Aetherstream v0.4.3

Watch parties just work

• Join and Create always respond. They used to stay greyed out until their box had text, which looked broken. An empty Join now says to paste a code; an empty Create makes a party with a made-up name, like "Cozy Tonberry Matinee".
• No more pressing Connect. Join, Create and Broadcast sign in to the party server by themselves, even if the game started before your internet did.
• A simpler Share tab. The party server address is gone from it; everyone uses the Aetherstream server.
• Messages now show right under the buttons, where you're looking.

Aetherstream v0.4.2

Hosting a watch party is easier

• Get ffmpeg in Setup, Sources, under yt-dlp and Deno. Hosting a party needs it; joining one still needs nothing.
• Hosting no longer needs a game restart after installing ffmpeg, whether from the button or with winget.
• The Share tab says plainly when ffmpeg is missing and where to get it.

Aetherstream v0.4.1

Easier setup

• Get yt-dlp and Get Deno buttons in Setup, under YouTube and other sites. They download each tool from its own project's GitHub releases into the plugin's folder, only when you press them. Press again later to update.
• No more restarting the game after installing either one, whether from the button or with winget.

Fixes

• YouTube plays at full quality again. Every video was quietly playing at 360p.
• Painted screens no longer drag the game's frame rate down at 1080p.
• Streams that are 720p or smaller, like Adult Swim's marathons, are drawn at 720p even with 1080p chosen, since the bigger size only cost frames.

Aetherstream v0.4.0

New apps

• Mirror. Put another window on the screen, a game on Steam or anything else. Actual pixels, panning, and a button to resize the window to fit.
• South Park. Every episode South Park Studios still plays for free, newest season first. Nothing to install.
• Adult Swim. The marathon streams: Rick and Morty, The Venture Bros., Samurai Jack, Channel 5 and more, with what's on now under each one.

Painting on things

• Click a spot in the world to pick the surface to paint on.
• Filters for the long lists, and masks for glows and scanlines that sit on top of a screen.
• Each surface remembers its own fit, mask and brightness, so fixing one no longer breaks another.
• The fit can turn a quarter at a time, and shows a preview as you move it.

Picture and sound

• Picture size: 720p or 1080p, in Setup. 1080p costs frame rate on painted surfaces; 720p is the easy fix if the game feels slow.
• YouTube plays AV1 and VP9 by default, for a sharper picture at the same size.
• TV shows that were quieter than everything else are lifted to match.

Aetherstream v0.3.1

Icon

The plugin's own manifest now links its icon, so the installer's card shows it for installs from the repository, not only for the dev copy. Nothing else changes from v0.3.0.

Aetherstream v0.3.0

A remote and a television

The window is now a remote control beside a television. The remote is the left column and never changes: a display, power, mute and Home, a number pad that dials pinned channels, channel and volume rockers with the guide and weather keys between them, transport, subtitles, audio and the gear, and a line at its foot saying what is on. Fold the window and only the remote stays.

Beside it, the picture and a home screen laid out like a tablet: one line saying what is on, a grid of app icons with the services' own marks, and a dock along the bottom with Search, Paste a link, Watch party and Setup. Every panel that used to be a tab or a shelf is an app. Open one and it takes the screen with a Home button in the corner. Setup, System has a tick box per app to put away the ones you never open.

Search in the dock: type something, then pick which app to look in, and it opens with the search run.

