VideoReDo TVSuite -> Version History

This is the version history page for VideoReDo TVSuite, showing the last 20 software updates. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here.

Index:

• Version 3.2.0-629 (Nov 17, 2012)
• Version 3.2.0-609 (Nov 21, 2010)
• Version 3.1.5.564 (Jul 7, 2008)
• Version 3.1.3.549 (Dec 14, 2007)

• Release Date: Nov 17, 2012
• Enhance: GUI: Added option to Tool>Options>File types to automatically add an opened file type to the default file list.
• Enhance: Localization: Added Spanish translations.
• Enhance: MPEG2 streams: New Shift+T>O, #17, Remove duplicate SD NTSC closed captions, removes double captions on Comcast Tivo SD.
• Enhance: Open DVD: If opening DVD from a disc or ISO, default to volume name instead of generic "DVD_TITLE".
• Change: Audio Alerts: Tools>Options>Audio alerts renamed to Tools>Options>Completion Alerts
• Change: Audio MPEG1 Layer: Tightened up timing tolerances for 44.1KHz audio.
• Change: Chapter list: Added new chapter timecode format HH:MM:SS.hh.
• Change: Chapter marks: Chapters being saved to chapters.txt in format: hh:mm:ss.hh, can not be read back in.
• Change: COM: Calling SetFilterDimensions( -1, -1) will trigger automatic filtering with the most common dimension in the file.
• Change: DVD Authoring: Block 30 and 60 fps video from being added to a DVD.
• Change: DVD open title: If previous folder used for DVD open title no longer exists, default to that folder's parent.
• Change: GOP Reduction: Removed "spread GOP reduction evenly" from Shift+Tools>Options as this has been the default for years.
• Change: GUI: When running on Windows 7 with Aero, show percentage completion in the Windows taskbar icon.
• Change: Log file message: Change messages: "... signature check failed" to "... file signature not found."
• Change: LPCM output to MPEG-2 PS: If orignal audio is 44.1KHz or 32 KHz, and output is LPCM, force recode to 48KHz.
• Change: MPEG2 DVR-MS: Teletext captions would report error of caption too large for buffer.
• Change: MPEG2 output: If "diagnostics" enabled on the Tools>Options>Stream page, video buffer dumps will have file offsets.
• Change: MPEG2 output: If video PTS resets in the middle of a file a single missing audio frame could crash buffer overflow or crash.
• Change: MPEG2 recoding: If output file is SD 4:2:2, the VBV size should be 576 instead of the SD 4:2:0 default of 224.
• Change: MPEG2 stream: Auto-mux rate, when multi-audio enabled, is now set to max of calculated bit rate or video header bit rate.
• Change: MPEG2 stream: If doing smart cutting and profile has CBR enabled, leave the output stream as CBR.
• Change: Navigation bar: Make the area of the navigation bar which is below the thumb-track inactive to minimize accidental navigation.
• Change: Output processing: Release display frame buffers during save to reduce memory. ( Disable using shift+Tools>Options #73 to 0 ).
• Change: QSF filter: Filter dialog now reports number of times a particular dimension was found.
• Change: QSF save error: QSF save dialog display "error getting output options" if you try to select a new output file name.
• Change: Tools>Options>Alerts: New option to change the "focus stealing" behavior at end of save.
• Change: Topfield TS files: Special EchoStar file check interfered with feature to auto build a program map from raw data.
• Change: TS Muxer: If the source stream was a TS without PMTs, the output file would not have a PMT if "use existing PIDS" selected.
• Change: TS Muxing: If CableLabs muxing is enabled, allow the user to set a manual mux rate. If 0, use default of 3.75 Mbps.
• Change: TS Muxing: If CableLabs muxing is enabled, turn on QuadByte alignment.
• Change: TS Output options: If user specifies manual PIDS, they must start at 16 (x10) instead of 1.
• Fix: Automatic compression: Could produce silent audio output if normalization is set to 0.
• Fix: COM: Calling FileOpen in silent mode could display a file open error message rather than just returning an error.
• Fix: COM: When running in silent mode and doing a close during output will leave the output processing in the background.
