Straw Viewer Versions Save

• straw-viewer is now considered deprecated in favor of pipe-viewer. (info)
• gtk: workaround for non-existent extra thumbnails in "video details" window. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/7112d8347da9a6078551c2df47d370cad3e70e1b)
• gtk: added the boolean autoscroll_to_end option (disabled by default). (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/cd67d6444ece7b79ec655f40c0fb30442f12bd35)
• gtk: make sure the text in textview is UTF-8 decoded. (#37) (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/b66ebc721ad12222611ee3f066acae53e5ca4984)
• Replaced the deprecated invidio.us domain with invidious.io (#40) (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/dda688d617d9c97cac8c0ca449491c58e7abe47e)
• For better privacy, ignore invidious instances that use Cloudflare. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/003bedf466e34e9e1da51789ea49a3b8d6f72c92)
• Set the LIVE tag only for videos marked with liveNow=true and lengthSeconds=0. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/42f1a18ba0aee71500915ff267028c7412bf07cf)
• cli: no longer die when Term::ReadLine::Gnu is not installed and history => 1. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/b624785984882efa2e835821eebfb4d149b8b45a)

See also: https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer

• Show the relative age of videos in search results. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/374063f5f4c0c24e32865d986be3a6f2f87b5474)
• Stricter selection of a random invidious instance. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/09ce8a8b37194035934cc24d8e71058764ad7bb3)

See also: https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer

• gtk: added the "Video License" combobox. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/6d8bc720768183fe59ec1d6e380e5a8c1f8620b5)
• gtk: added the right-click "Play as audio" entry. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/3bd20cf7ef8c84a8c78f26686b218d09b8a26f5e, https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/46ae02e28efdcdff0174c1f1e03382118bcd1a7e)
• Better detection for HFR (High Frame Rate) videos. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/9bdc6ef886e7233ff5b9049b7ea204f1b05de71f)
• Better selection of invidious instances. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/b020f990b81a58d9e6139a240bb48be566284c96)

See also: https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer

Additions

• Implemented sort_by and date parameters for /search. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/00f98d9ce5bb814029483d45129cf6713b4771cf)
• Implemented the --hd, --captions and --region=s options. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/00f98d9ce5bb814029483d45129cf6713b4771cf)
• Implemented the --page=i, --dimension=s and --license=s options. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/e742be9923927bd1571381bde4e952d909971fdf)
• Implemented support for popular videos. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/4ef861140305233837d1fca07aaddb6748f556b6)
• Implemented support for searching for videos from a specific channel. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/8f0c6c2656a2a75f3056a54ee269a5e5711de36e)
• Implemented support for trending categories. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/d3e27ea17eed79e5939306ab681879cf949ff22d)
• Added support for changing the youtube-dl command. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/a4c97edf789d8cb9bfa1b248f74e3604e786f90a)
• Added support for disabling the use of youtube-dl. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/a4c97edf789d8cb9bfa1b248f74e3604e786f90a)
• Added the ignore_av1 config-option. (disabled by default). (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/bc431c3b77a4268fc58e210ac3990a113847db88)
• Documented the configuration options in man straw-viewer. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/e742be9923927bd1571381bde4e952d909971fdf)

Improvements

• Cached several internal functions in memory for better performance. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/802d056ba611e27959e899541073f7fdc56d5cdb)

Fixes

• Added the missing quotemeta() to the filename of the cookie file. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/eb9f04d562e0af3a6c84ba9741da2c05b92d58e4)
• Use description from the description field when descriptionHtml is empty. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/606e5c5ce44cbc61de4ffced8eade4053b2d040d)

Additions

• Added support for loading cookies from a file. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/15d6c5abbb9e5958b3e779def7fdf2ab077a1b76)
• Added support for automatically picking an invidious instance. (#23) (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/0038ba8d6cca6f8622b34819124662b27d262741)

Other

• No longer prefer a specific version of TLS. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/05ac9e3ab8674637d5461be0b9921eebe720fa5e)
• Use random invidious instances in _extract_from_invidious(). (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/31a943b874e8fbea988161b12293437b48253203)

Fixes

• Gtk3: fixed thumbnails for related videos. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/ca3aa61a55fc94db264de89c3acf644875f9acb4)
• Save converted videos in the same folder they are downloaded in. (#26) (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/7620cc345421cd067dcec880b36e6cc41ac98cad)

• Fixed the support for closed-captions for some videos. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/3dfe6e1c3cb6241122112ac10b06b01871e9fe2e)

Changes

• Changed the default API host to invidious.snopyta.org. (#24)
• Use the ".opus" extension for Opus audio streams. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/ec0e860b6c6f5ec261e8d86d050679b7fdcdb651)

Bug-fixes

• Several fixes in the decoding of URLs in description. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/c9a02d5161dbb922e994b7f94bda4fd24a83dc1a, https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/823a1a7bd8f087f51f5ef065bea07d0e81906090)
• Fixed the printing of channel names in search context. (#20)
• Prefer VP9 over AV1 when AVC is not available and prefer_mp4 is true. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/eeb53f0e9f47d9140c3e12b111502ec1d2fc36f8)

Additions

• Added support for ignoring High Frame Rate (HFR) videos. (#18) (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/50e68555027faee1cfbde576d8a0de0ca9f8c0fd)
• Added the --instance=s alias for --api-host=s, for changing the invidious instance. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/cf0a3271b8ad54b72909e4e093efbea511eda89f)

Fixes

• Handle some potential corner-cases. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/fbc11fa9b5503d974c2ebe3c7d322415a21ad8a8)
• Suppressed some harmless warnings. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/9880e01627a3e04be66d0063a60f899102da1761)
• Allow YouTube video URLs to be passed to --id. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/28f925fd6aac13a65c6118577419f5da1bffb319)
• No longer include newlines in the message prompt for Term::ReadLine. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/cf335f1b1d0df48980b0ea9d8debef0949568441)

• Added basic support for related videos. (#15) (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/880bfc20b70c68960fc0e58c59f82f3b932867cd)
• Added a fallback method for extracting video information. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/5ce3cb41a95635243fd155a65b08041f36f11c5f)
• Allow the GTK+ interface to run under any GTK+ >= 3.00. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/66908839daf01aadeed2344ebd62246b3c1845be)
• Various fixes and improvements. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/e31ee90ca8bbfb2934785420a56134ec01101dc4, https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/95e029575dec7b2672f1b484077461bf6e37de44, https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/5ce3cb41a95635243fd155a65b08041f36f11c5f)

• Detect videos with signatureCipher and fallback to youtube-dl. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/75ca1888cb4abd942462ad8679923aecd1919d4d)
• Allow channel & playlist IDs to be longer (between 11 and 64 characters). (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/a97cc7f416d770ff32705ef18ba726df6eea8fec)
• Changed the default cache direction from /tmp/straw-viewer to ~/.cache/straw-viewer. (https://github.com/trizen/straw-viewer/commit/820ebc704e36786406b0960929c6ca53a232eb9f)