button position + "configure->Lock toolbar" menu
  • NEW: Audio and subtitle tracks identification and selection via "file->Streams" menu
  • NEW: Dvd navigation and playback from drive,folder and iso
  • NEW: Tabstrip with dvd tree view (titles,chapters and angles)
  • NEW: Dropping a .iso file or a VIDEO_TS folder into video area, will auto-play it as DVD.
  • NEW: DVD Titles and chapters selection with Main Title Autoguess
  • NEW: Audio and subtitle language preferences in General options
  • NEW: Subtitles: Shadow Color,Shadow alpha and outline alpha parameters
  • FIX: Changed zzFake visibility state to work with new gambas versions (2.10+)
  • FIX: some tags happens to "spread" on other media on library sync.

New in Xt7-Player 0.8.6 (Nov 28, 2008)

  • CHANGE: Lowercased name: Xt7-Player -> xt7-player
  • CHANGED: Kde3.5 dependancy removed (->some gui changes in subtitle window),
  • qt3 still needed.
  • FIX: runtime error on library sync
  • FIX: use of Ladspa filters breaks speed changes too, worked-around...
  • CHANGE: commandline options .-append becames -append (without the dot)
  • FIX: layout glitch on library synchronization
  • FIX: Use of some ladspa filters breaks volume reads and writes (wth?), worked-around...
  • FIX: postcommand not executed if xt7 is closed while mplayer is playing something
  • FIX: Media recognition during library synchronization pulled in some non mediafiles
  • FIX: regression in local hotkeys definition (non printable keys not recognized)
  • FIX: Don't go on in playlist if user hits stop.
  • NEW: playlist/library random play button
  • NEW: Playlist/library history -> previous button selects the previously played media,if any, or else, go up.
  • NEW: Added another Custom Audio and Custom Video Filter (you may need to configure them again)
  • FIX: wrong channels number in library sync (rare case)

New in Xt7-Player 0.8.1 (Nov 12, 2008)

  • NEW: Work made to make project translable, italian translation added.
  • FIXED: sometimes column sorting sorts a different field.
  • NEW: configurable Eq2 filter in video chain
  • NEW: configurable Hue filter in video chain
  • NEW: Realtime Video Equalizer
  • NEW: Added homepage link.
  • NEW: Translations needed popup

New in Xt7-Player 0.7.9 (Oct 31, 2008)

  • FIX: sometimes program got stuck on exit.
  • FIX: (Cachedoptions): audio&video driver preference didn't correctly restored at startup
  • New: Allow user to choose which video driver to use to display subtitle preview.(useful for low end video cards)
  • NEW: Adaptor selection in xv driver configuration (try it instead of "port"
  • --to enable overlay on intel cards to avoid tearing issues),
  • --mplayer-svn >=1.0_rc2_p27120-r1 needed.
  • NEW: Freely configurable custom audio and video filters in filter chains.
  • CHANGED: Use FIFO(s) to talk to mplayer (workaround for archlinux+kde(mod?))
  • NEW: Log window
  • FIX: crash on library update commit on kubuntu 8.10/kde4.1
  • NEW: New media we'll be played through the existing Xt7-Player instance.
  • NEW: command line: .-append (yes, with the dot) to append a media to the playlist.

New in Xt7-Player 0.7.8 (Oct 8, 2008)

  • FIXED: Exception on exit if no global hotkey is defined.

New in Xt7-Player 0.7.7 (Oct 7, 2008)

  • FIXED: comment tags not added to library.
  • FIXED: Video area not correctly resized in window mode.
  • NEW: Global hotkeys managment through xbindkeys (new dependancy).
  • NEW: Option to disable SSA font rendering.(jirityr)
  • NEW: Option to configure osd appaerance.(jirityr)
  • FIXED: Better local hotkeys managment (All printable characters should work now).
  • NEW: "Save on exit" option in "general options->misc".
  • NEW: Help page on codecs priority window.
  • NEW: Audio/Video Codecs priority window.
  • NEW: "Remove from disk" menu option on library.
  • NEW: Added the respective mplayer option to hints. (jirityr)
  • NEW: configuration toolbox for who don't like to use menus.
  • CHANGED: Subtitles and chains window does not longer pop-up from general-option, nor they belongs to it.

New in Xt7-Player 0.7.1 (Sep 9, 2008)

  • FIXED: Sometimes statusbar didn't display text on fullscreen switch.
  • NEW: Default hardened hotkey values
  • NEW: (optional) Zoomed movies can be freely panned with a mouse drag.
  • FIXED: any keypresses make the player left paused state
  • FIXED: Only left mouse button dblclick switch fullscreen state
  • NEW: Active chain filters now are marked in the filters configuration page.
  • NEW: Exit hotkey now leaves fullscreen.
  • NEW: DblClick on the status bar now changes display time format.
  • FIXED: (multiple display/multihead users) Show/hide control panels only if the mouse is on the player display
  • FIXED: VideoArea now correctly get focus in fullscreen
  • NEW: Smooth controlbox Hide/show
  • FIXED: FullScreen button don't stay "pressed" anymore
  • NEW: Option to disable start banner animation