VideoReDo Plus Release Notes

The release notes detail changes and known issues for each build of VideoReDo. If you spot a problem that hasn't been addressed in this list, please let us know by sending a message to our support team.

Version 2-5-6-512, Release date: June 16, 2007

• Fix: When source and destination files were dvr-ms, sometimes VideoReDo would hang for 2-20 minutes while windows would copy and re-index the output file.
• Fix: The AbortOutput call in the COM interface did not work properly.
• Fix: Intermittent crash when doing a GOP reduction.
• Fix: Creating a chapter file with timecodes with a .hh format format (e.g. hh:mm:ss.hh) would cause a crash.

Version 2-5-5-512, Release date: March 28, 2007

• Fix: Ouputting to Topfield .rec files could crash VideoReDo if user's time zone is east of GMT.
• Fix: TS output with automatic mux rate would fail with "audio syncword" error if a bad audio frame was detected during mux rate calculation.

Version 2-5-4-507, Release date: January 18, 2007

• Enhance: Installation wizard will detect if being installed on Vista and set VideoReDo video driver to VMR9 to support Aero glass.
• Enhance: COM: New property: OpenedFilename, to return the currently opened filename.
• Enhance: COM: New sample scripts included with the installation, ScanAndSplit.vbs and ScanSplitFolder.cmd.
• Enhance: AC3: For all AC3 output stream to sub-stream 0x80 via a setting ont he Tools>Shift+Options page.
• Enhance: Install wizard, change MCE detection to work with Vista.
• Change: When saving to elementary streams, 'wav' and 'ac3' file types would be in upper case rather than the preferred lower case.
• Change: DVR-MS, QuickstreamFix was unable to use the video dimension filter.
• Change: Mute button, red overlay hard to see.
• Fix: Opening a CRID file could sometimes cause an infinite loop.
• Fix: AC3: Ignore and skip bad audio header of 3.0 channels, 32K sampling rate.
• Fix: COM. SetCutMode() would GPF if called before opening a file.
• Fix: TS Streams: If "PID not found" message was displayed, memory wasn't being fully released.
• Fix: DVR-MS input: Small memory leak found and fixed.
• Fix: Tivo file reader: Memory leak found and fixed.

Version 2-5-3-500, Release date: November 10, 2006

• Enhance: Logfile: Add ability to clear log file and more easily attach to an email. Log filename is also copied to the clipboard if the "Explore" option is selected.
• Enhance: COM: New method FileOpenBatchPIDS( filename, videoPID, audioPID) to enable QSF with custom PIDs.
• Change: New faster AC3 decoder library.
• Fix: DVR-MS files with restricted content could get into infinite loop. VideoReDo attempts to detect and issue a warning.
• Fix: Batch: Ampersand "&" in the filename would cause file name problems in batch.
• Fix: DVR-MS: NTSC closed captions caused injection of bad user data into the video stream resulting in pixelation.
• Fix: Humax PVR transport streams will not open properly.
• Fix: CRID: Double clicking on an entry in the CRID list would cause a crash.
• Fix: CRID: attemp0ting to open a CRID file with no available components could cause a crash.
• Fix: Batch: In File>Queue To Batch, changing the suggested filename and then changing an output option would cause filename to revert to default.

