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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



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 - v0.7.48

  • 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 v0.7.46 - 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 v0.7.42 - 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 v0.7.41 - v0.7.42

  • Armenian translation added
  • Belarusian, Ukrainian translations updated
  • 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
  • #3171468, ADIF: crash in some cases
  • #3169916, IFO: crash in some cases
  • #3173391, Id3v2: was using local encoding instead of ISO-8859-1
  • MPEG Video, discarding bad (always 0) group_start
  • AVC: crash with file having big log2_max_pic_order_cnt_lsb_minus4 value
  • AVC: wrong GOP information in some cases
  • Ut Video: Color space information was wrong
  • MPEG-4 Visual: Advanced Simple@L0 was detected as Advanced Simple@L1
  • AVI: Crash with some AVC streams (not sized blocks)
  • MPEG Audio: crash with some files
  • AAC: crash, infinite loop or wrong result with some files
  • Trying to quicker reject a junk file
  • AVI: OpenDML indexes were no more parsed
  • 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.



Changes for v0.7.38 - v0.7.39

  • Turkish, Russian translations updated
  • 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: TAGsupport
  • #3140453, MKV with AAC: support of HE-AAC v1/v2 detection even if AudioSpecificConfig is missing
  • #3138883, ID3v2: crash in some cases if Data length indicator is used
  • #3139417, MPEG-PS: duration for caption detection was shorter than expected
  • #3139276, H.263: more precision about the different flavors of H.263
  • AVI and MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3: error if audio stream duration estimation
  • FLV: better handling of weird bitrate metadata
  • D-10 (AES3) in MXF: Bit rate was wrong
  • AC-3: crash if false-positive detection of AC-3 and CRC is valid and bsid is wrongly set
  • #3141059, FLV: trying to detect partial files (so metadata are wrong) and using timestamps instead
  • #3141052, AVI: wrong duration, no detection of rec chunks, with some files
  • #3145968, RealMedia: not integer frame rate handling HE-AAC filling
  • Id3v2: bad handling of some tags
  • MPEG-TS/PS: Frame count / duration accuracy of some very specific files
  • MPEG-TS/PS: Not counting non-decodable frames (without the corresponding I-Frame)



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 - v0.7.37

  • 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 v0.7.32 - v0.7.33

  • Slovak language added
  • Colorimetry field is replaced by Color space and Chroma subsampling
  • Some word were not translatable
  • Solaris port was broken



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 v0.7.28 - v0.7.29

  • 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
  • Channel positions: more coherency in the naming
  • DVD-Video (IFO): ID name was in hexadecimal only, now in Decimal+Hexa



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 v0.7.19 - v0.7.20

  • 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
  • #2823702, No files processed in subdirs
  • MPEG-PS: Some durations were a bit too long
  • MPEG-PS: Better handling of PTS/DTS for private and extension streams
  • ADTS: Handling of SBR and/or PS streams



Changes for v0.7.17 - v0.7.18

  • Danish translation added
  • Albanian translations updated
  • Shell extension and InfoTip handling re-organization
  • Mac OS X: Drag and Drop
  • MXF support
  • Blu-ray: BDMV directory parsing
  • Blu-ray: clpi/mpls ...



Changes for v0.7.16 - v0.7.17

  • Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Ukrainian translations updated
  • Some tests about the 32 or 64-bit version of the OS are made at install
  • #2790156, Folders context menu option
  • Python : adaptation for version 3
  • Command line: 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
  • #2803396, sometimes crash with tiny (40-79 bytes) files
  • #2801211, MPEG-4/3GP: support of 3GP tags
  • #2795345, MPEG-4 Visual: crash with some specific user_data
  • #2793960, MKV: some MKV renamed as .ac3 were detected as AC-3
  • #2796417, MPEG-4: Some files with Camera user data were not detected
  • #2785604, Build fails on newer GCC versions (>=4.4)
  • #2664106, prefs overwritten after installing update
  • so interface was not working since some releases on Linux
  • MPEG Video: better detection of 2:3 Pulldown
  • MPEG-4: Forcing AMR to 8KHz/Mono whatever the container says



