What's new in Popcorn Time 0.3.8-0 Beta
Jul 10, 2015
- BugFixes:
- Fullscreen consistent while playing
- Multi-screen support
- Windows 8.1 : the app doesn't go under the taskbar anymore
- " & " in titles are now correctly handled
- Local subtitles should now always load correctly
- UI fixes
- More descriptive error messages and logs
- Fix "Open the app in last-open tab"
- Fix some issues with Keyboard navigation
- Allow to hide the updater notification
- Fix an issue corrupting cache if used on an external HDD
- Improvements in subtitle encoding
- Autoplay fixes
- Trakt.tv is back!
- Torrenting enhanced (finding more peers and better seeding)
- Remote control (httpapi) fixes
- Open TV Details "jump to" fixed
- More subtitles results for TV Series
- Download progress in the player now works for single file taken out of multifile torrents
- Images positionning in Movies & TV Series details
- Anime: fixes an issue where series got no episodes & movies no links
- Subtitles: most external torrents should be matched with subtitles now
- Arabic fonts (aljazeera & khalid art) can now be used to correctly display arabic subtitles
- Fix most issues with remotes.
- Fix the Popcorn Time player when watching trailers.
- New Features:
- Node Webkit 12.1 (now known as nw.js)
- Cancel "Play Next Episode"
- Select your subtitles Font, and/or add a solid background to them.
- New subtitles for: Norwegian, Vietnamese
- Report bugs & issues from within the app (open the 'About' page)
- Mark as seen/unseen in Movie Details screen
- No more ads from Youtube
- Stream subtitles with DLNA/UPnP
- Search Strike or KickassTorrents (torrent portals) and save some torrents for later
- Allow SSA/ASS subtitles, along with TXT (mostly Chinese & Polish - needs testing)
- The app will now remember: last chosen quality, player, subtitles position, volume
- Mark an entire TV Series as watched
- Choose the application install directory (provided that it doesn't need admin rights)
- Play local video files in PT Player (mp4, avi, mov, mkv)
- Windows: launcher allowing to use PT as default for torrents/magnets/video files
- Support for multimedia keys
- Launch external players in Fullscreen
- Minimize to tray
- Translated synopsis (overview) for TV Series & Movies
- Calculation of the P2P exchange ratio of the entire app traffic
- FakeSkan (bitsnoop) will now warn you if an external torrent was flagged as "fake"
- "Randomize" button allowing to open a random movie
- Start Popcorn Time minimized with "-m" flag
- 1080p TV Shows are here !
- "Big Picture Mode" will allow you to read Popcorn Time's texts from your couch
- TVShow Time integration
- Display a warning if the HDD is almost full
- Sort by "Trending" on movies & tv shows
- Correctly display the sizes for your OS and language (ex: 32.5MiB in Linux English, 32.5Mo on Windows Spanish, 34.1MB in OSX English)
New in Popcorn Time 0.3.7 Hotfix 1 (Jan 16, 2015)
- The previous update came with an issue with TV Show covers. Unfortunately, by chance, Trakt happened to shut down their Slurm image server that we relied upon for TV Show covers at the time. We've released Hotfix #1 to push the fixes required to move to the Walter image server. Also for anyone with issues with Covers in Favorites, you'll have to re-add the shows to Favorites.
New in Popcorn Time 0.3.7 (Jan 16, 2015)
- BugFixes:
- Fall back to Sequential ID when AirPlay devices do not respond to ServerInfo queries
- Rebuild the new built-in VPN Client
- Renamed "External" to "ExtPlayer" to avoid confusion with non-local devices
- Fix the movie cover resizing code and garbage collect the cache to ensure old metadata isn't used
- Greatly improves the built-in DLNA detection
- Fix retina display for Ultra HD screens
- Properly hide the spinner in cases where an error occurs
- Always show the FileSelector if TorrentCol is active. Fixes PT-1575
- Fix subtitle error handling in the streamer
- Prevent the app from getting stuck on "Waiting for Subtitles" if subtitle discovery fails
- Fix the HTTP API / Remote API
- Improved IP-Detection for all external devices. Fixes PT-1440
- Fix the issue where the Ukrainian flag was displayed instead of the Armenian flag
- Fixed TV Show covers not showing up due to Trakt shutting down Slurm Image Server
- Features:
- Calculate the remaining time before stream download completion
- Added a "Magnet" icon in the details pane to allow copying of the magnet link
- Added the ability to save the .torrent files and magnet links in-app for later
New in Popcorn Time 0.3.6 (Dec 27, 2014)
- Bugfixes:
- Changed encoding of VTT Subtitles file to UTF-8. Fixes playback of all subtitle languages on external devices.
- Fixed the bug where streams played on the wrong device when you have multiple AirPlay devices
- Temporarily Fixed IP address in Media URL for external devices
- Reworked the updater to use our DNS servers so it continues to work even with issues
- Automatically close the player on Chromecast when media playback has finished
- Fixed the Chromecast reconnection issue when stopping and starting a new session
- Made further fixes to the "Waiting for Subtitles" bug
- Reworked and fixed multiple issues with Chromecast Status-Updater
- Updated the Chromecast module to use a refactored Chromecast-js
- Added in a BitTorrent PeerID specific to Popcorn Time
- Fixed problems with Watchtrailer, should fix issue PT-1333
- Various other minor bugfixes
- New Features:
- Torrent Health now automatically updates
- Added an option to disable updates
- Added a built in OpenVPN client
New in Popcorn Time 0.3.5 Hotfix 3 Beta (Dec 3, 2014)
- Made the updater slightly more durable
- Fixed a bug with the updater breaking when files are missing in Linux
- Added a button to reset the databases if you're stuck on the loading screen
- Fixed the missing and not working Airplay bug
- Fixed the missing and not working ChromeCast
- Fixed the stuck at 99% while using subtitles
- Fixed a bug with trailers in the HTTP API, issue PT-1333
- Fixed the ghost processes left behind on mac and binding issues