Notes:
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- Deleted
x Correction
#number is the identifier of bug report/requested feature/patch
bug reports and feature request are here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=86862
Version 0.7.45, 2011-06-15
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+ QuickTime: Support of EIA-608 streams created by Final Cut
+ Matroska: Support of Matroska tags
+ Matroska: parsing of tags at the end of the file (previously: only tags at the beginning)
+ MP4/MOV with uncompressed streams: scan type (interlaced/progressive)
+ YUV4MPEG2 (Y4M) support
+ GXF: more information about AES3 audio streams
+ EXR: Basic support
+ E-AC-3: dialnorm/dynrng (first frame / first block) information
+ LXF: support of DV PAL
+ DPX: Support of Cineon old format
+ DPX: Support of file with Little Endian configuration
+ MPEG-4: better support of file with more than one mdat or moov atom
+ WAV: more details from bext chunk
+ MXF: AFD (in both descriptor or ANC) support
+ MXF: Support of AES3 / Dolby E in 2 mono channels
+ MPEG-4: support of some malformed (without mdat atom) files
+ MXF: Better detection of streams without Essence Compression descriptor
x MPEG Video: Custom matrix detection was broken
x DPX: Industry specific header was not well decoded
x JPEG-2000: Chroma subsampling 4:2:0 was recognized as 4:4:4.
x Matroska: Handling default values for TrackVideoDisplayWidth and TrackVideoDisplayHeight
x MPEG-TS: private audio streams with 0xCO stream_id were not correctly detected
x FLV and RIFF: Changing Sorenson H.263 to Sorenson Spark because this stream format is too much incompatible with H.263
x MXF: Some specific files (including AFD in descriptor) were not well parsed
Version 0.7.44, 2011-04-19
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+ AVI: support of some corrupted files (RIFF size set to 0)
+ AC-3: support of streams with 16-byte time stamp between frames
+ MPEG-TS: creation of index files, seek feature
+ GXF: seek feature
+ MXF: seek feature
+ MPEG-TS: detecting wrong stream registration information and skipping it
+ NTSC: accepting 483-line streams as NTSC
+ MXF: Parsing speed improvement, especially for high bitrate (>300 Mbps) streams
+ TGA file basic support
+ libmms: MMSH support (Linux/Mac only), thanks to RGB Networks
+ libcurl: HTTP header option and Time to live, thanks to RGB Networks
+ Id3v2 and MPEG-4: possibility to customize tag mapping
+ TIFF: more details
x MXF: some specific files were not analyzed, fix sponsored by http://maxnine.com
x LXF: random crashes
Version 0.7.43, 2011-03-19
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+ MPEG-TS: detection and display of real time PAT/PMT change improved
x EIA-708: crash with some specific files
x MP4: crash with wiles including mix of PCM and other audio formats
x AAC: crash with some malformed streams
x FLV: crash with some specific files (longer audio than video at the end of the file)
x MP4: wrong framerate information with some specific files (track header after media information)
Version 0.7.42, 2011-03-03
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+ AES3: bit depth of AES3, bit depth of compressed audio stream, endianess
+ Id3v2 and MP4 tags: better mapping with iTunes fields
+ Tags: removal of technical only fields
+ MPEG Video: intra_dc_precision information (in advanced mode)
+ MXF: detection of raw pictures
+ MXF: support of URL encoded locators
+ MXF: color subsampling
+ DXW format support
x #3171468, ADIF: crash in some cases
x #3169916, IFO: crash in some cases
x #3173391, Id3v2: was using local encoding instead of ISO-8859-1
x MPEG Video, discarding bad (always 0) group_start
x AVC: crash with file having big log2_max_pic_order_cnt_lsb_minus4 value
x AVC: wrong GOP information in some cases
x Ut Video: Color space information was wrong
x MPEG-4 Visual: Advanced Simple@L0 was detected as Advanced Simple@L1
x AVI: Crash with some AVC streams (not sized blocks)
x MPEG Audio: crash with some files
x AAC: crash, infinite loop or wrong result with some files
x Trying to quicker reject a junk file
x AVI: OpenDML indexes were no more parsed
x Windows installer: OpenCandy library is updated and Microsoft agrees it is not dangerous for user privacy, it does not alert anymore. We do not transmit or collect personally identifiable information.
Version 0.7.41, 2011-01-24
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+ MPEG-TS: random cases with full parsing of the file
Version 0.7.40, 2011-01-24
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+ QuickTime: detection of AES3 and Dolby E
+ QuickTime: Apple CEA-608 and CEA-708 (in CDP) support
+ JPEG 2000: Chroma subsampling
+ JPEG 2000 in MXF: Color space
+ JPEG 2000 in MPEG-4 and MJ2: Color space
+ MPEG-4: mx5p CodecID support
+ ISO 9660 (CD/DVD/Blu-ray dump) detection
x MPEG-TS: wrong detection (as encrypted) of some streams with a lot of transmission errors
x MPEG-TS: wrong management of some PAT/PMT updates (real time parsing)
x MPEG Video: wrong duration with some raw streams
x FLV: wrong duration with some files
x libcurl: crash if requesting a libcurl URL but libcurl library not present
x MPEG Audio: crash with some malformed files
x MPEG-4: error between recorded date and encoded date
Version 0.7.39, 2011-01-03
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+ OGG: more CELT attributes, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
+ DV: better detection of display aspect ratio for specific (non standard?) streams
+ MPEG-7: support of ISO-IEC 13818-2 / H.262 (MPEG Video) version 2000 (multi-view / 4:2:2)
+ MXF: Clean aperture size support
+ D-10 (AES3) in MXF: real channel count
+ MPEG-TS: detection and analysis of ADTS in stream_id_extension
+ #2943900, MPEG-4 Visual: count of maximum consecutive B-frames
+ MP4: Handling of Nero library information atom
+ Id3: TAG+ support
x #3140453, MKV with AAC: support of HE-AAC v1/v2 detection even if AudioSpecificConfig is missing
x #3138883, ID3v2: crash in some cases if Data length indicator is used
x #3139417, MPEG-PS: duration for caption detection was shorter than expected
x #3139276, H.263: more precision about the different flavors of H.263
x AVI and MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3: error if audio stream duration estimation
x FLV: better handling of weird bitrate metadata
x D-10 (AES3) in MXF: Bit rate was wrong
x AC-3: crash if false-positive detection of AC-3 and CRC is valid and bsid is wrongly set
x #3141059, FLV: trying to detect partial files (so metadata are wrong) and using timestamps instead
x #3141052, AVI: wrong duration, no detection of rec chunks, with some files
x #3145968, RealMedia: not integer frame rate handling + HE-AAC filling
x Id3v2: bad handling of some tags
x MPEG-TS/PS: Frame count / duration accuracy of some very specific files
x MPEG-TS/PS: Not counting non-decodable frames (without the corresponding I-Frame)
Version 0.7.38, 2010-12-16
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+ uClibc compatibility, thanks to Metin KAYA <metin@EnderUNIX.org>
+ MPEG-TS: ID in all streams if a TS streams contains several substreams
+ JPEG in MOV: Scan type
+ AAC: implicit SBR and implicit PS detection (complete HE-AAC and HE-AACv2 detection)
+ AAC/LATM: more details (channels, profile...)
+ AAC/SL: more details (channels, profile...)
