Version history for AVI ReComp

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Changes for v1.5.5 - v1.5.6

• [New]
• New option to add custom target file sizes.
• [Changed]
• Slight UI changes and improvements.
• Updated some of the external libraries.
• Help file update.

Changes for v1.5.4 - v1.5.5

• This new release contains a few small improvements and internal changes.

Changes for v1.5.3 - v1.5.4

• New
• New Spanish translation (thanks to Javier Tapia Torres from Spain).
• New Slovak translation (thanks to Stano Kobella from Slovakia).
• Changed
• Xvid updated to version 1.3.2 final.
• LAME encoder updated to version 3.99.5
• Source code corrections and improvements.
• Our own Xvid installer replaced by the original installer provided by the Xvid Team.
• Due to implementation of Xvid external installer, codec's remnants cannot be removed now.
• Logo window rebuilt.
• Logo position and available values auto-adjusted to the video resolution.
• Logo times (start and duration) auto-adjusted to the movie's length.
• Help file updates and corrections (thanks to Javier Tapia Torres for help).
• Fixed
• Logo right alignment problem for HD video resolutions.
• Incorrect detection of video stream size in some circumstances.
• Wrong F1 Help content for some UI items.
• Incorrect detection of some decoding libraries (i.a. ffdshow).

Changes for v1.5.2 - v1.5.3

• New
• New Portuguese translation (thanks to João Frade from Portugal).
• Changed
• Xvid updated to version 1.3.0 final.
• Improved compatibility with the new version of the encoder.
• Updated translations.
• Help file update.

Changes for v1.5.1 - v1.5.2

• [Changed]
• Added support for non-ANSI fonts in ASS and SSA subtitles.
• Added some new data saved to the log.
• Improved Xvid installer now removes all Xvid remnants.
• New Portuguese translation (thanks to Oscar R. Neto).
• Translation module changes and improvements.
• Temporary subtitles are now saved in the temporary folder after starting a job.
• Removed the font size limit for SSA and ASS subtitles.
• Improved the Resizing module.
• Implemented some additional protections against an invalid final resolution.
• Updated some sections in the Help file.
• Some changes and improvements in generated avs scripts.
• [Fixed]
• In some circumstances higher versions of VirtualDubMod were not acceptable.
• Incorrect behaviour of Resizing Tools in case of resolutions exceeding the screen size.
• Cropping and Resizing Tool windows were overlapped by their preview windows.
• The maximum value for logo alpha blending was 225 instead of 255.
• Incorrect ARC player adjustments in case of very large or very small resolutions.
• Wrong crop values for maximally cropped picture.
• Minor bugs in the Help file.
• Incorrect required disk space calculation while adding new jobs to the queue.
• In some cases Queue columns were not correctly adjusted after removing an aborted job.
• Opening the window with the list of translators caused an unexpected language change.
• Errors caused by an invalid resultant resolution after using black borders.
• Inaccurate calculations in module checking the availability of black borders presets.

Changes for v1.5.0 - v1.5.1

• [New]
• Added support for VobSub (.sub/.idx) subtitles.
• Added multiple-audio support.
• Introduced new Audio stream list.
• New Swedish translation (thanks to Lennart).
• [Changed]
• Added interpretation of some errors to the log.
• VSFilter updated to version 2.39
• Improved intercepting errors and exceptions.
• Help system update.
• Improved Black Borders module.
• Added more details to the log.
• Implemented ADPCM audio support.
• Many source code changes and improvements.
• Improved detection of some audio codecs and displaying their names.
• Added piracy, copyright warnings to log files.
• Improved and speeded up the translation module.
• [Fixed]
• Bug appearing while converting 2 audio streams.
• Incorrect frame count for some multi-part AVI files.
• Truncated output files after recompressing some multi-part AVIs.
• Incorrect behaviour of the AVS script editor window.
• Errors when a job failed and an output file already existed.
• Existing target files were deleted in some circumstances.
• Unexpected application errors when more than one job failed.

