Version history for MediaInfo for Mac OS X

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Changes for v0.7.51 - v0.7.53

Georgian translation
MXF with referenced files: if the referenced file is not available, trying to open local files
MPEG Video: GOP size for I-Frame only streams
MXF: support of CEA-608 in ancillary data for some other formats than MPEG Video, if there is no B-frame
LXF: support of SMPTE ST291/CDP/CEA-608/CEA-708 in ancillary data
WAV: better handling of files not having word alignment
DV: crash (division by zero) in some cases
DV: DVCPRO HD was sometimes not detected (low bitrate)
MXF: Crash if AFD field has an invalid value
MXF: Wrong endianess for some big endian PCM streams
MXF: some MXF referencing files have wrong duration
MXF: duration was wrong with some specific files
DVD-Video: detection of 20-bit and 24-bit PCM
XML output: it was sometimes containing some invalid characters
MPEG-4: considering default char set as ISO-8859-1
MXF: better handling of referencing files having the same ID for all tracks
MXF: Handling of MXF files with wrong FooterPartition field
MXF: Some captions (not starting at the beginning of the file) were not detected
WAV: duration was missing is

Changes for v0.7.51 - v0.7.52

Changes for v0.7.50 - v0.7.51

#2872918, MKV: add support for default and forced track flags
#3418881, RK Audio format support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
#3418883, LA: version field, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
MPEG-4: basic support of Aigo .3dv files
MPEG-2 Video: color display info (colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients)
QuickTime: color display info (colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients)
QuickTime: ProRes LT, Proxy, 4:4:4 profiles detection
QuickTime: mpeg CodecID support
Template inputs are now insensitive to carriage return kind (Windows \r\n, Mac \r, Linu\n)
MPEG-TS: Support of ISO 8859-2 in EPG
MPEG-4: more CodedIDs supported
GXF: more info about DV streams
GXF: Handling of files with more than 1 Time code
#3414326, GXF: using only the first map chunk for duration calculation
#3414513, Id3v2: was not able to extract covers with UTF-16 description
#3417908, video from several files: crash if there is not enough place for the frame number
#3433602, DVD-Video (IFO): Crash when scanning some malformed IFO files
Matroska: parser hanging in case of huge zero-padded files
MPEG-4: was not providing some info about tracks with sample table before media header
MXF: better support of corrupted indexes
#3429831, MediaInfo library: unload wrong DLL, thanks to McSpecky
MPEG-TS: Better handling of EPG running_status flag
MXF: Handling of "file:///" in Network loacators
FLV: audio delay was sometimes wrong
H264: Buffer size was in bytes instead of bits like with other formats
#3429196: no output if absolute file name, on Linux
#3187050, FLV: wrong detection when FLV header is corrupt
BLu-ray: crash if MPLS files are on the root of a disk
Blu-ray: parsing was very slow if MPLS was pointing thousands of times on the same file
#3292830, Matroska: crash if AAC sample rate is not provided by the container

Changes for v0.7.49 - v0.7.50

Ukrainian translation updated
DVB Subtitle: region_width / region_height / region_depth (hidden by default)
MPEG-4: hdv6 and mx4p CodecID support (MPEG Video)
AVI: v210 CodecID (YUV) detect
#3411596, CDDA support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
MXF: support of AC-3
#3411999, AVi: detection of GeoVision MPEG-4, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
#3411999, MPEG-4: detection of VC-1 (WMV3), Nellymoser and WMA2, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
AVI: Better support of 2 video streams (e.g. "3D AVI") in a file
MPEG-TS: Duration was not provided in some cases
FLV: Delay and duration for AAC was wrong if delay was not 0, thanks to Justin Greer http://zencoder.com
#3408005, IFO: crash with some files
MPEG-4: some bitrates where wrong if smooth streaming is used

Changes for v0.7.46 - v0.7.47

ISM (ISM/ISMV/ISMA/PIFF...) support
SCC (Scenarist Closed Captioning) support
#3201768, BMP: BitmapV4Header support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
MP4: enda atom support (Endianess)
MXF: expliciting PCM endianess
#3354384, Vorbis in AVI, version 3+ was displayed as 2+
MPEG-4/MOV: files with big "free" atom were not parsed

