Annot Player full changelog

· Fix the severe issue for synchronizing annotations caused by the changes of the server framework.
· App before version 0.1.8.0 might not function well anymore.
· Fix the bug which might cause downloaded gzipped annotations failed to be unzipped and parsed.
· Utilize cookies to reduce network traffic.

· Long annotations/subtitles will be wrapped by word boundaries.
· Game subtitles will be rendered stably on the top or bottom.
· Add dock button to embedded mode, to toggle whether embed to the top or bottom.
· Add Italian language for galgame translation.
· Existing files to overwrite will be moved to trash instead of being deleted or renamed.
· Press the quot;Play/Pausequot; button after sync with galgame will start or pause listening to game signals.
· Add XML/JSON annotations download dialog to annot-player.
· Some unstable experimental features are temporarily disabled.
· Annotation Downloader is changed to use single download thread to avoid parallel bugs.
· Fix the bug that makes wmv and ISO images invisible from openning.
· Fix the bug that causes annot-player unable to fetch annotations when openning files in Windows Explorer.
· Fix a bug that might cause context menu to render in full black.
· Reimplement thread-safe message logging mechanism which could result in mystery crashes.

· Able to edit and save machine-translated subtitles.
· The user will take the ownership of the editted subtitles.
· Render widgets (such as push buttons) as annotations (currently not for Mac only).
· Bing API is replaced with Microsoft Azure API for default Galgame translation.
· Because Microsoft will stop Bing translation service after Aug. 1, 2012, galgame translation before version 0.1.7 will stop functioning after Aug.1.
· Add Google Translator and Romaji translation service.
· Able to turn on more than one translation providers.
· Enble translation for French/German/Spanish/Portuguese
· Opion to change annotation moving speed in preferences. Modification to movement resolution is removed.
· Prefetch annotations and save to XML/JSON before streaming media is completed.
· Able to download annotation XML/JSON from Annot Browser or Annot Downloader.
· To associate the downloaded XML/JSON subtitle with media file, rename the subtitle as the same basename as the media file.

Main chages:
· Fixed a severe bug while streaming MP4 video from nicovideo.jp
· Use CTRL+SHIFT/MiddleButton with Mouse to select and delete annotations
· Annotation analytics improved
· Display download progress and media information in full screen mode
· Preferred playing mode changed to embedded mode
· Browser improved
· Automatic login nicovideo.jp and bilibili.tv
· Added built-in adblock
· Remember history of visited and recent closed URLs

· Annotation analytics improved
· Show annotation analysis while playing
· Fix a bug in deployed package for Windows

· Web browser and downloader utilities are made into different apps
· Added mouse rubber band to select annotations with CTRL/SHIFT modifiers
· Nico browser fixed. Able to visit nico anime channel from outside of Japan
· Added previous/next/browse actions for online video
· Upgraded to Qt 4.8.1 and VLC 2.0.1

· Show download progress in position slider
· Added annotation thread view
· Allow openning multiple windows from context menu
· Bug fix in streaming module

· Fixed a severe bug which could crash the app while downloading
· Option to disable context menu rendering
· Option to open multiple player windows on Windows in context menu
· Able to change video aspect ratio in context menu
· Specified aspect ratio will be saved for the movie

Main changes:
· When playing online video from AcFun/Bilibili
· parted videos are now merged on the fly
· Knowing issues with current implementation
· Seeking over downloaded frames is not allowed
· High CPU usage on Macbook Air
· Added network proxy
· Added proxy browser for nicovideo
· Able to play nico video from outside of Japan
· Added utilities menu
· Monitor clipboard for online media/annot URLs
· Added increase/decrease buttons to URL dialog
· Reimplemented video download and demux modules
· Removed dependencies on mp4v2 and gpac

Main changes:
· Added fast forward buttons
· Able to disable Aero effect in Windows Vista/7
· Automatically detect last language preference for subtitle/audio track
· Several bug fixes