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VidMasta Changelog

What's new in VidMasta 29.4

Apr 10, 2024
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved download initialization speed

New in VidMasta 29.3 (Apr 9, 2024)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved download initialization speed

New in VidMasta 29.2 (Apr 1, 2024)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved download initialization speed

New in VidMasta 29.1 (Mar 26, 2024)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed download error "Error reading torrent: Contents maybe HTML"

New in VidMasta 29.0 (Mar 21, 2024)

  • HANGE: CORE | Improved overall performance

New in VidMasta 28.9 (Dec 28, 2023)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved search error handling
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved magnet link downloading

New in VidMasta 28.8 (Jun 18, 2023)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved trailer search accuracy
  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed concurrency bug in find functionality (ctrl+f)
  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed title summary text-to-speech

New in VidMasta 28.7 (Mar 5, 2023)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error handling for playback of trailers when using VLC media player for Windows

New in VidMasta 28.6 (Feb 3, 2023)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error handling for playback of trailers when using VLC media player for Windows
  • CHANGE: UI | Fixed playlist item selection usability issue

New in VidMasta 28.5 (Jan 13, 2023)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved trailer search by season
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error handling for playback of trailers when using VLC media player for Windows

New in VidMasta 28.4 (Nov 11, 2022)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error handling for playback when using VLC media player for Windows
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved connection error handling

New in VidMasta 28.3 (Oct 30, 2022)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error handling for playback of trailers when using VLC media player for Windows
  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed title summary text-to-speech
  • CHANGE: UI | Added transient message when changing download/trailer quality via hotkeys
  • CHANGE: UI | Updated application to only start PeerBlock for IP filtering when downloader is changed from the built-in playlist downloader, which already has IP filtering

New in VidMasta 28.2 (Sep 5, 2022)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved performance of download initialization step

New in VidMasta 28.1 (Sep 5, 2022)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved performance of download initialization step
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error handling for playback when using VLC media player for Windows

New in VidMasta 28.0 (Sep 2, 2022)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error handling for playback when using VLC media player for Windows
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved download performance

New in VidMasta 27.9 (Jul 5, 2022)

  • CHANGE: UI | Fixed missing storyline in title summary due to unexpected change by storyline provider
  • CHANGE: UI | Fixed subpar poster image scaling due to unexpected change by poster image provider
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved performance and mitigated connection errors (due to throttling) by improving cache management
  • CHANGE: CORE | Mitigated connection errors by following redirects better
  • CHANGE: CORE | Added auto-updating, every few days, of list of untrusty IPs that are automatically filtered

New in VidMasta 27.8 (May 26, 2022)

  • CHANGE: UI | Showed number of ratings for a title via a tooltip when hovering over the rating score
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved connection error handling
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error handling for playback when using VLC media player for Windows

New in VidMasta 27.7 (Nov 23, 2021)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved connection error recovery speed

New in VidMasta 27.6 (Oct 14, 2021)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed startup issue with Java 17 and higher support on Linux and Mac introduced in version 27.5

New in VidMasta 27.5 (Oct 12, 2021)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Added support for Java 17 and higher

New in VidMasta 27.4 (Oct 12, 2021)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed intermittent download resume progress calculation bug introduced in version 27.2

New in VidMasta 27.3 (Sep 28, 2021)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed connection issues due to changes in video info source

New in VidMasta 27.2 (Sep 13, 2021)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved performance and mitigated connection errors (due to throttling) by improving cache management
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved download performance
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved accuracy of TV show season download link searches
  • CHANGE: CORE | Updated list of untrusty IPs that are automatically filtered
  • CHANGE: UI | Added ability to enable/disable the "Ban" feature via a new menu item "Enable Ban"
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved click action of checkboxes and radio buttons
  • CHANGE: UI | Updated autocompletion titles
  • CHANGE: UI | Fixed the exit menu item by making it close the application instead of minimizing the application to the system tray

New in VidMasta 27.1 (Sep 28, 2020)

