{"id":6691,"date":"2026-04-02T10:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:11:13","slug":"usher-2-4-1-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=6691","title":{"rendered":"Usher 2.4.1 is out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/usher\">Usher<\/a> 2.4.1 is out now, with a fix for a stuck dialog issue that could hang Usher, and a new feature for those who want to link to a specific spot (deep linking) in one of their Usher files.<\/p>\n<p>The hanging bug would cause a discoverable &#8220;power user feature&#8221; dialog to become non-dismissible, leaving force quit as the only way out. This used to work fine, but some recent macOS update must have broken it. We have fixed it again, so if you&#8217;re lucky enough to find that dialog, it won&#8217;t crash Usher :).<\/p>\n<p>The deep link feature allows you to link to any specific spot in any video (that Usher can play natively) using a URL syntax in either standard URL form or Markdown format. You can access deep linking from the menu bar or the playback bar; check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/usher\/releasenotes\">release notes<\/a> for a quick how-to.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a bonus for reading the blog post: Those deep links will open and start the video playing at the chosen spot; if you want them to open paused, change <tt>play<\/tt> to <tt>open<\/tt> in the copied URL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usher 2.4.1 is out now, with a fix for a stuck dialog issue that could hang Usher, and a new feature for those who want to link to a specific spot (deep linking) in one of their Usher files. The hanging bug would cause a discoverable &#8220;power user feature&#8221; dialog to become non-dismissible, leaving force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-6691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","category-usher"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6691"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6697,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions\/6697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}