Maybe just a quick update:
If I send a MEGA link it will have 5 installation files. I don’t update versions you just have to look at the fine date to see when it was last packaged.
The Debian installer (.deb) was something I made for kinda just for the “why not” but oh boy does this app run fast on Debian or what. What shocked me a bit was after fixing the video issues under Linux and adding autoplay on add for the videos.
Just moved and packaged back on Windows and noticed the videos where causing crashing. Just so you are aware will be looking more closely into it. If you are experiencing issues on Windows set video tab to false in the properties or wait for the next update.
What’s new:
I was getting lazy to keep accessing things from the web, so a quick button with all external tools neatly put. Of course can access them from the browser or remotely.
If you want to try the live content tool and see “{“message”:“Live Displayable Content service is stopped.”,“status”:“error”}” you have to turn its plugin from the services
Control → Service Manager (Ctrl + U) and start the relevant subunit.
The highlight tool with event player automation, import and export. I was experimenting with usability modes for automation. So manually, with automated play/record export/import, from the web API in 2 modes (full and cumulative), and my favourite MIDI mode to drive the changes.
Reader, if some of those things went over your head, don’t worry about it! If you care about the highlighting, you will figure it out, if not, ignore and forget about it.
Do note: quick highlight produce flickering, ideally I will need a separate imaging layer for the lighting and shadows … yes we can do glows.
Added some much-needed safety:
Imagine you ALT+F4 during live on Sunday with hundreds of people …
The layer modes are fixed and now properly mutually exclusive.
Videos and images go active on selection (if you have the preview ON they go there, if preview is OFF they go to live directly).
Images or image groups are visible in the remote. Nice!
Any media can now be added from the remote. Very powerful!
The add button can be placed in 3 different locations, the image just shows 1 of the versions;
What can I say!? I like customization!
The MIDI config is starting to get real proper with live assignment on midi event triggering 
Oh, yeah, just a quick convenience to match the remote and the songs panel:
Essentially matching aesthetics and convenience.
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Upcoming:
- I have one more change to show, but currently on Windows and can’t show the video, will do when I switch OS (both remote and app UI).
- Maybe add Autoplay toggle to the preference
- Fix windows video bug
- Proper song transpose with some buttons
- Maybe a right click to show a full view (PDF maybe for the whole song with cords) for musician view. + Access the PDF list via API. Some people might just want to see an easy to switch page with the PDFs for example.
- Linked edit song in an external viewer (notepad++ or code), straight opens there and on save comes back.
- Main UI fullscreen mode
Maybe: …
- Android app wrapper for the web remote. I tried a python wrapper with bulldozer but its just such a pain …
- Actually in the remote already added a back button guard, so you won’t close the browser or navigate back (at least on Firefox/android combo but should be relatively universal, … well I care not about Apple produce so no guarantees there). Point is, It’s really-really close to an app experience and with full-screen mode with the square button there, I am almost feeling like there no need for a separate app. Remains a point of contention in my mind.
- I considered some ideas about OBS/Webcam views live into Quelea for conference call like experience, but realistically all OBS has detachable live windows which can be projected onto the desktop directly. In the reverse case, output display can be injected into OBS, so custom video transmitter feels quite unnecessary.
- There was also the idea of desktop capture in Quelea (at least we won’t need to worry about YouTube videos being easily played). … I think i might implement that one, actually.
- The idea of running, text trough a duplex plugin for GIMP, i.e. Quelea → GIMP → Quelea Live view was interesting to me but now with this live plugin custom application adapters feel a bit unnecessary too.
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I do have a few more ideas but they are way too advanced to discuss here … though, there is this one, maybe. Give me your take on that in the comments.
What do you think about:
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Preview → ability to go to a separate display + separate audio device config.
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Live → only the ability to set the device.
… logically speaking preview should go to maybe Bluetooth earphones while live goes to a mixer. Live can be on a live display and multiple projectors but also for some people that same screen could be the preview first and then goes to live while that small display is updated with the next item which they adjust while content is playing live.
