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Annot Player Changelog

What's new in Annot Player 0.1.9.0

Aug 27, 2012
  • Add word translation support from Kotobank (ja).
  • Add more text translation options, including:
  • Infoseek honyaku
  • Yahoo! honyaku
  • OCN translator (en, zh, ko) - the best for Chinese
  • freshEYE honyaku (en,zh)
  • @nifty honyaku (en)
  • Excite hongyaku (en)
  • SDL free translator (en)
  • The default translator switched to Ocn from Microsoft.
  • Try to synchronize with any running game in the library on startup.
  • Retry to reconnect on accidental soap error.
  • Option to set annotation transparency from Preferences.
  • Option to set fullscreen annotation size, which is slightly larger than normal one.

New in Annot Player 0.1.8.2 (Aug 20, 2012)

  • Show media library on startup.
  • Game launch settings (channel & encoding) will be saved for the next launch.
  • Setting up synchronization is only required once for each game.
  • Highlight selected text in yellow in all textedit widgets.
  • Fix a bug in the updater.

New in Annot Player 0.1.8.1 (Aug 16, 2012)

  • Alternatively, latest binaries could be found at ftp.annot.me/release/annot-player.
  • Versions before 0.1.8.1 are now broken and won't work propertly.
  • Add Annot Translator using WWWJDIC (beta). Internet access is indispensible.
  • Integrate galgame Backlog with Annot Translator.
  • Add media library to index available media and games from play history.
  • Double-click subtitles will edit it if the user has its ownership.
  • Otherwise, show its analytics.
  • Add support for Russian language.
  • Update VLC plugins to version 2.0.3.

New in Annot Player 0.1.8.0 (Jul 31, 2012)

  • Fix the severe issue for synchronizing annotations caused by the changes of the server framework.
  • App before version 0.1.8.0 might not function well anymore.
  • Fix the bug which might cause downloaded gzipped annotations failed to be unzipped and parsed.
  • Utilize cookies to reduce network traffic.

New in Annot Player 0.1.7.1 (Jul 23, 2012)

  • Long annotations/subtitles will be wrapped by word boundaries.
  • Game subtitles will be rendered stably on the top or bottom.
  • Add dock button to embedded mode, to toggle whether embed to the top or bottom.
  • Add Italian language for galgame translation.
  • Existing files to overwrite will be moved to trash instead of being deleted or renamed.
  • Press the "Play/Pause" button after sync with galgame will start or pause listening to game signals.
  • Add XML/JSON annotations download dialog to annot-player.
  • Some unstable experimental features are temporarily disabled.
  • Annotation Downloader is changed to use single download thread to avoid parallel bugs.
  • Fix the bug that makes wmv and ISO images invisible from openning.
  • Fix the bug that causes annot-player unable to fetch annotations when openning files in Windows Explorer.
  • Fix a bug that might cause context menu to render in full black.
  • Reimplement thread-safe message logging mechanism which could result in mystery crashes.

New in Annot Player 0.1.7 (Jul 17, 2012)

  • Able to edit and save machine-translated subtitles.
  • The user will take the ownership of the editted subtitles.
  • Render widgets (such as push buttons) as annotations (currently not for Mac).
  • Bing API is replaced with Microsoft Azure API for default Galgame translation.
  • Because Microsoft will stop Bing translation service after Aug. 1, 2012, galgame translation before version 0.1.7 will stop functioning after Aug.1.
  • Add Google Translator and Romaji translation service.
  • Able to turn on more than one translation providers.
  • Enble translation for French/German/Spanish/Portuguese
  • Opion to change annotation moving speed in preferences.
  • Modification to movement resolution is removed.
  • Prefetch annotations and save to XML/JSON before streaming media is completed.
  • Able to download annotation XML/JSON from Annot Browser or Annot Downloader.
  • To associate the downloaded XML/JSON subtitle with media file, rename the subtitle as the same basename as the media file.
  • Update VLC plugins to version 2.0.2.
  • Fix the bug for creating Annotation Analytics view for galgame.
  • Double-click the annotation will show analytics of all annotations from its owner user.
  • Fix the bug which causes annot-player window to disappear after the galgame is minimized,
  • Fix a bug that might randomly crashes annot-player when dragging annotations.
  • Fix the offline-cache inconsistent bug when editing annotations.

