Notes:
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+ Added
- Deleted
x Correction
#number is the identifier of bug report or requested feature.
bug reports and feature request are here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=86862

To do
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- Matroska tags
- Edit OGM/OGG/MP3/MKV...


Version 0.7.4.4, 2007-02-05
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+ FLV format support
+ Basic support of multiple programs in a MPEG Transport Stream (Satellite broadcast)
+ Basic detection of TwinVQ (.vqf) files (+tag parsing)
+ Better handling of corrupted .mp4 files
+ Better handling of corrupted .avi files
x Crash with corrupted "COMM" Id3v2 tags
x Crash with some audio files
x 1633524: MOV, Crash on files with corrupted Descriptors
x 1630907: MP3, Crash on files with corrupted (empty) Id3v2 tag
x 1637838, 1634549, 1635131: Crash with some audio-only files
x AVI, Better detection of writing application found in a "JUNK" chunk
x AVI, sometimes wrong playtime
x 1637191: AC3 delay in AVIs is back
x 1635134: some freezes with MPEG-7 files (but this format is not yet supported)
x 1635087: some files were wrongly detected as AC3
x Russian (or other non-latin language) AVI tag parsing is back.

Version 0.7.4.3 2006-12-22
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x #1622477 : Wrong Time Values for Chapters in mp4 files
+ Linux shared object available
+ MPEG-TS : Detect encrypted stream, and show the codec
+ id3v2 with UTF-16 frames
+ AVC in MPEG-TS AVC parsing
+ AVC : Width and Height
+ MacIntel version
x Matroska, some crashing files (with chapters)

Version 0.7.4.2 2006-12-09
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+ Encoders database updated with 20 new encoder versions
+ Codecs database updated with 100 new codecs (video or audio)
x Matroska, sometimes wrong Playtime 
x MPEG-4 : some Titles were not well parsed
x MPEG PS : some video stream were missing
x Crash with some malformed files
x Some debug files were created

Version 0.7.4.1 2006-12-08
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+ MPEG Transport Stream : Video info (Standard, Chroma, Interlacement...) and PlayTime
+ CDXA : PlayTime
+ MPEG-4 Video embedded in MPEG Program Stream support
+ MPEG-1 stream embedded in a Quictime file
+ MPEG-4 AAC Parametric Stereo (SBR-PS) detection
+ Detection of encrypted MPEG-4 (like iTunes)
+ Support of MPEG TS with lot of synchro errors
+ AVI : Exact Stream size calculation (but currently OpenDML files are not supported)
+ MPEG-4 : Exact Stream size calculation
+ Basic support of Korean mobilephone provider Sky (.skm)
x MPEG Program Stream : PlayTime, Delay are corrected
x #1601787 : MOV tracks issues (and crash)
x MOV : was stopping on too big "free" atoms
x MOV : Aspect Ration of DV is corrected
x MPEG : Handling of negative Delays between Audio and Video
x Musepack parser was doing too much "false positives" with some MPEG files

Version 0.7.4.0 2006-11-24
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+ Linux i386 version
+ AutoIt example
+ AVI with AAC-SBR : detection of real SamplingRate (not the sampling rate in header)
+ AVI with DV : basic information about audio
+ AVI with DV : detection of duplicated audio stream
+ Google Video : metadatas
+ AVI : now able to read metadatas at the end of the file
+ AVI : Bitrate computed is based on filesize in header instead of real filesize (for broked files)
+ AVI (DivX) : Menu detection (yes or no)
+ AVI : detection of VBR MP3 (useful for DVD players, sometimes they don't accept it)
+ AVI : detection of Delay between Audio and Video (for MPEG Audio, AC3 and DTS)
+ PlayStationPortable MPEG-4 files support
+ 3GPP5 files support
+ MPEG-4 : Detection of MP3, Vorbis streams embeded in a 'mp4a' atom
+ MPEG-4 : Detection of AVC streams embeded in a 'mp4v' atom
+ MPEG-2TS with MPEG-4 and AC3 detection
+ Speed improvements
+ MPEG-4 with Variable FrameRate detection, min and max
x #1551482 "\n" in filename get replaced by newline in "Text" output
x AVI : infinite loop on one example file
x AVI : some bad detections corrected
x MPEG-PS : infinite loop in intra Matrix on one example file
x MPEG TS : better detection of streams

