Hyper 8 Video System 0.22

Visitors can now quickly browse and search all collections and playlists on a Hyper 8 site, directly from the header!

Playlists are now also displayed as a contextual sidebar alongside their videos. The playlist can be toggled away, which is then also remembered throughout the session, so it stays out of your way if you want full attention only on the playing videos themselves.

When a video in a playlist finishes, your viewers can now directly jump to all other videos of the playlist, right from the player itself. This also makes playlist navigation in embedded videos possible. Also includes a newly introduced "replay" icon.

In the editor you now have visual cropping aids that assist with choosing the right poster images for videos, and correctly framing text inside them (safe margins).

This release adds groundwork and first integrations of LQIPs (low quality image previews), that is, computation of dominant colors from poster images to prepare extremely fast loading preview versions of thumbnails which are shown to visitors right until the actual thumbnails (wich themselves are also optimized for fast loading) are loaded. These LQIPs are now also prominently featured in an experimental layout element that hints at the videos in a parent container (collection or playlist) as small "bubbles".

This release adds a number of new shortcuts for accessing the new navigation system, as well as a new shortcut for muting/unmuting audio in the player. Additionally all shortcuts are now also made discoverable to visitors through a shortcut help panel that is accessible from the footer.

The logo icon that has been in use so far was merely a placeholder. This new design is now a candidate (on trial) for Hyper 8's first official logo icon design! Conceptually the logo is meant to have a fixed shape, but might adapt to different color schemes throughout different versions and places of use (that is, different gradients, different solid colors, etc.).

There is now a new --preview option for automatically opening the result of a --build command in the browser right after it completes, and Hyper 8 will now return error codes to your terminal when something goes wrong, helping you to build robust scripted workflows around Hyper 8.

Hyper 8 now separately tracks cache artifacts of different types (computed metadata, resized images, etc.), greatly reducing the need for recomputation during future updates to the architecture.

Thank you so much to netidee for funding the extensive work on this release! Many thanks as well to Wolfgang, Kristoffer and Dave for reporting some of the issues that were resolved in this release, it's greatly appreciated!