What's new in Media Preview 1.4.3.429
Apr 14, 2014
- Core:
- Better handling of camcorder recorded video files by getting actual thumbnails instead of grey images
- Installer:
- Do not reset settings upon upgrading anymore (it won't work if you upgrade from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3 as uninstall is still handle by 1.4.2, but it will work when upgrading from 1.4.3)
- Overall size reduced by nearly 10% (16.1MB to 14.7MB)
New in Media Preview 1.4.2.417 (Mar 31, 2014)
- Core:
- Fixed the bug where Media Preview was crashing when selecting Luma Bicubic / Chroma Bilinear as the scaling method
New in Media Preview 1.4.1.415 (Mar 18, 2014)
- Core:
- WinXP only: fixed a memory leak that didn't let users move or delete media files
- Fixed debug output generation to avoid issues unrelated to Media Preview processing
- Configuration tool:
- Added command line options to easily register Media Preview with any kinds of supported file formats
New in Media Preview 1.4.0.404 (Mar 18, 2014)
- Core:
- Upgraded LAVF FFmpeg to repository state as of 03/09/2014
- Improved support of video file formats:
- Fixed a memory leak while processing cover arts
- Added support for cover art embedded in mkv files
- Added official support for several video file formats (bink, smk, wtv and dvr-ms)
- Added support for H.265/HEVC and VP9 codecs
- Added support for iPhone mp4 auto-rotation / orientation
- Improved decoding of interlaced VC-1 and Lagarith encoded files particularly, but also of H.264/AVC encoded files
- Optimized thumbnail generation to achieve a good speed boost when disabling Entropy
- Windows 8 and 8.1 only: thumbnail generation was really too slow on these platforms, but got a huge speed boost after optimization
- Added support for cover art embedded in audio files
- Added support of common image file formats:
- Correct transparency display
- Faster thumbnail generation
- Support of jpeg auto-rotation / orientation when Windows allows it
- Fixed a potential memory leak while processing swf files
- Installer:
- Unified everything into a single installer
- Can now be displayed with all the languages already supported by the configuration tool
- Fixed a bug where the installer could re-install an old version instead of the expected version when upgrading
- Configuration tool:
- Added new tabs to easily select audio and image file formats
- Added "live testing" support for audio and image files
- Added the ability to change thumbnail adornment in the advanced options
- Improved the file association engine to replace other third-party thumbnailers
- Enabled filling up thumbnail cache for network drives
- Added a convenient "Remove All" button for user defined extension listings
- Improved user defined extension browsing feature: automatic scanning can now be stopped mid-way
- Added Italian translation
- Improved handling of grammar number rules, particularly useful for languages having more complex name declension systems than the dual singular/plural rule
New in Media Preview 1.3.1.343 (Feb 6, 2013)
- Core: Fixed regressions due to the missing C runtime. It should henceforth really be unneeded now...
- Installer x64 OS only: fixed the desktop shortcut link
New in Media Preview 1.3.0.341 (Feb 4, 2013)
- Full support of Windows 8
- Support of *.swf file format
New in Media Preview 1.2.5.264 (Sep 20, 2012)
- Improved the robustness of the core to handle more edge cases without reporting any error to the shell
- Modified the advanced options of the config tool as followed: ◦Improved thumbnail adornment overlay management in order to avoid any side-effects on Media Center-like applications
- Added the option to disable file type overlay on thumbnails
New in Media Preview 1.2.2.169 (May 16, 2012)
- Hotfix release: A user reported that the live testing feature made the configuration tool to crash on 32-bit editions of Windows Vista+.
New in Media Preview 1.2.1.167 (May 16, 2012)
- Thumbnail generation is now based on display aspect ratio instead of storage aspect ratio
- Added full support for most of the existing media file formats on the market (notably 3G mobile phones, DVD-Video and Blu-ray dedicated formats)
- Media Preview no longer reports error to the shell when processing corrupt, damaged or incomplete files, e.g. files still being downloaded through peer to peer means, but try its best to extract something out of them
- Completed the implementation of all the functionalities of the configuration tool, apart from a minor one: ?Added scaling method to the setting items
- Easily change file association
- Run live testing of configuration changes
- Upgraded LAVF FFmpeg to repository state as of 04/30/2012
New in Media Preview 1.2.0.115 (May 16, 2012)
- Enhanced release:
- Disabled DirectX acceleration (no big processing improvement but problems with low-end graphics card drivers)
- Better support of Windows XP by enabling thumbnail cache for local drives
- Improved metrics calculation resulting in faster processing (notably for virtual machines under Windows 8 CP)
- Media Preview is now entirely configurable
- Media Preview now comes with a configuration tool, to allow you to speed up thumbnail generation if you still find it slow. Some functionnalities of the tool are currently disabled and should be implemented in the next version.
New in Media Preview 1.1.1.86 (May 16, 2012)
- Switched from Libav to FFmpeg (latest version of the LAV Filters branch): ?Better performance thanks to a memory management patch
- Better decoding for most of the video formats
- Added full support of *.mpg and *.mpeg files
- Support of Windows XP
New in Media Preview 1.1.0.74 (May 16, 2012)
- Trimmed Libav from unnecessary encoders, multiplexers and filters, resulting in a nice library downsize of 6 to 1
- Activated DirectX hardware acceleration for video stream processing
- Upgraded Libav to repository state as of 04/08/2012
New in Media Preview 1.0.1.29 (May 16, 2012)
- Check dependency with Microsoft C runtime library
- Upgraded to Libav 0.8.1, fixing some rendering issues
- Support of Windows 8
- Added full support for *.rmvb files