Version 1.2.3

A channel fader, and two crashes that left nothing behind

Version 1.2.3

• Each channel has a fader, beside its meter and next to the air mute. It sets the level the audience hears — NDI, SDI, RTMP, SRT and recording all follow it, and the monitor with them. Drag it, double-click for 0 dB, or ride it from a Stream Deck dial or a Companion button. (The Gain slider in Settings is unchanged: that one still trims a single output device.) Projects made before this open at unity, so nothing you already have sounds different.
• Fixed: the app could vanish on launch, with no crash report at all. Anything writing to a network connection whose far end had gone — an NDI receiver disconnecting mid-send, a dropped stream — was killing the whole process on the spot. It happened when the app was opened from the Finder and never from a terminal, which is why it looked random, and macOS wrote nothing down when it did.
• Fixed: a crash when a clip was stopped or skipped. Stopping a clip could tear down its decoder while a playout thread was still reading a frame from it. The window is a couple of milliseconds on a local disk but hundreds on a network share, so the same button that always worked locally could kill the app on a NAS.
• New: Help → Collect Diagnostics… puts everything support needs in one file on your Desktop — logs, crash reports, what the app was doing and how much memory it held. Your project is never included. If the app does go down, the next launch now writes what happened into its log instead of leaving no trace.
• The meter's dB scale no longer wraps: -12, -20 and -40 had too little room and read as -1 2 down the side of the meter.

Version 1.2.2

Version 1.2.2 — A clean quit, and a rundown output

• Fixed an intermittent crash on quit. NDI senders were left running while the process was already tearing itself down, so the crash landed inside the NDI library with nothing of PlayGrid's on the stack. Senders are now closed first.
• A project that cannot be read at launch is no longer replaced by an empty one. PlayGrid comes up with blank channels only when there is genuinely no project to open; if one exists but cannot be read, autosave is held back instead of writing over it, and every autosave now keeps the previous copy beside it.
• New: Rundown output. A 16:9 picture of one channel's running order — what is on air with its countdown, and what is queued next, following your cursor — to drop into whatever multiviewer you already use. Settings → Rundown, out over NDI, SDI or a window.