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 v0.7.13 - v0.7.14

  • Belarusian, Russian, Chinese (Traditional) translations updated
  • 64-bits version of the installer (GUI is still 32-bit, but 64-bit DLL is included)
  • DLL-only installers are available (both 32 and 64 bits)
  • #2738780, local time display for modified/created date
  • WAV: RF64 (Wav files >4 GiB) support
  • AVI: Audio delay from the container
  • #2734021, E-AC-3: some files were not detected
  • FLAC: some files with big attachments were not well detected
  • MKV: some huge video (3840*2160) were not well parsed (no encoding 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

  • Spanish, Chinese (Traditional) translations updated
  • 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
  • #2529963: Infinite loop on one file
  • #2473140, DTS: error preventing 96/24 DTS detection
  • MPEG-4: Better support of Aspect ratio
  • Output was unstranslated and weird when $LANG is not set
  • C++ binding error in 0.7.9
  • Python binding improved and corrected (no more crash with Linux)



Changes for v0.7.8 - v0.7.9

  • New icon design, thanks to T.J. Lentz
  • Albanian language updated
  • 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
  • Python binding update for more compatibilty
  • #2424809, Shell Extension problem with some specific OS configuration and non-latin based characters
  • #2474280, OGG: handling of files with Skeleton Metadata
  • #2445654, OGG: better false-positives detection
  • #2493685, AVI: Wrong video duration for some malformed 4GB+ AVI/DV files
  • #2516007, "Language" raw tag was sometimes 3 letter long instead of 2-letter long
  • Floating point overflow correction



Changes for v0.7.7.8 - v0.7.8

  • Changing version schema, only 3 numbers (next versions will 0.7.9, 0.7.10...)
  • Catalan, Russian, Korean, Galician languages updated
  • 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
  • #2406410: Removing the MediaInfo icon for uninstall
  • MPEG-PS: Trying to have a better precision for duration
  • WMV: crash with some malformed files
  • MPEG-TS: some channel names where not shown
  • MPEG Video (version 2): some streams were misdetected as CBR



Changes for v0.7.7.7 - v0.7.7.8

  • Albanian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese Traditional), Turkish, Italian, German, Polish languages updated
  • #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
  • #2186682, MPEG-2 Video: Wrong PAR and DAR for Panasonic MPEG2 Files
  • MPEG-4: some AC-3 and AAC specific files reported wrong channels value



Changes for v0.7.7.6 - v0.7.7.7

  • Chinese Traditional, Albanian, Korean, German languages updated
  • 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
  • #2142995, MPEG-4: handling the Display Aspect Ratio from the track Header (tkhd)
  • #2141277, MPEG-PS/TS: Audio ID was hex for MPEG-PS but decimal for MPEG-TS streams
  • #2109107, Tags in Flac or Ogg: modification of the tag types priorities
  • #2120224, MPEG-4: some specific files were not parsed completely (missing info)
  • MPEG-TS with Dirac: some specific files were not parsed completely (missing info)
  • MPEG-4: Crash on MPEG-4 Visual format without DecDecoder stuff
  • Command line: was not reading custom template in UTF-8 codepage
  • DV: some files were not well detected
  • MPEG Video: some files were badly detected with 3:2 pulldown
  • AVS (Chinese): some corrections, thanks to Tom's translation of documents



Changes for 0.7.7.5 - v0.7.7.6

  • Chinese Simplified language updated
  • [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
  • FLI/FLC: were not correctly detected
  • MPEG-TS without PAT/PMT: the complete stream was parsed, may be very long
  • Wavpack: duration and bitrate were false
  • #2071681, MPEG Audio: handling of truncated MPEG audio frames at the end of a file
  • #2032760, MPEG Audio: handling of MPEG Audio files with junk at the end
  • #2085149, Id3v2: was crashing with some malformed tags



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