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VideoReDo TVSuite Changelog

What's new in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.63.7.836a Beta

Oct 21, 2022
  • [Fix] HEVC: Transitions weren't working when saving from the joiner.
  • [Fix] H264/HEVC: Dissolve transition using smart editing with mid-point less than 0.5 results in some incorrect frames.
  • [Fix] H264: Using 64-bit software encoder can hang near end of file when source video has teletext.
  • [Fix] Batch: Batch broken in 835a, fixed in 835b.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.62.6.834g Beta (Mar 9, 2022)

  • [Enhancement] Thumbnails: Much faster thumbnail display when the thumbnail interval is > single frame and less than 1 second.
  • [Enhancement] TS Muxing: Allow VBR muxing when TS mux rate is set to Automatic or ATSC.
  • [Change] GUI: Tools>Options>Transition, warn user if the mid-point is not between 0.0 and 1.0.
  • [Change] GUI: Tools>Options>Transitions, changed "Mid-point" to "Dissolve mid-point". Disable edit box unless "Dissolve" selected.
  • [Fix] AAC: No audio stream error for files with AAC mono @ 16KBps. Can open now, but audio will be silent.
  • [Fix] Batch: QSF checkbox in batch checked when project file is queued from VRD causing edits to be ignored.
  • [Fix] DVB subtitles: Only able to view the first DVB subtitle. The other's wouldn't display.
  • [Fix] EVR video driver: Colors are all wrong if driver needs to internally convert from YUV to RGB (e.g. rotation or no acceleration).
  • [Fix] Frame cache: Thumbnails could put pixelated frames into the frame cache after a seek by not waiting first for an I-frame.
  • [Fix] German translation: Output complete dialog is incorrectly resized when running in German.
  • [Fix] H.264: Dual pass with the 64-bit encoder not honoring profile setting. Always being set to "Main".
  • [Fix] H264 encoder: Default (external) software encoder not honoring adaptive or pyramid B frame settings. Classic encoder OK.
  • [Fix] H264 stream: Possible incorrect parsing of an H264 MP4 file when there are no AUDs in the source stream.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Doing intelligent recode of a 10-bit HEVC video can trigger a crash.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Frames of last GOP of progressive video might incorrectly be internally flagged as interlaced triggering deinterlacer.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Smarteditor, non-standard frames rates were being rounded to a whole number instead of being passed through correctly.
  • [Fix] MP4/MKV: Interlaced programs with separate AUD for each field doesn't navigate well in VLC.
  • [Fix] MP4: Fixed average frame rate calculation as reported by ffmpeg for VRD muxed files.
  • [Fix] MPEG2 video: A stray GOP header that's part of a P or B frame will hang navigation when seeking by I-Frame.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.62.6.834g Beta (Nov 16, 2021)

  • [Change] HEVC: Not detecting EAC3 and HEVC in an ATSC (North American) transport stream program map.
  • [Fix] EAC3: Won't open a transport stream with EAC3 that isn't ATSC or DVB, but uses a unique format.
  • [Fix] H.264: Smart edit, VRD will loop and create extremely large log file if fade duration < GOP duration at cut point.
  • [Fix] Save: Selecting program stream output and custom output options causes crash in rules for user's video. (Dan203)
  • [Fix] Frame capture: If smart deinterlacing is enabled, frame capture would still use old BOB deinterlacer creating rough captures.
  • [Fix] Show Program Info: Parameters for H264 4:4:4 (profile: 244) not being correctly displayed.
  • [Fix] H264: Warn user format isn't supported if H.264 4:4:4 video is opened.
  • [Fix] Transport stream output: Re-encoding can sometimes cause some PTS underflows at the end of the file.
  • [Fix] DVR-MS: Trying to open a DVR-MS file will crash TVSuite 833.
  • [Fix] Audio fades: When fading out, rounding error could cause a few msec of the first fade-out frame to have silent audio.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.62.6.833a (Sep 23, 2021)

  • Fix: AAC-HE: Sometimes wrong sampling rate and channel count detected resulting in distorted audio and possible crash.
  • Fix: Chapter import: First chapter mark not being processed since reader looking for BOM marker.
  • Fix: Dynamic normalization: Program failure if the program begins with 5.1 and changes to 2.0
  • Fix: GUI: Switching between preview back to edit mode advances 2 frames if codec is MPEG2. OK for other codecs.
  • Fix: H264 smart editing: Incorrect cut points and possible pixelation if the cut is very short and the cut end GOP already in buffer.
  • Fix: H264: Smart edit can pixelate if source video VBV size is too low. Now sets minimum recoded VBV to 100KB.
  • Fix: HEVC: 10-bit HEVC didn't work in batch due to incorrect 10-bit logic check. Was OK in interactive.
  • Fix: MP4/MKV output: Muxer error when saving interlaced H264 files with separate AUDs for top and bottom fields.
  • Fix: MP4: Using the joiner with titles and saving to MP4 files can abort output especially in batch.
  • Fix: MPEG2: Application crash when opening DVD-RAM VRO files.
  • Fix: QSF: Running QSF with filters interactively wasn't honoring filters. Worked OK from batch.
  • Fix: Rotation: If video width < height with aspect ratio < 1.0 and rotated by 270 degrees doesn't fill frame after rotation.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.62.5.832k Beta (Aug 20, 2021)

  • [Fix] AAC-HE: Sometimes wrong sampling rate and channel count detected resulting in distorted audio and possible crash.
  • [Fix] Chapter import: First chapter mark not being processed since reader looking for BOM marker.
  • [Fix] Dynamic normalization: Program failure if the program begins with 5.1 and changes to 2.0
  • [Fix] GUI: Cancel / Esc key wasn't working to dismiss unsaved edits dialog.
  • [Fix] GUI: Switching between preview back to edit mode advances 2 frames if codec is MPEG2. OK for other codecs.
  • [Fix] H264 smart editing: Incorrect cut points and possible pixelation if the cut is very short and the cut end GOP is already in the buffer.
  • [Fix] H264: Smart edit can pixelate if source video VBV size is too low. Now sets minimum recoded VBV to 100KB.
  • [Fix] H264: Smart edit will turn black frames into gray frames if the original bit rate of the source file GOP is too low.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Intermittent crash when closing video if the thumbnail process is still filling in data when close is requested.
  • [Fix] MP4/MKV output: Muxer error when saving interlaced H264 files with separate AUDs for top and bottom fields.
  • [Fix] MP4: Using the joiner with titles and saving to MP4 files might abort output, especially in batch.
  • [Fix] MPEG2: Application crash when opening DVD-RAM VRO files.
  • [Fix] Profiles: Max bit rate being reset to "No limit" regardless of user setting.
  • [Fix] QSF: Running QSF with filters interactively wasn't honoring filters. Works OK from batch.
  • [Fix] Transitions: TVSuite could disable transitions when importing a profile from VRD Pro.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.62.5.831a (Jul 8, 2021)

  • New: Major improvements to the French and Czech translations.
  • New: Added new sample COM script, join.vbs to illustrate how to use joiner from COM..
  • New: Added shortcut keys and custom button option to change the playing audio stream without using the menu..
  • New: Added support for AAC-HE for transport streams with MPEG2 video.
  • New: Added support for PCM audio in M2TS files from BluRay discs.
  • Change: Revert chapter files to be like Version 5 using windows line endings (CR, LF) instead of just (LF). Also removed Unicode BOM.
  • Change: Speed up navigation of forward short interval searches of H264 and HEVC files.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.62.4.827 (Apr 28, 2021)

  • New: Hide mouse cursor during full screen playback.
  • New: Dynamically switch between cut and scene mode from the edit menu. Option removed from Tools>Options>General.
  • New: Joiner now allows you to join videos with different resolutions and frame rates.
  • New: DVD allows you to specify if authoring NTSC or PAL. Previously determined automoatically from frame rate and dimensions.
  • Change: Transport stream muxer changed to make seeking in VLC smoother.
  • Fix: Encoding to HEVC to on a high-core count (24+ threads) system will no longer exhaust memory.
  • Fix: Fixed multiple issues when smart editing HEVC files with transitions enabled.
  • Fix: Generated data for Topfield .rec files not being properly generated.
  • Fix: Fades not being processed properly on internal cuts (dissolves were OK).

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.62.4.830a Beta (Apr 28, 2021)

  • [Enhancement] GUI: Added short cut and custom button: "Select Audio Stream" to change playing audio stream. Use "option" field for stream #
  • [Enhancement] GUI: Major improvements to the Czech and French translations.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: New keyboard shortcuts, Shift+1 through Shift+9 to change the audio stream being played back. Can be customized.
  • [Enhancement] Navigation: Speed up forward short interval navigation by doing sequential searchs.
  • [Change] MP4 output: If doing a video recode, automatically rebase the lowest PTS to be 0. (same as the VRD Pro MP4 advanced option).
  • [Change] Options: Tools>Options>Manual, Added "Maximum seconds for sequential search", removed "Thumbnail sequential search"
  • [Fix] H264 stream: Default to top field when complimentary field pairs are encountered.
  • [Fix] MPEG2: Advancing 1 frame after an I-frame seek causes seek to next I-frame.
  • [Fix] NVEnc: HEVC advanced encoding parameters looking in the wrong place.
  • [Fix] NVEnc: Only check if NVidia encoder exists if user requested it in the output profile, or made it the default encoder.
  • [Fix] Output profiles: Setting header bit rate to "No change" causes profile to disappear.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.62.4.829a Beta (Mar 21, 2021)

  • Enhancement:
  • Chapter marks - Add additional formatting options for chapters.
  • Change:
  • Chapter files - Revert chapter text file to be like V5 and use windows line endings (rn) instead of just n. Also removed BOM.
  • Fix:
  • Uncompress stream - Log program info of source file in output for output. Previously only done with MPEG2, H264, HEVC
  • LATM AAC - No audio PID message if TS packets too small to contain an entire LATM AAC frame.
  • H.264 - Memory allocation errors if the picture size > 4K and system has more then 12 processor threads.
  • Frame capture - Issues with frame capture if the picture width is > 4096 pixels. Now allows capture up to 8192.
  • Keyboard shortcuts - Assigning a short cut to "Select thumbnail interval" does NOT show option parameter in shortcut HTML listing.
  • MP4/MKV output - Audio headers not written if an audio stream is present in the source, but missing in the output segments.
  • WTV Files - Language code display in Show Program Info was incorrect due to incorrect unicode conversion.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.92.11.823b Beta (Sep 26, 2020)

