AviDemux -> Version History

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Index:

• Version 2.5.6 (Dec 31, 2011)
• Version 2.5.5 (Jun 4, 2011)
• Version 2.5.4 (Nov 2, 2010)
• Version 2.5.3 (May 17, 2010)
• Version 2.5.2 (Dec 22, 2009)
• Version 2.5.2 RC (Dec 13, 2009)
• Version 2.5.1 (Aug 17, 2009)
• Version 2.5.0 (Jun 24, 2009)
• Version 2.4.4 (Feb 8, 2009)
• Version 2.4.3 (Jul 24, 2008)
• Version 2.4.2 (Jul 7, 2008)
• Version 2.4.1 (Feb 16, 2008)
• Version 2.4 (Dec 23, 2007)
• Version 2.4 Preview 3.1 (Nov 12, 2007)
• Version 2.4 Preview 3 (Nov 11, 2007)
• Version 2.4 Preview 2 (Jun 30, 2007)
• Version 2.4 Preview 1 (Mar 17, 2007)
• Version 2.3.0+ (Dec 21, 2006)
• Version 2.3 Final (Nov 29, 2006)
• Version 2.3 Preview 2 (Oct 19, 2006)
• Version 2.3 Preview 1 (Sep 24, 2006)
• Version 2.2 Preview 2 (Jun 22, 2006)
• Version 2.2 Preview1 (May 12, 2006)
• Version 2.1.2 (Mar 7, 2006)
• Version 2.0.42 (Aug 12, 2005)

• Release Date: Dec 31, 2011
• Download(s):
  avidemux_2.5.6_win32.exe
  avidemux_2.5.6_win64.exe
• Restored AC3 and MP2 encoding (regression introduced 2.5.5)
• Added support for latest x264 core
• Updated the FFmpeg libraries (version 0.9)
• Drag-and-drop no longer blocks source application for Qt interface
• Resolved Windows XP 32-bit stability issues (regression introduced 2.5.5)
• Windows 7 taskbar now displays encoding progress
• Improved crash reporting on Windows especially Win64
• Compilation fixes for OS X Snow Leopard and Lion
• Various minor fixes and enhancements

• Release Date: Jun 4, 2011
• Download(s):
  avidemux_2.5_r7200_win64.exe
  avidemux_2.5_r7200_win32.exe
• Improved FLV reading capabilities
• Improved H264 parsing
• Support for x264 core 110
• (sloppy) support for gcc 4.6

• Release Date: Nov 2, 2010
• Download(s):
  avidemux_2.5.4_win32.exe
• Added support for VP8 video decoding
• Improved decoding of VC-1 video in the MPEG-TS container
• Fixed decoding of UYVY video
• Support for DIB video that requires flipping
• Support for additional DV fourCCs (DVSD, CDVC, cdvc)
• Added support for latest x264 core and updated Qt interface
• Updated the FFmpeg libraries
• Added support for compressed headers, MPEG-2 audio and VP8 video in MKV container
• New AvsFilter for Linux (written by Fahr)
• New OpenGL video renderer for the Qt interface (SDL has been deprecated)
• New Plugin Manager for the Qt interface
• Restored most of the internationalisation support that existed in 2.4
• Compatibility improvements to auto wizards
• Improvements to Unicode support for JavaScript files on MS Windows
• GCC 4.5 support
• Various minor fixes and enhancements

• Release Date: May 17, 2010
• Download(s):
  avidemux_2.5.3_win32.exe
• Added support for I420 video decoding
• H.263 video encoder now supports more profiles
• mpeg2enc video encoder no longer drops the last few frames and now works on Win32 with SIMD instructions enabled
• The majority of video encoders are now plugins
• Improved partial filter support
• Updated the FFmpeg libraries
• Updated libass
• Avsproxy now supports audio
• All auto wizards are now scripted and available in both interfaces
• Various minor fixes and enhancements

