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Title: Dr. DivX
Author/Publisher: DivX.com
Ease of use: Not Rated
Latest Version: 2.0 Beta 6 (details)
OS Support: Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista
License: Open Source
Date Added: Dec 12, 2005
Last Updated: Jan 27, 2006
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Revision History:

Version 2.0.1 Beta 7
  • Release Date: Feb 3, 2008
  • Fixed AviSynth bug
  • Fixed cropping and resizing related GUI bugs
  • Introduced anamorphic encoding
  • Updated russian translation
Version 2.0.1 Beta 6
  • Release Date: Jan 19, 2008
  • Bug squashing is the theme for this one. Profile, Preview and Watch Folder bugs are fixed now.
Version 2.0.1 Beta 5
  • Release Date: Dec 16, 2007
  • Updated for DivX 6.8 codec
Version 2.0.1 Beta 4
  • Release Date: Jun 12, 2007
  • Updated for DivX 6.6 codec
Version 2.0.1 Beta 3
  • Release Date: Feb 11, 2007
  • What's new:
    • Replace Qt with wxWidgets
    • Support new features in DivX 6.5 codec (except output PAR)
    • Support MS Windows Vista
    • Turkish translation
  • What's fixed
    • Support for 1080hd mode
    • Misc. ASF/DVR-MS fixes
    • Reading Haali's matroska files
    • Support for Fraps v2, v4
    • Updates from ffmpeg trunk
Version 2.0.1 Beta 2
  • Release Date: Oct 5, 2006
  • As promised, the Dr. is back real quick with a build which supports the new DivX 6.4 codec. We managed to squeeze in a few audio bug fixes too.
Version 2.0.1 Beta 1
  • Release Date: Sep 28, 2006
  • In addition to sundry bug fixes, we've added support for AVISynth script files and MP3 Surround audio encoding. Make sure you've set your AC3/AAC/DTS dshow filter to output 5.1 channel audio if you want to take advantage of the latter feature.
Version 2.0.0
  • Release Date: Aug 4, 2006
  • What's new:
    • Add a plugin to delete source file after encoding
    • Add a plugin to shutdown the system after encoding
    • Add a plugin to publish encoded file to Stage6
    • Inject version info into .dll and .exe
  • What's fixed:
    • Fix a crash when the DivX uninstall key is not present.
    • Make sure the analysis in the batch also see the global modulo parameters.
    • More meaningful error messages when an input file cannot be used.
    • Make the Add button on by default so that it's faster to add a plugin.
    • Allow selecting more than one job at a time to reorder and remove jobs.
    • Handle multiple file drag and drop for .vob files. For all others, choose only first file.
    • Delete only files that the Dr. created during install.
    • Handle localised output directory names.
    • Check for compatible DivX codec after install and during program startup.
    • Get the video preview as soon as the fast analysis is done.
    • Fix version update checks on international locale systems.
Version 2.0 RC3
  • Release Date: Jul 23, 2006
  • What's new:
    • Display the DivX encoder version in the About tab of the Preferences
    • Store the DrDivX version & build information in the created files
    • Allow changing the resizing/crop filter in advanced features
    • Add support for encoding presets which are necessary for configuration when codec is in free state
  • What's fixed:
    • Use the right crop settings after going in Advanced settings
    • Keep monitoring the right crop/resolution settings when switching profiles (preview update is correct)
    • Fix a crash when removing a job that was (too) long to stop from Batch
    • Fix a crash when an unsupported codec is found during encoding
    • Fix a crash when boost is set but the audio output is AC3
    • Resize some elements of the UI to better fit large languages and 120 DPI display
    • If user chose Interlaced output, turn B-VOPs off and disable B-VOP selection.