Version 0.7.3.1 2006-07-30
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+ MPEG-1/2 PS : more files have a duration
+ AVI with MPEG-4 Video based codecs (DivX, XviD...), more encoder string detections
+ Microsoft Visual Basic binding : wrapper class added around methods
+ Microsoft J# binding : wrapper class added around methods
+ Microsoft C# binding : default values for methods, to cleanup code example
x Matroska, crash with big (>4GB) files

Version 0.7.3.0 2006-07-19
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+ MPEG-1 and 2 Transport Stream support
+ MPEG-1 and 2 Video : Custom Matrix detection
+ MPEG-4 Video : Custom Matrix detection
+ Google Video (GVI) support
+ AMV/MTV (Chinese) detection (if you have specifications of theses formats, email me)
+ AVI/DivX/GoogleVideo and MPEG-4 Video : packed bistream detection.
  Now you can know if your DVD player can read the file before burning. Next step: a database of DVD player capacities ;-)
+ Java binding
+ C/C++ dynamic loading (instead of static linkage) binding
+ MPEG-4 : Language
+ MPEG-4 : Text streams (subtitles)
+ C# binding : wrapper class added around methods
x #1523005 : C# crashes because I did not use PtrToStringUni() to handle char pointers
x #1485003 : MP3, "Title" tag was sometimes forgotten
x #1485804 : Wrong bitrate and time in PCM files
x #1485810 : wrong playtime on CBR MP3 files with big id3v2 tags
x #1485803 : some WMA tags were forgotten
x #1488449 : crash on very rare buggy MP3 files
x #1482686 : ShellExtension, crash when moving a directory
x #1488770 : PlayTime, some "minutes" formating were forgotten
x #1485044 : some .ico files were detected as MPEG Audio
x AVI, handle some malformed timestamps in tags (carriage return at the end...)
x MPEG-1 and 2 : incoherancy of PlayTime

Version 0.7.2.1 2005-05-08
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+ MPEG-4 : Chroma ("4:2:0"...)
+ MPEG-4 : Interlacement mode ("Top field first", "bottom field first", or "Progressive")
+ MPEG-2 : Chroma ("4:2:0"...)
+ MPEG-2 : Interlacement mode ("Top field first", "bottom field first", or "Progressive")
+ MPEG-2 : Profile and Level ("Main@Main"...)
+ MPEG-2 : Standard (NTSC, PAL, SECAM, or MAC)
x #1482346 : Incorrect playback time in OGG files (was not enough precise).
x #1482602 : MPEG-4 video false positive files
x #1479344 : Problems with DLL interface, ToolTip shell extension DLL extension are in another DLL to keep compatibility
x #1479317 : stop if debuging in Borland IDEs when opening an AVI file

Version 0.7.2.0 2005-04-30
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+ ToolTip shell extension (if you have the mouse on a multimedia (AVI/MKV/OGG...) file, a ToolTip will be showed
+ AVI with DivX or XviD : Encoder name, GMC/QPel/B-frames indicator if present (beta)
+ AVI and WAV with MP3 : encoder name, precise version and layer number, VBR indication
+ Matroska: support of anamorphic videos (right Aspect Ration even if pixel aspect ratio is not 1:1)
+ AVI/WAV : support of extended wave files (20 bit per sample and more than 2 channels) and channel position
+ AVI : support of Exif tag format
+ AVI : more tags are supported
+ Genres can be translated by translators
+ Real : detect RealAudio Lossless Format
x #1454009 : AC3, sometimes wrong AC3 playtime
x #1469423 : MP3 with cyrilic filenames, Id3 tags can be read
x #1464066 : Hang ups with raw h264 streams
x #1462647 : Quicktime files with preview image, crash
x #1445150 : crash with some malformed MusePack files (workaround, this is a the Musepack bug, not yet corrected)

