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HellyExplorer 4.3 @ 01-11-2025
A new version has arrived!
I have added an option to view youtube videos. You can enable it in the options menu, will require you to log in to google and allow the explorer access to it. Don't worry, nothing is sent to me, everything remains on your pc. Don't trust it? Then don't use it. Should work fine but i do expect to find bugs.
Pretty much remade the options menu. Now works the same as the main screen. Pressing the right key makes you go into the option. Changing options still works the same. It is now also click resistant, mouse clicking will no longer make the program unresponsive.
Changed data saved for movies, now ALL audio and subtitle streams in the files are saved. So you see all languages and audio types the file has in the movie screen.
and of course quite a few bugfixes.
Create a BACKUP of your database, just in case. Things might go wrong, you never know.
Things are improving and i have plans for more! Yay!
The next release will likely add the ability to create movie collections, so you could for example create a MCU collection. The program will then order them for you and you can watch the entire MCU without having to look up which movie is next, it will order them based on the release year. You will be able to select the next movie from the movie screen or at a later date it will show up in a "Continue watching" list on the main menu. These lists will have to be made manually unfortunately, TheMovieDB does not contain these lists, i checked. For the MCU for example it has a collection for each of the heroes. So there is a Iron Man collection and a Captain America collection. Not what i personally want, so i am not using that. Should be easy to create a collection once i create it though, simple searches will do the trick.
I have added an option to view youtube videos. You can enable it in the options menu, will require you to log in to google and allow the explorer access to it. Don't worry, nothing is sent to me, everything remains on your pc. Don't trust it? Then don't use it. Should work fine but i do expect to find bugs.
Pretty much remade the options menu. Now works the same as the main screen. Pressing the right key makes you go into the option. Changing options still works the same. It is now also click resistant, mouse clicking will no longer make the program unresponsive.
Changed data saved for movies, now ALL audio and subtitle streams in the files are saved. So you see all languages and audio types the file has in the movie screen.
and of course quite a few bugfixes.
Create a BACKUP of your database, just in case. Things might go wrong, you never know.
Things are improving and i have plans for more! Yay!
The next release will likely add the ability to create movie collections, so you could for example create a MCU collection. The program will then order them for you and you can watch the entire MCU without having to look up which movie is next, it will order them based on the release year. You will be able to select the next movie from the movie screen or at a later date it will show up in a "Continue watching" list on the main menu. These lists will have to be made manually unfortunately, TheMovieDB does not contain these lists, i checked. For the MCU for example it has a collection for each of the heroes. So there is a Iron Man collection and a Captain America collection. Not what i personally want, so i am not using that. Should be easy to create a collection once i create it though, simple searches will do the trick.
HellyExplorer 4.2 @ 17-05-2025
I am back working on this and version 4.2 is here!
The most important change this time is a new layout for the main screen. Which for now is optional and not active at the first start. You can turn it on in the options menu under Other options. This will probably become the standard and maybe even the only layout in time as personally i cannot work with the old one anymore, it is just that much better to use. Mostly because you can now go to a movie or a tv-show straight from the main menu. It will jump to the next episode immediately without you having to find it and go through the season first. I also added some extra things which you can find out for yourself.
The second important change comes with the new layout, which is a new screen for movies. The small popup screen was to small for the information i wanted to show so i made a full screen for movies. It now shows all the movie information you can ask for. Like director, summary, play length, video and audio quality and it can also show if the file contains HDR10, HDR10+ or Dolby Vision. It is of course up to you to make your pc able to play and use it. Optionally you can turn on showing a background for the movie and which actors are in the movie, with a name and photo.
The gamepad code has finally been improved and really tested as i am using it myself now. I ran into the issue of needing to start the program with a gamepad which i solved by creating a tray application which can start the Explorer for you. Use the PS/Xbox button for this. In the future i might even use this application to update the explorer for you automatically.
For now i will keep using and fixing this version until i can continue improving it. I am occasionally still finding little issues here and there to fix, so there might still be some things left. When i feel there's nothing left i will start to work on a new layout for tv-shows, and some other things i want to try.
The most important change this time is a new layout for the main screen. Which for now is optional and not active at the first start. You can turn it on in the options menu under Other options. This will probably become the standard and maybe even the only layout in time as personally i cannot work with the old one anymore, it is just that much better to use. Mostly because you can now go to a movie or a tv-show straight from the main menu. It will jump to the next episode immediately without you having to find it and go through the season first. I also added some extra things which you can find out for yourself.
The second important change comes with the new layout, which is a new screen for movies. The small popup screen was to small for the information i wanted to show so i made a full screen for movies. It now shows all the movie information you can ask for. Like director, summary, play length, video and audio quality and it can also show if the file contains HDR10, HDR10+ or Dolby Vision. It is of course up to you to make your pc able to play and use it. Optionally you can turn on showing a background for the movie and which actors are in the movie, with a name and photo.
The gamepad code has finally been improved and really tested as i am using it myself now. I ran into the issue of needing to start the program with a gamepad which i solved by creating a tray application which can start the Explorer for you. Use the PS/Xbox button for this. In the future i might even use this application to update the explorer for you automatically.
For now i will keep using and fixing this version until i can continue improving it. I am occasionally still finding little issues here and there to fix, so there might still be some things left. When i feel there's nothing left i will start to work on a new layout for tv-shows, and some other things i want to try.