Improve handling of expired YouTube refresh tokens.
Fix reporting of HEVC video width/height.
Show a warning icon if video save would change resolution or frame rate.
Schedule future YouTube broadcasts.
Automatically choose the matching scheduled broadcast when opening a game.
Speed up transcoding by avoiding unnecessary video pixel format changes.
Change battery status color according to remaining charge.
Add opponent column to CSV export.
Fix some cases where the video output was all green.
Export text with UTF-8 encoding to preserve diacritic marks and other special characters.
Add keeper shut out stat.
Reduce CPU usage during playback from 40% to 2% on Intel integrated GPUs with Quick Sync.
Improve the algorithm that keeps the YouTube chapter count <=100.
Allow “auto” broadcasts to be added to a playlist.
Options to add date prefix and “(Live Stream)” suffix to live stream titles.
Fix shootout dot display bugs.
Show shootout score tally on large scoreboard.
Known Issues
Certain apps like Zoom and OBS can “steal” the camera from SimpleSportsCaster so be careful that you don’t launch other apps that might use your camera while you’re in the middle of a live stream or a recording. If this happens, your live stream will go black and your recording will stop.
On Windows versions prior to May 2020 (build 19041 aka 2004), pure black pixels in logo images may become transparent. To avoid this, either upgrade to the latest version of Windows or avoid using pure black in your team logos. For example, use #010101 instead.
The SVG support in Windows isn’t always perfect. If your SVG file doesn’t show up after you import it, then you might be able to get it to work by making a few simple edits to the SVG file in Notepad or another text editor. For example, look near the top of the file to see if the svg tag uses the width and height properties. If it does, then try removing them and see if the file imports successfully.
The scoreboard and game clock don’t redraw while SimpleSportsCaster is minimized. Game time still advances normally but it just doesn’t show on the screen until SimpleSportsCaster is restored from the minimized state.
Fix a bug that would override the privacy status of scheduled streams in progress.
Fix several bugs affecting team rosters.
Export multiple game timelines to a single CSV file.
Allow live recording using the H.265/HEVC format.
Add a finder control to allow searching for values in data grids.
Known Issues
Certain apps like Zoom and OBS can “steal” the camera from SimpleSportsCaster so be careful that you don’t launch other apps that might use your camera while you’re in the middle of a live stream or a recording. If this happens, your live stream will go black and your recording will stop.
On Windows versions prior to May 2020 (build 19041 aka 2004), pure black pixels in logo images may become transparent. To avoid this, either upgrade to the latest version of Windows or avoid using pure black in your team logos. For example, use #010101 instead.
The SVG support in Windows isn’t always perfect. If your SVG file doesn’t show up after you import it, then you might be able to get it to work by making a few simple edits to the SVG file in Notepad or another text editor. For example, look near the top of the file to see if the svg tag uses the width and height properties. If it does, then try removing them and see if the file imports successfully.
The scoreboard and game clock don’t redraw while SimpleSportsCaster is minimized. Game time still advances normally but it just doesn’t show on the screen until SimpleSportsCaster is restored from the minimized state.
Use your voice to tag plays as they happen. Plug in a microphone and let SimpleSportsCaster’s speech recognition simplify the task of building a timeline of events during the match.
Add team rosters and tag plays for individual players.
Create automatic highlight reels or match recaps for football/soccer.
Many new football/soccer event types are available for tagging by voice or by button press.
Stoppage time graphics for football/soccer.
Export a spreadsheet of your complete match timeline that links each event back to the video on YouTube.
Known Issues
Certain apps like Zoom and OBS can “steal” the camera from SimpleSportsCaster so be careful that you don’t launch other apps that might use your camera while you’re in the middle of a live stream or a recording. If this happens, your live stream will go black and your recording will stop.
On Windows versions prior to May 2020 (build 19041 aka 2004), pure black pixels in logo images may become transparent. To avoid this, either upgrade to the latest version of Windows or avoid using pure black in your team logos. For example, use #010101 instead.
