Dr. DivX -> Version History

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

Index:

• Version 2.0.1 Beta 7 (Feb 3, 2008)
• Version 2.0.1 Beta 6 (Jan 19, 2008)
• Version 2.0.1 Beta 5 (Dec 16, 2007)
• Version 2.0.1 Beta 4 (Jun 12, 2007)
• Version 2.0.1 Beta 3 (Feb 11, 2007)
• Version 2.0.1 Beta 2 (Oct 5, 2006)
• Version 2.0.1 Beta 1 (Sep 28, 2006)
• Version 2.0.0 (Aug 4, 2006)
• Version 2.0 RC3 (Jul 23, 2006)
• Version 2.0 RC2 (Jun 28, 2006)
• Version 2.0 RC1 (Jun 6, 2006)
• Version 2.0 Beta 10 (May 4, 2006)
• Version 2.0 Beta 9 (Apr 12, 2006)
• Version 2.0 Beta 8 (Mar 27, 2006)
• Version 2.0 Beta 7 (Feb 24, 2006)
• Version 2.0 Beta 6 (Jan 27, 2006)

• Release Date: Feb 3, 2008
• Fixed AviSynth bug
• Fixed cropping and resizing related GUI bugs
• Introduced anamorphic encoding
• Updated russian translation

• Release Date: Jan 19, 2008
• Bug squashing is the theme for this one. Profile, Preview and Watch Folder bugs are fixed now.

• Release Date: Dec 16, 2007
• Updated for DivX 6.8 codec

• Release Date: Jun 12, 2007
• Updated for DivX 6.6 codec

• Release Date: Feb 11, 2007
• What's new:
  • Replace Qt with wxWidgets
  • Support new features in DivX 6.5 codec (except output PAR)
  • Support MS Windows Vista
  • Turkish translation
• What's fixed
  • Support for 1080hd mode
  • Misc. ASF/DVR-MS fixes
  • Reading Haali's matroska files
  • Support for Fraps v2, v4
  • Updates from ffmpeg trunk

• Release Date: Oct 5, 2006
• As promised, the Dr. is back real quick with a build which supports the new DivX 6.4 codec. We managed to squeeze in a few audio bug fixes too.

• Release Date: Sep 28, 2006
• In addition to sundry bug fixes, we've added support for AVISynth script files and MP3 Surround audio encoding. Make sure you've set your AC3/AAC/DTS dshow filter to output 5.1 channel audio if you want to take advantage of the latter feature.

• Release Date: Aug 4, 2006
• What's new:
  • Add a plugin to delete source file after encoding
  • Add a plugin to shutdown the system after encoding
  • Add a plugin to publish encoded file to Stage6
  • Inject version info into .dll and .exe
• What's fixed:
  • Fix a crash when the DivX uninstall key is not present.
  • Make sure the analysis in the batch also see the global modulo parameters.
  • More meaningful error messages when an input file cannot be used.
  • Make the Add button on by default so that it's faster to add a plugin.
  • Allow selecting more than one job at a time to reorder and remove jobs.
  • Handle multiple file drag and drop for .vob files. For all others, choose only first file.
  • Delete only files that the Dr. created during install.
  • Handle localised output directory names.
  • Check for compatible DivX codec after install and during program startup.
  • Get the video preview as soon as the fast analysis is done.
  • Fix version update checks on international locale systems.

• Release Date: Jul 23, 2006
• What's new:
  • Display the DivX encoder version in the About tab of the Preferences
  • Store the DrDivX version & build information in the created files
  • Allow changing the resizing/crop filter in advanced features
  • Add support for encoding presets which are necessary for configuration when codec is in free state
• What's fixed:
  • Use the right crop settings after going in Advanced settings
  • Keep monitoring the right crop/resolution settings when switching profiles (preview update is correct)
  • Fix a crash when removing a job that was (too) long to stop from Batch
  • Fix a crash when an unsupported codec is found during encoding
  • Fix a crash when boost is set but the audio output is AC3
  • Resize some elements of the UI to better fit large languages and 120 DPI display
  • If user chose Interlaced output, turn B-VOPs off and disable B-VOP selection.
  • Handle free, trial and registered pro states of the codec correctly
  • Update framerate decimation when using a custom profile
  • Don't add a file from a Watch Folder until it's stable enough (date and size fixed)
• DrFFMPEG:
  • Fix clipping audio when the channel mapping is guessed (AAC via RealMediaSplitter.ax)
  • Support MBAFF in H264
  • Add support for Flash Screen Video codec
  • Add support for DivX codec resizing and cropping
  • Decode VC-1 via the WMV DMO if WMP11 is installed

