Changelog

Version 4.17
Released January 24, 2023
• Bugfix: video detection on web-site netu.tv/netu.io

Version 4.16
Released December 22, 2022
• Native app installer now contains both 32- and 64-bit versions of video converter
• Added separate location for private downloads in the settings
• YouTube: added drop-down for containers and ability to preselect best quality
• YouTube: added ability to download audio only
• Added support of previous per-browser downloads
• Bugfix: Vimeo: some videos are downloaded with the same quality, no matter what is selected in Quick Select
• Bugfix: MPEG-DASH, Vimeo, YouTube Now Playing: audio stream is not preselected when Pre-select best quality setting is turned off
• Various small UI fixes

Version 4.15
Released September 8, 2022
• MPEG-DASH protocol: enhanced video detection and download
• HLS protocol: support of byte-ranged videos is temporary turned off
• Scoring protocol: updated rules
• UI: Video list: update items style in dark theme
• Installer: FFmpeg updated to the latest version
• Bugfix: video download freezes after clicking on Download button
• Bugfix: scoring setting to check non-media content types works incorrectly
• Bugfix: scoring settings to not detect videos for which server provided 0 bytes size works incorrectly
• Bugfix: when video detection is turned off and browser restarted, the extension continues to detect videos on some websites
• Bugfix: when Native app is installed, scoring videos are prompted to download with the browser, instead of Native app

Version 4.14
Released July 29, 2022
• Deep memory and storage optimizations — detected videos are no longer stored in browser's storage
• Refactored UI, made more compact and fast
• Mozilla Firefox: implemented requirements of Mozilla Add-on Policies — added settings section Privacy, Native app is disabled by default, downloaded videos are not stored in the Private Browsing mode
• Page ALL VIDEOS renamed back to DOWNLOADS
• New settings for UI, MPD, Scoring
• New feature: mute/unmute video detection on tab
• New feature: enable/disable video detection and separate protocols
• New feature: Show properties on downloaded video file
• New feature: Move to Recycle bin the downloaded file

Version 4.11, 4.12, 4.13
Released Dec 23, 2021 — Jan 17, 2022
• Detected videos are not displayed by default on ALL VIDEOS page
• Added Clear list button, added individual remove from list buttons
• Added new settings, added new feature Wipe out & reset add-on
• Misc UI fixes, updated icons
• Created developer version of AVD for Opera and published on www.ant.com while release version awaits moderation on addons.opera.com

Version 4.10
Released Dec 20, 2021
• New YouTube protocol. Ability to download videos without Native app, ability to convert videos to MP3 format
• The existing YouTube protocol is now called YouTube Now Playing (YTNP)
• New experimental MPEG-DASH (MPD) protocol (may not download some videos)
• Settings feature
• New UI (popup made compact, new internal pages)
• Numerous bugfixes, scoring rules updated

Version 4.9
Released Feb 2, 2021
• Fixed bug when some scoring videos were downloaded incompletely and refused to play

Version 4.8
Released Jan 27, 2021
• Improved general quality of video detection and downloads
• Added support of the Waterfox web browser
• Improved error handling in MPD protocol. The new version of MPD protocol is scheduled for version 4.9
• Bugfix: when downloading video in private mode, popup displays the old video title instead of the new filename
• Button TRY VIDEO SEARCH replaced with TOP VIDEO SITES
• Added new rules for suppressing video segments, previews, and advertisement

Version 4.7
Released Apr 21, 2020
• Added support of First Party isolation (FPI). AVD can now download videos when FPI is on, as well as using the Tor browser
• Scoring system updates: detection of segments and previews suppressed, fixed video downloads
• HLS protocol: full path to playlist added to configuration dialog. Helps to distinguish different qualities when media playlists are all have the same filename
• Native app: fixed bug in HLS protocol when demuxer.txt file was not deleted
• Native app: when downloading videos in Private mode, the previously used folder is remembered and proposed for the next download
• Native app: FFmpeg version updated to 4.2.2 (helps with some Vimeo videos)

Version 4.5
Released Feb 11, 2020
• Fix to reduce NA processes stack up
• New feature: UI: added buttons for opening temp files directory (top level and this session)
• New feature: UI: added buttons for opening temp files for each video
• Bugfix: video is not downloaded when title consists only of '' char (consists only of forbidden chars)
• UI: fixed display of size of very large files, updated header, updated copyright year, added 'video merging' state to Media page
• Scoring system: suppressed segments detection, suppressed service MP3 files (beeps)
• HLS protocol: up to 5 segment downloads can fail. Used in some playlists with fake segments (pseudo-segments for reporting stats)
• HLS protocol: fixed bug when playlists contain mix of encrypted/non-encrypted segments
• Small bugfixes

Version 4.4
Released Dec 10, 2019
• New MPEG-DASH protocol handler, which supports segment timelines
• New fast and lightweight scoring system engine
• MPEG-DASH and Vimeo videos are downloaded in separate threads (audio and video) which speeds up downloads
• Support of MPEG-DASH and Vimeo videos without audio stream
• Various bugfixes

Version 4.1.25
Released Feb 5, 2019
• Native app installer is now dual-purpose and can be installed machine-wide for all users (ALLUSERS=1)
• YouTube: bugfix quality is not updated when change it in the player
• YouTube: auto-preselect of best quality
• Scoring: bugfixes, new MPD segments avoidance rule

Version 4.1.24
Released Jan 15, 2019
• Added support of web browsers UC Browser, Waterfox, Comodo IceDragon
• UI: Popup: added badge over menu button with count of currently running downloads
• UI: Downloads page: increased font size of list of downloads
• HLS protocol: fixed detection bug
• YouTube: advertisement videos are avoided

Version 4.1.19
Released Dec 20, 2018
• Added banners to remind when native app is not installed or requires update
• Updated UI
• Added Clear list feature
• Fixed detection on several web-sites
• Bugfixes

Version 4.0.12
Released Nov 20, 2018
• Popup is back
• New features: Show on disk, Play with default player, linear percentage-based progress
• Scoring videos are downloaded by default with Native app if it is installed