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* Changed
! Fixed


1.6.7 - 25 April 2013
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+ DVB capture: Improve channel switching
+ Subtitle downloader improvements:
- Ticket #2144, Sort by language and then by filename by default. Subtitles matching a language
set as preferred in the options are now displayed first in the result list
- Ticket #2926, Double-clicking or pressing the "Enter" key will download the selected subtitle(s)
+ Ticket #2837, New INI parser: the accesses are now cached for faster settings loading/saving.
Using the INI file should now be as fast as using the registry
+ Ticket #2987, Playlist improvements:
- Scroll and select the first newly added item
- Put MPC-HC on top and give the focus to the playlist after a drag and drop
* Updated Basque, Catalan, Czech, French, German, Greek, Simplified Chinese, Slovak,
Turkish and Ukrainian translations
* Updated Little CMS to v2.5 (git cde00fd)
* Updated VirtualDub to v1.10.4-test6
* Ticket #2689, Replace "On top -> Never" by "On top -> Default". In most of the
cases "On top -> Default" will have the exact same behavior than "On top -> Never"
but it won't try to override the "On top" flag if an external tool sets it
* Ticket #3049, Re-enable VSync by default for Windows XP users
! Fix a crash when VMR-7 (renderless) renderer failed to load
! SSA subtitles rendering: Improve error checking to avoid possible crashes when the SSA script
was using obviously wrong values
! Ticket #1392, DVD subtitles: Improve rendering in case of overlapping. Ensure that both subtitles
will be shown.
! Ticket #2991, Fix loading of MicroDVD subtitles
! Ticket #3001, "After Playback": Always give "Once" events a higher priority than "Always" events
! Ticket #3023, "File -> Load Subtitle" didn't work anymore for DVD
! Ticket #3045, Go to dialog: Fix frame rate detection for DVDs

+ DVB: Show the parental rating and the content type within the EPG information when available
+ Ticket #2872, Add support for DVB-T2 and improve channel switching (new options are available to
have a finer control on switching process)
+ Ticket #3179, DVB: Support EPG information for Freeview broadcast (UK DVB-T2)
* Updated Basque, Czech, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Romanian, Russian,
Simplified / Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian translations
* Updated Little CMS to v2.5-rc1
* Updated zlib to v1.2.8
* Updated Unrar to v5.0.6
* Updated MediaInfoLib to v0.7.63
* Updated ZenLib to v0.4.29
* Audio Switcher improvements:
- Ticket #1936, Improve the normalization algorithm to avoid huge volume variations
- Use percentage for the boost setting since it is easier to understand for most people
- Add a setting to change the max normalization factor and use a default max normalization
factor of 4 instead of 10
* Ticket #2567, New About dialog with more detailed information and a "Copy to clipboard"
feature to ease support
! PGS and DVB subtitles: Fix missing subtitles after resizing the window when using
the subpicture queue
! Open dialog: if a URL was previously enterer in the "Open" or "Dub" fields an error message
was shown when clicking the "Browse" button
! Vobsub files with language/title in their filenames weren't auto-loaded
! Fix a memory leak: the memory consumption would increase noticeably until the file was closed
when the file had chapters and the chapter marks on seekbar were enabled
! Capture mode: Fix reseting the renderer. When reseting the renderer in capture mode playback
was stopped and never restarted
! Ticket #3110, DVB: Improve compatibility with some drivers for which MPC-HC failed to find
any channel during the channel scan
! Ticket #3113, MPC-HC was sometimes slow to close (audio kept playing for a few seconds)
! Ticket #3175, DVB: Changing the channel was exiting fullscreen or maximized mode
! Ticket #3176, EVR renderers: Fix high CPU and memory usage when switching the user account

