MKVToolNix v9.0.1 released

Moritz Bunkus via Matroska-users <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:30:02 +0200
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Hey,

due to two nasty bugs in v9.0.0 I've decided to release a hotfix with
v9.0.1 today. The first bug is a regression from v8.9.0 in the code
handling character sets for text subtitle files. The other bug is in
the new code for generating chapters automatically.

As the prior release v9.0.0 is only two days old I'm including
v9.0.0's full release announcement here:

Here's another release of MKVToolNix. There were tons of bug fixes all
over the place. The most important one is probably in the HEVC handler
which won't drop certain SEI NALUs anymore. This was a regression
introduced in v8.7.0.

A change a lot of users of Windows and Mac OS will hopefully welcome
is that mkvinfo launches with its GUI by default now unless the option
"--no-gui" is given. Users of these two OSes often start mkvinfo by
clicking on the executable instead of using start menu entries making
adding the parameter "--gui" somewhat difficult. The behavior for
other OSes has not been changed.

One of the new features is mkvmerge's capability to generate chapters
automatically whenever a new file is appended. Additionally it can
also generate chapters in fixed intervals. This can be turned on in
the GUI, of course.

There's one change for package maintainers: a Korean translation of
the programs and the man pages has been added.

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 v8.9.0:

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2016-03-28  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * Released v9.0.1 "Obstacles".

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: regression in v9.0.0: the text subtitle
        packetizer was wrongfully assuming an encoding of UTF-8 if none
        was given instead of assuming the system's encoding. Fixes #1639.

2016-03-27  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: if too many chapters had been generated with
        --generate-chapters then mkvmerge created a bogus entry in the
        meta seek element and did not actually write the chapters to the
        file.

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: the DTS packetizer was setting the number of
        channels wrong sometimes when reducing to the DTS core. It was
        using the number of channels including the extensions instead of
        the channels of the core only.

2016-03-26  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * Released v9.0.0 "Power to progress".

2016-03-25  Mike <[email protected]>

        * build system: implemented support for explicit pre-compiled
        headers for Linux and Mac OS.

2016-03-25  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * Installer: fixed support for silent installation and
        uninstallation.

2016-03-24  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: fixed two more issues in the conversion of
        teletext subtitles to SRT subtitles:

        1. Packets belonging to pages that don't contain subtitles were
        used as valid end points for subtitles causing entries to become
        very short (e.g. 40ms).

        2. Sometimes the timestamps of wrong packets were used as entry's
        start and end points causing start timestamps and durations that
        were slightly off.

        Second part of the fix for #1623.

2016-03-22  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: MP4/QuickTime reader: audio tracks with the FourCC
        'lpcm' are muxed as A_PCM/INT/LIT instead of A_QUICKTIME.

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: MP4/QuickTime reader: audio tracks can contain
        two instances of certain header fields (channel count,
        bits/sample & channel, sample rate) in the STSD atom: one instance
        in the version 0 header and one in the version 2 header parts. So
        far mkvmerge has used those from the version 0 header only and
        ignored the ones from the version 2 header.

        This has been changed to match the behavior of other players and
        MP4 readers like ffmpeg. If the STSD atom contains a version 2
        structure then the fields from it will be used. Otherwise the
        fields from the version 0 part will be used.

        Fixes #1633.

2016-03-21  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * all: new feature: added a new translation of both the programs
        and the man pages to Korean by Potato (see AUTHORS).

        * MKVToolNix GUI: chapter editor enhancement: added a button next
        to the 'segment UID' controls that enable the user to select a
        Matroska file. The GUI reads that file's segment UID and enters
        its value into the input field.


2016-03-20  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * build system: added an option to configure
        »--without-qt-pkg-config«. Normally configure uses pkg-config for
        detecting Qt and setting QT_CFLAGS and QT_LIBS. With this option
        configure won't use pkg-config and rely on the user having set
        both variables before running configure. This enables using Qt on
        systems where no pkg-config files are generated (e.g. Qt 5.6.0 on
        MacOS with frameworks enabled).

