DivXMediaBuilder -> Version History

This is the version history page for DivXMediaBuilder, showing the last 20 software updates. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here.

Index:

• Version 4.0.0 (Feb 13, 2007)
• Version 3.5.6 (Dec 29, 2006)
• Version 3.5.5 (Dec 28, 2006)
• Version 3.5.0 (Dec 22, 2006)
• Version 3.0.0 (Dec 8, 2006)
• Version 2.7.5 (Nov 29, 2006)
• Version 2.7.0 (Nov 25, 2006)
• Version 2.4.0 (Nov 14, 2006)
• Version 2.3.2 (Nov 11, 2006)
• Version 2.3.0 (Nov 9, 2006)
• Version 2.2.0 (Oct 18, 2006)
• Version 2.0.0 (Oct 13, 2006)
• Version 1.9.0 (Oct 10, 2006)
• Version 1.8.0 (Oct 7, 2006)
• Version 1.7.0 (Oct 4, 2006)
• Version 1.6.0 (Sep 27, 2006)
• Version 1.5.5 (Sep 23, 2006)
• Version 1.5.0 (Sep 22, 2006)
• Version 1.1.1 (Sep 20, 2006)
• Version 1.1.0 (Sep 19, 2006)

• Release Date: Feb 13, 2007
• A new submenu “New project with wizard…” at menu File. A dialog appears where you can add the files/movies you want, select/preview/change the menus will be created and finally create these menus. The menus can be:
  • Title menu – A menu where the user select the title/movie want to see
  • Chapter menu – After select a title/movie the user can select the chapter to play and/or
  • Setup menu – At previous menu (chapter) the user can go to setup menu where can select the audio and subtitle track.
  The above menus are auto created but the user can change them. Also no need to change/modify any action. The menus are ready for play.
• A new submenu "Menu for Audio/Subtitles setup.." at menu Tools. You can use this to automatically create a setup menu for your file. This will work if the file has more than one audio tracks and/or at least one subtitle track.
• Added more options for the titles, chapters and setup menus. Also a user can save the settings there.
• Bug fixes.

• Release Date: Dec 29, 2006
• Added help file. I want/must make it detailed.

• Release Date: Dec 28, 2006
• Moving/resizing buttons at main screen apply to all selected buttons.
• The windows for creating menus for chapters and titles are resizable (can set the width and height for the menu). Also can set a name for these menus.
• When creating menus for chapters and titles, the texts "Select chapter" and "Select movie" can be replaced with a picture. Also all buttons can be moved/resized with arrow keys.
• Small bug fixes.

• Release Date: Dec 22, 2006
• When creating menus for chapters and for titles/movies you can select almost anything you want. Frame to display, background picture, shape for the preview, overlay for the preview. Also the "<<", ">>", ... are all customizable now. Also support for many pages when creating visual menu for many titles/movies. Added rulers (and guide lines) with above features.
• Small improvements.
• Bug fixes.

• Release Date: Dec 8, 2006
• Added rulers (in pixels) when previewing a menu. Clicking in rulers will create vertical and horizontal guide lines. When moving a button near to a guide line (at 7 pixels) the button will snap to this line. Color for guide lines can be set at dialog Options.
• Added support to create motion menus for chapters. At dialog "Menu for chapters with preview" you can set the seconds you want the menu will be. Program will get as frames as needed, create the pictures and finally create the menu movie from these pictures. This can take some time. Also can be set a background image for this menu, just click the button Background.
• A new overlay named "movie" that is good for the above feature.

• Release Date: Nov 29, 2006
• Added support to edit existing chapters when manually creating them. At dialog "Create chapter for title", after selecting a title and if there are chapters for this title, will loaded at the list and you can insert, delete or edit these chapters.
• When creating visual menus for chapters, program remember the positions of the preview frames when changing pages. Also, if you double click at a preview frame, you can edit the related text for this preview frame.
• Bug fixes
• For language creator uses: update the Command7 at frmChap_Design node.

• Release Date: Nov 25, 2006
• Added support to create visual menus for chapters. After you create chapter for a title, use the menu Tools - "Menu for chapters with preview...". A new dialog will pop up that is self explained. If chapters are more than a page you can use the "<<" and ">>" buttons to navigate. If there are more than one pages, after hitting the Create button and give a name to menu, program will name the other menus/pages using the same name with a number at the end. Of course all buttons has the correct actions (leftAction, rightAction, selectAction), except the "Main menu" button. You must manually set the selectAction for that button.
• Small change at the order of nodes in xml file.
• Bug fixes.

