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Changes for v19.07 - v19.09

+ AC-4: basic detection, raw, in MP4 or TS
+ AC-3/E-AC-3: display time code of the first frame
+ Don't show anymore by default "encoded" bit rates and stream sizes
+ MOV: Decode more language codes
x MXF: some metadata were missing
x AC-3: AC-3 actually has no bit depth, removing the default 16 value
x AC-3/E-AC-3: fix bitrate info (so duration) with streams having a time code
x AC-3: parse more frames also when in MP4, in order to better detect JOC (Atmos)
x MP4: do not show audio bit depth if it is the "default" 16 (value is not trustable enough)
x ProRes RAW: we know only width and height
x SubRip: bad handling of files having a quote character

Changes for v19.04 - v19.07

+ Mac App Store version: File comparison (InApp purchase)
+ Dolby E: readout of Dolby E program description
+ MXF: Detection of Dolby Vision
+ MP4: support of Spatial Audio Metadata
+ DV: color space is explicit
+ DV: audio format settings
+ Matroska: PCM bit rate
+ MOV, MXF: Time code frame rate
+ DV: DVCAM commercial name for locked audio and PAL 4:2:0
+ MXF: Time code track name
x USAC: frame rate was missing in case of non standard sampling rate
x USAC: fix infinite loop with some LATM streams
x WAV: MP3 delay should be added to BWF time reference
x TTML: fix wrong output with standalone files
x N19/STL: fix crash with some uncommon framerates
x VC-3: fix sub sampling with some v2 files
x DV: Time code frame number was wrong (divided by 2) for 50/60 fps content

Changes for v18.12 - v19.04

+ USAC: DRC effect types, Sample peak level, True peak level, Program loudness
+ HDR: SMPTE ST 2094 App 4 (including HDR10+) support
+ HDR: move HDR10, Dolby Vision and SL-HDR meta to specific generic "HDR Format" lines
+ Matroska: SMPTE ST 2086 (HDR10) support
+ Matroska: FieldOrder support
+ HEIF image format support
+ AV1: support of AV1 in MP4, HEIF, IVF
+ MOV: Add a lot more countries to AppleStoreCountry field internal list
+ MXF: Fix memory leak when fully parsing big file with acquisition metadata
+ HEVC: more HEVC profiles (Multiview, Scalable, Screen Content...)
+ AAC: better handling of corrupted streams
+ AAC: better handling of unknown channel layouts
+ AVC in MP4: better support of corrupted streams
x B1101, AVI: fix crash with some invalid streams
x B1101, SMPTE ST 337: fix crash with some invalid streams
x Matroska: chapters timestamp were not display if chapters have no name
x MXF: Fix false positive truncated file detection when there is no Random Index Pack
x AAC: channel layout typos (Rls instead of Lrs, Lr instead of Rb)
x ProRes: correctly show color space if alpha plane is present
x MPEG Audio: some VBR files use "Info" Xing header, so we ignore the difference between "Info" and "Xing"
x I943, MPEG-4: wrong display aspect ratio in some corner cases (32-bit release only)
x I1096, OGG: assign METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE tag to cover

Changes for v18.08.1 - v18.12

+ Android version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mediaarea.mediainfo
+ DCP: support of multi-reel packages
+ EBUCore: added some FFV1 related metadata
+ JPEG: better info display of CYMK files
+ Provide source of the color related metadata (container or stream) (hidden by default)
+ MXF: display more information when wrapper/essence values are detected as not same
+ MXF: ProRes profiles
+ MPEG-4: ProRes RAW support
+ MPEG-TS: add support of parsing some ETSI TS 103-433 messages
x MPEG-2 Video: variable GOP detection fix
x MPEG-7 export: some fields were missing due to the removal of some legacy fields
x ADTS: Fix display of channel count for 8-channel streams
x ID3v2: fix some date related issues
x I298, ID3v2: fix wrong read of recording date in some cases
x I1032, PBCore2: fix essenceFrameSize with non Video tracks
x I1096, JPEG: fix crash with one file
x Several other crash and memory leak fixes

Changes for v18.08 - v18.08.1

x Fix XML/MPEG-7/PBCore2 output discarding non ANSI characters

Changes for v18.05 - v18.08

+ Dolby Atmos (in E-AC-3 or TrueHD): support of bed channel count/configuration + objects count + complexity index
+ AC-3/DTS/AAC: display of info about legacy decoders behavior removed
+ AC-3/DTS/AAC: some changes in how format is displayed
+ AC-3/DTS/AAC: better split between technical names and commercial names
+ AAC: support of profile information from MP4_IOD_Tag AudioProfileLevelIndication
+ USAC (xHE-AAC) support
+ Audio channel layout: using a new terminology, better suited for 3D Audio, see https://mediaarea.net/AudioChannelLayout
+ DSD (DSF & DSDIFF) support
+ DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition) commercial name
+ Dolby Vision: use new form for profile (numbers instead of acronyms)
+ New format "Directory" when image sequence + audio file is detected (1 directory style for the moment)
+ PBCore2 export update, thanks to WGBH
+ MPEG-7 export update
+ NISO export update
+ AV1: support of AOmedia AV1 based on 1.0.0 specifications
+ ATRAC9 detection
+ Versionned RPMs
+ HEVC: better support of buggy SEI
+ ADTS: CodecID
+ Support of injection of external metadata
+ HTTPS: support of AWS extension "x-amz-*" in HTTPS headers, permitting to manage temporary credentials (AssumeRole)
+ MPEG-4, #1005: Obey edit list in QuickTime Timecode track
x MIXML: hide fields which were hidden in normal output
x Hybrid AC-3/E-AC-3 (in Blu-rays): bit rate info was wrong
x Lot of bug fixes, see full log for more info

Changes for v18.03.1 - v18.05

+ PBCore 2.1 export update, sponsored by WGBH as part of the NEH-funded PBCore Development and Preservation Project
+ TIFF: more IFDs are supported (density, software...)
+ NISO Z39.87 output
x Mastering Display Color Primaries: was always showing BT.709 instead of real value, when present
x Attachments: do not provide anymore attachments content in XML by default, fixes

