UI3-315

Version 315

• Fixed bug where PTZ 3D Positioning via mouse wheel click-and-drag failed to operate in group views despite the red or blue rectangle being rendered as intended.
• Fix issue with swipe left and right gesture actions not being properly suppressed when the gesture starts in the playback controls.
• Slightly reorganize Clips / Alerts section of UI settings.
• Minor revisions to Clip Properties panel.

UI3-314

Version 314

• The "UI3 Streaming Profiles" panel now has some empty space beside the profile list to facilitate easier scrolling on touchscreens, since the long-press-to-rearrange mechanism prevents normal touchscreen scrolling when touching list items.
• The streaming profile list in the "UI3 Streaming Profiles" panel now more-precisely defines which video codecs are configured in each profile, and color codes their labels for easier visual identification.
• Fixed bug where the context menu in the Playback Controls > Streaming Quality list did not always cause the list to close after a context menu item was clicked.
• Fixed bug where swipe left and right actions took effect even if the gesture should have been captured by PTZ 3D positioning. This update was intended to also prevent swipe gestures from taking effect on the Playback Controls area, but that fix was not correctly functional on touchscreens. Fixed in Version 315.

UI3-313

Version 313

• Clip Preview Animation: Navigate hotkeys are now bound by default to Numpad subtract and Numpad add.
  • These new defaults replace your current setting if you ran UI3-311 or UI3-312.
• Fixed a bug where the Clip Preview Animation Navigation buttons failed to select the currently open clip as a starting point in some cases.

UI3-312

Version 312

• Added a new hotkey "Open Selected Clip", bound to "Enter" by default. This is mainly useful if navigating through the clip list using the recently-added "Clip Preview Animation" navigation buttons or hotkeys.
• Fixed bugs related to the clip list thumbnail tooltip/popup and preview animation getting closed when it was intended to remain open.

UI-311

Version 311

• Added clip preview animation navigation hotkeys, unset by default. (#208)
• Added clip preview navigation buttons (optional) to UI Settings > Clips / Alerts. (#208)

UI3-310

Version 310

• When used with Blue Iris 6.0.1.1 or newer, UI3 can tell when it is connected via LAN versus WAN, and remembers the Streaming Quality choice separately for each case.
• Blue Iris changelog link updated to "https://blueirissoftware.com/changelog6.pdf" in Server Control panel.

UI3-309

Version 309

• Added <meta name="color-scheme" content="dark" /> element to ui3.htm which causes various system-provided controls to be rendered in dark mode that were previously usually rendered in light mode. These controls were mainly found in dialog boxes such as UI Settings.
• Right clicking a Streaming Quality profile in the menu in the playback controls area now opens a context menu where you can choose to Select or Edit the profile.
  • Currently only affects the menu at the bottom of the video player, not the one in the "Live" tab side bar.
• The Streaming Quality profile editor GUI now has an Apply button so you can apply changes without closing the editor panel.
• Some information about the H.265 codec in use (Profile, Level) is now shown in Stats for nerds.
• Misc fixes in Streaming Quality profile handling.

UI3-308

Version 308

• Added extra detail about the H.264 codec to Stats for nerds, including the Profile, Level, Constraints, Chroma, and QP sourced directly from the H.264 stream. H.265 details may come in a later update.
• Rewrote the Quality % to H.264/H.265 QP calculation to better match what Blue Iris has implemented, without needing to transfer javascript objects out of a google sheet.
• Upon loading UI3-308+ for the first time, existing "Quality" fields from Streaming Quality profiles are transitioned to the new Quality % scale introduced during the Blue Iris 6 beta. UI3-308 includes better mathematical precision in doing the conversion and will overwrite any previous conversion done by UI3-307. This also resolves an issue where the Streaming Quality profile editor could ask if you want to save the profile when you try to close it after making no changes.

UI3-307

Version 307

• The Streaming Quality profile editor has been updated to reflect recent encoder improvements in the Blue Iris 6 beta.
  • Added explicit toggle between Rate control modes: CBR/VBR/inherit. Your selection affects which encoder parameters are available to override.
    • Rate control CBR requires you to enter the Bit Rate target.
    • Rate control VBR requires you to enter the Quality % target and a Max Bit Rate.
    • Rate control inherit means you can't enter Quality and/or Bit Rate parameters. These are inherited from Blue Iris.
    • The Max Bit Rate field is no longer optional in VBR mode, to make the interface easier to understand and ensure more predictable encoder behavior and compatibility.
• Upon loading UI3-307+ for the first time, existing "Quality" fields from Streaming Quality profiles are transitioned to the new Quality % scale introduced during the Blue Iris 6 beta. Backwards compatibility has been implemented to improve behavior for users that may run UI3-307+ with Blue Iris 5.
• Added a section to the Help file that describes in detail the relationship between Quality % and the H.264/H.264 Quantization Parameter.
• Added nerd=5 URL parameter to automatically open the "Stats for nerds" panel upon UI3 startup. This parameter is automatically added and removed from the current URL when the "Stats for nerds" panel is opened or closed, so that sharing the URL or reloading the page will preserve it. Different numbers in the nerd=# parameter change where it is positioned within UI3. Read more about this in the Help file.
• Deleted the "sounds" directory again to reduce release file size, since the BI 5 branch should not receive any further stable updates.

UI3-306

Version 306

• Added H.265 playback support to the HTML5 and WebCodecs video players.
  • Requires H.265 webcasting support from Blue Iris. Version 5.9.9.99 (2025-11-13) or newer is recommended.
  • H.265 can be enabled in Blue Iris's serverside streaming profiles or in UI3's streaming quality profiles. UI3's default profiles all inherit the codec choice from Blue Iris.
  • Requires H.265 support from the web browser, which is not as widely available as H.264. If H.265 is enabled but not supported by your client, H.264 may be sent instead or you may be shown an error message saying H.265 is not supported. Full codec support negotiation between UI3 and Blue Iris is pending final implementation.
    • See UI3's "Stats for nerds" panel to determine which codec is actually in use.
  • Please note that H.265 encoding may require more CPU time on the Blue Iris server compared to H.264 encoding.
• Added a more aggressive form of HTML5 video delay compensation which can drop frames if a configurable player delay limit is exceeded (Settings > Video Player (Advanced) > Enable Max Delay Limit). Disabled by default.