  • [Fix] Audio: Minor memory leak of audio data when an empty audio frame requires reallocation.
  • [Fix] BeyondTV: Beyond TV project files didn't work with drag & drop
  • [Fix] EAC3: If the audio stream changes channel count from 5.1 to 2.0 during playback VRD will abort. (Dan203)
  • [Fix] GUI: Scrambled strings in info box when showing MB and crash when showing frame number if Windows localization values corrupt.
  • [Fix] GUI: Tools>Options>Shortcut keys wouldn't always update the help text or selection properly if it was filtered by search
  • [Fix] HEVC playback: Adjust picture timing code could crash or create wrong PTS values after smart edit due to POC LSB discontinunity.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Logging of encoder errors and warnings to videoredo log file wasn't working properly.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Smart encoding will create an HEVC encoding init error if too many reference frames.
  • [Fix] MPEG2: QuickSync encoding to MPEG2 not outputting DTS timestamp with some Intel GPUs (not clear which ones). Can stall MP4 output.
  • [Fix] Output Profiles: (VRDPro) Issue with LKFS and Gain couldn't be adjusted > 0.
  • [Fix] Output Profiles: H264 and HEVC advanced encoding options not displaying (broke in 822).
  • [Fix] Topfield .rec files: Generated metadata not being written correctly causing topfields to not accept .rec files from VRD.
  • [Fix] VRD would crash on drag & drop of ES files

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.62.1.822a Beta (Sep 7, 2020)

  • [Change] Install wizard: If you hold shift and ctrl down when clicking next, the check for GPU encoders is skipped.
  • [Change] HEVC: When saving to MP4, don't copy extra data as part of the annex B if there is already a VPS NALU in the frame.
  • [Fix] NVidia encoding: Not adding SPS and PPS to I/IDR frames due to uninitialized variable. Broke after 816.
  • [Fix] Auto combine: Auto combine not working due to change made in the release 821.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Check the slice header for: first_slice_segment_in_pic_flag to determine if slice is a new frame or part of previous frame
  • [Fix] HEVC: Smart encoder will create VPS, SPS, and SPS with id values of 11 to not conflict with typical values of 0, 1, and 2.
  • [Fix] QuickSync: QuickSync not working in Build 821 for Core I5-2400/2600 CPUs.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.61.3.821a Beta (Aug 28, 2020)

  • Version check: Automatic download and install of new version could stall indefinitely.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.61.1.820a Beta (Aug 21, 2020)

  • [Enhancement] GUI: Options for playback speed accepts prefix +/- (adds to speed), = (sets to specific speed) or no prefix for multiple.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: When changing the playback speed, show a temporary visual indicator in the video window of the new speed.
  • [Enhancement] Playback: Play audio at original pitch even when playback speed has changed. Valid from 0.5x to 4.0x.
  • [Change] Thumbnails: Allow shift+click on a thumbnail to select center frame. Previous versions excluded center frame.
  • [Change] Thumbnails: If shift+click and thumbnail interval is set to single frame, change pop menu labels to simply "Move left or right"
  • [Change] Thumbnails: Re-worked the thumbnail frame cache to use an LRU replacement algorithm and store more frames.
  • [Change] Transport stream output: If TS mux rate set to auto and null packets are omitted (default for TVSuite), mux plays better in VLC.
  • [Fix] Cropping: Cropping not working with dual pass encoding.
  • [Fix] GUI: Remove OK button on the "Permission to access internet" task dialog.
  • [Fix] GUI: Tools>UI Style editor accidently deleted from menu. Has now been restored.
  • [Fix] H.264 encoding: New external encoder defaulting to BFF instead of TFF for interlaced video. Now defaults to TFF.
  • [Fix] H264: Tools>Options>H264 frame rate not honoring "Stream" setting if very close to actual container rate.
  • [Fix] Installer: not prompting for install folder. Broke in a previous version.
  • [Fix] MP4/MKV output: Reported output frame counts and video duration are double what is actually saved for H264 PAFF encoded video.
  • [Fix] MPEG2: Advanced encoding option setting, "Use non-linear quant" wasn't being honored if set to false.
  • [Fix] MPEG2: Output can stall or abort if excessive removal of corrupted video frames leaves incorrect DTS timestamp setting.
  • [Fix] MPEG2: Updated to a faster version of the MPEG2 encoder. Performance increase up to 30% at high bit rates ( > 30 Mbps).
  • [Fix] NVidia encoding: If GPU card doesn't support MBAFF encoding, automatically switch to PAFF if card supports interlaced encoding.
  • [Fix] NVidia encoding: If output is progressive, ignore Interlace output setting (PAFF/MBAFF).
  • [Fix] Thumbnails: Audio graph was sometimes not displaying all frames, especially at the right-end of the graph.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.61.1.818a Beta (May 6, 2020)

  • [Fix] File open: Unable to open video files > 0.5 GB (broken in build 807)

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.61.1.817a Beta (Mar 27, 2020)

  • Change: H.264 profile: H.264 advanced encoding parameters removed "progressive" from optional "Interlace mode".
  • Change: Internal: libavcodec & libavformat updated from Version 3 to Version 4.
  • Change: Logging: If log file folder doesn't exist, logger will 1st attempt to create it, if fails set default to DocumentsVideoReDo
  • Fix: Ad-detective: Intermittent hang after running ad-detective if thumbnail interval is greater than single frame.
  • Fix: Batch: When doing a queue to batch from the file save screen, the selected profile isn't saved and remembered for the next save.
  • Fix: Beyond TV XML files don't work
  • Fix: DVD: If saving a DVD to an ISO from the DVD project page, no longer warns if a physical burner isn't found.
  • Fix: DVD: If source video has 4:2:2 chroma, DVD authoring should automatically recode to 4:2:0.
  • Fix: DVD: Opening a copy protected VIDEO_TS file will crash in V6.
  • Fix: DVD: When authoring to a DVD using the software encoder, reduce the bit rate tolerance so that encoded size fits on a DVD
  • Fix: H.264: If frame rate at start of file is variable, build an internal histogram of frame durations to determine actual frame rate
  • Fix: Joiner: Transitions sometimes disabled when saving through the joiner.
  • Fix: MPEG2: If source is MPEG2 navigating or Ad-detective to end of file could hang thumbnails.
  • Fix: MPEG2: Thumbnails could hang if source codec is MPEG2 and thumbnail interval is greater than single frame.
  • Fix: Output Profile: Save as elementary stream (match source) always appends .h264 suffix regardless of source video codec.
  • Fix: Output graph: If video encoder set to dual pass but NVEnc or QuickSync becomes the actual encoder, revert to single pass.
  • Fix: Output profiles: If smart profile codec is set to "match source" and changed in file save dialog, quality factor not honored.
  • Fix: Profiles: Changing h264 codec to hevc on mp4 ipod profiles causes output error due to MP4 mux type of ipod not supporting hevc.
  • Fix: QSF: If transitions are enabled, QSF dialog shows audio recoding even though transition settings ignored in QSF mode.
  • Fix: Save dialog: If container is changed/customized clicking on "select file" uses old container type not new type.
  • Fix: Shell: Problem opening VPRJ (maybe files too) with file associations.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.60.10.816a (Mar 3, 2020)

  • New: Ad-detective, Speed up interactive mode so that's now as fast or faster then Version 5.
  • New: Elementary stream muxing now works properly for HEVC files.
  • Change: DVD authoring internals totally re-written.
  • Change: MPEG2 thumbnails, significant speed up of the display
  • Change: Navigation, up/down arrow keys now operate in same directions as Version 5.
  • Fix: Tivo fixed excessive removal of audio frames when stream corruption encountered.
  • Fix: File save dialog, fixed editing of output file name..
  • Fix: NVidia encoder, lots of fixes including automatic conversion to progressive if required..
  • Fix: Removed MPEG-4 part2 from list of support output profile..

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.60.8.814a Beta (Feb 3, 2020)

  • [Change] Fix] NVidia encoding: Sync errors if the source file is MPEG2 encoded with 3:2 pull down repeat frames. (Broke in 813a)

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.60.8.813a Beta (Feb 1, 2020)

  • [Change] H.264: Improve quality of I-frame cuts when smart editing H.264 when frames at cut start are near black.
  • [Fix] GUI: File save dialog output filename, if no favorite profiles, typing a space in the output file name causes cursor to jump to left of edit box.
  • [Fix] H.264 output: Smart encoder would create and not delete unneeded log/stats files: data.txt, log.dat, stats.dat
  • [Fix] H.264: H264 smart edit will error out if user's home folder has unicode characters.
  • [Fix] H.264: Smart edit could exceed memory (allocation error) when editing 4K video with transitions. Added thread control.
  • [Fix] H.264: Smart edit, added support for advanced encoding option: thread count when doing smart editing.
  • [Fix] MPEG2: Tivo, Excessive removal of audio frames when processing Tivo files if an entire GOP was removed for resync.
  • [Fix] Playback: AAC-HE audio stutters on playback in V6. OK in V5.
  • [Fix] Translations: Output profile edit, some languages (Czech, Dutch, French, Finnish) wouldn't let user select NVEnc codec.
  • [Fix] Output Profiles: (VRDPro) Unable to set the AC3 bit rate beyond 384 Kbps in either simple or advanced audio.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.60.4.809b (Nov 18, 2019)

