Syncplay 1.5.2 Beta #3 – Enhanced mpv chat support

Posted by Etoh on January 21, 2018
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Enhanced chat support for mpv is ready for testing.

You can e-mail us feedback via dev@syncplay.pl – if you want to comment on the mpv chat interface you can use https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/issues/168

Features new in Syncplay 1.5.2:

  • 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.

Features new in Beta #3:

  • Fix to issue which meant non-US characters only worked in direct input mode
  • Added some additional Polish characters (thanks sztelke)
  • Those hosting their own server can now specify the chat message length they want using Add –max-chat-message-length (public servers have not been updated yet so still use the lower limit)

Download links:

Known limitations:

  • 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!
  • When running your own server you must specify a maximum chat message length through a command line option, e.g. –max-chat-message-length=125

Hashes for Syncplay_1.5.2_Beta_3.exe (confirm with Microsoft’s File Checksum Integrity Verifier)
MD5: 326e06543d05660c10898db5569375c5
SHA-1: fc739ff76ad9943d65e3e1d0ae48766d228b691c
SHA256: 435c1235c6664c30afaf0aeb360c7f3353541d0edfe6224736d2e9576a5ddb99

Hashes for syncplay_v1.5.2_Beta3_Portable.zip (confirm with Microsoft’s File Checksum Integrity Verifier)
MD5: 4cc593429b438a82ac8a37372cf7f075
SHA-1: 34585a24993bfa44e1b03160c35cb997d15c3599
SHA256: 8e6f9ddf2a95818082f07e8c65db9340ee42a28107a6287a6cd590c04c3f3a9d

Hashes for Syncplay_1.5.2_Beta3.dmg (confirmable using QuickHash GUI)
MD5: 993b2f348d75e2651b4a02a851c236f7
SHA-1: 0826976d79886ca6bb3d2821bf1fe00d3f4dab8c
SHA256: e8481e65aae36031f1a45f8712cc6e08191a603ca7963792b0bf4b38490dad9a

Note: This open source software has been marked as clean by Jotti (.exe, .zip, .dmg) and VirusTotal (.exe, .zip, .dmg). Syncplay might be flagged as suspicious by some anti-malware systems simply because it is niche software downloaded from the Internet but as we are open source anyone can audit our code if they wish to do so.

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 mpv chat feature feedback issue at https://github.com/Syncplay/syncplay/issues/168

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