What's new in iShowU 1.94.6 Beta
Jul 18, 2016
- Fixes:
- Fix bug where iShowU didn't look at the "check for software update" flag.
New in iShowU 1.94.5 Beta (Apr 27, 2016)
- Fixed a bug where sometimes unlocking wouldn't work on older OS X releases
New in iShowU 1.94.4 (Mar 29, 2016)
- Added optional dialog that lets users know about the new iShowU Instant app.
New in iShowU 1.94.3 (Oct 20, 2015)
- Fixed an issue causing inability to record on El Capitan.
New in iShowU 1.94.2 (Sep 1, 2015)
- Updated for El Capitan. Includes a new version of Soundflower that works on El Capitan.
New in iShowU 1.94.1 (Mar 25, 2015)
- Changes:
- Changed the way metadata is saved to the movie. This means the movie will now show the title as the filename, rather than saying 'screen'.
- Fixes:
- Re-enabled the mouse fix option for all 10.9.x OS versions. Should resolve crashing issue.
New in iShowU 1.94.0 (Dec 23, 2014)
- Changes:
- OCP has been decomissioned, thus it's removed from the app.
New in iShowU 1.92.11 Beta (Jul 4, 2014)
- Fixes:
- Fixed issue where the mouse cursor would always show under Mavericks. Now it's sane.
New in iShowU 1.92.10 (Jul 4, 2014)
- Fixes:
- Made a fix to workaround crash issues for users updating to 10.9.3.
New in iShowU 1.92.9 (Mar 25, 2014)
- Changes:
- Updated AVF implementation
- Better error handling when unable to start a capture
- Minimum OSX requirement now bumped to 10.7.x
New in iShowU 1.92.8 Beta (Dec 4, 2013)
- Changes:
- Rebuilt with new Mavericks toolchain. Let us know if you discover any problems.
- Fixes:
- With help from Thomas A, discovered and fixed a problem recording using mirrored displays on Mavericks.
- With help from Brandon T, enabled the "Green Screen" discovery workaround (iShowU will auto detect and prompt you if it can detect a bad AVF recording situation).
- Fixed crash when changing between presets.
- Fixed issue when running under Mavericks where the mouse cursor would always be recorded.
New in iShowU 1.92.7 (Dec 4, 2013)
- Changes:
- Mavericks Support. Those of you with Retina MBP's - try H.264, I think you'll be surprised (read: hardware H.264 encoding).
- Added better instructions on enabling support for assistive devices, for both ML and Mavericks.
- When assisting user enable "control this computer", iShowU now opens the Security & Privacy preference pane when running under Mavericks
- Fixes:
- Fixed crash when converting audio to mono with some USB headsets.
New in iShowU 1.92.7 Beta (Sep 12, 2013)
- Changes:
- Initial testing under Mavericks DP3. Those of you with Retina MBP's - try H.264, I think you'll be surprised (can't say much, NDA).
- Added better instructions on enabling support for assistive devices, for both ML and Mavericks.
- When assisting user enable "control this computer", iShowU now opens the Security & Privacy preference pane when running under Mavericks
- Fixes:
- Fixed crash when converting audio to mono with some USB headsets.
New in iShowU 1.92.6 (Sep 12, 2013)
- Fixed another case that'd stop iShowU from recording video properly.
New in iShowU 1.92.6 Beta (Apr 6, 2013)
- Fixed up the inability to force recording to Mono in 10.7.5 (the option in iShowU Preferences)
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash upon startup.
New in iShowU 1.92.5 (Apr 6, 2013)
- Possible fix for the inability to record video (i.e: some users getting audio only)
New in iShowU 1.92.5 Beta (Mar 1, 2013)
- Fixes - Provided error checking and automatic switching to PCM when the microphone device cannot be recorded directly into AAC.
New in iShowU 1.92.4 (Mar 1, 2013)
- Fixed issue where some people couldn't record in AAC - resulting in movies that could not be opened in QuickTime.
