The FilmMachine Changelog

What's new in The FilmMachine 1.6.3

Jan 10, 2011
  • This version is released because of problems with DVDAuthor running on Cygwin and because DVDAuthor released version 0.7.0 with a few nice features. You must at least have The FilmMachine version 1.6.1 installed on you computer.
  • Updated DVDAuthor and Spumux to version 0.7.0 which also solves problems with cygwin.
  • Now using the color and outline subtitle features of the new Spumux version 0.7.0.
  • Fixed a few other bugs.

New in The FilmMachine 1.6.2 (Oct 18, 2010)

  • Updated DVDAuthor and Spumux to version 0.6.18 which also solves problems on Windows 7.
  • Updated HC Encoder to version 0.25.

New in The FilmMachine 1.6.1 (Mar 28, 2009)

  • Implemented support for Surcode DVD DTS encoder version 1.0.29.
  • Implemented support for 1x, 2x and 2,4x burning of DVD’s to be compatible with most dvd-players.
  • Implemented the “Luminance Gain” feature for HCEncoder.
  • Implemented the “Close All Gops” feature for HCEncoder.

New in The FilmMachine 1.6 (Jan 6, 2009)

  • Fixed video encoding of an AVI with 23 fps in CCE SP2.
  • Implemented the latest version of MediaInfo library (version 0.7.8).

New in The FilmMachine 1.6.0.14 Beta (Dec 7, 2008)

  • Fixed GOP settings in CCE and Procoder to comply with the DVD Standard (thanks to fullEffect).
  • Now standard the “Close all Gops” option is checked.

New in The FilmMachine 1.6.0.12 Beta (Aug 1, 2008)

  • Enabled the manual typing of the output directory.
  • Updated MediaInfo.dll to version 0.7.7.5.
  • Implemented the latest version of HcEncoder (version 0.23).
  • Fixed a few other bugs.

New in The FilmMachine 1.6.0.11 Beta (Jun 23, 2008)

  • Fixed a bug in encoding audio. Sometimes 6 channel audio would be fed as stereo which gave strange results.

New in The FilmMachine 1.6.0.7 beta (Jan 1, 2008)

  • - Fixed DVD burning with Nero when you have Nero 8 installed.
  • - Changed maximum average bitrate to 9800 minus the audiobitrate.
  • - Replaced the internal shrinking engine with Rejig (fixed a bug by doing so).
  • - Implemented support for Grass Valley (Canopus) Procoder 3.
  • - Implemented libaften.dll instead of aften.exe and updated it to the latest SVN release (thanks to Madshi).
  • - Implemented the latest version of HcEncoder (version 0.22) with multiprocessor support.
  • - Now ISO filename is the same as the ISO title.
  • - Fixed bad sound when source movie has 3 or 4 channels.
  • - Enabled the 5.1 upmix feature for other audio sources also.
  • - Fixed speedup sound when 5.1 audio was converted to stereo.
  • - Fixed a bug mixing up subtitle framerates.
  • - Adjusted video bitrate calculation when DVD has 2 audio streams.
  • - Fixed the "ERR: SRC moves backwards" error in DvdAuthor. DvdAuthor now only gives a warning.
  • - Fixed a few other bugs.

New in The FilmMachine 1.6.0.6 beta (Aug 10, 2007)

  • - Fixed the high CPU usage bug on multicore systems (thanks to j_ gs).
  • - Fixed a bug when audiobitrate was set to default again when you changed it manually.
  • - New experimental UpMix 2.0 AC3 to 5.1 AC3 through AC3Filter.
  • - Updated the ffdshow codec to compile date 01 July 2007 Beta 3 by clsid.
  • - Fixed the loud output when an AC3 source file was encoded through BeSweet and Aften.
  • - Implemented the Aften MMX version instead of the Aften SSE2 version.

New in The FilmMachine 1.5.3 (Oct 30, 2006)

  • Fixed a little bug that appeared sometimes for NTSC movies (it is discussed at http://forum.dvdrbase.info/showthread.php?t=46277).
  • Fixed a little bug that some movies with MP3 audio couldn�t be opened.