Vividl Changelog

What's new in Vividl 0.8.0

Jan 7, 2024
  • New: Allow specifying preferred video resolution in settings & fetch window.
  • New: Support for editing video download names before download.
  • New: Add notification log window & notifications button in status bar.
  • New: Cache links of unfinished downloads between app restarts by default.
  • New: Add "best audio-only download" to default download formats.
  • New: Chinese translation.
  • Updated: Rewrite of download format selection to better target yt-dlp.
  • Updated: Remove invalid formats from download customization window; order by format preference.
  • Updated: Japanese translation
  • Fixed: Overwrite/ re-download handling for "Best direct download".
  • Fixed: App crashed when exporting video links with unavailable videos.
  • Fixed: Scrolling of settings window for larger text sizes.
  • Fixed: Settings not correctly saved when closed via "Exit" menu or changed in different tab.
  • Fixed: Video info parsing errors causing app crashes during fetching.

New in Vividl 0.7.0 (Mar 6, 2023)

  • New: Add drag & drop support for importing URLs.
  • New: Add GPU acceleration option for AMD (AMF) and Intel (QSV) GPUs.
  • New: Japanese translation.
  • Updated: Dutch, Spanish and Russian translation.
  • Fixed: Various issues causing crashes with newer yt-dlp versions.
  • Fixed: App crashes with "Best direct download" option.
  • Fixed: Missing download progress bar for some downloads.
  • Fixed: Issues with audio-only downloads in custom download window.
  • Fixed: Remove unnecessary yt-dlp warnings.

New in Vividl 0.6.0 (Jan 19, 2022)

  • New: Smart Automation mode: Auto-import & download URLs from clipboard
  • New: Add option for CUDA-supported FFmpeg conversion.
  • New: Add thumbnails to mp3 conversion downloads (with "Add metadata to files" setting).
  • New: Minor UI tweaks (e.g. in main menu & tool bar)
  • New: Allow setting custom downloader arguments.
  • Changed: Switch from youtube-dl to yt-dlp as default download engine (faster download speed).
  • Fixed: Crash with invalid URLs in fetch window.

New in Vividl 0.5.1 (Jun 9, 2021)

  • Fixed: App crashes when adding videos via "Add New Videos" window

New in Vividl 0.5.0 (Jun 7, 2021)

  • New: Customize download in "Configure Download" window
  • New: Show download size and resolution in "Configure Download" window
  • New: UI improvements: show video thumbnails; add settings to toolbar
  • New: Add mode to re-download videos with new name
  • New: Simple automatic update checking for youtube-dl
  • New: Add command to reload all videos
  • Changed: Put youtube-dl into AppData folder by default

New in Vividl 0.4.0 (Nov 8, 2020)

  • New: Italian, Hebrew, Polish, Welsh, Portuguese, Arabic, French, Dutch and Swedish translation
  • Updated: Russion and Spanish translation

New in Vividl 0.3.0 (Oct 1, 2020)

  • New: Extended window for adding video links.
  • New: Basic authentication support.
  • New: Added window showing youtube-dl download output.
  • New: Download progress information in main UI.
  • New: Minor improvements in UI and settings (e.g. proxy).
  • New: Spanish translation

New in Vividl 0.2.2.0 (May 3, 2020)

  • New: German and Russian translation.
  • Fixed: Bug preventing app start for some locales.
  • Fixed: FFmpeg warning messages during stream download.

New in Vividl 0.2.1.0 (Mar 27, 2020)

  • New: Option to disable download checking.
  • Fixed: Download failures of some download formats.

New in Vividl 0.2.0.0 (Mar 23, 2020)

  • New: Use download archive.
  • New: Remove all unavailable/ finished downloads.
  • New: Minor UI improvements.
  • Fixed: App crashes for videos from some websites (e.g. Vimeo).

New in Vividl 0.1.1.0 (Mar 23, 2020)

  • Fixed: App crashes for failed fetches.
  • Fixed: Saving of settings in portable version.
  • Fixed: Tooltip labeling.