kawaii-player-v2.7.0-0

1. Web Interface

• Code has been adjusted as per server side changes
• Show/Hide Top Menu Bar bug fixed for mobile browsers.
• In remote control mode, support for queued items improved, achieving better synchronization between web interface and desktop interface.
• Playlist shuffle mode fixed, in remote control mode.
• Show message on using torrent commands from wrong section
• New text command clear:cache added for clearing server side cache

2. Media Server

• Implemented server side cache for video, music and playlist section for faster fetching.
• Bug fixed in identifying same titles but different content.
• Handles queue item remove request in remote control mode
• Handles clear cache request
• Allow better synchronization between desktop client and web interface in remote control mode

3. Desktop client

• Thumbnail grid mode made faster, responsive with better zoom in/out support.
• Various bugs fixed in thumbnail grid mode
• Thumbnail generation in list mode improved without blocking ui.
• some changes in player stop method to restore state before playback
• Better handling of peer-to-peer mode in thumbnails
• context menu added to playlist column for renaming file names to default.
• context menu added to playlist for removing thumbnails.
• bugs fixed in ordering of playlist column in video section using page up/down button keys
• bugs fixed in resizing images

4. Other Design Issues

• Separate single thumbnail directory for both desktop and web interface
• use of hashing to get thumbnails quickly without querying to database, for both desktop client and web interface.
• In custom playlist, artist can be added manually. Use '::' to delimit title from artist when renaming using key F2.

kawaii-player-v2.6.1-0

1. Web Interface

• show torrent status immediately as soon as it is started
• allow absolute seek from status bar for both remote control and client mode
• allow synchronization as much as possible between web interface and remote controlled desktop application
• changes in get m3u method
• hide top menu bar properly in mobile interface while scrolling
• allow m3u generation of playlist history
• change bottom progress bar properly according to remote control on/off state

2. Media Server

• total_ui_navigation function added for remote controlled mode
• handle request for force play and pause
• handle request for absolute seek

3. Desktop Interface

• crashing of player fixed when server ip address changes
• thumbnail generation method made responsive
• allow deleting music library entries
• reduce time delay between thumbnail generation

kawaii-player-v2.6.0-0

1. Major changes made in the web interface

• Proper context menu support added for both queue and playlists for performing multiple operations
• Legacy menu removed and replaced with Top menu bar
• Small status bar added to the bottom that will be displayed while scrolling long playlist
• Status bar and Menu bar can both be hidden
• Thumbnail support added which can be activated using playlist context menu
• Grid layout used for control buttons
• Bug fixed in torrent streaming within web interface
• Added buttons for navigating playlist history
• clear:playlist_history command added, which can be sent using search box

2. Remote Control mode

• Feature added to queue items from web interface for playing on kawaii-player server

3. Peer to Peer mode

• Faster login to peers
• Better Support for thumbnail display
• Fetch thumbnails from peers without blocking UI

4. Server

• Server can handle multiple thumbnail image requests concurrently
• Server can remember playlist navigation history for the session
• Server can remember thumbnail activation mode on web interface for the session

kawaii-player-v2.5.1-0-beta.1

1. Improved Web Interface
2. Thumbnail support added in both web interface and peer to peer mode
3. Context menu added in web interface

kawaii-player-v2.5.0-0-beta.3

1. notify broken libtorrent with code 0
2. send_notification function modified
3. qtwebengine related bugs fixed
4. do not update playlist widget for empty list
5. do not allow update values to site_option in serverlib
6. curl globoff by default
7. fullscreen on double click added
8. catch errors in PlayerGetEpn
9. allow mode a+v in get_yt_url
10. 480p quality fixed for yt videos
11. support external audio files properly
12. initialize idw when none
13. some unnecessary variables removed
14. stop arrow timer when active on focussed playlist
15. replace n_art with blank space when none in media_server
16. many bugs related to nt platform fixed
17. signature of ccurl changed
18. fetching of images from last.fm fixed
19. binary for gnu/linux fixed for torrent streaming

kawaii-player-v2.4.0-0

1. Allow using mpv input.conf for keyboard shortcuts by setting MPV_INPUT_CONF=True in other_options.txt.
2. option to disable aspect ratio
3. log output changed
4. faster login in peer-to-peer mode
5. bugs fixed in getting next file in the playlist when mpv doesn't emit EOF code:1
6. Bug fixed in looping file when mpv doesn't emit EOF code:1
7. get external links in addons in asynchronous manner, causing major changes in codebase.
8. notify properly when authentication fails in p2p mode
9. allow hierarchy in titlelist
10. allow viewing history in myserver addon

kawaii-player-v2.2.0-1

1. Improved video management functionalities.
2. Allows creating new video categories
3. Allows renaming of title and playlist entries
4. Group rename of playlist entries
5. Improved contextmenu with grouping of various categories
6. Allows getting information for entire collection
7. TMDB support added
8. Supports both duckduckgo and google as search engine backend for getting information from either TVDB or TMDB.
9. Keyboard shortcuts have been changed
10. Allows direct jump on title starting with letter when keyboard button pertaining to that letter is pressed
11. Firefox related bug fixed when loading subtitles
12. New background image modes with shortcuts (ctrl+0 and ctrl+9) added
13. Some image resizing issues fixed with python-pillow
14. Allows using the application as both server as well as client
15. Added new MyServer addon for managing peer-to-peer mode.
16. Servers can broadcast themselves in the local network so that clients can discover it without having to remember local IP address of each media server.
17. Allows modifying broadcast message of server
18. Users can manually set server's upload speed
19. mpv now remembers last aspect ratio
20. Better OSD display on changing aspect ratio
21. Critical bug fixed in deleting bookmarked playlist

kawaii-player-v2.0.0-0

1. Various modules separated and major overhaul of large codebase
2. Headless browser included
3. Proper support added for qtwebkit along with qtwebengine as backend for headless browser
4. Multiple bug fixes

kawaii-player-v1.4.0-0

1. Allow managing multiple torrents using web interface.
2. qtwebengine/qtwebkit backend made more responsive.
3. subtitle loading in the browser itself.
4. more options added in web ui search box.
5. Try setting local ip automatically on error.

kawaii-player-v1.3.0-0

1. Allows adding torrent from web interface
2. Some torrent parameters can be set from web interface
3. Playlist creation and manipulation using web interface
4. More remote control functions added
5. youtube quality and other parameters can be set from web interface
6. Allows updating server database from web interface
7. set local ip automatically for torrent streams
8. improved method for getting m3u playlist