kawaii-player-v3.1.0-0-beta

• Three themes Available: Default, Dark and System.

• A unified settings box.

• Application now remembers audio track, subtitle track, last quit position, volume and aspect ratio per video.

• Partial support for mpv's default keybindings.

• Users can change config file and keyboard shortcuts for mpv directly from settings box.

• Ability to execute multiple mpv commands per key stroke.

• Default thumbnail mode has been improved in terms of speed and navigation.

• Faster tooltip for progress slider

• Display warning message box when using UpdateAll option.

• ctrl+8 now arranges background image in tiled mode in default theme.

Note: If users have already installed any of previous kawaii-player versions then they are advised to backup and then remove following configuration files, before launching the application.

1. ~/.config/kawaii-player/other_options.txt
2. ~/.config/kawaii-player/config.txt
3. ~/.config/kawaii-player/src/input.conf
4. Windows users might need to remove ~/.config/kawaii-player/src directory completely

If users have setup previously MPV_INPUT_CONF=True to load shorcuts from global input.conf, then now it is not required. This option has not been removed but no longer required. Users can change shortcut keys and commands from settings box, along with ability to execute multiple commands per key stroke.

kawaii-player-v2.9.9-0-beta

This release is for testing purpose and does not contain any binaries. Those who want to test new features will have to build package for their distribution from source as given in documentation. Binaries will be made available during relase of v3.0.0. The v3.0 will be relased (most probably) in next 2-3 weeks.

New Features:

• Ability to use system theme, instead of default theme. Application can follow system theme instead of using its own stylesheet.

• Special Thumbnail Wall mode, which is lightweight compared to default thumbnail mode.

• History section of Video Category modified, which can arrange series in last watched order. The section will automatically remember audio/subtitle track information and last quit position.

• New 'Recent' section added in Video Category, which will contain items in recently added order.

• Ability to use 'shift+q' to remember position on quit similar to mpv's default keybindings

• various bugs fixed in tvdb scraper

• Remebers queued items between session

• History section added in p2p mode

• Thumbnail mode 2 and 5 are optimized

• Faster Video update method

• Stylesheet of buttons in thumbnail mode and browsers modified

• Search as type functionality added for TitleList, Playlist and Thumbnail Widget

• Better offline mode

• Lot of code cleaning and bug fixes. See the commit history to know more about details

How To Apply New Settings?
Before testing the application, remove or backup 'other_options.txt' file available in ~/.config/kawaii-player directory (if old version of the application has already been installed). New file will contain few more settings options. Users can setup theme and other parameters in it.

kawaii-player-v2.9.0-0

• Media Player

1. Thumbnail Mode for Titles with posters improved

Screenshot of improved Thumbnail Mode for Titles

2. Separate settings for Title thumbnails and episode thumbnails
3. New thumbnail mode added (direct fullscreen on click)
4. Allow getting metadata for entire collection present in Title list in one sweep (ctrl+a: find posters for all), including episode thumbnails/overview from tvdb. Make sure to rename episodes in proper format as given in documentation (Users can mass rename episodes in database without affecting original files)
5. In thumbnail mode=3 for episodes, ability to increase or decrease size of thumbnail on the fly using keys w and e (for mpv).
6. Multiple bugs fixed when using mplayer as backend in remote control mode.
7. new shortcuts, ctrl+q: quit after current file and shift+j: load external subtitle added.
8. critical bug fixed when deleting empty entry from addons history.
9. show wait message on resolving external links
10. Allow selecting and adding multiple items to categories and playlist.
11. Use threading when updating music section on start
12. Application remembers fullscreen mode (entered with shift+f: fullscreen main window not video) along with thumbnail settings.
13. Auto restart video when mpv/mplayer quits abruptly
14. Allow setting aspect ratio for mplayer
15. Sorting fixed for alphanumeric keys

• Web Interface

16. No need to setup local ip before starting media server. Application will find the local ip automatically on starting media server. Only change local port as per convenience.

17. option added to autostart media server on launch of the application. Set 'MEDIA_SERVER_AUTOSTART=True' in other_options.txt file.

18. Thumbnail mode is default for web interface.

19. kawaii-player extension kcast for casting to kawaii-player can follow authorization of web server. Once remote control mode is enabled from web interface, kcast can cast to kawaii-player till that mode remains enabled.