New in Annot Player 0.1.6.4 (Jul 2, 2012)

  • Able to convert all Chinese annotations to Traditional Chinese.
  • Add translation for Traditional Chinese.
  • Able to adjust annotation movement resolution for floating annotations.
  • Switch from llvm gcc to clang with C++11 enabled on Mac.
  • Fix a bug while rendering translations in Galgame with multiple lines.
  • Fix a bug which results in failure to resolve nico anime from nicovideo.jp/watch/so[0-9]*
  • Fix severe multi-threading bugs in downloader.
  • Switch from qthreadpool task to qthread in downloader to deal with concurrency bugs.
  • Imported annotations will be saved to XML/JSON files.
  • New annotation searching logic follows:
  • Search offline annotations in "Annot Stream/Data/cache/cache.db"
  • (or ~/Library/Caches/me.annot.player/cache.db on Mac OS X).
  • Search offline annotations from XML/JSON files in the same folder of the video.
  • Assume the current file being played is ABC.mp4, then
  • ABC.whatever.xml and ABC.whatever.json will be imported.
  • If no offline annotations exist, fetch latest annotations online.
  • Trigger "Update Annotations" from context menu will sync all three sources of annotations.
  • Edit annotations sources from "Annotation Source" in context menu.

New in Annot Player 0.1.6.3 (Jun 22, 2012)

  • Annotation motionless scheduling and rendering improved.
  • Add halo effect to render annotations (able to change colors in Preferences).
  • Annotations will glow when focusd on.
  • Able to change audio channels and delay time in context menu.
  • Able to import annotation files in XML/JSON format downloaded from nicovideo/acfun/bilibili.
  • Automatically load external annotation files whose name starts with the file name of current media.
  • Able to select text encoding for the annotated Galgame (usually Shift-JIS or UTF-16).
  • Enforce Shift-JIS as default.
  • Fix the encoding issue for Galgame from light (malie.exe).

New in Annot Player 0.1.6.0 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • Option to always show avatars (could be disabled from context menu).
  • Able to translate annotations to different languages.
  • Able to change file associations from Preferences.
  • Enable HTTP pipelining to improve download and stream speed.
  • Update to Qt 4.8.2. Switch from Carbon to Cocoa on Mac OS X.
  • Add getchu.com to the browser's delegate list.
  • Fix the issues that cause buttons in full screen difficult to press.
  • Fix a bug in downloader which might result in incorrent file size.
  • Fix bugs while tracking Galgame process and rendering annotations.

New in Annot Player 0.1.5.6 (May 28, 2012)

  • Add randomized avatars to identify different users.
  • Able to change annotation font in preferences.
  • Option to limit annotation bandwith (enabled by default).
  • Bugfix:
  • Fix a bug which could freeze the player when stream video with more than 6 parts.
  • Fix a bug which bound # of download tasks to # of CPUs.
  • Fix a bug which might mess up merged FLV streams, esp. Sina video from AcFun.tv.
  • Fix a bug that could crash the browser when activate context menu.
  • Fix a bug when prevent logging in to Nicovideo.jp on Windows.
  • Fix a bug when annotate gal game.

New in Annot Player 0.1.5.5 (May 19, 2012)

  • Add water ripple effect to render windows (conflicts with Aero effect, Mac/WinXP only).
  • Show meta info (e.g. user,date) after annotations.
  • Show loading progress in Browser's address bar.
  • When the download option is off, try to use MMS protocal instead of HTTP to stream remote video.
  • Include Youtube, and any other video which is less than 6 minutes.
  • Currently, parted remote video and those require authentification (such as Nicovideo) do not support MMS mode.
  • Fix a bug when resolve Youtube video on Windows.
  • Fix an encoding bug when resolve Tudou video.
  • Fix a bug that might result in unsaved download tasks when downloading multiple videos.

New in Annot Player 0.1.5.4 (May 14, 2012)

  • FadeIn/FadeOut animation applied to all windows and annotations.
  • Change menubar shortcuts from ALT to CAPSLOCK.
  • Added magnifier (CTRL+E or hold LeftButton).
  • Fixed mouse freezing issue on Windows.
  • Fixed a bug while decoding AcFun.tv URLs.
  • Fixed a bug in Browser when visiting SSL encrypted webs.

New in Annot Player 0.1.5.3 (May 8, 2012)

  • Able to play limited Youku video from outside of China.
  • Use annotion pool to reduce memory traffic and CPU usage significantly.
  • Support for AcFun.tv is fixed.
  • Fixed a bug preventing network proxy settings from being saved.
  • Change stream strategy from mult-thread to single-thread multi-task to avoid being banned by remote server when download in parallel.
  • Right button will collect nearby annotations.
  • ALT + DoubleClick will attract all annotations.
  • SHIFT + DoubleClick will expel nearby annotations.
  • Shortcuts to manipulate annotations changed.
  • Added FadeIn / FadeOut effects to render annotations.
  • Added touchpad gestures to player and all webview (Mac only).
  • Added menu bar to Browser/Downloader on Windows.
  • Added debug console to Browser.
  • Added preferences dialog. Able to change default downloads location.
  • Context menu to repeat current video.

New in Annot Player 0.1.5.2 (Apr 30, 2012)

  • Fixed a severe bug which might cause duplication in imported annotations.