Changes for v0.7.98 - v0.7.99

+ EBUCore: JSON output (--Output=EBUCore_1.8_JSON)
+ EBUCore: add writingLibraryName and writingLibraryVersion attributes
+ Ad-ID identifier display on a single line ("Value (Registry)" format)
+ MPEG-4: Better display of format of VobSub tracks
+ MPEG-4: CodecID is stsd name + ObjectTypeId for mp4a, mp4v, mp4s
+ AVC: preferred_transfer_characteristics support
+ MPEG Video, MPEG-4 Visual, AVC, HEVC, MPEG-4, Matroska: correct detection of RGB
+ matrix_coefficients: detection of Y'D'zD'x and Chromaticity-derived
+ AAC: info about SBR/PS being implicit/explicit/NBC (Not Backward Compatible)
+ AAC: indicate audioObjectType in CodecID
x Fix a weird 1.334 DAR due to a rounding issue

Changes for v0.7.97 - v0.7.98

+ Matroska: handling of files with Tracks element after Cluster elements
+ Matroska: detection of Duration tag alone and use it even if tag writing date is not there.
+ Matroska: mapping of colour description elements, timecode and handler name to corresponding MediaInfo fields
x I169, WAV: too much aggressive detection of wrong 5-channel audio, now limited on AC-3 and DTS
x transfer_characteristics and matrix_coefficients slight change in order to have them unique per ISO integer value
x EBUCore: All XML elements are correctly escaped
x PBCore: All XML elements are correctly escaped

Changes for v0.7.95 - v0.7.97

+ Ubuntu 17.04 packages
+ HEVC: support of stream having VPS hrd_parameters
+ FLV: support of FLV files with an ID3v2 header
+ FLV: detect some incoherent frame rates in buggy files
+ TIFF: support of more tags
+ I518, AAC: consider 4 back channels as 2 side + 2 back channels
+ Matroska: integrate all elements from Matroska specs in MediaTrace
+ WAV: parsing of MPEG Audio extension "mext" chunk and displayed in MediaTrace
+ MPC: channels count
+ AAC: ADTS/ADIF duration in case of full parsing and/or "risky bitrate estimation" option
x MXF: less false-positive detection of some files as MXF
x B1053, WAV: metadata coherency, ignore "fact" chunk more often in order to avoid bad information when this chunk is buggy
x B1029, DPX: DPX endianess not considered with some fields in MediaTrace
x Custom template: can check "Other" part as any other parts
x Matroska: fix parsing issue with small byte blocks are taken from the file e.g. when reading from HTTP link
x Matroska: files with unknown block size were flagged as truncated
x MediaTrace: values with a n were breaking the text report lines
x Some typos (RefFrames, SPF)

Changes for v0.7.93 - v0.7.95

+ EBUCore: EBUCore 1.8 with acquisition metadata output.
+ Better support of growing files, especially when accessed by FTP
+ Matroska: better support of some broken files (high EBMLMaxSizeLength, padding before start of EBML)
+ EXR: showing Multipart and Deep flags
+ EXR: show image compression method
x EBUCore: fixed display aspect ratio (was using rational)
x EBUCore: fixed frame rate factor (was num/den instead of factor)
x AVC: some streams with dynamic frame type were having a wrong frame rate
x MPEG-4: some old AAC tracks were not correctly detected
x Matroska: was sometimes displaying "Bit depth: Bit0" when bit depth is unknown
x Nut: fix crash with some files
x FFV1: PixelAspectRatio was an integer, switched to 3-digit rational
x DTS: fix frame count
x Dolby E: fix frame count
x EBUCore: fix regression creating invalid XML files
x AVC: some streams with dynamic frame type were having a wrong frame rate
x I490, EXR: was not supporting valid 31-char attribute names

Changes for v0.7.92.1 - v0.7.93

+ Matroska: detection of native FFV1 CodecID ("V_FFV1")
+ AC-3/E-AC-3: detection of Atmos inside core streams
+ AC-3/E-AC-3: slight reorganization of metadata display for dual mono and surround
+ AC-3/E-AC-3: "complete main" and similar info moved to "Service kind" dedicated line
+ AC-3/E-AC-3: more precision about how is built a stream (e.g. "E-AC-3+Atmos / E-AC-3" or "TrueHD+Atmos / TrueHD / AC-3")
+ WTV: basic detection
+ MPEG-TS: Detection of Opus
+ URL: "URLEncode" option for saying if the input should be URL encoded or not (default is guess = no change except if it contains spaces)
x MediaTrace: for bitstreams (not bytestreams), bit offset was wrong
x HLS: duration was sometimes wrong, reading only the first TS file duration. Now full duration is displayed
x MPEG-TS: if stream is encrypted or invalid, level was sometimes not the expected one for AVC (e.g. "BaseLine@3.0" instead of "Baseline@3")
x Matroska: FFV1 stream width/height was not initialized when Matroska track header width/height is after CodecID
x FFV1: fix potential crash with some buggy slice headers
x Matroska: crash in case of big attachment and CRC32 present

Changes for v0.7.91 - v0.7.92.1

Fix a performance regression in the matroska parser

Changes for v0.7.90 - v0.7.91

+ Add TIFF extension to Windows shell extension
x Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16.10+: Remove unneeded dependency
+ IMF and PTX: more languages detected from file names (but the full list of common languages tags still need to be added)
+ IMF and PTX: support of non-standard but common "LAS" = "Spanish (Latin America)" language code
+ MXF: Support of color primaries, transfer characteristic, coding equations defined in SMPTE ST 2067-21:2016 e.g. xvYCC or BT.2020
+ Minor performance optimizations and cleanup (Thanks to Pavel Pimenov)
+ MediaTrace optimization for Matroska
x Fixed parsing of FFV1 v0/v1
x PTX: fix crash due to bad parsing of some file names while looking for track language

