syncplay

RC3 of Syncplay 1.4.0 brings a number of tweaks, bug fixes, and compatibility improvements and RC4 adds one minor VLC bugfix. This should be considered the latest 'stable' release of Syncplay.

Download links:

• Windows installer: http://syncplay.pl/Syncplay_1.4.0_RC4_Setup.exe
• Windows portable: http://syncplay.pl/Syncplay-v1.4.0-RC4-Portable.zip
• Linux Tarball: https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/archive/v1.4.0-RC4.tar.gz
• Source code repository: https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay

Syncplay is not properly supported on Mac as none of the core Syncplay developers have a Mac. If you know any good OS X Python developers then please ask them to help resolve our outstanding OS X issues.

Only change in RC4 (compared to RC3):

• Better handle VLC position reporting imprecision for all AVI files and for MKV files that have an incorrect or low framerate (VLC tickets #17658 and #17126). There may still be some issues with these files, but far fewer.

Notable bug fixes in RC3 (compared to RC2):

• Updated Russian translation (by Corwin)
• Add "edit playlist" option and "add X as trusted domain" playlist menu options to playlist context menu
• Increase folder timeout thresholds and reduce false-positives of folder timeout
• Use "store and run" as default GuiConfig button unless --no-store switch specified
• Improved shared playlist support (e.g. address bugs which caused files to switch unexpectedly or not advance properly, or erroneously set people as not ready when advancing)
• Added support for Support for DESTDIR and PREFIX in Makefile (#114 by Hummer12007, fixing #110 by diogocp)
• Fixed issues with VLC support and added VLC3 support (inc. #108 and PR #109 by Pilotat)
• Fix issues with mpv dropping old 'length' property; needed for mpv >=0.23.0 compatibility (PR #120 by wiiaboo)
• (mpv) remove remove scaletempo filter command line switch and more selectively disable verbosity (#106 by wiiaboo)
• Prevent import error message from being displayed when GUI is disabled on systems without PySide (#117 by Hummer12007)
• Prevent media player from re-opening same file on double-click from Syncplay UI, which caused rewind on some players
• Fix double join message when entering a room with no file on servers with isolated rooms enabled (#123 reported by Corwin, fixed by Uriziel)
• Improved support for Unicode URLs (issue reported by lyk)
• Move to NSIS3 for improved security (resolves #121 by Armada651)
• Fix issue with icons being misaligned in elements made taller due to text scaling

…the full Syncplay 1.4.0 changelog is available at: http://syncplay.pl/changelog/

RC3 of Syncplay 1.4.0 brings a number of tweaks, bug fixes, and compatibility improvements. This should be considered the latest 'stable' release of Syncplay.

Download links:

• Windows installer: http://syncplay.pl/Syncplay_1.4.0_RC3_Setup.exe
• Windows portable: http://syncplay.pl/Syncplay-v1.4.0-RC3-Portable.zip
• Linux Tarball: https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/archive/v1.4.0-RC3.tar.gz
• Source code repository: https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay

Syncplay is not properly supported on Mac as none of the core Syncplay developers have a Mac. If you know any good OS X Python developers then please ask them to help resolve our outstanding OS X issues.

Notable bug fixes in RC3 (compared to RC2):

• Updated Russian translation (by Corwin)
• Add "edit playlist" option and "add X as trusted domain" playlist menu options to playlist context menu
• Increase folder timeout thresholds and reduce false-positives of folder timeout
• Use "store and run" as default GuiConfig button unless --no-store switch specified
• Improved shared playlist support (e.g. address bugs which caused files to switch unexpectedly or not advance properly, or erroneously set people as not ready when advancing)
• Added support for Support for DESTDIR and PREFIX in Makefile (#114 by Hummer12007, fixing #110 by diogocp)
• Fixed issues with VLC support and added VLC3 support (inc. #108 and PR #109 by Pilotat)
• Fix issues with mpv dropping old 'length' property; needed for mpv >=0.23.0 compatibility ( (PR #120 by wiiaboo)
• (mpv) remove remove scaletempo filter command line switch and more selectively disable verbosity (#106 by wiiaboo
• Prevent import error message from being displayed when GUI is disabled on systems without PySide (#117 by Hummer12007)
• Prevent media player from re-opening same file on double-click from Syncplay UI, which caused rewind on some players
• Fix double join message when entering a room with no file on servers with isolated rooms enabled (#123 reported by Corwin, fixed by Uriziel)
• Improved support for Unicode URLs (issue reported by lyk)
• Move to NSIS3 for improved security (resolves #121 by Armada651)
• Fix issue with icons being mis-placed in elements made taller due to text scaling

The new Shared Playlist feature means anyone can add a file to a joint queue, and when you get to the end of one file it will automatically load the next one and rewind.

