Version history for Windows Essentials Codec Pack
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Changes for v4.5 - v4.6
- Added a 64-bit version
- New H.264 decoder
- Improved subtitle rendering
- Support for DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming
Changes for v4.4 - v4.5
- Added a 64-bit version
- New H.264 decoder
- Improved subtitle rendering
- Support for DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming
Changes for v4.3 - v4.4
- Added a 64-bit version
- New H.264 decoder
- Improved subtitle rendering
- Support for DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming
Changes for v4.2 - v4.3
- Added a 64-bit version
- New H.264 decoder
- Improved subtitle rendering
- Support for DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming
Changes for v4.1 - v4.2
- Added a 64-bit version
- New H.264 decoder
- Improved subtitle rendering
- Support for DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming
Changes for v4.0 - v4.1
- Added a 64-bit version
- New H.264 decoder
- Improved subtitle rendering
- Support for DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming
Changes for v3.6 - v4.0
- Added a 64-bit version
- New H.264 decoder
- Improved subtitle rendering
- Support for DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming
Changes for v3.4 - v3.5
- Bugfixes
- Removed OpenCandy
- Fixed 64-Bit installer issues
- Fixed a lot of issues with mp4 muxer
- Better support for VC-1 in MPEG Transport streams
- Various H.264 and MPEG-2 seeking issues fixed
- Several memory leak fixes
- Subtitle fixes:
- Don't show closed caption if "Subtitles" is not checked
- Non-DVD subtitles: check if "Subtitles" is checked before showing subtitles
- Setting "Maintain outside text inside screen" was not always applied correctly
- Subtitle file could not be disabled during DVD playback
- Duration of SSA move tags was randomly applied
- Various fixes to alignment, line spacing, movement and positioning of ASS, SSA and SRT subtitles
- Several crash fixes
- Fixes in the Audio mixer and LFE crossover filter:
- Center and LFE were too loud when downmixing 5.1 -> 2ch
- If the original sound had LFE channel, it was overwritten
- If the center channel existed, left and right channels were ignored
- Several MLP/TrueHD/LPCM decoding fixes
- Playing a CSS-protected DVD using MPC or MPC-HC caused a crash in certain scenarios
- Fixed DVD menu positioning and freeze issue
- Fixed several crashes in WMP11 and Media Center
- ffdshow.ax failed to register when a registry key was missing
- Removed black lines in Perspective Correction filter
- ffdshow would crash when using the Grab filter and the Resize filter with aspect ratio correction
- Many fixes across multiple ffdshow components including OSD, deinterlacing, remote API, DVD and MPEG-2 playback
- New and improved features
- Added support for WebM files
- Added AC-3 in MP4 support
- Added a 64-bit version(s)
- New multi-threaded H.264 decoder: ffmpeg-mt
- DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming support for the ATI Radeon HD5000 series, ASUS Xonar sound cards and Intel Clarkdale CPUs
- New color space converters:
- Supported input color spaces: progressive YV12, progressive NV12, YV16, YUY2
- Supported output color spaces: RGB24, RGB32
- High quality chroma upscaling
- Added dithering to reduce "banding"
- Support for color primary parameters such as ITU-R BT.601/709, input and output levels
- RGB conversion done in 11-bit or higher
- Significant improvements in YV12 -> YUY2, YUY2 -> RGB, and YV12 -> RGB conversion performance
- Requires SSE2-capable CPU; for better performance multi-core CPU recommended
- New RGB conversion options:
- Output levels ("Computer monitor" or "TV/Projector")
- YCbCr specification "Auto" (uses H.264's VUI or width > 1024: BT.709, width <= 1024: BT.601)
- Various improvements in the Subtitle filter:
- Improved rendering quality, memory usage and performance