• Fix: DVD audio: Verify that the audio streams listed in the IFO file actually exist in the selected VOBs.
• Fix: DVD authoring: Audio errors if source has multiple audio stream that require recoding and primary (playing) isn't stream 0.
• Fix: DVD muxer: Muxer could crash if user aborts while creating initial elementary stream (.tmp) files.
• Fix: DVD open: If "Auto QSF" selected but output was other than MPEG-2 PS, the automatic open after QSF would fail.
• Fix: DVD, open title: Would not always select the correct AC3 stream. Similar problem with select stream dialog.
• Fix: Encoding: Doing two pass encoding, audio or video on an mppeg2 Tivo, MP4, FLV, or ES would stall at the start of pass 2.
• Fix: French translation: Translation error causing "Tip of the day" to display incorrectly and/or hang.
• Fix: LPCM source to LPCM output to MPEG2-PS or DVD: If not recoding, application will experience buffer overflow.
• Fix: MPEG2 smart cutting: Updated smart cutter encoder to properly handle escaped 4:2:2 profile and levels.
• Fix: MPEG2 stream: If source was mpeg2 program stream, T>O>Stream "MB to scan at open" was not being calculated properly.
• Fix: MPEG2 stream: MPEG2 multi-audio would crash if no audio stream found, now gives error msg. Single stream audio works.
• Fix: Navigation: Pressing 'back frame' (left arrow) at start of file, would advance one frame.
• Fix: NTSC Closed captions: Fixed issue with caption display not clearing all of the previous captions.
• Fix: Open DVD: DVD folder name not being correctly remembered if opening directly from a DVD drive or virtual ISO drive.
• Fix: Open DVD: DVD folder name not being remembered if you did an auto QSF or QSF to batch.
• Fix: QSF Filter: Number of sample points was not being properly saved in the registry and would always default to 8.
• Fix: QSF: Enable filters adds duplicate entries to the drop-down list if Rescan button pressed.
• Fix: Titling: When adding a new title, the resolution and aspect ratio will default to the currently open video.
• Fix: Tivo TS: If TiVo-TS file has encrypted PMT packets, file might not open.
• Fix: TS Muxer: If video lost many frames, but audio or subtitles were OK, muxer could get packet overflow.
• Fix: Unpack error 2: On some systems license manager could cause unpack error when program is launched.

• Release Date: Nov 21, 2010
• [Critical] Re-enables transport stream output.
• Enhance: MPEG2 streams: Much improved support when video dimension changes. Does not yet handle frame rate changes.
• Enhance: Thumbnails: New option to display frame type (I, P or B) in each thumbnail.
• Enhance: Tools>Options>Navigation: Added IFrame seek setting. Jumps more than xx seconds will jump to nearest IFrame.
• Change: Ad-Detective: "Lowest" priority will set to level 1, Idle.
• Change: Ad-Detective: Added new priority setting "Lowest" to Common parameters tab to use "Background" (Vista) or "Lowest" (XP/2K).
• Change: Audio processing: Added code to ignore non-standard stream from Phillips DVDR7250H/05 HDD recorder.
• Change: Audio resync: Use the resync sensititivy in the Tools>Options>Advanced stream to set the muxer resync threshold.
• Change: COM: Can now control multiple instances of VideoReDo when running in silent mode.
• Change: DVD Authoring: Changed where avg and max bit rates were being set.
• Change: DVD Authoring: Displayed of estimated DVD size might not be correct. (Cosmetic only).
• Change: DVD Burner: Add option to launch DVD Burner as admin.
• Change: DVD Burning: DVD-R DL discs where not being detected properly by the DVD burner.
• Change: DVD Burning: If a drive communication error occurs during verification, reset the drive and verfiy again.
• Change: DVD burning: Updated StarBurn library to version 12 for improved W7 compatibility.
• Change: DVR-MS output: Saving to DVR-MS under Vista no longer requires UAC disabled or "run as admin" privleges.
• Change: DVR-MS: Output with tagging disabled will now show closed captions on an Xbox360 media extender.
• Change: DVR-MS: Saving .wtv files to DVR-MS files will now copy metadata from source to the output file.
• Change: Default file open and save locations: Re-wrote code to more accurately remember the file save locations.
