Changelog

0.9.9.2 (2006-05-01)

  • The x264 dialog has been reorganized.
  • The x264 switch '--bime' was added as 'B-Frames/Bidirectional ME'.
  • The x264 switch '--no-fast-pskip' was added as 'Analysis/No Fast P Skip'.
  • The x264 switch '--direct' was added as 'B-Frames/Direct Mode'.
  • Updated x264 to revision 516 using sharktooth's build.
  • DivX was updated to version 6.2.2.
  • Opening a audio source file that has a filename containing the language will cause StaxRip to pick up the language from the filename so it's no longer necessary to set the language manually.
  • Opening a source file while another source file is already open will show a dialog to select a template from. Previously just a warn message appeared asking to load a template first.
  • The options dialog has several new options allowing to disable certain assistant instructions. For now the following reminders can be disabled: crop, filters, cut and comp. check.
  • When StaxRip shows a dialog for the very first time it will automatically show the help of the dialog. It's now possible to disable this behavior in the settings.
  • For HDTV the image size is ofter larger then the monitor screen size, in that case StaxRip shows the crop dialog maximized fitting exactly the monintor size.
  • The command 'Perform/Clear Jobs' was added allowing to clear the job list.
  • The command 'Correct/ImageSize' was added. It changes the image size to the cropped image size in case no resize filter is used. This command is always performed after the crop dialog closes.
  • The command 'Correct/Crop Mod' was added. It crops until crop width and height is a multiple of 4 or in case no resize filter is used 16. This command is always performed after the crop dialog closes.
  • The command 'Perform/Add Job' was added allowing to add a job to the job list.
  • The command 'Perform/Run Jobs' was added allowing to start encoding the jobs.
  • The quality percent value that is used in conjunction with the compressibility check defaults now to 60% for XviD and DivX and 50% for x264. StaxRip will offer to reset all video encoder settings.
  • StaxRip no longer uses a default project but allows to specify which template to load at startup.
  • The main window supports now tooltips showed with a right-click or by using the 'What's this?' menu item (command: 'Help/What's This?'). StaxRip will offer to reset the main menu to make this menu item show up.
  • The automatic correction of crop values uses now two sides.
  • The crop dialog shows now mod values and labels in the status bar.
  • The menu editor uses now a menu instead of a drop down to select a command. The advantage of a menu is a hierarchical presentation and tooltip context help.
  • Added project option 'Advanced/Dangerous/Save Cropping' to disable forcing save mod values for cropping.
  • Updated the guides regarding multipass vs quality mode.
  • The size menu in the main window has new default values allowing to set the size/bitrate based on a quality of 40/50/60/70/80% which can be useful for codecs with multipass better tuned then quality mode. StaxRip will offer to reset this setting.
  • The audio settings for the PlayStation Portable were improved. StaxRip will offer to reset audio related settings.
  • The profile menus support now a tree structure based on slash signs ('/') in the profile name. StaxRip forces to reset audio and video encoder profiles to have new profile names.
  • The open files dialog supports now Drag & Drop to add files.
  • Open the target directory after the encoding was removed because windows explorer might crash for unknown reasons.
  • The dialog for opening source files has various new options for batch processing.
  • The PayPal donation link was broke due to changes from PayPal.
  • The 'More Guides' help document was updated with a italian guide.

0.9.9.1 (2006-04-14)

  • new: Crop dialog has a customizable menu like the main dialog and the preview.
  • new: Crop dialog remembers the last video position.
  • new: Crop dialog allows to crop opposite sides simultaneously.
  • new: Main and context menus show tooltips.
  • new: Default target directory option.
  • new: The file types used for the 'Open' and 'Save As' dialogs can be customized in the settings.
  • update: x264 490
  • update: x264 profiles 2006-03-23
  • update: DivX 6.2.1
  • update: DivXMux 6.1 build 36
  • update: VirtualDub 1.6.14
  • change: No more Save dialogs for the job filename, it'll be based on the target filename.
  • change: A couple of small AR related improvements.
  • change: Little change in audio profiles that is only relevant for PMP, PMP muxer updated to 2.0 to support 2 audio tracks and MP3 VBR.