+ MPEG-TS and MPEG-PS with trace feature activated (Linux/Mac by default): speed improvement
+ DTS: indication of HD and Core configurations if there is an HD part
+ #3118446, MXF: VC-3 (DNxHD) detection
+ VC-3 (DNxHD) raw stream support
+ VC-3 (DNxHD): Bit depth
+ TrueHD/MLP: Duration (only in full parsing mode)
+ MPEG-TS: option for ignoring ATSC transport_stream_id indication
x MPEG-TS: some teletext and DVB subtitles were not detected
x #3111584, MXF: phantom track with weird result if an unknown track is found
x #3116952, DTS and AC-3: was set as lossy in all cases (DTS Master Audio and AC-3 TrueHD are lossless)
x #3137160, ADTS: some files with wrong extension were not correctly detected
Version 0.7.37, 2010-11-22
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+ DPX format support
+ Compression mode (Lossy / Lossless) information (note: JPEG 2000 "profile" is moved to this new field)
+ #3095129, AVI: MLC Lossless codec support
+ #3095136, AVI: AMV Video Codec support
+ IFO: chapter information (thanks to Bastian Wegener)
+ MPEG-4: header size / data size / footer size information (in advanced mode)
+ MPEG-4: AVmp CodecID (.mov referencing .mxf) support
+ MPEG-TS: option for setting maximum scan duration
+ MPEG-TS: option for forcing stream info display even if not found in the stream (data from PMT)
x MXF: avoiding infinite loop due to circular reference
Version 0.7.36, 2010-10-24
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+ HDV 720p/1080i/1080p commercial names support, sponsored by http://www.chyro.fr/
+ Raw TrueHD support
+ MP4: "lpcm" (PCM from DVD) Support (with channel positions)
+ MKV: compression mode (zlib...) display
+ WAV: support of AAC (ADTS) with CodecID 0x8180
+ WMV: Handling of weird Aspect Ratio information in Extended Content Description
+ File interface: possibility to indicate begin and end offset of the analysis (partial analysis)
+ #3082158, .m4b file extension support
+ #3087674, Ut Video Lossless support
+ #3087677, WebP: basic support (detection only)
+ #3072929, MP4: DTS Express support
+ MPEG-4: Handling of external files referenced by "code" atom
+ M-JPEG and M-JPEG 2000 are renamed JPEG and JPEG 2000
+ MP4 and HDV 1080i: detecting containers lying about width (saying 1920 but it is 1440)
+ DTVCC Transport and SCTE20: Option for displaying empty streams
+ DPX format detection
x #3034092, MPEG-TS: hang up if program is modified (zapping) in the file
x AAC: removal of empirical detection of SBR and PS (too many problems)
x AVI: trusting in priority frame count from index of indexes with broken files
x MKV: AVC "unknown profile" removal
x AVC: some frame rates were reported as twice the real frame rate
x #3029308, Id3v2: support of frames with Unsynchronisation bit set
x #3065114, MPEG-Video: duration calculation issues with raw streams and open GOPs
x AFD: crash with malformed streams
x MPEG-7 output: missing references for MPEG-4 Visual and RF64
x #3086701, ID3: freeze/crash with ID3 tag at the end of the the file
x LXF: some files were not completely analyzed (missing video)
x JPEG: Chroma subsampling value was always set to 4:2:0, wrong
x MP4 with MPEG Video: do not trust anymore raw stream timecode
Version 0.7.35, 2010-09-05
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+ Teletext subtitle support
+ DVB subtitle support
+ CEA-608/708: language
+ Library: "Per frame" interface, like ffmpeg
+ AFD: AFD (Active Format Description) value and detail
+ MPEG-TS: SCTE35 detection and parsing
+ MXF: Ancillary data (S436M) support
+ MPEG-TS: Codec ID (stream_type)
+ MXF parser improvements
x #3036119, MKV: default language value is eng
x DV: weird display with some DV with synch problems.
x AVC: wrong detection of bitrate mode for AVC in MP4
x MPEG-TS: crash and wrong detection of some non MPEG-TS files
Version 0.7.34, 2010-07-09
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+ WebM support, sponsored by http://digi-metrics.com/
+ LXF (Harris/Leitch) support
+ #3008704, IVF (Indeo Video Format) support
+ #3002376, Blu-ray: Source (.m2ts) for the .mpls parser
+ DV: handling of unsynched streams
+ Basic view, Bit Depth is added to the audio part
+ FLV: Framerate info for some not yet supported weird files
+ Demux (library only): demuxed packets can be forced to contain 1 complete frame
+ XML output: MediaInfo version
+ Parsing speed (Library only): option for a quicker analyzing, but with some missing features
+ AVI and Huffman (HFYU): Colorspace
+ AVI and Fraps: Colorspace
+ AVI and Lagarith: Colorspace
+ MPEG-4: Channel map basic support
x CEA-708: Skipping some malformed streams
x JPEG/M-JPEG: Resolution was in some random other field
x #3001707, AAC in MP4: mono aac file detected as stereo
x AVI: crash with some malformed files
x AVI: Stream identifier was not filled in some cases
x MPEG-PS: some files were not well detected
x WAV: Bit Depth is back
x WAV/PCM: Byte sign was wrong if Bit depth >8
x Decimal point issues with some specific compilers/OS
x MPEG-4: removing support of btrt atom for average bitrate, too many wrong values
x AVI: crash with some specific files (avc1 CodecID)
x MPEG-4+AAC: Trying to better detect the (non)presence of PS if there is no PS header
x MPEG-TS/PS: more precision on duration
Version 0.7.33, 2010-05-14
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+ Colorimetry field is replaced by Color space and Chroma subsampling
x Some words were not translatable
x Solaris port was broken
Version 0.7.32, 2010-05-02
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+ MPEG-7 output improvements
+ DV: Better detection of DVCPRO 50 and 100 (again), especially in MXF
+ P2: support of P2 XML files and P2 directory structure
+ XDCAM: support of XDCAM XML files and XDCAM directory structure
+ N19: More attributes
+ ISO-639-2 3-letter standard for language field (for third-party software)
+ Additional commercial name of a stream or container (XDCAM IMX, DVCPRO, AVC-Intra 50...)
+ MXF: support of detection of files without Track number in the headers
+ MXF: Operational Pattern
+ MPEG-4: Aperture size support
x AVC: some files were wrongly analyzed (frame rate...)
x AVI: better support of files with only one big data chunk (professional cameras)
x MPEG-4: Huge memory usage with some files (files with DV and PCM)
x DVR-MS: width/height was wrong in previous version
Version 0.7.31, 2010-04-16
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+ SCTE 20 closed caption support
+ Difference between width/height in the container and in the raw stream
+ AVC: GOP structure
+ MXF: more raw stream formats are detected (MPEG-4 Visual, A-law...)
+ DV: Better detection of DVCPRO 50 and 100
x DV: less files without the right extension wrongly detected as DV
Version 0.7.30, 2010-03-26
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+ AVC: Multiview Video Coding (MVC) basic support
+ AVI: better handling of some RGB or RLE codecIDs
+ Solaris package creation files update (with relocation)
+ MSVB: better handling of C pointers
+ WAV: Skipping wrong sample count values
+ GXF: Caption in ancillary data detection
x #2970227, WAV: a file was wrongly detected as DTS
x CEA-608: some captions were wrongly detected as active
x MPEG-7: some corrections in order to be valid
x FLV: Duration for video not starting at Time 0
x WMV and MPEG-TS/PS: some crashes are fixed
x MSVC2010 and MSVC2008 project files were missing some files
Version 0.7.29, 2010-03-08
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+ GXF (SMPTE 360M / RDD 14) support
+ GXF: support of CDP (SMPTE 334-2) in Ancillary data (SMPTE 334-1) (not complete)
+ AAC in MPEG-TS: Profile/Level
+ PCM in MKV: format name, channel positions
+ MPEG-7 and PBCore 1.2 output (pre-release)
+ MPEG-7: more metadata
+ Solaris package creation files
+ MPEG-TS overall bit rate is more precise
x Channel positions: more coherency in the naming
x DVD-Video (IFO): ID name was in hexadecimal only, now in Decimal+Hexa
Version 0.7.28, 2010-02-19
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+ AIFF: ID3v2 tags support
+ AutoIt3: MediaInfoList interface
+ RIFF: Handling of INFO chunk in hdlr chunk
+ VorbisCom-based comments (FLAC, OGG...): support of new fields
+ MPEG-4 Visual: Duration for raw streams
+ Display Aspect Ratio 3:2 instead of 1.500
+ Detection of N19 (EBU Tech 3264)
+ MPEG-2 Video: new profiles (4:2:2, Multi-view)
+ MPEG-2 Video: GOP structure
+ MPEG-4: handling of video streams with a different last frame duration
+ RIFF: Skipping OpenDML frame count (not always valid), when index is available
+ AMR: more attributes (Sampling rate, duration...)
x MPEG-PS and MPEG-TS: crash with some files
x MPEG-4: some bitrates to zero with a null bitr or btrt atoms
x MPEG-4: managing different kinds of compressor name format
x AMR in MPEG-4: crash with some specific files
x #2952623, Id3v2: USLT with ISO-8859-1 charset was not well read
x #2952637, Id3v2.2: PIC tag was not well read
x #2952638, XML output: sometimes empty tags
x #2920138, XML output: invalid char in XML tags
Version 0.7.27, 2010-01-03
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+ MPEG Audio: Emphasis
+ MPEG-TS: PCR timestamp can be extracted in real time
+ Linux library: visibility is now limited to the official API
x MPEG Audio, AAC, Vorbis: removal of irrelevant Resolution field even from containers
x MPEG Video: error in calculation of frame rate if sequence extension is used
x MPEG Audio: some VBR files without VBR header were wrongly detected as CBR
x #2921999, unexpected quotes in the text output
Version 0.7.26, 2009-12-18
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+ MXF: support of external files parsing
+ MLP support
+ TrueHD: more details (channels, sampling rate...)
