What's new in Airflow 3.3.3
Sep 15, 2022
- Improved compatibility with latest AirPlay 2 TV firmware
- Fixed playback issues on tvOS 16
New in Airflow 3.3.2 (Sep 15, 2022)
- Improved playback stability on AirPlay 2 devices
- More subtitles improvement
- Support for built-in macOS AirPlay receiver
- Fixed subtitles not showing on some AirPlay 2 enabled TVs
New in Airflow 3.3.1 (Mar 21, 2022)
- Fixed regression when connecting to some Apple TV devices
- Fixed error message occuring with some Sony Bravia TVs on the network
New in Airflow 3.3.0 (Apr 5, 2021)
- Native support for Apple Silicon
- Experimental support for AirPlay 2 on Roku Stick
- SMI subtitle support improvements
- Improved AirPlay audio redirect
New in Airflow 3.2.0 (Oct 9, 2020)
- OCR for picture (dvd/bluray/vobsub) subtitles!
- Support for FLAC codec on Apple TV (tvOS 14+)
- Support for VOBSUB external subtitles
- Support for Dolby Digital Plus passthrough (including Atmos)
- Support for Opus codec on Chromecast
- Added update channel (beta/stable) configuration in Settings -> About Airflow
New in Airflow 3.1.8 (Aug 2, 2020)
- Fixed missing audio with tvOS 14
- Fixed sharing violation error on Windows
New in Airflow 3.1.7 (Jul 6, 2020)
- Fixed memory leak with certain bluray rips
- Fixed playback of MP4 files with Tx3G subtitles
New in Airflow 3.1.3 (Jun 8, 2020)
- Improved device discovery on some networks.
New in Airflow 3.1.2 (Jun 8, 2020)
- Improved playback stability for Airplay 2 TVs + other bugfixes
- Reworked device discovery:
- Airflow can now wake up Airplay 2 TVs from standy mode
- It is now possible to add device manually
New in Airflow 3.0.0 (Jun 8, 2020)
- Remote Control App for iOS and Android is here:
- Got to Airflow Setting and click on Remote Control App to check it out
- Official Support for AirPlay 2 enabled TVs:
- To the best of our knowledge, Airflow is the only desktop software that can stream to Airplay 2 enabled TVs :)
- With full supports for HEVC and HDR
- Improved subtitle search:
- Searching by name should now yield more results
- Improve playback for H.264 and HEVC files with broken timetamps:
- Airflow will correctly play MP4 files without CTTS atoms (for both H.264 and HEVC)
- These files are technically not valid, but given that there is increased number of them floating around Airflow will now determine correct frame order and fix the timestamps before the video stream reaches Apple TV or Chromecast to ensure smooth playback
- Playback Settings popup now displays conversion status and reason at the bottom:
- This makes it easy to figure out why video is beeing converted despite having supported codec
- Other:
- Many bugfixes and playback improvements
New in Airflow 2.4.5 (Jun 8, 2020)
- Preview of certain features from 3.0
New in Airflow 2.4.2 (Jun 8, 2020)
- Allow disabling auto-play (per playlist setting)
- Improved Windows HiDPI support
- Other bugfixes
New in Airflow 2.4.1 (Jul 22, 2019)
- Fix playback regressions with 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TV
New in Airflow 2.4.0 (Jul 22, 2019)
- Experimental support for Airplay 2 devices (new Samsung, Visio and Sony TVs)
- Greatly improved audio-sync settings allowing custom adjustment for each output device - It is now possible to have different presets for each device (i.e. preset for bluetooth headphones)
- Better subtitle search dialog, allows filtering by language and searching by movie name
- Automatically reconnect NAS if necessary
- Fixed crash on macOS catalina; Also the binary is now notarized
New in Airflow 2.3.14 (Jan 27, 2019)
- Fixed regression when playing HDR videos on Apple TV 4K
- Fixed playback occasionally getting stuck at the beginning of file with Chromecast devices
- Fix looping when having one item in playlist
- Better message when TLS handshake fails
- Fix deadlock when Bonjour deamon disconnect
- Fix crash when playing certain H.264 files
- Remember forced pixel aspect ratio for similar files
New in Airflow 2.3.13 (Jan 27, 2019)
- Fixed regression where playback failed with certain H.264 files.
