What's new in Baka MPlayer 2.0.4
Dec 2, 2015
- New: Highly requested Hide All Controls mode (under Settings menu)
- New: Ability to add external audio files
- New: Option to not save recently opened files
- New: Option to not restore playback position
- New: Option to change mpv msg-level
- New: "clear" command
- New: Explain how to leave full screen mode
- New: Message is displayed for Motion Interpolation & Deinterlace options
- New: Media Info displays if hwdec is in use or not
- Fixed: Reordering playlist items would make them disappear (Windows only)
- Fixed: Show message if file couldn't be opened
- Fixed: An issue with resuming playback position
- Fixed: Hide Album Art fully hides that portion
- Fixed: Command line output is no longer double spaced
- Changed: Double click a Key Binding entry to change it
- Changed: Renamed an item to Open Copied Link
- Changed: Cmd line shortcut key is now Ctrl+`
- Changed: Cmd line no longer requires "debug debug" to show output
- Changed: Gesture info is visually represented
- Changed: Button text case to Sane Case
New in Baka MPlayer 2.0.3 (Jun 4, 2015)
- Hint: If you speed up the video, Baka will display how much real time you have remaining.
- Fixed: Status info is now displayed with audio files without album art
- Fixed: Disable Show in Folder for online files
- Fixed: Key Bindings table is, and can be, sorted alphabetically
- Changed: Logo :D
- Changed: Settings file uses JSON
- Changed: Currently playing file is selected in playlist (old behavior)
- Changed: External subtitles will be labeled as so
- Changed: Volume level shown on mouse scroll
- Changed: Speed is increased/decreased by interval of 10%
- Changed: Sub font size is increased/decreased by 0.1
- Improved: Overall design
- Improved: Playback Info display
- Added: Croatian translation
- Added: Dutch translation
- Added: French translation
- Added: Spanish translation
- Added: Mute (different from setting volume to 0)
- Added: Thumbnail buttons (Windows only)
- Added: Metadata (ex. ID3 Tags) to playback info
- Added: Delete external sub file along with video file (optional)
- Added: Motion Interpolation option (previously called "smoothmotion")
- Added: "help" command
New in Baka MPlayer 2.0.2 (Jan 29, 2015)
- Fixed: Dim Desktop on multiple platforms
- Fixed: Playing files located in the root directory (Windows only)
- Fixed: Show parent folder under recently opened list (Windows only)
- Fixed: Show in Folder selects file (Windows only)
- Fixed: Gesture sensitivity is resolution independent
- Changed: Custom settings implementation
- Changed: File info shows up as overlay
- Changed: Some default key-bindings for easier workflow
- Improved: Major code refracting for efficiency
- Improved: Playlist
- Improved: Fit Window
- Improved: Settings
- Improved: Multiple-monitor support
- Improved: Tweaked interface colors for better visibility
- Added: Italian translation
- Added: Support for custom keyboard shortcuts
- Added: Playlist will auto show if cursor is near it in full screen
- Added: Automatic Updating (Windows only)
- Added: Command-Line engine
- Added: Support for easily updating youtube-dl
New in Baka MPlayer 2.0.1 (Jan 15, 2015)
- Fixed: Spacing in debug window output
- Fixed: Some issue with loading mpv settings
- Fixed: Modified PKGBUILD to download much faster than before
- Fixed: Desktop file for better platform integration
- Changed: Build system from CMake to QMake
- Changed: Some menu item shortcut keys
- Changed: Increased seekbar height
- Changed: Fast seeking
- Changed: Do not save window size into settings
- Added: Youtube video playback support (and others)
- Added: Ability to open directories
- Added: Recently opened file list
- Added: Interact with mpv directly via command line interface
- Added: Fit Window 150%
- Added: Gesture Support
- Click & drag cursor up/down to change volume
- Click & drag cursor left/right to seek
- Playlist:
- Search is now case-insensitive
- Up/Down Arrow keys navigate, Enter plays
- Currently playing item is bolded
- Added Translations: Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian
New in Baka MPlayer 2.0.0 (Jan 15, 2015)
- Entire new look and feel
- More complete manual
- More efficient preferences functionality
- Changes to right-click (now opens context menu in full-screen mode)
- Playlist drag and drop support
- Mpv settings in settings file
- Settings version information for better version upgrading
- Baka-MPlayer album art for music without album art
- More useful Media Info dialog
- Playback speed adjusting
- Use of mpv OSD to notify you about various actions
