Holiday news

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DGMPGDec 1.5.7 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=151026) dumps process information to stdout and the postprocessing pitch code no longer causes issues with Avisynth 2.6.

ProgDVB 6.24.1 (http://www.progdvb.com/) contains some bugfixes and internal changes

MKVToolNix 2.9.9 (http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/index.html)allows the use of the + sign to append files, shows uppercase file extensions in the add file / append file dialogs, comes with a new utility mkvpropedit that is basically a commandline version of mmg's header editor and there's the usual amount of bugfixes as well

I haven't read any non software related news yet...

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Okay - I can't really say I've been following everything and since I'm both the driver and the tour guide (and had zero time to prepare prior to my departure and thus need to make up everything as I go along) I don't have too much time to devote to the while digital video part at the moment.. but here goes anyway:
There were two new builds of the DG NV tools (https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=147945).. beta 5 speeds up indexing and support DTS in program streams, and beta 6 supports field interlaced VC-1 streams.
BD Rebuilder 0.31.05 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=143716) recognizes stream synchronization errors from tsmuxer and applies a workaround when this happens, contains a workaround so that tsmuxer output filenames that violate length restrictions no longer hang the process, has a new option to disable the NAL HRD option, comes with the latest x264 build and contains some minor corrections and fixes.
ProgDVB 6.25.1 (http://www.progdvb.com) contains some bugfixes.

And here's a funny bit from the legal department - you'd think big music companies all loathe fair use and want to abolish it. But then they find themselves on the wrong side of a copyright infringement suit (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091203/1730177188.shtml) that looks like it's a case of fair use, and suddenly the tables are reversed. And I seem to recall a song by Snoop Dogg that also makes use of the same catchphrase.

And here's another good one.. as much as the music industry is barking at Canada's "relaxed" (reasonable would be more accurate if you ask me), they've just been caught with their hand in the cookie jar in a major way - it seems compilation CDs are put out first and royalties paid afterwards - but if the labels refuse to paid for music they've already sold (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091207/1201017234.shtml), doesn't that make them as much a pirate as somebody who downloads music off a P2P services?

And this one's pretty funny too: New movie comes out, movie is a big hit on P2P networks, director complains that piracy is killing the chance of a sequel, then movie studio gives the green light for just that sequel? (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091202/2132507174.shtml) What's wrong here?

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Merry Christmas everybody :)

Haali's latest media splitter (http://haali.su/mkv/) now includes the 64bit version, removes the shell extension and it supports TrueHD and MPL audio in MKV and TS files.

CoreAVC 2.0 (http://corecodec.com/products/coreavc) supports 64bit, Windows 7 and MKV in Windows Media Center, contains many speed optimizations as well as some bugfixes.

ProgDVB 6.25.4 (http://www.progdvb.com) is a test 64bit version for XP, Vista and Windows 7.

DGAVCPulldown 0.2 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=151360) applies pulldown in correct display order and is released under the GPL.

DVDSubEdit 1.51 (http://download.videohelp.com/DVDSubEdit/) supports retiming sup files, checks for duplicate colors, has an selection inversion button, support the delete key in the OCR edit box, has a shortcut to allow external subtitle editing and has an option to show absolute or relative PTS time.

MKVToolNix 3.0 (http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/index.html) shows the muxing progress in the taskbar (Win7 only), has an option that omits timestamp information from muxed files and it no longer crashes / creates corrupt files when editing headers of files created by HandBrake.

BDSup2Sub 4.0.0 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=145277) is now open source, has a recent files menu, makes the output format persistent, and there are some improvements to the move functionality and the help can be opened in an external html viewer.

Finally, the US government held a piracy summit at the White House, and besides blindly adopting the industry's talking point (you don't need a lawyer to tell you that stealing != copyright infringement), and then went on to underline just how serious the whole openness thing is being taken by kicking out the press (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091215/1307497368.shtml) ;) That's what the industry likes... come up with new ways to screw us over in secret and present the results to us when it's too late to do anything about it anymore - as they very well know that if you include the customers, they're not going to take being screwed over without at least complaining.

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New Year's Eve probably hasn't even begun for a lot of you, but I'll be on my way to the airport soon so I have to do this a bit earlier:

Happy New Year. Hope you won't fall in the small crack between the years due to excessive alcohol consumption or other nasty New Year's Eve party effects.

Then the last bit of software news:
The DG NV Tools v2 beta 8 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=147945&page=40) report firm percentage for VC-1 content.

ProgDVB 6.30 (http://www.progdvb.com/) now supports youtube and makes the 64bit version official.

Virtualdub 1.98 (http://www.virtualdub.org/) fixes a lot of bugs.



And finally... Viacom is sueing Google to take down videos that Viacom uploaded themselves (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091229/1920547542.shtml)... makes you wonder if you should really trust those takedown requests after all, eh?