• Change: Dutch translation: New Dutch (NLD) translation included with this build.
• Change: File open: Added shift+Tools>Options "32 Use 'simple' not 'logical' file sort at open " when opening multiple files.
• Change: File open: Unable to open a program stream file that happened to have 6 transport stream sync bytes near start of file.
• Change: GOP cuts: In scene mode fix GOP cutting so that cutting on last P-Frame of a GOP doesn't trigger an extra GOP in the output.
• Change: GUI: Added new shift+Tools>Options, #26 Enable right-click menu options, to permit disabling of right-click context menu.
• Change: GUI: Error message reporting changed to use new Vista-style task dialog.
• Change: I/O routines: Added additional logging of BitOutStream "File Access" errors to the log file.
• Change: Installation wizard: If running DX or DX-Multimon, will automatically reconfigure video driver to VMR7.
• Change: Installer: Installer will now always automatically register VideoReDo Batch COM objects. Uninstaller will remove.
• Change: Internal change: Header bit rate override now stored as bps rather than array index.
• Change: Joiner project:: Save joiner project now split into "Save" and "Save As..."
• Change: Joiner projects: New format for joiner projects to support multi=audio in TVS4. Projects from previous builds can not be read.
• Change: Joiner: Allow joining of 1920 x 1080 and 1920 x 1088 video as they are both encoded as 1920 x 1088.
• Change: Joiner: XML format for .VJnr files has changed from 583 to 584. Old joiner files will no longer work with this build.
• Change: Languages: Added Czech, and new updates for Finnish.
• Change: Log file: Append version number to log file name via Shift+Tools>Options: "9. Append VideoReDo version to log filename"
• Change: Log file: Show an encoded version of the user's name in the log rather than actual name.
• Change: MPEG2 QSF: If source is NTSC/ATSC, rebuild all temporal references if T>O>Stream make all I-frames GOP is set.
• Change: MPEG2 stream: If source is NTSC/ATSC & Tivo and duplicate temporal references are found, rebuild temporal refs.
• Change: MPEG2 stream: Improve detection of bad audio frames at start of file that look valid but aren't and created silent playback.
• Change: NTSC/ATSC captions: The display closed captions settings is now persistent, i.e. remembered between file opens.
• Change: New desktop icon: For Vista and Windows 7.
• Change: Open DVD File: Ability to drag a VIDEO_TS folder into VideoReDo to open a DVD title.
• Change: Output processing: Disable computer's sleep mode during output processing.
• Change: Output processing: Round off error in frame rate caluclation (23.795 vs 23.976) caused output logic to fail.
• Change: Output status dialog: Widen the dialog and fields to support longer strings required by some translations.
• Change: Plus to TVSuite upgrade: Changed prompt from an HTML screen to new task dialog.
• Change: Program Information: Add support for profiles and levels, 4:2:2@Main and 4:2:2@High.
• Change: Project File: Added two new read only tags to old style project files: and for compatibility.
• Change: Project files: Automatic search for video file in the same folder as the project file not working.
• Change: Project: save Enable File>Save Project menu option if a bookmark is added.
• Change: QSF dialog allowed input and output to have the same name resulting in source file being cleared.
• Change: QSF: Changed the output file name edit box to read-only so that the user must browse and select an output profile.
• Change: QuickStream Fix: Default QSF input folder now kept separately from video open input folder.
• Change: QuickStream Fix: Default QSF output folder now kept separately from last saved video folder.
• Change: QuickStream Fix: If source file is changed via the browse button, the output filename edit box will be cleared.
• Change: QuickStreamFix: If output filename is already filled in, and user selects output "..." button, do not reset output filename.
• Change: Stream processing: New shift+Tools>Options #22, Restore missing 'progressive flags', to repair improperly encoded 3:2 pulldown.
• Change: TS Muxer: Auto mux rate when not recoding. Set mux rate from source file estimated video bitrate instead of sampling.
• Change: TS Muxer: Automatically report video bit rate in log file when an underflow is encountered.
• Change: TS Muxer: Profile and level not being picked up properly when using newer 4:2:2 profile escape codes.
• Change: TS Muxer: Reduce the frequency for null packet insertion to reduce instance of PTS underflow.
