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In general, there's no reason to upgrade PIXILAB Player in an existing installation if it's running well, unless you know that a newer version provides some functionality that you need.

Same as 6.1 but fixes issue with multichannel audio failing if no audio is played as the browser is loaded. Fixes issue with the potential to break pxe boat in version 6.1.

Based on Porteus Kiosk 5.5 with Linux kernel 6.1.20 and Chrome 108.0.5359.124

Released alongside Blocks version 6.0 on 2022-12-14, with the following new features:

• Block Caching minimizes data traffic over wifi or the internet – it even lets players work offline for stand-alone playback.
• Watchdog to automatically reload the player should the browser become unresponsive or crash.

Based on Porteus Kiosk 5.4 with Linux kernel 5.15.28 and Google Chrome 98.0.4758.102.

Based on Porteus Kiosk 5.4 with Linux kernel 5.15.28 and Google Chrome 98.0.4758.102. Policies for allowing local video input (USB capture devices) and similar features over http without user intervention is now set automatically based Blocks server URL.

Based on Porteus Kiosk 5.3 with Linux kernel 5.10.73 and Google Chrome 93.0.4577.82. There's now an experimental flag to enable hardware accelerated video decoding, which works well on Intel graphics chipsets.

Based on Porteus Kiosk 5.2 with Linux kernel 5.10.25 and Google Chrome 87.0.4280.141.