• Release Date: Jun 28, 2006
• What's new
• Version checking using RSS feeds on SourceForge
• Use mp3gain to boost the audio (enabled by default for built-in profiles)
• Add some debug messages when calling the plugins
• Add support for Auto-Publish in Upload plugin
• Add a keyboard shortcut to open a file (Ctrl+O)
• Ask confirmation before overwriting a user profile
• Propose the list of existing profiles when selecting a name to save a profile
• Add support for floating point quantizer values
• Add support for plugin status reporting
• What's fixed
• Hide/Disable DivX encoder settings which are not available for specific certification levels
• Interlaced option re-done to make it work with web profiler
• Don't allow adding plugins to a finished job
• Fix the video preview after internal job update changes
• Disable batch and wizard modes
• Include technical metadata
• Disable user-specified metadata until new metadata solution is released
• Fix crash when track selection dialog is dismissed after background analysis is over
• Keep advanced parameters when reconfiguring a job
• Avoid using recursive directories in watch folders
• Avoid overwriting the source with the destination and make sure the output file is writable
• Update job status widget based on currently selected job instead of currently running job
• Fix crash when transcoding 5.1 AAC audio
• Fix frame-rate detection for Canon MJPEG clips
• Set correct crop mode in profile when autocrop is selected
• Fix skip forward and skip backward during audio preview
• Fix crash during analysis for HD .mov clips
• Fix duration analysis on some MPEG source (using half frames packets)
• DrFFMPEG
• Fix seeking in HuffYUV (all frames are keyframes)
• Fix slow audio when using FFDShow decoder
• Increase the size of the MPEG syncword search to skip NULL sectors in some DVDs (might give AV sync problems)
• Fix DVR-MS frame loss problem (assume dts=pts)
• Set a flag when an MPEG packet is just half a frame

• Release Date: Jun 6, 2006
• What's new:
  • Display an error message when trying to run the Dr. twice on the same computer
  • Allow keeping the AC3 track even if no DirectShow decoder is available
  • Add call_app, copy plugins
  • Allow per-job plugin configuration
• What's fixed:
  • Support for uncompressed (RGB) format in the Video Preview
  • Replace invalid characters in output filenames (<>|*"?:/\) (windows)
  • Avoid crashing when selecting same setting for all audio tracks but only a few are selected
  • Avoid cropping the whole picture (cropping is reset in that case)
  • Analyze inter-frames when the source file doesn't have enough key frames
  • Handle +ve audio delays in VOBs correctly
  • Reconfiguring a job reset the status (when saved it becomes Waiting again)
  • Fix audio delay detection for TS files
  • When using AC3 output, use the correct bitrate to compute the final filesize
  • Calculate AVI overhead size correctly
  • Recalculate video bitrate after audio and subtitle files have been generated
  • Keep mono sources as mono on output by default
  • Don't allow to start a job that is marked as finished
  • Disable the Resume/Stop button if there is no runnable job
  • Make default profiles selected in Preferences be effective (regression bug)
  • Make watch folder profiles selected in Preferences be effective (regression bug)
  • Fix cli to work with custom profiles
  • Fix flv file encoding
• DrFFMPEG:
  • Better handling of mono sources when using DirectShow filters
  • Fix decoding via DScaler when stereo output was selected in DScaler
  • Fix a seeking issue when multiple files are selected

