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From 2022, feature, translation and bug fix releases will be published every 3 months at the end of a quarter, if possible.
Changes in the next Feature- and Bugfix-Release 3.3.0
Log: Detects when Windows is running in a virtual environment
Systray: Show shortcut in systray context menu
GUI: New icons, start-,stop-, pause.png
Camera: New feature zoom
Camera: New feature stepless resizing
Camera: New feature move frameless window
Area: New mouse pointers
Translation: updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 3.2.0 from Apr 01, 2022
DirectSound: Information if no devices were found
WASAPI: Information if no devices were found
Halo: Set new hole value
Openh264: If network does not exist, the sidebar is not displayed
Pulseaudio: Third party software loses keyboard focus
Shortcuts: Did not work correctly, STRG changed to CTRL
Windows: Changed GStreamer to 1.20.0
Log: File name adjusted
Player: Showed filename and path in the title bar instead of just the filename
Log: New code to write in file
Log: Detects when Linux is running in a virtual environment
Log: Added timestamp
Player: File open dialog lost path when reopened
Pulseaudio: Better sound recording when multiple recording devices are selected
Pulseaudio: Added readable device name to volume control
Pulseaudio: Message in audio tab if no Pulseaudio server found
Translation: updated
SRC: Mail address changed in all files
Feature and Bugfix-Release 3.1.0 from Dec 31, 2021
Windows: Usr-share-local-icon folder removed from the installer
Cisco: Progress indicator added to the download dialog
GUI: The Help button has been removed from the title bar of the Player, VideoPath and Cisco-License dialog
Cisco: Added a close button to the licence dialog box
Translation: Added Esperanto, Danish, Vietnamese
Videopath: Change system-filedialog to Qt-filedialog
Player: Change system-filedialog to Qt-filedialog
GUI: Download link changed
Log: Kernel version added
GUI: Fusion is now the style for all operating systems
GUI: vokoscreenNG create his own images from all tabs
Information: Display audio codec set or not set
Camera: Removed workaround for a Qt bug
Systray: Camera, Magnifier, Showclick and Halo added to the menu
GUI: Global keyboard shortcuts can be changed
Magnifier: Added tooltip for global shortcut
Camera Linux: The camera window is now also displayed over a full screen window
Camera: Settings dialog out side from screen
Windows: Changed Qt to 5.15.2
Windows: Changed GStreamer to 1.18.5
Windows: Change to 64-bit, the 32 bit version has been discontinued
Windows: Change Qt-Installer-Framework from 4.0.1 to 4.2.0
Qt: Required >= 5.14
GUI: New sidebar
Systray-Alternative: Better look without compositer
Systray-Alternative: Version information added in menu
Systray-Alternative: Hide from taskbar
Systray: Change from system-icons to own icons
Countdown: Better look without compositer
Countdown: Hide from taskbar
License dialog: Close button added
Countdown: Added cancel button
Systray-Alternative: Change from system-icons to own icons
Recording window: Better integration "mouse over activates window"
Camera: Combobox resolution was not deactivated if no camera was found
Audio: Better hint if no audio recording device was found
Area: Mouse pointers now look the same on all operating systems
Wayland: Experimental support
Log: Added QLoggingCategory::defaultCategory, fault in Fedora 34
GUI: Class for icons deleted
Systray: Version information added in menu
Mouse: New feature halo
Mouse: New feature showclick
GUI: All icons revised in tabs
Bugfix-Release 3.0.9 from Mai 26, 2021
openh264: Renamed to H.264
VP8: Add slider for quality.
Settings: Video and audio codec were not set correctly from the settings.
Wayland: Add wayland-client.h
Onlinehelp: Tmp dir was not removed
GUI: The on/off switch for the systray was not deactivated during the recording.
Gui: Restore window, after it has been minimized.
Screen Manager: Small changes.
GUI: All dropdown combo boxes no longer show the content shortened if the content is too long.
Area: Selected button is better highlighted.
Log: Information about Pulseaudio version.
openh264: Set usage-type from screen to camera. Remove num-slices and max-slice-size.
Camera: When enlarging the camera window, with a small camera resolution, now a better picture.
GUI: Always started at position 0.0
Audio: Remove AAC, legally disputed license.
Area: At the end of the recording, the buttons is displayed in the frame.
Countdown: Appears now on the same screen as the area.
VAAPI: Remove support. Reason: Package discrepancy between the many Linux distributions.
