- manono for great ideas and writing a wonderful tutorial for AutoGK
- Swede, al2k and btothec2 for web hosting
- Doom9 for great support of video community at www.doom9.org
- authors of the tools I'm using within this application
- and the rest of Doom9's forums for testing and suggestions
VERSION HISTORY
1.0
- updated documentation
0.98 beta
- program doesn't hang anymore if no codecs are installed
- removed contact email. DO NOT CONTACT ME BY EMAIL ABOUT ISSUES WITH AUTOGK, USE THE FORUM INSTEAD
- added check for previous version, so that update cannot be run without AutoGK installed already
0.96 beta
- second subtitle is properly displayed in the logs
- advanced audio settings are working properly again
0.95 beta
- fixed bug "divided by zero" after analysis step in rare cases
- audio bitrate is always 128kbps for MP3 in Auto Mode
- added support for ESS-based standalone DivX players (if selected during install then MPEG/H.263 matrixes are used instead of custom ones)
- slightly tuned resizing algorithm
- added support for second subtitle stream (only when using external subs) CTRL-F10 hotkey as usual
- changed handling of errors during audio demux/transcoding (no more errors about audio being 4Gb in size)
- small internal enhancement of analysis step
- new decomb 5.1.1 included (thanks sh0dan) which solved green picture problems
0.92 beta
- fixed bug when DVD2AVI was started two times in a row for indexing
- second audio is now always MP3 in Auto Mode
- new VDubMod is no longer packaged with update (please reinstall 0.8, then update with 0.92)
- changed normalization audio option from hybrid gain to post gain
0.90 beta
- min bitrate for VBR (ABR) is now 80kbps to avoid crashes in BeSweet
- added support for second audio, but it's hidden by default (press CTRL-F10 to enable it)
- added Delimiter(0,255,0,255) after decomb's filters to avoid green color rips
0.89 beta
- fixed bug when audio could get out of synch after split
- added 2Gb predefined size
0.88 beta
- several minor job queue bugs fixed
- added icons for job queue buttons
- improved hybrid source handling again
- quality based mode sizing for XviD fixed
0.86 alpha
- fixed transparency of the main window for XP themes
0.85 alpha
- added support for DVDDecrypter 3.1.8 and higher
- added automatic PGC and Angle selection for subs from name of input files (use corresponding options from DVDDecrypter)
- fixed detection of winrar installation dir
- audio MP3 encoding options changed (ABR and boosting)
- added job queue
- improved handling of hybrid sources (thanks for the tips, bilu)
- undot filter is not used if non SSE-enabled CPU is detected
0.8
- fixed problem when extrenal subs are selected, but no sub stream is chosen
- tray menu improved
- updated tutorial
- maximum width of "minimal width" mode is now 640 instead of 720
- added possibility of custom subs settings picked up from "subs.settings" in input directory. It should have two lines like this:
0 - first is angle (0 if none)
2 - second is PGC
if file is not found then no angles and PGC 1 is assumed
0.77 beta
- make AutoGK work with VDubMod 1.5.10.1 (although its not included in the installer and its usage not recommended yet)
- added tray icon when minimized
- improved autocrop & smartcrop
- xvid quality based mode improved
- chroma optimizer option is on for xvid by default
- new transparent logo in info window
0.75 beta
- fixed problem with preview and external subtitles
- added auto split of subs
- no more crashes while parsing of input folder - proper error message is displayed instead
0.74 beta
- max mp3 bitrate increased to 320kbps
- quality based mode for xvid now gives proper output size
- quality based mode now uses b-frames for both xvid and divx
- added support for up to 32 subs stream
- added support for external subs (no splitting yet): <movie>.idx and <movie>.rar are created in the output dir only if WinRAR is installed on the system, otherwise internal subtitles will be used
0.72 beta
- added quality based encoding (single pass)
- added support for forced subtitles
- fixed output directory locking while application is running
- added more info in the log file
- added balloon hints to main window