0.9.9.0 (2006-03-11)

  • new: Go To dialog in preview splitted in two different diaogs, one frame based and one time based.
  • new: The script used to show infos in the preview can be customized in the advanced options.
  • new: The commands available in the customizable menus are now called commands and are avaiable at the command line.
  • new: Preview has a new menu item to copy the frame number of the current position to the clipboard. It is useful to create zones in the codec configuration e.g. to encode the credits at a high quantizer. The new commands and macros used for this menu item are indroduced below.
  • new: Option for the threshold at which force film is used.
  • new: Forced shutdown modes.
  • new: MP3 enabled for MP4 container.
  • new command : 'Show Message Box' with title, message and icon parameter, available globally.
  • new command: 'Copy To Clipboard', available globally.
  • new command: 'Perform Auto Crop', available in the main window and from the command line.
  • new command: 'Perform Smart Crop', available in the main window and from the command line.
  • new macro: '%pos_frame%' returns the current position of the preview in frames, available globally.
  • fix: Applying IVTC filters and cutting caused audio being not synced.
  • fix: BeSweet AAC problem using Nero 7 because of missing MFC71.dll which is now always copied to the BeSweet dir.
  • fix: Changed all AAC audio profiles to use the dimzon plugin to workaround problems with Nero 7.
  • fix: 100% film sources wasn't detected as such.
  • change: Renamed 'Post Processing Mode' to back to 'Batch Mode' and tested, improved and fixed this mode.
  • change: x264 version updated.
  • change: Preparer to demux AVI supports now multiple input files.

0.9.3.2 (2006-02-21)

  • new: Added preparer that decodes using DirectShow and defaults for WMV and RMVB.
  • new: 'Auto crop until proper aspect ratio is found'. This option is useful for devices like PlayStation Portable. It's know as smart crop and the used algorithm was improved.
  • new: PMP Muxer and PlayStation Portable template.
  • new: Option to define percentage to use for compressibility check.

0.9.3.1 (2006-02-16)

  • fix: x264 comp check was broke.
  • fix: sbr or sbrx MP4Box switches were not use for AAC-HE, now sbr is used.
  • fix: Enabled compiler switch to run StaxRip as 32 bit application on 64 bit systems.
  • fix: Cutting two audio tracks resulted in two identical tracks.
  • new: Option to automatically resize the image size after the compressibility check.
  • update: new DivX, x264 and MP4Box versions integrated.

0.9.3.0 (2006-02-06)

  • new: All unfinished help documents completed, new DVB Guide, guide section to list guides by other authors and some other help improvement.
  • new: Improved GUI for editing command lines and script.
  • new: Improved command line encoder incl. support for compressibility check.
  • new: MP4 and MKV stream name tags.

0.9.2.9 (2006-01-30)

  • new: Added possibility to pause and resume processing applications.
  • new: Added support for managing template projects.
  • new: Some command line switches added, start StaxRip using StaxRip -?
  • fix: Bug in MP3 command line fixed.

0.9.2.8 (2006-01-27)

  • new: Cascading profiles menu.
  • new: Sharktooth's profiles (thanks to Sharktooth).

0.9.2.7 (2006-01-26)

  • new: Added possibility to change the AviSynth plugin directory in the settings dialog.
  • new: Command line preview and info dialog added to container (muxer) dialogs.
  • fix: A couple of bugs were fixed.
  • change: A couple of applications were updated.

0.9.2.6 (2006-01-24)

  • new: Added cutting support working with any encoder and muxer. Removed VirtualDubMod cutting.

0.9.2.5 (2006-01-18)

  • new: Forced Film is automatically applied if NTSC sources are > 95% film.
  • new: Added setting to launch all applications with minimized window like AutoGK does.
  • change: Some changes required to reset all settings and projects. It's the first time this was required for StaxRip and hopefully the last time.
  • change: Improved error handling.

0.9.2.4 (2006-01-15)

  • fix: fixed two x264 bugs.
  • new: Added automatic aspect ratio signaling, it is automatically used for XviD and x264 (not supported by DivX) whenever no resize filter is used. Muxer aspect ratio signaling was removed.

0.9.2.3 (2006-01-13)

  • new: Workaround for DivXMux upper case file extension bug.
  • new: If a setting has new default values StaxRip asks if the setting should be updated to new defaults or if the customizations (if any) should be kept. As example if better audio profiles are added StaxRip will ask if audio profiles should be updated.
  • new: Video profile defaults.
  • new: Audio profile defaults.
  • change: More robust XviD and DivX support.
  • change: More meaningful assistant warnings regarding incompatibilities between encoder, muxer and audio profile.

0.9.2.2 (2006-01-11)

  • new: AVI demuxing using VirtualDubMod supporting, mp3, ac3 and wav. Removed AVI2WAV.
  • new: Preparers can be enabled/disabled and other minor changes regarding preparers.
  • new: Addition language info for audio tracks like directors comments is written to the filename.
  • change: TreeView dialog used to replace, insert and add filters is now resizable and saves the window size.
  • change: x264 comp check uses now --crf 18 instead of --qp 18.
  • change: Audio files containing the name of the source file like the ones demuxed by DGIndex are now more reliable being automatically picked up.
  • fix: x264 Single Pass - Quality was broke since --qrf instead of --crf was used.

0.9.2.1 (2006-01-09)

  • update: XviD 1.1.0
  • fix: Fixed bug happening while StaxRip starts.

0.9.2.0 (2006-01-07)

  • new: Full controls over x264 turbo switches.
  • new: Additional x264 CLI switches that don't have GUI controls yet can be added.