Version 2-5-2-491, Release date: September 25, 2006

• Enhance: Support for creating DVR-MS output files.
• Enhance: Support for creating Topfield .REC output files.
• Enhance: Ability to detect and process MPEG1 video inside an MPEG2 program stream.
• Enhance: New hidden options page for undocumented options, using Shift+Tools>Options.
• Enhance: New zoom feature to magnify the timeline.
• Enhance: New "Favorite places" on the Tools>Options pages. Allows you to setup favorite folders in the file open dialog.
• Enhance: Brand new installation wizard
• Enhance: Support for YUV acceleration on multiple monitors using VMR7 and VMR9 drivers.
• Enhance: VideoReDo will work with Vista Betas using the Aero interface when using the VMR9 drivers.
• Enhance: Sorting filenames for auto comine (VLST) will now logically sort, i.e. VTS_01_10.VOB will follow VTS_01_9.VOB. Only works on Windows XP.
• Enhance: Ability to support 4:2:2 video.
• Enhance: AdDetective in batch can now run silently.
• Enhance: Running batch in quiet mode is now totally quiet except for icon in the system task bar.
• Enhance: Ability to change the volume in the saved file. Output audio type must be LPCM (WAV) or MPEG.
• Enhance: Batch audio alert will only be heard after the last file in the batch sequence.
• Enhance: New COM properties/methods: AudioAlert, OutputPercentComplete, EnterRegistrationKey, VersionNumber, AbortOutput.
• Enhance: Copy Tivo meta data from the source file if the source and destination files are both Tivo.
• Enhance: If source file is a BeyondTV transport file and output is a transport file, the BeyondTV metadata, if present, will be copied.
• Enhance: Batch will properly support the full ANSI character set.
• Enhance: Complete support for NTSC 29.97 FPS drop frame timecodes. Both in the display and output in the GOP header.
• Enhance: Frame Capture, Added Shift+Tools>Options to specify number of lines to omit from the capture.
• Enhance: Ability to call a user defined application using Shift+File>Queue To Batch. Command to be called specified on Shift+Tools>Options.
• Enhance: Batch quiet mode, will no longer display video. Fixes problem when running VRD in the background when MCE is running. To use this feature, set "Do not display video in silent batch" to true, in Shift+Tools>Options.
• Change: Log file date display changed from mm/dd/yy to ISO format: YYYY-mm-dd.
• Change: For TS files broadcast with ATSC (USA digital broadcasts), the audio will default to the AC3 stream if one is present.
• Change: Ability to change the text color of the mark-in/out time codes to provide better contrast against the application background.
• Change: Logfile is now saved in the C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\VideoReDoPlus. New installations only. Permits VideoReDo to run as limited user.
• Change: Saving a project file will add the .bprj file to File menu's recently used file list.
• Change: Audio Alerts can be enabled only for batch, interactive, or both.
• Change: The "Unsaved Edits" message ox will now default to "No" so that pressing return not not exit the application.
• Change: Ulead Movie Factory option has been removed. VideoReDo files should be acceptable for all version of Movie Factory.
• Change: Ad-Detective, "Automatically cut commercials is now the default.
• Change: If you switch to frame display, instead of time code display, the setting will be remembered the next time you start VideoReDo.
• Change: Queue To Batch, if you change the default file type, the file extension will also change.
• Change: Added a "Copy to Clipboard" button on the Tools>Show Program Info page.
• Change: Tools>Show Program info now display Tivo and DVRMS as source file types.
• Change: Quickstream FIX for DVD VOBs will no longer skip over audio frames that occur right after a PTS reset.
• Change: Accept AC3 audio that have incorrectly formatted PES headers.
• Change: Ctrl+X no longer exits. Use the Windows standard Alt+F4.
• Change: If we get an "unknown error" while writing to the output file, show the Windows error code and text in the log file.
• Change: Thumbnails, would redraw all TNs when cut list was changed.
• Change: Audio will default to DirectSound.
• Fix: Unable to capture first frame of the file as soon as the file was opened.
• Fix: When opening a file, sometimes the 2nd frame would be displayed rather than the first.
• Fix: Switching to Preview in scene mode while cursor was at "end marker" position would sometimes cause VideoReDo to hang in a loop.
• Fix: DVR-MS input file where sequence header didn't start at the beginning of a packet had sync and seek issues.
• Fix: Drawing of sliders and some text boxes on the main screen could be messed up if there were overlapping windows.
• Fix: If adding multiple VPRJ files at one time to the joiner using using either drag or multiple file open, a "replace cut" message might be shown if VideoReDo is running in scene mode.
• Fix: Saving AC3 5.1 to LPCM/WAV elementary stream (.WAV) would create a bad WAV header to be written in the output file.
• Fix: Pressing ESC in the aduio sync adjustment window would prevent it from opening again until the next file open.
• Fix: Back by single frame in preview mode would intermittently cause a jump to the beginning fo the file.
• Fix: Closing a TIVO input file wouold not release the file handle until VideoReDo was terminated.
• Fix: Estimated time remaining was incorrect when outputting via the joiner.
• Fix: Output options dialog. Max GOP size was not displaying correctly on the initial display.
• Fix: Thumnail audio graph wasn't displaying all audio data if the numbnail interval was greater than a single frame.
• Fix: Audio adjustments, sync offset and volume, were being reset each time the dialog box displayed rather than being remembered.
• Fix: AC3 with bit rates > 512Kbbps would cause a GPF when outputting to program stream or VOB.
• Fix: AC3 Audio at 44.1Khz, some audio frame lengths were incorrectly calculated.
• Fix: Dragging the mouse outside of a navigation button, while still having the mouse button pressed, would cause auto repeat to remain active for that button.
• Fix: "Tip of the Day" and/or "Check for updates" will not be shown when running in silent mode.
• Fix: GOP timecode was wrong at cut point if the cut was on an I-Frame.
• Fix: VTS_01_10.vob would bbe omitted from auto combine (VLST) since we mistook it for VTS_01_0.vob.
• Fix: COM function, SaveJoinerEx will return an error code rather than display a message box if the output file matches the input file.
• Fix: For short transport stream files, handle end of file more gracefully while looking for program maps.
• Fix: Repeat First field calculation for 720p progressive files was incorrect. Could cause removed frames or sync errors.
• Fix: DTS was off at the start of a new cut or join if the previous cut ended on an I or P frame.
• Fix: Remember window position if application is at window location 0,0.
• Fix: When outputting MPEG1 files with 44.1KHz audio and changing the audio bitrate, the audio would be marked as 48Khz. This caused dropped frames and speedup of the video in the output file.
• Fix: Resync logic would not remove video frames if there were no B-Frame in the buffer. Will now remove both B and P frames.
• Fix: The count of video frames removed for sync adjustment were not being displayed in the output complete dialog.
• Fix: PVA files had incorrect timecodes.
• Fix: GOPs greater than 60 frames could cause a cut point to be rounded to the next GOP boundary.
• Fix: Pressing Ctrl+C (capture frame) would leave navigation commands thinking the control key was pressed until any other key was pressed.

