* Same as v1.1.5 but with no expiration date and no donate links
2003-04-04 - VCDEasy v1.1.5
I made big developments efforts these last 2 months, I hope you will appreciate...
* Wanted by many many users since a long time... load/save projects !
* Ability to save and reuse the MPEG Analyze information (this will speed-up the reload of MPEG files, and so the reload of projects).
* Requested by a donor: Anti Flickering option added to the MPEG Stills page
* Picture viewer added to the MPEG Stills page (easier to understand the impact of each image transformation option)
* Mjpeg Tools v1.6.1 support added
* Use of the "CD Image File Recorder" concept
* Some compliance tests have been added.
* Requested by several donors: You can now work with network shares ("\\server\share\..." ).
* Again, in the spirit of making things easier to use, an expert mode have been added. The non-expert mode should be ok for most of the users. Some messages maybe be different and some options may be shown or not whether you are in expert mode or not.
* Project options have been reorganized on the Graphical Interface.
* Most of the settings not directly related to a VideoCD project have been moved to a settings dialog.
* In order to reduce the number of use troubles, and to reduce the complexity of the source code, I made a few changes:
- GNU VCDImager is no more an optional component.
- The location of the command line tools (GNU VCDImager, CDRDAO, MjpegTools) can no more be user defined.
- MPEG analysis is now mandatory for each MPEG file added to the project (I know it is not a good news for a few users, but it will reduce highly the number of troubles... [chapter entry points check, padding problems detection, making sure that no user will try to make chapters to a MPEG still,...]).
- No more "VCDEasy minimal distribution".
* Catalan Translation by Xavier (Thanks!)
* Traditional Chinese Translation by Koko (Thanks!)
2003-01-21 - VCDEasy v1.1.4
Load/Save is not yet finished, but I prefer to publish VCDEasy 1.1.4 now, without the load/save yet, because a lot of bugs
around the Media Player have been fixed, and the Nero ASPI support may help a lot of people having CD writer detection problems.
* Better recognition of the Adaptec ASPI version if any
* VCDEasy can now use Nero's ASPI layer if there ("WnAspi32.Dll" in the folder of Nero
[and also "NeroApix.vxd" in "Windows\System\IOSUBSYS\" on Win9x/Me])
* If you know what you are doing... you can force the use of a specific ASPI layer in putting the corresponding "WnAspi32.Dll" file
in the CDRDAO folder. Note that an ASPI layer may be more than just one file, so be careful to have all of them installed...
* Several bugs/improvements related to the Media Player box (in the chapters page) has been fixed/made.
It should be more robust now. In theory, VCDEasy should be able to read what the Windows Media Player 6.4
(located at: "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe") can read... But, according to some users,
it is not always the case... It depends in fact on the codecs (DirectShow filters in fact) your Media Player is using.
Also, note that if your Windows Media Player is unable to resize a video under their original size (because of the codecs),
then you may have sound but no video in the VCDEasy's Media Player.
* A bug fixed in the display when Windows large fonts (yet another one...)
* I removed the About, History and Credits pages, and replaced them by dialog windows accessible via the "Help" menu.
* The history is now displayed as RTF document.
* The version of each language file is now displayed.
* Fixed bad display of small icons when the user is not an Administrator on WinNT/2k/XP.
* Put "NoAutopaddingWarning=1" in the VCDEasy.ini file to not have the warning for MPEG files which require autopadding
* Put "NoBadPacketsWarning=1" in the VCDEasy.ini file to not have the warning for MPEG files which have bad packets
* The "Approximate CD size" computation has been (again...) improved.
* VCDEasy is now more robust to errors in the language files (VCDEasy 1.1.3 was not usable with the Czech language file)
* Bug fix when adding a file with bad "Last Modified" information
* Bug fix related to some CD writer speed selections
* Russian Translation by Vladislav Kugelevich (Thanks!)
* Turkish Translation by Solid Development (Thanks!)
2002-11-29 - VCDEasy v1.1.3
Hoping I will still continue to receive a few donations, I planned to buy the Binary Magic's "Magic Cue Burner" delphi
component (http://www.binarymagics.com/html/magic_cue_burner.html). It has its own ASPI built-in. I will keep the CDRDAO
integration into VCDEasy and let the burning method choice to the user.
Next main feature, expected by lots of users, is the ability to load/save a project...
* Ability to capture in one step the pictures for all your chapters
* Ability to capture a picture from the Media Player box
* Media Player box integration into the chapter page, to ease the choice of chapters, as a start.
(thanks to some donations I have received, I bought the TActiveMovie delphi component)
But please, do not send me an email if the Media Player is unable to play one of your file.
The player plays what your regular Windows Media Player can play. If you can not play a file...
it can be for example because this file is bad, or because you do not have on your Windows the required CODEC
(for example, a MPEG2 codec is required to play MPEG2 files... and there is no MPEG2 codec coming with Windows).