  • CHANGE: UI | Always showed airdate when an unfound TV show episode is added to the playlist
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved download performance
  • CHANGE: UI | Only showed download port change message when absolutely necessary

New in VidMasta 27.0 (Sep 22, 2020)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Upgraded from Java 7 to Java 8
  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed download connectivity issues
  • CHANGE: UI | Simplified trailer search season selection
  • CHANGE: UI | Removed deprecated web browser downloader option

New in VidMasta 26.0 (May 26, 2019)

  • CHANGE: UI | Simplified UI
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved UI responsiveness

New in VidMasta 25.9 (Apr 30, 2019)

  • CHANGE: UI | Automatically added title to playlist when a download is not high video quality (TV video quality or better)
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved message/tooltip when application is in system tray
  • CHANGE: UI | Fixed issue that can prevent popular movies button or search button from being re-enabled
  • CHANGE: CORE | Updated list of untrusty IPs that are automatically filtered

New in VidMasta 25.8 (Jan 4, 2019)

  • Added undo/redo support to text components
  • Improved some menu items

New in VidMasta 25.7 (Oct 30, 2018)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Disallowed playing of fake downloads in playlist
  • CHANGE: UI | Added ability to copy download links from playlist

New in VidMasta 25.6 (Sep 11, 2018)

  • Improved download error handling

New in VidMasta 25.5 (Jul 16, 2018)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved download error handling.

New in VidMasta 25.4 (Jun 19, 2018)

  • CHANGE: UI | Improved ability to block being able to re-search specific titles
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved positioning of windows

New in VidMasta 25.3 (Jun 6, 2018)

  • CHANGE: UI | Made some modal dialogs non-modal by default
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved positioning of windows

New in VidMasta 25.2 (May 25, 2018)

  • CHANGE: UI | Improved positioning of windows
  • CHANGE: UI | Disabled the playlist play/stop button for a playlist item that is initializing

New in VidMasta 25.1 (May 4, 2018)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved download error handling
  • CHANGE: UI | Updated menu item keyboard shortcuts

New in VidMasta 25.0 (Apr 29, 2018)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Added support for Java 9 and higher

New in VidMasta 24.9 (Apr 29, 2018)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed bug in New HQ Movies and New HQ TV Shows searches in which HQ (e.g. DVD or HD) aspect is ignored
  • CHANGE: CORE | Updated list of untrusty IPs that are automatically filtered

New in VidMasta 24.8 (Mar 28, 2018)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved accuracy of TV show season download link searches

New in VidMasta 24.7 (Mar 2, 2018)

  • CHANGE: UI | Improved ability to block being able to re-search specific titles
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved positioning of windows

New in VidMasta 24.6 (Feb 23, 2018)

  • CHANGE: UI | Added ability to block being able to re-search specific titles via the result table's right-click popup menu item "Ban".

New in VidMasta 24.5 (Jan 31, 2018)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved accuracy of download link searches
  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed issue that can prevent proper closing of application

New in VidMasta 24.4 (Jan 15, 2018)

  • CHANGE: UI | Made some modal dialogs non-modal
  • CHANGE: UI | Automatically loaded summary of first title search result

New in VidMasta 24.3 (Dec 28, 2017)

  • CHANGE: UI | Moved title summary window into main window
  • CHANGE: UI | Remembered main window split button location between restarts
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved automatic adding of next TV show episode to playlist
  • CHANGE: CORE | Removed website prefix on emailed and copied download links

New in VidMasta 24.2 (Oct 6, 2017)

  • CHANGE: UI | Moved playlist window into main window
  • CHANGE: UI | Automatically added next TV show episode to playlist
  • CHANGE: CORE | Normalized title ID to prevent duplication

New in VidMasta 24.1 (May 28, 2017)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved automatic watchlist/wishlist management for subtitles
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved subtitle search and trailer search error handling

New in VidMasta 24.0 (May 3, 2017)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed playback of summary

