What's new in HBBatchBeast 2.1.5 Pre-release
Jul 30, 2019
- Bug related:
- Fixed Linux/macOS filename apostrophe issue (No longer necessary to remove apostrophes from filenames)
- Features/additions:
- Added daily scan schedule time window - hh:mm - hh:mm. Queue will automatically be continued inside the time window and automatically paused outside of the time window.
- Filter queue and session output items.
- Health check output now shows all items, can filter.
- Verbose health check error logs removed unless 'Save verbose logs?' Checked.
- Moved file container filter to System tab.
- Option to reverse queue order.
- Added date to 'Finish time'
New in HBBatchBeast 2.1.4 Pre-release (Jul 15, 2019)
- Bug related:
- Fixed bug when using both file property filter + size filter.
- Fixed move corrupt file bug in certain circumstances.
- Fixed UI bug when pausing queue then starting new scan/convert.
- Fixed set process priority bug when health checking.
- Features/additions:
- Reduced live log verboseness.
- Option to save verbose logs.
- 'Replace original file' cache now applies to both scenarios ('Replace original file if converted file is smaller' & 'Replace original file always')
- Several UI improvements.
New in HBBatchBeast 2.1.3.1 Pre-release (Jun 9, 2019)
- Bug related:
- Small fix for creating '/Documents/HBBatchBeast' for config and logs folders when first initialising.
New in HBBatchBeast 2.1.2 Pre-release (May 10, 2019)
- Bug related:
- Charts/stats now work offline
- Features/additions:
- Web app so you can now monitor progress remotely.
- Benchmark feature (4K h265 sample video used-2.5MB)
- HBBB will now detect if a conversion is stagnant. If so, conversion will be cancelled automatically.
- Notification if there's an update
- More detail added to error logs when original file cannot be replaced
- "Delete source files after conversion" will now be done at the very end once all conversions have been done.
- This allows the same source files to be converted into multiple formats/presets and then the original file is deleted.
- Option to automatically run when HBBB is opened (useful for when servers are restarted).
New in HBBatchBeast 2.1.1 Pre-release (May 4, 2019)
- Just a small update due to the below bug:
- Bug related:
- Pause and continue queue fixed
- Features/additions:
- Can now specify input and output parameters for FFmpeg
New in HBBatchBeast 2.1.0 (Apr 30, 2019)
- Bug related:
- Fixed UI bug when using multiple presets being used (thanks to u/MasterChiefmas for spotting).
- Features/additions:
- Can now convert using FFmpeg!
- FFprobe is now also used during health checking and to allow inclusion/exclusion of files by properties (such as video/audio codec, bitrate, resolution etc).
- FFmpeg and FFprobe binaries are fully included so unfortunately, the overall size of HBBB has round about doubled.
- Media info viewer tool to scan file properties (useful for determining what properties you want to include/ignore for the above feature)
- Updated UI - pie chart now shows 'Cancelled' and 'Other' items.
- Extra validation checks are now performed to double check if HandBrake or FFmpeg have produced an output file. Due to a HandBrakeCLI bug with exported JSON presets, HBBB was showing a conversion as 'Successful' even if no file was output. This should prevent problems like this in future.
- Option to replace original files with converted files.
- Option to filter files based on size (in MB)
- Option to copy .srt files across to destination folder.
- Option to specify queue view size limit (default 1000 items).
New in HBBatchBeast 2.0.9 (Apr 16, 2019)
- Bug related:
- Fixed excessive RAM issue when folder watching for long periods.
- Identified issue with custom presets exported from HandBrake. Not an issue with HBBB but with HandBrakeCLI - Removing '"PictureRotate": "0:0"' from the JSON preset resolves the issue (or if it's a different error then the first addition below will help resolve the issue.)
- Features/additions:
- Full HandBrakeCLI console output is now logged for each worker thread. "View HB Console output" button added. This should allow people to resolve issues such as the aforementioned preset issue more easily.
- A message is now given when closing the program to double check you're wanting to close down any conversion processes.
- Option to replace the original file if the converted file is smaller.
- File title word filter. Enter keywords to be filtered out when scanning for files. For example, if "720p" is entered, then any files with "720p" in the title will not be converted. Again, keywords need to be separated by a comma. Option added copy filtered files directly to the destination folder.
- Daily scanning. Set a specific time to scan/convert.
- Option to now automatically create temporary conversion and destination folders if they don't exist.
- Option to move corrupt files into a specific folder after health check.
- Moved help page to GitHub Wiki.
New in HBBatchBeast 2.0.8 (Mar 21, 2019)
- Added 'Cancel item' button for each worker. This is disabled while worker threads switch from one file to the next.
- Added 'Stop queue' button to kill all conversion processes and worker threads.
- If queue is paused, 'Continue queue' button is now disabled until all workers have finished their current items.
- Fixed bug whereby files would not be moved from temp to destination folder if those folders were on different drives.
- Fixed bug whereby filenames containing '$' would cause errors on macOS and Linux.