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TubeHaus 1.6.1: a new player and tidier lists, and videos made for kids play again. Pick your file:
- macOS: mpv is inside the app now, nothing else to install. The first time, right-click the app → Open.
- iPad / iPhone needs Sideloadly (Windows or Mac): connect the iPad with a cable, drop the .ipa into Sideloadly, sign in with your Apple ID and press Start. Then on the iPad: Settings → General → VPN & Device Management → trust your Apple ID, and turn on Settings → Privacy & Security → Developer Mode if asked. With a free Apple ID the app must be re-signed every 7 days.
- Apple TV needs atvloadly (Windows, Mac or Linux/Docker), no Mac or cable: on the Apple TV open Settings → Remotes and Devices → Remote App and Devices, pair it in atvloadly, add the .ipa, sign in with your Apple ID and install. atvloadly re-signs it before the 7 days run out. Sideloadly or Xcode work too. This is a first version, tested only in the Apple TV simulator so far: reports are very welcome.
- Linux needs libmpv:
sudo apt install libmpv2(Debian/Ubuntu) orsudo dnf install mpv-libs(Fedora). - Installs over the previous version and keeps your library. The app offers the update itself; Android also works with Obtainium.
What's new
- Videos made for kids play again (#76), and some labels' music videos that said "This video is not available". The apps (Android, iPad) open them through YouTube's TV client; they take a few seconds longer to start. Not yet on the PC apps.
- A new player on phones and tablets: round play button that squeezes under the finger, previous and next as plain icons, the time in a small pill (tap it for the time left), darker edges instead of a dark veil. Swipe sideways over the video to seek; brightness and volume show as a bar on the side away from your thumb; pinch to zoom in full screen.
- "Up next" countdown when a video ends, with Cancel and Play now; the next video is fetched while the countdown runs, and a video starts loading the moment your finger rests on it.
- Floating mini player, rounded and a little above the tabs, for videos and music.
- Music: swipe the cover to the next or last song (the next cover slides in with your finger); the line being sung under the song in the mini player; lyrics around the current line softly blurred; songs keep playing when you go to the Home screen (no black picture-in-picture window any more).
- Grouped lists: Settings, Library, the player's settings and the description's numbers are grouped rows with small gaps, section names in the accent colour.
- Home and search: one row of chips on Home, a round search field, plain video cards in search results, channels with their picture at the start.
- Back closes comments, the transcript and the lyrics panel first.
- Recommendations also learn from words in titles, what you watch at this time of day and week, channels that keep showing up beside yours, and your searches; at most three of one topic near the top.
- Vibration on gestures, skips and likes (Settings → Vibration).
- Watch history graph in the recap: the bars stand on the bottom line again.
Server: v1.6.1.