Monthly Archives: December 2017

Syncplay 1.5.2 Beta #1 – Enhanced mpv chat support

Posted by Etoh on December 31, 2017
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Happy New Year! Enhanced chat support for mpv is ready for testing.

You can e-mail us feedback via dev@syncplay.pl or use the dedicated feedback issue at https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/issues/168

Features:

  • You chat straight from mpv. By default you press enter, write your message, then press enter again. There is also an optional mode so you can start typing straight away.
  • You can how see multiple chat messages at once in a ‘chat room’ style or a ‘scrolling text’ style.
  • New ‘Chat’ tab in the Syncplay configuration dialogue. To get to this check ‘Show more settings’ in the normal dialogue.
  • (Experimental) Enter the commands from the command line interface mode straight into Syncplay by prefixing your message with “/”, e.g. “/u” to undo last seek and “/t” to toggle whether you are in ready mode.

Download links:

Known limitations:

  • Only supports input of US-ASCII characters via mpv. Other characters can be pasted in or entered via the main Syncplay UI. If you can figure out how to get around this then feel free to make a Pull Request!
  • You need to be using mpv >= v0.28.0 for the On-Screen Controller to be hidden during chat (e.g. to avoid it overlapping with the text input when it is positioned at the bottom)
  • Not all responses to /commands are relayed to mpv and only appear in the Syncplay notification window. If you want to fix this then feel free to make a Pull Request!

Hashes for syncplay_v1.5.2_Beta1_Portable.zip (confirm with Microsoft’s File Checksum Integrity Verifier)
MD5: 176a90d378c4067113993762ad8e6c2a
SHA-1: 297b2897a2620cb2b7818982244edf23323be31a
SHA256: fbf6ab5485cec6f6fc2a3e524e537e1faccd9a8024820bf582eac0060730c62b

Hashes for Syncplay_1.5.2_Beta1.dmg (confirmable using QuickHash GUI)
MD5: f09ae1b9926f49dac5dcffc2a69cea43
SHA-1: 9eedb5e4001c3b6a806e9093dd01c6e137e42cd6
SHA256: 3d18abbd68c66f38af4e22d3bf7ca5588e48f7c5fb35a38d018499faf9e83a46

Note: This open source software has been marked as clean by Jotti (.dmg, .zip) and VirusTotal (.dmg, .zip). Syncplay might be flagged as suspicious by some anti-malware systems simply because it is unsigned software downloaded from the Internet that is not widely used. If you’re concerned by this then just run the Syncplay source code directly as it is open source softwar

Contact us

As usual, if you are having problems or want to give feedback then please e-mail us (dev@syncplay.pl) or chat with us on IRC (#syncplay on chat.freenode.net). Github users can use the dedicated feedback issue at https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/issues/168

Syncplay 1.5.1

Posted by Etoh on December 25, 2017
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This release of Syncplay is all about improved compatibility:

  • + Added support for PySide2 (#152 – code by albertosottile)
  • + Added support for MPC-BE [version 1.5.2.3123 and later] (#68, #158 – thanks to MPC-BE changes by v0lt)
  • ! Fixed Syncplay issue with VLC 4 (#161)

Thanks to everyone who helped contribute by raising issues, making suggestions, writing code and doing testing.

If there are any outstanding issues then e-mail dev@syncplay.pl

Download links:

Digests for Syncplay_1.5.1_Setup.exe (confirm with Microsoft’s File Checksum Integrity Verifier)
MD5: 0802f7e02f7c80be4910957be07fd1f6
SHA-1: 5ebbaac264e68ce9abbce0d4527731c08ba99397
SHA256: e5cb15577c09ce12b28a69df2c1d930118d52d49efb853dcd0a28bbc5e839467

Digests for Syncplay-1.5.1-Portable.zip (confirm with Microsoft’s File Checksum Integrity Verifier)
MD5: c60e113f35938f451428c0af2048bf6d
SHA-1: 7e7b140015496ae390cc5e9680213908d49d097c
SHA256: 75623d6896d259da629ce7c1544df021c1946b814469e1b882f79b11348ff69e

Digests for Syncplay_1.5.1.dmg (confirmable using QuickHash GUI)
MD5: 690f6efd625be625b90735f6dc8a5017
SHA-1: 1a9cb0f9d7a44ded53e9d5407948f8b0ae55289e
SHA256: 61115ca0a5000e55a0c15a4d943dcdd7cbd327c417df813b59184f2cf115323f

Note: This open source software has been marked as clean by Jotti (.exe, .dmg, .zip) and VirusTotal (.exe, .dmg, .zip). Syncplay might be flagged as suspicious by some anti-malware systems simply because it is unsigned software downloaded from the Internet that is not widely used. If you’re concerned by this then just run the Syncplay source code directly as it is open source software. 

Known issues:

  1. A few dialogues look at bit weird on OS X. This should be fixed when we move away from Pyside1. Discuss the move away from Pyside1 at #152.
  2. If you are having stability issues with mpv on Windows then try running it with the command line switch –opengl-backend=win. If you want streaming to work with mpv then you will need the latest version of YTDL.
  3. If you are using MPC and pauses are ignored then it is probably because you are using madVR. If you are have set the video filter to madVR then you will need to revert to the default filter or disable the ‘delay playback start until render queue is full’ option within madVR. Oh, and if anyone is using MPC or MPC-BE then avoid filenames with % marks (#163).