New in Airflow 2.3.12 (Jan 27, 2019)
- Improved playback with certain non-compliant HEVC files
- Fixed Quick Sync regression resulting in slowed-down playback.
New in Airflow 2.3.11 (Jan 27, 2019)
- Fixed regression when sometimes multichannel audio played as mono.
New in Airflow 2.3.10 (Jan 27, 2019)
- HEVC is now natively supported on Android TV devices! Enjoy 4K playback on your Shield TV :)
- Fixed broken seeking for some videos on Android TV devices
- Fixed playback of realmedia files.
- Fixed HEVC passthrough in MPEG TS files
- Fixed OGM videos playback
- Improved compatibility with macOS Mojave
New in Airflow 2.3.9 (Jul 16, 2018)
- Fixed crash when right clicking on playlists tab
- Fixed pairing with certain Apple TV versions
- Fixed regression with surround sound on 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TV devices
New in Airflow 2.3.8 (Jul 16, 2018)
- Fixed problem with subtitles missing when burning-in after seeking backwards.
- Better handling of errors during re-connection
- Play from beginning clears last position in all selected files
- Fixed problem with files being skipped on older Apple TV devices
New in Airflow 2.3.7 (Apr 3, 2018)
- Attempt to automatically reconnect and resume playback when chromecast disconnects
- Fixed crash on Windows during chromecast playback (introduced in 2.3.6)
- Improved scrubbing preview speed
- Improved AirPlay compatibility
- Doubleclick play/pause during playback skips to next video
- Fixed subtitles not being visible by default on Apple TV
- Fixed scrubbing preview for vertical videos
- Fixed problem with DD+ passhtrough on Apple TV
- Added option to loop playlist content (can be enabled per playlist in the playlist popup menu)
- Added option to improve compatibility with older 5.1 receivers
New in Airflow 2.3.1u1 (Jan 23, 2018)
- Fixed crash happening after deleting last playlist item
- Proper handling of symlinks and aliases
New in Airflow 2.3.1 (Jan 23, 2018)
- Fixed minor compatibility issue with past versions
New in Airflow 2.2.0 (Jan 23, 2018)
- Fixed playback of HEVC inside MPEG TS.
- Brand new Chromecast receiver app:
- It is possible to adjust subtitle delay on chromecast without having to restart playback.
- Supports remote control via the Google Home app (including seeking)
- Fixes problem with loading stuck with high bitrates movies on Chromecast 1 with subtitles enabled
New in Airflow 2.1.3 (Nov 19, 2017)
- Fixed certain buffering issues on 1st and 2nd generation Chromecast when streaming high bitrate movies
- Restored surround sound playback broken by recent Chromecast update
- Fixed window scaling on external monitor with OS X High Sierra
- Other bugfixes and performance improvements
New in Airflow 2.1.0 (Oct 10, 2017)
- Full HEVC support for all your 4k streaming needs. This update brings support for native HEVC playback on Apple TV 4 (tvOS 11) and Chromecast Ultra.
- If your device doesn't support HEVC codec natively, transcoding is fully hardware accelerated on OSX High Sierra and Windows with Skylake CPUs.
- Seeking has been revamped, with faster and more precise scrubbing.
New in Airflow 2.0.0 Beta 9 (Aug 28, 2017)
- Fixed problem with spotlight not indexing Airflow
- Support for proxy servers
- Airflow can now be activated (optional during beta)
- Many bugfixes
New in Airflow 2.0.0 Beta 8u2 (Jul 31, 2017)
- Speed Test for Chromecast
- Fixed video artifacts when playing some files
- Many other bugfixes and stability improvements
New in Airflow 2.0.0 Beta 6 (Jul 8, 2017)
- Improved device discovery
- Fixed bug with forcing external GPU
- Surround sound mode setting is now global
- Airflow will disconnect from Chromecast when exiting
- Various bug fixes
New in Airflow 2.0.0 Beta 5 (Jun 26, 2017)
- Fixing startup errors on Windows and problems with some multi-channel audio files.