April 30th, 2012· New: Ability to save logs with x264 encoding statistics. Added the option "Save x264 encode logs in temp folder" in the menu.
· x264 updated to revision r2197.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
March 20th, 2012· Fixed: broken IMDb title scraping.
· x264 updated to revision r2184.
March 12th, 2012· Mkvmerge updated to version 5.4.0
· x264 updated to revision r2183.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
February 23rd, 2012· New: Added support for command line parameter --qpfile. Forces IDR frames on chapters transitions.
· New: In the first installation sets the default language for audio and subtitles selection as same language of the user's operating system.
· Fixed: removed all javascript errors on the banner (now it is!).
· Small fixes and general improvements.
February 13th, 2012· New: Added option for output in AVCHD with CRF mode. Guarantees a certain quality and is faster (one pass) but the output size is variable.
· New: Added code to check at runtime if the optional tools (Avisynth, Java and .NET Framework) are installed when required by a certain conversion (only for 3D SBS or when have to resize subtitles).
· Fixed: Occasionally some JavaScript errors on the ad banner could freeze active conversions because of a problem with threads.
· Fixed: The conversion of some Blu-Ray with a secondary video stream could fail.
· x264 updated to revision r2164.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
January 30th, 2012· New: Error handling. If fails one step in the conversion, process stops and passing to "FAILED" state and is marked in red on the list. If we resolve the cause (e.g.: lack of HDD space) is possible to resume the conversion without having to start from the beginning. Also is created an error log to help determine the cause of failures. This log can be opened from the context menu of the jobs list.
· New: Haali Media Splitter filter is included in the installer (used in 3D SBS conversions).
· x264 updated to revision r2146 (includes a significant improvement in speed).
· Small fixes and general improvements.
January 6th, 2012· New: Now is possible to include hardcoded subtitles in 3D SBS conversions. It's designed for forced subtitles (cannot be disabled when playing) but maintaining the font, color and position and are compatible with any 3D playback system.
· Improved: in the control "Media" on the main screen, options "BD Remux" and "MKV Remux" have been added to choose conversions without recode the video in a more intuitive way.
· Mkvmerge updated to version 5.2.1
December 19th, 2011· x264 updated to revision r2120.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
December 6th, 2011· Fixed: broken Blu-Ray 3D to AVCHD 3D SBS conversion due a bug in 'ffms2.dll' archive.
November 28th, 2011· Improved: Extraction of forced subtitles without using BDsup2sub (a new own code is used). This fixes the issue: "forced subtitles disappear to fast" on XBMC and BOXEE BOX players caused by BDsub2sub.
· New: "Scan bitrates" function now also checks errors on video source (incomplete or corrupted file). If some error is detected, displays a warning message.
· Improved: bitrate calculation when the audio has the following unusual formats: DTS 448 Kbps (2.0), AC3 224, 320, 512 y 576 Kbps.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
October 27th, 2011· Improved: in some Blu-Ray structures that include intros or warnings in the same MPLS of main movie, now detected and are excluded from the conversion.
· x264 updated to revision r2106.
September 26th, 2011· Improved: bitrate calculation when video source is CBR if "scan bitrates" is completed.
· Fixed: when is selected HD audio (VBR) in MKV’s programs ask for "scan bitrates" when is only possible in Blu-Ray sources.
· x264 updated to revision r2085.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
August 12th, 2011· New: Scrape movie titles in IMDb and complete the information in multiple formats.
· Improved: handling of some Blu-Ray structures with several main playlists when are not seamless branching.
· x264 updated to revision r2057.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
July 26th, 2011· New: 3D SBS reversed encoding mode (left-right pictures reversed).
· Fixed: under certain conditions it was possible to select 3D SBS without recoding obtaining an incorrect result.
· x264 updated to revision r2037.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
July 11th, 2011· New: 3D ready. From Blu-Ray 3D (MVC) we can get a 3D SBS AVCHD or MKV (side-by-side).
· Improved: When resizing PGS subtitles from 1080p to 720p Lanzcos3 filter is used (better quality).
· Small fixes and general improvements.
June 20th, 2011· New: contextual menu (right click) in the queue jobs list with options: "Move Up Queue", "Move Down Queue", "Remove", "Remove and Delete Source", "Open Source Folder" and "Open Output Folder".
· New: in Settings added option for default chose FLAC as output audio format for MKV’s if source is HD audio.
· New: in Settings added option for default downconvert 24 bits audio to 16 bits.
· New: in Settings added option for default downmix 7.1 or 6.1 channels to 5.1 channels.
· Improved: increased maximum number of jobs in queue from 10 to 100.
· Improved: for default is used Arcsoft for decode HD audio if it’s installed in system.
· Improved: BDsup2Sub it’s used to resize PGS subtitles rather than tsMuxer (improve quality and prevents errors).
· x264 updated to revision r2008.