• Change: TS Streams: Increased the number of sync bytes check to confirm file is TS type from 9 to 30.
• Change: TS Streams: Use est bit rate and source file mux rate to verify or automatically set the output mux rate.
• Change: TS output: AC3 audio for PAL video won't play in Windows Media Player. Add new TS output options to allow ATSC PMT format.
• Change: Thumbnails: Added additional scaling options of -36db and -48 db to the thumbnail graph.
• Change: Thumbnails: Default for audio graph scale will be DB rather than auto-scale. Affects new installs only.
• Change: Thumbnails: Frame type display can be repositioned using View>Thumbnail options.
• Change: Thumbnails: If displaying a "pseudo frame" don't show I/P/B indicator.
• Change: Thumbnails: New thumbnail option to limit the maximum number of displayed thumbnails to speed up editing if using large window.
• Change: Titing OCX: Titler OCX no longer a registered control, but is instead registered at runtime (internal fix).
• Change: Tivo files: Temporal reference numbers suddenly double in the middle of a GOP causing frame to be removed.
• Change: Tivo output: Don't allow TiVo output unless source file is also TiVo file
• Change: Tools>Options>Transport: "Abort on Underflows" is now defaulted to "unchecked".
• Change: Tools>Show Program Info, report transport stream mux rate of currently opened file. Accurate to about 3%.
• Change: Tools>Trim and Copy: Issue warning if trying to do a Trim on files that shouldn't be trimmed: MP4, DVR-MS, WTV.
• Change: Top of the day: Corrected "tip", Video card acceleration is on the Tools>Options>Playback page, not the general page.
• Change: Translations: Added to translation .apt files the resources for DVD muxing strings and Task dialog, OK, Cancel, etc.
• Change: Translations: All translation files, (DEU, FIN, FRA, ITA) including current .apt file are installed.
• Change: Transport files: Number of places in a TS to check the PMTs moved from Shift+Tools>Options to Tools>Options>Stream
• Change: Transport stream: Removed shift+Tools>Opt #11, #12 & #13,"Number of TS packets..." replaced by MBytes to scan on T>O>Streams.
• Change: Trim and copy: An extra "." could appear in the file name if the currently open video came from a project file.
• Change: Updated translations: French, Finnish, German.
• Change: VMR7/VMR9: Don't enable acceleration if acceleration not checked on T>O>Playback devices and driver is VMR. (Fix for Fusion 3).
• Change: VMR7/VMR9: Enable YUV acceleration for all new installs. Used to automatically turn on for HD, but changed in 592.
• Change: VMR7: If running via remote desktop with VMR7 driver, disable YUV Acceleration.
• Change: Video playback: VMR7 driver not working with remote desktop (RDP) or in virtual machine. Broken in 584.
• Change: WTV: WTV support has been removed from TVSuite V3. Further development of WTV will be in Version 4.

• Release Date: Jul 7, 2008
• NEW: Authoring: NTSC closed captions are preserved even if video is recorded for DVD authoring
• NEW: Authoring: Added new "automatic" pan and scan option which lets the user change the mode using the player's menus.
• NEW: DVD menus, added additional options for DVD title button highlights, underline, text color, left arrow.
• NEW: Added new COM method, AdjustAudioSync() to adjust the sync of the currently open video.
• NEW: DVRMS output, added option to remove stream tags to the Tools>Options>DVRMS page. This allows thumbnails to be displayed in Vista MCE.
• NEW: Added an option to only allow a single instance of VideoReDo.
• NEW: Ability to read proprietary Humax 8000 transport stream files.
• Enhance: Added capability to automatically QuickStreamFix DVD titles from the open DVD title screen.
• Enhance: Added ability to set language code on the Tools>Options>Startup page
• Enhance: Stream selection, preserve edits if switching to a different audio stream for the currently open video.
• Enhance: Thumbnails: replaced audio graph "log option" with "db scaling".
• Change: New easier to understand dialogs when trying to close a file or exit the program with unsaved edits.
• Change: Audio volume changes will show settings in db in addition as well as X factor.
• Change: Authoring, default compliant GOP size reduced from 18 to 15 for better closed captioning compatibility.