Changes for v0.7.84 - v0.7.85

+ FFV1: ScanType and ScanOrder
+ Detection of Omneon VBI and move of the VBI track from Video part to Others part
+ N19/STL: Support of etection of less standard frame rates (23.976 and 29.970)
+ Teletext in MPEG-TS: Teletext not subtitle moved to "Other" part
+ Teletext in MPEG-TS: display of CodecID and timestamp of first frame
x Teletext in MXF: some IDs were wrong (when there are more than one Teletext service)
x MPEG-4/MOV: default of raw audio to Signed in case of stsd atom version <2
x MPEG Video: some CEA-608/708 captions were not correctly detected due to some packets discarded by the parser with interlaced content
x MPEG-4/MOV: Dolby E with 2 or more audio services were not correctly reported

Changes for v0.7.83 - v0.7.84

#I122, MPEG-4/MOV: Crash if mdhd timescale is 0
MPEG-4/MOV: Infinite loop if malformed stsc / stsz (detected by fuzzing)
MPEG-TS: some DVB Subtitles were not detected
HLS: better handling of media playlists having EXT-X-BYTERANGE

Changes for v0.7.81 - v0.7.83

+ HEVC: Maximum Content Light Level (MaxCLL) and Maximum Frame-Average Light Level (MaxFALL), metadata mandated by CEA-861.3 for HDR support
+ HEVC: Mastering display color primaries and luminance (based on SMPTE ST 2084), metadata mandated by CEA-861.3 for HDR support
+ HEVC: SMPTE ST 2048 and SMPTE ST 428-1 transfer characteristics
+ HEVC: Chroma subsampling location (indication of the location type described in the HEVC spec)
+ MPEG-TS: ATSC Modulation Mode (Analog, SCTE_mode_1 aka 64-QAM, SCTE_mode_2 aka 256-QAM, 8-VSB, 16-VSB)
+ #B981, MP4: support of buggy file having "hint" SubType
x HLS: better handling of media playlists having EXT-X-BYTERANGE

Changes for v0.7.79 - v0.7.80

+ Matroska: support of MKVMerge statistics tags (duration frame count, stream size, bit rate) per track, thanks to ndjamena
+ FLAC: Channel positions, thanks to ndjamena
+ FLAC: difference between detected bit depth and stored bit depth
+ MPEG-TS: if DTVCC transport stream is present and no DTVCC service descriptor, scan also in the middle of the file in order to detect more caption services
+ Subtitle frame rate computing if frame count and duration are available (hidden by default)
+ Subtitles in Matroska: count of elements
+ Matroska, MXF and MP4/MOV: detection of truncated files
+ DTS: difference between ES Matrix and ES Discrete
+ DTS: display ES Matrix or ES Discrete even if HRA or MA is present
+ DTS: difference between DTS-HRA with 96k option and pure DTS-96/24
+ DTS: detection of DTS:X
+ Samples per frame info
+ AC-3: detection of Atmos inside TrueHD
+ Video frame rate: showing precision of 1/1.001 frame rates (e.g. "23.976 (24000/1001) fps" and "23.976 (23976/1000) fps")
+ MPEG-4/MOV: showing the complete list of compatible brands in the CodecID field
+ MPEG-4/MOV: Alternate groups
+ MPEG-4/MOV: "Disabled" tag
+ MPEG-4/MOV: "Forced" tag
+ MPEG-4/MOV: showing links between tracks (chapters for, subtitles for, fallback for)
+ MXF: handling of more acquisition metadata items
+ MXF: Package name
+ AVC: Store method of interlaced content (Interleaved Fields or Separated Fields)
+ EBUCore: acquisition metadata (Proof of concept, for feedback only)
x Matroska: frame rate detection algorithm revisited, less wrong numbers are expected
x SDP/Teletext: some pages were sometimes (when present in 2 different SDP lines) displayed several times
x MPEG-4/MOV: some hint tracks were not displayed
+ Hongkongese language added

Changes for v0.7.78 - v0.7.79

+ CLI/DLL only, XML: new option --Output=MIXML, with XML v2.0beta1 status, not for production, see https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaAreaXml for more details
+ MediaTrace: support of more than 1 file in XML output.
+ CLI/DLL only, XML: new option --Output=MAXML, with XML v0.1 status, in order to have bot MediaInfo and MediaTrace in the same output, not for production, see https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaAreaXml for more details
x MediaTrace: fixed some invalid outputs
x #B951, Amazon S3 support (REST API v2), CLI/DLL only and if compiled with libcurl support: URL without credential were badly interpreted

Changes for v0.7.77 - v0.7.78

+ MOV: AVrp CodecID support
+ Video Stored_Width/Stored_Height and Sampled_Width/Sampled_Height added (hidden by default)
+ Speed optimization for the parsing of tiny files e.g. JPEG files
+ Option (command line / DLL) --Legacy=0 for disabling some legacy fields
+ Option (command line / DLL) --Output=MAXML, XML with MediaInfo and MediaTrace output together, technology preview (not for production)
x MPEG-TS: Teletext and Teletext Subtitle were missing in the menu list
x Chroma subsampling "4:4:4" was sometimes indicated for RGB, which is not useful

Changes for v0.7.76 - v0.7.77

+ #B941, MXF: files having only a video stream and an ancillary data stream were having incorrect second video stream
+ MOV: detection of r210 CodecID as raw RGB
+ Ancillary data: detection of all metadata blocks (previously: only the first one was detected)
x MPEG-TS: Wrong demux of TSP (188+16 TS) files having PES with only padding
x MediaTrace #2: XML malformed with Flags items (hotfix, flags meaning disabled in XML output)
x MediaTrace #3: XML malformed with some MP4 files
x MediaTrace #6: XML duplicated attributes
x MediaTrace #10: versioned xsd, creating library name and version
x MediaTrace: XML content was not escaped
x #B947, Amazon S3 support (REST API v2), CLI/DLL only and if compiled with libcurl support: Analyze file on s3 was not working if secret key contains / character