Changes for v1.4.5 - v1.4.6

• [New]
• Subtitle script encoding (for ASS and SSA).
• Option to invoke QPel encoding.
• Checking if the selected translation is complete.
• New black borders configuration tool.
• Added time remaining and % completed indicators for the running job.
• Auto-loading option for subtitles with the same name.
• Added a Volume level adjustment tool to the Audio Conversion Module.
• New Dutch translation (thanks to Kareltje538).
• [Changed]
• If movie resolution is greater than screen resolution Preview Player now auto resets to screen resolution.
• Added graphics card info to the log file.
• All occurrences of XviD changed to the official name Xvid
• The volume level in the Preview Player is now saved/restored.
• Improved total RAM detection (log file).
• Source encoder version is now displayed in the "Data" panel.
• Some User Interface changes and improvements.
• Checking dimensions of loaded logo bitmaps.
• Checking Xvid version before each pass.
• Improved and quicker Preview generation.
• Improved logging module.
• Job settings are now saved and restored on the next start up.
• Distinction between MPEG and H.263 default quantisation matrices.
• Improved alignment in custom matrix table cells.
• [Fixed]
• DTS audio muxing error.
• "Start" button enabled after reloading VirtualDubMod.
• Incorrect system directory detection.
• "Add to queue" button disabled if the target file was specified as first.
• Error message when trying to open the last used directory if it no longer exists.
• Xvids "Unrestricted" profile was used instead of "Home" (Xvid 1.2.1).
• Incorrect preview operation on Dual Monitor systems.
• After adding a new job the "Start" button became enabled during active reencoding.
• Corrupted display of unknown quantisation matrix.
• Incorrect position of some coefficients in custom matrix tables.
• Invisible button for custom quantisation matrices.
• Not existing file reported as incorrect.
• Incorrect translation in the "Shortcuts" window.
• In some circumstances previously used/saved subtitle settings were not restored.
• Untranslated tooltips.
• Incorrect PlayResX and PlayResY in ASS subtitle scripts.
• In some circumstances desktop notifications were not displayed.

Changes for v1.4.4 - v1.4.5

• [New]
• New audio resampling feature.
• Added Full Screen mode in ARC Player.
• Added a new "Log" tab for displaying the progress of the reencoding.
• Added new Desktop Alert settings (window transparency, duration).
• New option for displaying custom quantisation matrices.
• New module for checking available disc space.
• New "User Data" editor.
• Added new option for displaying VDubMod's windows.
• New Arabic translation (thanks to Ghada).
• [Changed]
• Implemented automatic job renaming.
• Improved handling exceptions and errors on aborting jobs.
• Added some installer embellishments.
• Implemented new installers for Xvid and VobSub.
• Improved AviSynth installer.
• Added new info saved to log files (CPU, RAM, screen settings etc).
• Added warnings of editing video larger than the screen size.
• "Delete temporary files" option is now checked by default.
• Better Xvid version detection.
• Improved preview player's context menu.
• Added VobSub installation checkup.
• Added ffdshow installation checkup.
• Added warnings of closing VDubMod from the Task Manager.
• New "About..." window.
• Rearrangement of some GUI elements.
• Added some new icons and implemented some graphical improvements.
• Added some new balloon hints (tooltips).
• AviSynth updated to version 2.5.8 RC5.
• XviD updated to version 1.2.1
• Translation guides updated.
• Added special comments to all translation files.
• Many source code improvements.
• [Fixed]
• Remaining Desktop Notification after closing the program.
• Crash if VDubMod's location was changed after adding a job to the queue.
• Incorrect versions of third-party tools in the log file if those tools were reinstalled after adding a job to the queue.
• Remaining "Audio 1" and "Audio 2" buttons after adding a job to the queue with reset settings activated.
• Crash if one of the chosen paths exceeded the file system limits.
• Incorrect behaviour of some windows.

