What's new in Elmedia Video Player 8.18
Mar 28, 2024
- Some minor fixes and improvements.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.17 (Nov 29, 2023)
- Improved: online subtitle search on OpenSubtitles
- Improved: UI translation.
- Fixed: crash on application startup.
- Fixed: crash when launching streaming.
- Fixed: the "Show in Finder" option on macOS Sonoma.
- Other fixes and improvements.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.16 (Jul 20, 2023)
- Added: experimental support for the H.266/VVC video codec.
- Improved: streaming music to Chromecast devices.
- Improved: streaming some .mp4 files.
- Fixed: no sound issues while streaming some files to Panasonic TVs.
- Fixed: playback of some audio files when Audio Visualizer is enabled.
- Fixed: displaying media information for .ogg files.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.15 (Mar 22, 2023)
- Fixed: issues with displaying file names in playlists.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.14 (Mar 9, 2023)
- Improved: performance when opening files.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.13 (Feb 8, 2023)
- Improved: streaming files to Chromecast devices.
- Fixed: subtitles display in some languages.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.12 (Jan 9, 2023)
- Improved: video playback performance.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.11 (Dec 19, 2022)
- Some minor fixes and improvements.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.10 (Nov 28, 2022)
- Fixed: issues with streaming to Roku devices.
- Fixed: an issue with audio track selection while streaming.
- Fixed: autoplay the next file in playlist when streaming to some devices.
- Lots of other fixes and improvements (thank you for your continued feedback!).
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.9 (Oct 23, 2022)
- Improved: video playback performance.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.8 (Sep 19, 2022)
- Improved: search for Chromecast devices.
- Fixed: issues with streaming to some devices.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.7 (Aug 25, 2022)
- Added: option to use hardware acceleration when preparing video for streaming.
- Added: ability to create a screenshot by pressing the Command+C hotkey (PRO).
- Added: ability to resize the controls window when "Show controls in a separate window" mode is activated.
- Fixed: subtitles display when streaming to some devices.
- Lots of other fixes and improvements (thank you for your continued feedback!).
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.6 (Jul 26, 2022)
- Added: ability to jump to the beginning of the video/audio.
- Improved: hotkeys customization.
- Fixed: an issue with copying and pasting when playing SWF files.
- Fixed: video playback when using multimedia keys.
- Fixed: an issue with window size when exiting fullscreen mode.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.5 (Jun 14, 2022)
- Added: hotkeys customization.
- Added: export and import of bookmarks (PRO).
- Added: option to convert audio to stereo when streaming.
- Added: support for Y4M files.
- Added: "clear playlist when quitting " option.
- Fixed: issues with the app freezing when opening some files.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.4.1 (May 11, 2022)
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.4 (Mar 17, 2022)
- Fixed: playing video in fullscreen mode.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.3 (Mar 15, 2022)
- Improved: video playback performance.
- Fixed: crashes when opening some files.
- Lots of other fixes and improvements (thank you for your continued feedback!).
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.2 (Dec 2, 2021)
- Added: full support for macOS Monterey
- Improved: video playback performance.
- Improved: player's startup performance.
- Improved: streaming to various SmartTVs.
- Improved: streaming to other macOS computers.
- Improved: DLNA devices search.
- Fixed: streaming start issues to various devices.
- Lots of other fixes and improvements (thank you for your continued feedback!).
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.1 (Jul 30, 2021)
- Improved: added Playback Settings button to the player's window.
- Improved: control playback with media keys.
- Fixed: opening video from vimeo.com via Open Online Video.
- Fixed: an issue with playing video when the "Passthrough for hardware decoders" option is enabled.
- Fixed: an issue with audio synchronization with other receivers when streaming audio to the player.
New in Elmedia Video Player 8.0 (Jun 23, 2021)
- Added: Support for Roku devices.
- Added: Native support for Apple's new M1 chips.
- Added: Picture-in-Picture mode(PRO).
- Added: Audio visualizer.
- Added: Interface color themes.
- Added: Support for new video and audio formats.
- Added: Option to keep aspect ratio when resizing.
- Added: Ability to change the time format on the timeline (frames / seconds / milliseconds).
- Added: Show preview thumbnails while seeking.
- Added: Ability to name bookmarks.