    • Handle free, trial and registered pro states of the codec correctly
    • Update framerate decimation when using a custom profile
    • Don't add a file from a Watch Folder until it's stable enough (date and size fixed)
  • DrFFMPEG:
    • Fix clipping audio when the channel mapping is guessed (AAC via RealMediaSplitter.ax)
    • Support MBAFF in H264
    • Add support for Flash Screen Video codec
    • Add support for DivX codec resizing and cropping
    • Decode VC-1 via the WMV DMO if WMP11 is installed
Version 2.0 RC2
  • Release Date: Jun 28, 2006
  • What's new
    • Version checking using RSS feeds on SourceForge
    • Use mp3gain to boost the audio (enabled by default for built-in profiles)
    • Add some debug messages when calling the plugins
    • Add support for Auto-Publish in Upload plugin
    • Add a keyboard shortcut to open a file (Ctrl+O)
    • Ask confirmation before overwriting a user profile
    • Propose the list of existing profiles when selecting a name to save a profile
    • Add support for floating point quantizer values
    • Add support for plugin status reporting
  • What's fixed
    • Hide/Disable DivX encoder settings which are not available for specific certification levels
    • Interlaced option re-done to make it work with web profiler
    • Don't allow adding plugins to a finished job
    • Fix the video preview after internal job update changes
    • Disable batch and wizard modes
    • Include technical metadata
    • Disable user-specified metadata until new metadata solution is released
    • Fix crash when track selection dialog is dismissed after background analysis is over
    • Keep advanced parameters when reconfiguring a job
    • Avoid using recursive directories in watch folders
    • Avoid overwriting the source with the destination and make sure the output file is writable
    • Update job status widget based on currently selected job instead of currently running job
    • Fix crash when transcoding 5.1 AAC audio
    • Fix frame-rate detection for Canon MJPEG clips
    • Set correct crop mode in profile when autocrop is selected
    • Fix skip forward and skip backward during audio preview
    • Fix crash during analysis for HD .mov clips
    • Fix duration analysis on some MPEG source (using half frames packets)
  • DrFFMPEG
    • Fix seeking in HuffYUV (all frames are keyframes)
    • Fix slow audio when using FFDShow decoder
    • Increase the size of the MPEG syncword search to skip NULL sectors in some DVDs (might give AV sync problems)
    • Fix DVR-MS frame loss problem (assume dts=pts)
    • Set a flag when an MPEG packet is just half a frame
Version 2.0 RC1
  • Release Date: Jun 6, 2006
  • What's new:
    • Display an error message when trying to run the Dr. twice on the same computer
    • Allow keeping the AC3 track even if no DirectShow decoder is available
    • Add call_app, copy plugins
    • Allow per-job plugin configuration
  • What's fixed:
    • Support for uncompressed (RGB) format in the Video Preview
    • Replace invalid characters in output filenames (<>|*"?:/\) (windows)
    • Avoid crashing when selecting same setting for all audio tracks but only a few are selected
    • Avoid cropping the whole picture (cropping is reset in that case)
    • Analyze inter-frames when the source file doesn't have enough key frames
    • Handle +ve audio delays in VOBs correctly
    • Reconfiguring a job reset the status (when saved it becomes Waiting again)
    • Fix audio delay detection for TS files
    • When using AC3 output, use the correct bitrate to compute the final filesize
    • Calculate AVI overhead size correctly
    • Recalculate video bitrate after audio and subtitle files have been generated
    • Keep mono sources as mono on output by default
    • Don't allow to start a job that is marked as finished
    • Disable the Resume/Stop button if there is no runnable job
    • Make default profiles selected in Preferences be effective (regression bug)
    • Make watch folder profiles selected in Preferences be effective (regression bug)
    • Fix cli to work with custom profiles
    • Fix flv file encoding
  • DrFFMPEG:
    • Better handling of mono sources when using DirectShow filters
    • Fix decoding via DScaler when stereo output was selected in DScaler
    • Fix a seeking issue when multiple files are selected
Version 2.0 Beta 10
  • Release Date: May 4, 2006
  • What's new
    • Change the way advanced audio selection is done
    • Make the Survey Opt-Out
    • New options to set the ouptut resolutions (auto, fixed width, fixed size)
    • Reduce the aspect ratio error range (3.5% to 1.5%)
    • Add progress reporting for divx mux stage (Muxing of big files takes really long)
    • Add support for LockedAutoResize and AutoCrop modes in custom profiles
    • Add a global application-wide preference for width and height modulo factor used for calculating resolutions
  • What's Fixed
    • Fix a crash when selecting a custom profile and going to advanced properties
    • Enable log messages during Preferences query of DrFFMPEG
