BSplayer Pro -> Version History

This is the version history page for BSplayer Pro, showing the last 20 software updates. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here.

Index:

• Version 2.67 (Apr 25, 2014)
• Version 2.57 (Nov 30, 2010)
• Version 2.55 (Jul 23, 2010)
• Version 2.51 (Dec 25, 2009)
• Version 2.50 (Oct 23, 2009)
• Version 2.43 (Jul 22, 2009)
• Version 2.42 (Jul 13, 2009)
• Version 2.41 (Jun 4, 2009)
• Version 2.40 (Apr 15, 2009)
• Version 2.36 (Mar 13, 2009)
• Version 2.35 (Feb 20, 2009)
• Version 2.34 (Dec 16, 2008)
• Version 2.33 (Nov 14, 2008)
• Version 2.32.975 (Oct 14, 2008)
• Version 2.30.968 (Aug 12, 2008)
• Version 2.28 (Apr 30, 2008)
• Version 2.27 (Mar 4, 2008)
• Version 2.26 (Dec 25, 2007)
• Version 2.25.955 (Nov 14, 2007)
• Version 2.24 (Sep 22, 2007)

• Release Date: Apr 25, 2014
• • added option to blank all screens except playback 
  • added menu item for online subtitles rating 
  • some other bug fixes

• Release Date: Nov 30, 2010
• ADDED
  • new osd mode
  • option to set subtitles off by default, subtitles are still loaded but not shown
  • option to ignore SSA styles
  • option to set background color for full screen mode
  • support for some Windows 7 features
• FIXED
  • unicode file names were in some cases displayed with short name
  • fixed wrong language checking with online subtitles
  • with online subtitles only default language will now be requested
  • fixed always on top bug when returning from full screen mode when sepearate taskbar buttons were enabled
  • text inside {} in SSA subtitles will now be ignored
  • changed/fixed mkv default audio stream handling
  • all online subtitle providers will now be checked at the same time in separate threads

• Release Date: Jul 23, 2010
• FIXES:
  • with some files there was no audio
  • rared subtitles will now be loaded only if subtitle file name is the same as movie name
  • problem with playlist and moving items
  • if mouse button was set for some actions it didn't work
  • problem with 'Always add all files in current directory to playlist' option when 'Sort files' was enabled
  • sometimes DXVA was not used with EVR renderer
  • some other bug fixes
• ADDED:
  • added subtitle upload support for opensubtitles.org and getsubtitles.com
  • subtitles background color alpha can now be set BS.Player

• Release Date: Dec 25, 2009
• FIXES:
  • fixed problem with subtitles embedded in mkv files with new parser/renderer
  • EVR aspect ratio fixes
  • fixed problem with EVR in full screen mode, some areas was not completely black
  • under Vista and Windows 7 some decoders couldn't be added in 'Filter management', fixed
  • local codec system fixes (codec reinstall required)
  • fixed problem with power savings options (monitor powering down) on laptop computers
  • some other minor bug fixes
• ADDITIONS:
  • added option to disable embedded subtitles
  • custom extension can now be added in Vista and Windows 7 (UAC prompt will be displayed)
  • added second online subtitle provider getsubtitle.com

• Release Date: Oct 23, 2009
• IMPROVEMENTS:
  • EVR aspect ratio fixes
  • fixed subtitle positioning with new subtitle parser/renderer
  • fixed playback of YouTube videos
  • some Media Library (ML) fixes
  • fixed output audio device setting which was not saved in some circumstances
  • subtitles can be now placed under the video using EVR renderer in Vista. Check option 'Enable drawing subtitles under image with EVR renderer' in Subtitles preferences.
• ADDITIONS:
  • option to display playback time in milliseconds. Check option 'Show media time in milliseconds' in General preferences.
  • option to select mutiple languages for online subtitles, if subtitle for the first language is not found, second language is used and then third etc...
  • additional actions when playback is finished: shutdown, hibernate, reboot, close BS.Player
  • added support for UTF-8 language files, also BS.Player User Interface (UI) is now more Unicode compatible, meaning it can display cyrillic, chinese, japanese, hebrew and other non-latin characters
  • 'Remember movie settings' option will now also remember full screen/windowed mode, also if 'Remember last movie position' in not selected, 'Remember movie settings' will not remember position of videos.
  • Display of total time and time of selected media files in PlayList (PL)