  • [Enhancement] Ad-detective: When non-interactive ad-detective is finished, play a different sound from a normal file save.
  • [Change] DVD output: Internal DVD authoring logic changed to better fit current architecture.
  • [Change] GUI: Remove "Use new style file and folder dialogs" from Shift+Tools>Options>Manual.
  • [Change] Output Profile: H264 advanced encoding options, added option to disable 8x8 transform.
  • [Change] Output Profile: Remove MPEG4 from list of output codecs.
  • [Change] Output: Disable transitions when doing QSF.
  • [Fix] AC3 encoder: Fixed memory leak.
  • [Fix] Activation: Automatic activation not working for all users, manual activation works.
  • [Fix] Ad-detective: Add tooltip text to the two icons (pencil and X) in the profile section of the dialog.
  • [Fix] BOB deinterlacer: Deinterlacer would crash if output height was not a multiple of 16. Such as 1920x1080.
  • [Fix] DVD: Adding a project to DVD splits scenes and uses time codes are description instead of using the file name.
  • [Fix] DVD: Background of menu screen is distorted.
  • [Fix] DVD: Burning not working in V6.
  • [Fix] GUI: Go to time code, using ctrl+v to paste a time code doesn't work.
  • [Fix] GUI: Pressing "abort" during save, removes the last added to the cut list.
  • [Fix] H.264: Dual pass encoding might stall on second pass.
  • [Fix] H.264: Software encoder will error / abort if interlaced and weighted_p frames requested. Disabled weighted_p for interlace.
  • [Fix] HEVC: QSF of HEVC source to MP4 file might hang.
  • [Fix] Installer: Not setting language code correctly from the installer.
  • [Fix] MKV: Wrong frame rate being written to MKV files. (Actually value is frame duration in nsec).
  • [Fix] MPEG2 encoding: Memory leak in the mpeg2 encoder could cause application to run out of memory if the output file is > 1.5 GB.
  • [Fix] MPEG2 video: Intermittent crash when seeking to end of file. Could also trigger crash at end of ad-detective.
  • [Fix] MPEG2 video: Save would stall if source is program stream and audio packets at cut point didn't have a PTS.
  • [Fix] MPEG2 video: Wouldn't demux AC3 audio with DVD audio header when the audio header block had an offset of 0.
  • [Fix] Output Profile: Intelligent recoding of uncompressed source has really low output bit rate.
  • [Fix] Output: File save not letting user specify child folders if default directory in output profile isn't blank.
  • [Fix] Profile editor: Changing the file extension causes a crash.
  • [Fix] QSF dialog: Manually entering a file name into Input file edit box doesn't work, need to press "Select file".
  • [Fix] QSF: If suggested output file name exists it should suggest a new unique one.
  • [Fix] WTV output: Non-english characters in the metadata are being messed up in the output file.
  • [Fix] (VRDPro) Included missing HEVC support libraries and DLLs.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.60.4.808a (Oct 22, 2019)

  • [Fix] Fixed problem with build 807 opening video files > 0.5GB.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.60.2.803a (Sep 28, 2019)

  • Fix: Removed some beta test warnings accidently left in Build 802.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.4.91.800a Beta (Aug 16, 2019)

  • [Enhancement] File save dialog: Now saves "Favorites Only" option even if you Cancel dialog
  • [Change] MKV: Remove extra data block from MKV files to better support multiple parameter sets.
  • [Change] MP4/HEVC: If saving HEVC to MP4 the first output GOP will ALWAYS be recoded in order to create a unique parameter set.
  • [Change] Output Profile: Lower minimum AC3 bit rate for 5.1 audio to be 192 Kbps instead of 384 Kbps.
  • [Change] Stream internals: (VRDPro In NAL viewer holding down the shift key and clicking previous/next frame does a GOP jump.
  • [Fix] Default profiles: Various iPhone & Android profiles listed in the install wizard were missing.
  • [Fix] GDI: GDI driver wouldn't correctly display 4:2:2 video content.
  • [Fix] H.264 output: Fade in could cause crash if first frame after fade-in occurs before I-frame in decoding order.
  • [Fix] HEVC source: Save error if source is HEVC without AUD and container is MKV or MP4.
  • [Fix] Install wizard: Fixed selection of allowed default profiles. Added some older Apple and Android profile options.
  • [Fix] MKV: HEVC encoder could error out if level_idc in profile was too low. Now checks and bumps level_idc if necessary.
  • [Fix] MKV: On some files, first GOP would not be displayed or saved.
  • [Fix] MKV: Saving MKV to MP4 wouldn't play on iOS. Changed hev1 to hvc1.
  • [Fix] Output Profile: Some settings not sticking: Encoding type, Flip, Audio channel mode, and Normalize.
  • [Fix] Profile: In TVSuite, can't persist dual pass or CRF output 'Encoder mode:' settings.
  • [Fix] Project files: V6 project files have a BOM at the beginning and shouldn't.
  • [Fix] Tools>Options>Startup: Prevent settings files from Version 5 from being imported. Only Version 6 settings can be imported.
  • [Documentation] COM documenation: Program Duration as reported by FileGetProgramInfo is in 90KHz ticks, NOT seconds.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.4.91.799a Beta (Jul 31, 2019)

  • [Change] H.264 output: Moderate speed on some files when outputting with transitions.
  • [Change] GUI: Warn user if diagnostic is set to advanced and let them reset it to medium.
  • [Fix] MP4/MKV muxing: MP4/MKV output of some files can trigger pixelated playback in MPC-HC & VLC.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Fixed problem parsing HRD parameters which prevented file from opening.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.4.91.798a Beta (Jul 15, 2019)

  • [Fix] GUI: Output profile editing: there were missing translations in the drop-down control.
  • [Fix] GUI: Shortcuts/hotkeys not recognized on Chinese language systems. Can also crash when creating new hot key mappings.
  • [Fix] GUI: Entering a UNC output path in file save, QSF save, or ES save shows "Invalid output file" message.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Incorrect frame rate due to overflow error if vui_time_scale or vps_time_scale has a large value.
  • [Fix] Joiner: Joiner list sometimes has an extra 0:00-0:00 segment as first item. Introduced with build 797.
  • [Fix] Output Profile: False "unable to set output options" if NVEnc is the default encoder.
  • [Fix] Transport stream: If "ignore transport stream map" enabled, stream detector could interpret MPEG2 as HEVC.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.4.90.797a Beta (Jul 1, 2019)

  • [Enhancement] GUI: Support for registration names with unicode characters.
  • [Enhancement] Joiner: Adding a project to the joiner adds the title and each scene separately rather than as one project.
  • [Change] H.264 & HEVC: Added support to detect and report colorPrimaries, TransferMatrix, etc.
  • [Change] NVidia encoder: Automatically adjust NVEnc encoder settings by polling encoder for capabilities such as interlace, chroma, etc.
  • [Fix] Titling: Adding title to source video with 24 bit audio adds incorrect number of silent audio fr
  • [Fix] Profiles: Max bitrate didn't always cause recode if the source file didn't have a max bit rate. Mostly affected HEVC & H.264
  • [Fix] GUI: Disable internal frame cache used to display thumbnails for MPEG2 files. Similar to V5 behavior.
  • [Fix] Joiner: Loading a joiner project without having an open video could crash application on save. (Project files won't work).
  • [Fix] Batch: Added "default settings" and "Current settings" to AdScan profile list.
  • [Fix] GUI: Tools>Options>Playback, Widen dialog box and some strings.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Unable to open file is it contained "filler data" (FD) NALs.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Unable to open transport stream file if first frame in the file didn't have VPS, SPS, PPS.
  • [Fix] H264: Sync error when saving when there are missing POC but GOP otherwise plays OK.
  • [Fix] GUI: Hotkeys wouldn't work if language other than English is selected.
  • [Fix] GUI: Selecting Czech as the language code wouldn't stick and TVSuite would revert back to English.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 6.4.88.795 (May 27, 2019)

  • [Enhancement] Chapters: Add option to Tools>Options>Chapters to create a chapter marker at start of each joiner project.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: Add option to rotate the video being displayed (0, 90, 180, 270) for when the rotation metadata isn't set in the file.
  • [Enhancement] Output Profiles: Frame rate change algorithm on the advanced tab. Options: Fractional or Blend.
  • [Enhancement] Profile: Add new output option drop down, frame rate method. Needs to flow into the outputOptionsBase
  • [Enhancement] Transitions: Added new checkbox to T>O>Transitions, Enable audio transitions.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: Option to rotate the video during playback.
  • [Change] Output Profile: TVSuite profile dialog, change label "Encoding type:" to "Encoding codec:" or "Output codec".
  • [Change] Profiles: Change the default intelligent bit rate percentages to from HEVC.
  • [Fix] EAC3 audio: Switching from 5.1 to 2.0 channels during playback can cause an application crash.
  • [Fix] H.264 MXF: (VRDPro) Time code and number of frames reported in the info box too high by 1.
  • [Fix] H.264 output: Fade out at last cut of file not working.
  • [Fix] H.264 output: Very long sections of missing audio can trigger a video buffer overflow and hang output.
  • [Fix] H.264 playback: Missing source file audio during playback could trigger navigation and playback issues.
  • [Fix] H.264: Smart encoding with transitions could create pixelation at cut start after transition completes.
  • [Fix] HEVC: Limit maximum number of decoding threads to 16 to prevent random crashes while editing.
  • [Fix] HEVC: SPS parsing error on st_ref_pic_sets could cause crash.
  • [Fix] HEVC: When transcoding using QuickSync, force output to progressive.
  • [Fix] Joiner save: Scene markers aren't in the source projects aren't being saved as output chapters. Only cuts are.
  • [Fix] Joiner: Hard coded error message in MPEGEdit3Dlg
  • [Fix] Manage profiles: When importing, import dialog resizing not working, and can't change the width of the row headers
  • [Fix] Output Profile: (VRDPro) Frame rate method only showing if frame rate is no-change. Should be if frame rate is set.
  • [Fix] Output Profile: (VRDPro), Unable to turn off Transition Options type checkbox.
  • [Fix] Output Profile: Advanced setting, MPEG2 to H.264 always reverts to 70, does not retain value.
  • [Fix] Output Profile: Advanced setting, unable to Set MPEG2 to H.264 less than 50.
  • [Fix] Output Profile: Unable to change parameters for default profiles.
  • [Fix] Output Profile: Unable to set rotation and other parameters in output profile with SAS codec.
  • [Fix] SCTE-35: (VRDPro) If Advance goes negative display as 0 or negative number.
  • [Fix] Help: Help file technical support page points to missing page: forums.videoredo.com. Added redirect to message board.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.83.770a Beta (Aug 3, 2018)

