What's new in mkv2vob 2.4.9
Apr 19, 2012
- Fixed error when transcoding to x264
New in mkv2vob 2.4.7 (Dec 8, 2009)
- Fixed crash with 2ch DTS audio.
- Fixed DTS to AC3/PCM conversion not working in AVCHD modes.
- Fixed problem where VORBIS commentary audio track might be selected instead of AC3/DTS.
New in mkv2vob 2.4.6 (Jul 1, 2009)
- Fixed some AC3 tracks playing faster then they should (Chipmunk bug).
- Fixed DTS-AC3 conversion in XviD transcodes not working.
New in mkv2vob 2.4.6 Beta 1 (Jun 30, 2009)
- Fixed some AC3 tracks playing faster then they should (Chipmunk bug).
- Fixed DTS-AC3 conversion in XviD transcodes not working.
New in mkv2vob 2.4.5.1 (May 10, 2009)
- Recompiled loader.exe due to deleted by some anti-virus scanners.
- No changes to functionality, it is identical to 2.4.5.
- It will still say 2.4.5 in the title bar.
New in mkv2vob 2.4.5 (Feb 20, 2009)
- Added DTS can now be transcoded to AC3 in AVCHD mode (if you want to reduce filesize).
- Fixed "unsupported" or "out of memory" error on ps3 with some split files.
- Fixed old ac3 encoder which causes stuttering still used when downsampling/fixing ac3.
- Fixed DVD-5 split sometimes a few bytes too large.
New in mkv2vob 2.4.5 Beta 1 (Feb 18, 2009)
- Added DTS can now be transcoded to AC3 in AVCHD mode (if you want to reduce filesize).
- Fixed "unsupported" or "out of memory" error on ps3 with some split files.
- Fixed old ac3 encoder which causes stuttering still used when downsampling/fixing ac3.
- Fixed DVD-5 split sometimes a few bytes too large.
New in mkv2vob 2.4.4 Beta 2 (Feb 16, 2009)
- Added DTS can now be played from file without transcoding to AC3 (Disc/Streaming). *
- Fixed DivX not recognized as valid.
- Fixed Drag and Drop not recognize ts files.
New in mkv2vob 2.4.4 Beta 1 (Feb 12, 2009)
- Fixed AC3 skipping/stutter on some decoders.
- Fixed Drag and Droping a folder with "delete folder" checked may delete wrong folder.
- Fixed Drag and Drop not recognize rar files.
- Fixed "Error Transcoding Video" on MKV missing bitrate flag.
New in mkv2vob 2.4.3 (Feb 5, 2009)
- Added support for SSA subtitles.
- Added ability to browse network folders.
- Added Drag and Drop support (both files and directories).
- Added XviD transcodes are now XBOX 360 compatible with full 5.1 AC3 playback.
- Added support for video with variable frame rate (it will be transcoded to CFR).
- Added AVCHD 720p with height above 584 can now be converted without transcoding.
- Added support for audio which is not 48Khz in AVCHD mode (eg. MP3).
- Added "Use 448kbps AC3" will now downconvert 640kbps AC3.
- Added detect if temp/dest folder is writable to avoid strange errors if its not.
- Added detect and abort if temp folder is on a FAT32 formatted drive.
- Added abort if "transcode: never" is selected and video would be unplayable.
- Added display reason video is being transcoded. *
- Added assume subtitles in mkv without a language flag is your preferred lanaguage.
- Fixed runtime error in AVCHD mode if subtitles contain bad time codes.
- Fixed error converting some DTS-ES tracks to AC3/PCM.
- Fixed unable to choose a temp/dest directory in the root of an empty drive.
- Fixed subtitles incorrectly displayed on DBCS windows (eg. traditional chinese).
- Fixed error transcoding or very large output on non-english windows.
- Fixed muxing failed on MAC when used in vmware.
- Fixed audio lanaguage preference not working with vorbis/mp3.
- Fixed parse error with some H.264 mkv's which were not encoded with x264.
- Fixed PCM conversions which are larger then 4GB not working.
- Fixed tsmuxer crash/partial output in AVCHD when subtitles contains long line.
- Fixed no subtitles visible in AVCHD when first subtitle starts at 00:00:00
- Fixed "Skip Already Converted" not detecting AVCHD conversions.
- Fixed mencoder crash at end of some files.
- Fixed detect if tsmuxer crashes for any reason during AVCHD muxing.
- * Transcoding reason display:
- REF = Too many reference frames (Not Level 4.1)
- VFR = Variable Frame Rate
- SUB = Subtitles
- RES = Bad AVCHD resolution
- CFG = You set transcode to Always
New in mkv2vob 2.4.2 (Jan 22, 2009)
- Added support for MPEG/L3 (MP3) audio.
- Added "Use 448kbps AC3" option, for decoders that require it, 640kbps is the default.
- Added "Use Old File Format" option (uses M2TS container like the old versions).
- Restored "Output File Extension" option.
- Fixed MKV file deleted + parse error if source is in a subfolder of the destination.
- Fixed loader.exe deleted by some anti-virus scanners (false detection, there was no virus).