Wayland: Under wayland the GUI is now hide. It comes only a dialog this says, wayland is not supported.
Windows: Remove video codec x264, legally disputed license.
Windows: Automatic download of the openh264 codec from cisco.
Windows: Incorrect capture if second screen is the primary screen.
Bugfix-Release 3.0.8 from Jan 31, 2021
x264: Unneeded presets removed
Area: Removed predefined areas. Reason: Not intuitiv, design is broken and Recording error.
vaapih264enc: Add h264parse
Camera: Combobox for resolution added in the dialog window
FPS: Limited to the vertical refresh rate of the screen in Hz
Log: Count CPU
Camera: Resolution could not be changed during camera playback.
Language: Add Arabic, Greek(Greece), Thai(Thailand), Serbian
Windows: Change Qt-Installer-Framework from 3.2.2 to 4.0.1
Bugfix-Release 3.0.7 from Sep 30, 2020
Magnifier: Magnifier now on all screens. Reason: Magnifier show only on the primare screen
Audio: Devices are now detect directly by Pulseaudio. Reason: The monitoring of the devices under GStreamer 1.16.x is broken.
Camera: Resolutions is now read out. Reason: Fixed resolution 640x480 is not supported by all cameras.
Log: Files are now kept in unlimited numbers
Log: More information about Videopath
Bugfix-Release 3.0.6 from Aug 31, 2020
Audio: Fix bug. Reason: Can crash on startup.
Audio: Added buffer for audio encoder. Reason: For some machines dropouts were reported.
x264: Added profile high-4:4:4 to profile baseline in a Combobox. Reason: The profile high-4:4:4 has better colors if desired.
GUI: Player have now tango icons. Reason: Uniform look of the GUI.
GUI: Setting for audio codec moved to the second tab. Reason: Better Usability.
vaapih264: Add slider for quality. Reason: The default setting sometimes has artifacts.
openh264: Add slice-mode, num-slices and max-slice-size buffers. Reason: The default buffer is too small with frequent change of scene.
openh264: Changed the slider for quality from min=0 max=50 to min=1 max=51. Reason: Wrong values.
openh264: When recording, slider and button will now disabled. Reason: Better Usability.
Windows: New Windows logo
Windows: Third party licenses added
Bugfix-Release 3.0.5 from July 31, 2020
Screen: The automatic detection when changing the resolution was broken
Qt: Adapted to Qt 5.15.0
Language: Add Portuguese(Brazil), Spanish(Argentina), Spanish(Latin America), Polish(Poland), Basque(Spain)
Audio: Change from adder to audiomixer
Audio: Change from encoder facc to voaacenc
Audio: Removed audio codec OPUS from format MOV
GUI: Tabs, reset and help buttons now look the same under Linux and Windows
GUI: Disable pushButtonSendReport for Linux
Camera: Remove help-button from camera dialog
Windows: Add vokoscreenNG-Icon into exe, icon now appears in Explorer
Windows: Add WASAPI
Windows: Add, recording from playback devices under WASAPI
Windows: Pipeline_structured_output had the wrong end of line
Windows: Better labeling in the log between WASAPI and DirectSound
Windows: Change openh264-2.0.0 to 2.1.1
Windows: Change GStreamer 1.14.4 to 1.16.1
Bugfix-Release 3.0.4 from Apr 30, 2020
Language: added Slovenian, Japanese(Japan)
Screen: Resolution not correct
Audio: Add codec faac
Folder: Button cannot handle spaces
Record: If the filesink has a space, the recording is broken
Area: supports now multiscreen
Countdown: Record an fullscreen, countdown is now on the selected screen
CLI: Command line options revised
GUI: The frame-reset-button was not disabled by recording
GUI: Visible frame in the settings of fps removed
Bugfix-Release 3.0.3 from Mar 31, 2020
Systray: Better icons for Pause and Continue
Frames: Without reset button
Camera: If the camera is busy, this will be displayed, or is not in combobox
Windows: Globalshortcuts was broken
Language: added Spanish(Mexico), Slovak (Slovakia)
Area: Adapted to Ubuntu GNOME
Audio: Hint if no audio devices found
Systray: If new version show ballon
Windows: Add openh264
Camera: Windows and Linux have now the same code base
Windows Player: Font in tooltip is white on white background
Windows: Change Qt-Installer-Framework from 3.2.0 to 3.2.2
Bugfix-Release 3.0.2 from Feb 11, 2020
x264: Codec requires resolution with even values
Audio: Recording only with one chanel
Webcam: Image is upside down
Windows: Executable file is now started directly instead of using a script
Bugfix-Release 3.0.1 from Jan 31, 2020
Player: Format_RGB32 for Windows
Player: Notification if codec or service is missing
x264enc: add profile=baseline
Language: Select the language for the online help via a combobox possible
Language: Add three new language
Online-Help: Change from http to https
Online-Help: German umlauts
Release 3.0.0 from Dec 31, 2019
New version 3.0.0 released
Changes in Release 2.5.0