  • [Fix] Profile: User's profile specified <framerate> of 30 fps, but profile logic modified it to "no change".
  • [Fix] Transport stream: Partially corrupt PAT packets at front of file could bypass reading PMT and might not detect DVB subtitles.
  • [Fix] Output Profile: French and German version of the output profile dialog, had incorrect settings for normalization levels.
  • [Fix] AVI files: First GOP could be dropped if the first PTS value in the file is 0.
  • [Fix] AVI files: H.264 output could hang in second pass when normalizing audio.
  • [Fix] TS muxing: When auto muxing from uncompressed stream, mux rate incorrectly set.
  • [Fix] H.264 output: Corrupt MPEG1 Layer 2 frames may cause many seconds or even minutes of frames to be removed.
  • [Fix] H.264: Incorrect frame rate could be picked up if there are 3 or more GOP headers before first frame slice .
  • [Fix] Program stream output: Fix edge case where a packet of nulls could have the PTS for the next real frame.
  • [Fix] MPEG1: Added support of common aspect ratio codes (4x3 and 16x9) for MPEG-1 codec.
  • [Fix] Audio normalization: Automatic normalization algorithm might not normalize up to the last 400 msec of the file.
  • [Fix] H.264 encoding: Media Info incorrectly reports non-constant frame rate for files transcoded to H264 MP4 due to DTS adjustment.
  • [Fix] GUI: Crash if T>O>Playback, YUV acceleration un-checked and frame dimensions change during playback.
  • [Change] GUI: (VRDPro) Remove requirement for additional license to support H.264 4:2:2 & 10 bit. Support is enabled by default.
  • [Fix] MXF: (VRDPro) SMPTE-436m captions might not display if there are multiple ANC packets and 436M packet has stuffing bytes at end.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.83.766a Beta (Jun 25, 2018)

  • [Change] Transport stream mux: Reduce number of PTS overflow/underflow messages that go to the log to cut down on log file size.
  • [Fix] Uncompressed: Changed video buffer overflow size test from >= max_buffer_size to > max_buffer_size.
  • [Fix] TS Muxing: Not writing a language descriptor to the PMT when audio is AAC-LC.
  • [Fix] MPEG2: Audio buffer overflow if there are multiple title segments in an output stream. Joiner or Transcoder (DAI).
  • [Fix] TS Files: If ignore T>Options>Stream, Ignore TS maps checked, AAC-LC streams incorrectly picked up as AAC-HE.
  • [Fix] TS Muxing: Language codes not being output to the PMT for AAC-LC streams (type 0x0F).
  • [Fix] H.264: Single byte NAL at start of MP4 file makes our reader think file already has Annex B codes.
  • [Fix] GUI: Seeking 60 fps videos by time code cause displayed frame to be off by 1 frame / second due to rounding error.
  • [Fix] Uncompressed: (VRDPro) crash on save if ANC/RDD11 subtitles to user data in output profile is set.
  • [Fix] ProRes: (VRDPro) Output will hang in 2nd pass if doing save with LKFS normalization.
  • [Fix] TS Muxing: (VRDPro/Transcoder) Incorrect PTS in output file if enabling VANC to user data filter.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.83.763a (Feb 22, 2018)

  • Fix: Fixes audio decoding problem from version 5.3.82.762.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.82.762 (Feb 22, 2018)

  • New: Fixes for issues resulting from changes in Windows 10 Creators Update
  • New: Ability to edit videos with multiple dimensions in the same file
  • New: Multiplex video only elementary stream files without an audio track
  • New: Support for HD-PVR files that were incorrectly multiplexed
  • Fix: Hundreds of changes and fixes

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.81.762n (Feb 14, 2018)

  • New: Fixes for issues resulting from changes in Windows 10 Creators Update .
  • New: Ability to edit videos with multiple dimensions in the same file.
  • New: Multiplex video only elementary stream files without an audio track.
  • New: Support for HD-PVR files that were incorrectly multiplexed.
  • Fix: Hundreds of changes and fixes, please see the change log for details.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.81.762m (Feb 12, 2018)

  • New: Fixes for issues resulting from changes in Windows 10 Creators Update .
  • New: Ability to edit videos with multiple dimensions in the same file.
  • New: Multiplex video only elementary stream files without an audio track.
  • New: Support for HD-PVR files that were incorrectly multiplexed.
  • Fix: Hundreds of changes and fixes, please see the change log for details.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.80.761a Beta (Dec 17, 2017)

  • [Fix] DVD/MPEG encoding: Fixed dual pass DVD encoding which broke in 760a.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.80.760a Beta (Dec 10, 2017)

  • [Fix] DVD/MPEG encoding: Revert to build 748 MPEG2 encoder for software encoding due to speed and bit rate compliance of ffmpeg.
  • [Fix] Video driver: At install, automatic selection of EVR for Windows 10, VMR9 for Win 7/8, and VMR7 for XP wasn't working correctly.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.80.759a Beta (Nov 22, 2017)

  • [Change] Ouput status: 10-30 second delay displaying the initial output status dialog in Win 10 Fall Creator's update.
  • [Fix] TS Files: Not detecting audio streams when coded as private PES-1 PMT descriptor, due to VRD ITV hack from 2009.
  • [Fix] TS Muxing: H.264 output, fix in 757/758 could cause buffer overflow if the vbv buffer size decreased in the middle of file.
  • [Fix] DVD authoring: Average bit rate about 6% high when using ffmpeg mpeg2 encoder. Can make DVD folder too large.
  • [Fix] AAC Audio: Problem parsing the AAC header from an MP4 file, especially with Version 2 audio description.
  • [Fix] Titling: Adding a title and having an output frame rate different from the source video causes hang or audio resync adds.
  • [Enhancement] LXF: (VRDPro) support for LXF output with HD captions and PCM audio.
  • [Fix] x264 encoder: (VRDPro) option to force enabling the HRD parameters wasn't working.
  • [Fix] GXF files: (VRDPro) original PTS values calculated incorrectly for 720p files.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.80.758b Beta (Oct 30, 2017)

  • [Change] TS Muxing: H.264 output, In TVSuite, set the buffers exit rates at the mux rate to avoid PTS underflows.
  • [Fix] File open: Improved ESReader to give fewer false positives of H.264 streams.
  • [Fix] File open: Moved the ESReader to be last in line for file checks to prevent false positive elementary stream warnings.
  • [Fix] GUI: Custom buttons, reset to default did not work on all 6 controls, only the 1st one.
  • [Fix] GUI: Find tune slider is assuming right button is pressed instead of left button.
  • [Fix] GUI: German, cleaned up Tools>Options dialog positioning.
  • [Fix] Output Aspect: 720x576 SAR calculation not being rounded correctly showing 1.775 instead of 1.7778.
  • [Fix] Output Profiles: On Advanced tab in TVSuite V5, "Watermarking" options should not be displayed, it's for VRDPRO only.
  • [Fix] Output: Saving each scene as separate file doesn't work with elementary stream output.
  • [Fix] TS Muxing: H.264 output, fixed TS muxer to re-set the buffer timings on each GOP in case profile / HRD params change.
  • [Fix] Titling: Titles audio incorrect frame duration when changing audio sampling rate of the source file.
  • [Fix] Video display: Application could crash if source dimensions were 720x486 but decoded as 720x496.
  • [Fix] ANC captions: (VRDPro) ANC caption to user data conversions didn't work if also doing a frame rate change.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.80.757 Beta (Sep 25, 2017)

  • [Enhancement] COM: Add new COM call, NavigationFrameAdvancedIFrame( BOOL bForward).
  • [Enhancement] ES Muxing: Add option in the ES muxing dialog for the video frame rate when the frame rate isn't in the video stream.
  • [Enhancement] ES Muxing: Added support to mux video only, using silent PCM audio.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: Gracefully edit videos with multiple dimensions. Shift+Tools>Options # 40: Allow multiple video dimensions
  • [Enhancement] MPEG2: Added support for AAC LC audio with MPEG2 video when using MP4/MOV container.
  • [Enhancement] Output profiles: Option to group profiles by container and codec.
  • [Change] ES Muxing: Updated the H.264 elementary stream detection to require a SPS, PPS, and not require multiple AUDs.
  • [Change] GUI: Add "disable" option to check for update frequency on the Tools>Options>Startup page.
  • [Change] GUI: Allow dimension changes from 1080 to 1088 without triggering a warning.
  • [Change] GUI: Diagnostic level now defaults to "medium" on Tools>Options>General
  • [Change] GUI: When showing can only be opened in VideoReDo Pro, display a "more information link".
  • [Change] H.264 MP4/MKV: Arbitrate frame rate by looking at PTS values when the video ES has a different frame rate than the file header.
  • [Change] HEVC/H265: Add warning when the user tries to open an HEVC/H265 file.
  • [Change] Output Profiles: When grouping option is "none", change "Check/Uncheck group" to "Check/Uncheck All" and enable.
  • [Change] TS Muxing: Auto mux rate was not taking into account the bit rate of non-recoded secondary audio streams.
  • [Fix] Ad-Detective: If source is H.264 and "Disable Display Update" in Ad-detective params is checked, batch ad-detective can hang.
  • [Fix] Ad-detective: Interactive tab not showing in ad scan params
  • [Fix] Audio playback: 8K sampling rate audio doesn't play properly with the DirectSound driver for H.264 files.
  • [Fix] Audio: AAC-LC with sampling rate of 24 KHz mistakenly detected as AAC-HE.
  • [Fix] Captions: Changed caption header market bit from 0 to 1 in H264 SEI captions.
  • [Fix] ES Reader: Tighten check for H.264 videos to prevent MPEG2 program streams being interpreted as H264 ES streams.
  • [Fix] File open: MP4/QT file accidentally as a transport stream, failed to open.
  • [Fix] GUI: Czech translation, Tools>Options>Playback, EVR video driver option is labeled as duplicate VMR7.
  • [Fix] GUI: Error message when joining files with different video codecs incorrect. Missing a '%s'
  • [Fix] H.264: Improved sync adjustment when there is missing audio and all video frames are reference frames.
  • [Fix] Intel QuickSync: Output profile advanced, GOP size and IDR frequency weren't working.
  • [Fix] MP4: Added support for for opening MP4 files with header blocks (zlib support)
  • [Fix] Output Profile: German translation for output profile encoder drop down was incorrect preventing Quick Sync (TVSuite)
  • [Fix] Output Profiles: Prevent 2 pass encoding when using Intel QS encoder.
  • [Fix] Output: Rotation would cause crash if source chroma is 4:2:2 and output chroma is 4:2:0.
  • [Fix] Outputeinterlacer not functioning properly after using new multi-threaded calls.(broke in 750)
  • [Fix] Prevent 422/444 with QS encoder
  • [Fix] Profile editing: If profile list is grouped, importing a profile doesn't show the new profile until you change the grouping.
  • [Fix] Uncompressed: Frame rate of 59.94 incorrectly set as 29.97
  • [Fix] XML Parser: Possible crash if trying to open or test an XML file larger than 2GB.
  • [Enhancement] Canoe CSV: (VRDPro), when opening a Canoe project look for matching .ts in addition to a matching .mpg
  • [Enhancement] Deinterlacing: (VRDPro & Transcoder), If system has 4-7 cores, using 2 deinterlacing threads, if 8+ cores, 4 threads.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: (VRDPro) Added pts jitter, difference between actual and calculated PTS value, to the stream internals GOP graph.
  • [Enhancement] Help: (VRDPro) add link in help menu to VideoReDo Pro application notes.
  • [Enhancement] Watermarking: (VRDPro) Added support Teletrax watermarking.
  • [Change] H.264 MXF: (VRDPro) When opening an H.264 MXF file automatically override aspect ratio from MXF container if present.
  • [Change] MXF Output: (VRDPro) Added support for MPEG2 4:2:0 output with profile/level: High@Main and High@High.
  • [Change] Time display: (VRDPro) On Tools>Options>Navigation, change NPT check box to drop down:
  • [Fix] LKFS calculation: (VRDPro) Fixed LKFS setting for non-gated algorithms, BS-1770-3-10 second.
  • [Fix] LXF: (VRDPro) Fixed problem with audio / video sync when there is pre-roll.
  • [Fix] MXF: (VRDPro) AAC audio in an MXF wrapper, gives multiple audio frame errors due to excess filler.
  • [Fix] Prores: (VRDPRO) Converting ANC captions to user data causes GPF.
  • [Fix] x264 encoding: (VRDPro) CRF setting on Advanced H.264 tab wasn't working, was always defaulting to 23.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.3.4.748 (Dec 31, 2016)