Version 0.7.1.2 2005-03-10
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+ #1438441: show TV format (PAL/NTSC) for DVD and DV
+ #1343147: Matroska, Show Chapter names
+ MPEG-1 and 2, more precise playtime
+ MPEG-1 and 2, Added Encoded_Application if it is in video user data
+ Quicktime: Support of Quicktime "wide" (header at the end of the file)
+ MPEG Audio: Detect small (examples, less than 200K) MPEG Audio files with Id3v1 tag
+ #1441661: AVI, Handling of DV Type 1
x #1440480: No Audio Found in MPEG-2 after 0.7.0.4
x #1438987: Infinite loop with some Matroska files
x Matroska, Recorded date is now in UTC format, rather than the number of seconds since 1970
x AC3 noted 5 channels (because of 5.1) are now noted 6 channels (more realistic)
x Quicktime: "ima4" or "twos" codecs were detected as Video stream instead of Audio stream
x Crash of third-party softwares with some specific files

Version 0.7.1.1 2005-02-24
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+ Now ~900 codec names (Audio/video/Text) are known (instead of 500)
+ Matroska : Framerate is now for all kinds of codec (and not only FourCC based ones)
+ MPEG-4 (m4V, Quicktime...) with unicode filename are now handled (before : crash on htis kind of file)
+ #1326802: MOV with 3GPP datas.
+ Meta-tags of Quickime HD files
+ #1244215: bit-rate details for MPEG-1 Video (VBR) (calculated with other CBR streams)
+ Detection of MXF files
+ #785338: Huge work on RealMedia parser (bitrate, channels, sampling rate, fps...)
x #1435086: Translation problems if the program is launched directly with a filename
x #1361647: Complete rewrite of MPEG-4 (newest Quicktime, 3GPP, iTunes...) parser to be more robust.
x Some minor (but crashing :( ) bug fixes
x AVI with DV was not well parsed
x ActiveX DLL was forgotten

Version 0.7.1.0 2005-02-12
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+ Speed improvements
+ #1383832: support of last version of Quicktime files
+ Support of Musepack files
+ Support of Flic (FLI/FLV) video files
+ Support of files with more than 8 audio streams or 32 text streams
+ Support of DTS-HD (DTS at 96 KHz / 24 bits)
+ Support of ID3 tags (v1 and v2) in .AAC files
+ Support of all Tags in AVI files
+ Detection of QuickTime image files and QuickTime compressed archives
+ Detection of AVC files (3GPP, 3GPP Mobile or JVT)
+ Detection of iTunes protected files
+ Detection of H264 files (Raw, 3GPP or JVT)
+ Detection of Dirac raw video files
+ Detection of TrueAudio files
+ Detection of WavePack files
x #1420672: No WMV bitrate
x Crash with some corrupted MPEG files
x Crash with some MP3 files with corrupted ID3v2 tags
x Crash with some Quicktime files with corrupted tags
x #1257550 (again:) ): with AVI, rounding of FPS had an impact of FrameCount, based on FPS. Now based on AVI file (better ;-) )
x #1381652: Reported some GIF files as Mpeg audio
x #1381619: UPX compressor is no more used, to prevent Virus checker to use 100% CPU
x 2nd Video framerate forgotten
x Video languages were not parsed (example: "en" should be "English")
x FrameRate/String was forgeting measure (example: "at 25" should be "at 25 fps")
x Some case sensitive problems (example: "KBps" instead of "Kbps", 8 times more)
x DTS and AC3 channels position names were changed to be more human readable
+ Added .lib files needed for Borland and MS C++ compilers (no need to use "implib" anymore)
+ Added Contrib directory: ActiveX component (warning: no support from me)

Version 0.7.0.3 2005-10-25
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x Matroska: "ID" and "UniqueID" tags were not assigne to the right stream.
+ Text: URL for Text codecs

Version 0.7.0.2 2005-10-17
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+ Support of ISO-639 language names (more than 200 language names can be translated)
+ Support of "multilanguage" language name (ISO-639 "mul")
x #1260619 Delphi Example was incorrect

