mkvtoolnix 0.9.6 released
Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
2004-10-07 21:33:43 GMT
Hey,
weeeeeee! It's been quite some time since the last release. Probably
longer than since any other release. But here we go.
This funky release features tons of bug features and a couple of new
features and a complete rewrite of the chapter handling (which you won't
notice, but it a really big change, so there might still be bugs. But I
doubt it).
You should read the ChangeLog below -- I really don't want to repeat
everything here ;)
Here are the usual URLs to...
...the home page:
https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/
...the source code:
https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/sources/mkvtoolnix-0.9.6.tar.bz2
...the Windows binaries:
https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/mkvtoolnix-0.9.6.rar
The packages for SuSE Linux 9.0 and 9.1 as well as those for RedHat 9 /
FedoraCore 1 and 2 are still being built and will be available from my
home page shortly.
Here's the ChangeLog since the previous release, 0.9.5:
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2004-10-07 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* Released v0.9.6.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The track extraction was creating the
output file twice if the Matroska file contained a copy of the
track headers. This resulted in the first extracted file being
overwritten at the end of extraction.
* mmg: bug fix: If the file title is read from an input file, not
modified by the user and that input file is removed again then the
file title will be unset.
2004-10-05 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: enhancement: Converted the raw FLAC reader to use
another interface to the FLAC libraries. This results in a speedup
of up to 50%. Thanks to Josh Coalson for telling me about its
existence.
2004-10-04 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added two warnings. One about invalid
track IDs that were used on the command line but that don't
correspond to an available track in a file and one if no track
will be copied from a source file. Both warnings hint at bad
command line arguments.
2004-10-03 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: Only write the segment duration as a 64bit float if
there is no video track present. This way users won't have to
update their DirectShow filter/apps for most files. Only
audio-only files need this precision anyway.
* mkvmerge: Changed the Ogg/OGM reader to use the stream number
and not its serial number as the track ID (meaning the track IDs
will be 0, 1, 2... etc. instead of the random numbers oggenc uses
as the serial numbers).
2004-09-30 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: new feature: The CUE sheet parser now accepts INDEX
lines with indices from 00 up to 99 and implements the Red Book
specification for audio CDs that way. Patch by Vegard Pettersen
<vegard_p at broadpark adot no>.
2004-09-28 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge, mkvextract: bug fix: ASS was handled like SSA which is
not correct in each case, especially when extracting it.
* mkvextract: bug fix: The WAV writer was not endian safe.
2004-09-27 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The charset was not set correctly on Solaris.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge crashed when reading Matroska files
that contain an empty tag list.
2004-09-26 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Some Matroska files that e.g. have had their
timecodes offset with the Matroska Stream Editor or other means
may contain timecodes that caused mkvmerge to print a warning
about "timecode < last_timecode". A new fix implements a
workaround and a warning message with a proper explanation for
this case.
2004-09-24 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Older Matroska files containing chapters
caused mkvmerge to abort muxing.
2004-09-21 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was only copying the last tag of a
list of tags applying to a track from a Matroska file.
2004-09-17 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge will show a nice warning if the
entries in a SRT have non-continuous timestamps. It'll also sort
the entries by their start timestamp instead of throwing the
generic "timecode < previous timecode" warning.
* mmg: bug fix: The 'Matroska file analysis' window that occurs
when reading chapters from a Matroska file did not disappear if it
was minimized when the process finished.
2004-09-16 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added a new parameter
--aspect-ratio-factor.
* mkvinfo: bug fix: Strings from chapters and tags were shown in
UTF-8 instead of the local charset. This bug was introduced around
2004-08-28.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Not all chapter elements were copied
correctly from a source Matroska file.
2004-09-07 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvextract: Sped up the extraction of attachments, chapters,
cuesheets and tags by using the seek head information and not
parsing the full file each time.
2004-09-02 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The Matroska reader was not handling very big
cluster timecodes correctly. Those can occur when the timecode
scale factor is very small.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Empty clusters in Matroska files no longer
make mkvmerge think that file has been read completely.
2004-08-31 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for MP2 (and maybe MP3)
audio in MP4 containers.
2004-08-29 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: new feature: The chapter and tag parsers accept XML
element attributes instead of sub-elements for those sub-elements
that only contain data. Example for a "simple tag":
<Simple Name="ARTIST" String="Tori Amos"/>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The automatic MIME type detection based on
the file name extension was using the file name extension as the
MIME type.
2004-08-28 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge, mkvinfo: new feature: Added the four new PixelCrop
elements.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract, mkvinfo: new feature: Added
'TargetTypeValue' as a supported tagging element.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract, mkvinfo: Complete rewrite of the chapter
and tag parsing and output functions. Additions will be much
easier now.
* mkvmerge, mkvextract, mkvinfo: feature removed: Dropped support
for the very old and deprecated tagging system. No one used it
anyway.
2004-08-24 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: new feature: Allow the use of two-letter ISO639-1
country codes in for the '--language' parameter. Those will be
converted to the corresponding ISO639-2 language code
automatically.
2004-08-22 Moritz Bunkus <moritz <at> bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvextract: new feature: Added support for
the 'TargetType' tag element (which I meant to add before the
0.9.5 release...).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: The MP3 handling was broken on weird and rare
occasions when reading MP3 from a Matroska file.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Removed a bogus warning about an attachment's
MIME type having been given more than once.
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Have fun :)
Mosu
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