  • New: Improved Ad-Detective algorithm including testing for silent audio sections at ad breaks.
  • New: Ability to change audio stream in realtime without re-opening file.
  • New: Automatic detection and display of rotated videos.
  • New: Ability to automatically output each scene as a separate file.
  • Fix: Hundreds of changes and fixes, please see the change log for details.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.3.746f Beta (Oct 10, 2016)

  • [Enhancement] Ad-Detective, add button to load or save Ad-Detective parameters.
  • [Enhancement] Captions: (VRDPro) Support converting EIA_608 captions in an MP4 to user data.
  • [Change] H.264: Aspect ratio could be off due to SAR rounding error.
  • [Change] H.264: Improperly encoded SAR setting with aspect ratio of 0:0 causes H.264 encoder validation error when doing a cut.
  • [Change] TS Output: Rolled back the improved buffer management from build 745 if not outputting null packet. Speeds up VLC opens.
  • [Fix] Batch: Ad-Detective will honor interactive vs output based Ad-Detective option.
  • [Fix] GUI: If YUV acceleration is off, 1912x1070 video would crash during RGB conversion.
  • [Fix] GXF/LXF: (VRDPro) Intermittent seeking issues with GXF/LXF files.
  • [Fix] H.264 files: Sync issue when a large GOP starts with IDR and rest of GOP are I-Frames that aren't used as references.
  • [Fix] Joiner: Output not clearing output complete dialog resulting in statistics showing from previous joins.
  • [Fix] MPEG2 navigation: Fixed rare problem with frame accurate navigation of transport stream (and Tivo TS) files.
  • [Fix] Output: If profile is "Match source" and source is not MPEG2 or H.264, would error, now recodes to H.264.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.3.745a Beta (Sep 15, 2016)

  • [Enhancement] Ad-Detect: Added option for long silent audio (Select Stream>Audio
  • [Enhancement] Output complete: Add actual output duration, output file size, and number of scenes
  • [Enhancement] Output profile: Added "Primary audio" selection in advanced audio profile so user doesn't need to know a specific stream number.
  • [Enhancement] Title dialog: Moved title fade duration to main dialog rather than use separate dialog invoked by a non-obvious menu option.
  • [Enhancement] Use longest file for metadata on all files types, not just MCE
  • [Enhancement] Video display: Detect if source video is rotated and display correctly (MP4 files).
  • [Change] GUI: If drag/drop multiple files, the combine / join / dvd dialog can be hidden by windows from other applications.
  • [Change] Joiner: New option in joiner edit dialog to clear the joiner list after a joiner save.
  • [Change] MP4 output: If source is PCM and audio is "Automatic", auto recode to AAC. For PCM set codec to PCM or mux format to MOV
  • [Change] MP4: Detect rotation metadata value, and load into video stream parameters. Report in Tools>Show Program Info.
  • [Change] MPEG2 output: MaxGop without header bit rate change would set header bit rate to 10 Mbps unless TS. Now checks for PS or DVD
  • [Change] Output profile: Add new option to rotation setting to auto rotate so that output video is upright.
  • [Change] Output profile: Intelligent recode, Bit rate presets, added 4K average and max bit rate. 1080 labeled now as both 1080i/p.
  • [Change] Output profile: Move "Convert all I-frames to GOPs" from Advanced>Program stream to MPEG2 stream.
  • [Change] Output profile: Move "Dropframe timecode in GOPs" from Advanced Program Stream to MPEG2 Stream.
  • [Change] Output profile: Move "Set header to video bitrate" from Advanced > program stream options to MPEG-2 stream options
  • [Fix] Ad-detective scan: New Ad-detective now process entire file and replaces any existing cuts / scenes.
  • [Fix] Audio: PCM audio ingest sampling rates currently limited to 96K, 48K, 44.1K, 32K. Added ingest support for 24K, 22.5K, 11.025K
  • [Fix] Avermedia: Not detecting the faulty AverMedia encoding in AVI files resulting in wrong frame rate.
  • [Fix] COM: Loading a file via COM with QSF flag set would always return "false" even if file was loaded.
  • [Fix] H.264 output: Fixed buffer timing for H.264 streams with HRD bit_rate_value
  • [Fix] H.264 output: Pixelation when cutting on an I-frame when file contains both I and IDR frames.
  • [Fix] H.264: Unable to open file smart edited by VRD using IDR cut if the SEI precedes the SPS in the original file.
  • [Fix] IFO file open via drag: Opening a DVD file via file open gives an incorrect error message.
  • [Fix] Joiner: Joiner>Create video from joiner list, will now only be enabled if there's an actual video project in the joiner list.
  • [Fix] MP4/MKV: Correctly handle videos that start with negative PTS values.
  • [Fix] MP4: Audio detect rotated videos, display the video upright and auto transcode to upright on output unless intelligent to mp4.
  • [Fix] MPEG2 Output:Encoding MPEG2 to 4K would crash, now limits to 1920x1080.
  • [Fix] Output profile: If target file size is 0, default to minimum settings, 1 Mbps for MPEG-2 and 0.5 Mbps for all other codecs
  • [Fix] Output profile: If using Intelligent mode "quality factor" and source isn't MPEG2 or H.264 auto switch to bit rate mode.
  • [Fix] Output profiles: Progressive sequence flag not being set when converting 1080i to 720p with BOB deinterlacer.
  • [Fix] TS Muxing: H.264 TS muxing, improve calculation for the VBV site so that it uses both profile and level.
  • [Fix] TS Muxing: Improve initial PCR value and properly set the max duration allowed in the ES (decode) buffer.
  • [Fix] WTV files: Fall back to ffMpeg reader for WTV files that won't open with our standard reader.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.3.741 (Mar 15, 2016)

  • New: Ability to edit MP4 and MKV files that don't have an audio stream
  • New: Intel QuickSync will preserve 608 and 708 captions when recoding
  • New: Switch audio streams during playback without re-opening file
  • New: Much improved quality when converting from 720p to 1080i
  • Fix: Hundreds of changes and fixes:
  • [Enhancement] Audio stream selection: Removed Tools>Select stream. Audio stream now selected directly from Tools menu, doesn't re-open file.
  • [Enhancement] Batch: Add a Tools>Options>Batch option to terminate batch when the queue is empty for xx minutes.
  • [Enhancement] Batch: New option when adding a file from within batch: "Match source format" (SAS) to let VRD choose the output profile.
  • [Enhancement] Batch: New pencil icon allows editing of output folder and profile of a previously queued batch item.
  • [Enhancement] Captioning: Added 608/708 caption preservation when re-coding to H.264 using Intel QuickSync.
  • [Enhancement] DV Video: (VRDPro) SMPTE-436m captioning supported for DV video in an MXF wrapper.
  • [Enhancement] DV Video: (VRDPro) new DV trimming option to trim DV segments.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: (VRDPro) In the advanced audio mixing dialog. Double clicking on a process or output stream selects and edits it.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: Charm bar can be customized using T>O>Charms. Additional charms available, charm text can be customized.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: Czech translation added.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: Tools>Options>Startup, new option to change the name and location of the custom output profiles file.
  • [Enhancement] MXF reader: (VRDPro) Correctly handle MXF files where initial DTS is negative.
  • [Enhancement] Output profile: (VRDPro) MXF output is supported. Currently OP1A only.
  • [Enhancement] Output: Improve conversion of 25i/29.97i to 50p/59.94p.
  • [Enhancement] Profile: New option "Force interlace". Profile dialog changed from "Deinterlace mode" changed to "Interlace mode"
  • [Enhancement] Profile: Improve quality when converting 720p to 1080i by interlacing successive progressive frames rather than dropping every other frame
  • [Enhancement] SDI output: (VRDPro) Added T>O>SDI, audio playout option: none, all, primary, primary + matching codecs
  • [Enhancement] Video only: Support for files that don't have any audio tracks. Works with MP4, MOV, MKV, etc. Not ES, PS, or TS.
  • [Enhancement] Vlist combine: If file list contains a file with a .rec extension it will be the first file in the .VLst rather than the last.
  • [Enhancement] Vlist combine: If file list contains a file with a .trp extension it will be the first file in the .VLst rather than the last.
  • [Change] Audio: Added support for ingesting PCM audio with sampling rates of 22,050 / sec.
  • [Change] Batch: Add option to batch to run VRD visible rather than silent. Will be a big help for debugging.
  • [Change] Chapter markers: On Tools>Options>Chapters page, default "enabled": Scene markers and cut points. (new installs only)
  • [Change] Crop/Resize: Change the default border value from x000000 to x101010 (studio black).
  • [Change] Crop/Resize: Changed internal logic for automatic pillar/letter boxing on aspect ratio change.
  • [Change] DVD burning: Add option to Tools>Options>DVD to search for DVD drive on A and B drive letters. Previously started search at D drive.
  • [Change] GUI: Added "auto" to S+T>O # 51 to enable the ffMpeg libraries determine the optimal threading based on the source codec.
  • [Change] GUI: Resized the Tools>Options dialog to allow more categories in the left side frame to eliminate a scroll bar.
  • [Change] H.264 navigation: Improved navigation / seek speed for files with very long GOPs ( > 5 sec / GOP).
  • [Change] H.264: (VRDPro) Added reporting of AFD code on Tools>Show Program Info when AFD is in an SEI block.
  • [Change] MP4 muxing: When recording to H.264 (at 1080i), MediaInfo reports variable frame rate instead of constant.
  • [Change] MP4/MKV output: Changed internal buffering class to a more efficient container.
  • [Change] MPEG2: Not displaying B frames due to ignore-able encoding error.
  • [Change] MPEG2: When recoding, change the default max VBV buffer size to 9.7 Mbps for 4:2:0 and 12.2 Mbps for 4:2:2
  • [Change] Output profile: Expand manual gain reduction from -32 db to -96 db in the profile so that a track can be silent.
  • [Change] Output profiles: Changed output profile frame rate selection. Removed "SD", added "Automatic". (See enhancement for 59.94/50 > 29.97/25).
  • [Change] SMPTE-302M: (VRDPro) Added framing bit to mark beginning of each 192 sample frame.
  • [Change] TS Output: If "Use PIDs from source file" is Yes, then copy AC3 and DVB component tags from source PMT.
  • [Fix] Authoring DVD from Batch will crash
  • [Fix] DVD authoring: Would force a video recode on 29.97fps video
  • [Fix] EAC3: Audio decoder could cause a buffer overflow when playing files with EAC3 audio.
  • [Fix] Output: Primary audio stream not in output, if user unchecked "allow multiple audio streams"
  • [Fix] AAC audio: AAC-HE audio with implicit signalling wasn't always detected correctly.
  • [Fix] AAC audio: Fixed demuxer to handle very short ( Select stream: No PIDS message when changing video streams.
  • [Fix] Uncompressed video: Superious EOF returned in middle of the file triggers a decoder reset resulting in corrupt GOP.
  • [Fix] VRDPro: Fixed license manager so that it works correctly with batch using Windows ID as install code.
  • [Fix] WMV audio decoding: ffmpeg audio decoding could drop most audio frames when using wmv voice codec.
  • [Fix] ffMpeg: Memory leak when processing H264 MP4 or MKV files.
  • [Fix] x264 encoding: (VRDPro) Progressive sequence not being set in all cases.
  • [Fix] Translations: Tools>Options>Playback, video driver drop down wasn't updated in non-English versions.
  • [Fix] Audio playback: (VRDPro) when metering or SDI is enabled, audio sampling rates other than 48K would be distorted.
  • [Fix] GUI: Unable to open file with non-ascii diacritics via drag-drop, but can can open via menu file>open video
  • [Fix] H.264: Green lines in output video when doing IDR smart editing and video width isn't divisible by 16.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.2.740 Beta (Dec 21, 2015)

