ShaneIsrael/fireshare v1.5.0

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1.5.0 Brings a completely redesigned user interface, a brand new video player, new categorization features, and a bunch of new feature changes! This is fireshare’s biggest update yet!

New Features

• Complete Visual Overhaul: The app has gotten a brand new redesign, with a brand new video card, video modal for previewing videos, share page, and a lot more. This has been in the works for a few months now, we now have a set design language for this app, and really can’t wait to see what you think of it. An especially big thank you to @dammitjeff who lent his UX/UI design expertise on this project.
• Mobile Redesign: The mobile experience has also been completely re-done, and is now optimized for much smaller screens, with live preview thumbnails, full screen previews, and way more efficient loading.
• Folder-based Auto Tagging!: You can now link games to folders! You can configure this in your settings tab. Assign a game to your folders once, and Fireshare will auto tags all existing and new clips in that folder. moving forward ! You can also edit or remove folder links anytime if something looks off.
• New Update Notifications: We got a new system now that will notify you if there’s a new update for the app, it’s unobtrusive and once you dismiss it, it won’t come back until the next release.
• Manual Transcoding: You can now manually transcode a single video by clicking on the three dots and hitting "Transcode". Note that Transcoding must be enabled in your docker compose to use this!
• Arrow Key Navigation in Video Modal: A longstanding request. :)

UI & UX Improvements

• New Video Player: The built in video player has been updated to VideoJS10, which comes with more efficient playback, better scaling for wonky aspect ratios, and a much cleaner look that reflects the visual language we wanted for Fireshare.
• Added new transcoding progress bar to track ongoing transcoding tasks
• Better Loading States: Replaced thumbnail placeholder animation with a skeleton shimmer and fade-in.
• Improved Folder Size Calculation
• Improved support for games with missing/no assets on SteamGridDB

Performance & System Improvements

• Server-Sent Events for Transcoding Status
  • Replaced polling with real-time server updates for transcoding progress.
• Improved Scanning & Transcoding Reliability
• Smarter Buffer Handling
  • Automatic retry on playback errors
  • Lower quality fallback if buffering occurs.
• Improved Source Handling
  • Fixed source ordering
  • Improved source indexing and loading
  • Adjusted source switching logic to avoid unnecessary source removal.
• Buffer Monitoring
  • Added a buffer count window to help detect playback issues.

Fixes

• Fixed filenames showing underscores instead of spaces.
• Fixed /api/folder-size returning the wrong folder size.
• Fixed transcoding status layout issues for short filenames.
• Fixed quality change triggering unnecessary buffering fallback.
• Fixed missing video stream handling during metadata sync.
• Made chown errors in entrypoint.sh non-fatal.
• Fixed Gunicorn PUID/PGID inheritance issue.
• Disabled Safari iOS zoom when focusing input fields.
• Replaced thumbnail placeholder animation with a skeleton shimmer and fade-in.
• Improved reliability of scanning and transcoding status updates.
• Disabled Safari iOS zoom when focusing input fields.

🧹 Maintenance & Developer Improvements

• Improved local development setup (CORS proxy, better run_local.sh, optional LDAP).
• Moved certain imports to the global context.
• Simplified and cleaned up the README.
• Updated documentation to reflect the new transcoding system.
• Added og:description meta tag for better link previews.

Full Changelog: v1.4.2...v1.5.0