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+ Ticket #2655, Internal filters: Support WMV/ASF/DVR-MS splitting
+ Ticket #3548, Add British English translation
+ Ticket #3590, Internal filters: Support for HEVC and VP9
+ Ticket #3605, Support playlists using UTF8 encoding without BOM
+ Ticket #3643, Add Slovenian translation
* Ticket #3569/#3679/#3680, Disable internal WMV/ASF/DVR-MS splitting and WMV decoding by default
since Microsoft filters are generally more stable
* Updated French, German, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Simplified Chinese translations
* Updated LAV Filters to 0.59.1.26:
- Ticket #3576, LAV Video: Support H264 Annex B format in MP4 files
- Ticket #3601, LAV Video: Fix a crash with DXVA on AMD cards when stopping playback
- Ticket #3676, LAV Audio: Fix a crash when using old versions of the ArcSoft DTS Decoder
to handle DTS decoding internally
- Ticket #3688, LAV Audio: Fix a freeze when changing the bitstreaming settings when paused
* Updated VirtualDub to v1.10.4
* Updated Unrar to v5.0.0.12
* Updated Little CMS to v2.6b (git 69ecafd)
! DVD: The chapter marks could be wrong for some titles
! Ticket #1478, Slightly improve the precision of the frame number in the "Go To" dialog.
The frame number was sometimes off by 1. This was easily noticeable when doing frame-stepping
! Ticket #1555, Use elapsed/remaining time for the chapter change OSD depending on what is selected
for the time display. Also prevent the OSD from blinking when changing the chapter
! Ticket #3518, Improve the reliability of the [DXVA] indicator in the status bar. Sometimes
the indicator wasn't shown when hardware acceleration was used
! Ticket #3523/#3533/#3551, Improve the stability of MPC-HC on buggy systems
! Ticket #3530, Internal LAV Splitter: the advanced subtitle selection modes were ignored
! Ticket #3564, If "Keep history of recently opened file" option was enabled, MPC-HC crashed
when opening very long URLs
! Ticket #3672, "Output" property page: "Shader" and "Rotation" were sometimes wrongly displayed
as unavailable for "Sync renderer"
! Ticket #3702, External audio was not synced on open if restarting from the last remembered position
! Ticket #3720, DVB: Obey the Auto-zoom option when opening a channel

•New:
◦Added support for XySubFilter, only compatible with embedded subtitles for now
◦New option to auto-hide docked panels together with toolbars
◦Support pixel shader presets (with shortcuts and command line options)
◦Show more descriptive window title in capture mode
◦Ability to add all media files in folder from playlist panel context menu
◦New Croatian and Malay translations
◦Ticket #1556, Ability to move the player window by dragging the video area during DVD playback
◦Ticket #2251, Show hidden main menu with Alt key
◦Ticket #3235, Option to delay playback when auto-change fullscreen monitor mode feature is used
◦Ticket #3284, Option to auto-hide mouse pointer in windowed mode during playback
◦Ticket #3379, “Left Up” mouse keybinding now allows to move the player window by dragging the video area
◦Ticket #3614, Do medium jumps when pressing mouse navigation buttons on the seekbar

•Changed:
◦Optimized subtitle renderer:
◾performance has been greatly improved both for subtitle parsing and rendering (often 5 times faster or more)
◾some subtitles which might have been missing before will now be displayed

◦The storing mechanism of pixel shaders was redesigned:
◾each pixel shader is now stored in its own file with .hlsl extension
◾shader files are reloaded automatically when MPC-HC detects changes in them
◾internal pixel shader editor was removed, you’re supposed to use specialized external editors from now on, but can still view compilation output in “Debug Shaders” window
◾internal video renderers now always use the latest supported shader profile to compile pixel shaders

◦More flexible auto-hide controls in fullscreen configuration options
◦Multiple high DPI scaling interface improvements

•Updated:
◦LAV Filters to v0.60.1.5:
◾Ticket #3540, LAV Splitter: The current/average bitrate is now shown in the Information panel
◾Ticket #3760, LAV Video: Fix a crash when opening some DVDs on 64-bit
◾Ticket #3793, LAV Video: Fix a decoding issue with some H264 files
◾Ticket #3849, LAV Video: DXVA VC1/WMV3 decoding now works on Intel cards
◾Ticket #3862, LAV Splitter: Fix a crash when opening MKV files with big attachments
◾Ticket #3929, LAV Video: Fix a crash when trying to decode WMV-3/VC1 with the DMO decoder unavailable

