sView 20.08

New release of small by mighty media player sView become available on Linux, Windows, macOS and Android platforms.

This version enhances support of cubemaps:

• Added support for Equiangular Cubemaps (EAC).
• Fixed various issues / distortions on HTC Vive.
• Android, fixed accessibility of some controls (scrolling long menus in landscape mode, subtitles size and position).
• macOS, ported from VDA to VideoToolbox hardware accelerated decoding.
• macOS, minimal supported system is now macOS 10.10+ Yosemite (previous release sView 17.04 supported OS X 10.6+ Snow Leopard).

Builds for Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~sview/+archive/stable

Complete change log:
http://www.sview.ru/en/sview/history

sView 17.04

New stable release.

This version improves memory management and:

• Update FFmpeg to 3.3, read panorama information from video files.
• Fixed too long opening File Info dialog on some JPEG files with binary data present as metadata (coming from FFmpeg decoder).
• Android, avoid battery draining when locking device with active sView.
• Android, add compatible mode for Interlaced Output (for PPTV King 7S).

Builds for Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~sview/+archive/stable

Complete change log:
http://www.sview.ru/en/sview/history

sView 16.06

New stable release.

This version improves memory management and:

• Update FFmpeg to 3.1.1.
• Android, handle multi-touch input.
• Android, improve compatibility with file managers and mail clients.
• Android, add experimental hardware-accelerated video decoding (disabled by default).
• Movie Player - implement GPU-accelerated conversion of NV12 and XYZ12 formats.
• Image Viewer - put original filename into save file dialog.
• Movie Player - fix saving playback time of recent file.
• Movie Player - fix tracking playback state for keeping screen on.
• Android, fix crash when closing application on some devices.
• Improve language change without application restart.
• Prevent creation of multiple modal dialogs.

Builds for Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~sview/+archive/stable

Complete change log:
http://www.sview.ru/en/sview/history

sView 15.11

New stable release.

This version improves memory management and:

• Introduces extended remote control from command line.
• Adds support of sTER chunk in PNG files identifying side-by-side format.
• Adds support of list of files within Drag & Drop. Two files are handled as stereo pair.
• Updates OpenAL Soft to 1.17 (Windows and Android builds).
• Updates FFmpeg to 2.8.2 (Windows, Android and OS X builds).
• Updates experimental DXVA2 decoder - more codecs are now supported.
• Fixes cursor hiding within NVIDIA 3D Vision output (Direct3D).

Builds for Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~sview/+archive/stable

Complete change log:
http://www.sview.ru/en/sview/history

sView 15.10

This version:

• Adds support of cubemaps in format 3:2 (two rows per 3 quad sides).
• Adds button to activate 360 panorama view on toolbar.
• Adds Czech translation files.
• Implements device orientation tracking within panorama mode on Android.
• Handle device back button on Android to close active dialog.
• Adds option to automatically workaround aspect ratio of anamorphic 1080p and 720p videos.
• Improves handling of last opened file and settings storage on Android.

Builds for Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~sview/+archive/stable

Complete change log:
http://www.sview.ru/en/sview/history

sView 15.08

This version:

• Introduces Cubemap images support (6 sides of the cube stacked horizontally)
• Introduces hot-keys configuration dialog
• Fixes HiDPI displays support on Windows 8.1+ with multiple monitors
• Adds volume bar and shuffle/loop buttons to Media Player
• Updates User Interface - more compact interface, new icons in menu, add scrollbars, improved HiDPI support
• Improves integration into Ubuntu - fixes missing icons on taskbar
• Improves touch-screens support
• Fixes many minor issues

Builds for Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~sview/+archive/stable

Complete change log:
http://www.sview.ru/en/sview/history

sView 14.09 for Android BETA

This is mobile version of open-source FFmpeg-based stereoscopic media player, ported from desktop just for fun.
The functionality is (almost) corresponds to desktop version with some useless options disabled.

Player can NOT be (yet) used with stereoscopic smartphones HTC EVO 3D or LG Optimus 3D, since their displays can not be manually switched to stereo mode (require API which is already deprecated by the vendors).