Changes for v1.4.3 - v1.4.4

• [New]
• New version check option.
• "Donate" and "Beta-testing" buttons.
• New tray menu icons.
• New progress bar for active jobs.
• Additional info in the "Data panel" (QPel, GMC, AR, audio encoding mode).
• New keyboard shortcuts description window.
• [Changed]
• AviSynth updated to version 2.5.8 RC4.
• Lame updated to version 3.98.2
• Source and temp files protection if a job is stopped with an error.
• Log info corrections and improvements.
• Some command line improvements.
• Desktop alert module rebuilt (now with fade out effect).
• "Move up/down" buttons - enabled only if more than 1 job in the queue.
• Job list improvements and corrections.
• Default mp3 encoding mode changed to VBR.
• Changed names of some temporary file names.
• Black borders not allowed (warning) for AR lower or equal 4:3.
• Some GUI changes and improvements.
• VDubMod is now running in hidden mode.
• Better target size calculation.
• "Data panel" rebuilt (new "General" section).
• The new AVI size now auto-defaults to the size of the source file.
• Removed or replaced some log data (file names, paths) in the interest of preserving users privacy.
• Additional warning if a save to location and/or target size are not specified.
• Improved Unicode support in some places.
• [Fixed]
• New source file could be loaded via context menu during setting audio parameters for another movie.
• Some dialog boxes collisions.
• A rarely encountered type of mp3 audio stream could be flagged as unrecognised.
• There was a space in the bitrate value instead of a thousands separator.
• Incorrect behaviour when Stay on top option was enabled.
• In some circumstances a job could be marked as "aborted" even though it was completed.
• Taskbar icon error when using Cropping or Resizing tools.
• Serious bug when recompressing files with size larger than 4 GB.
• Incorrect behaviour of some windows.
• Spelling corrections.

Changes for v1.4.2 - v1.4.3

• New Thai translation.
• [Changed]
• Changed the default process priority from Idle to Normal for a default job.
• Both resizing and cropping previews and tools windows are now dragable and accessible in the same time.
• Maximal allowed width for new AVI is now 1920 and maximal allowed height 1080 px.
• If the user sets the values exceeding 720x576 and clicks the 'Use' button then he gets a warning.
• New Close Button on the Preview Player window.
• Improved the preview generating process.
• Job List was significantly rebuilt.
• Eliminated stealing screen windows' activity by VDubMod.
• Improved detection of AVI file encoders.
• Widened AVS script Editor window.
• It is now impossible to Drag&Drop the file that is already loaded to ARC.
• Many source code changes and improvements.
• Some GUI corrections and adjustments.
• From now on the 'keep ratio' option will keep current aspect ratio (instead of original source AR).
• Improved calculations of admissible target AVI size.
• Considerably improved reading data from AVI files.
• [Fixed]
• The recompression was slowed down after enabling the 'Edit avs script' option.
• Cropping preview bug appearing when reopening Cropping Tools after saving some cropping values.
• Disappearing Preview button in Subtitles Settings window after closing the preview.
• AR indicator was not updated after clicking the Restore button in the Resizing Tools window.
• AVI ReComp preview player did not stop at the end of the movie and the Play button was not available.
• Unrestricted XviD profile was used instead of Home when XviD 1.1.3 was installed.
• Sometimes the resizing and cropping previews were displayed in a wrong colour spaces.
• Incorrect resizing arrows' behaviour when trying to reach large resolution values.
• No screenshots in the Russian translation guide.
• Job List items had uneven look on Vista.
• No standard colours in all colour list-boxes in SSA and ASS settings windows.
• Outline/Shadow colour list disabled in SSA settings window.
• Double LanczosResize in the preview avs script after saving crop values and running resizing preview.
• Incorrect black borders sizes in the preview launched from Cropping and Resize Tools windows.
• Incorrect warnings informing about too large logo size when Black Borders option was enabled.
• Possibility of loading a new source via command line switches even if ARC was busy editing other file.
• In some circumstances ARC disabled DirectVobSub auto-loading mode.
• Recompressing files exceeding 1.99 GB resulted in truncated output.
• Incorrect display coordinates in ASS subtitle scripts when Black Borders option was enabled.

Changes for v1.4.1 - v1.4.2

• [changed]:
• New built-in preview player.
• XviD updated to Koepi's build from 27.04.2008
• Lame encoder updated to version 3.98 beta 8.
• A Windows hint dialogue will now display if you hover your mouse over the desktop shortcut.
• If DivX is detected as the codec, ARC will no longer attempt to detect the version and will just display DivX.
• Cosmetic changes to the font and it's size in the changes section accessed from the About window.
• Increased width of the Changelog window.
• Cosmetic improvement to the ARC startmenu shortcut icon under Vista.
• [fixed]:
• The string "Thanks to all the translators!" accessed from the About window now appears in all languages.
• Protection against launching AVIReCompShell.exe manually. Especially with no command line parameters.
• More appropriate punctuation for changelog items.
• A problem whereby it was impossible to prevent the creation of the ARC desktop icon.

