Last night I published two releases:
An update to the current version with a major bug fix
A brand new version with 2.4 support, some performance improvements and a new UI
I’ve been working on the app to add support to server 2.4 and ended up rebuilding it to make it simpler to maintain in the future.
A couple of warnings:
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The settings for this new version are stored next to CasparLauncher.exe and it will not carry the settings of the previous version, but now it can be copied from one instance to another or moved with the exe without losing the config.
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The app now requires the .NET 8 Desktop runtime to be installed. But, the release includes a self-contained version for x64 with the runtime built-in, at the cost of a ~150MB file size. The repo was updated to point out the building process for this.
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Great! working like a charm.
Excellent work.
This will help me a lot to handle all the things with CasparCG.
refers to the [Release v2.0-beta]
Why is there an option to delete the executable?
I don’t know why I would do that?
I would have expected it to say “Save Parameters” or similar.
That option is to remove the watchdog instance inside the app and not the exe file itself.
You can add as many monitored executables as you want and not only use it for CasparCG exclusively.
The settings are changed and saved instantly so there’s no need to save them manually.
Hi
great new version. Any plans of trying to get it to work on other platforms than windows?
I tested and it doesn’t run with Wine.
I just realized I didn’t post the latest update here.
The latest release on GitHub is not in beta anymore and it’s compatible with the latest stable version of the server (2.4.1).
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I never tested CasparCG on Linux, therefore I don’t really know how the server is run or what API I should call there to tap into the console and process state. Also, WPF won’t run on Wine at all, so even with server support, the config editor will not work as it’s 90% UI.
I don’t think there’s a need for a launcher like this on Linux beyond the config editor, as the guys at SuperFly.tv already have the sofie launcher that has other nice features and it’s cross platform.
I know it’s nice to have the quick config editor and even the config file selector. I’ve been using it a lot lately and it’s very useful when developing for different projects.
That said, it would be hard to port this over to another UI framework at this stage.