- Added: “Now Playing” widget support (macOS 10.13 or later required).
- Added: Ability to save subtitles from opensubtitles.org (PRO).
- Added: Ability to move the subtitle box (vertical movement can be done through the menu bar or hotkeys).
- Added: Ability to burn subtitles into video while streaming.
- Added: Time jump settings.
- Improved: Updated interface.
- Improved: Touch Bar support.
- Improved: Support for control playback with media keys on macOS 10.13 or later.
- Improved: Playing UHD video.
- Improved: Support for forced subtitles.
- Improved: Playlist shuffle function.
- Improved: Streaming to different devices.
- Improved: Search subtitles on opensubtitles.org.
- Improved: Accessibility support.
- Fixed: Playing some videos when the deinterlace option is enabled.
- Lots of other fixes and improvements (thank you for your continued feedback!).
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.17 (Dec 9, 2020)
- Fixed: an issue with opening some online videos via Open Online Video.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.16 (Oct 29, 2020)
- Fixed: an issue with opening videos from some websites via Open Online Video.
- Lots of other fixes and improvements
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.15 (Oct 22, 2020)
- Fixed: crashes when opening some files.
- Lots of other fixes and improvements (thank you for your continued feedback!).
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.14 (Oct 2, 2020)
- Fixed: crashes when opening some files.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.13 (Aug 2, 2020)
- Improved: added support for video codec AV1.
- Improved: added support for Speex audio codec.
- Improved: support for HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding ).
- Fixed: switch to fullscreen when Custom full screen mode is selected.
- Fixed: crashes when playing some files with Hardware acceleration enabled.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.12 (Jun 26, 2020)
- Fixed: an application crashes when playing some videos with subtitles.
- Fixed: playing video in fullscreen mode.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.11 (Jun 3, 2020)
- Fixed: an issue with opening some online videos via Open Online Video.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.10 (Apr 17, 2020)
- Fixed: an issue with opening some online videos via Open Online Video.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.9 (Jan 29, 2020)
- Fixed: crashes when opening some videos from online platforms
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.8 (Dec 20, 2019)
- Improved: search for Dutch subtitles through OpenSubtitles.org.
- Improved: video tuner presets brighter/darker.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.7 (Nov 4, 2019)
- Fixed: an issue with opening some online videos via Open Online Video.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.6 (Oct 2, 2019)
- Fixed: resize of the Player's main window.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.5 (Oct 2, 2019)
- Fixed: streaming to some AirPlay-enabled devices.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.4 (Jul 1, 2019)
- Improved: GPU and power usage on some Macs.
- Fixed: opening of some videos when using "Open Online Video" option.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.3 (May 13, 2019)
- Added: possibility to pause a file once it is opened in player ("Start playback at a pause" option on the "General" tab)
- Added: possibility to set audio output device from the main menu
- Improved: when streaming a high quality YouTube video after adding it for playback ("Open Online Video" option), the highest available resolution supported by the receiving device is set
- Improved: the current position of a playing item as well as the total duration now show up independently of the window size
- Fixed: keyboard hotkeys and mouse scroll now work correctly when "Show controls in a separate window" option is on
- Fixed: ID3 tags were not shown for certain MP3 files
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.2.1 (Mar 26, 2019)
- Improved: volume change and rewinding while using TrackPad.
- Fixed: an issue with the incorrect change of a video position while rewinding.
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.2 (Mar 12, 2019)
- Added: Touch Bar support (requirements: MacBook Pro featuring Touch Bar and macOS 10.12.2+)
- Added: support for playing Blu-Ray Disc (BD)
- Added: support for streaming Blu-Ray Disc (BD) over AirPlay/DLNA/Chromecast
- Added: support for opening MPEG4 files
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.1.1 (Dec 21, 2018)
- Fixed: an error message might appear when starting the application
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.1 (Dec 20, 2018)
- Fixed: streaming files with several subtitles to Samsung TV over DLNA
- Fixed: the ability to adjust the volume when playing Flash files
- Fixed: the display of ID3 tags in some languages when playing MP3 files
- Fixed: an issue when the playback controls could not be displayed when playing a video
- Improved: German localization
New in Elmedia Video Player 7.0 (Dec 3, 2018)
- Added: streaming audio and video files to Chromecast, Smart TV and other DLNA-certified devices.