+ TrueHD: display of both core and TrueHD details
+ #2905950, MPEG-4: Cover extraction
+ ADTS: better bitrate estimation
+ #2910579, MPEG-4 Visual: data_partitioned and reversible_vlc display
+ #2910572, MPEG Video: BVOP presence display
+ Internet Media Type (aka MIME-Type) display (but hidden by default)
+ ADTS: Id3v2 support
x #2897584, ID3v2: Crash with some malformed UTF-16 strings
x MXF: Better handling of interlaced content (height and frame rate)
x Homogenization of Video resolution (ie no more 24-bit resolution, but 8-bit)
x MPEG-TS: less false-positive detection of encrypted streams
x MXF: better management of complex files (with references)
x MOV: better management of complex files (with references)
x Digital Video: better management of DV50, more bitrate accuracy
x Digital Video: better management of DV100 (Width, Height, BitRate)
x Digital Video: Some Colorimetry (4:x:x) were wrong
x FLV: some files were not detected
x MPEG Audio, AAC, Vorbis: removal of irrelevant Resolution field
x MPEG formats: some Profile renaming, for more coherency
Version 0.7.25, 2009-11-13
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+ MediaInfo (customized) with HTTP input: User Agent setting
+ #2896693, MPEG-TS: skipping some malformed PMT (with elementary_PID=0)
x #2844911, AAC in 3GP: false detection of SBR and PS (again)
x #2894411, MPEG Audio: UserDefined Covers replace other covers types
x MPEG Audio: Some profiles were not displayed
x RealMedia: Some Titles were not displayed
x Matroska: Wrong detection of 6-channel Wavpack (detected as 2-channel)
Version 0.7.24, 2009-10-30
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+ MPEG-4: DVCPRO HD detection
+ WAV: better handling of Wave Extension codec IDs
+ MPEG Audio: profile and extension display
+ MPEG-TS: More information for ADTS in non-audio PES ID.
+ FLV: test of video bitrate info integrity
+ MPEG-4: "sbtl" subtitles support
+ MPEG-4: old-style Apple language codes support
+ MPEG-4: XDCAM support
+ MPEG Video: vbv_buffer_size info
+ AVC: cpb_size_value info
+ VC-1: hrd_buffer info
x #2882376, AVCHD: reports some incorrect AVCHD framerate
x MPEG-4: some Pixel Aspect Ratio settings were not handled
x Customized output: respect of carriage return from the platform
x MPEG-TS demuxer: more tolerance of bad blocks
Version 0.7.23, 2009-10-16
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+ OGG: more details for MPEG-4 Visual, MPEG Audio and AC-3
+ MPEG-4: more information for MPEG Audio streams
+ MPEG-4: more information for ADTS streams
+ MPEG-TS: more information for ADTS streams
+ QCP (RFC 3625) format support
+ Refactoring of parsers, for more speed and less false-positives
+ WAV: INFO chunk parsing
x Blu-ray directory analyzing was broken
x VC-1: some streams were not detected
x AMR in MP4: Resolution set to 13 or 14 bits instead of default 16 bits
x Help, Known parameters was hanging up
x AVC: frame rate was wrong for progressive streams with frame doubling
x MPEG-TS: crash while parsing some streams with specific ATSC event_id
Version 0.7.22, 2009-09-25
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+ MPEG-TS: KLV data detection
x #2859504, 3GPP: some files were not detected
x Some corrections about AVI Display Aspect Ratio
x QuickTime: external files were completely parsed, too long
x DV: Support of 4 mono channel configuration
Version 0.7.21, 2009-09-04
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+ More permissive license for redistribution only
Redistribution license is intended for companies
with legal issues (if they can not deal with LGPL)
+ AVC: Support of frame doubling/tripling
+ AVC: Colour description
+ QuickTime: support of external files parsing
x #2828430, Quicktime: 180 degrees rotation display was not displayed
x MPEG-TS: whole file was parsed (long)
x MPEG Video / MPEG-4 Visual: new algorithm for library name detection
x #2844911, AAC in 3GP: false detection of SBR and PS
x MKV: some chapters had timecode issues
Version 0.7.20, 2009-07-31
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+ TAK format support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
+ #2822681, Quicktime: Rotation display (from iPhone...)
+ ASP.net web application example
+ Java/JNA, Linux: dynamic load of libzen if not in LD_PATH
x MPEG-PS: Some durations were a bit too long
x MPEG-PS: Better handling of PTS/DTS for private and extension streams
x ADTS: Handling of SBR and/or PS streams
Version 0.7.19, 2009-07-17
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+ ALS raw files support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
+ LA (Lossless Audio, old) support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
+ SLS detection, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
+ AAC: forcing SBR/PS when it is implicit (if <=24KHz, if 1 channel)
+ AVC: Closed captions detection
+ #2813919, APE: CompressionLevel
+ XML output: track names are changed, for a better usability by XML parsers
x MKV: Original display aspect ratio was not displayed
x #2817479, Blu-ray/M2Ts: crash with some specific file names
x MXF: the whole file was parsed, parsing now only the useful part
Version 0.7.18, 2009-07-03
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+ MXF support
+ Blu-ray: BDMV directory parsing
+ Blu-ray: clpi/mpls files support
+ M2TS: Language if the .clpi blu-ray file is found
+ OpenSolaris support
+ MPEG-4 Visual: support of Sony SMC (security video) tags
+ MPEG-4 Visual: ASP profile was wrongly displayed
+ Mac OS X: Creation of universal and 10.4 compatible binaries option
x Mac OS X: no more double-carriage return in Text view
Version 0.7.17, 2009-06-19
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+ Python : adaptation for version 3
+ XML output (thanks to Steen Jost Jensen)
+ MPEG-PS/TS: ATSC Closed captions (both EIA-608 and EIA-708) detection
+ MPEG-PS/TS: Language of closed caption (ATSC)
+ DV: camera settings
+ DV: Closed captions detection (raw DV, or in .mp4 and AVI container)
+ JPEG 2000 support
+ MPEG-4: support of JPEG 2000 embedded in a MPEG-4 container
+ MPEG-4: support of ProRes 422 / ProRes 422 HQ codecs
+ MPEG-4, AMR: Vendor and version
+ Blu-ray: support of PCM (Frequency, resolution, bitrate)
+ MPEG-TS: speed improvements
x #2803396, sometimes crash with tiny (40-79 bytes) files
x #2801211, MPEG-4/3GP: support of 3GP tags
x #2795345, MPEG-4 Visual: crash with some specific user_data
x #2793960, MKV: some MKV renamed as .ac3 were detected as AC-3
x #2796417, MPEG-4: Some files with Camera user data were not detected
x so interface was not working since some releases on Linux
x MPEG Video: better detection of 2:3 Pulldown
x MPEG-4: Forcing AMR to 8KHz/Mono whatever the container says
Version 0.7.16, 2009-05-20
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+ MPEG-4: More information for Avid DV streams
+ MPEG-4: more complete parsing (raw stream) of files with compressed headers
+ VC-1 and MPEG-Video: displaying the original framerate for streams with 2:3 pulldown
+ WMA: Handling of Mutual Excluded streams
x MPEG-4: some files with compressed headers were not parsed
x MPEG-4: Kodak files with EXIF data were not parsed
x MPEG-4 (Quicktime): some files with compressed header were not well parsed
x MPEG-4: Some files with a TimeCode track had wrong duration
x MPEG-PS: some files with wrong timestamp were not well parsed
x MPEG Audio with APE tags: crash with big tags
Version 0.7.15, 2009-04-30
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+ Wave64 (.w64) support
+ MPEG-4: Better handling of 4GiB+ files
+ MPEG-4: audio parts from a DV stream are displayed
+ MPEG-4: better DV analyzing
+ DV: parser improvement (speed, accuracy)
x DTS: 768/1536 Kbps streams are corrected to the real bitrate (755/1510 Kbps)
x MPEG-TS: some stream durations were not well computed (few seconds only)
x AVC: freeze with some malformed encoder settings
Version 0.7.14, 2009-04-17
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+ #2738780, local time display for modified/created date
+ DLL installers (both 32 and 64 bits)
+ WAV: RF64 (Wav files >4 GiB) support
+ AVI: Audio delay from the container
x #2734021, E-AC-3: some files were not detected
x FLAC: some files with big attachments were not well detected