◦MediaInfoLib to v0.7.67
◦ZenLib to v0.4.29 r453
◦Little CMS to v2.6b (git 579b3aa)
◦Unrar to v5.0.0.14
◦Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, British English, Catalan, Czech, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian translations

•Fixed:
◦Internal subtitles renderer: Vobsub/PGS/DVB subtitles are now rendered relative to the video frame
◦Warnings were not displayed in pixel shader compilation output
◦DVB: It was sometimes impossible to restart playback after it was stopped
◦Output property page: Fix VMR-9 renderless settings (some controls were disabled when they shouldn’t have been)
◦Ticket #720/#1807/#2625/#3161 Improve stability in analog capture mode when using EVR-CP/Sync renderer
◦Ticket #1300/#2081, Toolbars auto-hiding now always works properly in multi-display configurations
◦Ticket #2460, Some subtitle entries were rendered twice depending on how entries overlapped. This led to incorrect transparency
◦Ticket #2461, ASS reset style tag (\r) broke “Position subtitle relative to the video frame”
◦Ticket #3243, Fix a crash when starting MPC-HC with the WebUI enabled and certain regional settings
◦Ticket #3479, Improve the behavior of MPC-HC when some security tools prevent it from initializing correctly
◦Ticket #3650, Improve the speed of subtitles toggling (on/off) and switching
◦Ticket #3668, MPC-HC could crash when reloading subtitles
◦Ticket #3922, “Play -> Subtitles” menu actions were off by one when playing a DVD and only external subtitles were available
◦Ticket #3963, Update the chapter marks on the seekbar when the media length changes. The bug was most often seen for MKV with multiple editions