Version 2-2-1-445, Release date: January 3, 2006

• Enhance: Added support for Beyond TV transport streams. Metadata will be copied if both source and output streams are of the same type. I.e. Program Stream source, Program Stream destination, Transport Stream source with Transport Stream destination.
• Enhance: Support for Tivo To Go Files. VideoReDo will now read .tivo files downloaded from your Series 2 Tivo. Requires the Tivo reader and media access key which are part of the free Tivo To Go package. Please see the Tivo site for information and downloads.
• Enhance: Reading and editing of DVR-MS (MCE) files are now fully supported. They can be opened and edited as you would any other MPEG file.
• Enhance: A Plot Mask has been added to the View menu. When enabled a portion of the video picture will be covered so as not to spoil the story line. The size of the plot mask can be adjusted using the Tools>Options Menu.
• Enhance: All source audio formats may be transcoded to either stereo WAV/LPCM or stereo MPEG audio via the Options button on the File Save Dialog. Useful for translating AC3 source material for devices which do not support it (i.e. Hauppauge Media MVP). Also useful for compressing LPCM/WAV audio to the much smaller MPEG audio format.
• Enhance: The previous maximum video length of 13 hours has been removed. Source material up to 26 hours may now be edited.
• Enhance: An option to reduce the CPU priority while saving has been added to the Tools>Options>Plus screen. Enabling this option will lower the CPU priority of VideoReDo Plus while saving your edits or joins.
• Enhance: Auto repeat has been added to the forward and backward navigation buttons. If you press and hold the left mouse button for more than 0.5 seconds on any of these six buttons ,the navigation function will repeat until release the button.
• Enhance: Ability to set the degree of re-synchronization sensitivity on the Tools>Options>Stream Page.
• Enhance: Ability to select multiple files at file open and combine them into one logical file. Useful for editing DVD material or transport files which have been split into separate files by a capture file. A dialog box can be displayed giving you the open of combining the files or joining them. Please see the help file for an explanation on the differences between combining and joining.
• Enhance: More COM functions to support transport output and scene markers.
• Change: The encoder quality will now default to auto. This will create more compliant files for use with DVD authoring or when outputting to transport streams.
• Change: Output option changes (aspect ratio, GOP size, audio transcoding, etc.) can be set when doing a QuickStream Fix.
• Change: Added new registry option: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DRD Systems\VideoReDo-Plus\PlaybackDeviceOptions\UseVideoMemory. Set to 1 may decrease flashing on some video cards in RGB mode.
• Change: The installation program will check for running copies of VideoReDo Plus and ask you to close them before continuing.
• Change: QuickStream Fix default output file name will be the defaulted to the file type associated with the output stream type. Previous versions tried to default the output extension to the source file type but this no longer makes sense with all the different source and destination file types being supported.
• Change: Remove stuffing bytes from systems headers to make our VOB files more compatible.
• Change: All output streams are now marked as VBR.
• Change: Clicking on "Trim Unselected" will clear the cut list before adding the new entries.
• Change: Warn the user if outputting to a transport stream and the audio is WAV/LPCM. WAV/LPCM output to a transport stream is not supported.
• Change: Transport Output, first frame is marked with the discontinuity bit.
• Change: Transport Output, much improved PTS/DTS timings.
• Change: When automatic corrections are made to the stream when saving edits, both the input and output time codes will be displayed in the log file.
• Fix: When opening a transport stream, DVB subtitle and teletext streams will not accidentally be interpreted as an audio stream. The "Ignore Program Maps" option on the Tools>Options>Stream page must be off for this improvement to be operational.
• Fix: QuickStream Fix from batch not honoring output options (gop, aspect ratio, etc) settings.
• Fix: Added additional registry parameters to increase the max packet search parameters for Transport Streams.
• Fix: If auto cutting is enabled in AdDetective and the first cut starts at 00:00:00.00, an invalid cut time may be added to the cut list.
• Fix: The CRID delete function would not delete the .fmpg if the current directory was different from the location of the CRID folder.
• Fix: Preserve the PTS/DTS relationship when removing video frames due to audio sync purposes.
• Fix: Trim Unselected would show the wrong length in the on-screen byte length fields.
• Fix: Improve internal timings to better handle TS output. All I and P frames now carry a DTS. Also improves sync with DVDs created by Nero Vision Express.
• Fix: Sampling rate changes for MPEG audio streams would not be detected causing valid audio frames to be incorrectly discarded.
• Fix: Batch now as the capability to specify transport stream output.
• Fix: The Time Remaining on the output progress dialog was not working properly in scene mode.
• Fix: Random crashes on some 1080i HD material.
• Fix: Creating a chapter file would crash program if an ".hh" or ";hh" time code format was used in the chapter file output specification.
• Fix: Improved checking of filenames in auto combine. Will no longer auto combine files such as: abc02.ts with ab01.ts.
• Fix: Missing CRID component files will no longer prevent the file from being opened.
• Fix: Much better processing of Transport Stream files where the time stamps (PTS/DTS) rollover back to 0.
• Fix: DVR-MS files which contained certain accented characters in the file name could not be opened.
• Fix: AC3 frames with a valid signature, but bad data would cause sequential reads to drop all further AC3 frames.
• Fix: After switching from scene to cut mode, preview would display the wrong section of the video until the program was restarted.