x MKV: some huge video (3840*2160) were not well parsed (no encoding settings)
Version 0.7.13, 2009-04-03
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+ #2635230, MPEG audio: Lame encoder settings
+ #2706146, WMV: detection of container wanted aspect ratio
+ #2611726, MKV: Audio delay detection
+ #2721811, MKV: TrueHD detection
+ Java: JNA (Java Native Access) binding
+ Exported "stream" interface for analyzing streams in memory (beta)
+ SHN (Shorten) detection
+ TAK (Tom's lossless audio compressor) detection
+ MPEG-TS parser optimizations
+ SWF: better handling of videos
+ WAV: better handling of 4GiB+ files
+ WAV: Extensible Wave support
+ MKV: Handling of chapters in multiple languages
+ Stream size for all streams when 1 video and all audio streams are CBR
+ Chapters are moved to menu part for better coherency with MPEG-TS, developers see Changes.txt for more info
x #2712761, AVI: unsupported SalmonSoft text codec makes MediaInfo silently fail
x #2719534, MKV: handling "modified" headers (zero padding)
x #2720822, MPEG Audio: was freezing with 1 malformed file
x #2721949, IFO: some stream IDs were false
x #2725808, MPEG-PS: some "OTA" files were detected with TrueHD instead of normal AC-3 audio
Version 0.7.12, 2009-03-20
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+ Complete refactoring of the code for speed improvements and future features
+ #2686943, MPEG-4: ISMV (IIS Smooth Streaming Media Video) basic support
+ MPEG-4 Visual: distinction between MPEG and H.263 default matrices
+ MPEG-TS: ATSC and DVB EPG support
x MPEG-PS: duplicate stream infos with some AC-3 streams (with program map)
Version 0.7.11, 2009-02-13
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+ OGG: Better Kate and CMML codecs support
+ AVI: Detecting wrong aspect ratio from a broken AVI header
+ DTS: Handling of Little Endian and 14-bit streams
+ WAV: ID3v2 tags parsing
+ MPEG Video: frame order even for progressive sequence
x #2559346, MKV: Detection of framerate in MKV without framerate header
x #2474280, OGG: some streams had bad stream size
x MPEG-TS: some buggy file may corrupt memory
x MP3/Id3v2: crash with one malformed file
Version 0.7.10, 2009-01-30
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+ Mono (C#/Linux) binding
+ MPEG-4: Encoding library name
+ #2474280, OGG: Old version of Dirac identifier support
+ MPEG-TS: Encoded date for HDV
+ DVR-MS: Delay between two tracks
+ WAV: EBU Broadcast Wave format v1 support
+ CMP4: Basic support
x #2529963: Infinite loop on one file
x #2473140, DTS: error preventing 96/24 DTS detection
x MPEG-4: Better support of Aspect ratio
x Output was unstranslated and weird when $LANG is not set
x C++ binding error in 0.7.9
x Python binding improved and corrected (no more crash with Linux)
Version 0.7.9, 2009-01-19
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+ OGG: Dirac support
+ OGG: Speex support
+ OGG: other formats (JNG, Kate, MIDI, PCM...) detection
+ SWF: detection of more audio streams
+ MPEG-PS: Handling of PlayStation2 audio
+ #2474119, Minimal MZ (PE) and ELF detection
+ SMV (WAV/ADPCM+JPG files) file format support
+ DPG (Nintendo DS) file format support
+ QuickTime: TimeCode track analysis
+ MPEG-4 subtitles: difference between 'text' and 'tx3g' codecIDs
x Python binding update for more compatibilty
x #2474280, OGG: handling of files with Skeleton Metadata
x #2445654, OGG: better false-positives detection
x #2493685, AVI: Wrong video duration for some malformed 4GB+ AVI/DV files
x #2516007, "Language" raw tag was sometimes 3 letter long instead of 2-letter long
x Floating point overflow correction
Version 0.7.8, 2008-12-09
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+ Changing version schema, only 3 numbers (next versions will 0.7.9, 0.7.10...)
+ Better Linux integration
+ rpm stuff (thanks to oc2pus http://packman.links2linux.org)
+ deb stuff
+ #2259421, FLAC and OGG: Encoding library name and version
+ FLV: version 10 support
+ FLV: duration of files without metatags
+ MPEG-4: Delay (useful when multiple videos are present)
+ Dirac: profiles updated from the latest specification
+ MPEG-4: more precise detection of OGG based codecs
+ MKV: better newest codecs handling
+ MKV: RealVideo/Audio support improvements
+ mipsel CPU support
x MPEG-PS: Trying to have a better precision for duration
x WMV: crash with some malformed files
x MPEG-TS: some channel names where not shown
x MPEG Video (version 2): some streams were misdetected as CBR
Version 0.7.7.8, 2008-11-10
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+ #2216498, LPCM in VOB: more attributes (channels count, sampling rate, bitrate)
+ #2182135, Wavpack: support of multichannel files
+ AVC: detection of the newest profiles
+ DTS: detection of DTS-HRA, DTS-MA, DTS-Express, thanks to http://madshi.net
+ AES3 PCM in MPEG-TS detection
+ Wavpack: Encoder settings
+ WMV with "WVC1" codec identifier: video interlacement
+ MPEG-4: E-AC-3 support
x #2186682, MPEG-2 Video: Wrong PAR and DAR for Panasonic MPEG2 Files
x MPEG-4: some AC-3 and AAC specific files reported wrong channels value
Version 0.7.7.7, 2008-10-17
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+ Support of VP5 file format
+ MPEG-4 Visual and MPEG Video: can now display the custom matrices data
+ WM: interlacement detection for VC-1 based codecs (WMV3...)
+ #2148321, PNG: more info
+ AVI: Better association of abcAVI tags to MediaInfo tags
+ PureBasic binding
+ Delphi binding: dynamic load (by default) of the library, thanks to Icebob
x #2142995, MPEG-4: handling the Display Aspect Ratio from the track Header (tkhd)
x #2141277, MPEG-PS/TS: Audio ID was hex for MPEG-PS but decimal for MPEG-TS streams
x #2109107, Tags in Flac or Ogg: modification of the tag types priorities
x #2120224, MPEG-4: some specific files were not parsed completely (missing info)
x MPEG-TS with Dirac: some specific files were not parsed completely (missing info)
x MPEG-4: Crash on MPEG-4 Visual format without DecDecoder stuff
x Command line: was not reading custom template in UTF-8 codepage
x DV: some files were not well detected
x MPEG Video: some files were badly detected with 3:2 pulldown
x AVS (Chinese): some corrections, thanks to Tom's translation of documents
Version 0.7.7.6, 2008-09-12
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+ [2088009] Flac: Picture tag support
+ Flac: Support of Id3v1&2 in a Flac file
+ WM (ASF/WMV/WMA): detection of wrong framerate in header, trusting now the timestamp instead of the header
+ WM (ASF/WMV/WMA): detection of framerate from the timestamp when the framerate info is not available in the header
+ MPEG-4 with AVC: Added information about buggy files readable by all players except iPods
+ OGG: OGG with FLAC (pre- and post-FLAC 1.1.1) support
x FLI/FLC: were not correctly detected
x MPEG-TS without PAT/PMT: the complete stream was parsed, may be very long
x Wavpack: duration and bitrate were false
x #2071681, MPEG Audio: handling of truncated MPEG audio frames at the end of a file
x #2032760, MPEG Audio: handling of MPEG Audio files with junk at the end
x #2085149, Id3v2: was crashing with some malformed tags
Version 0.7.7.5, 2008-08-22
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+ #2044174, AVS (Chinese Audio Video Standard) support
+ #2030684, AVI: Support of malformed chunks
+ Matroska: delay between audio and video calculation (for AC-3, DTS, MPEG Audio)
+ Full Replay gain support (gain/peak, track/album) for Flac/Ogg/MP3
+ MPEG-TS without PAT/PMT (example: stream captured by some satellite TV receivers) support
+ MPEG-TS: Service info (name, provider, channel number) for both DVB and ATSC tags
+ Dot and thousand separator localized
+ Matroska: Handling of audio Delay
x #2023872, DV: Crash with floating point exception on some files
x #2024706, BDAV: Some QuickTime files misidentified as BDAV
x #2033307, MPEG Video: Some raw files with high bitrate were not detected
x #2040411, Id3v2: Crash with some malformed Id3v2 fields
x #2036580, Id3v2: Problem when parsing big (>1M) Id3v2 tags, file was no more detected
x #1893830, WMA/WMV: there was textual info (Linux/Mac only)
x Video, Resolution/bits per pixel was sometimes per color entity, sometimes per pixel, now always per pixel
