VIDPLAYER HQ

Main Beta focus

• First public step forward from the unreleased Experimental branch
• Multi-language support added into VidPlayer itself
• VPTheme engine integrated into VidPlayer
• UI sounds, theme assets, and appearance workflow improvements
• Playlist, settings, updater, and general polish improvements

• Major UI / artwork / icon / File Info refresh
• Custom .ico button and menubar icon support
• Reworked Full Screen Artwork behavior
• VPLogo placeholder integration
• Expanded built-in File Info workflow

• Python-based external updater rework
• Shared updater settings file
• Rollback snapshots with manifests
• Mini Mode / playlist docking polish
• Portable VLC DLLs updated to 3.0.23

• Dockable playlist mode added
• Dock positions for top / right / left / bottom / visualizer
• Mini Mode introduced
• First pass of playlist docking and Mini Mode work

• Built-in updater removed
• External updater branch started
• Playback moved fully to VLC in this branch
• Subtitle / lyrics support added

• Playlist search added
• FFT visualizer included
• Fixed autoplay behaviour
• Aero Glass removed for stability improvements

• CD ripping via FFmpeg
• Experimental VLC-based Audio CD playback

• Fixed updater freeze at 100%
• Improved updater asset handling and JSON paths

• First PySide6 / Qt GUI build
• New File Info window
• Aero Glass theme introduced
• Fullscreen artwork moved to View menu

• External artwork now saved across restarts
• Prev/Next controls in fullscreen overlay
• Auto-hide overlay with mouse-move wake

• Discord Rich Presence toggle in Settings
• Always on Top setting
• Full Screen Artwork mode
• Fullscreen artwork window

• Added Discord RPC
• Default volume changed to 50.0

• Updated License Agreement
• License and Features/Update Log tabs now load from text files
• Auto-check for updates on startup added
• Check for updates button added to About menu

• New About window

• Batch-loading progress window added for large file loads

• Artwork display support
• Settings window
• Early playlist + auto-play-next support

• Fixed autoplay-next behavior
• Added more settings options

• First attempt at autoplay-next
• Broken / unreleased build

• Artwork support
• Settings window
• Playlist support
• Experimental volume slider

• Full UI redo
• Light/Dark mode added
• Recent files list

• First re-coded version — new window/UI compared to the very first build

• The very first VidPlayer build. Mainly kept for historical record.