- Update manager version information
- Window fitting probably works better
- Screenshot Dialog for selecting location and screenshot template
New in Baka MPlayer 1.9.9 Alpha (Jan 15, 2015)
- New build system
- Desktop file for appearing in linux distro's application menus
- Disabled check for updates which caused a segfault in the last version (even though it doesn't do anything anyway)
- Cleanup in various areas
- More dependencies specified
- Playlist functionality modified--enabled when there is a single file and some use cases have been repaired
- Dim lights works better
- Always on top functionality
New in Baka MPlayer 1.4.5 (Mar 25, 2014)
- Fixed: Small bugs
- Fixed: Small visual tweaks
- Fixed: Remade the playback button graphics
- Changed: Decrease playback button size
- Added: Display selected audio/video codec in Info window
New in Baka MPlayer 1.4.4 (Mar 10, 2014)
- Note: This update came out fast. If you didn't upgrade to v1.4.3 yet, I recommend you read the Changelog. You might like the new features I've added in the previous build
- Changed: Subtitle files will load automatically if it's in the same folder
- Changed: Darkened the interface a bit more (you probably can't tell though)
- Added: Can load subtitles manually and as many as you want (under Subtitle menu)
- Updated: mpv build
New in Baka MPlayer 1.4.3 (Mar 7, 2014)
- Fixed: Don't hide media controls in full screen mode when seeking
- Fixed: Pressing Esc while seeking in full screen cancels seek properly
- Fixed: Seekbar gets messed up if chapter has invalid value
- Changed: Simplified and edited IMPORTANT.txt
- Changed: Renamed 'MPlayer Tags' to 'File Tags' in Media Info
- Added: Fit Window feature
- Added: Auto fit video window on file open
New in Baka MPlayer 1.4.2 (Feb 10, 2014)
- More code clean up & bug fixes
- Fixed: Full screen controls didn't show up on other monitors
- Changed: Use solid colored backgrounds for some windows
- Added: Show basic message for A/V desync
- Updated: mpv build
New in Baka MPlayer 1.4.1 (Jan 30, 2014)
- Fixed: Several bugs
- Fixed: Random program freeze
- Fixed: Continued attempt to make program work correctly under different languages
- Changed: Do not show Url window in taskbar
New in Baka MPlayer 1.4.0 (Jan 22, 2014)
- NOTE: You must remove all files before version 1.3.9
- Fixed: Small bugs
- Fixed: Broken seekbar on some computers with different languages
New in Baka MPlayer 1.3.9 (Jan 20, 2014)
- Large parts of the code have been refactored for efficiency
- Fixed: Several bugs
- Fixed: Seeking from seekbar is much more accurate
- Changed: Settings file is named 'Baka MPlayer.settings'
- Added: Program creates 'error_info.txt' if a fatal problem is encountered
- Added: Can permanently delete file from playlist via Shift+Del
- Updated: mpv build
New in Baka MPlayer 1.3.7.1 (Dec 17, 2013)
- Fixed: Small bugs
- Fixed: General lag in player response (temporary fix by using older mpv build)
- Changed: Warn about URLs starting with HTTPS
- Added: Can delete file from playlist
- Added: Previous file is now located at the top of the playlist
New in Baka MPlayer 1.3.7.0 (Nov 28, 2013)
- Fixed: Small bugs
- Fixed: Better cpu/memory usage
- Changed: Minor interface tweaks
- Changed: Switched from UltraID3Lib to taglib-sharp
- Added: New voice commands
- Added: Voice audio level indicator
- Updated: mpv build
New in Baka MPlayer 1.3.6.0 (Nov 19, 2013)
- Fixed: Small bugs
- Fixed: Minor interface tweaks
- Fixed: Unfocus from resizing splitter after resizing command line
- Fixed: Network messages appear more accurately
- Fixed: Input error messages in command line
- Changed: Must double click on the same location twice to go into full screen
- Added: Navigate chapters via Page Up and Page Down keys
- Added: Changelog link in update window
- Added: Shows error message if file is unplayable
- Updated: mpv build
New in Baka MPlayer 1.3.5.0 (Nov 4, 2013)
- Fixed: Unfocus from resizing splitter after resizing playlist
- Fixed: Unfocus from playlist and console when hidden
- Changed: Common unplayable files will no longer show up in the playlist (even with Show All Files enabled)
- Changed: Media Info window will show accurate file type information
- Added: XButton1 & XButton2 seek backwards and forwards respectively (side/thumb mouse buttons)
- Added: Double click to go into full screen
- Added: Double click on the rewind button to stop playing
- Added: Warn if slow/stuck network hinders playback
New in Baka MPlayer 1.3.4.0 (Oct 7, 2013)
- Fixed: Small bugs
- Fixed: Default file name for snapshot