x MPEG Video, the "Component" video standard was not detected
x DLL only, the "by buffer" interface was broken
Version 0.7.7.4, 2008-07-11
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+ #1995653, AVI: Delay of interleaves (example: "64 ms (1.53 video frames)")
+ #1995574, AVI: Report if the audio frames are split across or aligned on
+ MPEG-Video (raw): handling of "not started at the beginning" time_code
+ MPEG-PS: Trying to prevent errors with time code reset in the stream
+ AVC: Trying to detect raw AVC streams without SPS/PPS
+ [2013746] AAC in MPEG-TS: complete parsing of ADTS stream for more info about AAC
+ AAC in MPEG-TS: complete parsing of IOD based stream for more info about AAC
+ MPEG-TS: better detection of PCR time code
+ AAC: specifying the muxing mode (ADIF, ADTS or LATM)
+ MediaInfo DLL: NetBeans java binding example
Version 0.7.7.3, 2008-06-27
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+ MPEG-TS: Detection of scrambled streams
+ #1995566: AVi, Identify ODML files
+ AC-3/DTS/AAC: Added another Channel configuration string (example: "3/2.1") in advanced mode
+ #1995569: Added proportion of each stream in the file (example: "500 MiB (90%)")
x MPEG-TS: Handling of multiple programs in one PMT PID
x MPEG-TS: Handling of streams in multiple programs
Version 0.7.7.2, 2008-06-13
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+ FLV: detection of AVC and AAC
x #1981032, Visual C++ 2008 binary is not compatible with Win9X, coming back to Visual C++ 2005
x #1964299, Never-ending 100% CPU if input file doesn't exist
Version 0.7.7.1, 2008-05-30
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+ MPEG Video: Detection of 2:3 and 2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3 Pulldown
+ VC-1: Detection of 2:3 and 2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3 Pulldown
+ AVC: Detection of MBAFF
+ Translations: more words can be translated
+ MPEG-4 files: More info (profile, format settings, encoder name, x264 settings) for some well-known stream formats
+ MPEG-4 files: Better handling of not common formats (ALS, PNG, AC-3, DTS... in .mp4)
+ Bluray: detection of subtitles
+ Additional formats detected: Module, Extended module, Impulse Tracker, Scream Tracker 3
x #1967663, mp4: some specific iTunes atoms were not correctly parsed
Version 0.7.7.0, 2008-05-16
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+ Third-party developpers: some MediaInfo fields have changed, please look at Changes.txt for more info
+ Python (Windows) binding
+ AC-3 TrueHD in bluray detection (even if the stream is splitted in 2 sub-streams)
+ Original framerate is shown if the framerate from the video stream and the one in the container are different
+ #1955061, Bluray: Duration
+ #1953908, FLV with audio delay detection
x Linux with UTF-8 locale was not accepting non-English characters in filenames
x #1954663, Some mono HE-AAC audio track detected as 2 channels with PS
x VC-1 in TS detection even if the stream_type is not declared
x xxxBSD compatibility
Version 0.7.6.4, 2008-04-27
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+ About the library : Java/Linux binding is available
+ DV (raw) files support
+ Better support of DV in AVI container (type 1 and 2)
+ AVC: Handling of SEI which is before a SPS
+ AVC in AVI: reading more info (Profile, Cabac...) from streams created by FFMpeg
+ Vorbis in AVI: reading more info (Max bitrate, tags...) from streams created by FFMpeg
+ Detection of VC-1 in MPEG-TS from MainConcept encoder
+ MediaInfoLib is now thread-safe
x #1943743, AVI with MPEG-Audio VBR and delay: delay was incorrect
x Pixel Aspect Ratio was sometimes inverted (1/x)
x XviD CodecID was redirected on Koepi website, no more available, changed to official XviD webpage
x #1946098, DV in AVI: DV aspect ratio errors
Version 0.7.6.3, 2008-04-12
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+ AVC: Count of reference frames
+ AU: Comments
+ Some global speed improvement
x #1931844, Id3v2: Unsynchronized frames support (v2.3 & v2.4)
Version 0.7.6.2, 2008-03-28
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+ MKV: handling of files created for streaming
+ MPEG-4: Handling of corrupted stream size info with some PCM streams
+ DVD video: Hebrew patch ("iw" code is mapped to Hebrew)
x MPEG-4: better handling of bitrate mode (VBR or CBR)
x AVI: MediaInfo reads now the framerate value from the container rather than the stream value
Version 0.7.6.1, 2008-03-14
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+ AC3: TrueHD detection
+ MPEG-TS (or Bluray): VC-1, AC3+ and AC3 TrueHD detection
+ AVC in MKV: all SEI userdata infos from x264/eavc in Writing library settings
+ EVO: Better detection of duration
+ Dirac: raw files parsing
+ MPEG-TS: Dirac management
+ MPEG-TS: DVB subtitles/Teletext management
x MPEG-4 Visual (DivX/XviD): writing library name was missing
x MPEG-Video: some DTS files with wrong extension were detected as MPEG-Video
x SWF: Compressed SWF files support is back
x "Inform" option with file as parameter was not well parsed
Version 0.7.6.0, 2008-02-29
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+ ID3v2 cover reading
+ Id3v2.2 (yes, it is old...) support
+ Id3v2: TXXX tags support
+ RMP3 (japanese MP3 based format?) support
+ SAMR in .mp4: some files have wrong sampling rate, forcing it to 8000 Hz
+ File_Created_Date and File_Modified_Date tags added (in advanced mode only)
+ MP3 encoded by Lame: Minimal (VBR) or Nominal (ABR) bitrate
x Better detection of Lame encoder
x AVC Display Aspect Ratio was not well detected if AVC is in a .mp4 container
x Matroska Display Aspect Ratio was deleted if AVC aspect ratio was set, now Matroska has priority
x "Subwoofer" term has been replaced by "LFE", more relevant
Version 0.7.5.9, 2008-02-08
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+ AVC: CABAC detection
+ #1886241: AVC: all SEI userdata infos from x264/eavc in Writing library settings
+ ADPCM: compagny which created the stream is now shown in the codec section
+ PCM: precision about Little/Big endianess, Integer/Floating point method
+ #1882691: AC3+: raw files are now detected
x AVC: FPS were sometimes 2x the reality
x RealMedia parser was brocken
x FLV parser was crashing
x FLV: Better detection of Nellymoser audio
x FLV: Disabling Framerate estimation if a VFR file is detected (estimation was false in this case)
x Better false-positive MP3 detection (NSV files are no more detected as MP3)
x IFO: there was a mistake betwwen NTSC and PAL framerates
x Win9X support was (again) brocken in 0.7.5.8
Version 0.7.5.8, 2008-02-01
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+ Matroska: Full parsing of DivX/XviD/H264/AVC settings (profile...)
+ AVI: Full parsing of AVC settings (profile...)
+ AVI: Added a tag "OpenDML" (for example, the PlayStation 3 doesn't support OpenDML files)
+ AVC: Framerate, Interlacement, writing library (only for eavc, x264 and MainConcept encoders)
+ TwinVQ : channels, bitrate and sampling rate
+ Musepack SV8 support
+ Musepack and Musepack SV8: tags support
+ AIFF and AIFC format support
+ MIDI format detection
+ FLV: FrameRate even if the tag is not in the header
+ AU/SND audio formats support
+ Vodei encrypted AVI files detection
+ Linux/MacOS: support of 2GiB+ files
+ FLV: Video parsing even if the container says there is no video
x APE Tags v1 are detected again
x MPEG-PS: some malformed files were not well parsed, fixed
x AVC: Cropping was not well handled (example: height was 1088 instead of 1080)
Version 0.7.5.7, 2008-01-09
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+ SWF: Tags version 9 support
+ MPEG-TS: DegiCipher 2 (DCII) support
+ DVR-MS format support (with MPEG Audio or AC3)
+ WMV: language tag
+ MPEG-2 Video: Nominal bitrate
x AVI: some speed improvments
Version 0.7.5.6, 2007-12-10
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+ AVI, Interlacement for M-JPEG codec
+ AVI, Interleaved tag
+ Better showing of well know values ("44.1 KHz", "22.05 KHz"...)
x AVI, was parsing the whole file in case of non-interleaved files
x MP3, was freezing on specific files
x #1838202: Flac, Resolution was 1 less the the real value (15 bits instead of 16...)