Version 0.7.0.2 2005-10-17
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x #1323208: Video Bitrate for OGM files with VBR audio was incorrect
+ Better detection and handling of DivX container
+ #1327902: More meta data properties for RIFF files
x #1327468: RIFF (AVI) files with not-padded (INFO) sub chunks can't be parsed
+ More "generic" tags added
x Some other minor bugs

Version 0.7.0.1 2005-07-24
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x #1257550: rounding of FPS was 2 digit precise, not enougth, upgraded to 3 digits, and exact number is given (23.97 before, 23.970 or 23.976 now)
x Better false positive detection (mainly in MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3)
x some memory leaks if you use MediaInfo a long time
x MPEG Audio: VBR bitrate corrected for MPEG **1** streams
x MPEG Audio: VBR bitrate corrected for monochannel streams
x #1274999: mp3Pro timing was wrong (2x the real timing)
+ "BitRate_Mode" with MP3 (VBR or CBR)
+ "PlayTime" with AC3
+ "PlayTime" with WAV

Version 0.7.0.0 2005-07-23
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+ DLL: New(), Delete() added. Open() modified. WARNING: this break the interface
x Some changes in the name of Get() varaibles. WARNING: this break the interface
+ Better documentation (still in beta version), with a quick "How To"
+ DLL: MediaInfoList interface (multiple files with one Handle)
+ DLL: C++ wrapper

Version 0.6.1.1 2005-06-25
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x Open Folder option is comming back
x File with an unknown format were detected as MP3
x Corrected hang up on Matroska files
x Corrected crash on AVI with subtitles only
x Corrected crash on some corrupted or unknown files
+ Added 3GPP files support

Version 0.6.1.0 2005-06-23
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+ #1210433: in WMVA, Genre
+ #785349: Added Video->FrameCount (in advanced mode only, and developers)
+ #785349: Added BitRate mode when the codec is know to be only one (AC3 is CBR, Vorbis is VBR...)
x in WMA/WMV, Tags>255
x #1210425: bugs in MP3 (Genre, Track) (thanks to Ingo Brueckl)
x #1210412: MS Windows DLL didn't work under Win9X (no crash, but "Not a good file" reply) because of UnicoWS.dll linking problem.
x #1209291: IFO, Incorrect BitRate_Mode and Resolution (bit shifting), example 704*480
x #1209293: Incorrect Month in General/Date (UTC stamp was 1 month earlier)  (thanks to Ingo Brueckl)
x #1215142: SamplingRate for MPEG audio streams in MPEG container was false
x #1222414: Video BitRate for AVI is back
x #1215939: Added a Format "MPEG x" if MPEG version can't be detected
x #1215840: Better version detection of MPEG Video. But still a workaround, if you know how to detect MPEG1 or 2 in a video only file, please contact me!
x #1210546: For developers, you can know which type is the value returned (Text, Integer, Float, Date, Binary)

Version 0.6.0.0 2005-05-18
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+ PCM support in VOB files
+ Complete rewrite of MPEG1/MPEg2 (and DVD) parser
+ Complete rewrite of AVI parser: internal parser in place of Win32 API
+ #1123025: Escape codes at custom text (for comma, [, ], parenthesis...)
+ Begin of adaptation with GCC: tested with MinGW and Knoppix (Core library, and OGG)
x (I hope) all CSV bugs (quotes...) are corrected
x Unicode decoding in WMV/WMA/ASF formats
x #1195325: Memory leaks of 500 KiB/opened file
x #1192446: Incorect duration in some AVI files
x #1172817: Options in Inform method was "forgotten":(. Warning: this modification breaks compatibility with older DLL (this is why this version is named 0.6 in place of 0.5.x)
x #1201430: Should work with files having broken video stream header
x #1183702: Should work with files having broken video stream header

Version 0.5.1.0 2005-02-09
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New
- Better management of Inform() options
- Added more language names decoding for audio and text streams
- Language names for audio and text streams are translated