Changes for v0.7.74 - v0.7.76

+ XML output: line breaks and indents in between attributes for readability
+ Trace feature: XML trace update, only if compiled with trace feature
+ Amazon S3 support (REST API v2), CLI/DLL only and if compiled with libcurl support
+ FFV1: improved slice analysis (currently activated only with trace feature and for 1st frame)
x MXF: optimization of the parsing, reading a lot less data (e.g. can be reduced from 1 GB to 10 MB with some UHD files)
x MXF: wrong frame count with files not having the video stream as the first stream
x Dolby E in MPEG-TS: "SMPTE ST 302" information was accidentally removed
x MPEG-TS: avoid filling delay from file name, not applicable on MPEG-TS
x MXF: better handling of huge padding blocks, better handling of descriptors without link to a TrackID
x IMX: streams claiming that they are IMX are actually pure MPEG Video, probing both IMX and MPEG Video
Version 0.7.75, 2015-06-30
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+ MXF: consideraing 60 fps timecode tracks with 2 components having a difference of 2 frames as a single timecode
+ EBUCore 1.6: switch to the link of the final XSD
x XDCAM: some directory structures were wrongly detected as XDCAM structure having a XML file
x MXF: SDTI 60 fps times were wrong
x #B927, DPX: date/time specific DPX format was used instead of the ISO-like one
x #B927, EBUCore: invalid content in attribute startDate
x ProRes: streams with apcs CodecID were displayed with an incoherent bit depth instead of no bit depth

Changes for v0.7.72 - v0.7.73

BPG: basic support, thanks to Kurtnoise
CAF: basic support of Apple Core Audio Format, sponsored by FlavorSys
JPEG-2000: Display of profile (Rsiz)
JPEG-2000: detection of XYZ colorspace (based on D-Cinema profile)
FFV1 in MOV: more details (version...)
MOV/MPEG-4: handling of clcn (little endian nclc) Color parameter type
#P84, Matroska: Add TEXTST support to the MKV Parser, thanks to Kurtnoise
#P85, MPEG-TS: Add TEXTST support to the MPEG-PSI Parser, thanks to Kurtnoise
MediaInfoDLL interface: clean up, more debug features added
MediaInfoDLL interface: Giant threads lock removed
#F460, VC-3/DNxHD: detection of RGB 444 and other SMPTE ST 2019 (2014) new CIDs
VC-3/DNxHD: version number (HVN)
Clean aperture size is move from width/height to its own field
HEVC: tier
MXF: writing library and writing application fields are cleaned up
ProRes: support of 4444 profiles
CAP: detection of CAP files from Cheetah and Lambda
B886, XML and HTML outputs were broken
B902: EBU AspectRatio invalid in case of non classic numerator:denominator format
#B758, VC-3/DNxHD: wrong color space and subsampling in case of unknown CID, now empty if format version is not known
#B903, MXG: Incorrect timecode track used for AS-11 DPP MXF files
#B904, MXF: Handling repetition of Header Metadata in MXF files
MXF: AFD value was wrong (displaying the complete byte, but AFD is only 4 bits of this byte)
DTS: some streams in Little endian were not detected
MPEG-4: some files were having an incorrect frame count
AVC: Some SCTE 128 caption streams were displayed twice
BMP; accepting files with file size information set to -1
RF64: samplesCount was not always right
MOV: avoid wrong parsing in case of "colr" atom with "prof" color parameter type
DCP/IMF: ID has now the AM/PKL CPL order in order in all cases (not only when there is more than one CPL)
#B893, MXF: Crash with Panasonic P2 3.0 files
DPX: time information was with native ":" character
Images sequence: "Delay" field is filled from the number in the name of the first file
FLV: some files were not having the right duration
DPX: Cineon files were detected as DPX Version 1, version number was not corresponding to the real version

Changes for v0.7.71 - v0.7.72

Swedish translation updated, thanks to Åke Engelbrektson
MXF: MXF version (e.g. "1.3")
Option "File_IsImageSequence" for being able to skip frames in a sequence of files.
EBUCore: EBUCore 1.6 draft output, sponsored by EBU
EBUCore: AS-11 to EBUCore mapping, sponsored by EBU
EBUCore: more technicalAttributes, sponsored by EBU
MXF Acquisition Metadata (RDD-18, EBU Tech 3349) basic support
EBUCore: time code tracks moved to their own "format" block
EBUCore: audioTrackConfiguration removed (not the expected behavior)
EBUCore: OverallBitRate information changed from technicalAttributeString to technicalAttributeInteger
PBCore: invalid output in case of time code stream, fix thanks to Dave Rice
PBCore2: codecid changed, thanks to Dave Rice
OP-47/SDP/Teletext: some streams were not detected
Previous version was built with SSE2 instructions, switching back to SSE instructions
AVC: infinite loop fix
AVC: trying to avoid the wrong detection of AVC in the case of invalid (e.g. encrypted) streams
Crash on Windows Vista and Win7 pre-SP1 and a CPU having FMA support, due to a bug in MSVC2013, since 0.7.72. Thanks to Pavel Pimenov for the report and patch
MXF: AS-11 Typo (SerieTitle changed to SeriesTitle), TotalProgrammeDuration added
ID3v2: support of 3-byte ID3v2.3 tags
CEA-608 in MPEG-4: demux PTS was wrong in case of multiple blocks in one frame
MOV: better Grey scale files and color palettes handling, with help from Vittorio Giovara

Changes for v0.7.70 - v0.7.71

AS-11 (Core, Segmentation, UK DPP items) display
MXF: support of TTML (SMPTE ST 2052) detection
MXF: option --File_Mxf_TimeCodeFromMaterialPackage for using the time code track from Material package instead of Source package (CLI/DLL only)
Duration in HH:MM:SS:FF format (hidden by default)
AVC: detection of Intra profiles
MXF: both Material and Source package time codes are displayed
MPEG-TS: more information for Teletext subtitle e.g. "For hearing impaired people"
Detecting sidecar XML files for captions (e.g. TTML/DFXP), option for CLI and Lib
AVC and HEVC: colour_range information (Limited/Full), thanks to Vittorio Giovara
OP-47/SDP/Teletext: detection of magazine numbers
MOV/MPEG-4: basic support of iTunMOVI tag
MOV/MPEG-4: support of track title and few other track related tags
MOV/MPEG-4: detection of Dolby E in a stereo track
AVC: using the first pic_struct as fallback for scan order if other methods fail, thanks to Smit for the idea
IMF: better compatibility with packages from different vendors
PBCore 2.0 technical metadata output option, thanks to Dave Rice
WMV: Time code track and value of first frame display, sponsored by AVCOM
MPEG Video: Open/Closed GOP status
HEVC: Support of Pixel Aspect Ratio in VUI, thanks to Kurtnoise
SMPTE ST 331: wrong channel positions
B872, MOV: StreamOrder field was wrong in case of chapter references
More coherency between the File interface and the By buffer interface
Matroska: wrong dection of video/audio delay in case of B-frames before the first I-frame
Time code striped/not striped information is moved from "Format_Settings" to "TimeCode_Striped"
SMPTE ST 337: infinite loop during scanning of some non ST 337 streams
MP4/MOV: Using less data during detection of Dolby E hidden in a PCM track
Matroska: some crashs after file name of attachments update
MXF: MXF time code track was not displayed with some compilation options (e.g. the default Windows build)

