| Date |
News |
| 10/30 |
RadLight Player build 4126 fixes some small bugs and
contains 5 more language files. There's a new release of the BeSweet
GUI and if you're interested in DSPGuru's tools (BeSweet, Oggmachine,
etc.) you can have a look at his beta
page where you can always find the latest beta releases. Last
but not least there's yet another
new FlaskMpeg release. |
| 10/29 |
ZoomPlayer
2.90 RC1 is out. CCE
SP 2.66.04 is a bugfix version. Unfortunately the bugs related
to 3:2 pulldown and multipass encoding still remains. As usual this
is a demo release which has a logo in every file you encode. FlaskMpeg
0.7.6 RC2 has also been released and for some reason the website
looks horribly screwed up here so I can't locate the changelog :/ |
| 10/27 |
ZoomPlayer
2.90 beta2 is out. As usual the changelog can compete with one
month worth of news... |
| 10/26 |
OggMux 0.9.4 supports extended movie
information (meaning you can enter title, author, copyright info and
movie description and it will be shown in WMP) and the variable filesize
splitting has been removed since it was buggy. SubRip 1.10 has an
improved post OCR correction and contains a few bugfixes. Gspot 2.0
can determine what codecs your system will use to play a file, supports
OGM files, can identify MPEG, QuickTime, RealMedia, WindowsMedia and
Flash files, supports VFW, ACM, DS and DMO codecs and last but not
least there are some UI improvements. And for all the Flask users
out there there's a new official build: FlaskMpeg
0.7.6 RC1 which now works in YUV colorspace. has an on-the-fly
setup, improved configuration and it can read VCD and SVCDs natively
now. |
| 10/24 |
DVDWriters.co.uk
has the web's first review
of the Pioneer A05 DVD burner. In a nutshell DVD writing is good
but when it comes to DVD ripping or CD burning improvements can still
be made. |
| 10/22 |
As you can see there's not much going on in the ripping
world right now. The only thing that could be interesting is that
NEC
has announced a 2nd new DVD burner which will burn both DVD-R and
DVD+R at 4x speed, and the RW formats at their respective maximum
(2x for -RW, 2.4x for +RW). |
| 10/19 |
ScenChap 1.27 fixes a bug in the drop field time computations. |
| 10/18 |
SubRip 1.081 can read TMPlayer, Mpl,
Mpl2 and DKs files and contains some minor enhancements and bugfixes. |
| 10/16 |
Considering that Derrow's site is getting hammered right now and
the fact that the new IfoEdit is something really special I decided
to do the daily update a bit earlier...
IfoEdit 0.94 has one major new feature: It can Author DVDs. Specifically
it can multiplex DVD compliant MPEG-2 video streams and audio streams
(AC3, MPA, WAV/LPCM). Currently there's no chapter functionality
and subs are not possible either (that will come in a future release)
but considering that until this day no free program could create
a valid set of VOB/IFO/BUP files from elementary streams this release
marks the beginning of a new era. Other than DVD authoring we have
an option to automatically copy Menu files to the destination directory,
PGC commands can be added/deleted/inserted in VTSM_PGCI_UT, the
problems with VOBs containing more than 99 cells have been fixed,
there's a menu item to copy and paste subtitle colors from PGC to
PGC and the remux function has been slightly changed and should
now work like IfoEdit 0.6.
On a different subject Ookami's freeware list has found a
new home.
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| 10/15 |
In case you haven't noticed it yet XviD
is back. While the Sigma issue remains unresolved they are now considering
an alternative course of action. There are plans to release a 1.0
version at the end of this year featuring dynamic/adaptive B-frames,
a new motion estimation engine, improved adaptive quantization and
Qpel refinement. |
| 10/14 |
Link2
0.951 contains bugfixes for RAW audio, various Premiere related
compatibility improvements and it should be faster as well. |
| 10/13 |
OggMux 0.9.3 allows you to mux AC3 files into OGM containers.
The only catch is that you have to make an AC3-WAV file first, but
BeSweet can help you with that. More info about this can be found
in the forum.
