VideoFrameVR 0.4.0

What's Changed

New

• Connect to Stash servers with self-signed certificates by @seaweeduk in #38
• Remove solid-colour passthrough backgrounds, detected automatically by @seaweeduk in #40
• Add experimental AMD VA-API playback by @seaweeduk in #41

Fixes

• Credit FramePlayerX and Frame Control in source and releases by @seaweeduk in #39
• Allow fine adjustments with slider +/− buttons by @seaweeduk in #36
• Keep cropped and full-range videos on hardware decoding after wake by @seaweeduk in #37

Performance

• Use less CPU for automatic stereo focus by @seaweeduk in #42
• Use less GPU for 8-bit H.264 video on the Steam Frame by @seaweeduk in #43
• Use less power on the Steam Frame by not redrawing frames that would look the same by @seaweeduk in #44
• Use less GPU for automatic stereo focus by @seaweeduk in #45
• Solid-colour passthrough video uses less GPU by @seaweeduk in #46
• Tone look no longer slows video down by @seaweeduk in #47
• Measure automatic stereo focus less often while nothing changes by @seaweeduk in #48
• Green-screen video with Shrink uses less GPU by @seaweeduk in #49
• Colour-key and green-screen keying use less GPU by @seaweeduk in #50

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

Install

Already have VideoFrameVR? You don't need the installer. The app tells you about
this update; choose Update now.

Device	File
Steam Frame	Install-VideoFrameVR-v0.4.0-aarch64.desktop
Desktop PC	Install-VideoFrameVR-v0.4.0-x86_64.desktop

Steam Frame

1. Switch to Desktop Mode and download the installer.
2. Open it from your Downloads folder. If asked, choose Launch, then Continue.
3. Choose Install. VideoFrameVR goes straight into your Steam library.

Desktop PC

You need Steam (not the Flatpak version), SteamVR and zenity. Video decoding uses
the GPU on NVIDIA cards, and on AMD cards with Mesa 26.1 or newer (experimental,
not yet tested on AMD hardware); other cards decode on the CPU.

1. Download the installer and open it.
2. Choose Install.
3. If Steam is open, choose Restart Steam to add VideoFrameVR to your library.

Other files

• videoframevr-*.tar.gz: the app, as the installers contain it
• videoframevr-source-*.tar.gz: the complete source of each build
• SHA256SUMS: checksums