New sources

• Jellyfin and Emby. Sign in with a name and password once; only the token is kept. Your libraries, continue watching with progress on the tiles, a search across films, series and episodes, and a series opened into its episodes with the rest queued. The file streams as it sits on disk. Verified against Jellyfin's public demo; Emby is written to its documentation.
• Pluto TV on demand: free films and series, with Pluto's own ad breaks. Pluto moved its stitcher mid-way through this release; the plugin now uses the new path through its loopback relay, and a film plays where it showed a "so sad" slate before.
• Red Bull TV: films, documentaries, shows and replays.
• PBS: NOVA, Nature, FRONTLINE and a dozen more. Passport titles are left off, since they need a member login.
• NASA+: documentaries, series, launches, by topic, with a search.
• TED: the newest talks, TED's playlists, a search. Pasting a talk address into Paste a link works too, since yt-dlp's TED support is broken at the moment.
• Dailymotion: trending in English, by channel, and a search; plays through yt-dlp.
• YouTube shelf: search, playlist and channel links, and with a signed-in browser set under Setup, Sources, your recommended, subscriptions, watch later and history. Floorp, LibreWolf, Waterfox and Zen count as Firefox for the cookies.
• Twitch shelf: who is live among the channels you follow, the top streams, a game, a search, and DJs and Music chips.

Fixes

• Plex posters show again; a Plex path was being mistaken for a disk path.
• The Info and Shows channels always play the bundled lounge tracks; the music source you choose plays under the Ambience channels only.
• An empty music source falls back to the bundled tracks and says so, instead of silence.
• The window's picture is no longer squashed by a fit meant for the furnishing.
• Unloading the plugin no longer fails while the live TV health check is running.
• Long lists of shelf categories are a dropdown rather than rows of chips.

Aetherstream v0.2.16

Films from the Internet Archive and your own machine, internet radio, podcasts, the orchestrion, and a tidier set.

Library

• Archive. The Library has a strip: Plex, Archive, Local. The Archive shelf is the Internet Archive's public domain and freely licensed films: shelves as chips (Feature Films, Sci-Fi & Horror, Comedy, Film Noir, Silent, Cartoons, Classic TV, Prelinger), a search box, posters, the archive's description on hover. A film's best MP4 is picked from its metadata and played straight from archive.org. No account.
• Local. Videos on this machine: the Videos folder and any folders you add, scanned for the usual formats, with a poster when a picture of the same name or a poster.jpg sits beside the file. Remove the Videos folder from the list if you would rather it only showed a folder you chose.
• Both keep their poster in Recents, and a local film hands its path to the broadcaster.

Music

The Sound input is now Music, with a strip: Music, Rolls, Radio, Podcasts. Choosing anything here puts the Radio channel up on the set.

• Rolls. The orchestrion, as a playlist: every roll by category, the ones your character has by default, with a filter. Tick rolls and they play under the drawn channels, shuffled. The music is pulled out of the game's own files once and kept.
• Radio. Internet radio through the Radio Browser directory: genre chips, search by name, logos, favourites. The Radio channel shows the station's logo and what the stream says is on.
• Podcasts. Shows found by name through Apple's free directory, or a feed address pasted in; episodes newest first; play from one onward, in order.

Setup

Screen and the sound output moved to Setup, which has a strip of its own: Screen, Sound, Channels, Sources, System.

Aetherstream v0.2.15

Five new shows, a film channel, commercial breaks, and a tidier Channels tab.

New shows

• Forecast. The Forecast with Nimbly: a pixie in a raincoat beside a board of every outdoor zone, region by region, the sky now and for the next three bells with the real times, and a rare-weather watch along the bottom.
• Saucer. Saucer Tonight with Ko Bi: a kobold under marquee lights runs the Gold Saucer's numbers like a game show: your MGP, the Jumbo Cactpot draw, the next GATE, the Fashion Report window, and the card of the hour, a Triple Triad card you do not have yet with its art, numbers, stars and where it comes from.
• Sea News. Sea News with Wavv: a sahagin at a half-drowned desk reads the ocean fishing schedule like the shipping forecast, over a sea drawn for the next voyage's hour.
• Allagans. Ancient Allagans: Doctor Sproutlington, a mandragora with a great deal of hair, takes a real vista, creature or item and proves it was the Allagans. Or the Ascians. Or the moon. Red string included.
• Cinema. Aetherstream Cinema: a whole film every five minutes, written from a seed: a Starlight romance, a science fiction, or an action, with a cast of six, nine scenes, subtitles, explosions, a ship, snow, hearts, and the credits.