• Release Date: Nov 14, 2006
• Added support for locating key frames. Key frames are used when creating chapters (a chapter must begin with a key frame) and when we have intro + menu.
  For chapters: The 2 methods "Every minutes" and "Exactly ... chapters" start a chapter from a key frame. For the "Manually" method you can use the Shift+Enter key at the "End frame" text box and program will set this box to the next key frame - 1, so the next chapter will start from a key frame.
  For intro + menu: At the "New menu" dialog you can use the "Next key frame" button to locate a valid key frame for the menu to start.
• A new option at dialog "New menu" to select the frames per second for the movie created from a picture.
• A new option at dialog Options to select the fore color for buttons.
• Bug fixes.
• For language creator users: Update the txtEndFrame_TooltipText at frmChap_Design node.

• Release Date: Nov 11, 2006
• A new option at dialog Options about default overlay position/size.
• Small change in UI.

• Release Date: Nov 9, 2006
• Support to create menu from picture using VirtualDubMod. Users that have problems with cli.exe, now can use VirtualDubMod to create valid menus from pictures. You can select the method at dialog Options - Menu tab.
• Added 2 more properties ("startFrame" and "endFrame") at "Menu Properties" window.
• fps when creating menu from picture are same as the last movie/title loaded.
• Bug fixes.

• Release Date: Oct 18, 2006
• Support to import also the overlays from DVDSubEdit. At dialog "Buttons from DVDSubEdit" check the settings you must use and hit the "?" button next to "Paste also the overlays" checkbox.
• Fixed a bug at "One movie with chapters"
• Change in menu order.
• Bug fixes.

• Release Date: Oct 13, 2006
• Added support for getting buttons from DVDSubEdit using drag & drop. Use the menu Easy - "Buttons from DVDSubEdit..." and read the instructions there.
• Bug fixes.

• Release Date: Oct 10, 2006
• Auto save every minutes. Program will create 3 files named "_tmpFile_<1 or 2 or 3>_<Date>_<Time>.xml" (once at a time every the minutes the user specify) at program's folder, so you will have the last 3 versions of the file you work.
  
• A new option about show the DOS window when involving cli.exe (for users that have problems).
  
• defaultAudioTrack and defaultSubtitleTrack can be set at the "Add new Title" dialog.
  
• Error handling at undo (program will not crash).
  

• Release Date: Oct 7, 2006
• Undo added (8 levels) but only at any edit within menus. Is not perfect but is working.
• Copy - Paste button(s). Paste can be done to same or other menu. Only position, size and overlays are copied and not the actions and relations between buttons.
• Support to load chapters from .txt file created by ChapterXtractor. In order to see how this will work, read the "How to set up ChapterXtractor to load chapters.txt" inside the DivXMediaBuilder.zip file.
• After deleting a button the relationship between remaining buttons are updated.

• Release Date: Oct 4, 2006
• Support to select many buttons at once. Just hold Shift and click & drag in area outside of buttons. All button inside this area will be selected (the border will change). Also you can use Ctrl - click at buttons to select them. After you can set overlays and line width for all selected buttons. Also, you can set align (left, right, top, bottom) and make same size (width, height, both) for selected buttons.
• I change the menu a little. I put a new menu named Easy. There you can find 2 submenus, the "Many movies with menu" (old one) and the "One movie with chapters" (new one). With "One movie with chapters" you can easily create a divx file that has chapters.
• Possibility to add the name of chapters when creating them manually.
• Bug fixes.

• Release Date: Sep 27, 2006
• Fixed a bug when double clicking at a button.
• A new option at dialog Options - Menus tab about not involving the file cli.exe when creating avi/menu from a picture.
• Better menu creation from a picture. Pictures must be maximum 720x576 pixels.
• Portuguese language is now up to date. Also added Romanian and Russian languages.
• There are users that can use successfully cli.exe, but others have problems. Must be something with settings. I will try to found the error.

• Release Date: Sep 23, 2006
• Bug fixes. Now all features when export or insert menu templates are working.
• A new overlay "2bullets}.bmp". Check the How to create overlays to see how it works an overlay if the name ends with '}'.
• Greece language is working now with all new features. Portuguese language will be ok next week.

• Release Date: Sep 22, 2006
• Menu templates - a new feature. Use the menu Tools - "Export menu to template..." to export a menu as a template. Use the menu Tools - "Insert menu template..." to add a menu template in an existing Language menu. See more for templates here. Audio for menu templates is not supported yet.
• When loading/saving a file the program remember the last directory used.
• You can set the default overlay for buttons at dialog Options - More tab.
• At same tab you can select where and how to save the output (new) DivX file.
• Bug fixes.

• Release Date: Sep 20, 2006
• Support to load chapters from .txt file (from PgcDemux). Test it to see if works.

• Release Date: Sep 19, 2006
• Now, you can create chapters for all titles/movies at once.
• When creating a menu to play many movies, you can create automatically chapters for all the movies included in the menu.
• A new option about running the new DivX file after creation.
• Bug fixes.