Jul 01, 2016 : new Version released

May 28, 2016 : better detect codecs

May 27, 2016 : Video-Format suitable codecs assigned

May 25, 2016 : if change Videopath, Play and Sendbutton not plausible

May 20, 2016 : x264 lossloess

May 18, 2016 : new area

May 16, 2016 : memory leak

May 15, 2016 : new areay

May 14, 2016 : waitForFinished( 3000 )

May 13, 2016 : delete old log stuff

May 12, 2016 : statusbar sum filesize

May 11, 2016 : language

May 10, 2016 : correct ffmpegpath

May 07, 2016 : translation dialogs

May 06, 2016 : [showclick] buttoncolor, buttonbox

May 05, 2016 : pause was since ffmpeg 1.8.7 broken

May 03, 2016 : detect ffmpeg vokoscreen-with-libs

Apr 24, 2016 : print plugin path

Apr 23, 2016 : systray menue

Apr 21, 2016 : check lsof

Apr 20, 2016 : changed INSTALL file

Apr 19, 2016 : Removed old QT4 stuff, vokoscreen now only compile under QT5

Apr 07, 2016 : add check xdg-mail

Apr 07, 2016 : withframe and withoutframe geometrie

Apr 06, 2016 : pause movewindow

Mar 29, 2016 : add picture for audiodevices

Mar 28, 2016 : read new code,format,device if other recoder

Mar 20, 2016 : webcamwindow over fullscreen

Mar 19, 2016 : webcam settings-rotate

Mar 18, 2016 : readsettings pulse-devices

Mar 17, 2016 : qt5 sytray menue

Mar 15, 2016 : look up x11grab

Mar 12, 2016 : dynamic GUI

Mar 07, 2016 : new screencast .h and .cpp

Mar 03, 2016 : language Persian

Mar 01, 2016 : Logbutton on new place

Feb 17, 2016 : copy log to clipboard

Feb 16, 2016 : remove avi, add mp4

Feb 15, 2016 : Turkish (Turkey) translation. Only QT5: provide log output in GUI

Feb 14, 2016 : InstallMessageHandler

Feb 13, 2016 : Codec, Format with GIF not plausible

Feb 11, 2016 : add GIF Player

Feb 10, 2016 : Pausebutton and Audiowidget disabled if gif recorded

Feb 09, 2016 : add gif support

Feb 08, 2016 : detect available formats like mkv, avi, etc.

Feb 08, 2016 : update 21 lanugages

Jan 31, 2016 : name from recorder in kmix is vokoscreen

Jan 31, 2016 : nomouse is deprecated, we want draw_mouse

Jan 23, 2016 : no longer need .asoundrc

Jan 20. 2016 : Qt5 Audio Pulse set automatical Shortcut, remove in Settings '&'

Jan 08, 2016 : add language Spanish(Argentina)

Jan 02, 2016 : detect experimental codec

Jan 02, 2016 : Qt5 systray do not exit

Jan 01, 2016 : pausebutton was by countdown enabled

Jan 01, 2016 : add Videoplayer mpv

Jan 01, 2016 : codec settings not load

Jan 01, 2016 : if spaces in the path then nothing will be played by the player

Dez 30, 2015 : new countdown

Dez 29, 2015 : countdown moved in separate directory

Dez 26, 2015 : update README.md

Dez 25, 2015 : change manpage

Dez 24, 2015 : add Backspace to showkey

Dez 07, 2015 : detect available audio and video codec

Dez 05, 2015 : add codec x265

Nov 22, 2015 : add audio codec acc

Nov 21, 2015 : add warning in audio Tab, if no audio set

Nov 20, 2015 : Systray hide window destroy QProcess

Nov 20, 2015 : sytray icons not plausible

Nov 20, 2015 : when webcam window maximized are not plausible to other context menu

Nov 20, 2015 : Webcam image Keep Aspect Ratio

Nov 04, 2015 : added KeyboardMapping for showkey

Oct 29, 2015 : showkey expanded

Oct 28, 2015 : add Portuguese translation

Oct 18, 2015 : language Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian and Swedish

Oct 13, 2015 : Multi-users terminal server support

Oct 12, 2015 : add huffyuv and pcm_s16le

Sep 11, 2015 : add prefix for install

Sep 03, 2015 : better soundrecording with two audio sources

Aug 27, 2015 : add language Persian

Aug 17, 2015 : add language Netherlands and Albanian

Aug 09, 2015 : fix segfaults in screencast::getFfmpegVersion()