Changes for v0.7.45 - v0.7.46

Ukrainian translation updated
MXF: TrackName
DCP: Basic support (video and audio streams), both Interop and SMPTE versions
P2 Clip: Supporting directories with wrong letter case
MXF: detection of AES3/Dolby E in mono PCM streams without compression scheme
MP4: first frame duration difference if first frame has not the same duration than all other frames
MP4: frame rate set as CFR if only the first frame has a different duration
MP4: Handling of track duration smaller than media duration (track duration and stream size have priority)
#3348936, MXF: OP-Atom profile
Matroska, Stereo Layout support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
libcurl (FTP/HTTP): seek request was buggy, invalid data was read
MPEG Video in MPEG-TS or MP4: streams were wrongly detected as VBR or CBR, any bit rate mode is removed until a working solution is found
AES (S302M): was no more detected if the packet was split in several PES
#3325235, Vorbis: streams were wrongly reported as CBR
EXR: Width/Height were 1 less than real value
#3344635, MP4/MOV: Delay missing if timecode track found before audio/video, thanks to Peter Chapman

Changes for v0.7.44 - v0.7.45

Belarusian translation updated
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
MPEG Video: Custom matrix detection was broken
DPX: Industry specific header was not well decoded
JPEG-2000: Chroma subsampling 4:2:0 was recognized as 4:4:4.
Matroska: Handling default values for TrackVideoDisplayWidth and TrackVideoDisplayHeight
MPEG-TS: private audio streams with 0xCO stream_id were not correctly detected
FLV and RIFF: Changing Sorenson H.263 to Sorenson Spark because this stream format is too much incompatible with H.263
MXF: Some specific files (including AFD in descriptor) were not well parsed

Changes for v0.7.40 - v0.7.43

MPEG-TS: detection and display of real time PAT/PMT change improved
EIA-708: crash with some specific files
MP4: crash with wiles including mix of PCM and other audio formats
AAC: crash with some malformed streams
FLV: crash with some specific files (longer audio than video at the end of the file)
MP4: wrong framerate information with some specific files (track header after media information)

Changes for v0.7.37 - v0.7.38

Danish, Ukrainian, French, English, Russian translations updated
uClibc compatibility, thanks to Metin KAYA
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
MPEG-TS: option for ignoring ATSC transport_stream_id indication
MPEG-TS: some teletext and DVB subtitles were not detected
#3111584, MXF: phantom track with weird result if an unknown track is found
#3116952, DTS and AC-3: was set as lossy in all cases (DTS Master Audio and AC-3 TrueHD are lossless)
#3137160, ADTS: some files with wrong extension were not correctly detected

Changes for v0.7.35 - v0.7.36

Binaries (libraries, programs and installers) are digitally signed
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
#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
Windows x64 explorer tooltip is back!
#3034092, MPEG-TS: hang up if program is modified (zapping) in the file
AAC: removal of empirical detection of SBR and PS (too many problems)
AVI: trusting in priority frame count from indeof indexes with broken files
MKV: AVC "unknown profile" removal
AVC: some frame rates were reported as twice the real frame rate
#3029308, Id3v2: support of frames with Unsynchronisation bit set
#3065114, MPEG-Video: duration calculation issues with raw streams and open GOPs
AFD: crash with malformed streams
MPEG-7 output: missing references for MPEG-4 Visual and RF64
#3086701, ID3: freeze/crash with ID3 tag at the end of the the file
LXF: some files were not completely analyzed (missing video)
JPEG: Chroma subsampling value was always set to 4:2:0, wrong
MP4 with MPEG Video: do not trust anymore raw stream timecode

Changes for v0.7.34 - v0.7.35

Arabic language added
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
#3036119, MKV: default language value is eng
DV: weird display with some DV with synch problems.
AVC: wrong detection of bitrate mode for AVC in MP4
MPEG-TS: crash and wrong detection of some non MPEG-TS files

