VideoReDo TVSuite -> Version History

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Index:

• 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 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).