-$Id: NEWS,v 1.28 2005/11/04 16:01:19 titer Exp $
+NEWS file for HandBrake <http://handbrake.fr/>
-NEWS file for HandBrake <http://handbrake.m0k.org/>
+Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
+
+CORE
+
+- AC3 in MP4 support
+- Multi-track audio support for Apple devices
+- Better handling of audio discontinuities
+- More flexible, "loose" anamorphic
+- Variable frame rate encoding
+- MP4 optimization for progressive downloads
+- Dynamic range compression for encoding from AC3 audio
+- Ability to encode an audio stream and pass it through at the same time
+- iPhone-compatible anamorphic (pasp atom)
+- Robust program and transport stream support
+- Better handling of DVD read errors from invalid VOB units
+- Detects and works around missing end of cell markers
+- Recovers from loss of signal in a stream
+- Drops subtitles less often
+- Keeps chapter markers in better sync and prevents duplicates
+- Better handling of B-Frames
+- Tunes FIFO sizes by CPU count
+- Finally squashes the bug that cut off the end of movies
+- Preset changes
+- Standardizes on standard out for progress and standard error for everything else.
+- Correct channel counts when passing AC3 audio to Matroska
+- Tag MP4 files as encoded with HandBrake
+- No more merging short chapters
+- Newer copies of x264,
+- VBV 2-pass patch for x264
+- Sets keyframes for x264 by frame rate.
+- Support for >2GB MKV files in Linux
+- Code audio languages in a way QuickTime understands
+- Better subtitle positioning
+- Fewer crashes in 2-pass encoding
+
+MAC
+
+- Leopard Only
+- Sparkle
+- Reads .eyetv files as well as .dvdmedia files
+- Much better queue
+- More white space
+- Code restructuring
+- Activity window logging, complete with a "black box recorder" for crashes
+- Ability to open a single title for a DVD instead of scanning the whole thing
+- Warns people when they try to queue up two files with the same name
+- Maintains picture filter states between jobs
+- .xib Interface Builder files SVN can track
+- Switches to NSImageView for previews, so no more useless OpenGL effects
+- Temporary loss of localizations for foreign languages (the old system was broken anyway)
+- Separate filter settings for every queued job
+
+WIN
+
+- Revamped preset system
+- Sparkle-compatible update checker
+- Activity log window
+- CLI built-in preset parsing
+- No more admin rights required in Vista
+- Handles more display resolutions
+
+CLI
+
+- Built-in presets
+- Short names for denoising (weak, medium, strong) and deinterlacing (fast, slow, slower)
+- Solaris port
+- No more x264b30 (use -e x264 -I -x level=30:cabac=0 instead or better yet an iPod preset)
+- Chapter marker .csv input fixed
+- CRF as default quality mode for x264, now -q is CRF and if you want CQP add -Q to it
+
+Changes between 0.9.0 and 0.9.1:
+
+ Core HandBrake Changes:
+ + Added: Forced subtitle support
+ + Added: 6-channel Vorbis audio
+ + Changed: Much better buffer management, leading to impressive speed-ups all over the place
+ + Changed: Color subtitles now display in color, instead of being transparent.
+ + Changed: All errors to stderr with hb_log() instead of to stdout with fprintf()
+ + Changed: Accept stream input where the file type is in caps (.VOB instead of just .vob, etc)
+ + Changed: Better quality Vorbis codec (AoTuV)
+ + Changed: Faster (threaded) ffmpeg
+ + Changed: Force x264 to use a key frame at chapter markers
+ + Changed: Try to recover from bad preview scans instead of crashing
+ + Fixed: No more hanging when using MKV with chapter markers
+ + Fixed: "Same as source" FPS now works correctly when the end-credits of a progressive film are interlaced.