New in VidMasta 23.9 (Apr 22, 2017)

  • CHANGE: UI | Simplified user interface
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved download error handling

New in VidMasta 23.8 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed connectivity issue when Java 8 or higher is used

New in VidMasta 23.7 (Mar 26, 2017)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed connectivity issue when locale is Turkish
  • CHANGE: UI | Simplified user interface

New in VidMasta 23.6 (Mar 10, 2017)

  • CHANGE: UI | Improved Turkish translations and fixed issue in version 23.5 when operating system locale is Turkish
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved size of some buttons

New in VidMasta 23.4 (Mar 9, 2017)

  • CHANGE: UI | Simplified user interface
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved Windows User Account Control (UAC) compatibility

New in VidMasta 23.3 (Jan 31, 2017)

  • CHANGE: UI - Improved playlist display

New in VidMasta 23.2 (Jan 11, 2017)

  • CHANGE: UI | Fixed issue with keyboard shortcut usage detection when playlist window is showing
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved download error handling

New in VidMasta 23.1 (Dec 24, 2016)

  • CHANGE: UI - Added automatic watchlist/wishlist management
  • CHANGE: UI - Added keyboard shortcuts for download link quality selection
  • CHANGE: UI - Improved positioning of windows
  • CHANGE: CORE - Improved overall performance via improved thread management
  • CHANGE: CORE - Improved play, download, and search error handling

New in VidMasta 23.0 (Nov 18, 2016)

  • CHANGE: UI - Fixed freezing of splash screen

New in VidMasta 22.9 (Nov 17, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved playlist error handling

New in VidMasta 22.8 (Nov 11, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved playlist error handling

New in VidMasta 22.7 (Nov 4, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE - Automatically selected subtitle language and audio language for media player whenever possible
  • CHANGE: CORE - Made repeat search results ordering stable whenever possible
  • CHANGE: UI - Showed download settings when a download link is not found
  • CHANGE: UI - Moved download link quality selection into download menu
  • CHANGE: UI - Remembered last search position for find functionality (ctrl+f)
  • CHANGE: UI - Fixed freezing of the splash screen's progress display
  • CHANGE: UI - Simplified some text
  • CHANGE: UI - Showed 100% done for playlist items with a size of 0 bytes

New in VidMasta 22.6 (Sep 28, 2016)

  • CHANGE: UI | Added ability to search for movies and TV shows at the same time
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved search accuracy
  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed error when loading playlist items with a completion size larger than the available disk space

New in VidMasta 22.5 (Sep 18, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved accuracy of download link searches
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved trailer search error handling
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved auto-opening of playlist items

New in VidMasta 22.4 (Sep 6, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Only auto-opened first playlist item in list of active playlist items
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error display

New in VidMasta 22.3 (Aug 29, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved trailer search error handling
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved prediction of previous episode and next/current episode in summary for TV shows
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error display

New in VidMasta 22.2 (Aug 26, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved trailer search error handling
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved result of table clipboard copy/cut functionality

New in VidMasta 22.1 (Aug 15, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved prediction of previous episode and next/current episode in summary for TV shows

New in VidMasta 22.0 (Aug 9, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved search error handling
  • CHANGE: UI | Showed message when playlist is in system tray and main window is closed

New in VidMasta 21.9 (Jul 30, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Changed date to end of year instead of start of year when entering year only for the to release date search criterion
  • CHANGE: CORE | Updated PeerBlock configuration
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved search performance

New in VidMasta 21.8 (Jul 8, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error handling
  • CHANGE: CORE | Added automatic cleanup of stale data

New in VidMasta 21.7 (Jun 20, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved search error handling

New in VidMasta 21.6 (Jun 8, 2016)

  • CHANGE: UI - Allowed selection of multiple playlist items at once for playing and stopping
  • CHANGE: UI - Fixed window sizing issues

New in VidMasta 21.5 (May 16, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Sanitized cache files

New in VidMasta 21.4 (May 12, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved search performance.

