Vividl Changelog

v.0.8.0 (2024-01)

• New: Allow specifying preferred video resolution in settings & fetch window.
• New: Support for editing video download names before download.
• New: Add notification log window & notifications button in status bar.
• New: Cache links of unfinished downloads between app restarts by default.
• New: Add "best audio-only download" to default download formats.
• New: Chinese translation.
• Updated: Rewrite of download format selection to better target yt-dlp.
• Updated: Remove invalid formats from download customization window; order by format preference.
• Updated: Japanese translation
• Fixed: Overwrite/ re-download handling for "Best direct download".
• Fixed: App crashed when exporting video links with unavailable videos.
• Fixed: Scrolling of settings window for larger text sizes.
• Fixed: Settings not correctly saved when closed via "Exit" menu or changed in different tab.
• Fixed: Video info parsing errors causing app crashes during fetching.

v.0.7.0 (2023-03)

• New: Add drag & drop support for importing URLs.
• New: Add GPU acceleration option for AMD (AMF) and Intel (QSV) GPUs.
• New: Japanese translation.
• Updated: Dutch, Spanish and Russian translation.
• Fixed: Various issues causing crashes with newer yt-dlp versions.
• Fixed: App crashes with "Best direct download" option.
• Fixed: Missing download progress bar for some downloads.
• Fixed: Issues with audio-only downloads in custom download window.
• Fixed: Remove unnecessary yt-dlp warnings.

v.0.7.1 (2023-04)

• Fixed: Crashes when importing videos from certain sites.
• Fixed: Crashes when attempting to play removed files.
• Updated: Japanese and Italian translation.

v.0.6.0 (2022-01)

• New: Smart Automation mode: Auto-import & download URLs from clipboard
• New: Add option for CUDA-supported FFmpeg conversion.
• New: Add thumbnails to mp3 conversion downloads (with "Add metadata to files" setting).
• New: Minor UI tweaks (e.g. in main menu & tool bar)
• New: Allow setting custom downloader arguments.
• Changed: Switch from youtube-dl to yt-dlp as default download engine (faster download speed).
• Fixed: Crash with invalid URLs in fetch window.

v.0.5.0 (2021-06)

• New: Customize download in "Configure Download" window
• New: Show download size and resolution in "Configure Download" window
• New: UI improvements: show video thumbnails; add settings to toolbar
• New: Add mode to re-download videos with new name
• New: Simple automatic update checking for youtube-dl
• New: Add command to reload all videos
• Changed: Put youtube-dl into AppData folder by default

v.0.5.1 (2021-06)

• Fixed: App crashes when adding videos via "Add New Videos" window

v.0.4.0 (2020-11)

• New: Italian, Hebrew, Polish, Welsh, Portuguese, Arabic, French, Dutch and Swedish translation
• Updated: Russian and Spanish translation

v.0.3.0 (2020-10)

• New: Extended window for adding video links.
• New: Basic authentication support.
• New: Added window showing youtube-dl download output.
• New: Download progress information in main UI.
• New: Minor improvements in UI and settings (e.g. proxy).
• New: Spanish translation

v.0.2.2 (2020-05)

• New: German and Russian translation.
• Fixed: Bug preventing app start for some locales.
• Fixed: FFmpeg warning messages during stream download.

v.0.2.1 (2020-03)

• New: Option to disable download checking.
• Fixed: Download failures of some download formats.

v.0.2.0 (2020-03)

• New: Use download archive.
• New: Remove all unavailable/ finished downloads.
• New: Minor UI improvements.
• Fixed: App crashes for videos from some websites (e.g. Vimeo).

v.0.1.1 (2020-01)

• Fixed: App crashes for failed fetches.
• Fixed: Saving of settings in portable version.
• Fixed: Tooltip labeling.

v.0.1.0 (2020-01)

• First released version