Fixes in RC2:

• ! Fixed bug where playlist where a client might erroneously change playlist selection when updating playlist if it had previously been updated by a different user in a way that moved the position of the currently playing file in the playlist.
• ! Fixed bug where VLC would not play a newly loaded file
• ! Fixed bug where Syncplay/VLC would sometimes crash if you tried to run with an old version of VLC (reported via Twitter by @coreyp0wner)
• ! Updated syncplay.lua to make it clear that for VLC sometimes the file needs to be placed in the lib64 folder rather than the lib folder (addressing #103 by abhsag24)

*Syncplay 1.4.0 Changelog (+Addition, Change, !Fix):

• + Add shared playlists feature
• * By default auto-play only triggers if everyone is playing the same file
• * Search for media in user-specified media directories rather than directory of currently playing file (e.g. for double click to switch file)
• ! Fix issue with Media Player Classic (not home cinema) being misidentified as mplayer2
• ! Fix issues with MPC-HC and mpv being sent commands/queries while loading a file (could cause MPC-HC to crash or Syncpplay to freeze)
• ! Fix bug loading relative config files in folders with UTF-8 characters
• ! Show menu bar in OS X (#86 by nilsding, addressing an issue from #81)
• ! Fix bug when loading Unicode files in *NIX (#85 by abhsag24, fixing #84 by minus7)
• ! Prevent freezing when probing player paths on network drives (#78 by tari)
• ! Set the correct player executable path when an .app was selected on OS X (#92 by nilsding, fixing #91 by thigan)

Thanks to everyone who has helped make the much-requested Shared Playlist feature a reality! If you notice any bugs, please e-mail us via [email protected] or make an Issue on our Github.

The new Shared Playlist feature means anyone can add a file to a joint queue, and when you get to the end of one file it will automatically load the next one and rewind.

*Syncplay 1.4.0 Changelog (+Addition, Change, !Fix):

• + Add shared playlists feature
• * By default auto-play only triggers if everyone is playing the same file
• * Search for media in user-specified media directories rather than directory of currently playing file (e.g. for double click to switch file)
• ! Fix issue with Media Player Classic (not home cinema) being misidentified as mplayer2
• ! Fix issues with MPC-HC and mpv being sent commands/queries while loading a file (could cause MPC-HC to crash or Syncpplay to freeze)
• ! Fix bug loading relative config files in folders with UTF-8 characters
• ! Show menu bar in OS X (#86 by nilsding, addressing an issue from #81)
• ! Fix bug when loading Unicode files in *NIX (#85 by abhsag24, fixing #84 by minus7)
• ! Prevent freezing when probing player paths on network drives (#78 by tari)
• ! Set the correct player executable path when an .app was selected on OS X (#92 by nilsding, fixing #91 by thigan)

Thanks to everyone who has helped make the much-requested Shared Playlist feature a reality! If you notice any bugs, please e-mail us via [email protected] or make an Issue on our Github.

New and changed in Syncplay 1.3.4:

• (mpv) If mpv becomes unresponsive try to guess position for 60 seconds then give a critical error [RC2]
• (mpv) Prevents reset of room position when someone joins with no file [RC2]
• Prevents file path from being sent to server (fixes bug introduced in Syncplay 1.3.2) [RC2]
• (UI) Updated German translation, e.g. for new features (contributed by DerGenaue)
• (GUI) Improve performance of file checking feature (moved folder scanning into separate thread and added caching and 2 min auto re-check)

Release page: http://syncplay.pl/syncplay-1-3-4

New and changed in Syncplay 1.3.4

• (mpv) If mpv becomes unresponsive try to guess position for 60 seconds then give a critical error [RC2]
• (mpv) Prevents reset of room position when someone joins with no file [RC2]
• Prevents file path from being sent to server (fixes bug introduced in Syncplay 1.3.2) [RC2]
• (UI) Updated German translation, e.g. for new features (contributed by DerGenaue)
• (GUI) Improve performance of file checking feature (moved folder scanning into separate thread and added caching and 2 min auto re-check)

http://syncplay.pl/syncplay-1-3-4

New and changed in Syncplay 1.3.4:

• (UI) Updated German translation, e.g. for new features (contributed by DerGenaue)
• (GUI) Improve performance of file checking feature (moved folder scanning into separate thread and added caching and 2 min auto re-check)

Release page: http://syncplay.pl/syncplay-1-3-4/

New and improved in Syncplay 1.3.3:

• (GUI) Added "public server list" feature to config dialogue (inspired by feedback from Mike Williams)
• (GUI) Added 2 second timeout for media search, and made it more efficient (issue reported by Adrian)
• (GUI) Per-player arguments now only shown when "show more options" is enabled (inspired by a suggestion from wiiaboo, who also contributed code to the feature)

Release page: http://syncplay.pl/syncplay-1-3-3/

Syncplay 1.3.3 Release Candidate 2:

• + (GUI) Added "public server list" feature to config dialogue
• * (GUI) Added 1 second timeout for media search, and made it more efficient (to address issue reported by Adrian)
• * (GUI) Per-player arguments now only shown when "show more options" is enabled

RC2 contains a number of bug fixes and minor tweaks over RC1, and integrates the public server list feature more elegantly into Syncplay's confgiruation interface.

Syncplay 1.3.3 Release Candidate 1:

• + (GUI) Added "public server list" feature to config dialogue
• * (GUI) Added 1 second timeout for media search, and made it more efficient
• * (GUI) Per-player arguments now only shown when "show more options" is enabled

New and changed in Syncplay 1.3.2:

• (GUI) Double click to switch media feature (#65 suggested by bitingsock)
• (Syncplay) Ability to specify per-player command-line arguments to be passed on to the media players
• (UI) Improved Russian language support (PR #71 by BrokeRU)
• (GUI) Change to how streams are displayed and checked for name sameness
• (mpv/mplayer2) Ability to override arguments (PR #69 by wiiaboo)
• (mpv) Shows YouTube-DL errors

The new 'double click to switch media' feature works as follows:

• In the Syncplay configuration GUI, go to the 'Misc' tab and enter the directories where you store your videos into the "Directories to search for media" list. Syncplay looks through these lists recursively, so you don't need to list sub-folders.
• When the main Syncplay GUI window is open, if someone else is playing something which is in one of these media folders (or the folder of the currently playing file) then an icon will appear next to the filename in the list of who is playing what. If you double click the filename it will switch to that file.
• If someone is playing a media stream (e.g. a YouTube video in mpv or VLC) then a different icon will appear in the list of who is playing what, and you can double click this to switch to that stream (assuming your media player supports that type of stream).

New and changed in Syncplay 1.3.2:

• (GUI) Double click to switch media feature (#65 suggested by bitingsock)
• (UI) Improved Russian language support (PR #71 by BrokeRU)
• (GUI) Change to how streams are displayed and checked for name sameness
• (mpv/mplayer2) Ability to override arguments (PR #69 by wiiaboo)
• (mpv) Shows YouTube-DL errors

Syncplay 1.3.1 is a minor release to make Syncplay supports mpv 0.10.0+ on Windows. This release incorporates PR #63 by wiiaboo, which removes --slave-broken mode in mpv on Windows because that was removed for mpv 0.10.0. If you aren't using mpv on Windows then you can stick with Syncplay 1.3.0.

Finally!

For Windows executable see http://syncplay.pl/syncplay-1-3-0/

Syncplay 1.3.0 comes with many new features, tweaks and bug fixes, including:

• Improved support for MPC-HC, VLC, mpv and mplayer2 (and for Unicode);
• ‘Managed rooms’ to make it easy for large parties to watch together as only authorised people are allowed to pause, play and seek;
• ‘Readiness indicator’ feature so you know when everyone is ready to watch a video; and
• German and Russian language support, thanks to DerGenaue, nilsding and BrokeRU.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.

First (and hopefully final) release candidate of Syncplay 1.3.0.

Similar to previous 1.3.0 betas, but requires VLC 2.2.1 as some other versions have problems with Syncplay.

More tweaks and bug fixes.

Syncplay 1.3.0 has managed rooms, a readiness indicator, an update checker, and various tweaks and bug-fixes.

Syncplay 1.2.9a is the same as 1.2.9, but with some changes to fix compatibility with mpv 0.5.0 (and the correct label for the pause button).

Highlights of Syncplay 1.2.9:

• Improvements config window with greater access to control Syncplay functionality (e.g. OSD messages and rewind/slowdown thresholds).
• Loads of fixes and tweaks, to make Syncplay run better, especially for VLC users.
• VLC and mpv stay open after all files have finished playing, so so you do not have to re-open the player. (This was already the case for MPC-HC)
• If a user pauses while the leave message is displayed, it now states both that someone left and that someone paused. (Really useful if someone has "Pause when user leaves" enabled!)

See http://syncplay.pl/changelog/ for the full list of changes. Thanks to all who contributed!