- General code cleanup
- SSA/ASS subtitles: better compatibility (support for position & move tags), better calculation of line wrapping, new dialog to configure ASS specific options. Also support added for ASS tags within SRT subtitles (SubViewer)
- FFDShowAPI: .NET wrapper around FFDShowRemoteAPI allows integration of ffdshow with third-party applications
- FFDShowRemoteAPI:
- Improved subtitle/audio streams detection; now compatible with most filters handling the IAMStreamSelect interface
- New command to disable FF/RW OSD
- When using absolute positioning, x and y coordinates are now representing pixels instead of percentages
- Added new parameter to determine the duration in which a message will be displayed
- OSD settings are now based on the current ffdshow preset; this allows turning OSD on/off using the "Automatic preset loading" mechanism
- Buffered video RAM access improves video memory access in certain scenarios
- AviSynth filter now uses AviSynth's frames for buffering which improves performance and reduces the filter's memory usage
- "Max. amplification" in the Normalization filter will only be applied after pressing "Apply"
- Better handling of DVD menus
- Improved autocrop algorithm
- Added RealVideo 8 (RV30) support
- Added soft telecine detection
- Added several new preset autoload conditions
- libavcodec is now used by default to decode Theora videos
- libavcodec is now used as Dolby TrueHD decoder instead of MLP
- Various updates to libavcodec
Changes for v3.3 - v3.4
- Bugfixes
- Removed OpenCandy
- Fixed 64-Bit installer issues
- Fixed a lot of issues with mp4 muxer
- Better support for VC-1 in MPEG Transport streams
- Various H.264 and MPEG-2 seeking issues fixed
- Several memory leak fixes
- Subtitle fixes:
- Don't show closed caption if "Subtitles" is not checked
- Non-DVD subtitles: check if "Subtitles" is checked before showing subtitles
- Setting "Maintain outside text inside screen" was not always applied correctly
- Subtitle file could not be disabled during DVD playback
- Duration of SSA move tags was randomly applied
- Various fixes to alignment, line spacing, movement and positioning of ASS, SSA and SRT subtitles
- Several crash fixes
- Fixes in the Audio mixer and LFE crossover filter:
- Center and LFE were too loud when downmixing 5.1 -> 2ch
- If the original sound had LFE channel, it was overwritten
- If the center channel existed, left and right channels were ignored
- Several MLP/TrueHD/LPCM decoding fixes
- Playing a CSS-protected DVD using MPC or MPC-HC caused a crash in certain scenarios
- Fixed DVD menu positioning and freeze issue
- Fixed several crashes in WMP11 and Media Center
- ffdshow.ax failed to register when a registry key was missing
- Removed black lines in Perspective Correction filter
- ffdshow would crash when using the Grab filter and the Resize filter with aspect ratio correction
- Many fixes across multiple ffdshow components including OSD, deinterlacing, remote API, DVD and MPEG-2 playback
- New and improved features
- Added support for WebM files
- Added AC-3 in MP4 support
- Added a 64-bit version(s)
- New multi-threaded H.264 decoder: ffmpeg-mt
- DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming support for the ATI Radeon HD5000 series, ASUS Xonar sound cards and Intel Clarkdale CPUs
- New color space converters:
- Supported input color spaces: progressive YV12, progressive NV12, YV16, YUY2
- Supported output color spaces: RGB24, RGB32
- High quality chroma upscaling
- Added dithering to reduce "banding"
- Support for color primary parameters such as ITU-R BT.601/709, input and output levels
- RGB conversion done in 11-bit or higher
- Significant improvements in YV12 -> YUY2, YUY2 -> RGB, and YV12 -> RGB conversion performance
- Requires SSE2-capable CPU; for better performance multi-core CPU recommended
- New RGB conversion options:
- Output levels ("Computer monitor" or "TV/Projector")