May 14th, 2011· New: Ability to convert audio to FLAC (lossless) if the source is HD audio and output MKV.
· Improved: automatic criteria for selecting the audio track to convert based on the selected output type (BD5/BD9/MKV/...).
· x264 updated to revision r1995.
May 2nd, 2011· New: for MKV output option to crop the video (eliminates black bands if the AR is 2.40:1, etc.).
· Fixed: Is disabled the option to resize at 720 if the source is 1080i. Only is possible to resize from 1080p to 720p.
· Improved: (for MKV output) when is resized the video also resizes the PGS subtitles.
· x264 updated to revision r1947.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
April 26th, 2011· New: MKV as alternate output format. Allows to convert Blu-Ray to MKV, recoding the video (CRF) or creating a BDremux.
· Improved: for AVCHD output is used the new parameter --bluray-compat instead of --open-gop bluray, --aud, --nalhrd vbr and --b-pyramid strict. This also always checks compliance of ref and b frames with AVCHD.
· Improved: accepting as input MKV files with header compression.
· Fixed: when converting a Blu-Ray with the main file split into several .m2ts parts and selecting the TrueHD audio was kept AC3 core only.
· Mkvextract updated to version v4.6.0 and Mkvmerge added.
· x264 updated to revision r1936.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
April 26th, 2011· x264 updated to revision r1913.
· Fixed: Conversion failed when it is necessary join several .m2ts parts and the codec is MPEG-2.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
February 8th, 2011· x264 updated to revision r1884.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
January 20th, 2011· Improved: On some BD with several main playlist (two movies, episodes, etc.) now lets you choose which one to convert.
· New: Option to resize 1080 video sources to 720.
· Improved: Added an option in settings to use the Arcsoft decoder to decode DTS-HD instead of libav that only decodes DTS-Core (higher quality DTS > AC3 conversion).
· Small fixes and general improvements.
January 9th, 2011· Fixed: When we get the forced subtitles from the same track as the full subs could be de-synchronized.
· New: Windows 7 shows the progress bar at the taskbar button.
· New: The program prevents the computer can enter sleep mode while a conversion is in progress.
· Updated several dll libraries and C++ runtime to version 9.0.
January 3rd, 2011· New: The "scan bitrates" detects if the normal subtitle tracks also contain mixed forced subtitles.
· New: Ability to extract only the forced subtitles when they are on the same track as normal subtitles.
· New: Installation includes BDSup2Sub v4.0.0 program.
· Fixed: Conversion fails if the source video is 720p/50.000fps (converting MKV to AVCHD.)
· Improved: It shows eac3to progress in the GUI, not show CMD window and run all eac3to relative operations with one-time.
· Improved: The progress indicator in the GUI with a single progress bar, but shows a more detailed description of each step.
· New: Option "Debug Mode (show CMD windows)". Shows the windows command line for all processes.
· Improved: In Blu-Ray's with the main .m2ts in several parts now always use the largest part for determining the content of the tracks.
· x264 updated to revision r1834.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
· Notice: From this version you must have Java installed (no included) as used by the BDSup2Sub program included in the installation.
January 3rd, 2011· New: The "scan bitrates" detects if the normal subtitle tracks also contain mixed forced subtitles.
· New: Ability to extract only the forced subtitles when they are on the same track as normal subtitles.
· New: Installation includes BDSup2Sub v4.0.0 program.
· Fixed: Conversion fails if the source video is 720p/50.000fps (converting MKV to AVCHD.)
· Improved: It shows eac3to progress in the GUI, not show CMD window and run all eac3to relative operations with one-time.
· Improved: The progress indicator in the GUI with a single progress bar, but shows a more detailed description of each step.
· New: Option "Debug Mode (show CMD windows)". Shows the windows command line for all processes.
· Improved: In Blu-Ray's with the main .m2ts in several parts now always use the largest part for determining the content of the tracks.
· x264 updated to revision r1834.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
December 6th, 2010· New: Settings to select the font type, size and color of subtitles when converting from MKV (conversion from SRT to PGS).
· Fixed: Subtitles come out too small when convert from MKV.
· x264 updated to version r1804.
November 7th, 2010· New: "Play sound when finish a job" option.
· Improved: The languages that use two ISO codes are detected with any of them (fre/fra, ger/deu, ...). To be effective must be re-set preferences.
· Improved: now stopped jobs can be removed from the queue without having to Start > Cancel.
· x264 updated to version r1745.
October 19th, 2010· New: "Shut down computer when finished" option. Activating this option shuts down computer when finish all jobs in queue.
· New: It takes into account events WM_QUERYENDSESSION and WM_ENDSESSION so Windows can tell the program that should stop the conversion to restart/shutdown the computer. You can continue the conversion without repeating the steps already completed.
· Fixed: flickering in some interlaced video sources. Now command --demuxer "lavf" is used in these sources.
