Updates - VDO.Ninja

👉 Recent updates for VDO.Ninja can be found at https://updates.vdo.ninja or on our Discord server, at https://discord.vdo.ninja.

Some past updates can be viewed below:

Audio Enhancements

  • Director Volume Control: The director's volume slider is now logarithmic, allowing for significantly louder guest audio (up to 800% max loudness).

  • Privacy Muting: Embedded YouTube videos played via other guests/directors are muted by default when audio is disabled.

  • Speaker Output Mute Hotkey: ALT + A toggles speaker-output audio mute on/off when the browser tab is in focus.

  • Per-Instance Audio Output Destinations: Multiple unique audio output destinations can be set per VDO.Ninja instance by right-clicking a video.

  • Noise Gate: A new noise gate option for local audio controls automatically lowers mic volume when no significant sound is detected.

Video and Display

  • Remote Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) Control: Full PTZ control is now available remotely for cameras that support it via an IFrame API wrapper.

  • 360-Video Support: Equirectangular 360-video can be viewed via a standalone player page (Chrome/Chromium only, single stream at a time).

  • Transparent Streaming Video: Supports alpha channels with &webp + &codec=webp + &alpha for transparent streaming video.

  • Viewer-Side Slideshow: A new viewer-side option decodes incoming video and plays it back as a series of full-window images, with the ability to save single frames as PNGs.

  • Motion Detection: Triggers feature highlighting, IFrame API events, and OBS scene switching when motion is detected in a video (viewer-side).

  • Window Rotation: Rotates the entire contents of the VDO.Ninja window.

  • Director Mirror Guest Video: The director can now globally mirror a guest's video.

  • Fake Guests: Creates simulated guest videos to help visualize and position layouts.

  • Picture-in-Picture for Self-Preview: Your self-video preview can pop out into its own draggable Picture-in-Picture window.

  • Floating Picture-in-Picture for Entire Mix: A new mode allows popping out the entire video mix as a pinned window overlay, or by right-clicking any video and selecting "Picture in picture all".

  • Locked Mixer Output: Forces the mixer output to maintain a specific aspect-ratio regardless of the browser window size.

  • New Screen Share Layouts: Screen-share layouts now target an average of 80% screen real-estate for the main screen share and support up to 20 videos.

  • Drawing on Screen: A full-window transparent canvas overlay allows drawing on the screen, useful for notes or highlights. Toggle with CTRL + ALT + D.

  • Manual Zoom in Effects Menu: &effects=7 (or &effects=zoom) provides a manual zoom option in the effects menu.

  • Face Tracking/Auto-Centering: &effects=1 (or &effects=facetracking) auto-centers the user's face in their video, zooming as needed (requires Chromium experimental face detection API).

  • Tap-to-Focus: When a camera supports focusing, you can tap on the screen to auto-focus on that spot after switching the camera to manual focus.

  • Screenshot to Clipboard/Disk: Right-click a video and select "Snapshot to Clipboard" to save the current video frame as a PNG, or "Save to Disk".

  • Headless RTMP Streaming: The Browser-to-RTMP docker project now uses Chromium, improving A/V sync for headless or cloud-hosted streaming to YouTube/Kick/Mp4.

API and Integration

  • IFrame API Updates: New IFrame API commands (setBufferDelay, getGuestList) enhance external control and data retrieval. Advanced audio/video option changes are now announced over the IFrame API.

  • Server-Side Events (SSE): The API now supports SSE for push notifications, offering a simpler listen-only alternative to WebSockets.

  • OBS Remote Control Example: A new IFrame API example allows remote control of OBS without the built-in menu.

  • Cloudflare WHIP/WHEP Support: Added direct Cloudflare WHIP/WHEP support for publishing multiple senders with unique WHIP/WHEP URLs.

  • Open-Sourced WHIP API Server: The VDO.Ninja WHIP API server code is now open-source on GitHub.

  • Get Guest List API: A new remote API query option (getGuestList) returns guest slot values, stream IDs, and labels.

  • Group Room Timer API: Options to start/stop/pause the group room timer are available via remote HTTP/WSS API.

  • Website Function Enhancement: The &website function now allows starting, stopping, and changing website sources, not just a single static site.

  • WSS API Expansion: The WSS API now includes hang-up events for publishers and viewer-side events for incoming connections/streams, leading to richer StreamDeck integration.

  • Background Image for App: A new option to set a URL-encoded image as the app's default background, scaling to cover the page.

  • Dynamic Video Scaling: The IFrame API now supports dynamically changing the scale of a video.

  • Base64 JavaScript Execution: Users can add raw JavaScript to the URL (Base64 encoded) to run on page load (&base64js).

  • Publisher/Viewer Mute Events: The API sends push event notifications to WebSocket listeners when the local mic/speaker/camera is muted.

  • PowerPoint Remote Control: Added support for remote PowerPoint slide control (previous/next slide) via AutoHotKey + VDO.Ninja + MIDI. Includes built-in basic controller and IFrame sample app.

  • Group View Mode: &groupview allows viewing groups without needing to join them with your mic/camera. The HTTP/WSS API can now join and leave groups.

  • MIDI Delay: Allows precise delay of MIDI play-out from VDO.Ninja to your MIDI device, useful for music jamming with latency.

  • Experimental WHIP Support: Ability to publish directly from OBS to VDO.Ninja via WHIP.

  • Fullscreen Button Alternative: A new fullscreen button (&fullscreenbutton) mimics F11, keeping chat and control bar overlays visible.