0.9.1.9 (2006-01-05)

  • fix: Fixed crash using second audio track only.
  • fix: Warning and refusing opening files with unicode name as it's not supported by some applications e.g. DGIndex.
  • fix: It's no longer possible to ignore crucial assistant instructions and warnings.
  • new: Enabled MP4 and MKV input for the MKV muxer.
  • new: x264 quality mode (--qrf).
  • change: Updated to x264 395 wich fixes also incompatibility bugs.
  • change: Added delay handling to audio profiles since it's better to use the encoder instead of the muxer to handle delay.
  • change: Only audio files are picked up when opening a source file that are supported by the audio profile.
  • change: Legacy x264 encoder removed.
  • change: x264 encoder command line preview includes now all file paths.

0.9.1.8 (2006-01-01)

  • fix: fixed bug in settings dialog and maybe other TreeView based dialogs causing a crash on some systems.
  • new: experimental/beta new x264 encoder.

0.9.1.7 (2005-12-25)

  • change: streamlined profile and quality mode features.
  • new: Easy way to add forced subtitles.

0.9.1.6 (2005-12-21)

  • new: Null Encoder to remux a already encoded project.
  • new: Auto Compressibility Check option.
  • new: Auto Mode: Normally StaxRip performs various tasks directly after a source file is opened like demuxing, auto crop, auto resize etc. In Auto Mode all this tasks are performed when the encoding is started (either manually or by the joblist).
  • new: Profiles can be edited from within the profiles dialog, even encoder and AviSynth profiles!
  • change: Simplified AviSynth menu.

0.9.1.5 (2005-12-16)

  • new: Editor for command lines and scripts with support for preview and execute.
  • new: More than just one command line can be executed.
  • fix: A couple of bugs fixes were fixed.

0.9.1.4 (2005-12-13)

  • new: Configuration dialog for muxing audio profiles (language and delay).
  • new: Delay handling for MKV, DIVX and MP4 muxing.
  • new: Chapters for MKV and MP4 muxing.
  • new: Aspect Ratio parameter for mkvmerge.
  • fix: language parameter wasn't applied properly using AAC with mkvmerge.

0.9.1.3 (2005-12-09)

  • new: DMF (DivX Media Format) support incl. vobsubs.

0.9.1.2 (2005-12-08)

  • new: mkvmerge including vobsubs.
  • new: Auto renaming of audio files (VTS_01_1 T01 becomes VTS_01_1 de-German).
  • fix: Detection of application versions.

0.9.1.1 (2005-12-05)

  • new: MP4Box subtitles.
  • new: Help and web design and content.
  • change: Main menu in the main form had to be reseted because of various changes.

0.9.1.0 (2005-11-30)

  • fix: fixed bug in zip extraction code that was writing a false time to the extracted files.

0.9.0.9 (2005-11-29)

  • new: x264 --thread switch.
  • new: MP4Box par switch.
  • new: Added new macro %pos_ms% which returns the current preview position in milliseconds. Useful to start e.g. MPC (Media Player Classic) at the current frame position using the Execute command of the customizable menu of the main dialog or the menu in the preview. For MPC use the following arguments: "%source_dir%%target_name%.avs" /start %pos_ms%
  • minor: fixed auto resize not working in some circumstances.

0.9.0.8 (2005-11-27)

  • new: MP4Box switches lang, fps

0.9.0.7 (2005-11-24)

  • new: The minimal and maximal value of the resolution resize slider in the main dialog can be customized in the settings. The default value is 720, for HDTV a value up to 1920 is possible.
  • new: Setup wizard like dialog allowing to config basic default project options. The dialog pops up on the very first startup and when the default project is reseted.
  • new: AVI2WAV which extracts any audio format to a pseudo wav file (original format but with riff wav header and wav file extension. BeSweet supports such files. AVI2WAV is also available with the download feature.
  • new: DirectShowSource AviSynth filter.
  • new: trellis and me for x264.
  • new: Added to x264 options if and how the target file size should be adjusted after the compressibility check.
  • new: MP4Box from 2005-11-08.
  • fix: Source code didn't compile out of the box because the Stax library wasn't included.
  • change: Auto detection of audio files is now restricted in that audio files must begin with the file name of the video source file.
  • change: AviSynth 2.5.6a is now required and available with the download feature.
  • change: Theming code had to be changed which I could not test if it works under Windows 2000.
  • change: Many critical internal changes to the complex x264 dialog were done and only few test were made.

0.9.0.6 (2005-11-15)

  • new: Mixed references for the x264 encoder
  • fix: Added audio delay macro to command line audio encoder and reseted all audio related settings

0.9.0.5 (2005-11-14)

  • fix: Command Line Encoder was always using x264 as command

0.9.0.4 (2005-11-12)

  • fix: fixed screwed dialog drawing on systems with no theme
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