metastream

Fixed

• YouTube showing blackscreen

Added

• Add Ukrainian language option #388 (thanks to @Mglbthirshe 🎉)
• Add Traditional Chinese language option #385 (thanks to @thomassth 🎉)

Fixed

• Display names support numbers again

Added

• Add favicons to queued media items.
• Allow collapsing Users and Next Up sidebar sections.

Fixed

• Potential fix for "ownerDocument of undefined" error when opening the popup player

Hotfix included for clock skew synchronizing bug

Added

• Add sidebar popup to compliment popup player
  • Makes chatting with the Netflix popup player much easier!
• Synchronize playback rate/speed
• Allow syncing http:// websites in the popup player

Changed

• Default to using docked sidebar interface
• Unify button styles in user list and media queue

Fixed

• A lot of improvements to syncing while interacting with the embedded site
• Videos can now be re-synced after ad interruptions (vrv.co)
• Fix viki.com subtitles alignment
• Fix dailymotion.com play pause desync
• Fix fmovies not loading

Added

• Add sidebar popup to compliment popup player
  • Makes chatting with the Netflix popup player much easier!
• Synchronize playback rate/speed
• Allow syncing http:// websites in the popup player

Changed

• Default to using docked sidebar interface
• Unify button styles in user list and media queue

Fixed

• A lot of improvements to syncing while interacting with the embedded site
• Videos can now be re-synced after ad interruptions (vrv.co)
• Fix viki.com subtitles alignment
• Fix dailymotion.com play pause desync
• Fix fmovies not loading

Added

• Language selection is now accessible on the Welcome screen

Changed

• Various translation updates

Added

• Add basic hotkey support
  • Toggle play/pause (spacebar)
  • Skip forward (right arrow)
  • Skip backward (left arrow)
  • Increase volume 5% (up arrow)
  • Decrease volume 5% (down arrow)
• Procedural gradient avatars are now used in place of the old default icon
• Add tips to media browser homescreen
• Add Polish language option #293 (thanks to @iNakeii 🎉)
• Add English (UK) language option #295 (thanks to @WillHH🎉)

Changed

• Desktop titlebar is now a dark gray color
• Replace old Invite menu with Session settings menu

Fixed

• Fix Metastream extension not always being detected
• Fix Hulu videos skipping due to Discretion Warning
• Fix Google Translate breaking the UI for some folks
• Fix name change announcing each character update
• Fix misaligned 'new messages' notice in chat

Added

• Add Patreon links to the session UI
• Add Italian language option #265
  • Thanks to both @airon90 and @iFelix18 for this! 🎉
• Add chat message to session when an update is available

Changed

• Limit chat color setting to patrons
• Update German translations #256
• Update Spanish translations #267
• Reword 'signal server' messages to 'session server'

Fixed

• Fix playback bar being clickable above session modals
• Fix Netflix link being hidden by adblockers due to containing redirect.html in the link 😩

Added

• Add Patreon links to the session UI
• Add Italian language option #265
  • Thanks to both @airon90 and @iFelix18 for this! 🎉
• Add chat message to session when an update is available

Changed

• Limit chat color setting to patrons
• Update German translations #256
• Update Spanish translations #267
• Reword 'signal server' messages to 'session server'

Fixed

• Fix playback bar being clickable above session modals
• Fix Netflix link being hidden by adblockers due to containing redirect.html in the link 😩

Changed

• Add media browser now closes after adding media via extension badge

Fixed

• Hide 'add media' button when extension isn't installed 😱

Changed

• Require Netflix to open in a new tab to prevent login confusion
• Update Japanese translations #250

Fixed

• Prevent Crunchyroll from skipping prior to the video loading #195
• Fix Crunchyroll titles containing Cloudflare alert #244
• Catch and display errors occurring during React rendering lifecycles

Added

• Add 'Open in popup' button to playback bar
  • This is partially a fix for Netflix.com enforcing Same-Site cookies 😞 #246
• Add URL text box to Add To Session browser
• Sync playback changes while in interact mode

Changed

• Remove outline from buttons in Firefox

Fixed

• Request referrer now keeps context after welcome screen #240

Includes minor fixes for v0.6.0

Added

• Add Disney+ support
• Add error screen for when webpage fails to load in Metastream
• Add interact mode hint if media doesn't autoplay

