What's new in Powder Player 1.60
Jun 1, 2020
- Support Setting Custom Time for Arrow Hotkeys
- Added Web API Support
- Greatly Increased the Number of Subtitles the Player Finds
- Fixed Issue with Not Finding Subtitles for Some Movies
- More Subtitle Languages have Flags in the Subtitle Menu
- Changed Default Torrent Port to 6882 (there were issues with port 6881 on OSX)
- Fixed Issue with Player Notification Visibility
New in Powder Player 1.55 (Jan 25, 2020)
- Fixed Streaming Youtube-DL Supported URLs
- Fixed Very Old Bug Where It Would Load All Youtube-DL Supported Videos from a URL Instead of the Primary Video
- Added Error Notification if AirPin is Wrong When Authenticating for Airplay Casting
New in Powder Player 1.50 (Jan 20, 2020)
- Fast Resume Feature for Torrents
- Added Support for Sorting Playlists
- Added Image Placeholders for Plugins
- Deleted Torrent Plugin Category (they were all broken anyway)
- Disable Parsing Torrent Pages (this feature broke some time ago)
- Allow Setting Torrent Port 0 for Random Port
- Notify User Regarding Torrent Starting Errors
- Added New Web API (details)
- Many Chromecast Casting and Discovery Fixes and Improvements
- Many DLNA Casting Fixes and Improvements
- Fixed AppleTV Casting and Discovery (added support for Airplay 2)
- Fixed File Select Menu Text Encoding on Linux
- Fixed Playback of Videos on Linux
- Fixed Bug With Default Torrent Engine Port
- Fixed Player Breaking When Seeking After Torrent Downloaded
- Fixed Fetching Subtitles
- Fixed Adding Multiple Torrents to Playlist
- Fixed Updating Playlist UI When Removing Items
- Fixed Adding Local Files to Playlist
- Various Torrent Related Fixes
- Many Other Minor Fixes and Improvements
New in Powder Player 1.20 (Apr 30, 2018)
- Critical Fix for Torrent Lists that Caused the Player to Skip Items in Playlists
- Fix Trakt Manual Search
- Fix Torrents From Some Private Trackers
- Fix Going to Torrent Dashboard for Non-Streamable Torrents
- Fix youtube-dl Based Playlists
- Fix Getting Subtitles Automatically
- Fix Fanart Images
- Fix YouTube Channel Plugin Logos
- Fix Loading History of Torrents
- Fix "Cancel" Button Functionality for Loading Torrents
- Fix Trakt Info For Items That Don't Have Images
- Possible Fix for Player not Starting and Showing a White Box Instead
- Added Playing With External Player
- Added Setting External Player Args
- Added Setting to Start in Fullscreen
- Added Setting for "Find Subtitles Limit"
- Added Setting to "Not Track History"
- Added Casting Torrent Through LAN
- Added Torrent Peer ID to Settings
- Added "Browse For Subtitle" Option in Subtitle Menu
- Added "Browse for Subtitle" Option in Context Menu
- Added Playlist Button to Add Files / URLs to Playlist
- Added Playlist Options in Context Menu
- Added Main Menu Messages
- Added Safety Check for Parsing Filenames
- Added New Command-line Arguments
- Changed Use Only Up / Down to Set Volume (instead of Ctrl + Up / Down)
- Removed Entry Effects From Modals
- Various Torrent Related Fixes
New in Powder Player 1.10 (Jul 25, 2017)
- Complete Rewrite and Redesign of Powder Player v0.98 - Trakt Support
- Casting Support for: Chromecast, Airplay, DLNA (1000s of TVs, Game Stations, some Phones, etc.), Browsers (Phones, Tablets, other PCs), other Players, Friends, etc.
- Advanced Casting Features: Subtitles, Subtitle Color, Subtitle Position, Subtitle Size, Force Quality
- Possibility to Change DLNA Finder
- Fixed Magnet Link Association for Cases in Which it Didn't Work Before
- New Torrent Settings: Forced Download, Speed Limit, Default Trackers, Download All Files
- Plugins - Plugin Shortcuts that allow searching on sites, youtube channels, etc. and playing their feeds by just typing their shortcut followed by an action or search query in the "Use a URL" field (ex: ".yt funny video" searches for "funny video" on youtube, etc)
- Support for Playing Video From Tens of New Websites (`youtube-dl` is now included)
- Trakt Info Button in Player (showing episode / movie image, episode / movie title, description and imdb rating) - Episode / Movie Images in Playlist - Missing in This Release: Removed Auto-updater, Translations, Keeping Aspect Ratio / Crop / Zoom Settings Between Playlist Items
- A Lot of Other Changes
New in Powder Player 1.00 Testing (Jul 5, 2016)
- New Features:
- Support for all youtube-dl supported links
- Support for all VLC supported media types
- Auto-find Subtitles from OpenSubtitles
- Trakt Support
- Casting Support for: Chromecast, Airplay, DLNA (1000s of TVs, Game Stations, some Phones, etc.), Browsers (Phones, Tablets, other PCs), other Players, Friends, etc.
- Advanced Casting Features: Subtitles, Subtitle Color, Subtitle Position, Subtitle Size, Force Quality
- Plugins for sites, youtube channels, etc.
- Plugin Shortcuts that allow searching on sites, youtube channels, etc. and playing their feeds by just typing their shortcut followed by an action or search query in the "Use a URL" field
- A lot of Plugins
- In addition to supporting any youtube-dl supported site, Powder goes one step further, also supporting websites that simply include embedded videos or links to supported videos giving new possibilities to users that no other app has given before
New in Powder Player 0.98 (Apr 27, 2016)
- CHANGES:
- Moved Torrent Engine, Subtitle Finder and Subtitle Processing to Different Processes (huge performance boost)
- Translations for: French, Polish, Russian, Romanian and Portuguese (Brazil)
- Reverted to using libVLC 2.2.1 on Windows (last version of Powder used v3.0 which created more issues then it solved)
- Setting for Auto-Delete Media Files: if the player should delete the downloaded media files or not by default
- Setting for Internal Video Subtitles (Never / If only one / Always): if the player should auto-load the internal video subtitles (such as the ones in mkv files) and in what conditions
- New Hotkey: Change Audio Track (key: B)