Bug fixes:
- Inform: hangups in Inform() with customized Option("Inform") settings
- Options: inversion between Infos_Parameters and Infos_Parameters_CSV
- Some problems with CreateFile: if CreateFile doesn't work, I use WxFile instead
- MPEG Video and MPEG Audio: bug between version 0.4 and version 0.5 corrected
- PlayTime Calculation for OGM was false

Version 0.5.0.1 2005-01-10
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Bug fixes:
- Win95/Win98/WinMe support again! (problem with Unicode)
- AVI files were not well released (file locked)
- Better MPEG4 support
- Better coherency tests: no more file with 10 MP3 streams ;-)

Version 0.5.0.0 2005-01-10
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New
- Developpers, you can exactly choose the format you want support (wit #defines)
- UNICODE support (you should use it) (thanks to Jasper van de Gronde)
- UNICODE filenames support (problem with wxWidgets:( )
- APE support (thanks to Jasper van de Gronde)
- FLAC support (thanks to Jasper van de Gronde)
- AAC support (but no tags, too rare)
- DTS support
- AC3 support
- MPEG4 support
- CDXA (XCD) support (with partial subformats, no Matroska for example, too rare)
- A lot of rare and old audio formats: aiff, aifc, au, iff, paf, sd2, irca, w64, matlab, pvf, Fasttracker, sds, avr...
- Visual C++ 7.1 support
- Visual C# 7.1 example
- Visual J# 7.1 example
- Visual Basic 7.1 example

Bug fixes
- All C++ classes are in the namespace MediaInfoLib
- OGG format: UTF8 was not well decoded outside of US-ASCII codepage
- Better handling of language files (but really not perfect)
- Better handling of Real media files (encoder, codec)
- #936964: Error handling no video or no audio files
- #899692: WM, File Properties Object: Preroll was not used (usualy, playtime was 2-4 seconds too long)
- #868365: PlayTime - 2h12s is 2:12.00, not 2:00:12.00. PlayTime is better handled
- #840508: OGM crash if file is corrupted
- #1026978: Bitrate --> BitRate, OveralBitrate --> OveralBitRate

Version 0.4.0.1 2003-08-25
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Bug fixes
- .Lib for Visual C++ compilers was forgotten
- History and Licence was forgotten
- Compiler changed from Borland to Microsoft for size efficiency (help for reducing code in Borland compiler would be appreciated)

Version 0.4.0 2003-08-01
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New
- Open-Source (GPL)
- Matroska partial Support
- Better interraction with a FrontEnd Interface

Bug fixes
- MPEG1 and 2: huge bugfixes: now you can believe what it say:)
- Files > 4 GigaBytes (OK for file size, but duration calculation is sometimes NOK)
- Quicktime: bad codec in Audio if based of Microsoft 2cc 
- Quicktime: sometimes don't handle compressed headers
- multiple video streams: second streams was not displayed 
- A lot of other minor bugs...


Version 0.3.0 2003-03-03
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New
- New engine for having a lot more format available and be able to write in files
- MPEG2 support (.MPG and .VOB)
- AC3 support
- DTS support
- DVD Video (IFO files) support

Bug fixes
- Too much...

Version 0.2.1 2003-01-12
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New
- MPEG support
- WAV support
- OGG/OGM duration

Bug fixes
- Too much...

Version 0.2.0 2003-01-05
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New
- List of 400+ codecs (audio or video)
- Multiple files opening
- Multi-language (English / French)
- OGG/OGM: Video bitrate, Play time
- More tags (OGG/MP3)

Version 0.1.1.c, 2002-12-31
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Bug fixes
- OGG/OGM, comments: bug if comments were not in the same order than streams
- Summary: problems with roundness of audio bitrate (was floor method, now it is a round method)

Version 0.1.1.a, 2002-12-30
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Bug fixes
- OGG, audio stream except vorbis: the bitrate was in byte in place of bits

Version 0.1.1, 2002-12-29
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Bug fixes
- MP3: Url tag not well implemented

Version 0.1.0, 2002-12-28
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Initial public release