New in VidMasta 21.3 (May 4, 2016)

  • CHANGE: UI | Set title of media player for trailer
  • CHANGE: UI | Updated user interface library
  • CHANGE: CORE | Updated list of untrusty IPs that are automatically filtered

New in VidMasta 21.2 (Apr 25, 2016)

  • CHANGE: UI | Closed playlist window to system tray when active

New in VidMasta 21.1 (Apr 18, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Automatically closed media player after trailer is finished playing
  • CHANGE: UI | Added ability to block being able to re-download specific download links via the playlist's right-click popup menu item "Ban Group"

New in VidMasta 21.0 (Apr 14, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved error handling for playback when using VLC media player for Windows

New in VidMasta 20.9 (Apr 12, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Added playback of trailer using VLC media player for Windows
  • CHANGE: UI | Added support for entering year only for released dates search criteria

New in VidMasta 20.8 (Apr 4, 2016)

  • CHANGE: UI - Simplified user interface

New in VidMasta 20.7 (Mar 2, 2016)

  • CHANGE: UI | Simplified user interface
  • CHANGE: UI | Fixed bug where window maximization sometimes does not work

New in VidMasta 20.6 (Jan 23, 2016)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed subtitle downloading connection issue causing subtitles to not be found
  • CHANGE: UI | Added find functionality (ctrl+f) to playlist
  • CHANGE: UI | Prevented always-on-top windows from hiding modal dialogs

New in VidMasta 20.5 (Dec 9, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE - Improved play and download error handling
  • CHANGE: CORE - Improved search error handling
  • CHANGE: UI - Clarified downloader selection under the download menu

New in VidMasta 20.4 (Nov 29, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved performance of play and download link searches.

New in VidMasta 20.3 (Nov 12, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved accuracy of play and download link searches

New in VidMasta 20.2 (Nov 11, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE Improved accuracy and performance of play and download link searches
  • CHANGE: CORE Updated list of untrusty IPs that are automatically filtered

New in VidMasta 20.1 (Oct 16, 2015)

  • CHANGE: UI Added ability to re-add removed playlist items without re-playing/re-downloading via a right-click popup menu item "Reload Group"
  • CHANGE: UI Fixed bug with playlist window sometimes hiding modal dialogs
  • CHANGE: CORE Added permissions check when trying to add Java system preferences for Windows User Account Control (UAC) compatibility

New in VidMasta 20.0 (Oct 11, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Tweaked HTTPS connection configuration introduced in VidMasta 19.9 to improve TLS 1.2 compatibility
  • CHANGE: CORE | Added permissions checks before trying to start PeerBlock or perform an automatic update for Windows User Account Control (UAC) compatibility

New in VidMasta 19.9 (Oct 5, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Upgraded from Java 6 to Java 7 for TLS 1.2 support which fixes some HTTPS connection issues and improves security
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved accuracy of TV show episode download link searches
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved some button sizing and re-sizing
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved playlist item right-click selection

New in VidMasta 19.8 (Sep 24, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE - Improved play and download performance
  • CHANGE: CORE - Improved play and download error handling
  • CHANGE: CORE - Improved search performance
  • CHANGE: CORE - Improved search error handling
  • CHANGE: CORE - Added playback of summary using VLC media player for Windows
  • CHANGE: UI - Improved backup mode transition

New in VidMasta 19.7 (Aug 3, 2015)

  • CHANGE: UI - Removed unnecessary connection error message that is sometimes shown

New in VidMasta 19.6 (Jul 13, 2015)

  • CHANGE: UI - Added watch on device popup menu item to watch movies and TV shows on PS3, Xbox, TV, mobile, tablet, and more.

