What's new in DVD Flick 1.3.0.7 Build 738
Jun 26, 2009
- Added: buttonSubtitleMenuX and buttonAudioMenuX button types that jump to a title's audio or button menu directly.
- Changed: Removed "High" encoding priority setting. It is not useful anyway (no speed gain, only chokes other processes).
- Changed: Updated FFmpeg to revision 19276.
- Changed: Updated ImgBurn to version 2.4.4.0.
- Changed: Removed "Enable menu" checkbox and replaced it by a "None" menu option.
- Fixed: Overflow error when loading large files.
- Fixed: Negative audio delays were not corrected.
New in DVD Flick 1.3.0.6 Build 734 (Feb 23, 2009)
- Fixed: Bug that caused certain files to be detected as having 0 FPS video.
- Changed: Updated 7-zip, MPLEX, delaycut, FFmpeg and mkvextract to their latest versions.
- Changed: Modifications to the installer script
New in DVD Flick 1.3.0.5 (Feb 15, 2009)
- Added: 1.85 manual PAR option for titles.
- Added: Copy timestamps option for titles.
- Added: RealVideo 3 and 4 support. It's not perfect though.
- Added: GSM audio support.
- Changed: Made the Mosaic template less garish-looking. Not that it's been turned into a work of art now.
- Changed: MPLEX is now used instead of TCMPLEX.
- Changed: Updated FFmpeg to latest revision.
- Changed: Adjusted default burn speed and speed warnings.
- Changed: 2:3 pulldown is disabled by default now, but can be enabled from the advanced video options dialog.
- Changed: The "Do you want to proceed" dialog is no longer shown.
- Fixed: When running in unattended mode, "The project has been changed" dialog would still show up and keep DVD Flick from closing.
- Fixed: UTF-8 subtitle support.
- Fixed: Lowhigh burning speed warning even when burning to disc was disabled.
- Fixed: Long duration of adding a new video source.
New in DVD Flick 1.3.0.4 (Oct 16, 2008)
- Added: Option to ignore an audio track's delay (audio track edit window).
- Added: Option to verify a disc after burning it.
- Added: Option to eject the tray after burning a disc.
- Fixed: Bug that would cause menu generation to die early on.
- Changed: Better subtitle short duration detection (kbosward).
New in DVD Flick 1.3.0.3 (Oct 15, 2008)
- Fixed: MPEG-2 stream copy bug, source height was ignored.
- Fixed: A few issues with large system fonts.
- Fixed: Encoding of H264 in Matroska.
- Fixed: Wrong menu preview image when loading a project.
- Fixed: Wrong highlightselect colors in menu preview.
- Fixed: Subtitle reading bug on some UTF-8 files.
- Changed: A message now shows up if a project file is invalid.
- Changed: Listview improvements.
- Changed: Upped scene change detection sensitivity.
New in DVD Flick 1.3.0.2 (Sep 22, 2008)
- Fixed: Menu authoring failing with a File not found error.
- Fixed: Lockup when generating n chapters. Again.
- Fixed: Failure to multiplex using Mplex and more than one title.
- Changed: Red message dialog images for criticalexclamation messages.
New in DVD Flick 1.3.0.1 (Sep 21, 2008)
- Fixed: Pressing Abort while a stream is being extracted no longer continues to the next step.
- Fixed: Lockup when generating n chapters.
- Fixed: Lockupout of memory error caused by the loading of m2v files that have a similarly named file loaded as a subtitle.
- Fixed: Crash when using certain characters in destination folder names with menus turned on.
- Fixed: 25 FPS menus, even though NTSC was the target format.
- Changed: Disabled B-frame encoding and a few encoding tweaks. Less stuttering during dark scenes or fades.
- Changed: FancyLists can now recieve focus, and the arrow keys can be used to select items in them.
- Changed: Default browse folder upon first run is now the user's My Documents folder.
New in DVD Flick 1.3.0.0 (Sep 8, 2008)
- Added: DVD menu functionality using templates. A few templates have been included already.
- Added: Option for mixed format DVDs for DVD players that can play both PAL and NTSC.
- Added: 23.976 FPS material now gets 2:3 pulldown performed on it when the target format is NTSC.
- Added: The option to force audio channel output to mono, stereo, surround or to infer it from the source (auto).
- Added: Option to always enable the first subtitle (under Playback).
- Added: Detects display aspect ratio (also known as pixel aspect ratio) of many more filetypes.
- Added: Option to go to the previous and next title when editing a title's properties.
- Added: Option to have subtitles auto-fit into view.
- Added: Subtitle lines that are too long are now chopped in two halves, otherwise they are clipped instead of just skipped.