New in iShowU 1.92.3 Beta (Sep 28, 2012)
- Changes:
- Awesome speed and quality increase under Lion / Mountain Lion when scaling footage (here, it's at least twice as quick, and twice as nice!).
New in iShowU 1.92.2 Beta (Sep 21, 2012)
- Fixes: Fixed an issue whereby a recording would not start on Mountain Lion if the 'follow mouse mode' option was off, and the horizontal width was smallish (around 850).
New in iShowU 1.92.1 (Jul 9, 2012)
- Fixes:
- Fixed up issues with Retina displays under Lion.
- No longer shows a black frame at the beginning of recording when running on Lion.
New in iShowU 1.92.0 (Jul 2, 2012)
- Now built as an Intel only binary, with a minimum requirement of 10.6.6.
New in iShowU 1.91.5 (Jun 7, 2012)
- Fixes:
- Support for Gatekeeper under Max OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
- Automatically increase relevant SF2ch channel/master volumes when enabling recording of application audio. Fixes problems related to not being able to hear application audio, when recording of app audio is enabled.
New in iShowU 1.91.4 (Dec 14, 2011)
- Fixed issue whereby you could not choose ~/Desktop as a location for files.
New in iShowU 1.91.2 (Oct 5, 2011)
- 1592: Many fixes for Lion, including detection of errors writing to disk.
- 1549: Additional stability improvements - fixed issue with excessive CPU usage in last beta build.
- Lion - Fixed issue causing crash when pressing pause.
- Lion - Fixed colour when scaling down the video (no longer blue).
New in iShowU 1.91.1 (Jul 19, 2011)
- Fixes:
- Fixed issue that'd prevent iShowU hiding itself from the dock.
- Fixed a thread leak
- Changes:
- You can now hide recordings within One Click Publishing. This means the recording will not be shown in the index, and that only people knowing it's URL can access it.
New in iShowU 1.91 (Jun 3, 2011)
- Changes:
- Added feature to lock capture (and selection thereof) to a single display.
- Initial support for OS X 10.7 (Lion). Caveat: This is still a development in progress.
- Fixed some memory leaks.
New in iShowU 1.90 (May 17, 2011)
- Updated to have minimum requirement of OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
- Additional stability improvements.
- We have reworked the underlying frameworks that make up the base of our products, eue to these new frameworks / reorganizations - all localizations have been temporarily removed. We will be working with our localizers to being complete localizations in future releases. We didn't want to have half-baked localizations, and so decided it'd be better to remove them temporarily. Watch this space!
New in iShowU 1.89 (Apr 28, 2011)
- Fixes
- Fixed a bug that'd cause a crash when you sorted the presets via clicking the table header
- Changes
- Additional validation and checking in capture code - this is a partial fix while we discover the underlying cause. It will result in a minimum capture size of 16x16 instead of a potential crash situation. If you see small 16x16 captures, we'd like to hear from you.
- Updated to have minimum requirement of OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
New in iShowU 1.88 (Apr 7, 2011)
- Last 10.4 compatible release. Later releases will be for 10.5+ only.
- Allow a user to change their One-Click publishing name (via the Menu in the OCP manager).
- Stability and performance improvements to the Uploader.
New in iShowU 1.87 (Feb 16, 2011)
- Changes:
- Fixed crash under 10.6 when editing capture area.
- A number of stability and performance improvements.
New in iShowU 1.86 (Dec 20, 2010)
- Fixed issue with publishing names and naming of files under Leopard.
New in iShowU 1.85 (Dec 15, 2010)
- Various fixes to OCP within OS X 10.5.x
- You can now "lock" a published video. This prevents you from unpublishing it by mistake.
New in iShowU 1.84 (Dec 6, 2010)
- Changes - Fix for NSAlias_Tiger problem when completing a recording.
New in iShowU 1.83 (Dec 3, 2010)
- Various One Click Publishing fixes (better link handling, authentication fixes).
New in iShowU 1.82 (Dec 2, 2010)
- Changes:
- Fix for some buttons no longer responding under 10.4.