The SVG support in Windows isn’t always perfect. If your SVG file doesn’t show up after you import it, then you might be able to get it to work by making a few simple edits to the SVG file in Notepad or another text editor. For example, look near the top of the file to see if the svg tag uses the width and height properties. If it does, then try removing them and see if the file imports successfully.
The scoreboard and game clock don’t redraw while SimpleSportsCaster is minimized. Game time still advances normally but it just doesn’t show on the screen until SimpleSportsCaster is restored from the minimized state.
Detect and mitigate dropped frames when streaming to keep audio and video in sync.
Apply button scaling to menus and other flyouts on the Game page.
Additional rounded corners on UI elements of the Game page.
Add plus/minus one second playback controls.
Allow YouTube description file to be saved at the same time as video.
Hide team alerts when dragging the scrubber back in time.
Known Issues
Certain apps like Zoom and OBS can “steal” the camera from SimpleSportsCaster so be careful that you don’t launch other apps that might use your camera while you’re in the middle of a live stream or a recording. If this happens, your live stream will go black and your recording will stop.
On Windows versions prior to May 2020 (build 19041 aka 2004), pure black pixels in logo images may become transparent. To avoid this, either upgrade to the latest version of Windows or avoid using pure black in your team logos. For example, use #010101 instead.
The SVG support in Windows isn’t always perfect. If your SVG file doesn’t show up after you import it, then you might be able to get it to work by making a few simple edits to the SVG file in Notepad or another text editor. For example, look near the top of the file to see if the svg tag uses the width and height properties. If it does, then try removing them and see if the file imports successfully.
The scoreboard and game clock don’t redraw while SimpleSportsCaster is minimized. Game time still advances normally but it just doesn’t show on the screen until SimpleSportsCaster is restored from the minimized state.
Add alerts to the small scoreboard for foul, handball, offside, corner kick, penalty kick, and own goal in addition to the existing alerts for yellow card, red card and substitution. Any of these alerts can be disabled by using the switches in the alerts section on the style settings page.
Improve the Undo panel at the bottom of the game page to show a configurable number of the most recent events. Tap an event to open a menu that allows you to delete it if necessary.
Scale the drop-down menu items on the game page to match the size of the buttons.
Make it easier to use SSC on two computers using the same database and previously recorded video files from a shared folder. Once you point SSC to the shared folder on the second computer, it should remember that location and use it when opening any other video in that folder.
Query for ten upcoming YouTube broadcasts (up from five).
Add help buttons to all the “Choose a game” controls on the start page.
Add a page with controls for saving and loading all app settings.
Reorder settings tabs alphabetically.
Fix some bugs in the hit detection logic of the tap-to-hide UI feature.
Fix a bug that prevented loading databases with leading or trailing spaces in the name.
Show the pixel format in use by the preview, recording, and streaming overlays on the video settings page.
Fix a bug preventing keyboard shortcuts from working before switching to the game page.
Known Issues
Certain apps like Zoom and OBS can “steal” the camera from SimpleSportsCaster so be careful that you don’t launch other apps that might use your camera while you’re in the middle of a live stream or a recording. If this happens, your live stream will go black and your recording will stop.
On Windows versions prior to May 2020 (build 19041 aka 2004), pure black pixels in logo images may become transparent. To avoid this, either upgrade to the latest version of Windows or avoid using pure black in your team logos. For example, use #010101 instead.
The SVG support in Windows isn’t always perfect. If your SVG file doesn’t show up after you import it, then you might be able to get it to work by making a few simple edits to the SVG file in Notepad or another text editor. For example, look near the top of the file to see if the svg tag uses the width and height properties. If it does, then try removing them and see if the file imports successfully.
The scoreboard and game clock don’t redraw while SimpleSportsCaster is minimized. Game time still advances normally but it just doesn’t show on the screen until SimpleSportsCaster is restored from the minimized state.
Switch from subscriptions to perpetual licenses via one-time purchases. More information.
Maintain the currently selected broadcast when pressing the refresh broadcasts button.
Known Issues
Certain apps like Zoom and OBS can “steal” the camera from SimpleSportsCaster so be careful that you don’t launch other apps that might use your camera while you’re in the middle of a live stream or a recording. If this happens, your live stream will go black and your recording will stop.