• Change: Authoring, new checkbox "Include closed caption" sets max GOP size to 15, Only enabled for NTSC video.
• Change: Authoring, if source stream is labeled "progressive" it will be changed to interlaced during DVD authoring.
• Change: Authoring, Crop and Resize, "Maintain aspect ratio" will respect the preset settings such as pillar box to standard.
• Change: Authoring, video cropping and resizing. Additional selections added to the preset list.
• Change: Burning, DVD erase time estimates are accurate by taking into account the current burner speed setting.
• Change: DVRMS Output, added undocumented metadata substitution keyword, {FILE} to copy output filename into metadata area.
• Change: GUI, added option to Shift+Tools>Options to allow for resizing of the fine-tune slider.
• Change: Tilter/Menu editor will automatically select first text box in title editor to show sizing handles.
• Change: If source file is from a Tivo, Trim and Copy will automatically copy the Tivo header to the output file.
• Change: Transport stream output, PCR interval added to the Tools>Options>Transport page.
• Change: Transport stream output, PCR interval now defaults to 90 msec for NTSC and 40 msec for PAL.
• Fix: Ad Detective, too many scene markers (>1000) could result in a crash due to threading conflict.
• Fix: Audio output, converting LPCM 48KHz audio to LPCM 44.1 audio caused a crash.
• Fix: Authoring, if the authoring process aborted due to bad data, burner would try to burn an empty DVD
• Fix: Authoring, if user selects a manual folder on Tools>Options>DVD but left folder blank, authoring would display error=3
• Fix: Authoring, Improved reliability and accuracy of estimated time remaining.
• Fix: Authoring, yellow triangle would display even though output was continuing.
• Fix: Authoring, estimated file output size incorrect after running Ad Detective.
• Fix: Selecting "Combine" when merging overlapping cuts results in wrong estimated sizing.
• Fix: Authoring, menu navigation problem with 16:9 menus used in a 4:3 display.
• Fix: Authoring, if AC3 bit rate changes in the middle of a file, add silent frames to preserve audio sync.
• Fix: When the DVD menu template was being saved with a new name, the name wasn't being properly stored in the file.
• Fix: Authoring, multiple titles with different audio encodings might cause some titles to lose audio if first title is MPEG audio.
• Fix: Authoring, when recoding large GOPs with PAL video could cause authoring to hang when recoding.
• Fix: Authoring could sometimes mistake MPEG audio stream for AC3.
• Fix: Clicking on DVD output folder browse button would hang the application if the default drive no longer existed.
• Fix: Additional information displayed in the log file if the VIDEO_TS folder is too large to be burned.
• Fix: Saving HD material to a DVRMS file would sometimes result in incorrect file duration
• Fix: NTSC closed captioning could become corrupt from some digital broadcasts
• Fix: DVRMS metadata fields, Title, subtitle and description could be filled with lots of spaces if metadata wasn't being changed.
• Fix: GOP reduction using fast encoder could cause bit rate to drop too low resulting in blocky picture.
• Fix: When reducing GOPs some GOPs would be incorrectly marked as "Closed".
• Fix: When reducing GOPs, extremely corrupt source video could cause memory overflow error in MPEG decoder.
• Fix: GOP reduction, remove error message if encoding bit rate exceeds sequence header bit rate.
• Fix: Titling and DVD menu screen show scroll bars even when not needed.
• Fix: Help file, some pages displayed incorrectly when default font size in Internet Explorer set to Large fonts.
• Fix: Main screen, joiner time in lower right of main screen would be blanked when a new file is opened.
• Fix: AC3 audio not being properly detected if the source file is an MPEG1 program stream (e.g. LiteOn DVD recorder)
• Fix: Fixed problem where preview mode could hang at a cut when program was running in scene mode.
• Fix: Quickstream Fix, auto expand buffer sizes to reduce chance of buffer overflows.
• Fix: Thumbnails, audio sync adjustment would not be reflected in the thumbnail display.
• Fix: Adding a title to 50 FPS or 60 FPS, 720p video could create a sync issue.
• Fix: Titling and DVD Template menus, Copy and paste would not work repeatedly.