Commercial breaks

Every five minutes a show stops for forty-eight seconds of adverts: a promo for another show, an item off the market board with a slogan written for it, a thirty-second trailer for a film that does not exist starring Kupo Reeves, Sahagin L. Jackson, Goblin Ford, Pixie Blanchett, Mandragora Freeman or Loporrit Cruise, a sponsor's card from one of the hosts' side businesses, and a bumper each side. Info, Music and Ambience are left alone. An Adverts channel under Ambience plays the breaks back to back, for the connoisseur.

Channels tab

Four groups on a strip: Info, Shows, Music and Ambience, with a dot on the group whose channel is up. Horoscope moved to Info and Radio to Music. Tiles are taller and every blurb fits.

Fixes

• The timed shows and the breaks ran on a clock that stepped back once a second, which flickered anything driven by it. One continuous clock now.
• Nimbly's face no longer jitters with her wings, and the wings are on her back.

Aetherstream v0.2.14

A housing channel.

Housing

Loporrit Estates. A Loporrit estate agent, Listingway, shows the open plots on your world one at a time, as PaissaDB last saw them: district, ward and plot, size, price, first-come or lottery with the phase and how many have entered, who may buy, and how long ago somebody actually looked. A house in the district's own style is drawn on the plot, a cottage, a house, or a mansion with wings by the size, with the sky by your hour and the windows lit after dark. Mist is stucco under terracotta with a palm; the Lavender Beds timber frame under shingles; the Goblet sandstone with a parapet; Shirogane plaster over dark wood under curved tiles; Empyreum stone under steep slate with a spire.

The game never lists open plots. PaissaDB is crowd-sourced from players running PaissaHouse who open a ward, so every listing says how long ago it was last seen. Fetched every five minutes while the channel is up, for the character's current world.

Aetherstream v0.2.13

Nine new channels, a maintenance banner, logos on every tile, and a fix for live channels whose addresses moved.

New channels

• Fishing. What you still need from the fishing log, what is up now and what is next by the game's clock and weather, and the ocean boats. Data from the Carbuncle Plushy tracker, bundled; your catches from the game.
• Horoscope. A Sharlayan reading a day, from the Twelve and the arcana, by your character's guardian deity.
• Kitchen. The Eorzean Kitchen: a cooking show where every episode is a real recipe from your crafting log, with a Namazu chef, a set, cuts and lower-thirds.
• Wildlife. Stevie Mogwyn, a moogle in a bush hat, gets far too close to a creature every episode: the hunting log's creatures and every B, A and S rank hunt mark, with WANTED posters, backdrops by region, and bits between episodes.
• Stories. The Tonberry's Lantern: Levarr Burtonberry tells the tales of the Twelve by the fire, one a time, every page drawn to its words, the gods pixelated from their own renders. One tale in the shuffle is not about the Twelve at all.
• Shopping. The Eorzean Shopping Network: your market watch, one item every half minute on a turntable, the lowest price on the board big, the average struck through, sales per day, the trend, stickers, a countdown, a ticker, and a goblin host who wants you to call now.
• Radio. Aether FM: the set's own jukebox on screen, with a generated sleeve, what is next, VU meters, and a spectrum and waveform that move to the sound.
• Painting. The Kupo of Painting: Pom Ross, a moogle in a beret, paints a vista from the Sightseeing Log in front of you, sky first, then the shapes, then the detail, one calm stroke at a time. When it is done the card says whether it is in your log, the hours it can be seen, and what the log asks you to do there.
• Scrambled. Channel 99. You did not subscribe.

Maintenance banner

A banner along the bottom of the picture an hour ahead of scheduled maintenance, from the game's own chat notice and the Lodestone. On by default; the lead time and a test button are in Setup.

Live TV

• A channel whose listed address has died now looks up the index's other addresses for the same channel and plays through the first that answers, keeping its own number in the guide. An alternate that dies in turn is dropped for the next.
• Every channel tile has a logo.

Fixes

• A freeze when switching to the wildlife show, from a line that never ended.
• A story caption left over under the next channel.
• The kitchen show's frame rate.