- Fixed AVCHD mode transcoded all 720p files even if its not needed.
- Fixed freeze/crash/error when output directory is a FAT32 file system.
- Fixed check boxes in config tab looked strange on some windows themes.
- Fixed progress bar not working in second stage of PCM transcoding.
- Note: If you get green bar in AVCHD, press "Top Menu" on your remote.
New in mkv2vob 2.4.1 (Jan 20, 2009)
- Fixed Audio/Video transcoding fails on CPU's with more then 6 cores.
- Fixed AVCHD mode results in Muxing Failed under some conditions.
- Due to the PS3 downscales 720p which is not exactly 1280x720 in AVCHD mode to 480p, such videos are now transcoded and black bars added.
- The green bar removal patch appears to work fine with odd resolution 1080p video so no transcoding needed.
New in mkv2vob 2.4.0 (Jan 20, 2009)
- Added AVCHD: Disc output mode (note: AVCHD is same as Blu-Ray so you can burn to BD-R too).
- Added AVCHD: USB output mode (AVCHD on a usb drive).
- Added AVCHD: USB output mode automatic splitting and playback for FAT32 without movie interruption.
- Added AVCHD: DTS + Subtitles support without transcoding.
- Added AVCHD: Automatically import chapter information from MKV.
- Added AVCHD: Patch TSmuxeR AVCHD output to remove green bar without re-encoding.
- Added AVCHD: Patch TSmuxeR AVCHD output to make subtitles play automatically.
- Added AVCHD: Patch TSmuxeR AVCHD output to fix wrong m2ts file size indicator (causes freezing on splits).
- Added x264 High Quality transcoding mode (almost lossless, file size is about 3x original),
- Added option to convert incompatible audio to PCM instead of AC3 (requires HDMI audio decoder).
- Added support for ASS subtitles.
- Added Stop/Pause button.
- Added detection of bad manual installation (cause of mkv parse error, please use the installer).
- Added option to disable automatic update.
- Added use standard Win32 API to run tools, should help with running in emulator on MAC/Linux.
- Added support for DTS-ES audio.
- Added support for VORBIS audio.
- Added support for multi-core XviD encoding.
- Improved x264 transcoding speed on multi-core processors.
- Improved x264 transcoding speed by optimizing settings.
- Fixed VirtualDubMod error when transcoding codec is set to XviD but no transcoding was required.
- Fixed wrong audio codec muxed in XviD when the source mkv did not have an AC3 track.
- Fixed progress bar not working in XviD muxing stage when no splitting required.
- Fixed some letters missing in some subtitle languages.
- Fixed Arabic subtitles not displayed correctly.
- Fixed Unexpected Operation error on some files with AAC audio.
- Fixed too big/small MPEG2 transcoded files.
- Fixed file splitting was undersized by 2.34% (note: a little undersizing is normal).
- Fixed "Installation ended prematurely" error with installer on some systems.
- Fixed transcoded audio unplayable or with dropouts/clicks on some decoders.
- Fixed various other minor bugs.
- Removed file extension option, it is now set automatically (rename it manually if you want).
New in mkv2vob 2.3.2 (Jan 5, 2009)
- Fixed wrong subtitles when using SRT file.
- Improved Automatic Level 4.1 detection
New in mkv2vob 2.3.1 (Dec 28, 2008)
- Fixed Overflow in DTS/AAC conversion.
New in mkv2vob 2.2.2 (Apr 10, 2008)
- Fixed sometimes xvid output not playable on ps3.
- Fixed low quality x264 transcoding if source bitrate > 10mbps.
- Other minor fixes.
- Updated tsmuxer to 1.7.3(b)
New in mkv2vob 2.1.1 (Apr 7, 2008)
- Sorry in last version it was working fine then before uploading i updated tsmuxer to latest version which caused problems.
- Fixed crash on .ts files (due to tsmuxer changed the format of the "stream info" line).
- Downgraded tsmuxer to 1.6.3(b) due to bugs in latest version causing it to completely not work on some files.
New in mkv2vob 2.1.0.5 (Mar 11, 2008)
- Added XviD and x264 transcoding options.
- Fixed wrong center/right channel order in AAC conversion.
- Fixed some subtitle letters in latin character set incorrectly rendered (French, Spanish, etc...).
- Fixed incorrect rendering of Chinese and Arabic characters.
- Fixed out of sync on files mixed with NTSC video and PAL audio (untested, someone send me a sample if it doesnt work).
- Work around tsmuxer bug with comma in file or directory name (causes Muxing Failed error).
- Various other small code changes I forgot.
New in mkv2vob 2.0.5 (Feb 29, 2008)
- Updated tsmuxer to 1.3.6
- Fixed Overscan Compensation not working.
- Fixed SRT files not in UTF-8 special characters replaced with underscore.
- Fixed Greek character encoding for subtitles.
New in mkv2vob 1.5.3 (Feb 4, 2008)
- Improved MPEG2 Transcoding, should fix freeze at the start and out of sync.
- Updated tsmuxer to latest version