• Release Date: Jul 22, 2009
• FIXES:
  • incorrect playback of some media files on some system configurations
  • advanced filter properties crash
  • some other bug fixes in changes
• ADDITIONS:
  • skinning: new actions to open ML in specified section

• Release Date: Jul 13, 2009
• Added:
  • option for load of external audio file
  • option to choose playback seek behavior
  • full support for local install of codecs on Windows 7 OS
• Improved:
  • mouse cursor was hidden when subtitle download dialog was shown in full screen mode
  • right clicking on video window on secondary display would show menu on primary display
  • if action is assigned to right mouse button, menu would not be displayed anymore

• Release Date: Jun 4, 2009
• Added:
  • new subtitle parser/renderer, with improved support for more features of SSA/ASS (Advanced Sub Station Alpha) subtitles, most HTML tags are now supported (still under development, to enable it go to Preferences>Subtitles>Use new subtitle renderer)
  • added shortcut (Q) for 'Enqueue selection' in ML
• Improved:
  • playback of YouTube streams, fixed
  • changed playback seek behaviour for all multimedia files and streams (playback will continue only after the mouse button is released)
  • problems with some Vorbis radio streams, fixed
  • ML > 'Remove non-existant entries' would also remove web radios, fixed
  • if audio file with the same name as video is present it will be automatically loaded
  • problem with cycle audio stream option in AVI files, fixed
  • double clicking one the same file second time didn't reopen it, fixed

• Release Date: Apr 15, 2009
• Additions:
  • added option to specify minimum movie duration for downloading subtitles
  • downloaded subtitles are now cached
  • added option to only re-enable Aero when player is closed (Windows 7)
  • added support for MPL2 subtitle format
• Improvements:
  • subtitles will now be saved with correct decimal separator
  • audio stream cycling didn't work with some mkv files
  • sometimes Auto 'Pan scan' wasn't properly remembered
  • fixed problem when local subtitles were available, but player still asked for download
  • fixed title display problem with some radio stations
  • fixed freezing problem with some RAR files
  • fixed problem with not remembering color controls settings under Vista
  • in some cases file couldn't be opened again, when it was automatically added to playlist
  • in some cases when displaying Preferences while in full-screen mode cursor did not auto-hide

• Release Date: Mar 13, 2009
• Improvements:
  • improved compatibility with Windows 7
  • fixed problem when system installed FFDshow was uninstalled
  • fixed problem with command line arguments
  • Improved BS.ControlBar and BSplayer-search.com powered by Google
• Additions:
  • added support for automatic subtitles (file detection and automatic subtitle download) in any language

• Release Date: Feb 20, 2009
• NEW FUNCTIONALITY:
  • added A-B repeat playback mode, BS.Player will loop marked section from A to B indefinitely until play mode is changed, default shortcut key is "R"
  • media files in RAR archives along with subtitles and other files will now be properly detected and played, also subtitles in those archives will now be automatically loaded
  • added possibility to assign multimedia keys to every action
  • improved ID3 tag editor in Media Library including display of embedded lyrics in mp3 files
  • BS.Player will now ask if you want to continue playing from last position if 'Remember movie position' option is enabled
  • support for high quality YouTube videos (only in PRO version). BS.Player PRO will try to play YouTube stream in following order of availability: HD, High quality and Normal quality. BS.Player 2.35 has full functionality as YouTube player and as YouTube downloader, for any YouTube content.
  • Embedded pictures in mp3 audio files will be displayed in Media Library in window BS.Info and can be displayed with double click on a image.
• IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Explorer context menus (Open, Enqueue...) can now be disabled from Preferences>File types
  • all files specified at command line will now be played and not just the first one
  • added default shortcuts for increase/ decrease font size "Ctrl + Num+" and "Ctrl + Num-"
  • 'play' action will now reset playback rate to normal
• FIXES:
  • fixed Vobsub positioning problem
  • fixed crash when DEP was enabled under XP SP2+ and Vista
  • sometimes added file extension was ignored in 'Open directory' function
  • problem with frame capture file name format, random id was used if there was no '%A'
  • 'Extend picture to' option, sometimes wrong aspect ratio was used
  • sometimes files that were drag&dropped to BS.Player were added twice
  • some other minor bug fixes and changes

