Windows Platform Specific Changlog.
Changes Since Snapshot 2 - SVN2773
New Features
None
Minor Improvements / Changes
- Updated Growl to 2.0.0.20 from 2.0.0.19
- Added 2 new options. "Growl when queue completes" and "Growl when encode completes"
- Added 1 new option. "Disable Resolution Calculation for "None" and "Custom" modes."
- Removed "Enable DVD drive detection..." and "Load my default preset" preferences
- Set m4v as default enabled.
Fixed
- Several issues with Picture Settings panel related to aspect ration and resolution calculation.
- Issue where file extension could be mp4 when chapters is enabled. Problem in the autoname function.
- A regex error in the appcast reader and make it more robust to errors.
- Issue with the destination File box double appending the file extension
- Issue changing file format causing the audio encoder dropdown to be set to ""
- An issue with autoName function and format dropdown with regards to AC3 in the audio list. Also, CC or SRT
- A culture issue with the Video Quality slider. Should now work correctly for systems which represent floats as 1,25 instead of 1.25
- Issue with SRT filepaths not being quoted.
- An issue with 8x8dct not saving correctly in presets
- Activity log window would sometimes not display the CLI query used
- Couple issues in the Picutre Settings code
Backend / Not important changes
- Filters dropdowns re-arranged and updated for consistancy (Off, Custom ...)
Changes since Snapshot 1 - SVN2592
New Features
- Added support for Growl for Windows.
- Import MacGUI presets.
- External SRT supported added.
- Added new options: preferred language, "Dub Foreign language audio" and "Use Foreign language audio and Subtitles"
- Import Chapter Markers from csv file
Minor Improvements / Changes
- Some UI layout changes / improvements
- Remove M4v from format dropdown and add new option "Use iPod/iTunes friendly (.m4v) file extension for MP4
Fixed
- Picture Settings now works correctly (including Custom Anamorphic).
- Error message when cancelling an encode within 2 seconds of it starting.
- Quality slider resetting to 0 and other settings lost when a title change occurs.
- Fixes some scaling / quality issues with QuickTime preview.
- Possible fix for QT not working on 64bit systems.
- Chaning the x264 Quality granularity no longer requires a restart to work correctly
- Chapter Markers tab now resets far less often. It should retain chapter names after being disabled / re-enabled
Changes since 0.9.3
Major Changes
- Video Preview window using QuickTime or VLC. (5 to 60 second preview clips)
- Re-designed audio tab. Now uses a List and allows for >4 audio channels.
- Improved Picture Settings tab (Uses Numeric Controls and includes Modulus based increments and resolution calculation)
- Minimise to system tray is now optional with the ability to turn off balloon tip notifications.
- Picture settings can now be stored in presets. (Optional setting)
- Built-in Presets now automatically update when a change is detected.
- Preset XML data files are now stored in the users application data folder which allows for each system account user can have their own presets.
- Users can "update" their own presets. (Rather than delete & re-create)
- Improved control over how logs are stored. Logs are now kept in the Application data folder for each user.
- The Main window and the Queue "Start/Stop" buttons are now linked. Start on the main window starts the Queue. They are no longer separate.
Minor Improvements / Changes
- Resizable queue Window
- Scanning a source no longer uses a separate popup window. Scanning simply disables the main window, and displays the status much like the MacGUI
- Queue recovery now uses an XML file.
- Improvements in the Main Window.
* Source text box no longer editable. Prevents users changing the source without a rescan.
* Minor changes in the Destination Browse dialog to improve usability.
* Design improvements. Removed smaller fonts where possible. Fixed a few design inconsistencies.
* Warn before stopping a job. Cleanly exits the CLI.
* Selecting a preset which is already selected, will reset all settings to that preset.
* Option to hide query editor tab.
* File overwrite alert for destination files
- "Open Individual log file directory" option added to right click menu for Activity log window.
- Faster reloading of the activity log window log files.
- Ability to "Re-Add" the currently encoding job back onto the end of the queue (Allows cancellation of job for future encoding)
- Removed RAM limitation on start-up. Seems next to no-one is trying to run this on Windows 95 anymore.
- CLI status can now be displayed in-GUI instead of the CLI readout. (Experimental)
- Misc Typo's
Fixed
- Source and Destination fields unpopulated on queue in certain conditions.
- Several bugs in the way x264 widgets are handled with custom x264 strings.
- Fixed a null pointer exception after scan if all presets had been deleted.
- Fixed a few issues with the Chapter Markers tab
- Fixed HandBrake GUI would Hang if the CLI stopped responding during start-up. Automatically recovers after 10 second time limit.
- Universal input. (AAC Decoding in Mp4 files, Some WMV files)
- Many other fixes