Changes for v0.7.33 - v0.7.34

New icons set, thanks to Kevin Redon, based on Gnome themes: Neu, Experience, Gnome 2.18
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
CEA-708: Skipping some malformed streams
JPEG/M-JPEG: Resolution was in some random other field
#3001707, AAC in MP4: mono aac file detected as stereo
AVI: crash with some malformed files
AVI: Stream identifier was not filled in some cases
MPEG-PS: some files were not well detected
WAV: Bit Depth is back
WAV/PCM: Byte sign was wrong if Bit depth >8
Decimal point issues with some specific compilers/OS
MPEG-4: removing support of btrt atom for average bitrate, too many wrong values
AVI: crash with some specific files (avc1 CodecID)
MPEG-4+AAC: Trying to better detect the (non)presence of PS if there is no PS header
MPEG-TS/PS: more precision on duration

Changes for v0.7.30 - v0.7.32

Danish, French translations updated
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
AVC: some files were wrongly analyzed (frame rate...)
AVI: better support of files with only one big data chunk (professional cameras)
MPEG-4: Huge memory usage with some files (files with DV and PCM)
DVR-MS: width/height was wrong in previous version

Changes for v0.7.27 - v0.7.28

Albanian, Belarusian translations updated
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...)
MPEG-PS and MPEG-TS: crash with some files
MPEG-4: some bitrates to zero with a null bitr or btrt atoms
MPEG-4: managing different kinds of compressor name format
AMR in MPEG-4: crash with some specific files
#2952623, Id3v2: USLT with ISO-8859-1 charset was not well read
#2952637, Id3v2.2: PIC tag was not well read
#2952638, XML output: sometimes empty tags
#2920138, XML output: invalid char in XML tags

Changes for v0.7.24 - v0.7.25

MediaInfo (customized) with HTTP input: User Agent setting
#2896693, MPEG-TS: skipping some malformed PMT (with elementary_PID=0)
#2844911, AAC in 3GP: false detection of SBR and PS (again)
#2894411, MPEG Audio: UserDefined Covers replace other covers types
MPEG Audio: Some profiles were not displayed
RealMedia: Some Titles were not displayed
Matroska: Wrong detection of 6-channel Wavpack (detected as 2-channel)

Changes for v0.7.23 - v0.7.24

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
#2882376, AVCHD: reports some incorrect AVCHD framerate
MPEG-4: some Pixel Aspect Ratio settings were not handled
Customized output: respect of carriage return from the platform
MPEG-TS demuxer: more tolerance of bad blocks

Changes for v0.7.15 - v0.7.16

Turkish, Belorussian translations updated
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
Some shortcuts were removed
MPEG-4: some files with compressed headers were not parsed
MPEG-4: Kodak files with EXIF data were not parsed
MPEG-4 (Quicktime): some files with compressed header were not well parsed
MPEG-4: Some files with a TimeCode track had wrong duration
MPEG-PS: some files with wrong timestamp were not well parsed
MPEG Audio with APE tags: crash with big tags

Changes for v0.7.14 - v0.7.15

English, Chinese (Simplified), Albanian translations updated
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)
DTS: 768/1536 Kbps streams are corrected to the real bitrate (755/1510 Kbps)
MPEG-TS: some stream durations were not well computed (few seconds only)
AVC: freeze with some malformed encoder settings

Changes for v0.7.12 - v0.7.13

Hungarian, Albanian translations updated
#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
#2712761, AVI: unsupported SalmonSoft text codec makes MediaInfo silently fail
#2719534, MKV: handling "modified" headers (zero padding)
#2720822, MPEG Audio: was freezing with 1 malformed file
#2721949, IFO: some stream IDs were false
#2725808, MPEG-PS: some "OTA" files were detected with TrueHD instead of normal AC-3 audio

Changes for v0.7.11 - v0.7.12

Belarusian, Croatian translations added
Polish, Traditional Chinese translations updated
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
MPEG-PS: duplicate stream infos with some AC-3 streams (with program map)

Changes for v0.7.10 - v0.7.11

Chinese (Simplified), German, Italian, Persian, Albanian, Dutch, Russian, Hungarian, Japanese translations updated
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
#2559346, MKV: Detection of framerate in MKV without framerate header
#2474280, OGG: some streams had bad stream size
MPEG-TS: some buggy file may corrupt memory
MP3/Id3v2: crash with one malformed file

Changes for v0.7.9 - v0.7.10