  • [Fix] DV: Field order incorrect when reading SD DV files.
  • [Fix] Preview mode: MPEG2 audio might not play in preview, if there are more than 1 audio stream. Broken in 738/739.
  • [Fix] SMPTE-302M: (VRDPro) Channel 2 was not being output correctly when encoding at 16 bits.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.2.739 Beta (Dec 8, 2015)

  • [Enhancement] Batch: Add a Tools>Options>Batch option to terminate batch when the queue is empty for xx minutes.
  • [Enhancement] Batch: New option when adding a file from within batch: "Match source format" (SAS) to let VRD choose the output profile.
  • [Enhancement] Batch: New pencil icon allows editing of output folder and profile of a previously queued batch item.
  • [Enhancement] COM: Add new function "NavigationGetCurrentFrameType " to retrieve current frame type as string (I, IDR, B, P)
  • [Enhancement] GUI: Charm bar can be customized using T>O>Charms. Additional charms available, charm text can be customized.
  • [Change] Batch: Add option to batch to run VRD visible rather than silent. Will be a big help for debugging.
  • [Change] Crop/Resize: Change the default border value from x000000 to x101010 (studio black).
  • [Change] DVD burning: Add option to Tools>Options>DVD to search for DVD on A and B drive letters.
  • [Change] MPEG2: When recoding, change the default max VBV buffer size to 9.7 Mbps for 4:2:0 and 12.2 Mbps for 4:2:2
  • [Change] Output profile: Expand manual gain reduction from -32 db to -96 db in the profile so that a track can be silent.
  • [Change] Output profiles: Changed output profile frame rate selection. Removed "SD", added "Automatic".
  • [Fix] EAC3: Audio decoder could cause a buffer overflow when playing files with EAC3 audio.
  • [Fix] Batch: Automatic sort by date in batch not working
  • [Fix] ES muxing: Dragging an MPEG-2 ES stream would throw an error rather than launching the ES muxer.
  • [Fix] H.264: Problems opening an AVI x.264 file with Annex B start codes if it starts with a large SEI created by the X.264 encoder.
  • [Fix] MPEG2: Preview mode crashes. (Broke in 738)
  • [Fix] PS muxer: Rare buffer overflow when creating an MPEG-2 program stream.
  • [Fix] Quick Sync: 1080i converted to 720p with the QuickSync encoder was not being correctly flagged as progressive.
  • [Fix] TS Muxing: Tightened up muxing parameters for MPEG2 720p file to create more compliant muxes.
  • [Fix] TS Muxing: Updating an MPEG2 bit rate in the sequence header wasn't correctly updating the exit rate of the video mux buffer.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: (VRDPro) In the advanced audio mixing dialog. Double clicking on a process or output stream selects and edits it.
  • [Enhancement] MXF reader: (VRDPro) Correctly handle MXF files where initial DTS is negative.
  • [Enhancement] Audio meters now functional.
  • [Change] SMPTE-302M: (VRDPro) Added framing bit to mark beginning of each 192 sample frame.
  • [Fix] SMPTE-302M: (VRDPro) Fixed TS muxer bit rates to create more compliant 302M muxes.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.2.738 Beta (Nov 9, 2015)

  • [Enhancement] GUI: Tools>Options>Startup, new option to change the name and location of the custom output profiles file.
  • [Enhancement] DV Video: (VRDPro) new DV trimming option to trim DV segments.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: (VRDPro) VRDPro only options consolidated into single category on Tools>Options.
  • [Change] Crop/Resize: Changed internal logic for automatic pillar/letter boxing on aspect ratio change.
  • [Fix] Output: Primary audio stream not in output, if user unchecked "allow multiple audio streams" (broke 737)
  • [Fix] H.264: Unable to open SmartyCam files. Files use pic ordering type 2, but don't have IDR frames, only I-frames.
  • [Fix] MKV: File wouldn't open if container time stamp corrupt. This prevented QSF.
  • [Fix] DVD authoring: Would force a video recode on 29.97fps video
  • [Fix] GUI: Audio wave form not displayed
  • [Fix] Audio output: Output could hang if normalizing and changing the number of audio channels.
  • [Fix] GUI: (private) Print reason why activation check failed.
  • [Fix] MPEG2: Cuts in very low bit rate files could create macroblocked images. Minimum encoding bit rate not being honoured.
  • [Fix] Output: (VRDPro) When recoding to 720x608, we were automatically adding VBI signal. Remove, only do so if recoding to 720x512.
  • [Fix] Output: Output could rarely include an extra frame in cut mode due to round off error when converting cuts to scenes.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.2.737 Beta (Oct 3, 2015)

  • [Change] TS Output: If "Use PIDs from source file" is Yes, then copy AC3 and DVB component tags from source PMT.
  • [Fix] GUI: Batch "Add files to batch queue" profile drop down list only showing single item and missing icons (Broke in 736)

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.2.736 Beta (Sep 28, 2015)

  • [Enhancement] Audio stream selection: Removed Tools>Select stream. Audio stream now selected directly from Tools menu, doesn't re-open file.
  • [Enhancement] DV Video: (VRDPro) SMPTE-436m captioning supported for DV video in an MXF wrapper.
  • [Enhancement] Output profile: (VRDPro) MXF output is supported. Currently OP1A only.
  • [Change] Chapter markers: On Tools>Options>Chapters page, default "enabled": Scene markers and cut points. (new installs)
  • [Change] H.264 navigation: Improved navigation / seek speed for files with very long GOPs ( > 5 sec / GOP).
  • [Change] MP4/MKV output: Changed internal buffering class to a more efficient container.
  • [Change] MPEG2: Not displaying B frames due to ignore-able encoding error.
  • [Fix] AAC audio: AAC-HE audio with implicit signalling wasn't always detected correctly.
  • [Fix] Audio output: (VRDPro) audio mixer could hang output graph because it wasn't resetting source frame PTS correctly at cuts.
  • [Fix] Audio output: (VRDPro) audio mixer could hang the output graph at end of file due to race condition checking read threads.
  • [Fix] Audio output: Re-sampling from 44.1Khz to 48Khz could hang output depending on the location of the cut points.
  • [Fix] DV Video: DV file being mis-interpreted as MPEG2.
  • [Fix] DV Video: DV file causing crash on open, being mis-interpreted as an MPEG2 PS.
  • [Fix] DV Video: DV file in an MXF wrapper is getting assigned the GENERIC ffMpeg type instead of MXF ffMpeg type.
  • [Fix] GUI: Windows 10, controls overlapping on Tools>Options>Navigation page.
  • [Fix] H.264 playback: If video fell behind audio frames dropped to maintain sync, but drop option not cleared once back in sync.
  • [Fix] H.264: Allocated too much memory for PCM buffers when source is H264.
  • [Fix] H.264: For Avermedia captured files, widen the parameters to auto correct the frame rate from 59.94 to 29.97
  • [Fix] LKFS normalizing: (VRDPro) can crash if source audio codec is AAC 2.0.
  • [Fix] MP4/MKV output: Improved handling of H.264 files when the DTS/PTS relationship changes in mid file.
  • [Fix] WMV audio decoding: ffmpeg audio decoding could drop most audio frames when using wmv voice codec.
  • [Fix] x264 encoding: (VRDPro) Progressive sequence not being set in all cases.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.2.734 Beta (Jul 23, 2015)