BETA version has following serious limitations (which should be fixed in final release):

• NO power management.
• NO interface for smartphones. Desktop interface fits only into plates screens.
• NO multi-touch gestures support.
• Some audio codecs are decoded incorrectly by used version of FFmpeg.
• ARMv7 builds only (build for Intel Atom will be available later).
• NO open file dialog - files should be opened from existing file manager.
• NO playback in background.
• Other not yet known issues.

Player can:

• Play audio, video and image files using codecs provided by FFmpeg (mkv, flac, jpeg, mpo, png, pns, jps and many others).
• Display subtitles in UTF-8 encoding.
• Properly decode supported stereoscopic files in side-by-side, over-under formats and dual-track formats.
• Display stereoscopic files in Anaglyph, Interlaced, SideBySide, Oculus Rift (slow!) formats.
• Create playlist from files within opened folder.
• Play IPTV m3u playlists.

Not supported:

• NO media library, only folders within file system.
• NO hardware decoding.

sView 14.01

This version:

• Improves subtitles support
• Improves layout of internal dialogs
• Extends file information dialog

Builds for Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~sview/+archive/stable

Complete change log:
http://www.sview.ru/en/sview/history

Key changes since 13.10 release:

• Windows 8.1 - adjust dimensions when window moved to monitor with another scale factor
• Windows, Interlaced Output - align window position to avoid temporary L/R reversion during window moves
• Movie Player - switch to new audio/subtitles track right after attachment
• Movie Player - preliminary support of image-based subtitles
• Movie Player - process trivial HTML formatting tags (< b > and < i >) in text subtitles
• Movie Player - copy shown subtitle text to the clipboard on Ctrl + C
• Movie Player - automatically attach audio/subtitles tracks from files with similar name
• Image Viewer - parse/save JPSJPS extension section in JPEG files
• Image Viewer - show stereoscopic metadata issues (missing, mismatch) in File Info dialog
• Added support for new stereo3d API in FFmpeg
• Added partial German translation
• Added partial Korean translation
• Korean and CJK fonts now loaded in addition to Western when required
• Improved and extended information provided by File Info dialog
• Image Viewer - read pixel aspect ratio property from image, when available
• Image Viewer - handle MPO files with big thumbnails (load full images)
• Image Viewer - improved JPEG parser robustness
• Movie Player - fixed playback of 5.0 and 7.1 audio streams
• Define Oculus Rift as dedicated device to simplify configuration
• Fix text characters positioning issue (displacement at second+ displaying time)
• OS X 10.9 - workaround crash in OpenAL framework
• Improved font searching robustness on Linux
• Linux - fixed loading of recent files from Gnome recent files menu (URLs with file protocol file:// prefix)

sView 13.10

This release introduces compatibility with HiDPI displays (high pixel density), including recent API for Windows 8.1+ (displays with independent DPI settings), Mac OS X Lion+ (Retina).

Builds for Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~sview/+archive/stable

Complete change log:
http://www.sview.ru/en/sview/history

Key changes since 13.07 release:

• Windows - implemented DPI-awareness for Windows Vista+ and per-monitor DPI for Windows 8.1
• Linux, XLib - read Xft.dpi property to scale interface appropriately
• Distorted Output (Oculus Rift), Dual Output - added option to display Mono sources in Stereo
• Reduced font initialization time (application startup) and GPU memory usage
• Added option to scale GUI
• Movie Player - added subtitles font size control and parallax control
• Movie Player - new Audio/Video synchronization control
• Movie Player, Web UI - added audio volume control
• Added icons for source format menu items
• Fixed memory corruption on deletion of last item in playlist (file deletion)
• Mac OS X - Use alternative full-screen mode by default with task-switching available
• Mac OS X - Introduced support for high pixel density displays (Retina)
• Mac OS X - Fixed application hang during full-screen->windowed on Mountain Lion
• Mac OS X - Corrected events' timing (wrong behavior of holding key events)
• Mac OS X - added experimental support of decoding using VDA (accelerated by GPU)
• Porting to FFmpeg 2.0 (new APIs, planar audio frames, disable cropping on detected tiled dual 720p in 1080p streams)
• Detect source stereo format in per-frame basis, when provided by codec
• Accelerate high-range planar YUV (9/10/16 bits per component) to RGB color conversion (using GLSL)
• Display dual-stream video as stereo only when chosen "Auto-detection" source format
• Workaround problems with wglMakeCurrent() in some OpenGL drivers on Windows (possible memory leaks)