• Release Date: Dec 16, 2008
• ADDED:
  • added support for global multimedia keys (active even when BS.Player window is not active)
  • added proxy settings to codec manager (found in Codec manager>Proxy configuration)
  • added support for HD YouTube videos (only in PRO)
• FIXED:
  • aspect ratio problem with EVR renderer
  • custom subtitle position with EVR renderer
  • movie settings (position) were not remembered in some cases, fixed
  • in some cases chapters were not properly detected in MKV files, fixed
  • problem with ML on secondary monitors
• IMPROVED:
  • Youtube playback, also it's now possible to seek within stream
  • radio refresh speed in ML
  • key definitions set for windowed mode are now automatically assigned to full screen mode

• Release Date: Nov 14, 2008
• Christmas is right around the corner, so it's time to start getting ready for the holidays!
  
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• Release Date: Oct 14, 2008
• sometimes added file extension was ignored in ML, fixed
• sometimes codec download was required even if codec was already installed globally, fixed
• TV, Radio buttons, did not open right section in ML, fixed
• fixed incorrect mms stream playback
• added support for http authentication, for shoutcast and icecast streams
• mp3/ogg streams can now be played directly from http, without downloading them first
• '-hide' command line option now works also if first parameter is not specified
• some other bug fixes and changes

• Release Date: Aug 12, 2008
• + added codec manager to automatically find and install missing codecs
• + added option to enqueue files by default
• * preferences window will now be always on top
• * redesigned Media Library
• - fixed potential crash when parsing avi indexes
• - improved audio streaming support
• - improved startup time
• - fixed broken manual subtitle time correction
• - capture frame to JPG format didn't work with VMR and EVR renderer (BMP was used instead), fixed
• - fixed some problems with CD audio playback, CD TEXT and CDDB
• - a lot of other fixes and changes

• Release Date: Apr 30, 2008
• two subtitles can now be displayed simultaneously
• added option to seek to nearest keyframe (for AVI and MKV files)
• added native support for APE file format (Monkey's Audio)
• added native support for FLAC file format
• some ML and PL improvements
• DVD subtitles under VISTA with EVR didn't work, fixed
• fixed problems with some rar archives (when file name was NAME.partNNN.rar), it will now be played properly
• fixed problem with EVR renderer on Vista, when Aero was disabled picture was not filtered (pixelated)
• on Windows Vista after Preferences window was closed all custom programs returned to default (Web browser, e-mail client...), fixed
• fixed crash when opening old-style playlist if Media library was opened
• some types of embedded ASS subtitles were not properly detected, fixed

• Release Date: Mar 4, 2008
• sometimes BS.Player would hang trying to load invalid or corrupted subtitles, fixed,
• when 'Always on top' option was active, main window would be shown after full screen skin was hidden, fixed,
• fixed broken subtitles support in FREE version with EVR renderer under VISTA operating system, and other minor EVR renderer improvements
• fixed problem with frame capture when format string didn't include %A,
• fixed problem with cut subtitles,
• fixed problem with 'old style' playlist,
• video window position won't be reset anymore if left outside display margin (except if entire video window is outside visible display),
• recent items (history) won't be deleted any more after installing new version,
• some media library fixes,
• added menu items for repeat modes (Playback>Playback mode),
• added option to set how many recent items (history) to keep in list,
• and some other minor fixes.

• Release Date: Dec 25, 2007
• fixed improperly functional CD-TEXT support
• fixed problems with 'Enqueue', after enqueue playlist was reset to first item
• sometimes media library didn't add custom extensions, fixed
• Matroska files (MKV) can now also be played from uncompressed rar archives
• improved Vista and EVR support
• some other bug fixes and changes

• Release Date: Nov 14, 2007
• fixed resize bug
• double rared Vobsubs will now be loaded when playing content from rar files
• player will now automatically unrar multimedia content from compressed rar files and play it
• automatic checking for new version of BS.Player at program startup (can be disabled by user)
• some minor tweaks

• Release Date: Sep 22, 2007
• Screen saver and low power modes will now be properly disabled under Windows Vista
• Fixed problem with subtitles being cut off, when 'Resize OSD and subtitle font automatically' option was enabled
• Fixed crash with full screen skin when 'Close file when ‘Stop’ button is pressed' option was enabled and 'Stop' button was clicked