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Changelog for 2.3.12 (32bit and 64bit)
1. New Feature: Added only renaming files in Conversion Options. When selected, all video processing options are disabled, except for Custom Commands
2. New Feature: MKV/AVI/TS profiles now support output for Multiple Audio tracks if the input contains multiple audio tracks and Audio Language is set to <Default>
3. New Feature: Added handling standBy or hibernate states
4. New Feature: Added CPUAffinity parameter in MCEBuddy.conf. Refer to documentation for more details
5. New Feature: Added %ismovie%<RenamePatternIfTrue,RenamePatternIfFalse> to the custom renaming. This allows for 2 separate renaming patterns if it’s a movie or if it’s a TV show
6. New Feature: Added DownloadBanner=false in mcebuddy.conf to override downloading banner/artwork
7. New Features: Added support for adding subtitles (SRT) files (either from the Closed Captions or a SRT file with the source video) to MKV and MP4 files
8. New Feature: Added support for adding chapters to MP4 and MKV files when Skip Commercial Cutting is enabled so that one can skip the commercials like chapters
9. New Feature: Added support to link Monitor Tasks to Conversion Tasks
10. New Feature: Added support for Channel name matching to Conversion Tasks
11. New Feature: Added support for using Recycle Bin when deleting the original recording in MCEBuddy.conf, UseRecycleBin=true
12. New Feature: Added %imdbmovieid% to custom rename for IMDB.com Movie Id
13. New Feature: Added a button to clear the history file in the settings page. This will force MCEBuddy to reconvert all files being monitored
14. New Feature: Added support for downloading info from TV.com and IMDB.com for movies and TV shows. Now MCEBuddy supports, TVDB, TMDB, TV.com, IMDB. The information is incremental, i.e. each DB add additional information since no DB is perfect
15. New Features: Added support for nPVR XML and ArgusTV ARG file for metadata extraction
16. Enhancement: AVIDemux 2.6.1, better TS commercial removal
17. Enhancement: Atomic Parsley 0.9.5 to support iTunes 11
18. Enhancement: MP4Box 0.5.0, better commercial removal
19. Enhancement: Handbrake 0.9.8, faster conversion
20. Enhancement: Some profiles are about 23% faster during conversion now
21. Enhancement: Cancelling job almost instant now
22. Enhancement: UniversalCommercialRemover=true now forces all commercial removal to happen post conversion, unless PreConversionCommercialRemover=true is specified
23. Enhancement: Added PreConversionCommercialRemover=true. This forces all commercials to be cut before the conversion
24. Enhancement: Added %airhourampm%, %recordhourampm% to custom commands and custom rename. Added %recordhour% to custom commands
25. Enhancement: If user specifies Audio language selection in profile.conf parameters, MCEBuddy will not override it
26. Enhancement: Only isolate audio language is specifically request by user (i.e. not set to <default>). Otherwise it leave audio track selection to the encoders
27. Enhancement: CustomCommand Month,Day,Hour,Minute are single digit numbers by default i.e. 9 instead of 09
28. Enhancement: Support multiple audio tracks in output file. If you select <Default> as the Audio Language in the conversion options AND add "-map 0:a -map 0:v" in the ffmpeg-video section for the ffmpeg profile and it will copy/convert all audio tracks. This only works with ffmpeg profiles
