Dream Displays

Highlights

• Custom media support: paste a direct link, or file-host (Google Drive, Dropbox, imgur, etc.) share link, and play it on a display
• Full Twitch, Vimeo, Kick, and Bilibili support
• NeoForge server support, including single-player
• New Fullscreen and Borderless display modes, with a new /display fullscreen command for events and presentations
• Proxy support: Bungeecord & Velocity for all popular server software
• 3D acoustics for displays: occlusion, air absorption, and raytraced room reverb
• Audio track selector: select your language right in the display menu!
• Filter button: filter out unwanted suggestions
• New /display schedule and /display name commands
• Full LuckPerms support on Fabric / NeoForge servers
• Added YouTube chapter markers
• Improved Dream Displays wiki
• Various other fixes and improvements

Client

Features

• NeoForge server support (including single-player) (#95)
• Full Twitch support
• New Borderless and Fullscreen display modes, with a new /display fullscreen command for events and presentations (#135)
• Added custom video support and file-host share link support (Google Drive, Dropbox, imgur, etc.) — paste a direct link to any video and play it on a display (server must be 1.9.0 or higher)
• Added Twitch, Kick, Vimeo, and Bilibili support (#129, #129, #173)
• Added 3D acoustics for displays: sound is muffled by walls (occlusion), loses highs over distance (air absorption), and picks up room / cave reverberation raytraced from nearby blocks and their material; e.g., stone reflects, wool absorbs (#147)
• Added an audio track selector, so you can pick your language right in the display menu (#149)
• Added /display schedule command to schedule a video to play at a specific time
• Added /display name command (#151)
• Changed some display commands syntax: now you can choose the display by its ID or by looking at it and typing "this"
• Added support for saving and restoring the last known playback position everywhere, and each display's custom render distance across game restarts
• Added distance-based quality: a display now steps its video quality down as you move away from it (one step at 66% of its render distance, two steps at 75%)
• Added YouTube chapter markers
• Added a filter button
• Added click sounds when clicking buttons in the display menu
• Gray-out only seekbar and near buttons when the display isn't ready yet, instead of the whole menu
• Added Crowdin integration (#141)
• Brought back NeoForge 1.21.11 releases to the corporate ad dispenser

Improvements

• Improved displays performance (#131)
• Reduced native decode-path overhead on every frame, for smoother in-process playback
• Increased stall watchdog threshold from 30 to 45 seconds to avoid false positives on slow networks
• Added scrubbing preview on the seek bar (frame preview on hover)
• Repeat all videos for all platforms on every playback mode (server must be 1.9.0 or higher)
• Renamed the Synchronization setting to Playback mode and its tooltip now briefly explains each mode (Local, Synced, Broadcast)
• Default video quality is now 1080p instead of 720p, falling back to the closest available lower quality when 1080p isn't offered
• Raised the Broadcast quality cap from 360p to 720p
• The quality performance warning in the display menu now only appears above 1080p instead of at 1080p and up
• Enhanced UI components (#148)
• Now recommendations are endlessly scrolling
• Enhanced ambient grid (#136)
• All sliders now have snap behavior and fixed subdivisions for better precision
• Improved popout context menu positioning
• Improved scrollbars: now you can drag them
• Retry on "Not all references are available" error instead of fatal erroring
• Removed the greyed-out buttons state while a display isn't ready yet
• Added an author's avatar and a verified badge next to their name
• Enhanced cursor handling for 1.21.11
• Improved Gradle build system, so it looks less like a frankenstein (#150)
• Improved platform resources structure
• Codebase improvements: more Kotlin analogues instead of Java imports, optimized imports
• Improved KDoc documentation in the codebase
• Improved wiki

Fixes

• Fixed video sometimes freezing indefinitely
• Fixed a Synced / Broadcast display sometimes getting stuck on "Waiting for video..." forever (#138)
• Fixed "Unrecoverable stream failure" error when using Iris shaders (#146)
• Fixed live resume, live quality switches, and stall recovery blocking every other play / pause / seek / etc. action on the display for the whole network re-resolve
• Fixed some videos getting a permanently broken stream (403 Forbidden) instead of falling back to a working one
• Fixed retries being silently unlimited when a resolved stream failed to open right away
• Fixed the background quality refresher endlessly restarting a live stream when the closest available rendition didn't exactly match the requested quality
• Fixed video getting stuck when seeking right after changing quality (#121)
• Fixed a failed quality switch permanently blocking re-selecting that same quality
• Loop Local displays on instead of freezing
• Fixed disappearing suggestions in some cases after a stutter / lag spike, requiring a seek to unstick it
• Fixed disappearing video preview when pausing and returning to the menu
• Fixed restoring display snapshots from prior sessions
• Fixed a display first sighted outside the client's render distance staying invisible until the server's next periodic broadcast
• Fixed a stale pre-seek frame occasionally slipping through and briefly rewinding the picture right after a seek
• Fixed the reappearance bridge occasionally playing audio from just before a seek instead of the resumed position
• Fixed occasional stutter and dropped opening frames right after opening or seeking a video, caused by a leftover FFmpeg buffering flag
• Fixed the warm-park pool TTL being too short
• Fixed the display menu's video preview being fit to the display's own block shape instead of the video's aspect ratio
• Fixed audio diagnostics from a just-ended session occasionally being spliced into the next one's error report
• Suppressed repeat media errors for 15 s after retry

Server

Features

• Support Bungeecord and Velocity
• NeoForge server support (#95)
• New command: /display fullscreen for events and presentations (#135)
• Full LuckPerms support on Fabric / NeoForge servers (#128)
• Added a [custom_media] config section and a dreamdisplays.custom permission to control whether players may play their own links (Vimeo, Kick, and direct files), with optional per-host allow / blocklists
• /display video now accepts any supported link, not only YouTube URLs
• Added max_displays_per_player config limit and wired up the create_bypass permission and fullscreen.quality_cap setting
• Added explosion protection for Fabric and NeoForge servers

Improvements

• Reduced per-player memory overhead on long-running servers with many unique joins
• Dream Displays security improvements
• Added a storage.use_ssl option in config.toml to enable TLS on the MySQL connection (was hardcoded off)
• Repeat all videos for all platforms on every playback mode (#127)
• Fabric / NeoForge server display deletion now notifies nearby clients itself, matching Paper, so a future caller can't forget to broadcast
• /display delete is now available to everyone for their own displays
• Added hover and preview fade effects, plus a ghost handle, to the seekbar
• More modularization and cleanup, more Kotlin analogues instead of Java imports, optimized imports
• Improved KDoc documentation in the codebase
• Improved wiki

Fixes

• Fixed display areas not being protected from enderman pickup, wither / silverfish breaking blocks, fire, and self-exploding blocks (beds, respawn anchors)
• Fixed some display commands being accepted from a player who isn't actually near the display
• Fixed a forced-locked Broadcast display being switchable back to another mode
• Fixed a reported video duration being trusted from any player anywhere on the server
• Fixed the Picture-in-Picture pin packet being able to flood the server with disk writes
• Now fullscreen command flags are fixed to stop command-tree blowup on join (#164)
• Fixed displays removed by the startup material-validation sweep not telling online players to forget them, leaving ghost displays until reconnect
• Fixed deleted displays leaking their legacy v1 sync state, which kept being carried by the periodic broadcast
• Fixed the staggered display list send to a joining player not stopping when the player disconnected mid-send