New in VidMasta 19.5 (Jul 4, 2015)

  • CHANGE: UI - Removed no longer necessary watch buttons

New in VidMasta 19.4 (Jun 25, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved play and download performance
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved play and download error handling

New in VidMasta 19.3 (Jun 11, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved performance of download link searches

New in VidMasta 19.2 (Jun 11, 2015)

  • CHANGE: UI | Added support for Turkish, English (already supported), Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, and Portuguese
  • CHANGE: UI | Fixed file chooser bug that sometimes prevents manually saving a torrent or subtitle file to a folder more than once with the same name.
  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed playlist file item open failure on Windows when path length of file to open is more than 260 characters long

New in VidMasta 19.2 (Jun 8, 2015)

  • CHANGE: UI | Added support for Turkish, English (already supported), Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, and Portuguese
  • CHANGE: UI | Fixed file chooser bug that sometimes prevents manually saving a torrent or subtitle file to a folder more than once with the same name.
  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed playlist file item open failure on Windows when path length of file to open is more than 260 characters long

New in VidMasta 19.1 (May 11, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved playback by using VLC media player

New in VidMasta 19.0 (Apr 30, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved play and download performance

New in VidMasta 19.0 (Apr 30, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE - Improved play and download performance

New in VidMasta 18.9 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE - Refreshed playlist table when profile is reloaded
  • CHANGE: UI - Removed playlist tips
  • CHANGE: UI - Showed error message in summary when there is an issue while determining the previous or next episode
  • CHANGE: UI - Clarified some tooltips
  • CHANGE: UI - Improved management of multiple open file choosers at once

New in VidMasta 18.8 (Apr 9, 2015)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved play and download performance
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved popular movies and popular TV shows search performance
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved initial ordering of playlist items in playlist
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved wording of some text
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved positioning of windows

New in VidMasta 18.7 (Mar 4, 2015)

  • CHANGE: UI - Improved progress reporting when playing a playlist item
  • CHANGE: UI - Improved naming of playlist items
  • CHANGE: UI - Added minimize to system tray support to VidMasta's main window and playlist window by right-clicking the minimize button
  • CHANGE: UI - Moved Manage Proxies menu item from File menu to Search menu
  • CHANGE: CORE - Saved and restored initializing playlist items between restarts of VidMasta
  • CHANGE: CORE - Improved accuracy of TV show episode download link searches
  • CHANGE: CORE - Disabled starting of PeerBlock when automatically playing second download link

New in VidMasta 18.6 (Jan 30, 2015)

  • CHANGE UI - Added new playlist setting to show/hide non-video items (e.g. images) that hides by default
  • CHANGE UI - Improved progress reporting when playing a playlist item
  • CHANGE UI - Moved all playlist settings to new playlist menu
  • CHANGE UI - Improved opening, closing, and positioning of windows
  • CHANGE UI - Refocused VidMasta's main window when there is an attempt to re-open VidMasta while already open
  • CHANGE UI - Zero-padded minute of date shown when downloading proxies
  • CHANGE UI - Improved save filename for torrents

New in VidMasta 18.5 (Jan 7, 2015)

  • CHANGE CORE - Fixed bug that sometimes prevents restoring playlist between restarts of VidMasta
  • CHANGE CORE - Remembered playlist auto-open preference
  • CHANGE UI - Improved progress reporting when stopping a playlist item
  • CHANGE UI - Added keyboard shortcuts for playlist item remove and play/stop actions
  • CHANGE UI - Added ability to double-click a playlist item to play/stop it
  • CHANGE UI - Showed tip about watching/streaming playlist items to a television or other device
  • CHANGE UI - Improved message shown when a download link or watch source is not found for a video
  • CHANGE UI - Improved format of date shown when downloading proxies
  • CHANGE UI - Fixed hyperlinks for Mac

New in VidMasta 18.4 (Dec 19, 2014)