1.7.4 - 16 April 2014
New:
New Bengali and Tatar translations
Support for opening “icyx://” stream URLs
Ticket #2348/#3583, Automatically refresh the information bar and title bar so that the correct information is always shown for streaming (e.g. online radios)
Ticket #4043, Statistic: Show playback rate for audio files
Changed:
If MPC-HC is configured to override the splitter choice when doing the initial track selection, tracks selected at splitter level will be preferred in case more than one tracks match the criteria
The “Jump to” menu has been split in several smaller submenus displayed in the “Navigate” menu depending on the media currently playing
The internal LAV Splitter will now be used by default to demux AviSynth scripts instead of using the old VFW interface. Note that AviSynth is still required even if LAV Splitter is used
Cleaned up WebUI’s Javascript code
Updated:
SoundTouch to v1.8.0
Little CMS to v2.6 (git 40300b1)
Unrar to v5.1.2
MediaInfoLib to v0.7.68
ZenLib to v0.4.29 r446
LAV Filters to stable version 0.61.2:
LAV Audio: Improve error recovery on slightly corrupted audio streams
LAV Video: Fix a rare crash that could occur for high resolutions
LAV Video: Fix artifacts on some H264 streams with both software and DXVA decoding
LAV Splitter: Support ShoutCast metadata
LAV Video: Various improvements for DXVA support (native and copy-back)
LAV Splitter: Fix the opening of some Blu-ray discs which would take several minutes and could hang the player
Ticket #4035, LAV Video: Some frames were dropped when playing RealVideo files
Ticket #4057, LAV Splitter: Some WAV files were incorrectly detected as DTS
Armenian, Basque, British English, Catalan, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese translations
Fixed:
Properties dialog: Some tracks could have been missing from the streams list
Fix incorrectly displayed OSD in case the message contained the character ‘&’. Also make top-left and top-right OSD size consistent and improve the behavior when the text is too big to be displayed entirely
VMR-7 renderless: subtitles were not displayed except in fullscreen
Ensure dynamic menus dependent on the currently playing media are updated when the media changes while a menu is opened
DVB subtitles: Subtitles were sometimes only partially rendered with some parts disappearing immediately
DVB and PGS subtitles: Subtitles were sometimes one frame late. This was invisible most of the time, but it could produce blinking in some cases
ISR: Crop PGS and DVB subtitles if they don’t fit into the video frame
ISR/VSFilter: Use correct colorimetry information for PGS and DVB subtitles
ISR: Subtitles could be partially rendered when using no subtitle queue
ISR: Text subtitles were incorrectly displayed after switching from PGS/DVB subtitles
PGS subtitles: Subtitles being displayed just after seeking could be wrong
Ticket #1814, Vobsub: Support animated subtitles (with fade in/out)
Ticket #2588, Subtitle renderer: The subtitles’ shadow was not drawn when their border was very thin
Ticket #2773, Subtitle renderer: Fix possible artifacts when using karaoke effects
Ticket #2994, Fix toolbar separators not being properly painted
Ticket #3296, Fix WebUI controls.html error due to unescaped file path
Ticket #3437, Audio Switcher: Support fallback to another media type. For example, this allows audio decoders to fallback to normal decoding if bitstreaming isn’t supported
Ticket #3544, Prevent the low-merit fall-back on internal LAV Splitter to demux raw subtitle formats
Ticket #3691, PGS subtitle timings were sometimes wrong (subtitles started or ended too late)
Ticket #3763, VMR-9 renderless and EVR-CP: The displayed subtitle was not updated when seeking while playback was paused
Ticket #3775, “Play -> Subtitles” menu could be mistakenly disabled when the internal subtitle renderer was unavailable
Ticket #3980/#4037, Exiting fullscreen sometimes produced visual artifacts
Ticket #3987, Entering fullscreen when MPC-HC window occupied the whole monitor produced visual artifacts
Ticket #3999, Work around a crash in the math library for x64 builds
Ticket #4004, Fullscreen/windowed transition was not as smooth as in 1.7.1 and prior
Ticket #4011, Fix image saving for streams with characters not supported in path names
Ticket #4013, Subtitle renderer: Fix a crash on malformed animated transforms (\t tags with no parameters)
Ticket #4020, Update dialog: Fix incorrect version info when using Belarusian, Slovenian or Russian translations
Ticket #4050, MPC-HC could crash when loading invalid DVB channel settings
Ticket #4070, Restore compatibility with KatMouse
Ticket #4079, The “Save image/thumbnails” path was cut off in the status bar
Ticket #4082, Fullscreen window was misplaced sometimes after monitor mode autochange
Ticket #4116, “Snap to desktop edges” option wasn’t working correctly
Ticket #4128, Moving mouse over tooltips in fullscreen hid the toolbar under some circumstances
Ticket #4141, Subtitles were incorrectly displayed in DVD and DVB mode when using the internal subtitle renderer and madVR
Ticket #4141, DVD subtitles were always re-enabled when clicking on a menu entry related to external subtitles
Ticket #4163, Shaders option page: the buttons’ icons were missing on Windows XP
Ticket #4173, ASS/SSA subtitles: Fix a possible infinite loop during parsing