On Windows versions prior to May 2020 (build 19041 aka 2004), pure black pixels in logo images may become transparent. To avoid this, either upgrade to the latest version of Windows or avoid using pure black in your team logos. For example, use #010101 instead.
The SVG support in Windows isn’t always perfect. If your SVG file doesn’t show up after you import it, then you might be able to get it to work by making a few simple edits to the SVG file in Notepad or another text editor. For example, look near the top of the file to see if the svg tag uses the width and height properties. If it does, then try removing them and see if the file imports successfully.
The scoreboard and game clock don’t redraw while SimpleSportsCaster is minimized. Game time still advances normally but it just doesn’t show on the screen until SimpleSportsCaster is restored from the minimized state.
Add stats for hockey and ringette (same as lacrosse for now). Select hockey or ringette in the league settings to set the stats mode. Add blocks to hockey, lacrosse, and ringette stats.
Add a shot clock which can be enabled in the league settings.
Shot clock will count down whenever the game clock is running.
Shot clock will reset when possession changes, there is a shot on goal, goal, own goal, or when the period changes.
Shot clock stops when possession is set to None.
Color of the shot clock text can be changed in the style settings.
Add a league setting to synchronize the shot and game clocks so they update at the same time.
Add a substitution button and shortcut to record substitution in/out events to the timeline. Show a corresponding drop-down message below the small scoreboard when a substitution occurs.
Show yellow and red card drop-down messages on the small scoreboard.
Changes
Improve logo scaling and caching.
Keep event buttons enabled once the clock has run for the first time in any period.
Preserve the title of previously scheduled broadcasts.
Don’t wait to query for app updates at launch. Let it complete asynchronously.
Update possession button state when replaying a previously recorded video.
Remove the KeepScore flag from the league settings.
Relabel the clock +/- buttons
Add expanders to show/hide the period, clock, score, possession, statistics, and graphics items on the Game page.
Add YouTube API retry logic. Remove the query for the default broadcast because YouTube no longer supports it.
Use the latest Windows styling from WinUI 2.6.
Upgrade to Windows Community Toolkit 7.0.2
Change stats names to distinguish between shoot-out penalties and regular penalties. Add hyphen to “shoot-out”.
Bug fixes
Fix the refresh broadcasts button because it wasn’t working properly.
Prevent the game clock switch from wiggling when possession changes during playback of a previously recorded video.
Prevent the clock and scoreboard from being left in an undetermined state when opening a new game.
Prevent occasional null reference exception when quitting the app.
Fix stats not displaying after changing game properties.
Fix a bug preventing new database table rows from showing up.
Fix a bug causing home team shootout PKs to always show zero.
For lacrosse, rename ShotTaken to ShotOffTarget (aka “Wide”).
Known Issues
Certain apps like Zoom and OBS can “steal” the camera from SimpleSportsCaster so be careful that you don’t launch other apps that might use your camera while you’re in the middle of a live stream or a recording. If this happens, your live stream will go black and your recording will stop.
On Windows versions prior to May 2020 (build 19041 aka 2004), pure black pixels in logo images may become transparent. To avoid this, either upgrade to the latest version of Windows or avoid using pure black in your team logos. For example, use #010101 instead.
The SVG support in Windows isn’t always perfect. If your SVG file doesn’t show up after you import it, then you might be able to get it to work by making a few simple edits to the SVG file in Notepad or another text editor. For example, look near the top of the file to see if the svg tag uses the width and height properties. If it does, then try removing them and see if the file imports successfully.
The scoreboard and game clock don’t redraw while SimpleSportsCaster is minimized. Game time still advances normally but it just doesn’t show on the screen until SimpleSportsCaster is restored from the minimized state.
Add mute and volume control for the microphone input.
Show elapsed and estimated remaining time while rerecording a previously recorded video.
Fix issues related to transcoding previously recorded videos.
Sometimes the scoreboard would stop updating after saving was finished.
Sometimes the first few frames of the transcoded video would show the wrong scoreboard state or size.