- Added: -startunattended commandline parameter which encodes a project specified with -load and quits. It only logs errors, doesn't display them.
- Added: Welcome screen shown on first run.
- Added: Option to override a video source's pixel aspect ratio.
- Added: Option to specify burning speed.
- Changed: Interface font adapts to system font setting.
- Changed: Subtitle outline rendering is faster.
- Changed: Better scaling
esizingpadding calculations for video.
- Changed: DVD creation progress is better indicated.
- Changed: Force subtitle is now named Display as default.
- Changed: Slightly updated TCMPlex.
- Changed: HTML tags are now stripped from subtitles (rendering them isn't supported).
- Changed: SPUMux output is logged.
- Changed: Improved SSA and SRT subtitle parsing.
- Changed: Subtitles are now corrected for overlapping and too short durations.
- Changed: When adding a title all subtitles with the same base name are added to it too.
- Changed: Subtitle block dimensions are now always multiples of 2. Some DVD players only like such sizes and behave odd otherwise.
- Changed: When adding multiple files they are now added in alphabetical order.
- Changed: Tweaked encoding profiles.
- Changed: AMR narrowband and AMR wideband audio is not supported by this version. Support may return in the near future.
- Changed: Force MPEG-2 recompress option removed. 9 out of 10 MPEG-2 streams aren't fully DVD compliant anyway.
- Changed: Copy MPEG-2 stream option added to force copying MPEG-2 video streams that conform to the proper image width and height.
- Changed: 2nd encoding pass option removed. DVD Flick uses constant bitrate encoding thus it is useless.
- Changed: Audio track sources must be equal in compression, samplerate and channel count.
- Changed: Updated ImgBurn to 2.4.2.0.
- Changed: When burning to disc is selected but not create ISO, no ISO image is created and a direct-to-disc burn is done.
- Changed: Burner detection has been mostly rewritten. 95 - 99% of all burners should be detected now.
- Changed: A title's thumbnail is now used as subtitle preview background (but still letterboxed).
- Fixed: Audio delay could sometimes be detected as -1.
- Fixed: Opening a project file did not work.
- Fixed: Overscan border option adds top and bottom overscan bars again, now also of the proper size.
- Fixed: Using MicroDVD subtitles caused incomplete encodes (up until the first subtitle).
- Fixed: When running in portable mode, user profile directory is no longer created.
- Fixed: Character set selectionsupport for subtitles.
- Fixed: Creating chapters on every video source now works as expected.
- Fixed: Audio delay for VBR audio in AVI files could sometimes be calculated to be in minutes.
- Fixed: Bug that could cause discs that were too large to be created when an audio source was being copied (bad bitrate calculation).
- Fixed: When changing the process priority during encoding it would be reset when the current operation finished.
- Fixed: Crashing when an error occured. The error is now reported as it should be.
- ...and many more small changes and fixes throughout.
New in DVD Flick 1.3.0.0 Beta (Oct 9, 2007)
- Ability to generate menus based on templates
- Better calculation of video size
- Mixed-mode DVD creation
- 23.976 video material is not converted up to 29.97 FPS but Telecine is applied instead
- Faster subtitle rendering
- Interface font is now the Windows 2KXP-standard Tahoma
- Some bigger internal changes that should be transparent to the everyday user
- Tetris
New in DVD Flick 1.2.1.3 (Mar 25, 2007)
- Added: Commandline switches to specify data path and temp path. -datapath and -temppath respectively.
- Added: Option to add borders to the video to correct for TV overscan.
- Added: Half-D1 resolution support.
- Changed: Force nospanscan option for widescreen videos in dvdauthor.
- Changed: Updated ImgBurn to 2.2.0.0.
- Changed: Added fool-proofing to user input.
- Changed: Tweaked video encoding settings and bitrate constraints. B-frames are now also generated, as well as more sensitive scene change detection.
- Changed: TCMPlex is now used to multiplex instead of mplex.
- Changed: Updated to dvdauthor-0.6.14.
- Changed: Destination folder only has it's containing files deleted, not the entire folder anymore.
- Fixed: Installation issue under Windows Vista.
- Fixed: Burn to disc checkbox was not saved as default.
- Fixed: An audio track with multiple audio sources would not combine into one and abort the encoding process.
- Fixed: MPEG2 video streams that were copied over would abort the encoding process because of a missing space character.
- Fixed: Custom video bitrate would still stay within it's predefined boundaries despite it being lower or higher.
- Fixed: Locale issues arising from period or comma decimal indicators.
- Fixed: Crash when an AVI with an AC3MP3 audio data chunk of 0 bytes was added.