  • Offline/Local Deployment Guide: A guide and script for deploying VDO.Ninja offline without Internet access.

  • Clear Saved Preferences: A new option (&clearstorage) clears all saved user preferences, including director settings and camera/microphone settings. A button is also available in the User menu.

  • Remote URL Change with Consent: When &consent is used on a guest's URL, the director can remotely change the guest's URL without additional permission.

  • Fake Guests: Creates simulated guest videos based on a specified value, useful for visualizing &cover, &portrait, etc.

  • Auto Mute Microphone: &automute automatically mutes a guest's microphone when not loaded in an active OBS scene.

  • Multiple Audio Devices: The &audiodevice parameter now accepts multiple audio devices.

  • Dedicated Control Bar Space: &controlbarspace forces the bottom control bar into its own dedicated space.

  • Local Audio Volume Control: &volumecontrol shows a dedicated local audio-volume control bar for canvas or image elements.

  • Visually Impaired Meta Data: More meta data added to help with assisted readers.

  • Label Suggestion: &labelsuggestion asks the user for a name but provides a default if left blank or canceled.

  • Group Mode Behavior: &groupmode changes how groups work when not in a group; users outside a group do not hear or see anything from others also in group mode.

  • Custom Layouts via URL: &layouts accepts a URL-encoded array of layouts for remote activation via API.

  • Director's Microphone/Output Refresh: A refresh option for the director's microphone/output change button can re-establish the audio pipeline without user permission.

  • HTTP/WSS API State Values: The API can now return STATE values as replies to GET/POST/WSS requests.

  • Custom Groups in Director's View: Custom groups used by remote guests now display in the director's view.

  • Welcome Image: &welcomeimage specifies a URL for a welcome image that appears and fades after a guest joins.

  • Screen Share Layout Prioritization: Screen-share layouts now prioritize screen real-estate for the main screen share.

  • Mono Mic Input for Guests: A checkbox for guests to set their mic input to MONO mode, especially useful with &stereo or &proaudio.

  • Wait Image Fitting: &waitimage now fits or covers the screen, and works with scene links.

  • P2P Connection Type in Stats: Publisher's connection type is now available to the viewer's side stats.

  • Face Bounding Boxes via API: &getfaces (or {getFaces:true} via IFrame API) requests a continuous stream of face bounding boxes for inbound videos.

  • Mobile Touch for Tap-to-Focus: Added mobile touch support for tap-to-focus feature.

  • Scrollable Audio/Video Settings: Audio/video director control settings are now scrollable for better visibility.

  • P2P Connections in Stats: &showconnections displays the total number of p2p connections of a remote stream in the director's room and automixer.

  • Chat/DirectorChat API: showChat and showDirectorChat HTTP/WSS API options for sending messages to guests.

  • Noise Gate Remote Control & Settings: The noise gate can now be controlled remotely, and its variables can be tweaked.

  • Compressor Remote Control: Option to remotely control the compressor with three states (Off/On/Limiter).

  • Preview/Director Layout Toggle: A button in the director's room toggles between a Preview layout and the normal Director layout.

  • Content Hint Parameters: New sender-side parameters (&contenthint, &screensharecontenthint, &audiocontenthint) to balance resolution vs. frame rate and optimize audio based on content type.

  • Custom Scenes Sorted: Custom scenes are now sorted based on alphanumerical value.

  • Display Name Multi-Line: Display names can be on multiple lines using .

  • Custom Grid Overlay: The &grid effect can be customized by passing an image link.

  • User-Friendly Proxy: proxy.vdo.ninja/alpha/ offers a more user-friendly alternative to &proxy.

  • Active Speaker Modes: &activespeaker=3 and 4 will not switch to show audio-only sources.

  • Chunked Mode Camera/Audio Switching: Chunked mode now allows switching cameras/audio without breaking.

  • Screen Share Tab Opening: Right-clicking the screen-share icon offers an option to open the screen share in a new pre-configured tab.

  • Screen Share Aspect Ratio: &aspectratio now works with screen shares, or &screenshareaspectratio for screen shares specifically.

  • Director Solo-Talk Volume Drop: When the director talks in solo-talk mode, other guests' volume drops to 25%.

  • Hide Co-Directors: &hidecodirectors hides co-directors from appearing in the director's room.

  • Clickable URLs in Chat: Chat messages containing URLs will now have those URLs be clickable.

  • Director Screen Share as Second Stream: Director's screen share now counts as a second video stream, allowing both camera and screen share by default.

  • Firefox Video Encoding Pause: Firefox now supports fully pausing video stream encoding to a guest (v110+).

  • Director Video Stream Pause: Director can now fully stop preview for Firefox v110+ guest streams.

  • Firefox Full-Window Preview: Full-windowing own preview on Firefox v110+ no longer pauses video for other guests.

  • Guest Slot Preference: &slot allows guests to specify a preferred slot for auto-assignment.

  • Queue Transfer: &queuetransfer transfers a guest to another room in queue mode.

  • Activate Guest Button: A director can now activate a guest in queue mode with a dedicated button.

  • Broadcast Transfer: &broadcasttransfer sets the default for transferring guests in broadcast mode.

  • Multiple Unique Audio Output Destinations: Allows routing different audio streams to different output devices.

  • Sensor Data Enhancements: &sensor now includes speed and altitude data, and &sensorfilter allows explicit listing of sensor data to capture.

  • QR Code for Links: Right-clicking a link offers the option to show it as a QR Code.

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