• Release Date: Dec 22, 2009
• Download(s):
  avidemux_2.5.2_win32.exe
• Re-enabled Vorbis decoder (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Improved channel mapping of multichannel DTS & Vorbis audio
• Fixed decoding of 5.1 channel Vorbis audio in MKV files
• Updated the FFmpeg libraries
• Added support for latest x264 core and updated Qt interface
• Added support for H264 video, VP6A video and AAC audio in FLV container
• Added support for SEDG and WMVA four CCs
• Various fixes related to Xvid settings
• Fixed Xvid stat files remaining locked after encoding (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Improved MKV demuxer
• New Colour Curve Editor plugin for Qt interface
• Fixed partial filter support (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Fixed FluxSmooth filter plugin (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Fixed saving of filter parameters for Rotate and Equaliser plugins (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Added extra bitrate settings for LAME audio encoder
• Enabled JACK audio device plugin (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Various GUI fixes for GTK+ and Qt interface
• Fixed command-line interface support for various video filters
• Changed "save-jpg" parameter of command-line interface to honour "begin" parameter
• Fixed saving of crash file when Avidemux unexpectedly quits (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Fixed GUI quirks when using Copy mode and AVI un/packing
• Further improvements to Unicode support for filenames on MS Windows
• Various minor fixes and enhancements

• Release Date: Dec 13, 2009
• Re-enabled Vorbis decoder (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Updated the FFmpeg libraries
• Added support for latest x264 core and updated Qt interface
• Added support for H264 video, VP6A video and AAC audio in FLV container
• Added support for SEDG and WMVA four CCs
• Various fixes related to Xvid settings
• Fixed Xvid stat files remaining locked after encoding (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Improved MKV demuxer
• New Colour Curve Editor plugin for Qt interface
• Fixed partial filter support (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Fixed FluxSmooth filter plugin (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Fixed channel support for DCA audio decoder
• Added extra bitrate settings for LAME audio encoder
• Enabled JACK audio device plugin (regression introduced 2.5.0)
• Various GUI fixes for GTK+ and Qt interface
• Fixed command-line interface support for various video filters
• Changed "save-jpg" parameter of command-line interface to honour "begin" parameter
• Fixed saving of crash file when Avidemux unexpectedly quits (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Fixed GUI quirks when using Copy mode and AVI un/packing
• Further improvements to Unicode support for filenames on MS Windows
• Various minor fixes and enhancements

• Release Date: Aug 17, 2009
• Download(s):
  avidemux_2.5.1_win32.exe
• Re-enabled several video and audio encoders (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Updated the FFmpeg libraries
• More video encoders are now plugins
• DV video encoder now supports more profiles
• Fixed loading and saving issues with LAME, x264 and Xvid options (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Removed support for libamrnb and replaced with opencore-amrnb
• Removed support for libdca and replaced with libavcodec's DCA decoder
• AMR-WB audio decoding support using opencore-amrwb
• Fraps video decoding support
• Lowpass-5 mode added to libavcodec deinterlacer filter plugin
• Fixed formatting of parameters for various filters on 64-bit platforms
• Updated libass
• Fixed sizing of the bitrate control on various video encoder configure windows (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• Improved filter dialog for GTK+ interface
• New navigation icons for GTK+ interface
• Fixed the behaviour of several GTK+ open/save dialogs (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• asharp filter's Block Adaptive mode can now be disabled using the Qt interface
• Re-enabled the colour chooser dialog using the Qt interface (regression introduced in 2.5.0)
• GCC 4.4 support
• Fixed issues with CMake build scripts when using multiple make jobs (regression introduced in 2.5.0)

• Release Date: Jun 24, 2009
• Download(s):
  avidemux_2.5.0_win32.exe
• Audio Codecs, Audio Devices and Video Filters are now plugins
• x264 and Xvid encoders are now also plugins with an updated Qt interface
• Auto wizards are now scripted and easier to extend
• Updated the FFmpeg libraries
• Various minor fixes and enhancements