· x264 updated to version r1732.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
September 27th, 2010· New: "Advanced Options" dialog. Can set x264 standar tune options (film, animation, grain, stillimage, psnr, ssim, fastdecode) and add custom command line parameters.
· New: "Please wait..." message while the program scans the BD structure.
· Fixed: crash when opening massive seamless branching Blu-Ray’s (workaround for BD Prince of Persia).
· x264 updated to version r1724.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
· Warning: the saved jobs queued with earlier versions are not compatible with this version.
September 13th, 2010· In "Options and Settings"; more languages are added in the list of
· preferences.
· x264 updated to version r1713.
· Improved: uncrop process uses the same process 32 or 64 bits used for encoding.
August 23rd, 2010· Eac3to updated to version 3.24
· x264 updated to version r1698.
· Added more language codes to improve the detection of audio tracks / subs.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
August 2nd, 2010· If video source AR is not 16:9 (cropped MKV) add borders to obtain 16:9 AR output.
· Allowed untouched HD audio also on DVD9 and "custom" sizes.
· Fixed: functionality "Scan Bitrates" obtained an incorrect result in Blu-Ray's with the main .M2TS split into several parts.
· x264 updated to version r1688.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
July 26th, 2010· New parameters are used --b-pyramid "strict" and --open-gop "bluray".
· Now the default is used weightp = 2 (improves compression in fades) but adds a configuration option to disable this option for players that are not compatible.
· x264 updated to version r1683.
· Mkvextract updated to version 4.1.1
· Fixed: the "Scan Bitrates" did not work while a conversion is in progress. Now can be used in parallel.
July 8th, 2010· New feature: scan the source bitrates. Determines the exact bitrate of subtitles and HD audio (VBR).
· Allowed HD audio track on BD-25 output.
· It shows the resolution (bit depth) and dialnorm if available depending on the type of audio.
· It uses a size of 8,543,666,176 bytes instead of 8,547,991,552 for DVD DL (DVD-R DL have slightly less capacity than the +R).
· New more accurate formula for calculating the video bitrate. It takes into account the binary structure of m2ts container.
· It lets you configure the output subtitles as forced/unforced regardless of the source subtitle track.
· Eac3to updated to version 3.22
· MediaInfo updated to version 0.7.31
· x264 updated to version r1659
June 23rd, 2010· Possibility to use several x264 presets besides the default (speed vs. quality).
· The list of queued jobs can be expanded to show details of each conversion set.
· Fixed: incorrect Core bitrate detected in the DTS MA tracks with 2 channels instead of 5.1 or Core not equal to 1509 Kbps.
· Fixed: bad detection of the structure of the BD in some cases with multiple playlist (multiangle) or unusual structures.
· Updated x264 codec to version r1649.
· Small fixes and general improvements
June 14th, 2010· Added buttons to up/down pending jobs in the queue.
· In the selection window of .mpls (playlist) shows .m2ts files that are part of each playlist.
· Added more language codes to detect audio / subs and also in the settings window to choose them by default.
· Fixed: calculation of bitrate with DVD9 output + audio DTS / DTS Core.
· Fixed: the progress indicator to index the video (FFMS indexing) could reach values higher than 100%.
· Improved: choose the --keyint (24/25/30/60) according to the fps.
· Better detection and handling of interlaced formats (1080i25 / 1080i29.97 / 1080i30)
· Updated x264 codec to version r1643.
· Check to avoid opening multiple instances of program.
· Improved the automatic update of new versions.
June 5th, 2010· Automatic check for new versions and download it.
· Improved update on the status of buttons as the actual state of the conversion.
· Link to the Website from the Help and About menu.
· Updated x264 codec to version r1613.
June 5th, 2010· It saves the state of the queue on disk so that when you reopen the software can resume unfinished or pending tasks.
· Added a STOP button to stop the conversion without completely cancel.
· Now you can remove jobs from the queue that have not yet begun.
· WARNING if the resulting bitrate is very low and can affect the quality too.
· It checks whether the original uncompressed video fits in the destination media (BD-25) and in this case was not re-compress. Is directly obtained a BDRemux within minutes.
· Added an informative message with the resulting quality and whether you should or not re-encode the video according to the selected tracks and the destination media.
· Added advertising to help support the project.
· Updated x264 codec to version r1583.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
· Fixed: on some computers the program could not open due to lack of some libraries (Visual C ++) in the setup.
June 5th, 2010· Added support for Blu-Ray's with multiple versions of the film / multiangle (main .m2ts file in several parts).
· Added more output media (USB 4GB, BD-25, BD-50 and Custom).
· Default media type are saved in the preferences and you can define a Custom size.
· Updated x264 codec to version r1570.
· Added command line --vbv-maxrate 24000 (improves AVCHD compliance).
· Basic resume: if you interrupt the process can be re-creating a "Job" with the same name and parameters and skip the steps that were already completed.
· Added more language codes to improve the detection of audio tracks / subs.
· Small fixes and general improvements.
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