20. Multiple minor bugs fixed. See commit history for details.

kawaii-player-v2.8.0-0

1. better handling of fetching episode summary from tvdb
2. allow editing episode summary in summary box
3. summary tooltip added to thumbnail grid
4. keyboard shortcuts added for renaming to default
5. keyboard shortcuts added for fetching episode summary
6. more options added to context menu of playlist
7. separate meta_engine
8. tmdb bug fixed
9. a new command ytq: added, for quick casting of ytdl and torrent links from web interface
10. Support added for opening links to ytdl supported sites
11. Internal browser can be used for ytdl supported sites
12. default background image changed

kawaii-player-v2.7.0-0

1. Web Interface

• Code has been adjusted as per server side changes
• Show/Hide Top Menu Bar bug fixed for mobile browsers.
• In remote control mode, support for queued items improved, achieving better synchronization between web interface and desktop interface.
• Playlist shuffle mode fixed, in remote control mode.
• Show message on using torrent commands from wrong section
• New text command clear:cache added for clearing server side cache

2. Media Server

• Implemented server side cache for video, music and playlist section for faster fetching.
• Bug fixed in identifying same titles but different content.
• Handles queue item remove request in remote control mode
• Handles clear cache request
• Allow better synchronization between desktop client and web interface in remote control mode

3. Desktop client

• Thumbnail grid mode made faster, responsive with better zoom in/out support.
• Various bugs fixed in thumbnail grid mode
• Thumbnail generation in list mode improved without blocking ui.
• some changes in player stop method to restore state before playback
• Better handling of peer-to-peer mode in thumbnails
• context menu added to playlist column for renaming file names to default.
• context menu added to playlist for removing thumbnails.
• bugs fixed in ordering of playlist column in video section using page up/down button keys
• bugs fixed in resizing images

4. Other Design Issues

• Separate single thumbnail directory for both desktop and web interface
• use of hashing to get thumbnails quickly without querying to database, for both desktop client and web interface.
• In custom playlist, artist can be added manually. Use '::' to delimit title from artist when renaming using key F2.

kawaii-player-v2.6.1-0

1. Web Interface

• show torrent status immediately as soon as it is started
• allow absolute seek from status bar for both remote control and client mode
• allow synchronization as much as possible between web interface and remote controlled desktop application
• changes in get m3u method
• hide top menu bar properly in mobile interface while scrolling
• allow m3u generation of playlist history
• change bottom progress bar properly according to remote control on/off state

2. Media Server

• total_ui_navigation function added for remote controlled mode
• handle request for force play and pause
• handle request for absolute seek

3. Desktop Interface

• crashing of player fixed when server ip address changes
• thumbnail generation method made responsive
• allow deleting music library entries
• reduce time delay between thumbnail generation

kawaii-player-v2.6.0-0

1. Major changes made in the web interface

• Proper context menu support added for both queue and playlists for performing multiple operations
• Legacy menu removed and replaced with Top menu bar
• Small status bar added to the bottom that will be displayed while scrolling long playlist
• Status bar and Menu bar can both be hidden
• Thumbnail support added which can be activated using playlist context menu
• Grid layout used for control buttons
• Bug fixed in torrent streaming within web interface
• Added buttons for navigating playlist history
• clear:playlist_history command added, which can be sent using search box

2. Remote Control mode

• Feature added to queue items from web interface for playing on kawaii-player server

3. Peer to Peer mode

• Faster login to peers
• Better Support for thumbnail display
• Fetch thumbnails from peers without blocking UI

4. Server

• Server can handle multiple thumbnail image requests concurrently
• Server can remember playlist navigation history for the session
• Server can remember thumbnail activation mode on web interface for the session

kawaii-player-v2.5.1-0-beta.1

1. Improved Web Interface
2. Thumbnail support added in both web interface and peer to peer mode
3. Context menu added in web interface

kawaii-player-v2.5.0-0-beta.3

1. notify broken libtorrent with code 0
2. send_notification function modified
3. qtwebengine related bugs fixed
4. do not update playlist widget for empty list
5. do not allow update values to site_option in serverlib
6. curl globoff by default
7. fullscreen on double click added
8. catch errors in PlayerGetEpn
9. allow mode a+v in get_yt_url
10. 480p quality fixed for yt videos
11. support external audio files properly
12. initialize idw when none
13. some unnecessary variables removed
14. stop arrow timer when active on focussed playlist
15. replace n_art with blank space when none in media_server
16. many bugs related to nt platform fixed
17. signature of ccurl changed
18. fetching of images from last.fm fixed
19. binary for gnu/linux fixed for torrent streaming

kawaii-player-v2.4.0-0

1. Allow using mpv input.conf for keyboard shortcuts by setting MPV_INPUT_CONF=True in other_options.txt.
2. option to disable aspect ratio
3. log output changed
4. faster login in peer-to-peer mode
5. bugs fixed in getting next file in the playlist when mpv doesn't emit EOF code:1
6. Bug fixed in looping file when mpv doesn't emit EOF code:1
7. get external links in addons in asynchronous manner, causing major changes in codebase.
8. notify properly when authentication fails in p2p mode
9. allow hierarchy in titlelist
10. allow viewing history in myserver addon