Changes for v0.7.69 - v0.7.70

+ DTS Neural Audio: display of DTS Neural Audio descriptor information (matrix encoded channels count and position), sponsored by Numericable
+ FFV1: version, bit depth, color space, chroma subsampling, versions 0 to 3, sponsored by NOA Audio Solutions
+ HuffYUV: version, bit depth, color space, chroma subsampling, versions 1 to 3, sponsored by NOA Audio Solutions
+ PDF: basic detection (goal is to detect PDF/A profile)
+ HLS: support of encrypted streams (key must be in FileName.FileExt.key or provided via the library API)
+ CDP: using CDP service descriptor for the list of 708 services + language information
+ MXF: showing the real bit depth ("Quantization bits"); the count of bits stored in the file is in a new field "Stored bit depth" if it differs
+ MXF: Audio "frame rate" (how PCM content is split in packets) information
+ MXF: Audio block alignment byte size (hidden by default)
+ VC-3: adding the commercial name "DNxHD" + bitrate class
+ MXF: SMPTE ST 377-4 (MXF Multichannel Audio Labeling Framework)
+ MXF: "ChannelLayoutID" new field (hidden by default) containing the MXF Channel Assignment Label
+ Wave64: Duration
+ CDP: frame rate
+ IMF: improvements (still work in progress)
+ QuickTime: ia13 CodecID
+ CDP: using ccsvcinfo_section() for service presence and language information
+ MXF/CDP: law rating (from CEA-608 XDS) information added (other containers were already supported)
+ CEA-608: Program name information
+ BMP: support of OS/2 headers
+ HLS: com.apple.streaming.transportStreamTimestamp support
+ ISM: ISMT / text (TTML) streams support
+ MXF: detection of buggy BlockAlign from some muxers, so PCM bit depth is correctly detected despite the buggy metadata
+ HEVC: library name of some encoding libraries
+ MPEG-2 Video: picture structure for interlaced content (interlaced content can have a frame structure)
+ HLS: support of some encrypted files (AES-128 with default IV and per segment), key is provided by the command line --File_Encryption_Key=(Base64 data)
+ HEVC: adding support of x265 library name and x265 encoding settings
+ ProRes: more details about ProRes in AVI or Matroska
+ DV: support of AVd1 CodecID
+ CMake: scripts improvements, thanks to Ivan Romanov
+ Matroska: file name of attachments, thanks to Marshall
x HEVC: some streams with VUI were not parsed
x MPEG Video: was not correctly handling 1000:1001 frame rates and NDF time codes combination during frame count computing
x MPEG Video: was not correctly detecting the time stamp of the first frame in case of closed GOP with first frame not the I-frame
x XDCAM: information about the MXF header presence was not provided if MOV header has a glbl atom
x Some specific C++11 code is removed for full compatibility with older C++
x MXF: Time codes values were buggy in case of MXF with pre-charge ("Origin" not 0)
x MPEG-4 Visual: wrong analysis in case on video_object_layer_shape not set to regular
x MPEG-4/MOV: trying to display the summary differently when there is a difference between container and raw stream channels count information (long term method to be discussed)
x Non-Unicode version was not building anymore
x DyLib: trying to have a better support of pure C compilers
Version 0.7.69, 2014-04-24
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+ Italian translation updated, thanks to Roberto
+ Russian translation updated, thanks to solokot
+ MPEG-TS: support of HEVC streams with stream_type of 36
+ EBUCore 1.5: update with support of more fields and valid against final XSD
+ Added interlaced content store method (Separated fields or interleaved fields)
+ HEVC: Better support of the different containers (including MP4/MKV/FLV)
+ #B844, Matroska: detection of covers, thanks to Max Pozdeev
+ Sequences of files: optimization of the detection of sequences with 200k+ files
+ Sequences of files: File_IgnoreSequenceFilesCount option for speeding up the detection of sequences (con: no detection of the latest file in the sequence)
+ Sequences of files: File_IgnoreSequenceFileSize option for speeding up the detection of sequences (con: no detection of total size of the sequence)
+ Sequences of files: detection when there is additional characters after the numbers (e.g. "filename[000001].png")
+ MPEG-TS: detecting sequences of files
+ ADTS: detecting sequences of files
+ MediaInfoList: removing files detected as part of a sequence
+ Arri Raw: basic detection
+ DDS (DirectDraw Surface) support
+ OpenMG (.oma) partial (Atrac3 only) support
+ WebVTT detection
x #B841, QuickTime TFF/BFF: using now Technical Note TN2162 as the reference documentation for 'fiel' atom
x Matroska: slow parsing of some files
x MOV/IMX: IMX was not detected when glbl atom is present

Changes for v0.7.67 - v0.7.68

Windows version: translation files were corrupted
Mac App Store version: "Can not open file(s)" message when trying to open files having diacritics in file name.
MXF: duplicate display of some time code streams in ancillary data
B814, AAC: Wrong detection of audioObjectType==29

Changes for v0.7.66 - v0.7.67

Windows version: translation files were corrupted
Mac App Store version: "Can not open file(s)" message when trying to open files having diacritics in file name.
MXF: duplicate display of some time code streams in ancillary data
B814, AAC: Wrong detection of audioObjectType==29

