v1.7.3

New Features

• Added ability to change the audio volume of videos
• Added crop/scale options for videos
• Improvements to enabling Now Playing and how it handles blank artist/songs by @gentslava
• Added ability to black out screen - hides video and overlays, wake with a button press
• Translations updated thanks to @gentslava, @dikodahan, @peat80, @marcopar, TexetBoo, and José Manuel Lugones

Fixes and improvements

• Added some additional durations to Slideshow time and Max. video length
• Fixed a bug in Samba/WebDAV connection test not being cancelled properly
• Fixed a bug in D-pad/Button handling
• Fixed a bug in how Now Playing updates
• Fixed a bug in duplicate matching of videos/photos

This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or so.

v1.7.2

This is a bigger release with many new features and a few fixes...

New Features

• Added a (music) Now Playing overlay - thanks to @spocky for his help with this feature
• Added support for WebDAV servers
• Short videos can be looped within a time limit
• Animated GIF support
• A random part of a long video can be played if a time limit is set
• Ability to adjust times or disable fade in/out animations
• Overlays can auto-hide after timeout, revealed with button press
• D-pad buttons/directions can be fully customised for press or long press
• New Japanese translation for Community videos by Asako
• New Hebrew translation by @dikodahan
• Translations updated thanks to @peat80, @marcopar, TexetBoo, and José Manuel Lugones

Fixes and improvements

• Location/description matching for Apple/Community videos ignores filename extensions
• Fixed a crash in a permission helper
• Fixed a bug in photo/video selection in some media providers
• Moved Overlays screen out of Appearance and into the main Settings screen

As always - thank you to the community for being patient with feature requests, helping with testing, and finding bugs!

This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or two.

v1.7.1

New Features

• You can now add a gradient to the top and/or bottom of the screen to make text easier to see
• Added more options when using a photo or video filename as the description, removed 'formatted' option
• Initial "Loading..." message can be turned off
• New Italian translation by @marcopar
• Translations updated thanks to @peat80, TexetBoo, and José Manuel Lugones

Fixes and improvements

• Playback speed notification bug fix by @dog77k
• Bug fix in Samba provider by @Andres78
• Updated SMBJ which may improve SMB compatibility
• Fixed issue with SMB username/password if spaces were used
• Added option to allow software decoders and verbose playback logging
• Improved file access permissions for Android 13/14+
• Fixed a bug with 12/24hr time format not working properly

This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or two.

v1.7

This is a bigger release with new features and changes...

New Features

• Photo support has finally been added to Aerial Views. It is available for local & USB storage, and Samba shares. Expect more photo related features in future releases.

Fixes and improvements

• Fixed an issue with 'mute' not working if connected to an AV receiver
• Reverted Samba buffer size change as it caused video playback on some devices to stop working
• Translations updated thanks to @peat80, TexetBoo, @juneix, and José Manuel Lugones
• French translation updated using DeepL and Google translate. If you spot any mistakes, please get in contact.
• Added ability to randomise language of screensaver overlays every run. Useful for testing translations.
• Tweaks to fade in/out timings

This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or so.

v1.6.3

New Features

• Added ability to change font weight of each overlay individually
• Added option to disable passthrough of media buttons
• Added Spanish translation by José Manuel Lugones
• Added Simplified Chinese translation by @juneix

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the Date overlay not updating when the day/date changes
• Small fix to UK translation by @dtsypkin

There is no GitHub release for v1.6.2 as it only contained a critical fix for Google Play and Amazon Appstore versions.

This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next week or so.

v1.6.1

This is a bug fix release...

Fixes

• Fixed a crash bug which occurs when the app is updated with Location set to 'off'
• Fixed a bug which caused the Upper and Lower slots to be in the wrong order
• Fixed a video size/aspect issue on the phone after a screen rotation
• Fixed an issue with translations not being used on some preference screens
• Tweaks to UK/RU/DE translations by TexetBoo and @peat80

This version will appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in a week or so.

v1.6

This is a bigger release with new features and changes...

New Features

• Added ability to change the position of overlays (Location, Time, etc) to any corner of the screen. Each corner has 2 slots for overlays
• Added date overlay with various formatting options
• Added message overlay - display your own custom messages
• Clock overlay now has 12/24 format options
• Updated icon - support for 'adaptive' icon for phones and Google TV launcher

Fixes and improvements

• Tweaks to initial loading animations (ability to change this will be added in future)
• Fixed an issue where video location was blank when using Apple videos on SMB
• Fixes some issues with import/export of SMB settings
• Fixed an issue where the screensaver can start while 'Test screensaver' is running
• Lots of internal work to make all text translatable
• Menus - Ukrainian and Russian translation by TexetBoo
• Menus - German translation by @peat80

Known issues

• It is possible for overlay text to overlap if there isn't enough room. I'm hoping to mitigate this in a future release.

This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next couple of weeks assuming no major issues or bugs.

v1.5.2

This is a bug fix release...

Fixes

• Media buttons on a remote (play, pause, etc) no longer stop the screensaver, thanks to @dog77k
• Fix to local video filter folder not being saved, thanks to @dog77k
• Downgraded SMBJ (Samba) library due to a bug with anonymous login

This version will appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore over the next 24 hours.

v1.5.1

New Features

• Added 10 new community videos from Robin Fourcade
• Added new default font, Open Sans (old font is still available)
• Added ability to change font weight (thickness/thinness)
• Added ability to scan subfolders of a Samba share
• Added ability to use unformatted filename as location

Fixes and improvements

• Community videos - Ukrainian and Russian translation by TexetBoo
• Community videos - Japanese translation by Asako
• Community videos - German translation by @peat80
• Reduced SMB read buffer size
• Fixes to SMB path handling
• Fixed incorrect video id which prevented some location data being shown
• Updates to many libraries like Media3, Firebase, SMBJ, Kotlin & build tools.

This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next couple of weeks.

v1.5

This is a bigger release with new features and changes...

New Features

• Auto frame rate support. The video player will try and match the TVs refresh rate to that (or a multiple) of the video's FPS (Settings > Advanced)
• A single folder containing videos can now be specified, instead of using the system Media Scanner
• Clock and Location text can now be resized. Further customisations will follow in future releases
• Domain/Workgroup can be specified in Samba connection settings
• Clock can now be forced to use Western/Latin digits on RTL locales

Fixes and improvements

• Updated German translation by @peat80
• Added Ukrainian translation, updated Russian translation by TexetBoo
• Improved method of aligning clock and location text with RTL and LTR languages
• Fixed an issue where Community video locations were not displaying when played locally or from a Samba share
• Fixed an issue with max. length video option
• Migrated from ExoPlayer to AndroidX Media

This version is likely to appear on the Google Play and Amazon Appstore in the next couple of weeks.