- YCbCr specification "Auto" (uses H.264's VUI or width > 1024: BT.709, width <= 1024: BT.601)
- Various improvements in the Subtitle filter:
- Improved rendering quality, memory usage and performance
- General code cleanup
- SSA/ASS subtitles: better compatibility (support for position & move tags), better calculation of line wrapping, new dialog to configure ASS specific options. Also support added for ASS tags within SRT subtitles (SubViewer)
- FFDShowAPI: .NET wrapper around FFDShowRemoteAPI allows integration of ffdshow with third-party applications
- FFDShowRemoteAPI:
- Improved subtitle/audio streams detection; now compatible with most filters handling the IAMStreamSelect interface
- New command to disable FF/RW OSD
- When using absolute positioning, x and y coordinates are now representing pixels instead of percentages
- Added new parameter to determine the duration in which a message will be displayed
- OSD settings are now based on the current ffdshow preset; this allows turning OSD on/off using the "Automatic preset loading" mechanism
- Buffered video RAM access improves video memory access in certain scenarios
- AviSynth filter now uses AviSynth's frames for buffering which improves performance and reduces the filter's memory usage
- "Max. amplification" in the Normalization filter will only be applied after pressing "Apply"
- Better handling of DVD menus
- Improved autocrop algorithm
- Added RealVideo 8 (RV30) support
- Added soft telecine detection
- Added several new preset autoload conditions
- libavcodec is now used by default to decode Theora videos
- libavcodec is now used as Dolby TrueHD decoder instead of MLP
- Various updates to libavcodec
Changes for v3.2 - v3.3
- Bugfixes
- Fixed 64-Bit installer issues
- Fixed a lot of issues with mp4 muxer
- Better support for VC-1 in MPEG Transport streams
- Various H.264 and MPEG-2 seeking issues fixed
- Several memory leak fixes
- Subtitle fixes:
- Don't show closed caption if "Subtitles" is not checked
- Non-DVD subtitles: check if "Subtitles" is checked before showing subtitles
- Setting "Maintain outside text inside screen" was not always applied correctly
- Subtitle file could not be disabled during DVD playback
- Duration of SSA move tags was randomly applied
- Various fixes to alignment, line spacing, movement and positioning of ASS, SSA and SRT subtitles
- Several crash fixes
- Fixes in the Audio mixer and LFE crossover filter:
- Center and LFE were too loud when downmixing 5.1 -> 2ch
- If the original sound had LFE channel, it was overwritten
- If the center channel existed, left and right channels were ignored
- Several MLP/TrueHD/LPCM decoding fixes
- Playing a CSS-protected DVD using MPC or MPC-HC caused a crash in certain scenarios
- Fixed DVD menu positioning and freeze issue
- Fixed several crashes in WMP11 and Media Center
- ffdshow.ax failed to register when a registry key was missing
- Removed black lines in Perspective Correction filter
- ffdshow would crash when using the Grab filter and the Resize filter with aspect ratio correction
- Many fixes across multiple ffdshow components including OSD, deinterlacing, remote API, DVD and MPEG-2 playback
- New and improved features
- Added support for WebM files
- Added AC-3 in MP4 support
- Added a 64-bit version(s)
- New multi-threaded H.264 decoder: ffmpeg-mt
- DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming support for the ATI Radeon HD5000 series, ASUS Xonar sound cards and Intel Clarkdale CPUs
- New color space converters:
- Supported input color spaces: progressive YV12, progressive NV12, YV16, YUY2
- Supported output color spaces: RGB24, RGB32
- High quality chroma upscaling
- Added dithering to reduce "banding"
- Support for color primary parameters such as ITU-R BT.601/709, input and output levels
- RGB conversion done in 11-bit or higher
- Significant improvements in YV12 -> YUY2, YUY2 -> RGB, and YV12 -> RGB conversion performance