  • [Change] GUI: Added "auto" to S+T>O # 51 to enable the ffMpeg libraries determine the optimal threading based on the source codec.
  • [Fix] H.264: Unable to determine clock preventing file open if field encoded and temporal references (POC_lsb) are odd.
  • [Fix] Quick sync: Error check from encoder wasn't skipping negative error codes resulting in rare crash.
  • [Fix] Uncompressed video: Spurious EOF returned in middle of the file triggers a decoder reset resulting in corrupt GOP.
  • [Fix] H.264 output: Adding a leading title could trigger a crash. (Broken in 731).
  • [Fix] TS Muxer: Muxer would not retain same as source PIDs when source had multiple audio streams.
  • [Fix] H.264: Seek problems and application could hang due to revised buffer management (broke in 733).
  • [Change] H.264: (VRDPro) Added reporting of AFD code on Tools>Show Program Info when AFD is in an SEI block.
  • [Fix] Profiles: (VRDPro) allow 4K 3840x2160 video resolution in the profile grid.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.2.733 Beta (Jul 16, 2015)

  • [Enhancement] Vlist combine: If file list contains a file with a .rec or .trp extension it will be the first file in the .VLst rather than the last.
  • [Critical Fix] Authoring DVD from Batch will crash
  • [Fix] AAC audio: Fixed demuxer to handle very short (

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.2.732 Beta (Jun 22, 2015)

  • [Enhancement] Captioning: Added 608/708 caption preservation when re-coding to H.264 using Intel QuickSync.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: Czech and Russion translations added.
  • [Enhancement] Output: Improve conversion of 25i/29.97i to 50p/59.94p. Select Interlacing: Auto or BOB.
  • [Enhancement] Profile: New option "Force interlace". Profile dialog changed from "Deinterlace mode" changed to "Interlacing"
  • [Enhancement] Profile: To better quality when converting 720p to 1080i by interlacing successive frames rather than dropping every other frame
  • [Enhancement] Video only: Support for files that don't have any audio tracks. Works with MP4, MOV, MKV, etc. Not ES, PS, or TS.
  • [Enhancement] Vlist combine: If file list contains a file with a .trp extension it will be the first file in the .VLst rather than the last.
  • [Change] Audio: Added support for ingesting PCM audio with sampling rates of 22,050 / sec.
  • [Change] GUI: Resized the Tools>Options window to fit more options on the left without scroll bars.
  • [Change] MP4 muxing: When recording to H.264 (at 1080i), MediaInfo reported variable frame rate instead of constant.
  • [Fix] Audio output: Audio with sampling rate of 22.05 Kbps was being treated as no audio found.
  • [Fix] Captioning: 608/708 captions corrupted on re-code to H.264 when source is 720p and source has repeat frame flags.
  • [Fix] DV video: Not picking up the correct field order for DV and DVPro video.
  • [Fix] H.264 Smart edit: Possible stall when joining files if the SPS picture order type switches from 0 to 2.
  • [Fix] H.264: Smart editing could pixellate at cut start if PPS values changed from previous segment.
  • [Fix] Output: Re-coding an MPEG2 1080i with 1:1 aspect to H.264 1080i @ 16:9 resulted in pillar boxes.
  • [Fix] Project files: MP4 AAC, aacAudioSpecificConfig value was not being saved in the project file causing potential joiner issues if project / joiner file was re-opened.
  • [Change] SDI output: (VRDPro) SDI options moved from Tools>Options>Playback to it's own page: Tools>Options>SDI Playout
  • [Fix] Audio: (VRDPro) Fixed support for Vela Audio. Now correctly ingested as single 1 x 8 channel stream rather than 4 x 2 channel streams.
  • [Fix] MXF: (VRDPro) File duration and frame count are being reported as one extra frame.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.2.731 (Jun 1, 2015)

  • [Fix] Output profile: Setting profile to manually adjust audio gain not working.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.731 Beta (Jun 1, 2015)

  • [Fix] Output profile: Setting profile to manually adjust audio gain not working.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.730 Beta (May 22, 2015)

  • [Change] Output: Frame rate converter didn't work with joiner or DVD output if there was a mix of frame rates.
  • [Change] Private: Enable debugging by going to capture frame, changing the file name to "debugging", and then shift+Cancel.
  • [Fix] WMV: Saving to WMV will crash if source isn't MPEG2 or H264 and no audio recode or video cropping being performed.
  • [Fix] Captioning: When recoding from MPEG2 to progressive H.264, NTSC captions repeat frame flags will cause caption corruption.
  • [Fix] MKV output: MKV output could fail with ffMpeg write packet error if a DVB subtitle stream had an invalid PTS.
  • [Enhancement] Audio: (VRDPro) Add SMPTE-302M and Dolby E pass through support for H.264
  • [Fix] H.264: (VRDPro) Smart editor could trigger a crash in x264 4:2:2 encoder.
  • [Fix] Audio output: (VRDPro) Problems setting peak db on advanced profile dialog.
  • [Fix] Audio output: (VRDPro) when recoding to SMPTE-302M, volume was being raised by 6 db.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.729f Beta (May 16, 2015)

  • [Change] Audio mixing: (VRDPro) create pseudo AES channel Ids for non-SMPTE streams so we can use the same stereo profiles.
  • [Fix] Batch: Yellow exclamation Icon not properly showing errors in Batch output list.
  • [Fix] GUI: Frame capture not working properly on 4K material. Cuts off image if image width is > 2048 pixels.
  • [Fix] H.264: QSF could stall or crash if time stamp wrapped by more than 4 seconds.
  • [Fix] H.264: PTS calculation routine was looking at the max_pic_order_cnt_lsb for the next GOP rather than the current GOP.
  • [Fix] Captioning: When recoding from MPEG2 to H.264, NTSC captions could cause application crash if converting from 1080 to 720.
  • [Fix] Output: WMV/VC-1 output didn't work
  • [Fix] Output: (VRDPro) Crop and border bottom doesn't work if both values are the same.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.728c Beta (Apr 27, 2015)

  • [Fix] Audio output: (VRDPro) When advanced mixing from 5.1 source to PCM, LFE channel not being correctly counted as a source channel.
  • [Fix] Captioning: When recoding from MPEG2 to H.264, NTSC captions may be corrupted if any source frames have a repeat field flag.
  • [Fix] DVD authoring: Slow recoding, sync errors, and possible TOD if source is 720p with repeat frame flags.
  • [Fix] ES Muxing: ES muxing could pick up AAC audio as MPEG1 Layer 2 causing sync errors and dropped frames.
  • [Fix] ES Muxing: If output is .TS and one of the audio streams is PCM says audio recode (OK). Remove PCM stream, still says recode.
  • [Fix] ES Muxing: Improve ES muxing when output is TS and mux rate is automatic.
  • [Fix] H.264: Adding a title and doing a smart edit save would cause a crash. (broke in 727).
  • [Fix] H.264: Creating mono HE-AAC silent frames had wrong frame duration. Will now create frame as stereo HE-AAC.
  • [Fix] H.264: Save might drop last frame if audio is AAC and there are an odd number of audio frames being output.
  • [Fix] H.264: Save will drop frame if last frame of file is a single frame GOP that starts with IDR with POC_LSB = 0.
  • [Fix] Output: Audio normalization didn't work when downmixing output.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.727 Beta (Apr 27, 2015)

  • [Enhancement] Captioning: (VRDPro) Added option to display 16x9 with a maximum 42 columns rather than the default 32 column maximum.
  • [Enhancement] Captioning: Display and save existing MP4/MOV "tx3g" captions.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: Add a "don't show again" to the Queue To Batch confirm pop-up.
  • [Enhancement] H.264: Shift+Tools>Options 55. Allow UHD 4096 output. Allows Ultra HD output, must select SAS or type in dimension.
  • [Change] GUI: (VRDPro) Tools>Options>Stream parameters "Include initial closed GOP B frames" defaults to enabled (checked) for new installs
  • [Change] GUI: Move the the "Encoder quality" from Tools>Options>Stream to Output profile: Advanced: Intelligent Recode Options
  • [Change] GUI: Shift+Tools>Options: "Include initial closed GOP B frames" has been moved to Tools>Options>Stream parameters
  • [Change] MPEG2: (VRDPro) Support for reading and reporting AFD code in MXF SMPTE-436M ANC packets.
  • [Fix] Batch: Disable the "Problem while seeking" message if running from batch.
  • [Fix] DVD authoring: Aspect ratio could be wrong when cropping set in DVD dialog
  • [Fix] GUI: (VRDPro) AFD code was being displayed on Tools>Show Program Info in non-Pro version.
  • [Fix] GUI: If preferred audio set to MPEG1 Layer 2 and file only has AC3 it won't find the audio.
  • [Fix] GUI: Video display problem if encoding height was not a multiple of 4, and YUV acceleration is disabled.
  • [Fix] H.264: Smart editing could hang if doing audio normalization and IDR frame isn't found at start of first cut.
  • [Fix] TiVo: Changed the Tivo filter to use a different read mode so that it won't stall in batch.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.726a Beta (Mar 6, 2015)

  • [Fix] Beta: H.264 Smartediting could fail if no IDR frames found. Broke in 725f.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.725f Beta (Mar 6, 2015)

  • [Enhancement] DVD: Add DVD video option to select the Intel QS encoder.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: On Tools>Edit>Profile page add a checkbox which will set whether to use the consumer or grid as default. (VRDPro).
  • [Enhancement] MKV: Enabled support for DVB subtitles in MKV
  • [Change] MPEG2: In rare cases an AC3 streams would not be found even when present.
  • [Change] Output: Removed H264Encoder.dll from installation setup/install. Functions consolidated in other files.
  • [Change] Profile: Change default profiles to default to 4K.
  • [Fix] Batch: output folder does not stick in batch
  • [Fix] DVD authoring will crash when enabling QuickSync and re-encoding with mulitple titles.
  • [Fix] Files with "&" fail when processing through Batch Manager
  • [Fix] GUI: "Add files to batch queue" could fail the first time it's used as the default remembered folder name is blank.
  • [Fix] GUI: Double clicking on the time code control would always copy the time code to the clipboard overwriting what was there.
  • [Fix] GUI: Old style file dialogs not working in QSF and ES muxer. Old style dialogs enabled via: shift+T>O # 46 (false).
  • [Fix] H.264: 608 and 708 caption display could be incorrect if SEI captions were stored by field rather than by frame.
  • [Fix] Joiner: When auto restoring after crash, saving the restored joiner with H.264 throws an error, "Compressed stream not found"
  • [Fix] MPEG2: VRD will crash in preview if a secondary audio frame isn't found (broke in 724).
  • [Fix] Output: It's possible to save to an MP4 with the same name as the source triggering a problem with the MOOV atom rename.
  • [Fix] Profiles: Some of the "advanced H.264 stream options" in the profile editor were not being honored, e.g. RemoveFiller NALs.
  • [Fix] QSF: Failing when clock is reset near beginning of the file.
  • [Fix] QSF: Triggering a QSF with filters from the "Dimension Changed" message box, the "filter" checkbox in QSF dialog isn't checked.
  • [Fix] QSF: When filtering by dimensions changes frame rates, the output frame rate is set to first frame rate in the file.
  • [Fix] Queue to batch from QuickStream Fix will stall when source and output names are the same
  • [Fix] Saving: Save as audio only .m4a not working.
  • [Fix] Subtitle display: VRD could crash if user tries to display teletext subs which follow DVB subs in the in the view subtitle menu.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.724e Beta (Feb 16, 2015)

