jeanslack/Videomass v5.0.12

Videomass 5.0.12

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What's New in This Release

• Ability to edit command arguments "on-the-fly" in the queue dialog.
• [A/V Conversions] Added opus output format option to Audio Target Media.
• [File drop List] Added context menu by right mouse clicking.
• [YouTube Downloader] Added proxy setup #246.
• [YouTube Downloader] Added authentication + Video password setup.
• [YouTube Downloader] Now it has its own setup dialog, a new convenient window for YouTube Downloader options.
• Most options in the preferences dialogs no longer require restarting the application, except for toggling yt_dlp, application language, and look-and-feel options.
• [YouTube Downloader] Added Geo-restriction options. This feature geo verification proxy, geo bypass, geo bypass country, geo bypass ip block.
• [YouTube Downloader] Added cookies options and some convenient automations about cookies.
• [YouTube Downloader] Login passwords and video password will not be stored anywhere. The user will be forced to re-enter his credentials every time he restarts the application.
• [FFprobe] Added "UnicodeDecodeError" to the exceptions list in the ffprobe module to ensure that files that cannot be encoded with utf-8 unicode are handled by the application.
• Added the ability to change the encoding for files that contain metadata with non-UTF-8 encoded characters. The function is found in the Preferences dialog (Advanced tab).
• [YouTube Downloader] Added ability to use the yt-dlp executable only for download not for get format code and statistics. This feature would allow you to interrupt the process from any point of the download #300 .
• [YouTube Downloader] Added Medium High precompiled video and Medium Low precompiled vieo.
• [YouTube Downloader] Added the ability to run/rerun downloads directly in the Downloader Message Monitoring panel.

Improvements

• Improved description strings on menu bar.
• [Presets Manager] Improved profile settings dialog layout.
• Made some cosmetic improvements.
• [Presets Manager] Improved dialog layout when warning about supported formats.
• Added destination path display for any confirmation dialog before running batch processes.
• Improved closing of ffmpeg by clicking the stop button to close FFmpeg gracefully programmatically by writing "q" to the subprocess's stdin pipe simulating the user pressing the "q" key.
• Improved the pop-up dialog box for temporary messages.

Other changes

• Text on toolbar buttons will now always be shown below their respective icons.
• Show log messages window is been moved to menu bar -> Help.
• Removed "Clear" icon on the toolbars because it was obsolete. Now to remove items there are keyboard shortcuts, options in the Edit menus plus mouse right-click context menus.
• Preferences dialog has been moved to the Edit menu.
• Removed menu for setting destination folders and restoring default destination folder.
• Changing the destination folders in the file list and URL list panels will now make the destination paths the new default paths without the need to open preferences dialog.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2]" traceback at the end of the process, raised if the "Trash the source files" checkbox had been checked to delete the same file more than once.
• [Presets Manager] Fixed bug in supported formats check. If the warning about supported formats was triggered, the program silently prevented the conversion processes from starting.
• Fixed errors and inconsistencies on initialize trash directory path name.
• [YouTube Downloader] Fixed Best precompiled video issue to truly get the best precompiled video.
• [YouTube Downloader] Fixed Worst precompiled video issue to truly get the worst precompiled video.
• [YouTube Downloader] Fixed option mapping issue to pass to YdlExtractInfo thread to get data for format code and Statistics.