Aug 01, 2015 : qt5 compile error

Jul 10, 2015 : showkey as thread

Jul 06, 2015 : add showclick

jun 22, 2015 : delete workaround for ffmpeg 2.6.3
Changes in Release 2.4.0

Jun 16, 2015 : new version released

Jun 14, 2015 : add language greek (greece)

Jun 13, 2015 : add showkey

Jun 09, 2015 : fullscreen 2 Pixel smaller --> no fullscreen recording with ffmpeg 2.6.3

Mai 25, 2015 : removed QDir::exists output on terminal

Mai 10, 2015 : better integration of the DISPLAY variable

Mai 01, 2015 : systray now with kontextmenue

Apr 29, 2015 : bug displayed max 5 pulseaudio devices
Changes in Release 2.3.0

Apr 28, 2015 : new version released

Apr 21, 2015 : qt5[beta] Magnifier

Apr 21: 2015 : delete mkvmerge stuff

Apr 21, 2015 : qt5[beta] pause broken

Apr 20, 2015 : bug DISPLAY variable

Apr 06, 2015 : pause changed from mkvtoolnix to ffmpeg[-concat]
Changes in Release 2.2.0

Apr 03, 2015 : new version released

Mar 22, 2015 : add field for other recorder

Mar 21, 2015 : getFfmpegVersion() reworked

Mar 17, 2015 : remove avconv support

Mar 01, 2015 : add language japan

Jan 28, 2015 : add Setting webcam OnOff. Add graphicmenu on webcamwindow

Jan 20, 2015 : add output operating-system on konsole

Jan 18, 2015 : magnifier is now saved by settings

Jan 13, 2015 : add area tooltip "doubleclick extended to the edge"

Jan 10, 2015 : add language Indonesian

Jan 02, 2015 : webcam crashed if webcam busy

Dez 29, 2014 : screencombobox disabled when selecting Window or Area

Dez 28, 2014 : Correction of the primary screen

Dez 27, 2014 : MirrorCheckBox, RotateDial disabled closed by webcamwindow

Dez 26, 2014 : webcamimage popupmenue reworked

Dez 25, 2014 : area expand by doubleklick

Dez 13, 2014 : area go now to the edge

Dez 08, 2014 : screencombobox disabled by record

Dez.07, 2014 : magnifier, timer was allways on

Dez 01, 2014 : detect screen without vokoscreen restart

Dez 01, 2014 : add output virtualDesktop on konsole

Nov 30, 2014 : add output detect primary screen

Nov 30, 2014 : add output on konsole if record fullscreen, window or area

Nov 03, 2014 : no record if switch to an other user

Oct 26, 2014 : x264 is now standard videocodec

Oct 26, 2014 : remove maillist from about tab

Oct 18, 2014 : is no videoplayer installed and press "Play" comes now dialog to install a videoplayer
Changes in Release 2.1.0

Oct 11, 2014 : new version released

Sep 14, 2014 : border and Noborder in webcam menu now [x]Border

Aug 24, 2014 : alsaBusyDialog is now a Designer ui dialog

Aug 23, 2014 : webcambusydialog is now a designer ui dialog

Aug 23, 2014 : remove %1 from alsa busy dialog

Aug 23, 2014 : senddialog is now a designer ui dialog

Aug 22, 2014 : magnifiersdialog is now a designer ui dialog

Aug 17, 2014 : senddialog add a closebutton

Aug 12, 2014 : webcam picture over fullscreen application

Aug 09, 2014 : remove ubuntu ppa from about tab

Aug 07, 2014 : multiscreen support

Jun 28, 2014 : new webcam busy dialog

Jun 28, 2014 : rotary control for webcam

Jun 22, 2014 : ffmpeg == -framerate, avconv == -r
Jun 04, 2014 : mirrored webcam picture

Jun 01, 2014 : the default-button is replaced only by icon

Jun 01, 2014 : record, stop, pause etc. button were widened

May 29, 2014 : changed webcam from opencv to v4l2

May 20, 2014 : countdown by Pause

May 02, 2014 : changed -framerate to -r, bug in Ubuntu 14.04

Apr 28, 2014 : add CTRL+SHIFT+F8 for webcam

Apr 28, 2014 : change -q:a to -q:v

Apr 09, 2014 : query mkvmerge version

Apr 09, 2014 : query pactl version

Apr 08, 2014 : fixed middleButton und screensize in area, bug in Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04

Apr 04, 2014 : bug fullscreen

Mar 31, 2014 : remove ffplay und avplay from playerlist

Mar 29, 2014 : changed -qscale to -q:v

Changes

Changes in Release 2.5.0

Changes in Release 2.4.0

Changes in Release 2.3.0

Changes in Release 2.2.0

Changes in Release 2.1.0