- Added: vastly reworked interface.
- Added: streaming settings.
- Added: independent interface language settings.
- Added: integrated search for subtitles through OpenSubtitles.org directly from the player.
- Added: Flash files playback.
- Added: an ability to set the background color for subtitles.
- Added: an ability to disable screensaver during the playback, not just in fullscreen mode.
- Improved: the process of preparing a video for streaming.
- Improved: detection of subtitles encoding.
- Improved: the playback adjustments (the playback speed, audio delay, subtitles delay) are now possible through the Playback Settings panel.
- Lots of other minor fixes and improvements (thank you for your continued feedback!).
New in Elmedia Video Player 6.13 (Oct 19, 2018)
- Fixed: disabling of screensaver on macOS Mojave
New in Elmedia Video Player 6.12 (Sep 28, 2018)
- Fixed: opening of particular videos when using the "Open Online Video" option
- Other fixes and improvements (thank you guys for your continued feedback!).
New in Elmedia Video Player 6.10 (Sep 3, 2018)
- Added: you can now set a preferred opacity of the subtitles text and their border color.
- Improved: seeking, fast forwarding and rewinding are much smoother now.
- Fixed: pixelation when fast-forwarding, rewinding or seeking in a video with hardware acceleration enabled.
- Fixed: a static image display instead of a currently playing video.
- Note: Deinterlace video enhancement settings were simplified; image enhancement option was removed
New in Elmedia Video Player 6.9.2 (Apr 7, 2018)
- Improved: overall app performance on newer macOS versions.
- Lots of fixes and improvements.
New in Elmedia Video Player 6.9.1 (Feb 6, 2018)
- New: Elmedia Player became a 64-bit app.
- Improved: overall app performance on newer macOS versions.
- Lots of fixes and improvements.
New in Elmedia Video Player 6.9 (Nov 15, 2017)
- Added: new menu items for certain functions in the Dock (play, pause, next, previous, mute, repeat, shuffle).
- Added: an ability to adjust the volume with the arrow buttons.
- Fixed: the "Disable screensaver while in full-screen mode" option now works only when the file is played.
- Other fixes and improvements (thank you guys for your continued feedback!).
New in Elmedia Video Player 6.8 (Jul 5, 2017)
- Added: an ability to adjust the playback speed of the audio files.
- Lots of fixes and improvements (thank you guys for your continued feedback!).
New in Elmedia Video Player 6.7.2 (Mar 30, 2017)
- Improved: handling various video/audio formats.
- Fixed: focus loss upon switching to the full-screen mode.
- Other minor fixes and improvements (thank you guys for your continued feedback!).
New in Elmedia Video Player 6.7.1 (Feb 16, 2017)
- Fixed: opening videos with the "Open Online Video" option.
- Fixed: hiding the mouse cursor in the full screen mode.
New in Elmedia Video Player 6.7 (Feb 2, 2017)
- Added: support for OS X’s native full screen mode (the Interface tab in Preferences now has a “Full screen mode” option, enabled by default).
- Added: support for VobSub (.sub/.idx) subtitles for videos streamed via AirPlay.
- Added: the Swedish, Korean, Polish and Italian localizations.
- Fixed: no image being displayed when streaming certain videos via AirPlay.
- Fixed: a problem with video playback, where there was sound but no video.
- Fixed: minor bugs in the interface.
New in Elmedia Video Player 6.6.980 (Nov 24, 2016)
- Added:
- support for subtitles and external sound tracks when streaming to AirPlay-enabled devices - PRO version.
- the ability to set the cache size for online videos (from 1 to 100 MB).
- a new playlist option - Move After Current - allowing to move the selected items to the position after the one currently playing.
- the hotkeys for cycling through the subtitles, audio tracks, chapters as well as setting up the A-B loop.
- simplified Chinese localization.
- Improved:
- many more audio and video formats can now be streamed from Elmedia Player via AirPlay - PRO version.
- the playlist Repeat and Shuffle options now also work when streaming to AirPlay-enabled devices - PRO version.
- overall stability and performance.
- Fixed:
- a crash on switching to full-screen mode.
- subtitles in Arabic were displayed left-to-right instead of right-to-left.