Chroma Player Changelog
What's new in Chroma Player 2009.1
Mar 27, 2009- Playlist - Opening multiple movies or dropping multiple movies on Chroma will pop up a small playlist window. Each movie will play in succession without user intervention.
- Double subtitle lines - Following many requests there is now a subtitle option to display two shorter subtitle lines instead of one long. The double subtitle option is selected in the Subtitle preferences.
- Improved subtitle line-breaking - Many improvements in making subtitles line-break for readability, especially for ideographic languages like Chinese.
- Subtitle formats - External subtitles now support more of their standard markup tags, and several known but non-standard tags have been added.
- Improved subtitle style - The outline style has been changed and should be more readable, especially with thin fonts. Now both 'outline' and 'shadow' subtitle styles work on Mac OS X 10.2 too.
- Screen dimming prevention - Now prevents screen dimming while watching movies on newer MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
- Improved subtitle text encoding detection - Improved text encoding detection for muxed subtitles (subtitles in the movie file), and improved detection of ISO Latin2 and Thai text encodings.
- AppleRemote - Chroma now releases the AppleRemote when not active so other applications can use it.
New in Chroma Player 2008.1 (Aug 19, 2008)
- Darker window option
- A new darker window option has been added, especially suited for use in low light.
- Black video / White video
- A change in some newer Macs gave a black video has been fixed. A bug causing .3gp movies to be white have been fixed too.
- Film Gamma
- The built-in codecs have been tuned to provide a film-look, and with a menu option to turn the film-look off. The film-look option does not work for DVDs and external codecs.
- Improved looping
- Even better for short loops and movies with long keyframe distance.
- New subtitle options
- New options for controlling line-breaking and reading speed and an option to force the text encoding to a language have been added to the preferences.
- Several subtitle language fixes
- Especially with right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic.
- Subtitle opening improved
- Starting Chroma by double-clicking the subtitle file you want to use in Finder has been improved, and is now able to match more subtitles to their movie file.
- AppleRemote
- AppleRemote should fully work in Leopard now.