Changelog

1.4.0

Added

• Minecraft 1.21.11 support
• High-quality YouTube playback, now built into WATERMeDIA natively through yt-dlp — no separate extension mod is required anymore.
• More platform sources out of the box via the same native yt-dlp integration: Facebook, Instagram, Newgrounds, SoundCloud.
• Automatic upload-resolution cap: video frames are never uploaded larger than the game window, so a 4K video on a 1080p display no longer wastes VRAM or bandwidth.
• debugLogging option in conditionalvideos-common.json for detailed diagnostics (client-only, default off).
• Hold-to-skip-the-playlist gesture with a progress bar. Tap the skip key to skip the current video, or hold it to fill a bar and skip the whole playlist; a single-video tap shows no bar. A "release to skip the playlist" message appears once the bar is full.

Changed

• Updated WATERMeDIA stack:
  • API 3.0.0.17 → 3.0.0.21
  • Native Binaries rc.1 → rc.4 (FFmpeg 8.0.1; now also provisions the bundled yt-dlp / botguard binaries)
  • The old optional Platform Extension is gone — YouTube and the extra platforms were merged into WATERMeDIA itself, so only the Multimedia API and Native Binaries are needed.
• Inherited several WATERMeDIA playback improvements: AV1 software decode when the GPU can't, AMD (AMF) hardware decoding, tighter A/V sync, correct audio after pause/underrun, and fewer torn frames under load.

Fixed

• The whole-playlist skip now happens on key release. Releasing the skip key after the hold completes skips the playlist; releasing early no longer skips anything and the current video keeps playing.
• The skip hint is no longer shown for skippable = false videos.
• Local videos now play on their first attempt after each launch.
• Hardened player startup with a dedicated retry-grace counter for player-creation failures, instead of relying solely on the screen-level timeout.
• Unresolvable URLs (e.g. a deleted/unavailable YouTube video) no longer storm the extractor. A failing source was retried about once a second for 30 seconds; with the yt-dlp extractor each retry spawns a process, which starved the CPU and could freeze a currently-playing video (image stuck, audio continuing) and hang the next entry on a long loading screen. Failed sources are now retried a few times with backoff, then logged as invalid/unavailable and skipped to the next entry (or playback closes if it was the only/last one). A next entry that already failed while preloading is skipped at once instead of waiting.