IfoUpdate 0.55 has an option which identifies dummy PGCs and automates
their handling, allowing you to reconstruct a DVD without having to
worry about those dummy PGCs as IfoUpdate will automatically re-create
after reauthoring. The ini support has also been enhanced. Pioneer
has released the v1.33
firmware for the A04/104 DVD burner which re-enables 2x burning
on CMC and Ritek media. And Gradius
did not only make that firmware RPC-1 but also managed to remove the
speed lock for all types of media, allowing you to burn any kind of
DVD-R at 2x speed. Of course, if your media is not able to sustain
the additional strain then all you'll get will be coasters. |
| 10/12 |
ChopperXP
2.1 is a fast VOB cutting program. |
| 10/10 |
Decomb 4.0 is a major upgrade featuring several useful
new features like manual override of decisions and user-specifiable
defaults. AVIMux_GUI 1.10 supports drag&drop, can read WAV files
and contains a couple of bugfixes. |
| 10/9 |
ScenChap 1.26 can handle tracks with
no cells correctly and fixes a couple of bugs. |
| 10/8 |
The Ogg DS
Filters v0.9.9.5 supports vorbisgain tags, the splitter can pass
tags like TITLE to the player and the tray icon now shows the title
instead of Ogg DSF. The
Ogg subtitle mixer v1.4.0.0 should no longer cause any GPFs used
together with the DivX3 decoder filter. The Premiere
Video Server v0.951 can create ECL files for CCE, supports both
AviSynth 1.x and 2.x along with toolame, long filenames for pulldown.exe,
color space conversion while frameserving and some compatibility improvements.
The Avisynth
Package v2.0 contains Avisynth 2.06, Link2 v0.951 and AvisynthEx
v1.1. |
| 10/7 |
There's a new release of the MPEG4IP
binaries and the player. v0.9.6 contains mostly bugfixes and mpg to
mp4 conversion. More info on this build can be found in the forum.
IfoUpdate 0.54 fixes an error that would occur when you have a PGC
that has no chapters and cells associated. VobEdit 0.52 allows demuxing
of all types of DVD audio tracks, all button values are now editable
and streams have some icon for easier identification. |
| 10/6 |
Cinemacraft has released a
new build of the 2.66 series. It now has a framerate setting and
it fixes bugs in WAV parsing, setting reference frame and timecode
and it sets Inverse 3:2 pulldown and pan&scan settings in the
template. Even the new version still has some known bugs: VBR encoding
and 3:2 pulldown detection don't work together and MPEG-1 encoding
may cause a bad MV detected error. More info about the new release
can be found in the forum. |
| 10/5 |
Consumer friendly laws seem to be the new hit on the
block as US congressman Rick Boucher introduces the Digital
Media Consumer Rights Act or DMCRA for short. The DMCRA is very
similar to Zoe Lofgren's DCFA and tries to restore balance in copyright
law - reaffirm fair use, reestablish Betamax and restore scientific
research - and ensures proper labeling of copy protected CDs. |
| 10/4 |
BeSliced 0.2
can now also fix corrupt AC3 streams. DivXManager
1.0 can collect movie information from more than 20 different
websites and offers an easy way to publish your movie collection on
the web. |
| 10/3 |
Congresswoman Zoe
Lofgren's Digital
Choice and Freedom Act of 2002 is probably the first proposed
law concerning copyright law in the last few years that makes any
sense. It would basically allow you to make legal copies of copyrighted
works for fair use purposes, regardless of what format the work has
been released in and whether it's protected by anti-copy measures
or not, thus restoring balance between copyright holders and customers.
Needless to say the movie and music industry is violently objecting
to this act which is not surprising considering that they are sponsoring
laws that make any copying illegal. |
| 10/2 |
No new software or ripping news today, all I can offer
you are two interesting pieces of PC hardware: Both AMD
Athlon XP 2800+ featuring a 333MHz FSB and the Nvidia
NForce2 chipset have been officially launched. Test results can
be found @ Anandtech
and many other places. |
| 10/1 |
DivXFix 1.091 fixes many bugs, has a redesigned GUI and it uses
the ini file to save options and source folder.
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