- Requires SSE2-capable CPU; for better performance multi-core CPU recommended
- New RGB conversion options:
- Output levels ("Computer monitor" or "TV/Projector")
- YCbCr specification "Auto" (uses H.264's VUI or width > 1024: BT.709, width <= 1024: BT.601)
- Various improvements in the Subtitle filter:
- Improved rendering quality, memory usage and performance
- General code cleanup
- SSA/ASS subtitles: better compatibility (support for position & move tags), better calculation of line wrapping, new dialog to configure ASS specific options. Also support added for ASS tags within SRT subtitles (SubViewer)
- FFDShowAPI: .NET wrapper around FFDShowRemoteAPI allows integration of ffdshow with third-party applications
- FFDShowRemoteAPI:
- Improved subtitle/audio streams detection; now compatible with most filters handling the IAMStreamSelect interface
- New command to disable FF/RW OSD
- When using absolute positioning, x and y coordinates are now representing pixels instead of percentages
- Added new parameter to determine the duration in which a message will be displayed
- OSD settings are now based on the current ffdshow preset; this allows turning OSD on/off using the "Automatic preset loading" mechanism
- Buffered video RAM access improves video memory access in certain scenarios
- AviSynth filter now uses AviSynth's frames for buffering which improves performance and reduces the filter's memory usage
- "Max. amplification" in the Normalization filter will only be applied after pressing "Apply"
- Better handling of DVD menus
- Improved autocrop algorithm
- Added RealVideo 8 (RV30) support
- Added soft telecine detection
- Added several new preset autoload conditions
- libavcodec is now used by default to decode Theora videos
- libavcodec is now used as Dolby TrueHD decoder instead of MLP
- Various updates to libavcodec
Changes for v3.1 - v3.2
- Bugfixes
- Fixed 64-Bit installer issues
- Fixed a lot of issues with mp4 muxer
- Better support for VC-1 in MPEG Transport streams
- Various H.264 and MPEG-2 seeking issues fixed
- Several memory leak fixes
- Subtitle fixes:
- Don't show closed caption if "Subtitles" is not checked
- Non-DVD subtitles: check if "Subtitles" is checked before showing subtitles
- Setting "Maintain outside text inside screen" was not always applied correctly
- Subtitle file could not be disabled during DVD playback
- Duration of SSA move tags was randomly applied
- Various fixes to alignment, line spacing, movement and positioning of ASS, SSA and SRT subtitles
- Several crash fixes
- Fixes in the Audio mixer and LFE crossover filter:
- Center and LFE were too loud when downmixing 5.1 -> 2ch
- If the original sound had LFE channel, it was overwritten
- If the center channel existed, left and right channels were ignored
- Several MLP/TrueHD/LPCM decoding fixes
- Playing a CSS-protected DVD using MPC or MPC-HC caused a crash in certain scenarios
- Fixed DVD menu positioning and freeze issue
- Fixed several crashes in WMP11 and Media Center
- ffdshow.ax failed to register when a registry key was missing
- Removed black lines in Perspective Correction filter
- ffdshow would crash when using the Grab filter and the Resize filter with aspect ratio correction
- Many fixes across multiple ffdshow components including OSD, deinterlacing, remote API, DVD and MPEG-2 playback
- New and improved features
- Added support for WebM files
- Added AC-3 in MP4 support
- Added a 64-bit version(s)
- New multi-threaded H.264 decoder: ffmpeg-mt
- DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming support for the ATI Radeon HD5000 series, ASUS Xonar sound cards and Intel Clarkdale CPUs
- New color space converters:
- Supported input color spaces: progressive YV12, progressive NV12, YV16, YUY2
- Supported output color spaces: RGB24, RGB32
- High quality chroma upscaling
- Added dithering to reduce "banding"
- Support for color primary parameters such as ITU-R BT.601/709, input and output levels
