Feeds, subtitles and more – Hyper 8 0.19
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Hyper 8 0.19 is out
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and in this video I will
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show you all the most exciting new features
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First off visitors can now subscribe to
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updates from your site using not only
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one but for different types of feeds
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these include Atom, Plain RSS, Media RSS
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and Podcast RSS
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It's not only possible to subscribe to the site itself
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but visitors can also specifically subscribe to
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subcollections or playlists on your site
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The in-page video player on a Hyper 8 site
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previously used a strong overlay
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to be able to set off the
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resolution selector against the backdrop
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both in a dark and a light theme with
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the new release the player always uses
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a localized light on dark theme and that
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allows the poster frame of videos to
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always stand out in full brightness and contrast
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and additionally the controls of the video
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player have been given a bit more visual spacing
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The speed selector for videos
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has also gotten a bit of an update
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Asides looking a bit better
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you can now fully interact with it
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using your mouse wheel and also your keyboard
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Moving on to the graphical Hyper 8
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editor here we first have a new
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setup screen that features a better
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usability including more concise but also
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more helpful usage hints
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As a much larger change here we have the
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introduction of subpages for collections, playlists
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and videos so all of the form elements
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and all of the different
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functionality is now better grouped onto
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their respective pages and this will also
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be extended still with the upcoming versions
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Yeah and straight up making use of
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this feature is the new major addition
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of official subtitle support so it's now
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possible in the editor to upload subtitle
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files and to edit their label
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their language
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and also if you have like
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the occasional correction to make you can
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also jump right into the text content
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and edit the subtitle file itself
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And this feature of course also extends
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to the generated sites themselves where
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the new subtitles selector looks better, works
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better, does exactly what you would expect
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it to do
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And as a last concrete point the
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poster frame selector on the new poster
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image page you can go to the bottom
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and there's a widget which allows you
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to scrub through the video either using a
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random button or the timeline and when
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you find a frame that you like you can
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simply push the button and then this
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is your new poster frame
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Last but not least this release also includes a
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bunch of quite significant fixes for these
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a special shout-out to Christian, Kristoffer, Ian and Sam
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Thanks so much for the reports and
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for the test setups and everything
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Awesome
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And speaking of awesome, none or
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only very little of this work would
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have been possible without the awesome support
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from netidee, which is an austrian
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programme that supports open source development and
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also supports my work on Hyper 8 in 2025
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Thank you so much
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If you happen to reside also in
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austria and have a cool open source
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project in the making maybe check it
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out there is an upcoming deadline
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already by early july
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Thank you for watching this video
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Feel free to download Hyper 8 0.19
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Have fun, send me bugreports
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and stay tuned for version
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0.20 which i think will include
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built-in ftp deployment
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See you soon
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0.19 is now available at https://simonrepp.com/hyper8
See the changelog to learn about everything new in detail.