• Release Date: Feb 8, 2009
• Download(s):
  avidemux_2.4.4_win32.exe
• Fixed crash when opening some MOV files (regression introduced in 2.4.3)
• Improved support for H.264 in MPEG-TS and M2TS containers.
• Improved support for H.264 in MP4 container (including constant frame rate fix)
• Fixed bug where muxers could drop the first few B-frames (most containers were affected)
• Fixed FAAC support so bitrate is correctly honoured
• The same settings are now used for the first and second pass of an x264 encode
• Improved JPEG file support
• Improved PNG decoding (now uses libavcodec rather than a custom wrapper around libpng)
• Improved BMP/DIB decoding (now uses libavcodec rather than using own decoder)
• Improved colourspace handling for raw video, bitmaps and DIBs
• Fixed Previous Black Frame functionality
• Qt interface has been significantly upgraded and now fully functional (compared with its GTK counterpart)
• Saving of video is now prevented if the A marker is greater than the B marker
• Improvements made to ECMAscript including a new GetFilePath() function for the DirectorySearch class and fixes to the exec() function
• Add support for AAC audio to the command line interface
• Qt interface is now the default interface for MS Windows
• x264 and Xvid stat files with Unicode characters are now handled on MS Windows
• The application log file is no longer buffered on MS Windows to ensure sequential logging
• Added support for ppc64 to the CMake build scripts
• Updated the following translations: Catalan, Czech, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish

• Release Date: Jul 24, 2008
• Improved support for MP4 files including support for 64-bit files
• Decoder for Y800
• libavcodec is now the default MPEG-2 decoder (instead of mpeg2dec)
• Fixed memory leak when indexing DVR-MS files
• Fixed calculation of width and height for High Profile H.264 video in TS files
• Fixed dropping of frames using x264 2-pass encoding (regression introduced in 2.4.2)
• Restored missing code pages to the Subtitler filter (regression introduced in 2.4.2)
• Fixed crashing on MS Windows when opening multiple instances of Avidemux (regression introduced in 2.4.2)

• Release Date: Jul 7, 2008
• Improved input and output of audio streams in MKV files
• Support for MJPEG-A in MOV/MP4 files
• Fixed saving header information of AVI files with PCM/LPCM audio
• Fixed opening FLV files that don't contain audio
• Fixed corruption when decoding MP4 files
• Fixed crashing when using MPEG-4 ASP (lavc) and two pass average bitrate mode
• Flush the x264 encoder upon completion so the last few frames aren't dropped
• Fixed incorrect colour conversion of 24/32 bit BMP and DIB files
• Re-enabled AMR-NB decoder (regression introduced in 2.4.0)
• Support for additional VP6 fourCCs
• Xvid custom matrices are now activated correctly
• Fixed caching issue with Qt4 interface which would corrupt translated strings
• Fixed zooming when using SDL (regression introduced in 2.4.1)
• Windows are now centred correctly on multi-monitor setups
• Use alternate button ordering for GTK+ interface when GNOME HIG isn't appropriate, e.g. MS Windows and KDE
• Various additions to the Qt4 interface including a new calculator tool, drag and drop support, improved joblist support and an about window
• SRT subtitle support for Arabic, Baltic, Greek, Hebrew and Turkish
• Fixed iPod profile where audio encoding options weren't always set correctly
• Fixed Film to PAL audio filter so frames are removed and added correctly
• Batch importing of image files is no longer restricted by the file handle limit set by the C runtime
• New video filter for outputting the frame number
• PulseAudio support (Linux only)
• GCC 4.3 support
• Updated the following translations: Czech, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish
• Fixed drag and drop support on MS Windows
• Improved Unicode support for filenames on MS Windows
• Prevent source files from being overwritten accidentally by the user on MS Windows
• MS Windows logging and settings are now stored under the Application Data folder instead of the User Profile folder
• Native file dialogs are now used for the Qt4 interface on Mac
• Various minor fixes and enhancements

• Release Date: Feb 16, 2008
• Support for x264's new Hadamard Exhaustive Search method of motion estimation
• Decoder for Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile (WVC1)
• Re-enabled H.263 decoder (it was missing from the 2.4.0 release)
• Fixed loss of audio when saving large OpenDML AVI files
• Fixed various colour conversion issues with RGB codecs including BMP, Huffyuv, JPEG and PNG
• Updates to the following translations: Catalan, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish
• Win32 logging is now stored in an Avidemux folder under the user's profile. This allows Avidemux to operate under a non-administrator account.
• Win32 CLI version nows outputs to console
• New Quartz version for Mac
• Better SDL support for Mac Quartz and Qt4 versions (SDL windows are now embedded and acceleration is enabled for Qt4)
• Various video decoding fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
• Fixed freezing when opening files on Mac