  • [Change] H.264: Process DVB subtitles recorded from ARTEHD which have incorrect timestamps.
  • [Change] GUI: Updated Spanish translation.
  • [Change] MPEG2: Remove limit for maximum PTS discontinuity checks.
  • [Fix] H.264: QSF will drop last frame of file if the last encoded frame is the last displayed frame. Normal save is OK.
  • [Fix] GUI: (VRDPro) Pro version is checking consumer version numbers rather than Pro releases.
  • [Fix] Batch: Batch wouldn't launch a second time if previously minimized to the system tray and closed.
  • [Fix] Profiles: Editing a profile will crash VRD if running Vista or user selected "audio only" and codec wasn't set to "automatic"
  • [Fix] MP4 muxing: When doing MOOV atom renaming, some unicode characters can cause logging error and put logging into loop.
  • [Fix] GUI: Remove incorrect URL reference (404) in tip of the day to our support page. Replaced with Quick Sync tip.
  • [Fix] Output profile: Crash when changing some H.264 encoding options.
  • [Fix] GUI: Don't show Tools>Options>Quick Sync options page when running XP or Vista. Prevents crash in Vista.
  • [Fix] GUI: Issues with Windows DPI scaling. Improved font readability at high DPI settings.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.723a Beta (Jan 24, 2015)

  • [Fix] Resizer: New multi-threaded resizer would crash if cropping top or bottom of source video.
  • [Fix] Output: When converting 1080i to 720p, captions were being doubled up.
  • [Fix] Profile: H.264 encoder being set to CBR when source file is also CBR, regardless of bit rate settings,
  • [Fix] Batch: Starting batch as minimized wasn't working.
  • [Fix] Elementary stream output: Audio file names could have wrong extension when primary audio stream wasn't the first stream in file.
  • [Fix] DVD: Audio needs to be forced to 48Khz.
  • [Fix] Output: Frame rate changer wasn't honoring MPEG2 3:2 telecine flags.
  • [Fix] H.264 output: Converting progressive DVD with 3:2 telecine to 1080p with software encoder created chroma artifacts.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.722a Beta (Jan 12, 2015)

  • [Enhancement] Profile: Frame rate change enabled.
  • [Enhancement] Output: Resizer, improved performance of the resizer enabled via shift+T>O> # 36 "Number of threads" to value >=2
  • [Enhancement] Video output: Performance enhancements to the smart de-interlacer improves output speed by 20%-40%.
  • [Fix] H.264: Preview mode out of sync on 720p video when there are multiple cuts.
  • [Fix] Video output driver: Fixed some minor memory leaks each time a new file was opened.
  • [Fix] Output: MP4/MKV output muxer not releasing about 60MB of memory after each save.
  • [Fix] ffmpeg: Fixed memory leak in the ffmpeg reader when opening a file.
  • [Fix] GUI: Intermittent application crash if in preview mode and using fine-tune slider.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.720 Beta (Dec 22, 2014)

  • [Change] COM: Disabled automatic COM registration. COM will only register at install, from batch, or if "/register" on command line.
  • [Fix] MP4/MKV: If recoding to H.264 and saving to MP4/MKV, could get a graph abort. Recoding to .ts first, or doing smart edit is OK.
  • [Fix] Output: Source frame of 24 fps, being incorrectly converted to 23.97 and also triggering a problem in the frame rate converter.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.1.719 (Dec 22, 2014)

  • New: TVSuite and Batch will appear in correct perspective regardless of monitor DPI setting.
  • New: Profile option to set the audio PCM byte order.
  • Fixes:
  • [Enhancement] Audio Output profile: Added option to set byte order (endianess) for PCM audio. Default is "little" same as previous versions.
  • [Enhancement] GUI: TVSuite, Batch and install wizard should now appear in correct perspective regardless of monitor DPI setting.
  • [Enhancement] H.264: Added new H.264 advanced encoding option, "Write SEI pic_timing": Default was and still is to write the pic_timing record
  • [Change] H.264: Show error message that H.264 4:2:2 files require VRD Pro. (even Pro version requires special codec pack).
  • [Change] H.264: Updated H.264 decoder/encoder libraries to version 9.10. Should not be noticeable to the user.
  • [Change] NPT display: Added shift+Tools>Options, # 35. NPT decimal digits to display: (default is 3). Previously hard coded to 4.
  • [Fix] Audio recoding: Intermittent error saving with multiple audio streams due to thread conflict initializing multiple decoders.
  • [Fix] Batch: Batch add dialog not remembering last used folder
  • [Fix] DVD authoring: Volume name was incorrect for files with a period in name
  • [Fix] DVD/Joiner: Batch processing or opening of DVD / joiner projects didn't work. Previous joiner / DVD project won't open.
  • [Fix] GUI: Default audio completion alert wav file "woosh.wav" was accidently left out of the distribution.
  • [Fix] GUI: Fixed Tools>Options>Hidden option # 3, allow resize of fine tune slider.
  • [Fix] GUI: Opening a project would set the unsaved edits flag.
  • [Fix] GUI: When doing a refresh (F12) video duration was not being updated in the on screen info box.
  • [Fix] H.264: Smart edit crash at cut points when doing IDR recoding and max_l0_active not equal to max_l1_active. (broke in 717)
  • [Fix] H.264: ffmpeg error while saving to MP4/MKV when lots of out-of-order frames.
  • [Fix] Installer: Program group had a shortcut to older "configuration wizard" instead of new V5 Installation wizard.
  • [Fix] Profile Default MPEG-2 MP4 profile broken, would convert to MPG rather than save as MP4.
  • [Fix] Profile: AC3 5.0 was forcing an audio recode rather than being passed through because VRD thought 5.0 was illegal.
  • [Fix] WMV/VC-1: When saving to WMV or VC-1 audio would hiss due to audio bytes being swapped twice.
  • [Fix] WTV: QSF a WTV to WTV would always prompt for metadata because it didn't realize the source was WTV.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.0.719 Beta (Dec 16, 2014)

  • [Fix] H.264: Smart edit crash at cut points when doing IDR recoding and max_l0_active not equal to max_l1_active.
  • [Fix] Installer: Program group had a shortcut to older "configuration wizard" instead of new V5 Installation wizard.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.0.718 Beta (Dec 13, 2014)

  • [Enhancement] GUI: TVSuite, Batch and install wizard should now appear in correct perspective regardless of monitor DPI setting.
  • [Enhancement] H.264: Added new H.264 advanced encoding option, "Write SEI pic_timing": Default was and still is to write the pic_timing record
  • [Change] NPT display: Added shift+Tools>Options, # 35. NPT decimal digits to display: (default is 3). Previously hard coded to 4.
  • [Fix] WMV/VC-1: When saving to WMV or VC-1 audio would hiss due to audio bytes being swapped twice.
  • [Fix] Batch: Batch add dialog not remembering last used folder.
  • [Fix] Profile Default MPEG-2 MP4 profile broken, would convert to MPG rather than save as MPEG-2 in MP4 container.
  • [Fix] Profile: AC3 5.0 was forcing an audio recode rather than being passed through because VRD thought 5.0 was illegal.
  • [Fix] WTV: QSF a WTV to WTV would always prompt for metadata because it didn't realize the source was WTV.
  • [Fix] H.264: H.264 re-coding created files with private SEI that could cause problems when re-opening file in VRD (broke in 717).
  • [Fix] H.264: Files transcoded to H.264 in 717 might not be able to be re-opened in VRD due to private SEI causing read exception.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 5.1.0.717 Beta (Dec 5, 2014)

  • [Enhancement] Audio Output profile: Added option to set byte order (endianess) for PCM audio. Default is "little" same as previous versions.
  • [Change] H.264: Show error message that H.264 4:2:2 files require VRD Pro. (even Pro version requires special codec pack).
  • [Change] H.264: Updated Mainconcept filters to version 9.9. Should not be noticeable to the user.
  • [Fix] Audio recoding: Intermittent error saving and recoding with multiple audio streams due to thread conflict initializing multiple decoders.
  • [Fix] DVD authoring: Volume name was incorrect for files with a period in name.
  • [Fix] DVD/Joiner: Batch processing or opening of DVD / joiner projects didn't work. Previous joiner / DVD project won't open.
  • [Fix] GUI: (Pro only) High contrast skin was not being installed.
  • [Fix] GUI: Default audio completion alert wav file "woosh.wav" was accidently left out of the distribution.
  • [Fix] GUI: Fixed hidden option # 3, allow resize of fine tune slider.
  • [Fix] GUI: Opening a project would set the unsaved edits flag.
  • [Fix] GUI: When doing a refresh (F12) video duration was not being updated in the on screen info box.
  • [Fix] H.264: ffMpeg error while saving to MP4/MKV when lots of out-of-order frames.

New in VideoReDo TVSuite 3.1.5.564 (Jul 7, 2008)

  • NEW: Authoring: NTSC closed captions are preserved even if video is recorded for DVD authoring
  • NEW: Authoring: Added new "automatic" pan and scan option which lets the user change the mode using the player's menus.
  • NEW: DVD menus, added additional options for DVD title button highlights, underline, text color, left arrow.
  • NEW: Added new COM method, AdjustAudioSync() to adjust the sync of the currently open video.
  • NEW: DVRMS output, added option to remove stream tags to the Tools>Options>DVRMS page. This allows thumbnails to be displayed in Vista MCE.
  • NEW: Added an option to only allow a single instance of VideoReDo.
  • NEW: Ability to read proprietary Humax 8000 transport stream files.
  • Enhance: Added capability to automatically QuickStreamFix DVD titles from the open DVD title screen.
  • Enhance: Added ability to set language code on the Tools>Options>Startup page
  • Enhance: Stream selection, preserve edits if switching to a different audio stream for the current