Himnova Live 2.9.1

Himnova Live 2.9.1 fixes restoring a backup on Windows.

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11 (x64)	Himnova-Live-win-x64.exe
macOS, Apple Silicon	Himnova-Live-mac-arm64.dmg
Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint (x64)	Himnova-Live-linux-amd64.deb
Other Linux distributions (x64)	Himnova-Live-linux-x86_64.AppImage

• On 2.2.0 or later, the app offers this version itself (a notice in the control window, or Settings › About).
• macOS: the update opens the .dmg; drag Himnova Live to Applications.
• The installers aren't signed yet. Windows: «More info» → «Run anyway». macOS: System Settings → Privacy & Security → «Open Anyway».
• Linux: the .deb installs the libmpv the media engine needs. With the AppImage, install libmpv2 (libmpv1 on Ubuntu 22.04) and libopengl0.

Fixed

• Windows: choosing a file that isn't a Himnova Live backup (or one from a newer version) in Settings › Backups › Restore… › Choose another backup… said the file was unreadable, and the next time the app opened it replaced your data with that file. Now it's refused with the right reason and nothing changes. If it already happened to you, your data is in Restore… as Before restoring.

Known issues

• Importing from EasyWorship 7 follows the same format as version 6 but hasn't been tried with a real EasyWorship 7 database yet.
• NDI: no NDI inputs yet. On macOS before 14.2 the NDI output has no sound.
• With «Parallel» on, the stage screen shows only the main version.
• macOS updates are semi-automatic (you drag the app to Applications) until the app is signed with a paid Apple certificate.

NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.

Himnova Live 2.9.0

Himnova Live 2.9.0: back up and restore your data from Settings, and files that moved are found again with one click, also when you move everything to another computer.

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11 (x64)	Himnova-Live-win-x64.exe
macOS, Apple Silicon	Himnova-Live-mac-arm64.dmg
Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint (x64)	Himnova-Live-linux-amd64.deb
Other Linux distributions (x64)	Himnova-Live-linux-x86_64.AppImage

• On 2.2.0 or later, the app offers this version itself (a notice in the control window, or Settings › About). On 2.2.0-beta.5 or earlier, download it and install it over the old one, once.
• macOS: the update opens the .dmg; drag Himnova Live to Applications.
• The installers aren't signed yet. Windows: «More info» → «Run anyway». macOS: System Settings → Privacy & Security → «Open Anyway».
• Linux: the .deb installs the libmpv the media engine needs. With the AppImage, install libmpv2 (libmpv1 on Ubuntu 22.04) and libopengl0.

New

• Settings › Backups, a section of its own:
  • Make a backup saves a verified copy of everything right now, for example before a big change. It joins the daily copies (the last seven are kept).
  • Restore… lists every copy (daily, before an update, before a restore) with its date and how many schedules and songs it has, or Choose another backup… picks one from anywhere, like a USB drive. Restore and restart closes the app and opens it again with that copy. What you had is saved first and shows up as Before restoring, so a wrong choice is undone the same way. A copy from an earlier version is updated when it opens.
  • Open the folder opens where the copies are.
• One «Locate…» finds the rest. When a file shows as Missing because its folder moved, went to another drive or came from another computer, locating that one file fixes everything else that moved with it: the library, a presentation's chosen music, the linked folders in Media and Songs, and the folder songs. A missing linked folder has Locate folder….
• Moving to another computer, step by step in the guide (Move everything to another computer): a backup on a USB drive restored on the new computer, then one «Locate…». The built-in backgrounds are found on their own, also when the new computer is in another language.

Known issues

• Importing from EasyWorship 7 follows the same format as version 6 but hasn't been tried with a real EasyWorship 7 database yet.
• NDI: no NDI inputs yet. On macOS before 14.2 the NDI output has no sound.
• With «Parallel» on, the stage screen shows only the main version.
• macOS updates are semi-automatic (you drag the app to Applications) until the app is signed with a paid Apple certificate.

NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.

Himnova Live 2.8.1

Himnova Live 2.8.1: videos start cleanly on the projector and over NDI®, a copy of your data every day, and the Windows installer in your language.