2016-03-18  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvinfo: change: on Windows and Mac OS mkvinfo will now launch
        the GUI by default unless the option »--no-gui« (or »-G«) has been
        given. This is due to the fact that on both OS users often use
        portable versions respectively disk images and launch the
        executable directly and not via start menu entries. In those
        situations adding command line options for launching the GUI is
        unnecessarily difficult.

2016-03-16  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: fixed two issues in the conversion of
        teletext subtitles to SRT subtitles:

        1. Consecutive teletext packets with the same content are now
        merged into a single entry instead of resulting in multiple
        entries.

        2. The calculation of a packet's duration was wrong in certain
        situations.

        Part of the fix for #1623.

2016-03-14  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: merge tool (playlist selection dialog)
        enhancement: the playlist items are sorted by their position
        within the playlist by default.

        * MKVToolNix GUI: merge tool (playlist selection dialog)
        enhancement: double-clicking on a playlist will select and add
        that playlist.

2016-03-12  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: enhancement: added the number of bits per sample to
        the verbose/JSON identification output for FLAC files.

2016-03-11  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvextract: bug fix: fixed the duplication of VPS, SPS, PPS and
        SEI NALUs when extracting h.265/HEVC tracks. See #1076 and #1621.

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: reverted the patch by Vladimír Pilný that
        made the h.265/HEVC not store SEI NALUs with the frames during
        muxing. It was supposed to prevent having the SEI NALUs present
        twice when extracting HEVC due to some SEI information also being
        stored in the codec private data, but it dropped a lot of other
        SEI NALUs irrevocably. Fixes #1621.

2016-03-09  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvmerge: bug fix: the --sub-charset option is now ignored for
        text subtitle files that start with a byte-order mark (BOM)
        bringing the behavior in line with the documentation. Fixes #1620.

2016-03-07  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvextract: new feature: implemented the extraction of Big
        Endian PCM (codec ID A_PCM/INT/BIG) to WAV files. The content will
        be byte-swapped into Little Endian PCM in the process.

        * mkvmerge: enhancement: Big Endian PCM tracks will now be
        byte-swapped into Little Endian PCM, and the codec ID
        A_PCM/INT/LIT will be used. This was done due to a lot of players
        not supporting Big Endian PCM inside Matroska.

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

        * mkvmerge, MKVToolNix GUI: new feature: added switches
        (»--generate-chapters« and »--generate-chapter-name-template«) and
        their corresponding UI items for generating chapters while
        muxing. Two modes are currently supported: »when-appending« which
        creates one chapter at the beginning and an additional one each
        time a file is appended and »interval:…« which generates chapters
        in fixed intervals.

        Implements mkvmerge's and the GUI's part of #1586.

2016-02-28  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: job queue enhancement: completed jobs will now
        be removed from the queue automatically on exit if the job has
        been added more than 14 days ago in order not to let the queue
        grow arbitrarily large. This feature can be turned off and the
        number of days can be adjusted in the preferences.

2016-02-27  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvpropedit, MKVToolNix GUI's header editor: bug fix: fixed the
        handling of files where the last level 1 element has an unknown
        size. The programs will now either fix this element to have a
        known size or abort the process with an appropriate error message
        but without modifying the file. Fixes #1601.

2016-02-25  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * mkvextract: enhancement: when extracting chapters in the simple
        format the user can use the new option »--simple-language …« for
        selecting the chapter names that are output. Normally the first
        chapter name found in each atom is used. With this option
        mkvextract looks for a chapter name whose language matches the
        specified one.

        Implements the feature enhancement part of #1610.

        * mkvextract: several issues regarding the extraction of chapters
        in the simple format have been fixed: if multiple names with
        different languages were present then an entry had been written
        for each name; the total number of entries written was wrong; the
        wrong entries were written.

        The new code only writes the first name found from the top-most
        chapter atoms of all editions. Chapters flagged as hidden or as
        not enabled are not extracted at all.

        Fixes the bug part of #1610.

2016-02-24  Moritz Bunkus  <[email protected]>

        * MKVToolNix GUI: new chapter editor feature: added an option to
        multiply all chapter timecodes by a factor to the "additional
        modifications" dialog. Implements #1609.
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Have fun :)

Kind regards,
mosu

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