Dream Displays

Highlights

• Curved displays
• Dropped packet protocol v1 support
• Keyboard shortcuts in the display menu
• Playback stability fixes
• Some fixes and minor improvements

Client

Features

• Curved displays: now you can place them on stairs and slabs (server 1.10.0 Preview 3 or higher required)
• Dropped packet protocol v1 support: players can no longer join on servers with an ancient version
• Added keyboard shortcuts to the display menu:
  • Space: play / pause
  • ← / →: seek 5 seconds back / forward (15 seconds with Shift)
  • ↑ / ↓: volume up / down by 5% (10% with Shift)
  • M: mute / unmute
  • 0–9: jump to 0%–90% of the video
  • F: fullscreen
  • P: Picture-in-Picture

Improvements

• Reduced CPU usage while Picture-in-Picture or the menu preview is open, especially on 4K videos
• Reduced CPU usage of paused displays and displays out of render distance
• Smoother video playback: each frame is now picked at the moment the game draws it, which removes micro-stutters
• Faster seeking: playback resumes as soon as both picture and sound are ready instead of after a fixed buffer
• Videos start a bit faster when several displays are loading at once
• Unstable streams now retry with growing pauses and show an error if they keep failing, instead of reloading forever
• Subtitles now load right away, even when many displays are loading at once
• Improved stability during long watching sessions

Fixes

• Fixed the game freezing when entering a world on some Windows setups (#227)
• Fixed the game crashing on Linux when opening the display menu while a video is playing (#229)
• Fixed videos getting stuck at the end with play / pause doing nothing until another video was selected (#234)
• Fixed emojis in video and stream titles showing up as boxes; they are now hidden (#232)
• Fixed a video jumping back to the start on some GPUs right after starting or rejoining
• Fixed volume and brightness showing odd values like 194% instead of 195%
• Fixed a glitched first frame when opening Picture-in-Picture or the menu preview during playback
• Fixed videos sometimes never starting to load because a background check hung

Server

Features

• Curved displays support
• Dropped packet protocol v1 support: ancient client versions are no longer supported