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sView Changelog

What's new in sView 14.01

Feb 5, 2014
  • adjust dimensions when window moved to monitor with another scale factor;
  • Interlaced Output - align window position to avoid temporary L/R reversion during window moves;
  • Movie Player - switch to new audio/subtitles track right after attachment;
  • Movie Player - preliminary support of image-based subtitles;
  • Movie Player - process trivial HTML formatting tags (< b > and < i >) in text subtitles;
  • Movie Player - copy shown subtitle text to the clipboard on Ctrl + C;
  • Movie Player - automatically attach audio/subtitles tracks from files with similar name;
  • Image Viewer - parse/save _JPSJPS_ extension section in JPEG files;
  • Image Viewer - show stereoscopic metadata issues (missing, mismatch) in File Info dialog;
  • Added support for new stereo3d API in FFmpeg;
  • Added partial German translation;
  • Added partial Korean translation;
  • Korean and CJK fonts now loaded in addition to Western when required;
  • Improved and extended information provided by File Info dialog.
  • Image Viewer - read pixel aspect ratio property from image, when available.
  • Image Viewer - handle MPO files with big thumbnails (load full images).
  • Image Viewer - improved JPEG parser robustness.
  • Movie Player - fixed playback of 5.0 and 7.1 audio streams.
  • Define Oculus Rift as dedicated device to simplify configuration.
  • Fix text characters positioning issue (displacement at second+ displaying time)

New in sView 13.10 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • implemented DPI-awareness for Windows Vista+ and per-monitor DPI for Windows 8.1;
  • Distorted Output, Dual Output - added option to display Mono sources in Stereo;
  • Movie Player - added subtitles font size control and parallax control;
  • Movie Player - fixed regression, key 'W' doesn't reverse left/right views;
  • Optimized font initialization time and GPU memory usage;

New in sView 13.08 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • Added option to scale GUI;
  • Movie Player - new Audio/Video synchronization control;
  • Movie Player, Web UI - added audio volume control;
  • Added icons for source format menu items;
  • Fixed memory corruption on deletion of last item in playlist (file deletion);
  • Various improvements in GUI;
  • Fix version information in DLL files;

New in sView 13.07 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • Porting to FFmpeg 2.0 (new APIs, planar audio frames, disable cropping on detected tiled dual 720p in 1080p streams);
  • Detect source stereo format in per-frame basis, when provided by codec;
  • Accelerate high-range planar YUV (9/10/16 bits per component) to RGB color conversion (using GLSL);
  • Display dual-stream video as stereo only when chosen "Autodetection" source format;
  • Workaround problems with wglMakeCurrent() in some OpenGL drivers (possible memory leaks);

New in sView 13.06 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • Movie Player - added tiny Web UI;
  • added preliminary Oculus Rift support (stereo output);
  • minor fixes;

New in sView 13.05 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • Movie Player - added menu with recently played files;
  • Movie Player - added hot keys to switch subtitles ('T') and audio treks ('L');
  • Movie Player - added simple playlist widget (Ctrl + L);
  • Movie Player - read stereoscopic tags from WMV files;
  • added Distorted output for anamorphic side-by-side, over/under outputs;
  • added Over / Under output mode;
  • added FPS meter widget;
  • Dual output - extend single window in full-screen mode when possible to improve synchronization;
  • browser plugin - fixed full-screen monitor binding;
  • browser plugin - do not load plugin until it is not visible;
  • improved libraries packaging;
  • keep file playback during output device change;
  • do not create depth buffer when there is no need in it (slightly reduce GPU memory usage);
  • keyboard input handling improvements;
  • improved message box widget (added Close button, added keyboard focus);
  • do not append m3u files to playlist, m3u parser fixes;

New in sView 13.01 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • adjust stereo separation within '' keys to cover notebook keyboards;
  • use undo/redo buffer to keep played items order in shuffle mode;
  • detect display(s) reconfiguration during application work (to correctly launch full-screen mode);
  • Movie Player - added new option to prevent system going to sleep during playback;
  • Movie Player - handle Audio device disconnection during application work;
  • show dirty information about opened file by 'I' hot-key;
  • shuffle playback - generate random order rather than the same pseudo-random order;
  • Movie Player - fixed seeking in paused state;
  • Movie Player - fixed switching between audio streams with different frequency;
  • fixed saving of BMP image in PNG format;
  • fixed displaying of stereo images with different dimensions per view;
  • fixed regression - window position didn't restored after application restart;

New in sView 12.10 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • PageFlip output plugin - show on-screen warning (require full screen mode);
  • browser plugin - download preview image when not in full screen mode;
  • browser plugin - improved thread-safety;
  • browser plugin - improved browsers compatibility;
  • output plugins - reduced memory usage;
  • movie player - fixed possible crash on exit;
  • removed dependency from GLEW;

New in sView 12.09 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • added support for webp/webpll images (using libwebp 0.2);
  • added audio gain control;
  • interlace output - added option to disable binding to compatible monitor at application start;
  • dual output - added menu for slave monitor selection;
  • show Display Aspect Ratio in Image Viewer too;
  • preliminary support for reading playlist in M3U format;
  • added experimental ActiveX component (likewise NPAPI plugin);
  • improved backward seeking in movie player;
  • switch audio device (OpenAL) without application restart;
  • improved compatibility with some OpenAL implementations;
  • Image Viewer - reduce FPS for inactive window;
  • (internal) removed dependency from patched FTGL;
  • improved text layout;

New in sView 12.06 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • added AMD HD3D output support (for shutter glasses);
  • added simple Blend deinterlacing filter (Movie Player);
  • added French localization;
  • added tiled stereoformat 720p in 1080p (used by some Europe broadcasters);
  • introduced UTF-8 subtitles output support;
  • added shuffle play-list playback (Movie Player);
  • added option to restore Aspect Ratio overridden value after program restart;
  • added Amber-Blue Dubious filter to Anaglyph output;
  • added inverse option for Interlaced output (for displays with different left/right lines order);
  • added full-screen switch button to Image Viewer (to comply with Movie Player GUI);
  • orientation information now read from JPEG photos to apply automatic rotation;
  • added option to attach files as additional Audio/Subtitles streams (Movie Player);
  • added support for 8-bit and 32-bit audio formats;
  • added playback support for mk3d files (matroska 3D-stereo) within stereo format flag;
  • read parallax value stored in MPO images by Fujifilm cameras;
  • anaglyph source formats now decomposed via GPU nor CPU (performance improvement);
  • improved NVIDIA 3DVision output support (launch speed, 24-bit color quality and stability);
  • improved compatibility with recent FFmpeg API;
  • FFmpeg binaries migrated to version 0.10.2 (Windows builds);
  • improved compatibility with BUGs in recent AMD Catalyst releases (Interlaced and Dual outputs);
  • fixed misprint in Mirror Output that cause Y-flip mis-function;
  • slightly improved compatibility with Safari browser (NPAPI plugin);
  • improved compatibility with Unicode file paths;
  • general improvements and fixes.