Version 0.7.5.5, 2007-11-09
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+ #1799859: Flac, tags are case insensitive
+ Matroska format parsing improvements
+ .mp4 speed improvement
x BDAV (Bluray) parser compilation was forgotten in the previous version
x AVI, Bitrate and stream size were false
x #1825218: IFO parser was brocken
x #1825521: .mp4 chapters times were wrong
x #1801549: DLL was crashing during Delphi/C# debugging sessions
Version 0.7.5.4, 2007-11-02
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+ Aspect Ratio is renamed Display Aspect Ratio
+ Pixel Aspect Ratio added (in advanced mode)
+ More attributes for AC3+
+ More attributes for VC-1
+ Profile and level for MPEG-4 Visual based formats (DivX...), AVC and VC1
+ Speed improvement for MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, DVD-Video (.vob), HD-DVD, BluRay
+ MPEG-4 AAC, Channels position
+ AAC (ADIF), More info
+ AAC (ADTS), More info
x FLV, there was bad dates on some specific metatags.
x #1818404: WAV with "float" PCM, bad detection
x CDXA (.dat) files parsing is back
Version 0.7.5.3, 2007-10-08
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+ Better OGG/OGM parsing
+ Better .ifo (DVD-Video) parsing
+ .rmvb files are now detected in Windows Explorer
+ Win9X/98/Me support does not request Microsoft unicows.lib anymore
x Win95/98/Me support was brocken since 0.7.4.6. It works again.
x #1798997: MPEG-4, some Apple codecs were wrongly reported
x Lot of memory leak correction, you can now parse 1000+ files without problems
Version 0.7.5.2, 2007-08-16
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+ Now accept AVI files with junk at the end
x #1770477: Video info for some low-bitrate MPEG files were not shown
x #1770509: MPEG 2 Audio Layer 2 was not well detected
x #1763282: FLV, wrong playtime on PPC based machine
x #1734113: IFO, crash with some specific files
x Tooltip extension was requesting development tools since 0.7.4.6. No more requested.
Version 0.7.5.1, 2007-07-23
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+ AVI: 24/30 fps (aka 120 fps hack or dual frame rate video) detection
+ TruAudio (.tta) support
+ Wavpack (.wv) support
+ MPEG-4 based containers: Codec/CC tag support
+ #1754143: AC3 & DTS detection in a .mp4 container made with the Haali's gdsmux tool
+ #1754140: AC3 detection in a .mp4 container from Nero Digital
+ #1754905: iPhone files support
x #1750275: HD-DTS was no more detected in a .m2ts (bluray) file
x AVI: AAC profile name was no more detected
Version 0.7.5.0, 2007-07-09
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+ Licence changed from LGPLv2 to LGPLv3
+ More information about mpeg-4 based (Nero...) files
+ MediaInfo analyses longer a .vob file to be able to find hidden tracks (subtitles...)
+ #1747633: Encrypted WMV detection
+ FLV: more attributes
x Memory leaks correction
x #1720404: MPEG, rare crashes with some files
x #1721846: AAC ADTS were no more detected
x MPEG Audio: No detection if there is some specific junk before the real audio data
x #1728059: Delphi DLL overflow with big files
x Crash with Youtube FLV files
x AVI: Delay for AC3, DTS and MP3 is back
Version 0.7.4.7, 2007-05-14
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+ OGG Vorbis, "Floor" value (useful for some players which don't support Floor 0)
+ MPEG-Audio, Lyrics3v1/v2, ApeTagv1/v2 parsing
+ MPEG-TS, handling of complex files (multiple programs, 8+ channels...)
+ #1704008: handling of AVC or MPEG-4 Video in a MPEG-TS file without program map
+ VC-1 basic parsing
+ DTS True HD detection
+ AC3+ detection
+ HD-DVD (decyphered) support
+ BluRay (decyphered) support
x MPEG-TS, Duration calculation problem on very rare files
x MPEG-4/iTunes, Tags where not well parsed in 0.7.4.6
x FLV, freezes or crashes with some files
x #1718269: MPEG-4 Video, Framerate of 65535/2733 is transformed to 23.976
x Windows Media (ASF/WMA/WMV) with file size more than 4GB were not well handled
x MP4 with file size more than 4GB were not well handled
Version 0.7.4.6, 2007-04-28
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+ Windows 64-bit version of the command line tool and DLL
+ Linux 64-bit version of the command line tool
+ More Musepack properties
+ Detection of Musepack v8 files
+ Complete parsing of Real Media files (all tags)
+ Improved Windows Media (ASF/WMA/WMV) parsing
+ MonkeyAudio tags (APETagv1/v2, Id3v1) parsing
+ Ogg/Theora : Video bitrate
+ MPEG audio : More encoder detection (bitstream parsing)
+ SWF (Flash) parsing
x #1665981: Mov - PCM audio (digital camera) was detected as RGB
x #1672896: Wave file with .mp3 extension was detected as MP3
x #1689570 and #1633237: Better JPEG parsing
Version 0.7.4.5, 2007-02-23
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+ Program file size reduction
+ WAV : Support of some special tags at the end of the file
+ AVC : Display Aspect Ratio
x #1653325: Wrong Resolution with AVC High Profile
x #1662890: Problem with tag adaptation parser (mainly for ID3v1 genre)
x Better support of corrupted MOV files
Version 0.7.4.4, 2007-02-05
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+ FLV format support
+ Basic support of multiple programs in a MPEG Transport Stream (Satellite broadcast)
+ Basic detection of TwinVQ (.vqf) files (+tag parsing)
+ Better handling of corrupted .mp4 files
+ Better handling of corrupted .avi files
x Crash with corrupted "COMM" Id3v2 tags
x Crash with some audio files
x #1633524: MOV, Crash on files with corrupted Descriptors
x #1630907: MP3, Crash on files with corrupted (empty) Id3v2 tag
x #1637838, 1634549, 1635131: Crash with some audio-only files
x AVI, Better detection of writing application found in a "JUNK" chunk
x AVI, sometimes wrong playtime
x #1637191: AC3 delay in AVIs is back
x #1635134: some freezes with MPEG-7 files (but this format is not yet supported)
x #1635087: some files were wrongly detected as AC3
x Russian (or other non-latin language) AVI tag parsing is back.
