MKVToolNix v7.0.0 released

Hey,

I've released mkvtoolnix v7.0.0. It's a release that includes a couple
of minor enhancements to mmg and mkvmerge and the usual bug fixes
(nothing major – though some more cases of overly long file detection
times have been fixed).

The most prominent change is that mkvmkerge will now write certain
track-specific statistics (such as bit rate) as tags. See the
ChangeLog for more details. Accompanying this change is that
mkvmerge's verbose identification mode will now include the track's
tags as well in order to make retrieving that information easier for
other programs.

For packagers: this build requires Boost's Date/Time library.

Here are the usual links...

...to the home page:
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

...to the source code:
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/sources/mkvtoolnix-7.0.0.tar.bz2

...to the Windows installer and 7zip archive:
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/mkvtoolnix-unicode-7.0.0-setup.exe
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/win32/mkvtoolnix-unicode-7.0.0.7z

All of the Linux binaries that I provide have already been built and are 
available.

Here's the full ChangeLog since release 6.9.1:

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2014-06-09  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

         * Released v7.0.0.

2014-05-26  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

         * mkvmerge: enhancement: In addition to the track statistics 
tags
         »BPS«, »DURATION«, »NUMBER_OF_BYTES« and »NUMBER_OF_FRAMES«
         mkvmerge will write two more tags identifying which application
         wrote the statistics (»_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP«) and when the 
file
         in question was written: »_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC«.
         »_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP« will always contain the same string
         contained in the segment info header element »WritingApp«.
         »_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC« will contain the same timestamp 
as
         in the segment info header element »Date«, though
         »_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC« is actually a string 
representation
         instead of an integer value.

         Additionally a tag named »_STATISTICS_TAGS« is written 
containing
         the names of the tags that mkvmerge has set automatically. It
         equals the following currently: »BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_BYTES
         NUMBER_OF_FRAMES«.

         * build system: Boost's "date/time" library is now required.

2014-05-25  John Peebles  <[email protected]>

         * mkvmerge: bug fix: If a single subtitle track contains two or
         more entries at the same timecode then the cue duration and cue
         relative position elements written were wrong.

2014-05-24  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

         * mkvinfo: bug fix: fixed wrong progress percentage shown during
         saving the information to text files. Fixes #1016.

         * mkvmerge: new feature: Added a global option for disabling
         writing the tags with statistics for each track:
         --disable-track-specific-tags.

2014-05-20  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

         * mkvmerge: new feature: When identifying a Matroska file in
         verbose identification mode track-specific tags will be output 
as
         well. The format is »tag_<tag name in lower case>:<tag value>»,
         e.g. for a tag named »BPS« with the value »224000« the output
         would be »tag_bps:224000«. Enhancement for #1021.

         * mkvmerge: new feature: mkvmerge will write track-specific tags
         with statistics (»BPS« for the average number of bits per 
second,
         »DURATION« for the duration, »NUMBER_OF_BYTES« and
         »NUMBER_OF_FRAMES« for the track's size in bytes and its number 
of
         frames/packets). Implements #1021.

2014-05-18  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

         * mkvmerge: bug fix: Changed the file type detection order
         again. The text subtitle formats are now probed after those 
binary
         formats that can be detected quickly and unambiguously. This
         avoids some mis-detection if e.g. Matroska files as ASS text
         subtitles if they do contain such a track.

         * mmg: enhancement: The chapter editor will only use fast-mode
         parsing when loading chapters from Matroska files.

2014-05-14  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

         * all: bug fix: fixed invalid memory access in the cleanup
         procedures which only occurred if the output was redirected with
         the »--redirect-output« command line parameter.

2014-05-04  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

         * mkvmerge: enhancement: The last chapter entry read from MPLS
         files is removed if it is at most five seconds long. Patch by
         Andrew Dvorak (see AUTHORS).

         * mkvmerge: enhancement: added the attachment UID to the verbose
         identification output of Matroska files.

2014-04-21  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

         * mmg: bug fix: Selecting a subtitle track correctly sets the
         »character set« drop-down box if no character set was set for 
this
         track. Fixes #1008.

         * mmg: enhancement: the subtitle character set cannot be set
         anymore for subtitle tracks read from Matroska files as mkvmerge
         ignores that setting for said container anyway (text subs are
         always encoded in UTF-8 in Matroska).

2014-04-20  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

         * mmg: enhancement: mmg will look for the »mkvmerge« executable 
in
         the same directory as the »mmg« executable is located it if the
         location hasn't been set by the user on all operating systems
         (before: only on Windows). Improves detection if »mkvmerge« is 
not
         in the $PATH.
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Have fun.

Kind regards,
mosu
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