+ + Fixed: "Slow" deinterlacing no longer doubles up the chapter markers
+ + Fixed: Proper display of fading subtitles
+ + Fixed: Nasty artifacts from inaccurate rounding in the video scaler
+ + Fixed: Improved compatibility with streams that have missing/misplaced PMTs
+ Assorted other changes
+
+ Mac Changes:
+ + Changed: Bigger buffer for the Activity Log
+ + Changed: Redesigned Queueing window
+ + Changed: Redesigned Preferences window
+ + Changed: Structural reorganization of the code into more segmented files
+ + Fixed: Closing the main window no longer causes HandBrake to quit
+ + Fixed: Changing dimensions in Picture Settings no longer causes a crash
+ + Fixed: Target size bitrate calculation
+ + Fixed: Picture Settings previews now scale to display resolution and screen size
+ Assorted other changes
+
+ Windows Changes:
+ + Added: More robust exception handling
+ + Added: On-completion options to shutdown, suspend, etc
+ + Added: Turn tooltips on or off
+ + Changed: Open source, NullSoft installer
+ + Fixed: Add-to-queue issues
+ + Fixed: Foreign language issues
+ Assorted other changes
+
+Changes between 0.8.5b1 and 0.9.0:
+
+ Core HandBrake Changes
+ + Added: Matroska (MKV) container output
+ + Added: Limited MPEG-2 transport stream (.VOB and .TS) input support
+ + Added: Option to write MP4 files larger than 4GB
+ + Added: Video filters (pullup, yadif, mcdeint, hqdn3d, pp7)
+ + Added: DTS audio input
+ + Changed: Switched to Lanczos scaling from libswscale
+ + Changed: Precise chapter marker location
+ + Changed: Newer libraries
+ + Changed: Much faster (threaded) iPod encoding
+ + Changed: "Same as source" works differently (better?) now
+ + Fixed: Audio drops should be thoroughly banished now
+ + Fixed: MP2 audio support
+ Assorted other changes
+
+ CLI Changes:
+ + Added: Chapter naming
+ + Added: Many new command line options for subtitles and filters.
+ + Added: Turbo for 2-pass x264 encodes
+ Assorted other changes
+
+ Mac Changes:
+ + Added: Chapter naming
+ + Added: Growl support
+ + Added: Advanced x264 settings tab
+ + Added: Logging window
+ + Added: Turbo for 2-pass x264 encodes
+ + Added: Many new presets
+ + Added: Unified toolbar
+ + Changed: Default settings
+ + Changed: Further integration of the queue and active queuing
+ + Changed: Browse DVDs like any other volumes
+ + Fixed: No more floating window syndrome (Mac)
+ + Fixed: Presets retain "magic sauce" when you change settings
+ Assorted other changes
+
+ Windows Changes:
+ + Changed: New C#-based Windows GUI front-end
+ + Changed: Improved queuing
+ + Changed: DVD information parser
+ Assorted other changes
+
+Changes between 0.8.0b1 and 0.8.5b1
+
+ Core HandBrake Changes
+ + Added: iTunes-style chapter markers.
+ + Added: 5.1 AAC surround sound.
+ + Added: Dolby Pro Logic I and II downmixing of discrete surround sound.
+ + Added: 1-channel AAC sound from monophonic sources.
+ + Added: Advanced x264 options. (including High Profile support)
+ + Added: B-frames in x264 + .mp4
+ + Added: PPC Linux Support.
+ + Added: Preserve language IDs from the DVD in .mp4
+ + Added: Snapshot build method.
+ + Added: Anamorphic video display in QuickTime.
+ + Changed: Renamed back to HandBrake.
+ + Changed: Libraries updated.
+ + Changed: Enabled Update Checker.
+ + Fixed: Multiple Audio tracks.
+ + Fixed: Sped up DVD scanning time by being nicer to libdvdread.
+ + Fixed: .dmg is now mountable in Mac OS X versions older than 10.4
+ + Fixed: Proper output size from x264 in target size mode.
+ + Fixed: Allows output sizes larger than 2 gigs in Linux.
+ + Fixed: Several small memory leaks have been plugged.
+ + Fixed: Fixes for 64-bit systems.
+ + Fixed: Keep Aspect Ratio is no longer forced, so user-set height values are respected.