Changed

• Improve autoplay support for videos
  • Autoplay works a lot better now, please try websites which wouldn't autoplay previously!
  • Works well with sites using JWPlayer and VideoJS players
  • Takes a few seconds before it attempts to autoplay if the website doesn't already autoplay
• Improve auto-fullscreen support
• Prevent 'new messages' notification from appearing if chat is barely scrolled
• Prevent popups being created from media webpage
• Update Portuguese translations—thanks to @Sxigames #220

Fixed

• Fix Netflix in Firefox
• Fix Google Drive black screen
• Bypass websites blocking embedding within Metastream
  • Let me know if you still see this on some sites
• Fix new session bug where current media was unskippable
• Hopefully fix issue where app update button needs to be pressed a few times

Added

• Add Disney+ support
• Add error screen for when webpage fails to load in Metastream
• Add interact mode hint if media doesn't autoplay

Changed

• Improve autoplay support for videos
  • Autoplay works a lot better now, please try websites which wouldn't autoplay previously!
  • Works well with sites using JWPlayer and VideoJS players
  • Takes a few seconds before it attempts to autoplay if the website doesn't already autoplay
• Improve auto-fullscreen support
• Prevent 'new messages' notification from appearing if chat is barely scrolled
• Prevent popups being created from media webpage
• Update Portuguese translations—thanks to @Sxigames #220

Fixed

• Fix Netflix in Firefox
• Fix Google Drive black screen
• Bypass websites blocking embedding within Metastream
  • Let me know if you still see this on some sites
• Fix new session bug where current media was unskippable
• Hopefully fix issue where app update button needs to be pressed a few times

Extension changes

• Add support for adding links to session
  • Press browser badge to add the active tab URL
  • Use context/right-click menu item on links
• Display subtitles on select websites while theater mode is enabled
  • YouTube, Netflix, Crunchyroll, VRV
• Disable theater mode for audio media
• Add MediaSession API proxy
  • Improves playback support for websites (few) which implement this API
  • Also makes global media hotkeys work better in Metastream

Added

• Add chat timestamps—configurable under appearance settings
• Add clickable timestamps and links in media info modal
• Check for app update when version mismatch occurs
• Add Turkish translations—thanks to @Turkishlator #200

Changed

• Update Japanese translations—thanks to @KabanFriends #190
• Update Spanish translations—thanks to @imloplop #189

Fixed

• Fix bug where clients' playback time would be behind host
• Fix RPC result sending to disconnected client
• Fix auto-fullscreen not always fitting to video dimensions

Added

• Add settings menu to session page
• Add theater mode option
  • Displays only the video on the page with all other content hidden
• Add toggle auto-fullscreen option
• Add "user is typing" indicator
• Add Safe Browse feature #6
  • Prevents unrecognized websites from loading without consent by the user
  • Can be disabled from the advanced settings
• Add repeat mode to loop the current media
• Announce name change in chat
• Add sidebar tabs to settings menu
• Add failure message to chat when messages are unable to be delivered
• Add dock chat option to the settings menu
• Add Simplified Chinese translations—thanks to @muddyEYEs #153

Changed

• Move session settings into Invite modal
  • Remove settings button next to the Invite button
• Improve contrast of floating chat text
• Update Korean translations—thanks to @123456789111a #181

Fixed

• Fix media metadata requests not timing out if they take too long #174
• Fix Amazon video fullscreen bug #156
• Fix volume not being completely muted while at the lowest setting (was actually set to 0.1%)
• Fix docked chat text not always being selectable
• Prevent being able to request app.getmetastream.com URLs
• Fix reconnect issue where old session data would appear prior to being approved to join a private session

Added

• Register global media hotkeys with Metastream.
  • Play, pause, and next track are currently supported for host and DJs.
  • Only supported on Chrome until Firefox supports the Media Session API.
• Display error message when session is not found.

Fixed

• Fix network errors when Firefox and Chrome users attempt to connect to each other.
  • This was caused by an update to Firefox (v68) introducing a breaking change.
• Fix network disconnect not immediately showing when an error occurs.

Added

• Reveal Add To Session tooltip hint upon using the media browser for the first time.
• Display multi-tab error when attempting to host two concurrent sessions.

Changed

• Increase general network timeouts from 15s to 30s.

Changed

• Increased network timeout limits from 5s to 30s.
  • Might help folks trying to connect from Argentina.

Added

• Add end session confirmation screen for sessions with more than one user.
• Add Crunchyroll to media request browser.

Changed

• Use network version instead of app version to reduce the number of version mismatch errors.
• Add padding to media browser to hint at background contents.
• Hide back button while modal is open in session.
• Lighten video background color to help reveal dark text.
• Reword media browser instructions.