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11 (x64)	Himnova-Live-win-x64.exe
macOS, Apple Silicon	Himnova-Live-mac-arm64.dmg
Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint (x64)	Himnova-Live-linux-amd64.deb
Other Linux distributions (x64)	Himnova-Live-linux-x86_64.AppImage

• On 2.2.0 or later, the app offers this version itself (a notice in the control window, or Settings › About). On 2.2.0-beta.5 or earlier, download it and install it over the old one, once.
• macOS: the update opens the .dmg; drag Himnova Live to Applications.
• The installers aren't signed yet. Windows: «More info» → «Run anyway». macOS: System Settings → Privacy & Security → «Open Anyway».
• Linux: the .deb installs the libmpv the media engine needs. With the AppImage, install libmpv2 (libmpv1 on Ubuntu 22.04) and libopengl0. The AppImage no longer needs libfuse2.

New

• The Windows installer speaks your language: English, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese, picked from Windows' own (English for any other).
• A copy of your data every day. The first time the app opens each day it saves a verified copy of its database in the profile's backups/daily folder and keeps the last seven. The copy taken before an update that changes the database is still there, apart.

What's fixed since 2.8.0

• A video starts without black. The previous picture stays on the projector until the new video has its first frame (up to 3 s), and a video played by the media engine starts at its own rate instead of every other frame for its first seconds.
• GO LIVE on a video already playing in PREVIEW takes that same playback: the cut over NDI takes about a tenth of a second, with no black in between.
• NDI: an MP4 or WebM video (played by the app's own player) reaches OBS in step with the projector within a second; on macOS a video played by the media engine loses about a tenth of a second of its first sound over NDI, down from a third.
• The media engine uses the same graphics card as the rest of the app (on a laptop with two cards, the one Windows assigns to Himnova Live; on a PC with no usable card, Windows' software renderer) and keeps its compiled shaders, so videos start faster on Windows.
• Settings › Diagnostics names the graphics card the app uses; it used to call every card «unused».
• A profile copied to another computer or user finds its built-in backgrounds again. They showed as «Not found», and the song themes, the verse, LOGO and the time scenes over them were black.
• A video that leaves the screen releases its player at once.
• Text fixes in English and Portuguese (the welcome, quotes, US spelling) and in the firewall hint.

Known issues

• Importing from EasyWorship 7 follows the same format as version 6 but hasn't been tried with a real EasyWorship 7 database yet.
• NDI: no NDI inputs yet. On macOS before 14.2 the NDI output has no sound.
• With «Parallel» on, the stage screen shows only the main version.
• macOS updates are semi-automatic (you drag the app to Applications) until the app is signed with a paid Apple certificate.

NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.

Media engine 7

Not an app release. These are the prebuilt binaries of Himnova Live's media engine, which npm install downloads (scripts/fetch-binaries.ts, pinned by sha256) and the installers ship next to the app. To install Himnova Live, use the release marked Latest.

Built from native/ at this tag (41994af) with native/build.sh <target> and zipped with native/build.sh pack.

What changed since engine-6:

• The engine opens the graphics card the app draws with (Windows, Linux). Its video frames are shared with the app as GPU textures, and those only open on the card that made them: on a laptop with two cards, an engine on the other card would play its sound over a black picture. The app passes its card as --adapter vendor:device:subsys:revision, and the ready event says whether it was found. On Windows this includes WARP, the software renderer Chromium falls back to.
• Compiled shaders are kept between engines (--cache-dir): on Windows, from opening a file to its first frame went from about 180 ms to about 80 ms.
• macOS: the NDI® output keeps a video's first sound. Each engine plays 100 ms of silence when it starts, so the system's audio capture already knows it when its video begins: 300 to 400 ms of every engine video's first sound used to be missing over NDI, now about 100 ms.

NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.

Himnova Live 2.8.0

Lumina Live is now Himnova Live. Same app, same repository, same updates: your programs, library, Bibles and settings stay exactly where they were. Himnova is himno + nova, «a new song» (Psalm 96:1).

