getting ready for 1.72 release

README.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-# UxPlay 1.72 (beta): AirPlay-Mirror and AirPlay-Audio server for Linux, macOS, and Unix (also runs on Windows).
+# UxPlay 1.72: AirPlay-Mirror and AirPlay-Audio server for Linux, macOS, and Unix (also runs on Windows).
 
 ### **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 in v1.72**: Improved Support for (YouTube) HLS (HTTP Live Streaming)
+-   **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
     is **not** yet supported).Click on the airplay icon in the
@@ -14,10 +14,16 @@
     some videos fail to play_.
 
     * user-requested features: added support for setting a password (as an alternative to on-screen
-      pin codes) to control client access (-pw option); added support for
+      pin codes) to control client access (-pw option, see "man pw" or this README for details); added support for
       setting initial client audio-streaming  volume (-vol option), and output of audio-mode
       metadata to file (for display by some external process, -md option).
-    
+
+    **ISSUES** ***(Please help to solve if you have expertise)***
+
+    * in HLS video streaming from the YouTube app  (-hls option), rendered using GStreamer's media player "playbin3" (or playbin2, with option -hls 2),
+      we don't understand how to correctly deal with "interstitials" (= 15 sec commercials) when "skip" is pressed on the client.
+      (HLS is handled by handlers in lib/http_handlers.h)
+     
 ## Highlights:
 
 -   GPLv3, open source.
@@ -773,19 +779,12 @@ complete GStreamer, but seems to have everything needed for UxPlay).
 installations in non-standard locations indicated by the environment
 variable `$HOMEBREW_PREFIX`.**
 
-**Using GStreamer installed from MacPorts**: this is **not**
-recommended, as currently the MacPorts GStreamer is old (v1.16.2),
-unmaintained, and built to use X11:
-
--   Instead [build gstreamer
-    yourself](https://github.com/FDH2/UxPlay/wiki/Building-GStreamer-from-Source-on-macOS-with-MacPorts)
-    if you use MacPorts and do not want to use the "Official" Gstreamer
-    binaries.
-
-*(If you really wish to use the MacPorts GStreamer-1.16.2, install
-pkgconf ("sudo port install pkgconf"), then "sudo port install
+**Using GStreamer installed from MacPorts**: MacPorts is now providing
+recent GStreamer releases: install
+pkgconf ("sudo port install pkgconf"), then "sudo port install gstreamer1
 gstreamer1-gst-plugins-base gstreamer1-gst-plugins-good
-gstreamer1-gst-plugins-bad gstreamer1-gst-libav". For X11 support on
+gstreamer1-gst-plugins-bad gstreamer1-gst-libav".
+(The following  may no longer be relevant: *For X11 support on
 macOS, compile UxPlay using a special cmake option `-DUSE_X11=ON`, and
 run it from an XQuartz terminal with -vs ximagesink; older non-retina
 macs require a lower resolution when using X11: `uxplay -s 800x600`.)*
@@ -1691,9 +1690,11 @@ introduced 2017, running tvOS 12.2.1), so it does not seem to matter
 what version UxPlay claims to be.
 
 # Changelog
-1.72 2025-05-15. Improved HLS Live Streaming (YouTube) support.
+1.72 2025-05-03. Improved HLS Live Streaming (YouTube) support.
 Add support for password (HTTP Digest Authentication, -pw option) as
-alternative to on-screen pin codes.
+alternative to on-screen one-time pin codes.  Add requested options
+-md to export audio-mode metadata text to a file for display, and
+-vol for setting initial audio-streaming volume on client. 
 
 1.72 2024-04-22 Add requested options -md \<filename\> to output audio
 metadata text to a file for possible display (complements -ca option),