Changelog for Beta 6

• 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

• 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

Changelogs of previous versions