- RGB conversion done in 11-bit or higher
- Significant improvements in YV12 -> YUY2, YUY2 -> RGB, and YV12 -> RGB conversion performance
- Requires SSE2-capable CPU; for better performance multi-core CPU recommended
- New RGB conversion options:
- Output levels ("Computer monitor" or "TV/Projector")
- YCbCr specification "Auto" (uses H.264's VUI or width > 1024: BT.709, width <= 1024: BT.601)
- Various improvements in the Subtitle filter:
- Improved rendering quality, memory usage and performance
- General code cleanup
- SSA/ASS subtitles: better compatibility (support for position & move tags), better calculation of line wrapping, new dialog to configure ASS specific options. Also support added for ASS tags within SRT subtitles (SubViewer)
- FFDShowAPI: .NET wrapper around FFDShowRemoteAPI allows integration of ffdshow with third-party applications
- FFDShowRemoteAPI:
- Improved subtitle/audio streams detection; now compatible with most filters handling the IAMStreamSelect interface
- New command to disable FF/RW OSD
- When using absolute positioning, x and y coordinates are now representing pixels instead of percentages
- Added new parameter to determine the duration in which a message will be displayed
- OSD settings are now based on the current ffdshow preset; this allows turning OSD on/off using the "Automatic preset loading" mechanism
- Buffered video RAM access improves video memory access in certain scenarios
- AviSynth filter now uses AviSynth's frames for buffering which improves performance and reduces the filter's memory usage
- "Max. amplification" in the Normalization filter will only be applied after pressing "Apply"
- Better handling of DVD menus
- Improved autocrop algorithm
- Added RealVideo 8 (RV30) support
- Added soft telecine detection
- Added several new preset autoload conditions
- libavcodec is now used by default to decode Theora videos
- libavcodec is now used as Dolby TrueHD decoder instead of MLP
- Various updates to libavcodec
Changes for v3.0 - v3.1
- Bugfixes
- Fixed 64-Bit installer issues
- Fixed a lot of issues with mp4 muxer
- Better support for VC-1 in MPEG Transport streams
- Various H.264 and MPEG-2 seeking issues fixed
- Several memory leak fixes
- Subtitle fixes:
- Don't show closed caption if "Subtitles" is not checked
- Non-DVD subtitles: check if "Subtitles" is checked before showing subtitles
- Setting "Maintain outside text inside screen" was not always applied correctly
- Subtitle file could not be disabled during DVD playback
- Duration of SSA move tags was randomly applied
- Various fixes to alignment, line spacing, movement and positioning of ASS, SSA and SRT subtitles
- Several crash fixes
- Fixes in the Audio mixer and LFE crossover filter:
- Center and LFE were too loud when downmixing 5.1 -> 2ch
- If the original sound had LFE channel, it was overwritten
- If the center channel existed, left and right channels were ignored
- Several MLP/TrueHD/LPCM decoding fixes
- Playing a CSS-protected DVD using MPC or MPC-HC caused a crash in certain scenarios
- Fixed DVD menu positioning and freeze issue
- Fixed several crashes in WMP11 and Media Center
- ffdshow.ax failed to register when a registry key was missing
- Removed black lines in Perspective Correction filter
- ffdshow would crash when using the Grab filter and the Resize filter with aspect ratio correction
- Many fixes across multiple ffdshow components including OSD, deinterlacing, remote API, DVD and MPEG-2 playback
- New and improved features
- Added support for WebM files
- Added AC-3 in MP4 support
- Added a 64-bit version(s)
- New multi-threaded H.264 decoder: ffmpeg-mt
- DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming support for the ATI Radeon HD5000 series, ASUS Xonar sound cards and Intel Clarkdale CPUs
- New color space converters:
- Supported input color spaces: progressive YV12, progressive NV12, YV16, YUY2
- Supported output color spaces: RGB24, RGB32