Changes for v0.7.65 - v0.7.66

EBUCore 1.4 output support
IMF AssetMap (AM), PackageList (PKL) and CompositionPlaylist (CPL): improved support
Channel layout information for AAC, AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, Dolby E
MXF: CodecID field (EssenceContainer-EssenceCompression)
Pro Tools 10+ Session file (.ptx) support, by reverse engineering (=it may not work)
Playlist files: trying to detect language and channel layout from file names
QuickTime: new field ScanOrder_StoredDisplayedInverted, set to "Yes" when display and Stored orders are inverted
Wave: Detection of wrong byte rate in header in order to provide right duration of some PCM streams
ARIB captions: detection of captions in ancillary data (tested with MXF)
AAF: basic support of playlist files
QuickTime: false-positive detection of incoherency between container and raw stream scan order due to inverted display and tored orders
MXF: Dolby E stream not detected in some cases
#P78, HEVC: general_level_idc shall be set equal to a value of 30 times the level number, not 10 times, thanks to Kurtnoise
C# binding example: was not working with 2GB+ files, was parsing sometimes the whole file
#B802, AAC: Infinite loop, thanks to Sébastien Michel
#B805, AC-3: Segfault on files falsely recognized as AC3 files, thanks to Gildas Desnos
#B808, PCM: Infinite loop, thanks to Gildas Desnos
#B809, APE tags: Infinite loop, thanks to Gildas Desnos
#B810, AVC: Infinite loop, thanks to Gildas Desnos
#B813, CLI_Compile.sh bug ("eats all resources" while compiling)
LATM: false-positive detection of some files
MXF: Crash with some files

Changes for v0.7.64 - v0.7.65

MXF: forcing detection of MPEG Video in case EssenceCompression is not present but MPEG2VideoDescriptor is present
GXF: detection of some captions and time codes event if they are not present at the beginning of the file (testing middle of the file)
DASH MPD: basic support
HDS F4M (Flash Media Manifest): basic support
DCP AssetMap (AM), PackageList (PKL) and CompositionPlaylist (CPL): basic support
IMF AssetMap (AM), PackageList (PKL) and CompositionPlaylist (CPL): basic support
Mac dylib: looking for the dylib in @executable_path and CFBundleCopyExecutableURL dir
AAC: option for instantaneous bitrate in fast detect mode (MediaInfoLib only)
FTP (custom builds only): support of UTF-8 file names
Colour description: colour_description_present added, better separation between bitstream values and container values
MPEG-4: RLE, color space and bit depth
Law rating: support of CEA-608 XDS Content Advisory in MPEG-PS, MPEG-Ts, LXF, GXF
MPEG-4/MOV: Bug found in one file, sample size is 16 with a 32-bit CodecID ("fl32"), correcting the output of MediaInfo
#B775, AVI: AVI can use negative height for raw to signal that it's coded top-down, not bottom-up
#B780, MPEG-TS: crash with some files having PAT/PMT change between begin and end of the file
#B782, PBCore 1.2: some fields were not in the right order
#B784, some humain readable strings were not removed when the corresponding field is removed
#B787, MPEG-4/QuickTime: Erratic appereance of Bitrate Mode
#B798: setlocale() remove from DLL
#B785, DVCPRO HD: streams can be 8 or 10 bit, removing hard coded value from DV parser (MXF header value is used instead when applicable)
MPEG-4: wrong demux of some E-AC-3 streams
AAC: detection of HE-AACv2 was missing if the library is configured with fast detection
MPEG Video: wrong computing of duration of raw stream in case of drop frame time code
Automation, StreamKind type was set to integer, it is text
MPEG-4: was reading lot of useless bytes from disk when the raw stream format is not known
AVI: crash with some malformed text streams
Reference/playlist files were not supported from FTP (custom builds only)
MPEG-4/MOV: ScanOrder was using "stored" value instead of "displayed" value
MXF: Detection of Dolby E was not working in some cases (regression in 0.7.62)
MPEG-4/MOV: freeze with some files having mono 32-bit PCM

Changes for v0.7.63 - v0.7.64

New canonical URL of the website: http://MediaArea.net/MediaInfo
Portuguese, Basque and Russian translations updated
E-AC-3: support of streams having substreams (e.g. more than 6 channels)
JPEG: detection of YUVA, RGB, RGBA and YCCK color spaces
MPEG Audio: detection of Id3v1 inside an MPEG Audio frame
Matroska: support of HEVC/H.265 (based on specifications draft from DivX inc)
Canopus: detection of scan mode, scan order, pixel aspect ratio
MD5 generation option (work in progress)
Id3v2: reading of all Id3v2 blocks (no more only the first one) at the beginning of the file
MPEG-4: support of few additional iTunes tags, thanks to Kurtnoise
AVI: detection of Ut Video, thanks to Kurtnoise
MXF: detection of Dolby E even if EssenceCompression is not SMPTE 337
AIFF: detection of Dolby E
AIFF: detection of not aligned Dolby E
ARIB B24/B37: Caption_conversion_type display (HD, SD, Mobile)
MPEG-TS: displaying CEA-708 service and CEA-608 presence if the corresponding ATSC descriptor is present
MPEG-TS: quicker analysis in the case of quick parsing option
#F412, Matroska: Handling of files having no DocType
#B761, MPEG-TS/ARIB: crash with some streams, thanks to maki
#B765, Matroska: was parsing the complete file if a stream indicated in the header is not present
#B763, MXF: detection of incoherency of channel count between bitstream and wrapper
#B762, Matroska: detecting 23.976 frame rate (instead of 23.962 fps due to imprecise timestamp)
#B759, QuickTime: detection of time codes having tcmi not embedded in tmcd box
#B766, RMVB: a/v delay is incorrect, currently disabling it
#B768, MPEG-4, crash with some MPEG-4 files
#B769, MPEG-4, crash with some MPEG-4 files
#B764, AVC: wrong parsing of some streams having pic_scaling_matrix
AVC, crash with some AVC streams
AAC, infinite loop with some AAC streams
FLV, infinite loop with some FLV files
Matroska: crash with some malformed files
MOV: crash/long parsing with some malformed files
AC-3: crashes and freezes fix
Java 64-bit: Count_Get(StreamKind) was always returning 0
Python 64-bit: Count_Get(StreamKind) was always returning 0
DTS: some streams were not detected
DTS: some memory leaks with 14-bit streams
SMPTE ST 302: memory leaks
SMPTE ST 337: memory leaks
Total failure if MEDIAINFO_REFERENCES_NO #define was used
QuickTime: Time code name is in "Title" field
MPEG-4/QuickTime: handling of weird "negative" frame duration is stts