+
+ CLI Interface Changes
+ + Added: Customize maximum width and height while keeping aspect ratio
+ + Changed: Much prettier help screen
+ + Changed: HBTest/MediaForkCLI renamed to HandBrakeCLI
+ + Fixed: Better display of audio and subtitle ids
+
+ Mac GUI Changes
+ + Added: Presets! Includes initial ones for AppleTV, iPod, and PS3.
+ + Added: Preference option to auto-name output files with the DVD name and title number.
+ + Added: Preset support for x264 options.
+ + Changed: Remembers last destination path.
+ + Changed: Remembers last source path.
+ + Changed: Copy and paste in text fields.
+ + Changed: Updates target size more quickly.
+ + Changed: Mac GUI no longer retains target size values between enqueued jobs. (http://HandBrake.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249)
+ + Fixed: Preview frames are no longer distorted in anamorphic mode.
+ + Fixed: Mac GUI no longer floats above other windows.
+ + Fixed: Browse by file no longer dims the browse button preventing you from changing browse locations without switching back and forth between it and drive selection. (http://HandBrake.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=342)
+ + Fixed: Makes sure destination directory is valid.
+ + Fixed: Fills in the file save field with the current output name instead of leaving it blank.
+ + Fixed: Update destination field with the current path instead of using the last one, which could have been a DVD.
+
+ Windows GUI Changes ñ Version 2.2 beta 1
+ + Added: A few presets for the iPod in the menu.
+ + Added: Ability to set default settings for all program encode options.
+ + Added: Ability to turn off Automatic Update check on start-up. See Tools > Options
+ + Added: Mod 16 check on the Height and Width boxes.
+ + Added: Check the amount of hard disk space left is not running low when saving file.
+ + Added: Option to have a Read DVD window showup on start-up.
+ + Added: ìView DVD dataî Menu item in the tools menu.
+ + Added: Links to the Homepage, forum, wiki and documentation page in the Help menu.
+ + Added: Chapter markers check box (New feature in 0.8.5b1 CLI)
+ + Changed: View DVD Information no longer appears after clicking the ìBrowseî button.
+ + Changed: A few changes to the GUI - replaced textboxes with Dropdowns which auto-populate.
+ + Changed: Auto Crop and Aspect text now automatically update when a new title is selected.
+ + Changed: Several tweaks to the GUI design, remove a few text items that are no longer needed.
+ + Changed: Ability to Queue videos enabled with completely re-written code.
+ + Changed: Ability to queue stuff up while the encoding process is running.
+ + Changed: Ability to remove items from the encode queue while is running.
+ + Changed: Anamorphic option blanks out resolution boxes.
+ + Changed: Re-written update checker.
+ + Changed: Ability to turn off update check on start-up in Tools > Options
+ + Changed: Auto Crop option now fills in figures into text boxes when selected.
+ + Changed: Mp4 now default output file extension.
+ + Changed: Enabled 5.1 AAC option.
+ + Changed: Enabled h264 advanced options.
+ + Changed: Updated the FAQ.
+ + Changed: Included new version of HandBrake. Version 0.8.5b1.
+ + Fixed: Pixel Ratio Not being saved with the profile.
+ + Removed: Both ìView Dataî buttons on the Title Selection Window.
+ + Removed: The ìRead DVDî button. - Automatically reads the DVD after selecting a source now.
+ + Removed: The Help and Support window. Been replaced with a few Web Links.
+
+
+Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.8.0
+ + MediaFork project forked from HandBrake source <http://handbrake.m0k.org/>
+ + Updated libraries (meaning better quality, hopefully fewer bugs, and increased speeds)
+ + iPod 5.5G support
+ + Revamped graphical interface (Mac OS X)
+ + Anamorphic encoding with pixel aspect ratio
+ + Brighter color reproduction in QuickTime
+ + Lists disks by DVD name instead of by drive name (Mac OS X)
+ + Titles output movies based on the DVD name (Mac OS X)
+ + 32Khz audio output
+ + Constant rate factor encoding with x264
+ + New preference item to turn deinterlacing on by default (Mac OS X)
+ + New preference item to select the default audio language (Mac OS X)
+ + Bugfix for reading straight from a DVD
Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1
+ Universal Binary for PPC and Intel