Sometimes after transcoding a video the scoreboard would be stuck at the wrong size.
Sometimes unexpected animations would play during the first second of the transcoded video.
Fix a bug in exported timeline timestamp calculation for streams that were interrupted and resumed.
Known Issues
Certain apps like Zoom and OBS can “steal” the camera from SimpleSportsCaster so be careful that you don’t launch other apps that might use your camera while you’re in the middle of a live stream or a recording. If this happens, your live stream will go black and your recording will stop.
On Windows versions prior to May 2020 (build 19041 aka 2004), pure black pixels in logo images may become transparent. To avoid this, either upgrade to the latest version of Windows or avoid using pure black in your team logos. For example, use #010101 instead.
The SVG support in Windows isn’t always perfect. If your SVG file doesn’t show up after you import it, then you might be able to get it to work by making a few simple edits to the SVG file in Notepad or another text editor. For example, look near the top of the file to see if the svg tag uses the width and height properties. If it does, then try removing them and see if the file imports successfully.
The scoreboard and game clock don’t redraw while SimpleSportsCaster is minimized. Game time still advances normally but it just doesn’t show on the screen until SimpleSportsCaster is restored from the minimized state.
Add descriptive text to some error messages that may occur while streaming.
Set default recording format back to standard MPEG-4. There are still too many issues with fragmented MPEG-4, especially the increased chance of audio/video desync, which doesn’t happen with standard MPEG-4.
Fix a crash that could happen when trying to start a live stream when not connected to a network.
Fix the eyedropper button in the color picker dialog (it would sometimes get stuck behind the logo image).
Prevent the game clock from stopping if Undo is pressed during stoppage time.
Add https:// prefix to SSC web link at the bottom of exported YouTube description text so YouTube makes it clickable.
Known Issues
Certain apps like Zoom and OBS can “steal” the camera from SimpleSportsCaster so be careful that you don’t launch other apps that might use your camera while you’re in the middle of a live stream or a recording. If this happens, your live stream will go black and your recording will stop.
On Windows versions prior to May 2020 (build 19041 aka 2004), pure black pixels in logo images may become transparent. To avoid this, either upgrade to the latest version of Windows or avoid using pure black in your team logos. For example, use #010101 instead.
The SVG support in Windows isn’t always perfect. If your SVG file doesn’t show up after you import it, then you might be able to get it to work by making a few simple edits to the SVG file in Notepad or another text editor. For example, look near the top of the file to see if the svg tag uses the width and height properties. If it does, then try removing them and see if the file imports successfully.
The scoreboard and game clock don’t redraw while SimpleSportsCaster is minimized. Game time still advances normally but it just doesn’t show on the screen until SimpleSportsCaster is restored from the minimized state.
Fix a bug that sometimes caused the game clock to stop working if you minimized and restored the app while neither recording nor streaming.
Compute correct timeline timestamps for live stream broadcasts that are resumed after an interruption. Previously, timestamps restarted from zero after stream resumption.
Avoid printing “Team Stats” header when exporting the timeline for a game without any stats.
Show battery charge percentage on status bar.
Status bar now shows “Stream Starting” in orange when a stream is in the process of starting.
Known Issues
Certain apps like Zoom and OBS can “steal” the camera from SimpleSportsCaster so be careful that you don’t launch other apps that might use your camera while you’re in the middle of a live stream or a recording. If this happens, your live stream will go black and your recording will stop.
On Windows versions prior to May 2020 (build 19041 aka 2004), pure black pixels in logo images may become transparent. To avoid this, either upgrade to the latest version of Windows or avoid using pure black in your team logos. For example, use #010101 instead.
The SVG support in Windows isn’t always perfect. If your SVG file doesn’t show up after you import it, then you might be able to get it to work by making a few simple edits to the SVG file in Notepad or another text editor. For example, look near the top of the file to see if the svg tag uses the width and height properties. If it does, then try removing them and see if the file imports successfully.
The scoreboard and game clock don’t redraw while SimpleSportsCaster is minimized. Game time still advances normally but it just doesn’t show on the screen until SimpleSportsCaster is restored from the minimized state.