(It's still October somewhere.)
New Features
Controllers: Show setup support has become a real feature, with discovery, configuration upload, port maps, wiring diagrams, and so on. When coupled with the cloud service, you can see your entire show setup on your phone without being on your LAN, which is quite useful when out in the yard.
Viewer control and pages: While Remote Falcon will always be supported, EZPlayer's own (simplistic) viewer pages are now live. Both can be used simultaneously, each with its own schedules and playlists. EZPlayer ensures that duplicate picks don't get through, even if they arrive via different selection mechanisms. Viewer Activity history now has a detailed screen.
Audio overhaul: EZPlayer now manages separate volume schedules for multiple audio outputs. Audio is also sent to the cloud so you can hear the show on the web, or share with viewers via the viewer page.
Scheduling UI: drag-and-drop scheduling, schedule colors can be chosen, existing volume and viewer control schedules are now editable.
Now Playing: Playback details are more useful (and, optionally, more detailed).
Supportability and bugfixes: A new diagnostics screen was implemented, and several issues (mostly GPU compatibility) have been fixed.
Manual: Many sections have been added or improved. See the EZPlayer manual.
Community Growth
According to EZRGB, a double digit number of Halloween shows are using EZPlayer (that we can count; this is based on cloud registrations only and does not include stand-alone player usage), and a triple digit number of people have tried it out (again, based on cloud accounts with registered players).
We have been working on the integrations with Tune2 and PulseMesh for show audio. We have expanded our APIs and the developers of those products have indicated initial success with the integrations. We are also seeing integration support from Mattos Designs and Baldrick Buddy.
A signed MacOS download is now available.
What's Next
We are almost done working on the content sync feature. This will automatically distribute content to controllers with SD cards, if you like having the data sent in advance of the show.
We still have many controllers to support, and hope to add some of them through the month.
Redesign of the pixel output path, which supports brightness and HDMI output, is still under development.
New Features
Controllers: Show setup support has become a real feature, with discovery, configuration upload, port maps, wiring diagrams, and so on. When coupled with the cloud service, you can see your entire show setup on your phone without being on your LAN, which is quite useful when out in the yard.
Viewer control and pages: While Remote Falcon will always be supported, EZPlayer's own (simplistic) viewer pages are now live. Both can be used simultaneously, each with its own schedules and playlists. EZPlayer ensures that duplicate picks don't get through, even if they arrive via different selection mechanisms. Viewer Activity history now has a detailed screen.
Audio overhaul: EZPlayer now manages separate volume schedules for multiple audio outputs. Audio is also sent to the cloud so you can hear the show on the web, or share with viewers via the viewer page.
Scheduling UI: drag-and-drop scheduling, schedule colors can be chosen, existing volume and viewer control schedules are now editable.
Now Playing: Playback details are more useful (and, optionally, more detailed).
Supportability and bugfixes: A new diagnostics screen was implemented, and several issues (mostly GPU compatibility) have been fixed.
Manual: Many sections have been added or improved. See the EZPlayer manual.
Community Growth
According to EZRGB, a double digit number of Halloween shows are using EZPlayer (that we can count; this is based on cloud registrations only and does not include stand-alone player usage), and a triple digit number of people have tried it out (again, based on cloud accounts with registered players).
We have been working on the integrations with Tune2 and PulseMesh for show audio. We have expanded our APIs and the developers of those products have indicated initial success with the integrations. We are also seeing integration support from Mattos Designs and Baldrick Buddy.
A signed MacOS download is now available.
What's Next
We are almost done working on the content sync feature. This will automatically distribute content to controllers with SD cards, if you like having the data sent in advance of the show.
We still have many controllers to support, and hope to add some of them through the month.
Redesign of the pixel output path, which supports brightness and HDMI output, is still under development.