Hi everyone!
I know posts and updates have been somewhat sparse the last 2 weeks or so which is, in part, due to the holiday season.
I have still made time to work on updates for Stacher and wanted to give you some insight into what is in the pipeline!
Send to Phone
If you haven't already seen the "Send to Phone" feature, there are some details on that HERE
Video Player
I realize that the last release of Stacher has a bug where HeatMaps and Chapters may not properly display in the Player UI. The next update will not only resolve that but also update the HeatMap UI to be (hopefully) more visually pleasing
Some other improvements were made to include hover timestamps on the seek bar and, if generated thumbnails are enabled, the timestamp will appear near the bottom of the thumbnail:
The following hotkeys have also been added to the video player:
Right Arrow will fast forward 5 seconds
Left Arrow will rewind 5 seconds
Space will toggle Play/Pause
Electron Update
Another update to the electron environment is on the way. Specifically version 38.7.2. Ideally this will help resolve some issues users have reported where Stacher "goes blank" after a period of time which, I think, may be due to a rendering bug in the electron version Stacher is currently released with.
Other Bugs
Any of you can report bugs and feedback in the Developer Chat in the bottom left of Stacher (Premium feature) and I do read to everything you guys send.
Some of the bugs that were reported that will be resolved in the next release:
Create a Copy for configurations sometimes fail if you've applied a configuration search filter
Laggy-ness when playing long audio files (this should be improved with some memory management updates coming)
The progress bars in the Tray window should update correctly
Fixed issue with m3u8 streams not allowing clips in the cropping tool to be editable
The configuration filter in the library should now stay open, allowing you to select multiple configurations at a time instead of having to close and re-open it for each configuration.
Holidays!
I wanted to wish you all a happy holidays! I'm currently planning for this release to be in the next 2-3 weeks. Most likely the first week of January 2026. Although the update is mostly ready, I will most likely wait until the holiday season is over just in case a hotfix or rollback should be needed post release.
If you haven't already, don't forget to checkout the feature poll on what you want to see in Stacher. The poll closes in about 2 weeks or so! The responses in this poll are going to drive feature development in Stacher for the next few months.