MKVToolNix v8.4.0 released

Moritz Bunkus <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:38:10 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.user
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Hey,

I've released MKVToolNix v8.4.0. It contains numerous bug fixes in the
GUI and even more new features and enhancements. For this release
considerable work has gone into mkvmerge again as well fixing a couple
of bugs and implementing some more small enhancements.

The most noticeable change is that the old GUI (mmg) has finally been
removed.

Changes for package maintainers: the most important change is that the
old GUI (mmg) has been removed. Therefore wxWidgets isn't used
anymore. If Qt 5.2.0 or newer is present then mkvinfo's Qt GUI will be
built autoamtically, as will be the MKVToolnix GUI.

Here are the usual links:

…to the source code: http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/source.html
…to the binaries: http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/downloads.html

All binaries that I provide have been uploaded already.

Here's the full ChangeLog since the previous release:

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2015-09-19  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * Released v8.4.0.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: chapter editor bug fix: whenever the additional
        modification of »expanding start/end timecodes to include the
        minimum/maximum timecodes of their children« was run on an edition
        entry then ChapterTimeStart and sometimes ChapterTimeEnd nodes
        were inserted as direct children of the EditionEntry node when
        saving. This resulted in invalid chapters.

2015-09-18  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: new merge tool feature: when dragging & dropping
        files onto merge settings already containing a file the user can
        set more options to be always done instead of asking (before: only
        adding files to the current merge settings could be thus marked;
        now: adding to current, adding to new settings and adding each
        file to new settings can be set to perform without
        asking). Implements #1388.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: merge tool enhancement: when dragging & dropping
        files onto merge settings already containing a file the dialog
        asking the user what to do has received a new option for creating
        one new merge tab for each of the dropped files. Implements #1380.

2015-09-17  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: the pixel dimensions reported for VC-1 in
        MPEG transport streams in verbose identification mode was 0x0.

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: the number of channels and the sample rate
        reported for DTS in MPEG transport streams and MPEG program
        streams in verbose identification mode was 0.

        * mkvmerge: container and track properties in verbose
        identification mode are now output sorted.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: new merge tool feature: the »tracks« tree view
        contains a new column titled »properties« which contains basic
        track properties: the pixel dimensions for a video track and
        sampling frequency, number of channels and bits per sample for an
        audio track. Implements #1295.

2015-09-14  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: enhancement: the verbose identification result for all
        audio tracks has been extended to include the number of channels,
        the sample rate and the bits per sample where applicable. Part of
        the implementation of #1295.

2015-09-13  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * all: bug fix: parsing of strings containing negative values or
        timecodes was broken on 32bit architectures. Fixes #1425.

2015-09-06  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: the verbose identification result for the MPEG program
        stream, MPEG transport stream and WAV readers has been changed for
        audio tracks in order to match the Matroska reader's result. The
        old keys »channels«, »sample_rate« and »bits_per_sample« have been
        replaced by »audio_channels«, »audio_sampling_frequency« and
        »audio_bits_per_sample«.

        * mkvmerge: enhancement: the pixel width/height will be reported
        in verbose identification mode for all video tracks.

2015-09-05  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: new merge tool feature: added a column in the
        track list showing the effective state of the »default track«
        flag. It shows the state of the flag as it will be in the output
        file. Implements #1353.

2015-09-02  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: enhancement: when mkvmerge encounters garbage data in
        the middle of AC3 or MP3 tracks it will now output the timecode
        where the garbage occurred in order to make checking for
        audio/video sync issues easier. Implements #1420.

2015-09-01  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: chapter editor enhancement: added a column in
        the tree with the edition's/chapter's flags.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: new feature: the state of all columns in all
        list/tree views can be reset (both the shown/hidden state as well
        as their order) from the column's context menu. See #1268.

2015-08-30  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: new feature: the column headers of all list/tree
        views can be re-ordered via drag & drop and the GUI will remember
        their position upon restart. Additionally the columns can be
        hidden/shown via a context menu by right-clicking on the column
        headers. Implements #1268.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: new chapter editor feature: added an option
        for skipping chapters marked as "hidden" in the re-numbering
        dialog. Implements #1414.