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+ Accept loading more than one subtitle file at a time using the "Load subtitle" dialog or drag-and-drop
+ Add advanced settings page
+ Add Arabic and Thai translations
+ Completely reworked subtitle queue:
- The queue should be quite faster than the older one for a similar number of buffered subpictures. It should also work much better when the number of subpictures becomes important - Subtitle animation can now be disabled even when using no buffering
- Add the ability to choose at which state (in percentage of the full animation) an animated subtitle will be rendered when the animation is turned off
- Add the ability to control the rate of the animation (in percentage of the movie frame rate)
- Add the ability to control whether the subtitle queue is allowed to drop some subpictures in case subtitle rendering is too slow
+ Add option to set jpg quality when saving images (default quality is increased from 75% to 90%)
+ Ticket #353, Allow to control minimum file duration for remember position feature
+ Ticket #1287, Add after playback command to turn off the monitor.
+ Ticket #1407/#2425, Add an advanced option to control the number of recent files. Those files are shown in the "Recent Files" menu. It is also the files for which a position is potentially saved
+ Ticket #1531, Show cover-art while playing audio files
+ Ticket #2194, Show drive label when playing DVD
+ Ticket #3393, Allow to disable remember position feature for audio files
+ Ticket #4345, Text subtitles: Add a mode that automatically chooses the rendering target based on the subtitle type, ASS/SSA subtitles will be rendered on the video frame while other text subtitles will be rendered on the full window
+ Ticket #4690, Internal filters: Support v210/v410 raw video formats
* Text subtitles: Faster subtitle parsing (up to 4 times faster for ASS/SSA subtitles)
* Text subtitles: Improved subtitle renderer for faster rendering of complex subtitle scripts (often twice faster or more)
* Text subtitles: Much faster subtitle opening in the Subresync bar
* Ticket #325, Move after playback commands to options and add an option to close and restore logo.
* Ticket #1663, Improved command line help dialog
* Ticket #2834, Increase limit on subtitles override placement feature.
* Ticket #4428, Improve the clarity of the error message when opening a subtitle file fails
* Ticket #4687, Reworked "Formats" option page. It is now possible to clear all associations
* Ticket #4865, Subtitles option page: Clarify the "Delay interval" setting
* Updated Little CMS to v2.6 (git 9c075b3)
* Updated Unrar to v5.1.7 * Updated MediaInfoLib to v0.7.70
* Updated ZenLib to v0.4.29 r481
* Updated LAV Filters to stable version 0.63.0:
- LAV Video: HEVC decoding is up to 100% faster
- LAV Video: Fix potential artifacts when decoding x264 lossless streams
- LAV Splitter: Support for playing AES encrypted HLS streams
- LAV Splitter: Advanced Subtitle selection allows selecting subtitles by a string match on the stream title
- Ticket #3608, LAV Splitter: Fix stuttering with some (m2)ts files
- Ticket #4322, LAV Audio: Improve the estimated duration for some MP3 files
- Ticket #4539, LAV Video: Fix a crash with DVD subtitles on 64-bit builds when using software decoding
- Ticket #4639, LAV Splitter: Fix incorrect colors for VobSub tracks in MP4
- Ticket #4783, LAV Video: Experimental support for hardware (CUVID and DXVA2) assisted decoding of HEVC streams (disabled by default)
- Ticket #4879, LAV Audio and LAV Splitter: Fix TrueHD streams with a Dolby Atmos sub-stream The full changelog can be found at * Updated Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, British English, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese translations
! Work around corrupted display with NVIDIA drivers v344.11 when using EVR, EVR-CP or Sync renderers
! "Load subtitle" dialog: Fix the file filters on Windows Vista+
! "Resources" tab: The resource saved wasn't always matching the selection
! Ticket #3930, Fix a possible crash with embedded subtitles when the subtitle queue is disabled
! Ticket #4207, Taskbar preview wasn't scaled correctly
! Ticket #4504, ASS/SSA subtitles: Support floating point values in drawing commands
! Ticket #4505, Embedded text subtitles: Fix a possible crash related to the Subresync bar
! Ticket #4536, ASS/SSA subtitles: Fix the parsing of \fs tags when the value was negative
! Ticket #4665, Ensure that the icon shown in the status bar and the property dialog matches the icon currently associated to the format
! Ticket #4678/#4856, Use internal filters for GIF format
! Ticket #4684, Clicking on the some parts of the volume slider had no effect
! Ticket #4707, EVR-CP: Screenshots were corrupted when "Force 10-bit input" was used
! Ticket #4730, MediaInfo: Ensure the MediaInfo tab gives the same information as the official GUI
! Ticket #4744, Some subtitles could cause a crash or produce artifacts
! Ticket #4752, Monitors connected to secondary graphic card were not detected
! Ticket #4758, Adjust width of the groupbox headers to avoid empty space
! Ticket #4778, Fix optical drive detection when its letter is A or B.
! Ticket #4782, Backward frame step led to jumping to the wrong position in certain situations
! Ticket #4825, Tracks matching a preferred language weren't always selected correctly
! Ticket #4827, Initial window size could be wrong for anamorphic video
! Ticket #4831, Fix a rare issue with animated subtitles starting at timecode 0
! Ticket #4857, The timings of some subtitles could be wrong when using Sync Renderer
! Ticket #4863, MPC-HC could crash when opening a file through the QuickTime engine

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