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🔧 v0.2.1 — Hotfix: Platform Streaming

If you experienced YouTube, Twitch, VK or other platforms not working since late May 2026 — this was not a bug in the mod. YouTube and other platforms significantly tightened their anti-bot policies, breaking direct URL playback for all third-party players worldwide.

This update introduces a completely new streaming pipeline that bypasses these restrictions. Video is now piped through yt-dlp → ffmpeg → VLC locally on your machine — platforms never see VLC, only yt-dlp.

⚠️ Minor video stuttering may occur during the first ~10 seconds while the stream initializes. This is caused by YouTube's mandatory rate-limit delay and cannot be avoided.

What changed

• New pipeline — all platforms now stream through a local pipe proxy instead of direct URLs
• ffmpeg integration — fixes HLS segment boundary freezes (video froze while audio continued)
• Auto-download — ffmpeg is downloaded automatically if not found on your system
• Quality switching — now correctly restarts the stream instead of silently failing
• All platforms fixed — YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, VK, Rutube, Dailymotion, ok.ru, SoundCloud

Requirements

• VLC Media Player — still the only manual requirement, same as before
• ffmpeg — auto-downloaded on first launch if missing. No action needed.