29. Enhancement: Handles files with corrupted audio / 0 channel audio better and faster.
30. Enhancement: Normal naming convention does not use record date in the name if the season and episode information are available
31. Enhancement: Extracting Showname and AirDate from Filename (SHOWNAMEYYYYMMDDXYZ or SHOWNAME_YYYYMMDD) for Metadata lookup
32. Enhancement: Added %srtfile%, %edlfile% and %workingpath% in custom commands
33. Enhancement: Check for Showanalyzer before installing
34. Enhancement: Archive/Delete original SRT, EDL and XML files as configured with source recording
35. Enhancement: Support for audio delay for any format
36. Enhancement: Added AllowH264CopyRemuxing=true in profiles.conf to remux H264 files without recoding, allowing to convert H264 WTV to MP4,MKV,TS etc without recoding
37. Enhancement: Support for virtually any extension through <encoder>-remuxto
38. Enhancement: If MCEBuddy finds an XML file in the temp directory it moves it to the destination folder along with the converted file (useful if Comskip is set to generate XML files or any other app/tool)
39. Enhancement: Clicking the X button minimized MCEBuddy. Press the “ESC” key or close button to close MCEBuddy
40. Enhancement: Custom Commands now supports %season%## and %episode%##
41. Enhancement: Added support for iPad, iPad HiRes and iPhone HiRes profiles
42. Enhancement: Added a parameter section for DVRMSRemux in mcebuddy.conf for remuxing DVRMS files
43. Enhancement: Added a 2 new translation languages, Malay and Urdu
44. Enhancement: More accurate matching on TVDB and MovieDB for names, now ignores whitespaces and special characters
45. Enhancement: Added a flag in mcebuddy.conf to IgnoreCopyProtection=true. When set the conversion will log an error it if encounters a copy protected video but will continue conversion
46. BugFix: Non TS/DVRMS/WTV files not remuxed when commercial removal disabled
47. BugFix: <encoder>- unsupported flag was broken in 2.3.11, fixed
48. BugFix: Conversion failures due to Zero Channel audio tracks which caused Trimming and conversion issues for TS and WTV files
49. BugFix: Custom Commands, some parameters broken
50. BugFix: Hang if get MediaInfo is clicked while paused
51. BugFix: Cropping, causing the conversion to fail sometimes
52. BugFix: Very small cuts (<5 seconds) sometimes caused the commercial removal to fail
53. BugFix: Some WTV files are not being read by FFMPEG, use RemuxSupp instead
54. BugFix: When there are over 1000 files in the queue, the GUI starts flashing and stops responding
55. BugFix: Copy encoder which would cause TS from WTV/DVRMS/TS to accidentally delete the original TS file
56. BugFix: Audio video sync for AVI Mpeg2 profiles and provided more redundancy options. TS and AVI MPEG2 profiles have been renamed to better consistency
57. BugFix: Archive & Delete Original now only take effect if the recorded file and converted files don’t have the same name and paths
58. BugFix: Audio delay now working properly with support for multiple audio streams
59. BugFix: MCEBuddy now prefers non-impaired audio streams ONLY when the audio language has been selected in the conversion task page. This is to avoid blank audio streams (impaired)
60. BugFix: Remote Client not able to remember remote engine name
61. BugFix: Sometimes downloading series information from TVDB/MovieDB would get the wrong country / show or blank information
62. BugFix: Fixed ffmpeg based profiles for devices (lack of “” in vf filter would cause conversion to fail)
63. BugFix: Fixed aspect ratio / stretching of some SD recordings
64. BugFix: Changing the language locale started a new app
65. BigFix: Closed captions offset not always consistent when using handbrake
66. BugFix: Fix an issue with the metadata encoding, now it supports local encodings instead of Latin-1 or UTF-8
67. BugFix: Re-remuxing audio due to zero channel audio with language selection leading to wrong audio track selection
68. BugFix: While removing commercials from a TS file, if there are more than 1 audio track they extra tracks would get lost leaving the converted file with only 1 audio track (randomly chosen)
69. BugFix: In constant quality mode (e.g. -qscale) MCEBuddy will not adjust the quality to compensate for resolution changes since it is constant quality
70. BugFix: With rename only, files now follow the settings of Delete Original, Archive and Sync Converted Files
71. BugFix: Screen now scrolls properly if the form size is larger than usable screen size
72. BugFix: Network credentials for new tasks before saving sometimes did not work
73. BugFix: Forcing a IMDB movieid for movies did not work
74. BugFix: Invalid duration checking for video sometimes caused conversion failure
75. BugFix: Don’t sent conversion failure eMail if meta match filter fails
76. BugFix: General Settings were not saved if changed before Conversion Tasks or Monitor Tasks were updated
77. BugFix: Closed captions extraction would cause the conversion to fail with commercial cutting was enabled
78. BugFix: ShowMedia Info caused the GUI to crash
79. BugFix: Commercial removal would fail with empty EDL files
80. BugFix: and are not allowed in filenames since it messes up the History and Conf INI files
81. BugFix: If SRT files were empty, conversion would fail
82. BugFix: Major bug which prevented MCEBuddy from monitoring and writing to some directories (both local and remote). Now ALL remote files will need a username and password to connect to the network resource UNLESS the remote drive accepts guest OR everyone authentication. MCEBuddy does NOT support mapped drives.