  • CHANGE: UI - Saved and restored playlist between restarts of VidMasta
  • CHANGE: UI - Showed percentage complete for initializing stage of playback when available
  • CHANGE: UI - Allowed main application window to be restored when the playlist window is the only window open by pressing ctrl+w
  • CHANGE: UI - Fixed slowness when deleting a lot of playlist items at once
  • CHANGE: UI - Selected a nearby playlist item when a playlist item is deleted while selected
  • CHANGE: UI - Changed "Latest Episode" to more accurately say "Popular Episode" in Popular TV Show search results
  • CHANGE: CORE | Increased playback initial buffer size slightly to better handle fluctuations in download speed
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved accuracy of TV show episode download link searches
  • CHANGE: CORE | Started PeerBlock after enabling Administrator permissions
  • CHANGE: CORE | Stopped trying to automatically play download link 2 when download link 1 fails because of a connection issue
  • CHANGE: CORE | Stopped trying to email download link 2 when download link 1 fails because of a connection issue
  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed a few issues resulting from a critical and silent update, in-between the release of VidMasta 18.3 and VidMasta 18.4, of download link sources. The issues fixed are upload year check disabled, comments provider for untrusty download links temporarily un-proxied and sometimes only returns partial results, second set of results for popular searches not prefetched, and a very rare unhandled HTTP 404 error when trying to find a download link that does not exist.

New in VidMasta 18.3 (Dec 9, 2014)

  • CHANGE: UI - Updated Windows installer to create shortcuts that target "javaw.exe -jar VidMasta.jar" instead of "VidMasta.jar" so that the shortcuts can be pinned to the Windows taskbar
  • CHANGE: UI - Updated Mac and Linux installers to create a desktop shortcut/symbolic link to the application
  • CHANGE: UI - Play download link 2 in addition to download link 1 that is already played when clicking the play button
  • CHANGE: UI - Force playlist item to play if stopped and another playlist item is already playing by ctrl+clicking the play/stop button
  • CHANGE: UI - Clean-up playlist item save folder when playlist item finishes/stops
  • CHANGE: UI - Improved smoothness of the progress displayed for playlist items

New in VidMasta 18.2 (Nov 27, 2014)

  • CHANGE: UI | Improved smoothness of the progress displayed for playlist items
  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved the opening of files in default system applications

New in VidMasta 18.1 (Nov 21, 2014)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Fixed buffer corruption bug affecting playback for play button introduced in VidMasta 18.0
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved speed of buffering for play button

New in VidMasta 18.0 (Nov 17, 2014)

  • CHANGE: UI - Added play button to immediately play/stream movies and TV shows in default system media player
  • CHANGE: UI - Sort title table column case-insensitively instead of case-sensitively
  • CHANGE: UI - Clarified some tooltips and text labels
  • CHANGE: UI - Simplified setting of incoming listen port
  • CHANGE: UI - Fixed minor bug in which Set button for profiles is incorrectly active for default profile due to a change in VidMasta 17.8
  • CHANGE: UI - Fixed bug with non-modal dialogs sometimes hiding modal dialogs
  • CHANGE: CORE - Updated PeerBlock integration to work better with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows XP and higher
  • CHANGE: CORE - Updated list of untrusty IPs that are automatically filtered

New in VidMasta 17.9 (Sep 13, 2014)

  • CHANGE: CORE | Improved prediction of previous episode and next/current episode in summary for TV shows when airdates are unknown
  • CHANGE: CORE | Removed unnecessary auto-downloader website connectivity check
  • CHANGE: UI | Added stop search popup menu item to summary, trailer, download, and watch buttons

New in VidMasta 17.8 (Aug 1, 2014)

  • CHANGE: UI: Show previous episode in summary in addition to next/current episode that is already shown for TV shows
  • CHANGE: UI: Fixed bug in which next episode in summary for TV shows is sometimes too far in the future
  • CHANGE: UI: Fixed minor bug in which cancellation message is sometimes shown when emailing all links is cancelled
  • CHANGE: UI: Added ability to reset a profile before clearing it
  • CHANGE: UI: Added some tool-tip messages

New in VidMasta 17.7 (Jun 30, 2014)

