What's new in Playr 2.7
Aug 15, 2021
- Hardware decoding on the GPU for H.264 and H.265 (HEVC) video tracks.
- Hardware decoding also works for containers like .MKV (Matroska)
- Hardware decoding saves battery life and CPU cycles.
- Easily plays 4K video when hardware decoding is available.
- FFmpeg version 4.4 "Rao".
- Other minor fixes and tweaks.
New in Playr 2.6.1 (Apr 25, 2021)
- Now runs native on Apple Silicon Macs.
- Other minor fixes and tweaks.
New in Playr 2.6 (Dec 6, 2020)
- Ready for macOS Big Sur.
- New icon.
- FFmpeg version 4.3.1.
- Other minor fixes and UI tweaks.
New in Playr 2.5 (Aug 12, 2020)
- Fixed a bug that caused Playr to crash on macOS Catalina.
- Various other bug fixes and improvements.
New in Playr 2.4.1 (Nov 25, 2019)
- Improved support for macOS Catalina.
- Updated to Swift 5.1.
- Quickly scrub mp4/m4v video using two fingers on a trackpad.
- Search subtitles using Submarine.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
New in Playr 2.4 (Nov 5, 2018)
- Support for macOS Mojave and Dark Mode.
- Select from Dark, Light or System appearance in Prefs.
- FFmpeg updated to the 4.0 "Wu" release.
- Select and add subtitle tracks from the TouchBar.
- Various under the hood improvements.
New in Playr 2.3.1 (Mar 26, 2018)
- Now the dock icon is changing to reflect the playing/paused state of Playr.
- The last current time in the movie is now restored when restoring windows.
- Fixed a bug where multiple subtitle tracks could be visible at the same time.
- Export subtitle tracks to a file. Supported formats are SRT, STL, 3GPP Timed Text, iTunes Timed Text, WebVTT.
- Reveal the associated file of a subtitle track in the Finder.
- Remove a subtitle track.
- The Open file dialog is now closed whenever a file is opened from somewhere else.
- Layout fixes in the Inspector window.
- Russian localization by Algiz Nord.
New in Playr 2.3 (Mar 21, 2018)
- FFmpeg updated to the 3.3 "Hilbert" release.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when seeking.
- Fixed a layout bug in the Audio/Subtitles popover.
- Now ignoring image based subtitle tracks instead of crashing.
- Many other small "under the hood" improvements.
New in Playr 2.2.4 (Apr 4, 2017)
- Fixed a Touch Bar bug affecting users on system versions before 10.12.1.
New in Playr 2.2.3 (Mar 22, 2017)
- Touch Bar support.
- The player window can now float on top of other windows.
- The player window is now movable by clicking and dragging anywhere inside it.
- The Inspector and other palettes are now hidden when the app is not activated.
New in Playr 2.2.2 (Feb 14, 2017)
New in Playr 2.2.1 (Aug 28, 2016)
- FFmpeg updated to the 3.1.2 "Laplace" release.
- Slovak localization by Ronald Pinke. Thx!
- The File->Open dialog is now shown when needed.
- Various bug fixes.
New in Playr 2.2 (Jul 6, 2016)
- FFmpeg updated to the 3.0 "Einstein" release.
- Now using AVFoundation for H.264 video playback in MP4, M4V and MOV containers.
- Hardware decoding of H.264 in MP4, M4V and MOV containers automatically handled by AVFoundation.
- Now using AVAudioEngine instead of Core Audio for better audio playback.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Playr to crash on malformed metadata.
New in Playr 2.1.4 (Apr 22, 2016)
- FFmpeg updated to the 3.0 "Einstein" release.
- Now pausing any playing movie when another one starts playing.
- Option to quit the app when the last window is closed in Preferences.
- Various fixes for sound playback.
- The preferred sound language is now used if available when opening a movie.
- Fixed a bug when parsing filenames to find metadata online.
- Fixed a bug where the play button would disappear in OS X 10.10.
- The encodings popup is now visible by default when adding subtitles from file.
- Better integration with Submarine.
- Support for searching Brazilian Portuguese subtitles.
- Updates to the German localization.