Version 0.7.4.3 2006-12-22
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x #1622477 : Wrong Time Values for Chapters in mp4 files
+ Linux shared object available
+ MPEG-TS : Detect encrypted stream, and show the codec
+ id3v2 with UTF-16 frames
+ AVC in MPEG-TS AVC parsing
+ AVC : Width and Height
+ MacIntel version
x Matroska, some crashing files (with chapters)
Version 0.7.4.2 2006-12-09
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+ Encoders database updated with 20 new encoder versions
+ Codecs database updated with 100 new codecs (video or audio)
x Matroska, sometimes wrong Playtime
x MPEG-4 : some Titles were not well parsed
x MPEG PS : some video stream were missing
x Crash with some malformed files
x Some debug files were created
Version 0.7.4.1 2006-12-08
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+ MPEG Transport Stream : Video info (Standard, Chroma, Interlacement...) and PlayTime
+ CDXA : PlayTime
+ MPEG-4 Video embedded in MPEG Program Stream support
+ MPEG-1 stream embedded in a Quictime file
+ MPEG-4 AAC Parametric Stereo (SBR-PS) detection
+ Detection of encrypted MPEG-4 (like iTunes)
+ Support of MPEG TS with lot of synchro errors
+ AVI : Exact Stream size calculation (but currently OpenDML files are not supported)
+ MPEG-4 : Exact Stream size calculation
+ Basic support of Korean mobilephone provider Sky (.skm)
x MPEG Program Stream : PlayTime, Delay are corrected
x #1601787 : MOV tracks issues (and crash)
x MOV : was stopping on too big "free" atoms
x MOV : Aspect Ration of DV is corrected
x MPEG : Handling of negative Delays between Audio and Video
x Musepack parser was doing too much "false positives" with some MPEG files
Version 0.7.4.0 2006-11-24
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+ Linux i386 version
+ AutoIt example
+ AVI with AAC-SBR : detection of real SamplingRate (not the sampling rate in header)
+ AVI with DV : basic information about audio
+ AVI with DV : detection of duplicated audio stream
+ Google Video : metadatas
+ AVI : now able to read metadatas at the end of the file
+ AVI : Bitrate computed is based on filesize in header instead of real filesize (for broked files)
+ AVI (DivX) : Menu detection (yes or no)
+ AVI : detection of VBR MP3 (useful for DVD players, sometimes they don't accept it)
+ AVI : detection of Delay between Audio and Video (for MPEG Audio, AC3 and DTS)
+ PlayStationPortable MPEG-4 files support
+ 3GPP5 files support
+ MPEG-4 : Detection of MP3, Vorbis streams embeded in a 'mp4a' atom
+ MPEG-4 : Detection of AVC streams embeded in a 'mp4v' atom
+ MPEG-2TS with MPEG-4 and AC3 detection
+ Speed improvements
+ MPEG-4 with Variable FrameRate detection, min and max
x #1551482 "\n" in filename get replaced by newline in "Text" output
x AVI : infinite loop on one example file
x AVI : some bad detections corrected
x MPEG-PS : infinite loop in intra Matrix on one example file
x MPEG TS : better detection of streams
Version 0.7.3.1 2006-07-30
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+ MPEG-1/2 PS : more files have a duration
+ AVI with MPEG-4 Video based codecs (DivX, XviD...), more encoder string detections
+ Microsoft Visual Basic binding : wrapper class added around methods
+ Microsoft J# binding : wrapper class added around methods
+ Microsoft C# binding : default values for methods, to cleanup code example
x Matroska, crash with big (>4GB) files
Version 0.7.3.0 2006-07-19
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+ MPEG-1 and 2 Transport Stream support
+ MPEG-1 and 2 Video : Custom Matrix detection
+ MPEG-4 Video : Custom Matrix detection
+ Google Video (GVI) support
+ AMV/MTV (Chinese) detection (if you have specifications of theses formats, email me)
+ AVI/DivX/GoogleVideo and MPEG-4 Video : packed bistream detection.
Now you can know if your DVD player can read the file before burning. Next step: a database of DVD player capacities ;-)
+ Java binding
+ C/C++ dynamic loading (instead of static linkage) binding
+ MPEG-4 : Language
+ MPEG-4 : Text streams (subtitles)
+ C# binding : wrapper class added around methods
x #1523005 : C# crashes because I did not use PtrToStringUni() to handle char pointers
x #1485003 : MP3, "Title" tag was sometimes forgotten
x #1485804 : Wrong bitrate and time in PCM files
x #1485810 : wrong playtime on CBR MP3 files with big id3v2 tags
x #1485803 : some WMA tags were forgotten
x #1488449 : crash on very rare buggy MP3 files
x #1482686 : ShellExtension, crash when moving a directory
x #1488770 : PlayTime, some "minutes" formating were forgotten
x #1485044 : some .ico files were detected as MPEG Audio
x AVI, handle some malformed timestamps in tags (carriage return at the end...)
x MPEG-1 and 2 : incoherancy of PlayTime
Version 0.7.2.1 2005-05-08
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+ MPEG-4 : Chroma ("4:2:0"...)
+ MPEG-4 : Interlacement mode ("Top field first", "bottom field first", or "Progressive")
+ MPEG-2 : Chroma ("4:2:0"...)
+ MPEG-2 : Interlacement mode ("Top field first", "bottom field first", or "Progressive")
+ MPEG-2 : Profile and Level ("Main@Main"...)
+ MPEG-2 : Standard (NTSC, PAL, SECAM, or MAC)
x #1482346 : Incorrect playback time in OGG files (was not enough precise).
x #1482602 : MPEG-4 video false positive files
x #1479344 : Problems with DLL interface, ToolTip shell extension DLL extension are in another DLL to keep compatibility
x #1479317 : stop if debuging in Borland IDEs when opening an AVI file
Version 0.7.2.0 2005-04-30
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+ ToolTip shell extension (if you have the mouse on a multimedia (AVI/MKV/OGG...) file, a ToolTip will be showed
+ AVI with DivX or XviD : Encoder name, GMC/QPel/B-frames indicator if present (beta)
+ AVI and WAV with MP3 : encoder name, precise version and layer number, VBR indication
+ Matroska: support of anamorphic videos (right Aspect Ration even if pixel aspect ratio is not 1:1)
+ AVI/WAV : support of extended wave files (20 bit per sample and more than 2 channels) and channel position
+ AVI : support of Exif tag format
+ AVI : more tags are supported
+ Genres can be translated by translators
+ Real : detect RealAudio Lossless Format
x #1454009 : AC3, sometimes wrong AC3 playtime
x #1469423 : MP3 with cyrilic filenames, Id3 tags can be read
x #1464066 : Hang ups with raw h264 streams
x #1462647 : Quicktime files with preview image, crash
x #1445150 : crash with some malformed MusePack files (workaround, this is a the Musepack bug, not yet corrected)
Version 0.7.1.2 2005-03-10
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+ #1438441: show TV format (PAL/NTSC) for DVD and DV
+ #1343147: Matroska, Show Chapter names
+ MPEG-1 and 2, more precise playtime
+ MPEG-1 and 2, Added Encoded_Application if it is in video user data
+ Quicktime: Support of Quicktime "wide" (header at the end of the file)
+ MPEG Audio: Detect small (examples, less than 200K) MPEG Audio files with Id3v1 tag
+ #1441661: AVI, Handling of DV Type 1
x #1440480: No Audio Found in MPEG-2 after 0.7.0.4
x #1438987: Infinite loop with some Matroska files
x Matroska, Recorded date is now in UTC format, rather than the number of seconds since 1970
x AC3 noted 5 channels (because of 5.1) are now noted 6 channels (more realistic)
x Quicktime: "ima4" or "twos" codecs were detected as Video stream instead of Audio stream
x Crash of third-party softwares with some specific files
Version 0.7.1.1 2005-02-24
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+ Now ~900 codec names (Audio/video/Text) are known (instead of 500)
+ Matroska : Framerate is now for all kinds of codec (and not only FourCC based ones)
+ MPEG-4 (m4V, Quicktime...) with unicode filename are now handled (before : crash on htis kind of file)
+ #1326802: MOV with 3GPP datas.
+ Meta-tags of Quickime HD files
+ #1244215: bit-rate details for MPEG-1 Video (VBR) (calculated with other CBR streams)
+ Detection of MXF files
+ #785338: Huge work on RealMedia parser (bitrate, channels, sampling rate, fps...)
x #1435086: Translation problems if the program is launched directly with a filename
x #1361647: Complete rewrite of MPEG-4 (newest Quicktime, 3GPP, iTunes...) parser to be more robust.
x Some minor (but crashing :( ) bug fixes
x AVI with DV was not well parsed
x ActiveX DLL was forgotten
Version 0.7.1.0 2005-02-12
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+ Speed improvements
+ #1383832: support of last version of Quicktime files
+ Support of Musepack files
+ Support of Flic (FLI/FLV) video files
+ Support of files with more than 8 audio streams or 32 text streams
+ Support of DTS-HD (DTS at 96 KHz / 24 bits)
+ Support of ID3 tags (v1 and v2) in .AAC files
+ Support of all Tags in AVI files
+ Detection of QuickTime image files and QuickTime compressed archives
+ Detection of AVC files (3GPP, 3GPP Mobile or JVT)
+ Detection of iTunes protected files
+ Detection of H264 files (Raw, 3GPP or JVT)
+ Detection of Dirac raw video files
+ Detection of TrueAudio files
+ Detection of WavePack files
x #1420672: No WMV bitrate
x Crash with some corrupted MPEG files
x Crash with some MP3 files with corrupted ID3v2 tags
x Crash with some Quicktime files with corrupted tags
x #1257550 (again:) ): with AVI, rounding of FPS had an impact of FrameCount, based on FPS. Now based on AVI file (better ;-) )
x #1381652: Reported some GIF files as Mpeg audio
x #1381619: UPX compressor is no more used, to prevent Virus checker to use 100% CPU
x 2nd Video framerate forgotten
x Video languages were not parsed (example: "en" should be "English")
x FrameRate/String was forgeting measure (example: "at 25" should be "at 25 fps")
x Some case sensitive problems (example: "KBps" instead of "Kbps", 8 times more)
x DTS and AC3 channels position names were changed to be more human readable
+ Added .lib files needed for Borland and MS C++ compilers (no need to use "implib" anymore)
+ Added Contrib directory: ActiveX component (warning: no support from me)
Version 0.7.0.3 2005-10-25
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x Matroska: "ID" and "UniqueID" tags were not assigne to the right stream.
