FlowAir v2.2.2

Long videos, remote desktop, and update notices.

Long videos play like short ones

A one-hour file at 10 Mbps is 4.5 GB, and FlowAir was offering the player the whole file in a single response. The player reads the first megabytes, jumps to the end of the file for the index and abandons that download — but the engine kept reading the disk for a response nobody wanted any more. On a fast disk you never notice. On a slower one it takes away exactly the bandwidth the new request needs, which is why long videos took a long time to start and did not feel fluid while short ones were fine.

Responses are now capped, so an abandoned one costs 16 MB instead of gigabytes. Measured on that same 4.5 GB file: the first frame still appears in one second and the total traffic is unchanged.

The next clip is also prepared 20 seconds before its turn instead of at the start of the previous one, so two long files are never being buffered at the same time.

Fixed

• The fullscreen output came back on its own. Closing it with the shortcut only changed it in memory, so the next start projected again. It is remembered now, and the output is only restored when the display it was using is still connected. If the audio device is gone, the sound falls back to the system default and returns to your device when it is plugged back in.
• FlowAir could run without showing its window, typically over a remote desktop session or with an unusual graphics stack. The window now appears anyway after a few seconds.
• The update notice could stay silent. The check gave up after five seconds and did not try again for six hours. It now waits longer and retries a few minutes later.

Install

Download FlowAir-Setup.exe and run it. Windows will show "Windows protected your PC" because the installer is not code-signed: choose More info → Run anyway. Installing over an earlier version keeps your settings; there is no need to uninstall first.