Block & Image Video Player

v6.36.0 (since v6.32.1)

The project is now called Block & Image Video Player: besides videos made of real blocks, the free converter can make image mode add-ons (smooth textures, see below). Needs Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.10 or newer (same as before).

New

• Help for first-time players. When you join a world that has no screen yet, a short message tells you once what to do: face where you want the screen, run /badapple:setup wall, then /badapple:start. Open the remote with /badapple:remote or a compass.
• Tips after setup. A screen laid on the floor tells you to look down at it from above (or use setup wall); a 3D figure tells you to step back a few blocks.
• Sound for players who join late. Someone who joins while a video is playing now hears the sound too.
• Several options at once: /badapple:setup wall align and /badapple:setup face align now work (before, the second word was a syntax error).
• Lighter playback: when the colour set changes inside a video, blocks that stay the same are no longer placed again (about 22% fewer blocks placed at 512×512 in a simulated test; little change on small screens).

Fixed

• Running /badapple:setup again stops the old playback and clears the old screen (back to air), even when you set up far away from it.
• The remote shows the volume as "100%" again (the % sign was missing).
• Switching videos no longer leaves blocks of the previous video behind, even after stop.
• Seeking after stop or pause now always draws the right picture.
• After reopening the world, stop, seek and volume work again, and the chosen video and volume are kept.
• Volume no longer resets to 100% when you change the video.
• Falling behind: on a slow device the video now skips ahead to stay on time instead of running later and later.
• Large screens: if part of the screen is in chunks that are not loaded, the rest is still drawn correctly. A screen too tall for the world is not placed; you get a message with what to do instead.

Updating from an older version

• Import the new .mcaddon over the old one, then run /badapple:setup once in your world.
• The showcase videos are the same as before.

Known issue

• Video IDs don't appear as suggestions after /badapple:play (seems to be a Minecraft limitation). Use /badapple:list to see them.

For your own videos (free converter)

• Image mode (new): the Windows app can also make an add-on that plays the video as a texture on a thin panel: smooth up to 30 fps and up to 512×288 pixels, with the same remote (a clock), volume, setup wall / face / align, seek and 10 languages. Long videos don't fit in the game's texture memory, so you choose what to keep: picture quality (lower fps), smoothness (smaller picture) or length. You can put block mode and image mode in one .mcaddon. Tested on PC only so far.
• The web converter can make add-ons for older Minecraft (1.21.80 to 1.26.0): pick it under Minecraft version. Those add-ons need cheats on and use /scriptevent commands.
• Smaller add-ons from the Windows app: the sound is now stored at the same quality as the web converter's.

Full details: CHANGELOG