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The release notes detail changes and known issues for each build of VideoReDo TVSuite. 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 3-1-5-564, Release date: July 5, 2008
- NEW: Authoring: NTSC closed captions are preserved even if video is recorded for DVD authoring
- NEW: Authoring: Added new "automatic" pan and scan option which lets the user change the mode using the player's menus.
- NEW: DVD menus, added additional options for DVD title button highlights, underline, text color, left arrow.
- NEW: Added new COM method, AdjustAudioSync() to adjust the sync of the currently open video.
- NEW: DVRMS output, added option to remove stream tags to the Tools>Options>DVRMS page. This allows thumbnails to be displayed in Vista MCE.
- NEW: Added an option to only allow a single instance of VideoReDo.
- NEW: Ability to read proprietary Humax 8000 transport stream files.
- Enhance: Added capability to automatically QuickStreamFix DVD titles from the open DVD title screen.
- Enhance: Added ability to set language code on the Tools>Options>Startup page
- Enhance: Stream selection, preserve edits if switching to a different audio stream for the currently open video.
- Enhance: Thumbnails: replaced audio graph "log option" with "db scaling".
- Change: New easier to understand dialogs when trying to close a file or exit the program with unsaved edits.
- Change: Audio volume changes will show settings in db in addition as well as X factor.
- Change: Authoring, default compliant GOP size reduced from 18 to 15 for better closed captioning compatibility.
- Change: Authoring, new checkbox "Include closed caption" sets max GOP size to 15, Only enabled for NTSC video.
- Change: Authoring, if source stream is labeled "progressive" it will be changed to interlaced during DVD authoring.
- Change: Authoring, Crop and Resize, "Maintain aspect ratio" will respect the preset settings such as pillar box to standard.
- Change: Authoring, video cropping and resizing. Additional selections added to the preset list.
- Change: Burning, DVD erase time estimates are accurate by taking into account the current burner speed setting.
- Change: DVRMS Output, added undocumented metadata substitution keyword, {FILE} to copy output filename into metadata area.
- Change: GUI, added option to Shift+Tools>Options to allow for resizing of the fine-tune slider.
- Change: Tilter/Menu editor will automatically select first text box in title editor to show sizing handles.
- Change: If source file is from a Tivo, Trim and Copy will automatically copy the Tivo header to the output file.
- Change: Transport stream output, PCR interval added to the Tools>Options>Transport page.
- Change: Transport stream output, PCR interval now defaults to 90 msec for NTSC and 40 msec for PAL.
- Fix: Ad Detective, too many scene markers (>1000) could result in a crash due to threading conflict.
- Fix: Audio output, converting LPCM 48KHz audio to LPCM 44.1 audio caused a crash.
- Fix: Authoring, if the authoring process aborted due to bad data, burner would try to burn an empty DVD
- Fix: Authoring, if user selects a manual folder on Tools>Options>DVD but left folder blank, authoring would display error=3
- Fix: Authoring, Improved reliability and accuracy of estimated time remaining.
- Fix: Authoring, yellow triangle would display even though output was continuing.
- Fix: Authoring, estimated file output size incorrect after running Ad Detective.
- Fix: Selecting "Combine" when merging overlapping cuts results in wrong estimated sizing.
- Fix: Authoring, menu navigation problem with 16:9 menus used in a 4:3 display.
- Fix: Authoring, if AC3 bit rate changes in the middle of a file, add silent frames to preserve audio sync.
- Fix: When the DVD menu template was being saved with a new name, the name wasn't being properly stored in the file.
- Fix: Authoring, multiple titles with different audio encodings might cause some titles to lose audio if first title is MPEG audio.
- Fix: Authoring, when recoding large GOPs with PAL video could cause authoring to hang when recoding.
- Fix: Authoring could sometimes mistake MPEG audio stream for AC3.
- Fix: Clicking on DVD output folder browse button would hang the application if the default drive no longer existed.
- Fix: Additional information displayed in the log file if the VIDEO_TS folder is too large to be burned.
- Fix: Saving HD material to a DVRMS file would sometimes result in incorrect file duration
- Fix: NTSC closed captioning could become corrupt from some digital broadcasts
- Fix: DVRMS metadata fields, Title, subtitle and description could be filled with lots of spaces if metadata wasn't being changed.
- Fix: GOP reduction using fast encoder could cause bit rate to drop too low resulting in blocky picture.
- Fix: When reducing GOPs some GOPs would be incorrectly marked as "Closed".
- Fix: When reducing GOPs, extremely corrupt source video could cause memory overflow error in MPEG decoder.
- Fix: GOP reduction, remove error message if encoding bit rate exceeds sequence header bit rate.
- Fix: Titling and DVD menu screen show scroll bars even when not needed.
- Fix: Help file, some pages displayed incorrectly when default font size in Internet Explorer set to Large fonts.
- Fix: Main screen, joiner time in lower right of main screen would be blanked when a new file is opened.
- Fix: AC3 audio not being properly detected if the source file is an MPEG1 program stream (e.g. LiteOn DVD recorder)
- Fix: Fixed problem where preview mode could hang at a cut when program was running in scene mode.
- Fix: Quickstream Fix, auto expand buffer sizes to reduce chance of buffer overflows.
- Fix: Thumbnails, audio sync adjustment would not be reflected in the thumbnail display.