    • Don't reuse a job pointer when the job has been deleted (occasional crash when removing jobs)
    • Improve seeking in the preview for various formats
    • Use double digits for jobs names so that the order is kept intact in case of a crash
    • Don't display the decoded frame in the preview when the whole image is cropped
    • Store all metadata in UTF8 in the job (otherwise the job cannot be read back)
    • Make all threads use the same priority to avoid blocking one in favor or the other
    • Make sure the input and output folders of a Watched Folder are different
    • Parse IFO filenames even if they include a prefix or suffix (partially fixes #1444296)
    • The VideoPreview now release the input file lock (fixes #1442569)
    • Protect avcodec_open and avcodec_close as they don't seem to be reentrant
    • Display the graph of video frames for quality-based encoding
    • Detect audio delay correctly for VOBs whose the first picture's temporal sequence number is not equal to 0
    • Constrain-to-file-size based custom profile respects the file size property
    • Detect audio delay for non-AVI input file containers only
    • Seeking by file offset used in analysis instead of time-stamp to work-around pts bugs in MPEG files
  • DrFFMPEG
    • Fixes for RV10 decoding
    • Add channel down-mixing in DirectShow (you can leave your AC3 decoder to 5.1 output now)
    • Improve seeking in ASF/WMV/DVR-MS
    • Fixes for Cinepak keyframe indication
    • Scan sections of the file to detect all audio and subtitle tracks
Version 2.0 Beta 9
  • Release Date: Apr 12, 2006
  • What's new
    • Add the possibility to force the output aspect ratio (Auto, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9)
    • Add a button in the Batch window to launch an encoded file
    • Add an option to encode with a constant quality (target quantizer)
    • Add the possibility to reconfigure a job after it was added to the queue
    • Add support for default output profile
    • Add auto-build version checking
    • Add a progress bar to the job status
    • Start the jobs in Low priority by default
  • What's Fixed
    • Fix column widths for job batch and plugin list
    • Put correct cli.exe in Installer for future builds
    • Make the sliders usable with the keyboard
    • Rework the crop enable/disable so that it can be handled by the keyboard
    • Make language selection thru Preferences work
    • Alphabetize language drop-down for audio and subs
    • Update the batch buttons when the job status changes to avoid doing operations when the job is running
    • Keep muxing even if some files are missing
    • Ignore 1-pixel crop bars so that we don't resize needlessly
  • DrFFMPEG
    • Avoid crashing when a DirectShow filter exists in the registry but can't be used
    • Support DV Type 1 files
Version 2.0 Beta 8
  • Release Date: Mar 27, 2006
  • What's new
    • Add the possibility to enable/disable watch folders (disabled by default)
    • Save the watch folder settings in the user directory (~/.drdivx2)
    • Add a CLI (Command Line) version of DrDivX to encode a file directly with a profile
    • Now built with MSVC 2005 Express (freeware version) and Qt 4.1.1 (open source edition)
    • Add a "reset" starting mode to delete all the content of the user directory (~/.drdivx2) and jobs
    • Rewriting of the aspect ratio handling to support video upscaling (but not beyond profile limits)
    • Allow the use of a /.drdivx2 directory to store the settings instead of ~/.drdivx2 (easier to debug)
    • The analysis on loading is done in a low priority thread
    • Allow user to request interlaced video output
    • Access the full video preview from the small video preview
    • Add a general progress bar to monitor the long analysis
    • Survey tool invoked at application exit
  • What's Fixed
    • Fix a crash in the preview when the 2nd (or more) video file loaded is in YUV420P
    • Don't try to reorder columns that don't exist anymore in job batch
    • The audio delay detection was not working correctly in beta 7
    • When clicking on basic when nothing is loaded the profile was changing
    • Avoid crashing when the saved settings are incorrect
    • Rework the JobBatchWidget code to avoid crashes
    • Fix over-eager frame droppage caused by SCR reset and subsequent PTS rewind
    • Fix crash when custom profiles are used in conjunction with watch folders
    • Use toolbar to switch between file, capture and batch views
    • Sync the file size displayed in Output Widget and Info Widget
    • Fix application hang on certain clips caused by cyclic invokation of Video Preview methods
    • Forcing the same audio parameters for all tracks now works (fixes #1445072)
    • Trust the subtitle info in the .ifo file
  • DrFFMPEG
    • Fix a possible seeking problem when using multiple vobs input
    • Fix a frame decoding in MPEG2 for interlaced content. This will improve border detection.
    • Avoid using dubious data in the ASF demuxer (fixes #1447859)
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