New in Annot Player 0.1.5.0 (Apr 23, 2012)

  • Offline caching improved. Most network accesses are cached if possible.
  • Imported annotations are also cached for offline playing.
  • Offline database performance improved.
  • Able to change annotation offset in time. Shortcuts follow.
  • CTRL+ALT with =-0
  • CTRL+ALT+Wheel
  • Able to open media file from context menu on Windows.
  • To maximize will result in full screen.
  • Streaming from AcFun.tv is broken. Won't fix until AcFun.tv finalize its new RESTful API.
  • Browser improved:
  • Detect streamable video and open in Annot Player from context menu.
  • Most webkit compatible shortcuts added.
  • Fixed URL encoding for Asia characters.
  • Offline cookies and caching are enabled.
  • Downloader improved:
  • Added concurrency control. Limit max number of downloads to 3.
  • Added system tray.
  • Added context menu.
  • Bugfix:
  • Fixed bugs that might crash the player while switching media.
  • Fixed bugs preventing Adobe Flash from playing MP4 video on Mac.

New in Annot Player 0.1.4.3 (Apr 16, 2012)

  • Fixed a severe bug while streaming MP4 video from nicovideo.jp.
  • Use CTRL+SHIFT/MiddleButton with Mouse to select and delete annotations.
  • Annotation analytics improved.
  • Display download progress and media information in full screen mode.
  • Preferred playing mode changed to embedded mode.
  • Browser improved.
  • Automatic login nicovideo.jp and bilibili.tv.
  • Added built-in adblock.
  • Remember history of visited and recent closed URLs.

New in Annot Player 0.1.4.1 (Apr 9, 2012)

  • Added keyboard shortcuts to adjust contrast, brightness, hue, saturation and gamma.
  • Added mouse wheel shortcuts to rotate/scale annotations.
  • Ctrl + Wheel: scale all/paused annotations
  • Shift + Wheel: rotate all/paused annotations
  • Added basic analytics for annotations.
  • Hardcode anonymous accounts for annot.me and nicovideo.jp.
  • Alpha-release for linux.
  • Service host moved to Japan.
  • Bug fix and improvement on usability and stability.

New in Annot Player 0.1.4.0 (Mar 31, 2012)

  • Web browser and downloader utilities are made into different apps.
  • Added mouse rubber band to select annotations with CTRL/SHIFT modifiers.
  • Nico browser fixed. Able to visit nico anime channel from outside of Japan.
  • Added previous/next/browse actions for online video.
  • Upgraded to Qt 4.8.1 and VLC 2.0.1.

New in Annot Player 0.1.3.4 (Mar 23, 2012)

  • Show download progress in position slider.
  • Added annotation thread view.
  • Allow openning multiple windows from context menu.
  • Bug fix in streaming module.

New in Annot Player 0.1.3.3 (Mar 20, 2012)

  • Fixed a severe bug which could crash the app while downloading.
  • Option to disable context menu rendering.
  • Option to open multiple player windows on Windows in context menu.
  • Able to change video aspect ratio in context menu. Specified aspect ratio will be saved for the movie.

New in Annot Player 0.1.3.2 (Mar 19, 2012)

  • When playing online video from AcFun/Bilibili, parted videos are now merged on the fly.
  • Added network proxy.
  • Added proxy browser for nicovideo.
  • Able to play nico video from outside of Japan.
  • Added utilities menu.
  • Monitor clipboard for online media/annot URLs.
  • Added increase/decrease buttons to URL dialog.
  • Reimplemented video download and demux modules.
  • Removed dependencies on mp4v2 and gpac.
  • Know issues with current implementation:
  • Seeking over downloaded frames is not allowed.
  • High CPU usage on Macbook Air.

New in Annot Player 0.1.3.1 (Mar 12, 2012)

  • Added fast forward buttons.
  • Able to disable Aero effect in Windows Vista/7.
  • Automatically detect last language preference for subtitle/audio track.
  • Several bug fixes.

New in Annot Player 0.1.3.0 (Mar 3, 2012)

  • Now support streaming from nicovideo.jp in Mac OS X as well.
  • Online video will be automatically downloaded and associated with annotations.
  • Support streaming nicovideo using proxy.
  • Switched to VLC2. Performance and stability improved.
  • Now support playing Bluray Disc.
  • Playing cue is broken on Mac OS X.
  • GUI improved.

New in Annot Player 0.1.2.9 (Feb 27, 2012)

  • Annotation rendering improved.
  • Online streaming improved.
  • Added dialog to download online videos, and remux parted videos to mp4.
  • Downloaded videos will be associated with online annotations automatically.
  • Supported websites: nicovideo.jp,acfun.tv,bilibili.tv,....
  • Added debug console.

New in Annot Player 0.1.2.8 (Feb 17, 2012)

  • Added annotation rendering effects.
  • Annotations rendered with shadow by default.
  • Added support to open RTSP stream.
  • GUI improved.