* VCDEasy now uses the file "cdrdao-drivers.txt" in the VCDEasy folder to ease the CDRDAO "Force Driver" choice
* VCDEasy still does not accept network files "\\server\share\...",
but now works with mapped network drive (for example "Z:\Videos" which is in fact "\\server\share\Videos")
* Requested by a donor: when you let VCDEasy analyze the MPEG files, an "Autopadding required" warning
is shown if the MPEG file will be padded on the fly (this padding may result to a bad display)
* Requested by a donor: when you let VCDEasy analyze the MPEG files, an "Bad packets" warning
is shown if the MPEG file contains some bad packets (this may result to a bad display)
* Requested by most of the donors: Lots of work around guides for the VCDEasy web site... (a few important
guides remain to be done...)
* "Tips of the Day" feature added
* CUE files for CDRDAO v1.1.7 can now have the BIN filename in the long filename format (The CDRDAO CUE parsing bug
has been fixed)... but CDRDAO still does not use this BIN filename in the CUE file! So the CUE and BIN file still
must be in the same folder with the same filename...
* If you will not use CDRDAO v1.1.5 anymore, you can put "Expert_LongBinNameOnly=1" in the VCDEasy.ini file to have
the BIN file name in the long filename format (without the directory information) in the generated CUE files.
This can be useful if you use another burning application, and it works with CDRDAO v1.1.7
* CDRDAO v1.1.7 support
* Requested by a donor: Ability to disable "Reload the disc if necessary for writing".
Note that with some CD Writers, CDRDAO needs to eject/reload the disk (thus refreshing the status of the inserted
disk) for simulation or burn. This reload may cause problems when used with applications like UDF packet writing software
* Requested by a donor: "Do you want to add this non-compliant file anyway ?" added when compliance check failed.
* Requested by a donor: Ability to disable the BURN Proof feature when the CDRDAO driver is
generic-mmc or generic-mmc-raw.
* Bug fixed: DEL key deleted two chapter entries in the Chapters page (Thanks to Robert).
* Bug fixed in the XML viewer (Thanks to Bryan).
* Romanian Translation by Virgil Mocanu (Thanks!)
2002-09-04 - VCDEasy v1.1.2
I am still continuing to improve the existing features before implementing new ones...
I must admit that I am currently not motivated at all because of the very few donations I received compared to the huge
number of VCDEasy users...
Remember that donations help me pay the www.vcdeasy.org hosting, but would also allow me to buy some codes to improve
quicker VCDEasy. I am thinking for example of TActiveMovie (http://www.delphicity.com/amovie/scrshots.htm) for MPEG
preview, easier choice of chapters and picture extraction for automatic menu generation.
* Requested by a donor: Ability to play sounds, based on events.
* An "Out of ressources" (but not related to the amount of memory on the PC) bug fixed when having a big number
of MPEG Stills, and in some conditions.
* Requested by several donors: Improvements of the Interactivity page to have easier choices propagation
See the "..." buttons.
* One compliance check added: the duration of a non MPEG still must be more than 4 seconds.
* 25th of August... welcome to Mathis!
* Requested by a donor: The way you can move files in the MPEG files list has been rewritten, it should be better now.
* The "Approximate CD size" computation has been improved (was really bad when there were lots of stills).
* MPEG Stills creation improvements (it should now be more practical to create stills...):
- Better quality of the MPEG Stills!
- No more stop on errors but ask if you want to continue with the next picture file
- New option: Silently continue on errors
- Progress information when several pictures
- Select Files and Folder buttons added (same behaviour as the existing Drag'n Drop)
- Creations summary in the log page
- "Mpeg Size (Quality)" set to max by default now
- "Resize Filter" choice is now saved
* Requested by a donor: "ItSelf" choice added in the Interactivity page.
* Requested by a donor: At several places, some "Do you want to continue ?" has been added... instead of brutal stop.
* Requested by a donor: At several places, progress information like [item number / total item number] has been added
* A menu bar has been added in order to start freeing some places in the tabbed pages. I will add more menu items later.
* Ability to choose the location of the Mjpeg Tools
* The "file does not exist" bug in Cdxa2mpeg has been fixed
* "RPC server error" (when print spooler disabled) bug fixed. Thanks to Keith
* Some logos have been added to the tools pages
* Requested by a donor: Option "Set newly added file as MPEG still, by default" when you do not let
VCDEasy analyze the files
* Requested by a donor: "Delete Selected" added in the chapters list's popup menu
* The "Add Files" button of the MPEG files list now systematically sort the files before adding them at the end of the list
* Requested by a donor: Ability to disable Window Size and Position saving
* A few new hints have been added
* A few bugs fixed in Display related to Windows Desktop/Font sizes
* Donation link added
* Portuguese (Europe) Translation by Ant≤nio Eduardo Marques (Thanks!)