2015-08-29  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * all: new feature: added a new translation to Serbian (Cyrillic)
        by Jay Alexander Fleming (see AUTHORS).

        * MKVToolNix GUI: enhancement: the header editor will convert ISO
        639-2 terminology codes used in language elements to their
        corresponding bibliographic variants. Implements #1418.

2015-08-28  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: merge tool bug fix: if the output file name
        policy »last output directory« was used then manual changes to the
        output file name weren't recognized as changes to the last output
        directory. Fixes #1411.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: merge tool bug fix: the »default subtitle
        charset« is not applied to text subtitles from Matroska files as
        those are always encoded in UTF-8. Fixes #1416.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: enhancement: the titles and button texts of
        dialogs asking questions have been improved to be easier
        understandable. For example, instead of using »yes/no« as the
        answers to the question »Do you want to close the unmodified
        file?« the choices are now »Close file/Cancel«. Implements #1417.

2015-08-27  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: chapter editor bug fix: the »shift timecodes«
        action in the mass modification dialog wasn't working at all, and
        selecting multiple actions in the dialog would result in wrong
        actions being executed.

2015-08-23  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: chapter editor enhancement: when loading simple/
        OGM style chapter files that contain non-ASCII characters and
        which do not start with a byte order mark (BOM) the GUI will let
        the user chose the character set to use. A preview is shown for
        the selected character set and updated when the user changes the
        character set.

2015-08-20  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: merge tool enhancement: added »remove all« and
        »select all« entries to the attachments context menu. Implements
        #1386.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: job output enhancement: the output, warnings and
        error text views are now separated by two splitters enabling the
        user to change their respective sizes. These changes are
        remembered over restarts. Implements #1394.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: chapter editor enhancement: pressing
        shift+return will cause the next appropriate chapter control to be
        selected depending on where the focus currently is: from a chapter
        input (start/end time, flags, UIDs) to the next chapter entry's
        start time, from a chapter name to the next chapter name and from
        the last chapter name to the next chapter entry's first chapter
        name. Implements #1398 and complements #1358.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: chapter editor enhancement: pressing return on
        the very last chapter entry will wrap and focus the first one in
        the tree again. Enhances #1358.

2015-08-19  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: bug fix: fixed the total job queue progress with
        respect to removing completed jobs (either automatically or
        manually). Fixes #1405.

2015-08-18  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: bug fix: mkvmerge is now run in with the same
        interface language set for the GUI.

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: The formula used for calculating the audio
        delay for garbage data at the start of tracks in AVI files has
        been fixed again. It now uses the values dwStart, dwScale and
        dwSampleSize from the AVI stream header structure instead of
        values derived from the audio packet headers. Fixes #1382 and
        still works correctly for #1137.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: enhancement: scrolling over input elements like
        combo boxes, check boxes and radio buttons located within a scroll
        area will now scroll the scroll area instead of the element the
        cursor is over (e.g. a combo box). Implements #1400.

2015-08-17  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * all: the environment variable <TOOLNAME>_OPTIONS is now
        parsed for options for TOOL (e.g. MKVMERGE_OPTIONS for
        mkvmerge). MKVTOOLNIX_OPTIONS is still used for all
        programs. Fixes #1403.

2015-08-16  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: bug fix: fixed the escaping of the command line
        for cmd.exe regarding the command name itself (the very first
        argument). Fixes #1401.

2015-08-15  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * build system: removal: the switch »--without-mkvtoolnix-gui« has
        been removed. There are only two GUIs left in the package: the
        Qt-enabled mkvinfo and MKVToolNix GUI. Both are enabled by default
        and can be disabled with the option »--disable-qt«. In that case
        only the text-mode version of mkvinfo is built, and the MKVToolNix
        GUI is not built at all.

        * Removal: all support for wxWidgets has been removed. This means
        that the mkvmerge GUI (mmg) has been removed and that mkvinfo now
        only supports a text-mode and a Qt-based interface.

        * build system: bug fix: fixed Qt platform plugin detection on
        MacOS.
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Have fun.

mosu

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