- OCP fix - the correct URL is now available for dragging from the OCP manager if you change the title before the upload is complete.
New in iShowU 1.80 (Sep 15, 2010)
- Fixes to the registration for Kagi registration codes.
New in iShowU 1.79 (Aug 14, 2010)
- Upgrades to registration system.
New in iShowU 1.78 (May 27, 2010)
- Fixes - Minor internal change to fix some QT encoding issues.
New in iShowU 1.77 Beta (Apr 15, 2010)
- Fixes:
- Fixed bug in the SSL initialization that could cause a crash at startup.
- iShowU now checks to see if an update is in progress before recording (and prompts if one is, so you don't have an update appear mid recording).
- Modification to the System audio playthrough. Fixes a bug on some systems and speeds it up considerably.
- Updated various translations.
New in iShowU 1.76 Beta (Oct 8, 2009)
- Modification to the System audio playthrough. Fixes a bug on some systems and speeds it up considerably.
- Updated Japanese translation.
New in iShowU 1.75 (Sep 22, 2009)
- Upgraded the Sparkle framework (for Software updates).
- Now built on 10.6
New in iShowU 1.74 (Sep 7, 2009)
- Changes - Another Snow Leopard update (fixes Soundflower install problems).
New in iShowU 1.73 (Jul 29, 2009)
- Fixed up the UI so that the "Slow capture rate when not moving mouse" and "Show capture guide when recording" labels are much shorter, reducing the possibility of clicking on these by mistake.
- Fixed a bug whereby the mouse animations wouldn't show up if you were not recording the mouse.
- Updated French localization.
New in iShowU 1.72 (Jul 14, 2009)
- Added the ability to have the recording auto stop after X seconds, minutes or hours.
- Updated references to help and documentation.
- Updated support request (ticketing) app.
- A couple of internal fixes.
New in iShowU 1.71 (May 19, 2009)
- Fixed issue with banding under GMA950.
New in iShowU 1.70 (Feb 16, 2009)
- Changes:
- Added better support ticket integration.
- Code inserted to try to work around sgAudio notification crash.
- Changed the wording of the registration dialog to indicate that iShowU won't remove the green text from videos that have already been made.
New in iShowU 1.69 (Oct 24, 2008)
- Fixed issue whereby if you attempted to overwrite a named take, the original file would still exist (it's now removed).
- Fixed a problem that could caused named takes to not work correctly.
- Fixes to event taps.
- Updated registration system.
- Updated Spanish localization.
New in iShowU 1.68 (Aug 4, 2008)
- Added the ability to name takes (an optional feature you can turn on in preferences).
- Updated Japanese localization.
New in iShowU 1.67 (Jun 26, 2008)
- Fixed a bug whereby the countdown timer would sometimes appear in the final recording.
New in iShowU 1.66 (May 7, 2008)
- Fixed bug whereby presets were not automatically loaded.
- Fixed jerky recording when under load (Apple Intermediate, recording World of Warcraft).
- The above fix may also resolve issues customers have had recording using H264.
- A number of other minor bugfixes.
New in iShowU 1.65 (May 5, 2008)
- Fixed jerky recording when under load (Apple Intermediate, recording World of Warcraft).
- The above fix may also resolve issues customers have had recording using H264.
New in iShowU 1.64 (Apr 15, 2008)
- Fixed problems with pause where after repeated pauses recording might stop (didn't happen all the time).
- Fixed issue whereby the grab would become faster after pause (if you never paused while recording you'd never notice this).
- When paused you can now move the capture rectangle about.
- Mono option put back in as some people are using the single two channel mic input to record two tracks of audio and balance it later. It's now in Preferences not part of each preset.
- Fixed bug whereby presets were still reset if you answered "No" to the "Do you want to reset" question.
- Fixed a possible crash bug.
New in iShowU 1.63 (Apr 14, 2008)
- Updated the Chinese localization.
New in iShowU 1.62 (Apr 8, 2008)
- Fixed screen flicker when recording other OpenGL applications (as long as follow mouse is off).