- Fixed: Sudden close when loading a possibly corrupt AVI file.
- Fixed: Added proper XML header tag with encoding to dvdauthor and spumux XML files. Fixes usage of foreign characters in path names.
- Fixed: Crash when adding a new audiotrack to a title.
New in DVD Flick 1.2.1.2 (Feb 10, 2007)
- Added: Custom video bitrate option.
- Added: Option to manually set a subtitle's framerate, so that it will get converted to the movie's framerate.
- Added: Warning to prevent graphical subtitle files from being loaded.
- Added: Drag and drop support for video sources, audio tracks and subtitle files to titles.
- Added: Minimize to tray button in the progress dialog.
- Added: Option to set encoding process priority.
- Added: Option to save a subtitle's settings as default.
- Added: Options for more audio encoding control.
- Fixed: Subtitle desyncing.
- Fixed: Some video's aspect ratios were not properly detected as 2.35:1.
- Fixed: Bug that prevented subtitles from being muxed.
- Changed: Rewrote DVD recorder detection. It should detect all SCSI3-capable recorder drives now.
- Changed: Tweaked video encoding options a bit more
New in DVD Flick 1.2.1.1 (Jan 31, 2007)
- Added: Project information tidbits on the bottom right.
- Added: Check to see if the Windows Management Instrumentation service is started before trying to enumerate DVD recorders.
- Fixed: Project files with subtitles were not loaded correctly.
- Fixed: Wrong disc space requirement calculation if an audio source had a delay.
- Fixed: Some files used to produce choppy audio, tweaked audio encoding parameters.
- Fixed: Audio sources not sampled at 48000 Hz are now properly resampled (fixes many files not playing right).
- Fixed: Bug with OGM files and embedded subtitlesstreams unknown to FFMPEG.
- Changed: When your disc is full, you can now opt to continue encoding anyway.
- Changed: Cygwin DLLs have been moved back to dvdauthor folder.
- Changed: Configuration and temporary file access is now specific to each user account, and stored in {userprofile}Application DataDVD Flick.
- Changed: Default project destination folder is now the user's My DocumentsDVD folder again.
- Changed: Minimum average video bitrate is now 2500 Kbits, and maximum is now 9500.
- Changed: Slightly updated recorder drive detection.
- Changed: Unused sources are no longer saved in a project file.
- Changed: Message displayed when a project's disc was full so that it cannot be misinterpreted as a full hard disk.
- Changed: Updated DVDAuthor binaries to their latest versions (here I was thinking it had died).
New in DVD Flick 1.2.0 RC1 (Dec 3, 2006)
- Added: File information report is generated when a file is loaded. Saved to application path
eport.txt.
- Added: The last output directory is now remembered.
- Added: Video aspect ratio is auto-detected now.
- Added: Panavision aspect ratio, which is fit into 16:9 widescreen for now.
- Added: Redone encoding progress windowlogging.
- Added: Support for WMV, WMA, MPEG2, FLV, 3GP and many others thanks to FFMPEG. For a full list, see http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC20
- Added: Video sources which are MPEG2 and the same width, height and FPS as the source video will not be re-encoded but rather copied.
- Added: Upon reinstall the old dvdflick.cfg is deleted, and default target format (PAL or NTSC) is autodetected based on Windows locale info.
- Added: Dorky little info-buttons next to some configurable items.
- Added: ISO image creation and burning to disc using ImgBurn.
- Added: NTSC-Film target for 24 FPS film material.
- Added: Cancel button to interrupt DVD creation process.
- Added: Option to keep encoded audiovideo files for further usage.
- Changed: Abandoned DirectShow, HCEnc, AVISynth and Aften in favour of FFMPEG. Hopefully the last big internal makeover.
- Changed: Adjusted default disc sizes and added some.
- Changed: Can now only shut down when the DVD creation has finished, under Windows 2000 and upwards too.
- Fixed: Multiple video sources would repeat the first source instead of showing the next.
- Fixed: 5.1 or 6 channel AC3 audio used to get encoded to 5 channels.
- Fixed: Problems depending on Windows locale decimal point settings.
- Fixed: Destination folder in use looping message dialog.
New in DVD Flick 0.9.3 Build 113 (Jul 26, 2006)
- Added: Drag and drop support. Drag your video files into the title list to add them.
- Added: Application startup logging.
- Changed: A subtitle's language is now also displayed in the title dialog.
- Changed: When a part of the encoding process fails, it no longer continues.
- Fixed: Fonts with duplicate display names are output to the application log and only the first instance of them is loaded.
- Fixed: Caption did not always update to display the current project's filename.
- Fixed: Displayed title lengths were not always 0:00:00 formatted.