83. BugFix: Sync converted file now also deletes EDL, SRT and XML files along with the converted file
Changelog for 2.3.12 (32bit and 64bit)
1. New Feature: Added only renaming files in Conversion Options. When selected, all video processing options are disabled, except for Custom Commands
2. New Feature: MKV/AVI/TS profiles now support output for Multiple Audio tracks if the input contains multiple audio tracks and Audio Language is set to <Default>
3. New Feature: Added handling standBy or hibernate states
4. New Feature: Added CPUAffinity parameter in MCEBuddy.conf. Refer to documentation for more details
5. New Feature: Added %ismovie%<RenamePatternIfTrue,RenamePatternIfFalse> to the custom renaming. This allows for 2 separate renaming patterns if it’s a movie or if it’s a TV show
6. New Feature: Added DownloadBanner=false in mcebuddy.conf to override downloading banner/artwork
7. New Features: Added support for adding subtitles (SRT) files (either from the Closed Captions or a SRT file with the source video) to MKV and MP4 files
8. New Feature: Added support for adding chapters to MP4 and MKV files when Skip Commercial Cutting is enabled so that one can skip the commercials like chapters
9. New Feature: Added support to link Monitor Tasks to Conversion Tasks
10. New Feature: Added support for Channel name matching to Conversion Tasks
11. New Feature: Added support for using Recycle Bin when deleting the original recording in MCEBuddy.conf, UseRecycleBin=true
12. New Feature: Added %imdbmovieid% to custom rename for IMDB.com Movie Id
13. New Feature: Added a button to clear the history file in the settings page. This will force MCEBuddy to reconvert all files being monitored
14. New Feature: Added support for downloading info from TV.com and IMDB.com for movies and TV shows. Now MCEBuddy supports, TVDB, TMDB, TV.com, IMDB. The information is incremental, i.e. each DB add additional information since no DB is perfect
15. New Features: Added support for nPVR XML and ArgusTV ARG file for metadata extraction
16. Enhancement: AVIDemux 2.6.1, better TS commercial removal
17. Enhancement: Atomic Parsley 0.9.5 to support iTunes 11
18. Enhancement: MP4Box 0.5.0, better commercial removal
19. Enhancement: Handbrake 0.9.8, faster conversion
20. Enhancement: Some profiles are about 23% faster during conversion now
21. Enhancement: Cancelling job almost instant now
22. Enhancement: UniversalCommercialRemover=true now forces all commercial removal to happen post conversion, unless PreConversionCommercialRemover=true is specified
23. Enhancement: Added PreConversionCommercialRemover=true. This forces all commercials to be cut before the conversion
24. Enhancement: Added %airhourampm%, %recordhourampm% to custom commands and custom rename. Added %recordhour% to custom commands
25. Enhancement: If user specifies Audio language selection in profile.conf parameters, MCEBuddy will not override it
26. Enhancement: Only isolate audio language is specifically request by user (i.e. not set to <default>). Otherwise it leave audio track selection to the encoders
27. Enhancement: CustomCommand Month,Day,Hour,Minute are single digit numbers by default i.e. 9 instead of 09
28. Enhancement: Support multiple audio tracks in output file. If you select <Default> as the Audio Language in the conversion options AND add "-map 0:a -map 0:v" in the ffmpeg-video section for the ffmpeg profile and it will copy/convert all audio tracks. This only works with ffmpeg profiles
