ffx264 & ffhevc for Linux/BSD

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.7.5

* Add audio sample rate to the audio metadata
* Fixed a bug in the audio resample code where sample rate wasn't detected due to wrong value used (bit_rate instead of sample_rate)

ChangeLog for ffx264 3.7.4

* Add audio sample rate to the audio metadata

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.7.6 and ffx264 3.7.5

* Use a comma instead of a dash for the audio sample rate metadata

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.7.7 and ffx264 3.7.6

* Code optimization in the audio sample rate metadata

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.7.8 and ffx264 3.7.7

* Add audio channel metadata when using audio copy

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.7.9 and ffx264 3.7.8

* Improvements to the audio copy metadata

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.8.0 and ffx264 3.7.9

* Support encoding to WMAv1 and WMAv2 audio
* Update high bit depth pixel formats options
* Add WMAv1 and WMAv2 audio detection metadata when doing audio copy

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.8.1 and ffx264 3.8.0

* Add side channel info to the audio metadata

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.8.2 and ffx264 3.8.1

* For audio stream copy, in case ffprobe reports channels layout as unknown, try to guess the amount of channels based on channel detection and use that as metadata
* Set Mobisu transform as default for HDR to SDR
* Updated the man page

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.8.3

* Use the audindex[i] variable for audio metadata during audio copy
* Updated default encoding options. Requires latest x265 from git
* Updated default audio bitrates for some codecs

ChangeLog for ffx264 3.8.2

* Use the audindex[i] variable for audio metadata during audio copy
* Updated default audio bitrates for some codecs

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.8.4 and ffx264 3.8.3

* Revert using audindex[i] var for audio metadata detection

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.8.5 and ffx264 3.8.4

* Support hardcoding external or embedded subtitles. Requires libass support in FFmpeg
* Fixed a typo in the subtitles code

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.8.6

* Fixed a typo in the keyframe code
* Use readlink -e and realpath -e where needed
* Updated default encoding options and CRF value
* Updated the preset.txt example file

ChangeLog for ffx264 3.8.5

* Fixed a typo in the keyframe code
* Use readlink -e and realpath -e where needed

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.8.7 and ffx264 3.8.6

* Support scanning for multiple video tracks in the input file

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.8.8

* Bugfix: use correct video mapping for crop detection
* Cosmetics

ChangeLog for ffx264 3.8.7

* Bugfix: use correct video mapping for crop detection

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.8.9 and ffx264 3.8.8

* Support the fftdnoiz denoise filter

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ChangeLog for ffx264 3.8.9

* Support the WMV container format

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.9.0

* Bugfix: use correct video track for crop preview with MPlayer
* Renamed variable SCAN_MULTIPLE_VID_TRACKS to SCAN_MULTI_VID_TRACKS
* Some reordering in the config file
* Add option hrd and vui-hrd-info when encoding HDR video
* Add LPCM detection for audio copy
* Add support for cover art for the mp4 and mov containers. Requires MP4Box from GPAC
* Set Catmull-Rom as default Bicubic/Spline tuning
* Some code optimization

ChangeLog for ffx264 3.9.0

* Bugfix: use correct video track for crop preview with MPlayer
* Bugfix: in the video_field_parity_func() function. $vidtrack was missing for ffprobe
* Bugfix: missing ;; in the additional container formats code
* Renamed variable SCAN_MULTIPLE_VID_TRACKS to SCAN_MULTI_VID_TRACKS
* Some reordering in the config file
* Set Catmull-Rom as default Bicubic/Spline tuning
* Add LPCM detection for audio copy
* Add support for cover art for the mp4, m4v and mov containers. Requires MP4Box from GPAC
* Some code optimization

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.9.1 and ffx264 3.9.1

* Use atomicparsley to add cover art for the mp4/m4v containers. This removes dependence on MP4Box and makes it possible to copy over metadata info in an easy way
* Add +frag_keyframe to the -movflags option when output is mp4
* Renamed variable METACOVER to MKVCOVER
* Updated the man page