0.70 beta
- fixed avisynth crop error for non-standard video sources
- output resolution and AR is printed in the logs now
0.69 beta
- tmp dir renames to gk_tmp to avoid confusion
- max custom size increased to 10,000 Mb
- AutoGK can be run without admin rights on NT-based systems
0.68 beta
- fixed problem with outpit size > 2Gb
- improved help icon
- improved readability of the log file (formatting mainly)
- new vdubmod splitting problem fixed
- xvid codec startup error fixed (if xvid is not installed)
0.66 beta
- reduced bitrate for divx to remove slight oversize
- implemented check for installed codecs on startup
- long movies are handled more properly
- new start & abort buttons
- new nsis installer
0.65 beta
- added DivX 5.1.1 Pro support
- preview no longer require analysis
- audio encoding and sub indexing is done after analysis step
- fixed bug with saving/restoring of advanced settings (note name of the ini in root AutoGK folder chnaged)
- Max key frames interval is now always 10 sec and depends on output framerate
0.5
- fixed bug when aborting preview operation
- hybrid detection parameters slightly adjusted
- scroll arrows of the log window are always visible now
- double usage of softer resizer fixed
- fixed crash on exit while encoding
- first pass avi is not saved anymore (to save some space)
- updated tutorial
0.49 beta
- autosplit only works if you select 2 or 3 CDs as target size now
- icons update
- minor cosmetic changes
0.48 beta
- fixed crash when source had more than 16 audio/subs streams
- muxing of audio is now done during second/single pass to save some space
- PAL sources with swapped field order can now be recognized (and appropriate option is selected in d2v file)
- new input folder selector
- implemented a check for input folder validity
- new icons
- updated tutorial
0.45 beta
- more information in shown logs (settings, duration and speed)
- ivtc/intrelace/hybrid detection changed again
- parsing of stream info file now relies on stream description, so that all types of audio/video/subtitles can be recognized
- fixed bug with advanced setting piked up wrongly on startup
- Neutral Bicubic is now used as softer resizer
- resizing algorithm refined with respect of keeping sharp resizer as long as possible
- d2v file is created with SSEMMX iDCT instead of FPU (encoding should be a bit faster)
- autosplit is improved (shold not create more overhead while splitting)
- updated tutorial
- some minor bugfixes
0.4 beta
- added a tutorial help file
- first installer version
- fixed shutdown bug after preview
- history and license files are created, usage.txt is removed
- added third-party tools links
0.37 alpha
- added shutdown when done option
- added support for unknown languages in stream info file
- changed detection and handling for hybrid sources
0.35 alpha
- improved parsing of stream info file
- audio and subs are now handled in a more generic way (should be much less errors like "audio not found")
- extended subs information now displayed from stream info file
- fixed problem with preview and subs
- improved telecining/interlacing detection
- new type of source can be recognized: hybrid (both mostly FILM and NTSC)
- for pure FILM sources analysis pass is no longer run
- small internal fixes
0.33 alpha
- fixes oversize problem in some cases
0.32 alpha
- audio bitrate increment is now 16kbps
- video length is displayed in info when working with IFO files
- preview works again
- program asks to abort encoding when closing
- rough check for free size on output drive is implemented
0.31 alpha
- GREATLY improved compressability test accuracy
- threshold for detecting intrelaced frames was increased
- final quality is reported now after first pass
0.3 alpha
- "Bitrate 0" problem fixed
- sybols "[]" are not allowed in the inpit and ouput paths
- output can be a root directory now
- IFO mode can now correctly pick longest chain and use it all the way through (if it's the only chain in vobset though)
- "tmp" dir is cleared now on job start
- final video is split if its more than one CD (more than 702 Mb)
- Default deinterlacer is now KernelDeInt
- 4:3 input sources are kept with proper 4:3 aspect ratio (most of the time)