• Release Date: Dec 23, 2007

• Release Date: Nov 12, 2007
• There was two small problems on the win32 and macOsX package. AAC support was missing on the win32 ones, and some compatibility issue with MacOsX ones.

• Release Date: Nov 11, 2007

• Release Date: Jun 30, 2007

• Release Date: Mar 17, 2007

• Release Date: Dec 21, 2006
• The win32 versions have misteriously disappeared from berlios files storage.
  
  So instead of uploading the same file again, i've uploaded the latest svn (r2661)
  
  whith some additional bonuses for christmas : Latest x264 build (r614) with improved multithreading and some small fixes.

• Release Date: Nov 29, 2006
• Fixed make install for po directory
• Fixed Ffv1rec
• Fix for multiple gthread_init call (aakef)
• Better audio dithering (Mihail+Josh Green)
• Support for DV in .mov/.mp4
• Resample crash fix when upsampling
• PCM in .mov/.mp4 sample size fix
• Fix for MP4/MOV files containing .url field
• Added smartcopy from cli or from javascript
• Fix encoding x264 with use bframe as reference + output to mp4

• Release Date: Oct 19, 2006
• Fixed display of GMC/Packed Bitstream/...
• Fade filter fix
• Fixed 2 pass encoding with multithreading enabled w lavcodec
• Save vop packed status in project/jobs
• Translation fix for windows
• Updated french/russian translation
• Crash fix when loading multitrack ogm files
• Improved bmp/jpg/png import
• Normalize fix
• MacOsX fix (Kuisathaverat)
• External audio import
• Nuv index creation fixes
• Mpeg PS output crash fix (for very short file)
• x264 compatible with r592
• More reactive UI (centove)
• Mixer improvement (Mihail)

• Release Date: Sep 24, 2006
• Audio chain redone completetly (Mihail & I)
• Port of libass from mplayer (Moonz)
• Most saving to are multithreaded
• Support for aften AC3 encoder

• Release Date: Jun 22, 2006
• Twolame CRC fixed
• Better mp4/mov input
• Better mp4/mov output
• File lock left open (win32)
• Freeze when writing Mpeg PS (mostly fixed)
• libDCA support (DTS decoding)
• More informations saved in project / job queue
• Animated icon in systray (nice icon by JM)
• Custom scripts support
• Support for XVid custom matrices
• Dual pass using average bitrate for Xvid/X264/SVCD/DCD

• Release Date: May 12, 2006
• Output to mp4 file format
• Better x264 support
• Support for libdca (dts decoding)
• Better multi channel support
• Downmixing to prologic/prologic 2
• Partial support for multithreading (nice speed boost on multicore)
• Switched from toolame to twolame, now working on amd64
• Avsproxy support (able to read avisynth file, on both windows and linux, even 64bits linux through wine)
• Vbr audio for vorbis encoding
• New filter to easily create DVD animated menu
• Coloryuv filter ported from avisynth
• More robust mp3 handling
• More robust Packed bitstream depacking + faster

• Release Date: Mar 7, 2006
• SVCD/DVD at 23.976 were built with bad pulldown flags
• workaround to depack badly packed xvid bitstream
• unplayable avi by windows media player / totem
• bad computation of audio length for mpeg2 cut
• mplayer delogo ui
• some sub enhancement
• crashfix for some 3gp/mp4/mov files
• multiple audio track support for 3gp/mp4/mov
• properly initialize faad when sbr is usedin 3gp/mp4/mov
• better handling of bframe in 3gp/mp4/mov
• fixed ffv1rec
• updated lavcodec

• Release Date: Aug 12, 2005
• Stable: 2.0.42
• Unstable: 2.1.0 step 1