- High quality chroma upscaling
- Added dithering to reduce "banding"
- Support for color primary parameters such as ITU-R BT.601/709, input and output levels
- RGB conversion done in 11-bit or higher
- Significant improvements in YV12 -> YUY2, YUY2 -> RGB, and YV12 -> RGB conversion performance
- Requires SSE2-capable CPU; for better performance multi-core CPU recommended
- New RGB conversion options:
- Output levels ("Computer monitor" or "TV/Projector")
- YCbCr specification "Auto" (uses H.264's VUI or width > 1024: BT.709, width <= 1024: BT.601)
- Various improvements in the Subtitle filter:
- Improved rendering quality, memory usage and performance
- General code cleanup
- SSA/ASS subtitles: better compatibility (support for position & move tags), better calculation of line wrapping, new dialog to configure ASS specific options. Also support added for ASS tags within SRT subtitles (SubViewer)
- FFDShowAPI: .NET wrapper around FFDShowRemoteAPI allows integration of ffdshow with third-party applications
- FFDShowRemoteAPI:
- Improved subtitle/audio streams detection; now compatible with most filters handling the IAMStreamSelect interface
- New command to disable FF/RW OSD
- When using absolute positioning, x and y coordinates are now representing pixels instead of percentages
- Added new parameter to determine the duration in which a message will be displayed
- OSD settings are now based on the current ffdshow preset; this allows turning OSD on/off using the "Automatic preset loading" mechanism
- Buffered video RAM access improves video memory access in certain scenarios
- AviSynth filter now uses AviSynth's frames for buffering which improves performance and reduces the filter's memory usage
- "Max. amplification" in the Normalization filter will only be applied after pressing "Apply"
- Better handling of DVD menus
- Improved autocrop algorithm
- Added RealVideo 8 (RV30) support
- Added soft telecine detection
- Added several new preset autoload conditions
- libavcodec is now used by default to decode Theora videos
- libavcodec is now used as Dolby TrueHD decoder instead of MLP
- Various updates to libavcodec
Changes for v2.3d - v3.0
- Bugfixes
- Fixed 64-Bit installer issues
- Fixed a lot of issues with mp4 muxer
- Better support for VC-1 in MPEG Transport streams
- Various H.264 and MPEG-2 seeking issues fixed
- Several memory leak fixes
- Subtitle fixes:
- Don't show closed caption if "Subtitles" is not checked
- Non-DVD subtitles: check if "Subtitles" is checked before showing subtitles
- Setting "Maintain outside text inside screen" was not always applied correctly
- Subtitle file could not be disabled during DVD playback
- Duration of SSA move tags was randomly applied
- Various fixes to alignment, line spacing, movement and positioning of ASS, SSA and SRT subtitles
- Several crash fixes
- Fixes in the Audio mixer and LFE crossover filter:
- Center and LFE were too loud when downmixing 5.1 -> 2ch
- If the original sound had LFE channel, it was overwritten
- If the center channel existed, left and right channels were ignored
- Several MLP/TrueHD/LPCM decoding fixes
- Playing a CSS-protected DVD using MPC or MPC-HC caused a crash in certain scenarios
- Fixed DVD menu positioning and freeze issue
- Fixed several crashes in WMP11 and Media Center
- ffdshow.ax failed to register when a registry key was missing
- Removed black lines in Perspective Correction filter
- ffdshow would crash when using the Grab filter and the Resize filter with aspect ratio correction
- Many fixes across multiple ffdshow components including OSD, deinterlacing, remote API, DVD and MPEG-2 playback
- New and improved features
- Added support for WebM files
- Added AC-3 in MP4 support
- Added a 64-bit version(s)
- New multi-threaded H.264 decoder: ffmpeg-mt
- DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD bitstreaming support for the ATI Radeon HD5000 series, ASUS Xonar sound cards and Intel Clarkdale CPUs