+ Text: URL for Text codecs
Version 0.7.0.2 2005-10-17
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+ Support of ISO-639 language names (more than 200 language names can be translated)
+ Support of "multilanguage" language name (ISO-639 "mul")
x #1260619 Delphi Example was incorrect
Version 0.7.0.2 2005-10-17
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x #1323208: Video Bitrate for OGM files with VBR audio was incorrect
+ Better detection and handling of DivX container
+ #1327902: More meta data properties for RIFF files
x #1327468: RIFF (AVI) files with not-padded (INFO) sub chunks can't be parsed
+ More "generic" tags added
x Some other minor bugs
Version 0.7.0.1 2005-07-24
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x #1257550: rounding of FPS was 2 digit precise, not enougth, upgraded to 3 digits, and exact number is given (23.97 before, 23.970 or 23.976 now)
x Better false positive detection (mainly in MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3)
x some memory leaks if you use MediaInfo a long time
x MPEG Audio: VBR bitrate corrected for MPEG **1** streams
x MPEG Audio: VBR bitrate corrected for monochannel streams
x #1274999: mp3Pro timing was wrong (2x the real timing)
+ "BitRate_Mode" with MP3 (VBR or CBR)
+ "PlayTime" with AC3
+ "PlayTime" with WAV
Version 0.7.0.0 2005-07-23
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+ DLL: New(), Delete() added. Open() modified. WARNING: this break the interface
x Some changes in the name of Get() varaibles. WARNING: this break the interface
+ Better documentation (still in beta version), with a quick "How To"
+ DLL: MediaInfoList interface (multiple files with one Handle)
+ DLL: C++ wrapper
Version 0.6.1.1 2005-06-25
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x Open Folder option is comming back
x File with an unknown format were detected as MP3
x Corrected hang up on Matroska files
x Corrected crash on AVI with subtitles only
x Corrected crash on some corrupted or unknown files
+ Added 3GPP files support
Version 0.6.1.0 2005-06-23
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+ #1210433: in WMVA, Genre
+ #785349: Added Video->FrameCount (in advanced mode only, and developers)
+ #785349: Added BitRate mode when the codec is know to be only one (AC3 is CBR, Vorbis is VBR...)
x in WMA/WMV, Tags>255
x #1210425: bugs in MP3 (Genre, Track) (thanks to Ingo Brueckl)
x #1210412: MS Windows DLL didn't work under Win9X (no crash, but "Not a good file" reply) because of UnicoWS.dll linking problem.
x #1209291: IFO, Incorrect BitRate_Mode and Resolution (bit shifting), example 704*480
x #1209293: Incorrect Month in General/Date (UTC stamp was 1 month earlier) (thanks to Ingo Brueckl)
x #1215142: SamplingRate for MPEG audio streams in MPEG container was false
x #1222414: Video BitRate for AVI is back
x #1215939: Added a Format "MPEG x" if MPEG version can't be detected
x #1215840: Better version detection of MPEG Video. But still a workaround, if you know how to detect MPEG1 or 2 in a video only file, please contact me!
x #1210546: For developers, you can know which type is the value returned (Text, Integer, Float, Date, Binary)
Version 0.6.0.0 2005-05-18
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+ PCM support in VOB files
+ Complete rewrite of MPEG1/MPEg2 (and DVD) parser
+ Complete rewrite of AVI parser: internal parser in place of Win32 API
+ #1123025: Escape codes at custom text (for comma, [, ], parenthesis...)
+ Begin of adaptation with GCC: tested with MinGW and Knoppix (Core library, and OGG)
x (I hope) all CSV bugs (quotes...) are corrected
x Unicode decoding in WMV/WMA/ASF formats
x #1195325: Memory leaks of 500 KiB/opened file
x #1192446: Incorect duration in some AVI files
x #1172817: Options in Inform method was "forgotten":(. Warning: this modification breaks compatibility with older DLL (this is why this version is named 0.6 in place of 0.5.x)
x #1201430: Should work with files having broken video stream header
x #1183702: Should work with files having broken video stream header
Version 0.5.1.0 2005-02-09
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New
- Better management of Inform() options
- Added more language names decoding for audio and text streams
- Language names for audio and text streams are translated
Bug fixes:
- Inform: hangups in Inform() with customized Option("Inform") settings
- Options: inversion between Infos_Parameters and Infos_Parameters_CSV
- Some problems with CreateFile: if CreateFile doesn't work, I use WxFile instead
- MPEG Video and MPEG Audio: bug between version 0.4 and version 0.5 corrected
- PlayTime Calculation for OGM was false
Version 0.5.0.1 2005-01-10
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Bug fixes:
- Win95/Win98/WinMe support again! (problem with Unicode)
- AVI files were not well released (file locked)
- Better MPEG4 support
- Better coherency tests: no more file with 10 MP3 streams ;-)
Version 0.5.0.0 2005-01-10
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New
- Developpers, you can exactly choose the format you want support (wit #defines)
- UNICODE support (you should use it) (thanks to Jasper van de Gronde)
- UNICODE filenames support (problem with wxWidgets:( )
- APE support (thanks to Jasper van de Gronde)
- FLAC support (thanks to Jasper van de Gronde)
- AAC support (but no tags, too rare)
- DTS support
- AC3 support
- MPEG4 support
- CDXA (XCD) support (with partial subformats, no Matroska for example, too rare)
- A lot of rare and old audio formats: aiff, aifc, au, iff, paf, sd2, irca, w64, matlab, pvf, Fasttracker, sds, avr...
- Visual C++ 7.1 support
- Visual C# 7.1 example
- Visual J# 7.1 example
- Visual Basic 7.1 example
Bug fixes
- All C++ classes are in the namespace MediaInfoLib
- OGG format: UTF8 was not well decoded outside of US-ASCII codepage
- Better handling of language files (but really not perfect)
- Better handling of Real media files (encoder, codec)
- #936964: Error handling no video or no audio files
- #899692: WM, File Properties Object: Preroll was not used (usualy, playtime was 2-4 seconds too long)
- #868365: PlayTime - 2h12s is 2:12.00, not 2:00:12.00. PlayTime is better handled
- #840508: OGM crash if file is corrupted
- #1026978: Bitrate --> BitRate, OveralBitrate --> OveralBitRate
Version 0.4.0.1 2003-08-25
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Bug fixes
- .Lib for Visual C++ compilers was forgotten
- History and Licence was forgotten
- Compiler changed from Borland to Microsoft for size efficiency (help for reducing code in Borland compiler would be appreciated)
Version 0.4.0 2003-08-01
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New
- Open-Source (GPL)
- Matroska partial Support
- Better interraction with a FrontEnd Interface
Bug fixes
- MPEG1 and 2: huge bugfixes: now you can believe what it say:)
- Files > 4 GigaBytes (OK for file size, but duration calculation is sometimes NOK)
- Quicktime: bad codec in Audio if based of Microsoft 2cc
- Quicktime: sometimes don't handle compressed headers
- multiple video streams: second streams was not displayed
- A lot of other minor bugs...
Version 0.3.0 2003-03-03
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New
- New engine for having a lot more format available and be able to write in files
- MPEG2 support (.MPG and .VOB)
- AC3 support
- DTS support
- DVD Video (IFO files) support
Bug fixes
- Too much...
Version 0.2.1 2003-01-12
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New
- MPEG support
- WAV support
- OGG/OGM duration
Bug fixes
- Too much...
Version 0.2.0 2003-01-05
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New
- List of 400+ codecs (audio or video)
- Multiple files opening
- Multi-language (English / French)
- OGG/OGM: Video bitrate, Play time
- More tags (OGG/MP3)
Version 0.1.1.c, 2002-12-31
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Bug fixes
- OGG/OGM, comments: bug if comments were not in the same order than streams
- Summary: problems with roundness of audio bitrate (was floor method, now it is a round method)
Version 0.1.1.a, 2002-12-30
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Bug fixes
- OGG, audio stream except vorbis: the bitrate was in byte in place of bits
Version 0.1.1, 2002-12-29
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Bug fixes
- MP3: Url tag not well implemented
Version 0.1.0, 2002-12-28
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Initial public release