* Norwegian Translation by Geir Egil Hansen (Thanks!)
* Swedish Translation by Fredric Blσholtz (Thanks!)
2002-05-20 - VCDEasy v1.1.1 [HOT FIX]
* Bug fix: No more instant crash when VCDEasy starts and when there is no default printer currently selected in
"Control Panel/Printers". Thanks to "Ro Wiijkejak", who found the reason of this crash.
NB: You can not imagine how difficult it is to make something reliable to all users when many many users...
There are always cases I can not test...
2002-05-18 - VCDEasy v1.1.0
NB: No new main features in this version, even after 2 months without updates..., only bug fixes. Since the previous
version I tried, without success, to find a good free host for VCDEasy distribution files, as VCDEasy has been removed
from most of the former hosts... too many download bandwidth...! I finally decided to pay a host to make VCDEasy
freely available to you (instead of stopping...) and started building www.vcdeasy.org
* No more long (sometimes very long...) delays when authoring with lots of file. This was caused by color
rendering in the XML viewer. Thanks to "Baldrick" (www.vcdhelp.com)
* Ability to save the colored XML as RTF file (from the XML viewer page)
* Ability to print the content of the XML viewer
* The "Import Chapter" dialog has been slightly improved (Selecting an item "before" fills "Start Offset",
this can help you set the "First Chapter starts at"). Thanks to "gonz0"
* New VCDEasy license... more explicit.
* Addition of "reset actions to defaults" in the Interactivity page
* MPEG Stills generation via Drag'n Drop improved (Thanks to "Guido Ledermann")
* New option: "Insert Comments into the generated XML files"
* Requested by some users: Remember the main window position and size (easy and quick to do)
* The CD-ROM volume label now is restricted up to 32 d-characters (instead of 20 previously). "Thanks to Matthew Kanar"
* Bug fixed: bad naming of the remaining chapters after one or more chapters deletion... there since 1.0.6...
nobody reported...
* Bug fixed related to numeric Key assignment. Thanks to "VicBond007" and "gonz0"
* Italian Translation by Claudio Trevisi (Thanks!)
* Danish Translation by J°rgen Prµst (Thanks!)
NB: I may soon abandon/remove CDRDAO support as it seems that there are more users with CD writers support
or ASPI problems, than users able to use burn correctly. About 90% of the emails I receive is related to
CDRDAO troubles... To avoid removing burning support completely, I am looking for CDRDAO alternatives (with
integrated CD devices access support and CD devices via USB support). If someone can help...
2002-03-21 - VCDEasy v1.0.9
* MPEG Stills support in the (S)VCD authoring
* Some checks about some (S)VCD limitations have been added
* "Always on Top" added to the System Menu (Upper Left Icon) and to the Taskbar menu
* The queued commands manager has been improved to deal with skipped commands based on context. The first
consequence of this is that VCDEasy will now propose to erase a non empty CD-RW during authoring
* I put the default burn speed at 4x instead of MAX, as using MAX speed may sometimes cause jurky audio/video
* Previously used CUE files (detailed CUE files) may cause CD writing problems with some CD writers while it works
fine with simplified CUE files ("For_Fireburner"). So I introduce a new CD Image type option to let you choose
which cue file type to choose. Thanks to "Bondiablo" for his investigations.
* New option: SVCD "Hacked" in the MPEG Still creation page (required for many DVD/SVCD players).
* New option: Show the "Update scan data offsets" warning even when this update option is activated
* Global code/events architecture re-designed
* The "Approximate CD size" computation has been improved.
* Display Improvements related to Windows Desktop/Font sizes
* ListViews and TreeView Improvements
* Spanish Translation by Algernon and FΘlix Argila Garcφa (Thanks!)
* Croatian Translation by Raven (Thanks!)
* Polish Translation by Michal Cichocki (Thanks!)
* Bug fixed in the XML generation, "Reactivity" was always set to "Immediate"
* Bug fixed in the MPEG Stills creation when single quote in filenames. Thanks to "Por Que"
* Bug fixed in the XML generation (occurred rarely). Thanks to "Magnus Johansson" and "Por Que"
2002-02-17 - VCDEasy v1.0.8
NB: Adding MPEG stills to VideoCD projects requires me to modify a lot of things, so I prefer publish VCDEasy 1.0.8 now
without being able yet to use MPEG stills. It will be in the next version...
* New page added in the tools section: "Mpeg Stills Creation"...
* The CD-i support is no more set by default as it seems that some PC DVD/CD readers cannot read the disc
because of CD-i files
* The display under XP has been improved
* VCDEasy now correctly supports Windows font sizes other than "Small Fonts" (I hope this will help low vision persons)
* A bug in reporting the execution results has been fixed
* The "Log" and the "Xml Viewer" pages can be undocked
