MKVToolNix v8.8.0 released

Moritz Bunkus <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Jan 2016 11:33:23 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hey,

a new year, a new release – v8.8.0. Only ten days since 8.7.0, but a
lot of users are hitting a regression in 8.7.0 that makes mkvmerge
crash. The user-visible result is that the GUI (wrongfully) claims
that the mkvmerge executable couldn't be found. The underlying cause
is a bug in the TrueHD detection code wrongfully thinking a file is
indeed a TrueHD file while it actually isn't – e.g. it's happened with
MPEG 2 video files, DTS files, h.264/AVC files etc.

Still, several enhancements and new features have been implemented in
these ten days as well. Therefore this release is 8.8.0 and not 8.7.1.

Nothing has changed for package maintainers compared to v8.7.0.

Here are the usual links:

…to the source code: http://mkvtoolnix.download/source.html
…to the binaries: http://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html

The Windows and Mac OS binaries are available. Most of the Linux
binaries are still being built and will be available in a couple of
hours.

Here's the full ChangeLog since v8.7.0:

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2016-01-10  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * Released v8.8.0.

2016-01-09  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: "run program after XYZ" enhancement: added a
        button for executing the program right now as a test run. See
        #1570.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: "run program after XYZ" enhancement: an error
        message is shown if the program couldn't be executed. See #1570.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: "run program after XYZ" enhancement: any leading
        spaces in the executable path are removed in order to make copying &
        pasting less error-prone.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: "run program after XYZ" bug fix: the paths used
        in the variables and the executable are converted to the platforms
        native path separators. This fixes compatibility with Windows
        applications that don't support the use of forward slashes in path
        names like e.g. VLC. See #1570.

2016-01-08  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvpropedit: enhancement: mkvpropedit will accept terminology
        variants of ISO 639-2 language codes and convert them to the
        bibliographic variants automatically. Implements #1565.

2016-01-06  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: enhancement: the GUI's default font's size is
        now scaled with the screen's DPI and is at least 9 points high (up
        from 8). Additionally on Windows "Segoe UI", which is Windows'
        default user interface font, is used instead of the default
        provided by Qt, "MS Shell Dlg 2".

        * MKVToolNix GUI: enhancement: the user can select the font family
        and size for the GUI in the preferences.

2016-01-04  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: fixed TrueHD detection both as raw streams as
        well as inside other contains if the stream does not start with a
        TrueHD sync frame.

2016-01-03  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: new merge tool feature: added a layout for the
        track properties where they're on the right of the files/tracks
        lists in two fixed columns. Implements #1526.

2016-01-02  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: fixed a mis-detection of an MPEG-2 video
        elementary stream as a TrueHD file which then caused a
        segmentation fault. Fixes #1559.

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: Matroska attachments with the same name, size
        and MIME type were not output during file identification.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: merge tool enhancement: added a column to the
        "attachments" tab containing the file size.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: enhancement: pressing the insert key when the
        focus is on the merge tool's source files or attachments list, on
        the chapter editor's chapter list or on the header editor's list
        will invoke the corresponding action for adding elements to that
        list.

2016-01-01  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: merge tool bug fix: when using one of the
        "select all tracks (of type…)" actions the "properties" column
        didn't show the selection.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: new feature: implemented adding, changing and
        removing attachments in existing Matroska files as part of the
        header editor. Implements #1533.
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Have fun :)

Kind regards,
mosu

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