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revert(player): drop the experimental HD-unlock fullscreen flash

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User-tested on prod: the flash fires (fullscreen → back to small) but the source
stays 360p — YouTube doesn't switch quality within the flash window and we can't set
it via the (dead) API, so the unlock has no effect. Give up on forcing windowed HD.
Restore PlayerModal to its 0.36.2 state (native-menu-yield + scroll-anywhere volume
kept). Also prune the failed HD-quality attempts from the release notes (the flash
and the transform-revert notes, plus the hollow 'higher quality' claim in 0.36.0) so
there's no user-facing trace of an effort that yielded nothing.
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npeter83 2026-07-10 18:14:32 +02:00
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frontend/src/lib/releaseNotes.ts
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@ -15,19 +15,10 @@ export interface ReleaseEntry {
export const RELEASE_NOTES: ReleaseEntry[] = [
{
version: "0.36.3",
version: "0.36.4",
date: "2026-07-10",
summary: "Experimental: the player tries to unlock higher video quality automatically.",
features: [
"The in-app player now tries to lift YouTube's windowed quality limit for you. YouTube caps a small embedded player to a low resolution and only real fullscreen unlocks HD — so on the first video you open in a session, the player briefly flashes to fullscreen and back to trigger that unlock, which then sticks for the rest of the session. You may notice a short flash on that first video; later videos won't flash. (It's still bandwidth-dependent, and can be reverted if it doesn't help on your setup.)",
],
},
{
version: "0.36.2",
date: "2026-07-10",
summary: "Player's YouTube controls back to normal size (a quality experiment was reverted).",
fixes: [
"Reverted an experiment that tried to raise video quality in the small (windowed) player: it only shrank YouTube's on-screen controls without actually improving quality, because YouTube caps an embedded player's quality by its on-screen size. Tip for the sharpest picture: switch the player to fullscreen once — YouTube then keeps the higher quality even after you return to the small player.",
chores: [
"Internal in-app player cleanup.",
],
},
{
@ -41,9 +32,8 @@ export const RELEASE_NOTES: ReleaseEntry[] = [
{
version: "0.36.0",
date: "2026-07-10",
summary: "Sharper in-app playback and full access to YouTube's own player menu.",
summary: "Full access to YouTube's own player menu in the in-app player.",
features: [
"The in-app player is now larger and asks YouTube for higher quality, so videos look sharper than the old low-resolution default. (For the maximum your connection allows, go fullscreen.)",
"You can now open and navigate YouTube's own player menu — Quality, Speed, Captions and More options — all the way down. When you use YouTube's built-in controls, the app's click-to-play and scroll-for-volume shortcuts briefly step aside (a small badge shows this), and they return the moment you move the pointer off the video.",
],
},