Changes for v1.4.0 - v1.4.1

• changed
• Lame encoder updated to version 3.98 beta 7
• Improved serching for third-party libraries in 64-bit systems
• Some changes and improvements in AVI ReComp installer
• Updated translations (Hungarian, Italian and Russian)
• Many source-code changes and improvements
• AVIReComp.exe can no longer be run from locations other than its installation directory
• Improved appearance of some messages and hints
• From now on the default new AVI size is 700 MB
• Icons and images improvements
• fixed
• Temporary core generated files could not be saved causing resizing, cropping and preview problems (with regard to Vista UAC protection)
• Incorrect Save Dialog opened instead of Open Dialog window when trying to load a new source file (Vista)
• Wrong large file size calculation for XviD and for the log file
• Cropping bug after reopening Cropping Tools and clicking the Restore button
• AVI file association did not work at all under Vista because of Vista UAC restrictions
• Unexpected errors when trying to run cropping or resizing tools and no AviSynth was installed
• Vista uses different fonts and that's why in some places buttons, labels and edits had deformed text
• If no xvid or no avs found in system dirs, message dialogs were invisible and displayed behind the 'waiting' form
• Unexpected errors if New AVI size was set to 0 or not specified
• Codec's name field in Data panel was deformed (Vista)
• The Language List had some strange behaviours under Vista
• Serious uninstaller bug that in certain circumstance could result in data loss
• Update checker rebuilt since it was not working correctly under Vista
• The hint for Desired AVI size was not present in the language file and it is always displayed in English
• Multiple preview available from Cropping and Resizing Tools
• ARC was not able to detect Windows Vista and save appropriate info in log files

Changes for v1.3.0 - v1.4.0

• new
• new Crop feature
• new interface images
• some new gui hints
• new temporary hints for too long subtitle and logo paths
• new 'Translators' button in About window
• added Aspect Ratio in the Resize Tools window
• new Portuguese translation (thanks to thiih_)
• new Russian translation (thanks to mitinka)
• new Hungarian translation (thanks to Pety)
• changed
• XviD updated to version 1.1.3
• VDubMod edit adjusted for very long paths
• improved loading files with right-click menu
• improved searching for VDubMod
• many minor gui adjustments and improvements
• fixed
• corrected TabOrder in the Settings tab
• LanczosResize in avs scripts doubled in some cases
• no Unicode for resizing arrows hints
• remaining hints for very long input/output paths
• wrong AR keeping when resizing
• wrong resizing values - over max allowed width/height

Changes for v1.2.3 - v1.3.0

• new option - audio converting feature
• new option - editing AviSynth scripts
• multiaudio support
• new warnings - XviD possibilities exceeded
• new hints for very long source and input paths
• new Bulgarian translation (thanks to bashman)
• AviSynth updated to version 2.5.7
• registry options storage rebuilt
• gui corrections and improvements
• improved checking new versions on startup
• some installer improvements and corrections
• log info improvements
• many source code changes and improvements
• from now video demuxing is performed before audio demuxing
• improved logging on exceptions
• improved audio bitrate averaging algorithm
• improved searching for XviD version
• translation guide updated
• from now tooltips are enabled by default
• improved handling errors and exceptions from VirtualDubMod and saving them to the log file
• VirtualDubMod errors do not break the queue now
• desktop alert is not movable now
• thanks and changelog are now displayed in the internal window
• removed useless question on closing program concerning removing aborted job from a queue
• when VDubMod was running ARC windows became inactive
• improved default ASS and SSA default style
• alert window from previous queue is now closed immediately after the next queue is started
• new AVI size was reseted after choosing a new language
• invalid final file size in a log file when a target size was very large
• some bugs in the log file when no-audio movie was processed
• SSA/ASS style name collision (all style name appearances were converted to 'AVIRC')

Changes for v1.2.2 - v1.2.3

• XviD updated to version 1.1.2
• compatibility with XviD 1.1.2

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