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11 (x64)	Himnova-Live-win-x64.exe
macOS, Apple Silicon	Himnova-Live-mac-arm64.dmg
Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint (x64)	Himnova-Live-linux-amd64.deb
Other Linux distributions (x64)	Himnova-Live-linux-x86_64.AppImage

• On 2.2.0 or later, the app offers this version itself (a notice in the control window, or Settings › About). On 2.2.0-beta.5 or earlier, download it and install it over the old one, once.
• macOS: the update opens the .dmg; drag Himnova Live to Applications. Because the name changed, Finder won't ask to replace the old app: the first time Himnova Live opens, it moves «Lumina Live» to the Trash itself and tells you.
• The installers aren't signed yet. Windows: «More info» → «Run anyway». macOS: System Settings → Privacy & Security → «Open Anyway».
• Linux: the .deb replaces the old package and installs the libmpv the media engine needs. With the AppImage, install libmpv2 (libmpv1 on Ubuntu 22.04) and libopengl0.

New

• A new name and a new mark. The mark is Literata's capital H re-cut so its crossbar is an arch — the letter is a door («Castillo fuerte es nuestro Dios»). In the app it sits quietly in the toolbar; the full «Himnova Live» heads Settings › About and the welcome.
• A new website, with a download page of its own and the step-by-step guide in four languages: himnova-live.vercel.app.

Worth knowing

• NDI®: the source now appears as «Himnova Live» in OBS or vMix. If an OBS scene used the old «Lumina Live» source, pick the new one in that source's properties once. A name you chose yourself in Settings stays.
• The first time the NDI output asks Windows' firewall for the network, the prompt now says «Himnova Live media engine».

Known issues

• Importing from EasyWorship 7 follows the same format as version 6 but hasn't been tried with a real EasyWorship 7 database yet.
• NDI: no NDI inputs yet. On macOS before 14.2 the NDI output has no sound.
• With «Parallel» on, the stage screen shows only the main version.
• macOS updates are semi-automatic (you drag the app to Applications) until the app is signed with a paid Apple certificate.

NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.

Lumina Live 2.7.2

Lumina Live 2.7.2: the NDI® output now carries the app's sound, and a long list of fixes so nothing on air goes black, silent or stuck during a service.

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11 (x64)	Lumina-Live-win-x64.exe
macOS, Apple Silicon	Lumina-Live-mac-arm64.dmg
Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint (x64)	Lumina-Live-linux-amd64.deb
Other Linux distributions (x64)	Lumina-Live-linux-x86_64.AppImage

• On 2.2.0 or later, the app offers this version itself (a notice in the control window, or Settings › About). On 2.2.0-beta.5 or earlier, download it and install it over the old one, once. Programs, library, Bibles and settings are kept.
• The installers aren't signed yet. Windows: «More info» → «Run anyway». macOS: System Settings → Privacy & Security → «Open Anyway».
• Linux: the .deb installs the libmpv the media engine needs. With the AppImage, install libmpv2 (libmpv1 on Ubuntu 22.04) and libopengl0.

New

• NDI®: the picture with its sound. Videos, a hymn's music and audio files reach OBS or vMix together with the picture, in sync. Settings › Projection › NDI® output has Sound (on by default; turn it off if OBS takes the sound from the mixing desk) and Sound sync to nudge it. Windows 10 (2004) or later sends only the app's sound; macOS 14.2 or later too, and asks once whether Lumina Live may record system audio; on Linux it is all of the computer's sound.
• Bible: type in the book and chapter pickers. «rev» finds Revelation; a book picked with the keyboard opens the chapter picker, and a chapter picked with the keyboard takes you to the search box, where a number alone is a verse of that chapter. The search box also takes «John 3 16», with spaces.