- New color space converters:
- Supported input color spaces: progressive YV12, progressive NV12, YV16, YUY2
- Supported output color spaces: RGB24, RGB32
- High quality chroma upscaling
- Added dithering to reduce "banding"
- Support for color primary parameters such as ITU-R BT.601/709, input and output levels
- RGB conversion done in 11-bit or higher
- Significant improvements in YV12 -> YUY2, YUY2 -> RGB, and YV12 -> RGB conversion performance
- Requires SSE2-capable CPU; for better performance multi-core CPU recommended
- New RGB conversion options:
- Output levels ("Computer monitor" or "TV/Projector")
- YCbCr specification "Auto" (uses H.264's VUI or width > 1024: BT.709, width <= 1024: BT.601)
- Various improvements in the Subtitle filter:
- Improved rendering quality, memory usage and performance
- General code cleanup
- SSA/ASS subtitles: better compatibility (support for position & move tags), better calculation of line wrapping, new dialog to configure ASS specific options. Also support added for ASS tags within SRT subtitles (SubViewer)
- FFDShowAPI: .NET wrapper around FFDShowRemoteAPI allows integration of ffdshow with third-party applications
- FFDShowRemoteAPI:
- Improved subtitle/audio streams detection; now compatible with most filters handling the IAMStreamSelect interface
- New command to disable FF/RW OSD
- When using absolute positioning, x and y coordinates are now representing pixels instead of percentages
- Added new parameter to determine the duration in which a message will be displayed
- OSD settings are now based on the current ffdshow preset; this allows turning OSD on/off using the "Automatic preset loading" mechanism
- Buffered video RAM access improves video memory access in certain scenarios
- AviSynth filter now uses AviSynth's frames for buffering which improves performance and reduces the filter's memory usage
- "Max. amplification" in the Normalization filter will only be applied after pressing "Apply"
- Better handling of DVD menus
- Improved autocrop algorithm
- Added RealVideo 8 (RV30) support
- Added soft telecine detection
- Added several new preset autoload conditions
- libavcodec is now used by default to decode Theora videos
- libavcodec is now used as Dolby TrueHD decoder instead of MLP
- Various updates to libavcodec
Changes for v2.3c - v2.3d
- Added missing dependency file
- Fixed FLAC decoding setting
- Fixed Minor bug with FFDShow configuration
- Fixed Minor bug with Update Service
Changes for v2.3 - v2.3c
- Bugfixes
- Added missing dependency file
- Fixed FLAC decoding setting
- Fixed Minor bug with FFDShow configuration
- Fixed Minor bug with Update Service
Changes for v2.2c - v2.3
- Fixed Minor bug with FFDShow configuration
- Fixed Minor bug with Update Service
Changes for v2.1 - v2.2c
- Bugfixes
- Fixed Windows Vista User Access Control (UAC) Installer bug*
- Fixed Windows Vista 64-Bit compatibility*
- Fixed FFDShow physical core correct value
- Fixed Media Player Classic extention registry associations
- Fixed DVD Playback support
- Fixed DVD / CD Autorun not responding
- New and improved features
- Added new tool: WECP Media Repair Tool
- Added new tool: Autorun Repair Wizard
- Added Gabest FLV Splitter (v1.1.796)
- Added Gabest MPEG-2 Decoder Filter (v1.1.796)
- Added Gabest VobSub & TextSub filter (v1.1.796)
- Added CoreWavePack (v1.1.1)
- Added Haali Media Splitter (v1.8.122.18)
- Switched to Media Player Classic - Homecinema (v.1.1.796)
- Depreciated Support
- Removed: APE Source Filter
- Removed: AC3 Filter
- Removed: AVI Splitter
- Removed: CDDA Reader Filter
- Removed: CoreAAC Filter
- Removed: CoreFlac Decoder
- Removed: OGG Splitter
- Removed: MOD Source Filter
- Removed: MPV Decoder
- Removed: MPA Splitter
- Removed: MPC Source Filter
- Removed: MP4 Splitter
- Removed: Matroska Splitter
- Removed: OFR Source Filter
- Removed: RealMedia Splitter
- Removed: SHOUTcast Source Filter