  • CORE: Set default download link timeout to 0 for instantaneous opening of download links when auto-downloading is enabled
  • CORE: Improved accuracy of TV show episode download link searches
  • CORE: Improved error recovery and reporting when opening/saving download links
  • UI: Added ability to email and copy download links, stream links, and trailer links. Added ability to copy subtitle links
  • UI: Improved sorting of title, year, and rating table columns by conversion from formatted text to plain text, from text to whole number, and from text to rational number respectively prior to sorting
  • UI: Improved positioning and timing of windows
  • UI: Fixed bug preventing copying of discontiguous table rows

New in VidMasta 17.6 (May 5, 2014)

  • Core change: Improved accuracy and performance of searches by using 1-2 alternative search engines when there is no result found or a connection problem

New in VidMasta 17.5 (Apr 22, 2014)

  • CHANGE: Core | Improved overall performance by caching more compiled regular expressions

New in VidMasta 17.4 (Apr 4, 2014)

  • CHANGE: Core | Removed inaccurate and no longer necessary (since version 17.0) blocked port and bad IP filtering checks that may be incorrectly triggered when a download link is not found
  • CHANGE: Core | Updated list of untrusty IPs that are automatically filtered
  • CHANGE: UI | Improved formatting of download link name shown in message dialogs
  • CHANGE: UI | Made first country and language selections visible without the need to scroll

New in VidMasta 17.3 (Mar 27, 2014)

  • CHANGE: Core | Improved download link performance by improved caching
  • CHANGE: UI | Added download link timeout selection to connection timeout dialog for finer control

New in VidMasta 17.2 (Mar 25, 2014)

  • Core:
  • Cached download links longer for faster downloads
  • Added hash code of magnet link to download link filename to prevent overwriting download links with the same name
  • UI:
  • Added download link name to safety warning message that is shown when download link is from an untrustworthy source
  • Selected all find text when find (under edit menu) functionality is reactivated while active

New in VidMasta 17.1 (Feb 28, 2014)

  • CHANGE: Core - Fixed bug in which user interface can become temporarily unresponsive after canceling a TV show download link search and then quickly starting a download link search again for the first time
  • CHANGE: Core - Improved file IO error handling for reading files
  • CHANGE: UI - Enabled cancel button for download link searches sooner

New in VidMasta 17.0 (Feb 12, 2014)

  • CHANGE: Core - Added automatic opening of magnet link in default application (e.g. a BitTorrent client) if conversion to torrent fails
  • CHANGE: Core - Improved accuracy of TV show episode download link searches
  • CHANGE: Core - Improved connection error detection by adding HTTP status code check
  • CHANGE: Core - Made cancellation of connection-related actions instantaneous (e.g. searches)
  • CHANGE: UI - Added high video quality (TV video quality or better) option for download link and subtitle searches
  • CHANGE: UI - Remembered all file browse paths (e.g. import/export proxy paths, save torrent path, save subtitle path)
  • CHANGE: UI - Updated user interface library
  • CHANGE: UI - Shortened and improved understandability of tooltip messages
  • CHANGE: UI - Improved copying of summary text

New in VidMasta 16.9 (Nov 18, 2013)

  • CHANGE: Core - Improved overall performance by processing regular expressions more efficiently
  • CHANGE: UI - Added a popup menu to each button with ctrl+click functionality

New in VidMasta 16.8 (Oct 10, 2013)

  • CORE:
  • Improved accuracy and performance of download link searches
  • Improved accuracy and performance of subtitle searches
  • Added use of language and country settings for 'High Quality Movies' search option
  • Buffered all file reads and writes for improved performance
  • Fixed minor bug in rare recursive search of temporary subtitle folder
  • Fixed minor bug in which if an error occurs during initialization subsequent startup attempts may fail
  • UI:
  • Added more keyboard shortcuts to file extensions management
  • Removed connection issue button animation

New in VidMasta 16.7 (Aug 3, 2013)

  • Changes:
  • UI - Made icons for disabled components translucent
  • UI - Shortened some tooltip messages

New in VidMasta 16.6 (Jul 2, 2013)

  • Core - Updated watch source 1 search to use updated source website
  • UI - Updated proxy dialog tool tip messages
  • UI - Title text field gains focus if it is enabled and there are no search results