v0.16.1

Vapourkit 0.16.1

Vapourkit now has a website along with extensive documentation!!

This release is a small follow-up to 0.16.0 — this release also bundles everything from 0.16.0 below, since the two ship back-to-back.

Bug fixes (new in 0.16.1)

• Fixed "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'execute')" crash on upscale — when something canceled or restarted an upscale while it was probing the video for frame count (manually cancelling, starting a new run from the queue, etc.), the executor reference would get nulled mid-flight and the next step would crash. The handler now captures a local reference and bails cleanly if a cancel happened during the probe. Same fix applied to the preview-segment path.
• Fixed silent stall during "Getting frame count" — on a cold BestSource cache, the frame-count probe could sit silently for a minute or more while indexing, looking like a hang. Indexing progress now streams through the same progress bar used on first video load, and gets logged to the queue item log too. No more guessing whether it's stuck.

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Vapourkit 0.16.0

Important note:

No more manual plugin reinstall this release! Setup now installs plugins automatically as its final step, so the "reinstall your plugins from the top-left menu" dance from 0.15.0 is gone. If you're upgrading and setup detects missing plugins, it will install them on first launch — just sit through the progress bar.

33 commits since 0.15.0.

New features

• Privacy mode — new lock icon in the header that hides previews, input/output filenames, queue thumbnails and item names, and the editing-queue banner behind clickable veils. Notification toasts also become generic ("Error", "Notification", "Details hidden by privacy mode") so filenames don't leak to screen. Resolution / fps / duration stay visible. State is persisted across launches.
• Descriptive output filenames — output names now reflect your workflow instead of _processed. Example: EpisodeName-colorimetry_denoise_4x_resize2160.mkv. Includes applied filters, AI model scale, and output resolution. Auto-truncates at 32 chars. Manually choosing an output path disables auto-generation for that file. Toggle lives in Settings → Processing. Thanks @fs10102020!
• No-filters safety — a persistent banner now sits above the Upscale button when no filters are enabled, describing exactly what encoding will do, and a confirm dialog fires if you try to upscale anyway. The old "default-upscale" silent fallback (which would secretly run whichever AI model happened to be selected first) has been removed.
• Video indexing progress bar — BestSource indexing progress now streams to the UI as a progress bar under the video drop zone, so you can see what's happening on long initial loads instead of staring at a frozen panel.

Setup & installation reliability

• Auto-install plugins at end of setup — plugins are installed as the last step of first-run setup, with auto-retry-once on transient failures and explicit Retry / Continue-without-plugins recovery if it hard-fails. The PluginsModal stays for ongoing management from the menu.
• Fixed "Failed to initialize VSScript" on fresh installs — pinned vapoursynth==72 and vsjetpack==1.1.0 to prevent pip from silently upgrading the bundled Python binding to a newer ABI-incompatible version. Recent vsjetpack releases require vapoursynth>=73, which was clashing with the bundled R72 runtime DLL.
• Fixed vsview launch error — switched from python -m vsview to the vsview.exe Scripts wrapper (the vsview package has no __main__.py).

Filters

• Temporal Fix filter renames — Temporal Fix V2 is now TemporalFix (AI), and the classic version is now TemporalFix (Classic). Filter definitions revised.

UI & UX

• Descriptive-naming regen now respects your configured default output folder (was previously clobbering it with the input video's directory on first render).
• No-filters confirm dialog replaced with a persistent banner — fewer dialog interruptions, clearer wording about what encoding will actually do.

Under the hood

• New BestSource stderr progress parser with tests covering lastIndex reset and negative-percentage edge cases.
• New video-index-progress IPC channel; stdout/stderr handlers split in the frame-count probe to preserve descriptive error messages.
• pluginInstaller progress is routed through setup-progress while in setup mode, with a new retry-setup-plugins IPC and installing SetupProgress variant.
• New installDependenciesForSetup with auto-retry-once; "All Dependencies complete" emission moved out of dependencyManager.
• Content-length header narrowed to string before parseInt (fixes type error under newer @types/axios).

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