Changes for v0.7.61 - v0.7.62

+ ARIB STD B24/B37 caption detection (both Japanese and Brazilian versions)
+ LXF: support of AVC, VC-3, MPEG audio, AC-3, Dolby E, and AAC detection and analysis
+ AC-3: support of 22.05 kHz streams (out of specs but they exist)
+ MOV: AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) scan type detection
+ MOV: support of AVID metadata (interlacement information)
+ Time code dedicated tracks (MOV, MXF, GXF)
+ Time code track (MPEG-4/MOV, GXF, MXF)
+ Time code in SDTI (MXF)
+ Time code in System scheme 1 (MXF)
+ Time code in SMPTE RP 188 (aka SMPTE ST 12-2 aka ATC aka VANC) (GXF, LXF, MXF)
+ Time code in SMPTE RP 196 (aka HANC)
+ MPEG Video Time code
+ MPEG-TS: format_identifier, pointer_field, section_length (hidden by default)
+ CEA-608/708: caption detection duration is increased to 15 seconds (or 64 MB) in order to miss less caption content
+ Image files as a video stream: file name of the last file
x #727, MOV: crash with some malformed files (Time scale set to 0)
x #728, AAC: crash with some malformed streams
x #681, AVI: was not analyzing VBR streams without bit rate info in header
x #736: Division by 0 with 0-byte files
x Id3v2: crash with some malformed tags
x Bit rate display was "0 bps" if the real bit rate is more than 4 Gbps
x Division by 0 in case of 0 byte long file
x MPEG-4: wrong muxing mode information in case of A/53 captions in MPEG Video in MOV
x P2 Clip: wrong uppercase/lowercase in the file name of source files.
x MOV: PCM endianness was sometimes wrong
x MPEG-4: JPEG interlacement was sometimes wrong
x MPEG Video: wrong DAR information in case of DAR change between begin and end of the file

Changes for v0.7.60 - v0.7.61

x64 and i386 Windows installers are merged, now only one installer
Italian translation updated
Bigger default window
MPEG-TS: SCTE 35 and KLV streams are better displayed (in Menu part)
MPEG-TS: Menu part contains the list of PID with unknown format
MPEG-TS: Menu part lists PID in the PMT order instead of increasing order
Display of both container and stream scan type and scan order
DV100: scan order
MXF: scan order
MPEG-TS: Maximum and minimum overal bit rate (only if parse speed is set to 1)
MPEG-TS, MPEG-S, MXF, AVI, WM: StreamOrder field added
MXF: better support of malformed VANC streams
MPEG Video: improved detection of the GOP (more frames are used), "Variable" value
MPEG-PS: FirstPacketOrder info added
SkipBinaryData option
#3564456, Matroska: some (other) streams were wrongly detected sa VFR
#3570092, Id3v2: support of old COM and ULT fields
CEA-708: crash with some malformed streams
MPEG-TS: crash when PCR is corrupted (same value at different offsets)
QuickTIme: wrong channel count report in case of buggy chan atom. Now the stream description has priority over chan atom
E-AC-3: duration was wrong in some cases
Matroska: random wrong analysis in case of SimpleBlock mode
#3574436, MOV: hang on files having buggy "alis" atom
MPEG-TS: bit rate mode detection was sometimes too much strict about CBR
DV: wrong detection in case of buggy audio header (if present and set to 0xFF)
MPEG-4: crash in case of buggy aperture size atom
MediaInfo_Const.h was missing in the DLL package for Mac
MPEG-PS: detection of phantom streams
WAV: detection of malformed >4GB WAV files was no more working
DTS: computing bit rate from frame size instead of targeted transmission rate
DTS: setting the bit rate to "unknown" for Master Audio instead of instantaneous bit rate
DTS: Display of endianess and word size was not coherent

Changes for v0.7.58 - v0.7.60

License: Switched back to LGPLv2+Exceptions
#3555183, PCX support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
#3555182, PSD support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
#3555181, Matroska: ALAC detection, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
#3540425, OGG/MKV: Opus speech format support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
#3531808, AVI: detecting more inconsistencies in stream durations
GXF: crash with Time code tracks without frame rate info
MPEG-4: stream order (hidden by default), in order to provide the same numbers as mkvtoolni5.2Track ID
QuickTime: default channel map is "L R" for stereo streams (as it seems to be in QuickTime player)
MPEG-4: support of WMA (version 1, version 2, Pro, Lossless) in MPEG-4
FLV: handling of metadata with an underscore before the real metadata name
MXF: support of files with header missing TrackNumber in the descriptor (if it is present only in footer)
MXF: Language from DMS-1
ProRes: analysis of the ProRes raw stream (including scan order for interlaced content)
colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients: canonicalization of results
MPEG-4 Visual: colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients
ProRes: colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients
GIF: Display Aspect Ratio
#3533984, different behavior depending of compilation options (so Linuversion was missing some info)
MPEG-4: audio/video delay was wrong in case of negative delay
CEA-608: Memory leaks removed
AVC: crash in case of analyzing some invalid SEI
MPEG Audio: crash with some files having Lyrics 2 tags
MPEG Audio: crash with some files having APE tags
AVI: secondary genre comes after primary genres in the "Genre" field
FLV: better handling of files containing more than 1 meta chunk
MPEG-TS/MPEG-PS: was aborting during full parsing in the case of very damaged streams
Vorbis: infinite loop if codebook_entries>=256
Id3v2: crash with some unsynchronized frames, especially with UTF-16 comments
Id3v2: Wrong mime type of covers
MPEG-PS: crash in case of language info in descriptors
Java binding: crash with MediaInfo::Inform() (Windows 32-bit only)
MPEG-TS: false-positive in case of some MPEG-4 files with wrong extension
FLV: crash in some specific cases (malformed files)
3548314, MVC: Scan type was wrong with MVC-only (without the underlying AVC stream) stream
3553588, MPLS: stream duration was wrong with standalone (without the referenced M2TS) files
3553588, MPLS: incoherent behavior with MPLS having more than one PlayListItem
3554154, MPEG-TS: crash with some corrupted streams
MOV: all EIA/CEA-608 captions were not well detected
Matroska: Trying to better detect VFR streams, frame rate was wrong in case of interlaced content