- Changed: Playlist will not auto show if there is only one file
- Added: Frame step backwards
- Added: Customize voice command call name from settings file (default:
- 039;baka')
- Updated: mpv build
New in Baka MPlayer 1.3.3.0 (Sep 18, 2013)
- Fixed: Next file not playing automatically
- Changed: 'OptionalArgs' has been removed from settings. Use mpv's config file instead
- Changed: After reaching the end, you can press play instead of pressing the reverse button to reload the file
- Changed: Updates a checked weekly
- Added: Right-clicking on the video will toggle play state
- Removed: Ability to set mpv executable name in settings
- Removed: Ability to minimize to tray (was broken)
- Updated: mpv build
New in Baka MPlayer 1.3.2.0 (Sep 10, 2013)
- Fixed: Small bugs
- Fixed: Sometimes videos would not go into full screen properly
- Changed: 'framedrop=yes' has been moved into the settings file
- Added: Media length and video dimensions to Info window
- Updated: mpv build
New in Baka MPlayer 1.3.0.1 (Aug 29, 2013)
- Updated: Changed website host (bakamplayer.u8sand.net)
New in Baka MPlayer 1.3.0.0 (Aug 21, 2013)
- Fixed: Several minor bugs
- Fixed: Loading external subtitle files
- Fixed: Disable screensaver and screen blankers from running
- Fixed: Typo in Help window
- Fixed: General cursor problems in full screen mode
- Changed: Full screen mode enabled to all media types
- Added: User customizable optional arguments support for mpv
New in Baka MPlayer 1.2.2.0 (Aug 6, 2013)
- Fixed: Small bugs
- Changed: Simplified seek and volume control's looks
- Added: Chapter marks on seek bar (or go to Media -> Chapters)
- Added: Can Show/Hide sub's via Ctrl+W
- Updated: mpv build
New in Baka MPlayer 1.2.1.0 (Jul 19, 2013)
- Fixed: Crashes when filename contained certain characters
- Changed: mpv no longer needs to cache font
- Changed: Updates are only checked once a month (you can still manually check)
- Updated: mpv build
New in Baka MPlayer 1.2.0.0 (Jun 10, 2013)
- Fixed: Some bugs
- Fixed: Better memory usage
- Fixed: Crashes when closing program
- Added: status output for Audio, Sub, or Chapter change
New in Baka MPlayer 1.1.0.0 (May 23, 2013)
- Fixed: Small bugs
- Fixed: Problems closing program on first try
- Fixed: Crashes when a mic is not detected for voice command
- Changed: Playlist doesn't auto show unless it needs to now
- Updated: mpv build
New in Baka MPlayer 1.0.0.0 (Apr 18, 2013)
- Note: You MUST remove all previous files before version 0.5
- Fixed: Small bugs
- Fixed: Playlist code has been painfully rewritten (e.g. playlist wont crash if file
- doesn't exist on playlist anymore)
- Fixed: Properly gets the media title on quvi supported sites (e.g. Youtube)
- Fixed: Crashes when viewing online file's Media Info
New in Baka MPlayer 0.5.0.0 Beta (Apr 9, 2013)
- Changed: Using mpv (fork of mplayer2) as backend now
- Changed: Cleaned up code
- Fixed: Problems with cultures that use "." as "," (i.e. Brazil)
- Fixed: Crashes when opening online URLs
- Added: Can exit fullscreen mode by Escape key
- Added: Ability to open external subtitle files
- Added: Ability to change the aspect ratio
- Removed: Undo button on URL window (it didn't work anyway)
New in Baka MPlayer 0.4.7.0 Alpha (Feb 12, 2013)
- Fixed: Some bugs
- Updated: Some graphical components
- Updated: mplayer2 build
New in Baka MPlayer 0.4.1.0 Alpha (May 29, 2012)
- Fixed: Some bugs
- Fixed: Mouse auto hide for fullscreen mode
- Updated: Small speed & memory improvements
- Updated: Can copy screenshot to clipboard
- Updated: Media Info window
- Updated: mplayer2 build
New in Baka MPlayer 0.4.0.1 Alpha (Apr 27, 2012)
- Fixed: Some bugs
- Fixed: Album art
- Updated: Updates are linked to your specific OS version now (64bit or 32bit)
- Updated: mplayer2 build
- Updated: Small UI tweaks
- Updated: Win 7 taskbar buttons
New in Baka MPlayer 0.4.0.1 Alpha (Apr 27, 2012)
- Fixed: Some bugs
- Fixed: Album art
- Updated: Updates are linked to your specific OS version now (64bit or 32bit)
- Updated: mplayer2 build
- Updated: Small UI tweaks
- Updated: Win 7 taskbar buttons
New in Baka MPlayer 0.9.8.3a Alpha (Jul 12, 2011)
- Some bug fixes
- Cosmetic changes
- Made for Windows 7 (i.e. Taskbar Buttons)
- Left (-5 sec) and Right (+5 sec) arrow keys can now control playback position (Experimental)
New in Baka MPlayer 0.9.8.2 Beta (May 24, 2011)
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed Average Bitrate display
- Added "Stop after current" file ability
- Ability to disable the media info balloon
- Can disable auto playing of next file
- Removed the sound played after playlist is finished