• Fix: Title defaults were being saved in the VideoReDo Plus folder rather than the TVSuite application data folder.
• Fix: Topfield output, marked AC3 PID streams in the Topfield header with an 0x2000 so that they can be played.
• Fix: Transport stream files, Incorrect "Video not found" when opening an ATSC stream with video stream type of 0x80.
• Fix: Transport stream files, fix for transport streams where program map sections cross transport stream boundaries
• Fix: Transport stream output, added a default language descriptor for audio streams when building a new program map on the Tools>Options>Transport page.

• Release Date: Dec 14, 2007
• The following list describes the Enhancements, Changes and fixes in VideoReDo TVSuite relative to VideoReDo Plus 2-5-6-512
  • NEW: DVD Authoring with:
    • Multiple titles on a DVD.
    • Auto conversion of HD to SD.
    • Letter / pillar box remove.
    • Auto sizing to match disc size.
    • Use defined cropping and resizing.
    • Easily customizable menu templates. Custom templates can be saved for future use.
    • Ability to accept non-compliant video.
    • User defined and automatic chapter marks.
    • Optional auto erase of RW discs.
    • Optional auto verification of burned discs.
  • NEW: New modern and sleeker look to the GUI.
  • NEW: Ability to add titles to the beginning or between segments of a video. Titles can fade in and out.
  • NEW: Automatic recovery of edits should program or system crash.
  • NEW: Open a title directly from a folder on a DVD or a copied VIDEO_TS folder.
  • NEW: New faster MPEG2 encoder for better performance.
  • NEW: Ability to save and restore joiner lists.
  • NEW: Thumbnails can display different audio graph colors for 2.0 vs 5.1 channel audio.
  • Enhance: Can now enable zoom mode when previewing.
  • Enhance: Automatic prompting for MCE metadata on output.
  • Enhance: Ability to create MCE metadata even if source file is not DVR-MS.
  • Enhance: ATSC multiplexing option for transport stream output.
  • Enhance: NTSC time codes displayed with industry standard DFTC notation.
  • Enhance: Jump to frame number.
  • Enhance: Ability to change default AC3 output stream number.
  • Enhance: Can set preferred audio type so that AC3 is opened if present.
  • Enhance: Set sequence header bit rate to actual video bit rate.
  • Enhance: Automatically copy all setup parameters from VideoReDo Plus to VideoReDo TVSuite.
  • Enhance: Disable output video for fast editing over slow remote desktop (RDP) links.
  • Enhance: GOP Reduction: New option to allow for even sizing of reduced GOPs.
  • Enhance: Navigation has much improved accuracy when moving by seconds or minutes.
  • Change: Improve detection of AC3 vs MPEG audio when opening transport streams.
  • Change: Clip 1080i display to actually display 1080 pixels rather than 1088 pixels.
  • Change: Undo now restore previous cut marks, books and cursor position.
  • Change: Project files now saved in XML format. Old format can still be imported.
  • Change: Option to display 59.94 FPS time codes in DFTC notation.
  • Change: Animated system tray icon.
  • Change: Removed questions about DigiTV from the installation wizard.
  • Change: Ability to set the number of megabytes of a file to scan when opening.
  • Change: Improved checking for bad data when opening transport stream files.
  • Change: Increased number of files in a VLst from 1,024 to 32,767.
  • Change: Ability to change the maximum range of the volume adjustment.
  • Fix: COM, Calling FileOpen() with a bad or missing filename would display error instead of return error code.
  • Fix: GOP reduction, bad reduction in the video stream could cause an abort.
  • Fix: Ability to register file types under Vista.
  • Fix: New GUI controls prevent display of background of previously overlapped windows.
  • Fix: Changing 44.1 KHz MPEG audio to LPCM results dropped video frames and sync issues.
  • Fix: Thumbnails, improved accuracy of red/green cut status line when interval > single frame.
  • Fix: Navigation sometimes off by one frame with 720p material.
  • Fix: Preview mode, could sometimes get stuck when jumping to next cut / scene marker.
  • Fix: Chapter marks, Added a "Frame 0" option to create a chapter mark at frame 0.
  • Fix: Preview mode could show wrong frame type (I,P or B).