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CHANGELOG

Every version, and what changed in it.

One entry per release, newest first. Security releases are marked, and they reach every licence — including one whose update window has closed.

0.3.7

A soundtrack switch, and video tools you can choose yourself.

Added

  • A Soundtrack button in the player, for films that carry more than one language. You pick a language rather than a track number, lantv remembers it for that device, and it keeps your place when it switches.
  • A Video tools card in Settings. lantv ships its own FFmpeg and uses it on most computers; if films that need converting will not play, you can point lantv at another copy and it will use that instead.

Fixed

  • A folder you choose for video tools is now actually used. It was being ignored in favour of the bundled copy, which made the setting a decoration.
  • Stepping down to a smaller picture no longer ends the stream it was trying to save, and it steps once rather than three times on a single stall.
  • Removing a device now clears the smaller picture size it had been given after a slow connection, so re-admitting it starts clean.

0.3.4

Fixed

  • A screen on a slow connection can ask for a smaller picture again. The report that asks for it had gone missing, so a film too heavy for the wi-fi simply kept stalling.

0.3.3

Fixed

  • The check that works out whether your computer can convert video gave up before it ran, so machines that could convert were told they could not.

0.3.2

Fixed

  • On Windows the shipped video tools could not start and nothing said so — films that needed converting never played, with no explanation anywhere.

0.3.1

Fixed

  • A screen that plays HEVC through its own player is no longer told it cannot. lantv asks each device about both of its decoders rather than one.
  • The first screen to open is no longer judged before it has said what it can play.
  • A tagged release now bundles the video tools it was always supposed to carry.

0.3.0

Films your browser cannot open play anyway — nothing to press, nothing to wait for.

Added

  • Streaming. A film in a container or a codec your screen cannot open is repackaged — or re-encoded where it has to be — as it plays. A press of a tile just plays, and no second copy is ever written to your disk.
  • HDR films play instead of refusing. Where your computer's video tools can convert the colour, lantv converts it; where they cannot, the picture is sent as it is, which on an ordinary screen looks washed out.

Changed

  • The shipped video tools are now an LGPL v3 build — the licence the colour conversion needs. The texts that travel with lantv changed with it.

Fixed

  • A WebM is only offered untouched to a screen that actually decodes it.

0.2.0

The conversion feature is gone — every file plays as it is.

Changed

  • Every title now plays directly: lantv serves your browser the original file and never converts anything. What a screen can decode is what plays there.
  • The Library speaks plainly again — no verdict badges, no “Make playable”, no video-tools banner. The one mark left on a tile is “File missing”.
  • Settings and Server pages slimmed down: the Converting card, the encoder measurement and the conversion asks on Devices left with the feature.
  • Video tools (FFmpeg) are now optional and only add polish — poster frames, runtimes and MKV subtitle extraction. Nothing needs them to play.

0.1.2

Two Windows fixes from the first real install.

Fixed

  • The Windows app no longer opens a command window behind itself.
  • The Windows icon now ships at every size a title bar or taskbar asks for, instead of one large image scaled down.

0.1.1

The Windows build gets its own face.

Fixed

  • The Windows app now shows the lantv icon in its title bar, taskbar and Explorer — 0.1.0 shipped with the packaging tool's default there.

0.1.0

The first release anyone can download.

Added

  • The desktop app for Windows and Linux: your films, served from one computer to every browser in the house.
  • Devices ask to join by name and nothing plays until you approve them.
  • Direct play with instant seek, and conversion for the formats a device cannot play.
  • While anything is streaming, the serving machine stays awake — on both platforms.
  • Licensing with a free first week; the free week is the full product.

Updates arrive in the app itself — it checks a few times a day and installs only when you choose to restart. What a check sends is listed in the FAQ, and the switch to turn it off is on the app’s Server page. If a release breaks something for you, tell us.