Changes for v2.2 - v2.2b
- Fixed Windows Vista 64-Bit Bug
Changes for v2.1 - v2.2
- Bugfixes
- Fixed FFDShow physical core correct value
- Fixed Media Player Classic extention registry associations
- Fixed DVD Playback support
- Fixed DVD / CD Autorun not responding
- New and improved features
- Added new tool: WECP Media Repair Tool
- Added new tool: Autorun Repair Wizard
- Added Gabest FLV Splitter (v1.1.796)
- Added Gabest MPEG-2 Decoder Filter (v1.1.796)
- Added Gabest VobSub & TextSub filter (v1.1.796)
- Added CoreWavePack (v1.1.1)
- Added Haali Media Splitter (v1.8.122.18)
- Switched to Media Player Classic - Homecinema (v.1.1.796)
- Depreciated Support
- Removed: APE Source Filter
- Removed: AC3 Filter
- Removed: AVI Splitter
- Removed: CDDA Reader Filter
- Removed: CoreAAC Filter
- Removed: CoreFlac Decoder
- Removed: OGG Splitter
- Removed: MOD Source Filter
- Removed: MPV Decoder
- Removed: MPA Splitter
- Removed: MPC Source Filter
- Removed: MP4 Splitter
- Removed: Matroska Splitter
- Removed: OFR Source Filter
- Removed: RealMedia Splitter
- Removed: SHOUTcast Source Filter
Changes for v1.0 - v2.1
- Bugfixes
- Important security fix: Buffer overflow vulnerability was fixed
- Fixes to ffdshow's remote API
- GDI resource leak fix
- Subtitle fixes:
- Fixed missing character at the end of line with non-UTF8 encoding in embedded subtitles
- When activating SSA tags within SRT subs, default placement (with no tag) was not correct
- Subtitle stability fix for random crashes
- Workaround for crashes in applications that use the Windows Media Player SDK
- Wrong color fix for Fraps v5
- The Grab filter was producing a black right border when saving PNG images having a width which was not a multiple of 16
- OSD / Info & CPU: Show correct value in "Movie FPS"
- Crash due to a language file size limit was fixed
- New and improved features
- Added support for E-AC3 decoding (Dolby Digital Plus)
- Added support for DTS-HD decoding (core DTS only)
- Added support for Dolby TrueHD and MLP decoding (full TrueHD decoding or AC3 can pass-through depending on config)
- New deinterlacer: yadif (Yet Another DeInterlacing Filter)
- Updated libavcodec with the latest code from the FFmpeg project
- Volume normalization:
- One-pass normalization added. This mode is used to reach the highest possible loudness with minimum of possible artifacts
- Improved normalization, the probability of clipping has been decreased
- Added support for S/PDIF sample rates other than 48kHz: Pass-through of 44.1kHz AC3/DTS streams plays back correctly now
- Dynamic range compression level for AC3 and E-AC3 sources can now be set between 0 and 100%
- AC3/DTS pass-through settings are now based on presets
- DVD playback support by libavcodec
- Tweaked compatibility list reporting: Executable names that are not yet in the default whitelist/blacklist are now reported only
- Unicode support for FFDShowRemoteAPI
- Language file size limit was increased, all language files are now encoded as UTF-16LE+BOM
- Various OSD updates:
- Buffer limit increased from 256 to 2048 characters
- HTML encoding support similar to SRT files
- Added SSA support for OSD and combobox to select the format (HTML/SSA)
- SRT files with tags support: SSA tags support in SRT files and HTML tags support in SSA files
- Improved compatibility with certain MPEG2 Transport / Program Stream demultiplexers (e.g. DVBSource, Elecard) for files that contain H.264 video
- Support H.264 digital television playback in DVBViewer
- Improved H.264 seeking
- Added an option to deinterlace only frames flagged as "interlaced"
- Enhanced interlacing options allow to choose the method (auto, weave, bob) as well as the field order (auto, top field, bottom field)
- Color space conversion: Added option "Force progressive" and "Force interlace"
- Flag telecined frames as progressive (libmpeg2)
- H.264: Correct field order, interlace/progressive flags are decoded