- YouTube preset now uses H264 for encoding.
New in iShowU 1.61 (Mar 29, 2008)
- You now have the option to record left and right clicks in the video.
- The entire capture pipeline is a few percent faster now.
- Completely reworked timing system. It is now possible to record the iShowU menu itself (this was impossible using the previous method of frame timing, due to technical reasons).
- You can now choose to use an alternate method to capture the mouse cursor. This can be set in Preferences.
- Performance improvements for machines using the Intel GMA 950 chipset (older Mac Mini and Macbooks).
- You can choose if you want mouse clicks on all the time, or only if you're holding down certain special keys (shift, alt/option etc). See preferences.
- The "mono" option has been removed (now all microphone audio is automatically recorded as mono). The system audio track remains Stereo.
- Soundflower updated to the official version 1.3.1. This should fix problems installing soundflower on some hardware (notably PPC). This version allows volume controls to work when "record system audio" is enabled. Note:The upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 is not automatic. You will need to first uninstall Soundflower (use the iShowU menu to do this) and then click on 'record system audio' to reinstall the new one.
- The registration system has been updated - you can now have it get your registration details from the internet (pretty much the same as you visiting the SWB website and logging in, just much easier) rather than having to copy/paste them into the right fields.
- Updated the Hungarian, Norwegian and Finnish localizations.
- Some minor bug fixes
New in iShowU 1.59 (Mar 10, 2008)
- Soundflower updated to the official version 1.3.1. This should fix problems installing soundflower on some hardware (notably PPC). This version allows volume controls to work when "record system audio" is enabled. Note:The upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 is not automatic. You will need to first uninstall Soundflower (use the iShowU menu to do this) and then click on 'record system audio' to reinstall the new one.
- The registration system has been updated - you can now have it get your registration details from the internet (pretty much the same as you visiting the SWB website and logging in, just much easier) rather than having to copy/paste them into the right fields.
- Updated the Hungarian, Norwegian and Finnish localizations.
New in iShowU 1.58 (Feb 28, 2008)
- Soundflower updated to version 1.3 (with a fix). There was a bug in the driver which prevented it from working on PPC systems (it worked fine if you had an Intel machine), this has now been fixed. This version will sit in test for a little while to ensure that it works for everyone.
New in iShowU 1.57 (Feb 18, 2008)
- Soundflower updated to version 1.3. This time I even copied the right Soundflower.kext (the 1.3 version) into the bundle, so that it does install 1.3 and not 1.2.
New in iShowU 1.56 (Feb 8, 2008)
- Fixed the issue causing iShowU to fail to load on 10.4.8 or earlier. Was due to a project build issue switching from Tiger to Leopard. No code changes were made.
New in iShowU 1.53 (Nov 24, 2007)
- Fixed the issue causing iShowU to fail to load on 10.4.8 or earlier. Was due to a project build issue switching from Tiger to Leopard. No code changes were made.
New in iShowU 1.52 (Nov 12, 2007)
- Added the ability to specify a custom scaling size for captured video.
New in iShowU 1.51 (Nov 5, 2007)
- Fixed bug whereby hitting the shortcut to record again would corrupt an existing recording if one was in progress.
- Fixed a bug whereby some older migrated preferences wouldn't work (which would cause other things in the UI to fail silently).
New in iShowU 1.50 (Oct 29, 2007)
- Upgrading from Tiger to Leopard: The temporary storage path is now checked when the preferences are loaded - and reset to a known good temporary location if it doesn't exist. This is an attempt to avoid any "Error 1" messages.
- The menu bar icon has been fixed (it was very wide if you were showing FPS).
- Apple-W can be used to close both Preferences and the About Box now.
New in iShowU 1.49 (Oct 26, 2007)
- Fixed the broken localizations.
New in iShowU 1.47 (Oct 1, 2007)
- New Features:
- Perferences now includes an option to automatically send completed records to the Stomp recompressor.
- Changes:
- When editing the names of presets - hitting enter no longer selects some other row in the list.