Version 2-1-2-417, Release date: October 18, 2005

• Enhance: CRID program title renaming, program deletion and QuickStream Fix. from CRID open dialog.
• Enhance: New encoder quality option: Auto. Will set the encoder bit rate to be the same as the GOP being encoded.
• Change: If convert all I-Frames to GOPs is enabled, temporal references will be reset to zero for each I-Frame.
• Change: Speed up detection of MPEG elementary streams (.mpv) we we can issue a warning much quicker.
• Change: TS muxer, Omit NULL packets is enabled by default. This will create smaller output files, but they are not 100% compliant.
• Change: Date column in the CRID open dialog will use the localized time format.
• Fix: DVR-MS, better detection of AC3 streams. Previous versions could incorrectly identify some AC3 stream as MPEG audio.
• Fix: TS muxer, not all audio packets would be written at end of file.
• Fix: TS input, certain bad program maps could trigger an abort or inability to open a file.
• Fix: Unable to open a file with a "Saved Sequence Buffer Overflow" if the sequence header appeared after the first picture code in the file.
• Fix: Joiner would drop 1 audio frame if the PTS of the first audio and video frame matched exactly.
• Fix: TS input, better checking for valid PIDS by checking that the PTS of each stream are close in time.

Version 2-1-1-413, Release date: September 18, 2005

• Enhance: Significant improvements in the transport stream muxer.
• Enhance: Tools>Select Stream. Smarter audio/video stream matching. Ability to manually specify specific audio and video streams.
• Enhance: QuickStream Fix has optional filter to select portions of a stream by video dimensions.
• Enhance: Added COM functions to set, query or delete scene markers.
• Enhance: Added CRID and Autoconcatenate functions.
• Change: Preserve closed GOP flags on output.
• Change: Remove more error checking if "Skip Conformity Checks" is checked on Tools>Options>Streams.
• Change: Log file folder can be set to "." to store the log file in executable folder. Useful if you have multiple versions of VideoReDo installed on your system since each version can have its own log file.
• Change: Transport Streams will search up to 2,000,000 bytes for a packet (up from 200,000). Can be increased via the registry.
• Fix: Batch would not execute if destination folder name had special characters in it.
• Fix: COM bitmap capture to clipboard would GPF on Win2K or XP.
• Fix: Transport stream opens would fail is there was no program map and some packets did not have a PTS.
• Fix: If MPEG audio switched between mono and stereo, output would sound "chirppy".
• Fix: Unable to open a program stream if it had a stream id other than E0.
• Fix: VideoReDo could hang doing a version check if our web site was present but never responded. Will now time out after 20 seconds.
• Fix: Crash if navigation keys were used before first video was opened.
• Fix: AC3 audio at 32Khz created re sync errors.
• Fix: If MPEG Audio had invalid sampling rate the he middle of a large packets, could cause an audio hangup and QuickStream Fix problems.

Version 2-1-0-401, Release date: July 31, 2005

• Fix: Ad Detective capability will disappear on August 1 due to inadvertent debugging statement left in the program.

Version 2-1-0-400, Release date: July 20, 2005

• Initial Release of VideoReDo Plus, Version 2.1 This version represents a major upgrade from VideoReDo Version 1, with greater reliability, and new editing tools:
  -- AdDetective
  -- Thumbnails and Audio Graph
  -- Real time Preview of Edits.
  -- Transport Stream Output