- Fix: Adding a title to 50 FPS or 60 FPS, 720p video could create a sync issue.
- Fix: Titling and DVD Template menus, Copy and paste would not work repeatedly.
- Fix: Title defaults were being saved in the VideoReDo Plus folder rather than the TVSuite application data folder.
- Fix: Topfield output, marked AC3 PID streams in the Topfield header with an 0x2000 so that they can be played.
- Fix: Transport stream files, Incorrect "Video not found" when opening an ATSC stream with video stream type of 0x80.
- Fix: Transport stream files, fix for transport streams where program map sections cross transport stream boundaries
- Fix: Transport stream output, added a default language descriptor for audio streams when building a new program map on the Tools>Options>Transport page.
Version 3-1-4-551, Release date: February 3, 2008
- Change: Added option to log a custom message to the log file using the Help > Display VideoReDo.log menu.
- Change: GUI, Estimated output time remaining changed: mmm:ss to hh:mm:ss when there are more then 60 estimated minutes remaining.
- Fix: COM, SaveJoinerAs and SaveJoinerAsEx didn't work when saving to multiplexed streams.
- Fix: GUI, Pressing "Invert all Cuts" or "Remove Selected Cuts" buttons would cause mouse wheel to stop working.
- Fix: GUI, Joiner save would default to the wrong file type when saving to .TS, .DVR-MS or .REC file types.
- Fix: DVD Burner, Improved compatibility with standalone players by performing an IFO patch.
- Fix: DVD Burner, Auto selection of DVD drive with media present wouldn't work if there were multiple drives.
- Fix: DVD Authoring, Workaround for bug in VLC player where VLC would crash if TVSuite created a DVD with no menus.
Version 3-1-4-549, Release date: December 12, 2007
- NEW: Initial release of VideoReDo TVSuite.
The following list describes the Enhancements, Changes and fixes in VideoReDo TVSuite relative to VideoReDo Plus 2-5-6-512.
- NEW: DVD Authoring with:
Multiple titles on a DVD.
Auto conversion of HD to SD.
Letter / pillar box remove.
Auto sizing to match disc size.
Use defined cropping and resizing.
Easily customizable menu templates. Custom templates can be saved for future use.
Ability to accept non-compliant video.
User defined and automatic chapter marks.
Optional auto erase of RW discs.
Optional auto verification of burned discs.
- NEW: New modern and sleeker look to the GUI.
- NEW: Ability to add titles to the beginning or between segments of a video. Titles can fade in and out.
- NEW: Automatic recovery of edits should program or system crash.
- NEW: Open a title directly from a folder on a DVD or a copied VIDEO_TS folder.
- NEW: New faster MPEG2 encoder for better performance.
- NEW: Ability to save and restore joiner lists.
- NEW: Thumbnails can display different audio graph colors for 2.0 vs 5.1 channel audio.
- Enhance: Can now enable zoom mode when previewing.
- Enhance: Automatic prompting for MCE metadata on output.
- Enhance: Ability to create MCE metadata even if source file is not DVR-MS.
- Enhance: ATSC multiplexing option for transport stream output.
- Enhance: NTSC time codes displayed with industry standard DFTC notation.
- Enhance: Jump to frame number.
- Enhance: Ability to change default AC3 output stream number.
- Enhance: Can set preferred audio type so that AC3 is opened if present.
- Enhance: Set sequence header bit rate to actual video bit rate.
- Enhance: Automatically copy all setup parameters from VideoReDo Plus to VideoReDo TVSuite.
- Enhance: Disable output video for fast editing over slow remote desktop (RDP) links.
- Enhance: GOP Reduction: New option to allow for even sizing of reduced GOPs.
- Enhance: Navigation has much improved accuracy when moving by seconds or minutes.
- Change: Improve detection of AC3 vs MPEG audio when opening transport streams.
- Change: Clip 1080i display to actually display 1080 pixels rather than 1088 pixels.
- Change: Undo now restore previous cut marks, books and cursor position.
- Change: Project files now saved in XML format. Old format can still be imported.
- Change: Option to display 59.94 FPS time codes in DFTC notation.
- Change: Animated system tray icon.
- Change: Removed questions about DigiTV from the installation wizard.
- Change: Ability to set the number of megabytes of a file to scan when opening.
- Change: Improved checking for bad data when opening transport stream files.
- Change: Increased number of files in a VLst from 1,024 to 32,767.
- Change: Ability to change the maximum range of the volume adjustment.
- Fix: COM, Calling FileOpen() with a bad or missing filename would display error instead of return error code.
- Fix: GOP reduction, bad reduction in the video stream could cause an abort.
- Fix: Ability to register file types under Vista.
- Fix: New GUI controls prevent display of background of previously overlapped windows.
- Fix: Changing 44.1 KHz MPEG audio to LPCM results dropped video frames and sync issues.
- Fix: Thumbnails, improved accuracy of red/green cut status line when interval > single frame.
- Fix: Navigation sometimes off by one frame with 720p material.
- Fix: Preview mode, could sometimes get stuck when jumping to next cut / scene marker.
- Fix: Chapter marks, Added a "Frame 0" option to create a chapter mark at frame 0.
- Fix: Preview mode could show wrong frame type (I,P or B).
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