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@Phnem Phnem released this 13 Sep 10:51
v2.1
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Highlights

VetroLook 2.1 is a video player as well as a photo viewer — in the same window, with the same glass interface and the same keyboard.

  • Video Mode — films play composited underneath the interface, with hardware decoding, display-synced frame pacing and HDR output.
  • Timeline previews and frame stepping — see the frame you are heading for before you let go, and step one frame at a time in both directions.
  • Subtitles in the Vetro Bubble — dialogue on frosted glass that morphs between lines; authored typesetting stays exactly where its author put it.
  • AI subtitles, made on your PC — Whisper transcribes a film's speech locally. Download it once from the … menu; audio never leaves your computer.
  • Streams — direct links, HLS, DASH, live streams with a DVR window, and automatic reconnecting.
  • RTX Video Super Resolution, picture in picture, Windows media controls and session restore.

Changelog

Video

  • Films open in the same window as photos, with poster, facts and a transport in the viewer's own glass.
  • Hardware decoding where the GPU supports the codec, software otherwise; the renderer and decode path are shown in Diagnostics.
  • Frame pacing follows the display's exact refresh rate; the resource governor protects playback before anything else.
  • HDR output on HDR displays and tone mapping on SDR displays.
  • Timeline previews from a second, output-less decoder.
  • , and . step one frame; PageUp/PageDown jump between chapters.
  • Resume where you left off, subtitle and audio delay per film, frame screenshots (S), A-B loop (L).
  • The next film in the folder follows automatically.
  • Picture in picture (P) remembers its place per monitor arrangement, snaps to corners and pins with T.
  • The Windows media controls, lock screen and media keys drive the film.
  • A film open during an unexpected exit comes back at the next start.

Subtitles

  • Embedded and sidecar subtitles load automatically.
  • Plain dialogue is drawn in the Vetro Bubble; positioned, animated, karaoke and bitmap subtitles are left to libass untouched.

AI subtitles

  • One download in the … menu (about 1.2 GB) fetches the whisper.cpp runtime, the speech detector and the model, each checked against its published SHA-256, with a progress bar. It can be removed from the same row.
  • A turns AI subtitles on; Shift+A saves them beside the film as .srt.
  • Transcription runs a few minutes ahead of the playhead, skips silence, filters invented lines and is kept for next time.
  • Skip silence (Gentle / Aggressive) for lectures and recordings.

Streams

  • Open an address from the command line or with Ctrl+V.
  • Live streams show LIVE, keep a DVR window and return to the edge with End.
  • Dropped connections are reopened with backoff at the position reached.
  • Failures are explained in plain words; DRM-only services are recognised up front.
  • Web pages work with a user-supplied yt-dlp.exe in a resolver folder.

Enhancement

  • RTX Video Super Resolution (Off / Auto / On) on NVIDIA RTX cards.

Fixes

  • The transport keeps its frosted glass while subtitles are on screen.
  • Controls no longer leave an empty glass panel behind as they fade.
  • The subtitle bubble keeps its text when the controls are hidden.
  • Messages appear above the transport and subtitles instead of on top of them.
  • "Open with" now offers VetroLook for video and audio files, not only images.
  • The session log no longer stops after its first non-English line.

Downloads

  • VetroLook-2.1-Setup.exe — standard Windows installer.
  • VetroLook-2.1-x64.msi — Windows Installer package.
  • VetroLook-2.1-Portable.zip — no-install portable build.
  • SHA256SUMS.txt — SHA-256 for each download.

All packages include the playback engine. AI subtitles are not included and are downloaded from inside the app when you ask for them.

MSIX is intentionally excluded from this GitHub release.

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