29. Enhancement: Handles files with corrupted audio / 0 channel audio better and faster.
30. Enhancement: Normal naming convention does not use record date in the name if the season and episode information are available
31. Enhancement: Extracting Showname and AirDate from Filename (SHOWNAMEYYYYMMDDXYZ or SHOWNAME_YYYYMMDD) for Metadata lookup
32. Enhancement: Added %srtfile%, %edlfile% and %workingpath% in custom commands
33. Enhancement: Check for Showanalyzer before installing
34. Enhancement: Archive/Delete original SRT, EDL and XML files as configured with source recording
35. Enhancement: Support for audio delay for any format
36. Enhancement: Added AllowH264CopyRemuxing=true in profiles.conf to remux H264 files without recoding, allowing to convert H264 WTV to MP4,MKV,TS etc without recoding
37. Enhancement: Support for virtually any extension through <encoder>-remuxto
38. Enhancement: If MCEBuddy finds an XML file in the temp directory it moves it to the destination folder along with the converted file (useful if Comskip is set to generate XML files or any other app/tool)
39. Enhancement: Clicking the X button minimized MCEBuddy. Press the “ESC” key or close button to close MCEBuddy
40. Enhancement: Custom Commands now supports %season%## and %episode%##
41. Enhancement: Added support for iPad, iPad HiRes and iPhone HiRes profiles
42. Enhancement: Added a parameter section for DVRMSRemux in mcebuddy.conf for remuxing DVRMS files
43. Enhancement: Added a 2 new translation languages, Malay and Urdu
44. Enhancement: More accurate matching on TVDB and MovieDB for names, now ignores whitespaces and special characters
45. Enhancement: Added a flag in mcebuddy.conf to IgnoreCopyProtection=true. When set the conversion will log an error it if encounters a copy protected video but will continue conversion
46. BugFix: Non TS/DVRMS/WTV files not remuxed when commercial removal disabled
47. BugFix: <encoder>- unsupported flag was broken in 2.3.11, fixed
48. BugFix: Conversion failures due to Zero Channel audio tracks which caused Trimming and conversion issues for TS and WTV files
49. BugFix: Custom Commands, some parameters broken
50. BugFix: Hang if get MediaInfo is clicked while paused
51. BugFix: Cropping, causing the conversion to fail sometimes
52. BugFix: Very small cuts (<5 seconds) sometimes caused the commercial removal to fail
53. BugFix: Some WTV files are not being read by FFMPEG, use RemuxSupp instead
54. BugFix: When there are over 1000 files in the queue, the GUI starts flashing and stops responding
55. BugFix: Copy encoder which would cause TS from WTV/DVRMS/TS to accidentally delete the original TS file
56. BugFix: Audio video sync for AVI Mpeg2 profiles and provided more redundancy options. TS and AVI MPEG2 profiles have been renamed to better consistency
57. BugFix: Archive & Delete Original now only take effect if the recorded file and converted files don’t have the same name and paths
58. BugFix: Audio delay now working properly with support for multiple audio streams
59. BugFix: MCEBuddy now prefers non-impaired audio streams ONLY when the audio language has been selected in the conversion task page. This is to avoid blank audio streams (impaired)
60. BugFix: Remote Client not able to remember remote engine name
61. BugFix: Sometimes downloading series information from TVDB/MovieDB would get the wrong country / show or blank information
62. BugFix: Fixed ffmpeg based profiles for devices (lack of “” in vf filter would cause conversion to fail)
63. BugFix: Fixed aspect ratio / stretching of some SD recordings
64. BugFix: Changing the language locale started a new app
65. BigFix: Closed captions offset not always consistent when using handbrake
66. BugFix: Fix an issue with the metadata encoding, now it supports local encodings instead of Latin-1 or UTF-8
67. BugFix: Re-remuxing audio due to zero channel audio with language selection leading to wrong audio track selection
68. BugFix: While removing commercials from a TS file, if there are more than 1 audio track they extra tracks would get lost leaving the converted file with only 1 audio track (randomly chosen)
69. BugFix: In constant quality mode (e.g. -qscale) MCEBuddy will not adjust the quality to compensate for resolution changes since it is constant quality
70. BugFix: With rename only, files now follow the settings of Delete Original, Archive and Sync Converted Files
71. BugFix: Screen now scrolls properly if the form size is larger than usable screen size
72. BugFix: Network credentials for new tasks before saving sometimes did not work
73. BugFix: Forcing a IMDB movieid for movies did not work
74. BugFix: Invalid duration checking for video sometimes caused conversion failure
75. BugFix: Don’t sent conversion failure eMail if meta match filter fails
76. BugFix: General Settings were not saved if changed before Conversion Tasks or Monitor Tasks were updated
77. BugFix: Closed captions extraction would cause the conversion to fail with commercial cutting was enabled
78. BugFix: ShowMedia Info caused the GUI to crash
79. BugFix: Commercial removal would fail with empty EDL files
80. BugFix: and are not allowed in filenames since it messes up the History and Conf INI files
81. BugFix: If SRT files were empty, conversion would fail
82. BugFix: Major bug which prevented MCEBuddy from monitoring and writing to some directories (both local and remote). Now ALL remote files will need a username and password to connect to the network resource UNLESS the remote drive accepts guest OR everyone authentication. MCEBuddy does NOT support mapped drives.
83. BugFix: Sync converted file now also deletes EDL, SRT and XML files along with the converted file