Changelog for Beta 6
Bugfixes
- Important security fix: Buffer overflow vulnerability was fixed
- Fixes to ffdshow's remote API
- GDI resource leak fix
- Subtitle fixes:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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
Changelogs of previous versions