add -ca (w/o filename) option for gstreamer rendering of coverart

README.md

@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 ### **Now developed at the GitHub site <https://github.com/FDH2/UxPlay> (where ALL user issues should be posted, and latest versions can be found).**
 
+-   **NEW on github**:  option -ca (with no filename given) will now render
+    Apple Music cover art (in audio-only mode) inside
+    UxPlay. (-ca `<filename>` will continue to export cover art for
+    display by an external viewer).
+
 -   **NEW in v1.72**: Improved Support for (YouTube) HLS (HTTP Live Streaming)
     video with the new "-hls" option (introduced in 1.71).* **Only streaming from the YouTube iOS app
     (in \"m3u8\" protocol) is currently supported**: (streaming using the AirPlay icon in a browser window
@@ -93,7 +98,8 @@ status](https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/uxplay.svg)](https://repolo
 
 -   For Audio-only mode (Apple Music, etc.) best quality is obtained
     with the option "uxplay -async", but there is then a 2 second
-    latency imposed by iOS.
+    latency imposed by iOS.  Use option "uxplay -ca" to display any "Cover Art" that
+    accompanies the audio.
 
 -   If you are using UxPlay just to mirror the client's screen (without
     showing videos that need audio synchronized with video), it is best to
@@ -606,12 +612,14 @@ value advances it.)
     -FPSdata.) When using this, you should use the default
     timestamp-based synchronization option `-vsync`.
 
--   Since UxPlay-1.54, you can display the accompanying "Cover Art" from
-    sources like Apple Music in Audio-Only (ALAC) mode: run
+-   You can now  display (inside UxPlay)  the accompanying "Cover Art" from
+    sources like Apple Music in Audio-Only (ALAC) mode with the option
+    `uxplay -ca`. _The older method of exporting cover art to an external
+    viewer remains available: run
     "`uxplay -ca <name> &`" in the background, then run a image viewer
     with an autoreload feature: an example is "feh": run
     "`feh -R 1 <name>`" in the foreground; terminate feh and then Uxplay
-    with "`ctrl-C fg ctrl-C`".
+    with "`ctrl-C fg ctrl-C`"_.
 
 By default, GStreamer uses an algorithm to search for the best
 "videosink" (GStreamer's term for a graphics driver to display images)
@@ -1060,11 +1068,11 @@ can be controlled with a password set when uxplay starts (set it in
 the .uxplay startup file, where it is stored as cleartext.)  All users must
 then know this password.    This uses HTTP md5 Digest authentication,
 which is now regarded as providing weak security, but it is only used to
-validate the uxplay password, and no user credentials are exposed.   _Note:
--pin and -pw are alternatives: if both are specified at startup, the
-earlier of these two options is discarded.  If *pwd* is not specified,
-a random 4-digit pin code is displayed, and must be entered on the client
-at **each** new conenction.
+validate the uxplay password, and no user credentials are exposed.
+If *pwd* is **not** specified, a random 4-digit pin code is displayed, and must
+be entered on the client at **each** new connection.
+_Note: -pin and -pw are alternatives: if both are specified at startup, the
+earlier of these two options is discarded._
 
 **-vsync \[x\]** (In Mirror mode:) this option (**now the default**)
 uses timestamps to synchronize audio with video on the server, with an
@@ -1245,6 +1253,9 @@ number of microseconds. Default is 0.25 sec (250000 usec). *(However,
 the client appears to ignore this reported latency, so this option seems
 non-functional.)*
 
+**-ca**  (without specifying a filename) now displays "cover art"
+  that accompanies Apple Music when played in "Audio-only" (ALAC) mode.
+
 **-ca *filename*** provides a file (where *filename* can include a full
 path) used for output of "cover art" (from Apple Music, *etc.*,) in
 audio-only ALAC mode. This file is overwritten with the latest cover art
@@ -1731,6 +1742,9 @@ introduced 2017, running tvOS 12.2.1), so it does not seem to matter
 what version UxPlay claims to be.
 
 # Changelog
+xxxx  2025-07-07 Render Audio cover-art inside UxPlay with -ca option (no file
+specified).
+
 1.72.2 2025-07-07  Fix bug (typo) in DNS_SD advertisement introduced with -pw
 option.  Update llhttp to v 9.3.0