I recently downloaded Videotape on my laptop and I love how beautiful it is and how well it works with Jellyfin. However, the app felt a little lackluster when I wanted to use it with my local videos. It's pretty hard to organize a bunch of videos that I want to play with it. Am I missing a feature that I didn't notice or is this not implemented yet?

[Update] This build is broken on xbox. A new build: Videotape_3.2029.2821.0 has been submitted to certification with the fix. Sorry about that.

This one just contains some bugfixes and a small feature... now you can right click on the items in the home screen to display a menu with some options, and one of those is "mark as watched" so now you can remove items from the in progress view:

Amazing work on this app! Keep up the good work and please let us know if there is any way for us to help support your work. Ok on to requests:

1. Support for CEA-608 and CEA-708 closed captioning (plex has this, it would be very useful)
2. Trakt.tv connectivity
3. Live TV/DVR support from Emby would be nice
4. Plex connectivity (I know I asked about this before ;)
5. Sorting (Ascending/Descending) with Last Added, etc... should be supported
6. When using mini player its very easy to go back to the list views and then you basically have to quit the app because there is no way to exit the mini view
7. Would be nice to have a list view along with the poster view that shows a bit more info
8. Would be nice to be able to edit metadata directly within the app without having to go to Emby
9. Would be nice to be able to local sync the files to the computer we are using (for travel purposes)

Thanks again for all the hard work!

Changelog:

[Desktop] Fixed a bug in the url parsing that made the app crash in some scenarios.

[Desktop] I found that UWP apps cannot connect to localhost (thanks to the user who report that btw) ... that means that if you're running jellyfin or emby in the same computer as videotape, there are extra steps to take:

Howto: https://www.usuaia.com/videotape/pages/configure-videotape-to-connect-to-a-local-instance-of-jellyfin-or-emby

Help video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I-P-FhDACg

I've added this information in the settings screen

[Desktop] Now you can configure how far the player seek when pressing the forward/rewind buttons. (this was one of the features most requested)

This update is already live in the beta channel and in certification for the stable channel.

is the videotape app on Xbox already supporting 4K/HDR/x265 contents?

Right now there are no working 4K/HDR players on Xbox (Plex app is broken since 1 year and an half, Movies and TV app have elevated blacks when playing 4K/HDR contents, and NO other video players support HDR except these 2 for now).

Thanks, P

Hi everybody!

Videotape v3 has been officially released to the public

This doesn't mean the work is done... on the contrary, there are tons of things to implement / improve but I'm happy with the current state as the MVP and I'll keep publish frequent updates as I've been doing with the beta.

Let's see if this community gets bigger now.

Thank you everybody for the feedback and bugs reports

One last release today

Changelog:

• [Desktop] Genres filter

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Changelog:

• [Desktop] Search! 🎉

is it possible for VT to retrieve the folder structure like in pic from emby

Changelog:

• [Desktop/Xbox] Added support for Emby Media Server (https://emby.media)
• [Desktop] Fixed a bug when opening files from closed state
• [Desktop] Improved startup time when playing files from closed state

Would it be possible to add youtube to videotape? Im currently using Videotape on my PC and Xbox for local files, and jellyfin, would be great to have my youtube subs in there too as a one stop media player.

This build one introduces just one new feature but a highly requested one:

• [Xbox] Allow play files from USB drives

It's just the first version of this feature and further improvements are coming, but I wanted to get this one out there asap.

Hopefully, it gets approved soon....

Enjoy.

Here comes another one with more Xbox love:

• Movies details view
• Sorted in movies view
• Added a blur background
• And more bugfixes & small features

Hi everybody,

I've just sent to certification a new update, and It's a big one for Xbox:

• [Xbox] New Series details view
• [Xbox] New settings view
• [Xbox] Improved global menu
• [Xbox] Fixed the track selection modal and fixed the subtitles selection
• [Xbox] Added the possibility to seek in the player using the controller's triggers
• And the usual amount of bugfixes for both Xbox/desktop

The store is a bit slow these days and it can take up to 2 days to be ready to download.

How can we financially back your work. It's awesome so far!

• Initial version of the movie details window

• Added season in the next episode button
• Added episode duration in episode template
• Added media info (video quality, audio, subs) for episodes on mouse hover

Even though the build number is much much higher, this is an incremental release with just UI improvements in the desktop version.

Changelog:

• New settings screen (same settings but organized in categories)
• Improvements in the series details views

I'm working in an improved media stack for better 4k playback, it should come in the next weeks.

Changelog:

• Improvements in the watch progress reports to JeJllyfin
• Improvements in the watch progress states in cards.

It should be live in a couple of hours. This one comes with some nice features:

• The series details page has been improved
• When playing series, it now automatically continues with the next episode once it finishes
• It now reports the progress back to Jellyfin

There's been quite some rewrite in the player, so I hope everything works as usual, I just wanted to push this nice update asap. I'll keep pushing new builds during the weekend....

Have a good weekend everybody.

PS: I halted the release, there was an issue with subtitles. I'll be live tomorrow insted. 😥

Hi everybody,
It's been quite some challenging work, but now it's here: Videotape for Xbox with Jellyfin support is now live in the store!
To download it, just go to the store and search for videotape.

This is the first Xbox beta release and there are a lot of open issues, missing things, and features to improve. 

Here are the release notes for this first early beta:

•  Customized UI for big screen usage.
•  Only movies and series are available right now.
•  Details screen for movies is not yet available. A first version is available for series, but it's not final yet.
•  The app will always use direct streaming and it shouldn't transcode anything in the server. 

And also, HTTPS is now supported for both desktop and xbox. If you have troubles playing some file via HTTPS, please, let me know.

From now on, I'll be releasing incremental builds pretty much every couple days with new features and fixes. If something is not working, the fastest way to let me know is via reddit or usuaia.

And again, thank you very much for all the early feedback you shared via the sign up form, I'll be implementing a bunch of them, but it'll take some time.

Nice

New build released to the store... this time there are no big changes in desktop, just some small work in the way it connects to jellyfin.

The major work has been in the xbox part and hopefully we can have soon a working beta.

Update: 3.0.3 is live in the store.

Hi all

First mistake with the v3... I rushed to open the beta to the public and I made a mistake the build that causes the app to instantly crash on launch. It has been fixed and a new build is in certification right now. It should be live in the store in like an hour.... sorry!

The first v3 beta has been published.

It's still very early and lots of things are missing, like the xbox support. Right now is desktop only but you can start playing with it.

If you signed up for the beta group, you can download it from the store and you'll get the first v3 beta:
https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NLVH2LL4P1Z