What's fixed since 2.7.1

• What is on air holds. GO LIVE on a file that's missing is refused instead of cutting to black; a presentation on air keeps going if its USB stick is pulled out; a slide that can't be drawn leaves the previous one up; a hymn whose music fails still advances on its own timings.
• Hymns with music: .wma and AIFF music plays; «Restart» and looping under BLACK or LOGO only rewind; the first slide of a looping deck no longer lasts twice as long.
• Smoother video through the media engine (AVI, WMV and other formats the app plays itself): frames are put on screen in step with the display, interlaced video (camera recordings, DVDs) is deinterlaced again, the first frame shows about twice as fast, and a video over 40 frames per second is shown at half its rate, evenly.
• Nothing freezes a playing video: importing a presentation with large clips, a songbook or a Bible now happens off the main thread.
• NDI: a video's picture and sound leave together from the first second; turning NDI off or closing the app removes the source from OBS at once (on Windows it could stay listed for hours).
• Screens: if you choose the control window's own screen as the projector, the projection is a normal window you can move, never a full screen covering your controls. With three screens, a projector that blinks no longer jumps to the stage screen.
• Bible: a verse with auto-fit off keeps its size; «Parallel» with a version that numbers the chapter differently shows one column and says why.
• Windows: very long file paths work, and an NDI name with accents.
• An install whose database had broken links between rows opens again; the macOS update download is kept in the profile and cleared at launch.

Known issues

• Importing from EasyWorship 7 follows the same format as version 6 but hasn't been tried with a real EasyWorship 7 database yet.
• NDI: no NDI inputs yet (receiving a camera or OBS into Lumina Live is planned). On macOS before 14.2 the NDI output has no sound.
• With «Parallel» on, the stage screen shows only the main version.
• macOS updates are semi-automatic (you drag the app to Applications) until the app is signed with a paid Apple certificate.

NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.

Media engine 6

Not an app release. These are the prebuilt binaries of Himnova Live's media engine (formerly Lumina Live's), which npm install downloads (scripts/fetch-binaries.ts, pinned by sha256) and the installers ship next to the app. To install Himnova Live, use the release marked Latest.

Built from native/ at this tag (1c6f678) with native/build.sh <target> and zipped with native/build.sh pack.

What changed since engine-5: only names, for the product's new one — no change in behaviour.

• Windows: the version resource says «Himnova Live media engine», publisher «Himnova Live»: that is the name Windows' firewall shows the first time the NDI® output asks for the network.
• macOS: the audio device the NDI® sound is captured through is «Himnova Live NDI».
• Linux: the PulseAudio stream is «Himnova Live».

NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.

Lumina Live 2.7.1

Lumina Live 2.7.1: the NDI® output no longer skips frames of a video.

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11 (x64)	Lumina-Live-win-x64.exe
macOS, Apple Silicon	Lumina-Live-mac-arm64.dmg
Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint (x64)	Lumina-Live-linux-amd64.deb
Other Linux distributions (x64)	Lumina-Live-linux-x86_64.AppImage

• On 2.2.0 or later, the app offers this version itself (a notice in the control window, or Settings › About). On 2.2.0-beta.5 or earlier, download it and install it over the old one, once. Programs, library, Bibles and settings are kept.
• The installers aren't signed yet. Windows: «More info» → «Run anyway». macOS: System Settings → Privacy & Security → «Open Anyway».
• Linux: the .deb installs the libmpv the media engine needs. With the AppImage, install libmpv2 (libmpv1 on Ubuntu 22.04) and libopengl0.

What's fixed since 2.7.0

• NDI® output: a playing video reaches OBS whole. 2.7.0 could lose up to a quarter of a video's frames before they left the computer, so motion looked jerky in OBS even on a perfect network. Every frame now goes out, in order.
• Settings tells you what the network needs. 1080p over NDI takes about 100 Mbps: it needs a gigabit network cable at both ends. Over Wi-Fi or a 100 Mbps cable, choose 720p. A VPN running on both computers (ZeroTier, Tailscale) can carry the picture through itself: turn it off while you use NDI.

Known issues

• Importing from EasyWorship 7 follows the same format as version 6 but hasn't been tried with a real EasyWorship 7 database yet.
• NDI: no sound and no NDI inputs yet (receiving a camera or OBS into Lumina Live is planned).
• With «Side by side» on, the stage screen shows only the main version.
• macOS updates are semi-automatic (you drag the app to Applications) until the app is signed with a paid Apple certificate.

NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.

Media engine 5

Not an app release. These are the prebuilt binaries of Lumina Live's media engine, which npm install downloads (scripts/fetch-binaries.ts, pinned by sha256) and the installers ship next to the app. To install Lumina Live, use the release marked Latest.