Changes for v0.7.58 - v0.7.59

Ukrainian translation updated
AC-3: Little Endian streams support
LXF: AVC streams support
ISM: better support
File referencing other files (HLS, ISM...): menu in case there is more than 1 stream per referenced file
MPEG-TS: option for keeping streams detected at the beginning then disabled in a an update of the PMT (activated by default)
MPEG-PS: program_map_section support for uncommon streams embedded in MPEG-PS
Referenced files (MXF, HLS, MOV, P2, XDCAM...): issues with source name, track order, files size
MPEG-TS/MPEG-PS: regression, some files with AC-3/DTS/DVD subtitles were not well analyzed anymore
MPEG-4 channel mapping: Lt and Rt (matrix-encoded) channel mapping were missing
GXF: handling of buggy files having non-PCM AES3 codec identifier but actually having PCM
MPEG-4: better support of MPEG-4 files having corrupted metadata atom
3529510, EIA/CEA-708: was not detected if the stream was not present at the beginning, thanks to Pete Chapman

Changes for v0.7.57 - v0.7.58

Ukrainian translation updated
AC-3: Little Endian streams support
LXF: AVC streams support
ISM: better support
File referencing other files (HLS, ISM...): menu in case there is more than 1 stream per referenced file
MPEG-TS: option for keeping streams detected at the beginning then disabled in a an update of the PMT (activated by default)
MPEG-PS: program_map_section support for uncommon streams embedded in MPEG-PS
Referenced files (MXF, HLS, MOV, P2, XDCAM...): issues with source name, track order, files size
MPEG-TS/MPEG-PS: regression, some files with AC-3/DTS/DVD subtitles were not well analyzed anymore
MPEG-4 channel mapping: Lt and Rt (matrix-encoded) channel mapping were missing
GXF: handling of buggy files having non-PCM AES3 codec identifier but actually having PCM
MPEG-4: better support of MPEG-4 files having corrupted metadata atom
3529510, EIA/CEA-708: was not detected if the stream was not present at the beginning, thanks to Pete Chapman

Changes for v0.7.55 - v0.7.57

Better support of machines lacking of std::stringstream
Better support of machines requesting explicit stdc++ library link option (e.g. some ARM embedded devices)
#3515515, MPEG-4: crash with MPEG-4 container + H264/AVC video stream
#3515393, MPEG Audio: infinite loop (freeze) with some files
#3514677, Video: Well known 1.85:1 display aspect ratio was incorrectly displayed as 16:9
#3513908, File interface: No output if filename contain a colon
#3515893, MPEG-4: some specific files were not detected
AVI: infinite loop (freeze) with some files (having index containing 0-sized chunk)
AVC: memory leaks
libcurl support: libcurl config from MediaInfo is compatible with libcurl+gnutls
#3515857, CLI only: --LogFile carriage return format was not the one of the OS

Changes for v0.7.55 - v0.7.56

Better support of machines lacking of std::stringstream
Better support of machines requesting explicit stdc++ library link option (e.g. some ARM embedded devices)
#3515515, MPEG-4: crash with MPEG-4 container + H264/AVC video stream
#3515393, MPEG Audio: infinite loop (freeze) with some files
#3514677, Video: Well known 1.85:1 display aspect ratio was incorrectly displayed as 16:9
#3513908, File interface: No output if filename contain a colon
#3515893, MPEG-4: some specific files were not detected
AVI: infinite loop (freeze) with some files (having index containing 0-sized chunk)
AVC: memory leaks
libcurl support: libcurl config from MediaInfo is compatible with libcurl+gnutls
#3515857, CLI only: --LogFile carriage return format was not the one of the OS

Changes for v0.7.53 - v0.7.54

Russian translation updated
#3480111, Matroska: parsing of WebM-style frame rate info
#3499859, ALAC: parsing of the alac atom, for real bit depth / sample rate
#3487601, DV: fields order (TFF/BFF)
MPEG-4: more video 4CCs binded to MPEG Video
H.263: raw stream parsing (width, height, aspect ratio), comparison with container data
Speed improvements
MPEG-PS: supporting parsing of some non-conform files
Full support of CEA-608 (separation of CC1-CC4, T1-T4)
#3494722, MPEG-4: trying to detect wrong duration in track header
MPEG-4 with embedded MXF track (XDCAM...): separation of video bitrate and padding bitrate
Compound streams (e.g. DV): separation of video bitrate and audio bitrate
Blu-ray: LPCM mono real bit rate is separated from the encoded (stereo) bit rate
Support of https, sftp scp protocols (custom builds only)
AVI: vprp (OpenDML) display aspect ratio support
File names with non-US characters were sometimes not open
#3480111, Matroska: some frame rates are incorrect in the file, trying to detect this kind of malformed file
#3479494, AVC: segmentation fault
#3440638, AAC: wrong detection for some malformed AAC streams
#3440638, MPEG-4: wrong analysis of some files having track header after media information
#3480111, MXF: Height was wrong for MXF with FrameLayout = Mixed fields
#3468235, Blu-ray: displaying PGS in all cases (even if PES is not detected, they are too much rare)
#3498846, MPEG-4: delay between audio and video was no more detected
#3495573, MPEG-4: crash with some files having fragments
MPEG-4: channel position in case of channel atom is configured with ChannelBitmap
MPEG-TS: crash with some buggy files (a PID indicated as PSI and PES at the same time)
AES3: not detecting Dolby E stream if there is guard band before the Dolby E frame, in MPEG-TS
DPX: some files with some invalid fields were not detected
DTVCC Captions: crash with some buggy streams

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