• Release Date: May 4, 2006
• What's new
• Change the way advanced audio selection is done
• Make the Survey Opt-Out
• New options to set the ouptut resolutions (auto, fixed width, fixed size)
• Reduce the aspect ratio error range (3.5% to 1.5%)
• Add progress reporting for divx mux stage (Muxing of big files takes really long)
• Add support for LockedAutoResize and AutoCrop modes in custom profiles
• Add a global application-wide preference for width and height modulo factor used for calculating resolutions
• What's Fixed
• Fix a crash when selecting a custom profile and going to advanced properties
• Enable log messages during Preferences query of DrFFMPEG
• Don't reuse a job pointer when the job has been deleted (occasional crash when removing jobs)
• Improve seeking in the preview for various formats
• Use double digits for jobs names so that the order is kept intact in case of a crash
• Don't display the decoded frame in the preview when the whole image is cropped
• Store all metadata in UTF8 in the job (otherwise the job cannot be read back)
• Make all threads use the same priority to avoid blocking one in favor or the other
• Make sure the input and output folders of a Watched Folder are different
• Parse IFO filenames even if they include a prefix or suffix (partially fixes #1444296)
• The VideoPreview now release the input file lock (fixes #1442569)
• Protect avcodec_open and avcodec_close as they don't seem to be reentrant
• Display the graph of video frames for quality-based encoding
• Detect audio delay correctly for VOBs whose the first picture's temporal sequence number is not equal to 0
• Constrain-to-file-size based custom profile respects the file size property
• Detect audio delay for non-AVI input file containers only
• Seeking by file offset used in analysis instead of time-stamp to work-around pts bugs in MPEG files
• DrFFMPEG
• Fixes for RV10 decoding
• Add channel down-mixing in DirectShow (you can leave your AC3 decoder to 5.1 output now)
• Improve seeking in ASF/WMV/DVR-MS
• Fixes for Cinepak keyframe indication
• Scan sections of the file to detect all audio and subtitle tracks

• Release Date: Apr 12, 2006
• What's new
• Add the possibility to force the output aspect ratio (Auto, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9)
• Add a button in the Batch window to launch an encoded file
• Add an option to encode with a constant quality (target quantizer)
• Add the possibility to reconfigure a job after it was added to the queue
• Add support for default output profile
• Add auto-build version checking
• Add a progress bar to the job status
• Start the jobs in Low priority by default
• What's Fixed
• Fix column widths for job batch and plugin list
• Put correct cli.exe in Installer for future builds
• Make the sliders usable with the keyboard
• Rework the crop enable/disable so that it can be handled by the keyboard
• Make language selection thru Preferences work
• Alphabetize language drop-down for audio and subs
• Update the batch buttons when the job status changes to avoid doing operations when the job is running
• Keep muxing even if some files are missing
• Ignore 1-pixel crop bars so that we don't resize needlessly
• DrFFMPEG
• Avoid crashing when a DirectShow filter exists in the registry but can't be used
• Support DV Type 1 files

• Release Date: Mar 27, 2006
• What's new
• Add the possibility to enable/disable watch folders (disabled by default)
• Save the watch folder settings in the user directory (~/.drdivx2)
• Add a CLI (Command Line) version of DrDivX to encode a file directly with a profile
• Now built with MSVC 2005 Express (freeware version) and Qt 4.1.1 (open source edition)
• Add a "reset" starting mode to delete all the content of the user directory (~/.drdivx2) and jobs
• Rewriting of the aspect ratio handling to support video upscaling (but not beyond profile limits)
• Allow the use of a /.drdivx2 directory to store the settings instead of ~/.drdivx2 (easier to debug)
• The analysis on loading is done in a low priority thread
• Allow user to request interlaced video output
• Access the full video preview from the small video preview
• Add a general progress bar to monitor the long analysis
• Survey tool invoked at application exit
• What's Fixed
• Fix a crash in the preview when the 2nd (or more) video file loaded is in YUV420P
• Don't try to reorder columns that don't exist anymore in job batch
• The audio delay detection was not working correctly in beta 7
• When clicking on basic when nothing is loaded the profile was changing
• Avoid crashing when the saved settings are incorrect
• Rework the JobBatchWidget code to avoid crashes
• Fix over-eager frame droppage caused by SCR reset and subsequent PTS rewind
• Fix crash when custom profiles are used in conjunction with watch folders
• Use toolbar to switch between file, capture and batch views
• Sync the file size displayed in Output Widget and Info Widget
• Fix application hang on certain clips caused by cyclic invokation of Video Preview methods
• Forcing the same audio parameters for all tracks now works (fixes #1445072)
• Trust the subtitle info in the .ifo file
• DrFFMPEG
• Fix a possible seeking problem when using multiple vobs input
• Fix a frame decoding in MPEG2 for interlaced content. This will improve border detection.
• Avoid using dubious data in the ASF demuxer (fixes #1447859)

• Release Date: Feb 24, 2006
• Please refer to the documentation section for the version history

• Release Date: Jan 27, 2006
• Please refer to the documentation section for the version history