The engine is a separate program that plays, through libmpv, the video and audio files the app's built-in player cannot decode, and sends the projection over NDI®. Built from native/ at this tag (9e74e99) with native/build.sh <target> and zipped with native/build.sh pack.

What changed since engine-4:

• The NDI® output carries the app's sound, captured from the operating system inside the sender: WASAPI process loopback of the app's process tree on Windows 10 2004+ (no prompt), a Core Audio process tap on macOS 14.2+ (asks once for «System Audio Recording»; earlier macOS sends video only), the default output's monitor through libpulse-simple on Linux (the whole computer's sound). Sound and picture are stamped on NDI's own clock; --audio 1 --audio-delay <ms>.
• The sender quits cleanly on «quit» or end of input: killed, it left its source listed on other computers for hours.
• Deinterlacing (deinterlace=auto): a DVD or a camcorder's 1080i no longer shows combing.
• First frame about twice as fast (465 → 230 ms): the picture's ring is made when the file loads, from the container's aspect, when it has one.
• A video's sound is held to meet its picture: 65 ms on macOS and Linux, 40 ms on Windows (measured in the room and over NDI).
• Silence at once when a video is taken off air; 30 render failures in a row (a GPU reset) are reported instead of a frozen picture; a video with no picture the engine can decode is reported; UTF-8 command line on Windows (an NDI name with «ñ» or non-Latin letters arrives whole); long Windows paths (\\?\).

File	Contents	sha256
media-engine-darwin-arm64.zip	engine, handles.node, libmpv 0.41.0 for macOS 12+ (native/libmpv-mac/build.sh)	c70172ad78e1dc8157add39b246d20bb31377dd2891cd74a39c38c315eefaa11
media-engine-win32-x64.zip	engine, libmpv-2.dll (shinchiro's mpv-winbuild-cmake 20261021, mpv e471496c56)	d7586f980b34d8392bf6d9a82e75432f42239fe215b633499677e5b94fe6094c
media-engine-linux-x64.zip	engine, handles.node; uses the system's libmpv (libmpv2 or libmpv1) and needs libopengl0; NDI sound loads libpulse-simple.so.0	78d1334054bbecd1b1da1493336017c5e56f9256abd5bb675d168abdaf4aca6c

Licenses and sources: resources/engine-NOTICE.txt. The engine is GPL-3.0-or-later, like Lumina Live; mpv is GPL-2.0-or-later. NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.

Media engine 4

Not an app release. These are the prebuilt binaries of Lumina Live's media engine, which npm install downloads (scripts/fetch-binaries.ts, pinned by sha256) and the installers ship next to the app. To install Lumina Live, use the release marked Latest.

The engine is a separate program that plays, through libmpv, the video and audio files the app's built-in player cannot decode, and sends the projection over NDI®. Built from native/ at this tag (b7edc88) with native/build.sh <target> and zipped with native/build.sh pack.

What changed since engine-3: the NDI® output sends every frame the app paints, in order, through a short queue (up to 3 waiting). engine-3 kept only the latest one, and since the app paints on Chromium's clock while the NDI SDK sends on its own, two frames often landed in one send period and the first was lost — 0–27 % of a 30 fps video, measured on the sending computer itself. Playback is unchanged.

File	Contents	sha256
media-engine-darwin-arm64.zip	engine, handles.node, libmpv 0.41.0 for macOS 12+ (native/libmpv-mac/build.sh)	a3c07021fcd94d3c7fcfcfa8627162e3b04f14cddbc13e4f3754f1b01e8d78df
media-engine-win32-x64.zip	engine, libmpv-2.dll (shinchiro's mpv-winbuild-cmake 20261021, mpv e471496c56)	3a26ee11ef4ee970223f3d51cbe341a5e0f698cae3c74281bf0c890c0fa5786d
media-engine-linux-x64.zip	engine, handles.node; uses the system's libmpv (libmpv2 or libmpv1) and needs libopengl0	d01fbd89cc85bf1735d870fbd6fa716052273dd3ba7835da7dce91d545d86983

Licenses and sources: resources/engine-NOTICE.txt. The engine is GPL-3.0-or-later, like Lumina Live; mpv is GPL-2.0-or-later. NDI® is a registered trademark of Vizrt NDI AB.