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.9.2

* Added support for embedding of SRT/SSA/ASS subtitles in the MP4 container
* Moved back to MP4Box for adding cover art to MP4/MOV. Apparently, after lots of testing, atomicparsley creates files that hang during playback
* Cosmetics
* Updated the man page

ChangeLog for ffx264 3.9.2

* Added support for embedding of SRT/SSA/ASS subtitles in the MP4/M4V containers
* Moved back to MP4Box for adding cover art to MP4/M4V/MOV. Apparently, after lots of testing, atomicparsley creates files that hang during playback
* Cosmetics
* Updated the man page

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.9.3 and ffx264 3.9.3

* Add support for verbose logging to a log file
* Bugfix: -map_metadata and -map_chapters where not set to 0 when the respective options in the config file were set to "y"

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.9.4 and ffx264 3.9.4

* Renamed variables $MDATA and $CHPS to $METADATA and $CHAPS
* Add $METADATA and $CHAPS to the remuxing code

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.9.5 and ffx264 3.9.5

* Add support for SRT/SSA/AAS subtitles for the MOV container
* Add color characteristics to MP4Box if output is MOV
* Use smpte170m for option 0 in the color primaries code
* Update colormatrix in the video_colorspace_func() function to smpte170m for NTSC
* Some code optimizations

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.9.6 and ffx264 3.9.6

* Added support for setting the VBV maxrate and buffer size
* Set default audio codec based on output container format
* Add colr option for MP4Box to the video_colorspace_func() function and the color primaries code. Only used for MOV
* Add -color_primaries, -color_trc and -colorspace to the FFmpeg command line options

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.9.8

* Removed M4V from the case statements for cover art. I confused it with ffx264 which supports M4V while ffhevc does not.
* Detect audio bit depth and add it to the audio metadata
* Added detection for DTS Express and DTS-HD HR for audio copy
* Use -show_entries instead of -show_streams for detecting audio properties with ffprobe. Removes piping to grep and awk
* Support setting the FLAC bit depth for encoding
* Minor restructuring and variables renaming in the audio code
* Updated the man page

ChangeLog for ffx264 3.9.7

* Detect audio bit depth and add it to the audio metadata
* Added detection for DTS Express and DTS-HD HR for audio copy
* Use -show_entries instead of -show_streams for detecting audio properties with ffprobe. Removes piping to grep and awk
* Support setting the FLAC bit depth for encoding
* Minor restructuring and variables renaming in the audio code
* Updated the man page

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 3.9.9 and ffx264 3.9.8

* Renamed audio variable aid[i] to aidx[i] and moved it outside of the if conditional that decides the audio codec. This removes the same code in three places and now uses the global aidx[i] variable
* HE-AACv2 only supports 2 channels. Update the audio code to reflect that
* When running in batch mode, add a warning about automatic audio metadata and offer an option to enable/disable it
* Added -tmp option to MP4Box to store temp files in the output directory
* Some minor improvements to the audio options

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.0.0 and ffx264 3.9.9

* Use 16 bits as bit depth metadata when encoding to TrueHD audio
* Removed an unneeded if conditional in the audio bit depth code
* Add director and cast metadata for the MKV container
* Reorder some code for the output shell file
* Cosmetics

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.0.1 and ffx264 4.0.0

* Added support for director/cast metadata for MP4/MOV/(M4V)
* Added +use_metadata_tags to the $movflags variable for MP4/MOV/(M4V)
* Support ADPCM encoding for DTS audio
* Fixed an issue where asking for director/cast occured multiple times if remuxing to other containers was enabled

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.0.2

* Removed an unneeded check for audio codec in the conerror_func() function
* Removed a stale "" in the case statement that checks the channels for AC3
* Support setting the matrixed stereo type when resampling stereo input
* Support setting the filter type of the audio resample filter
* Add the bsf bitstream filter to convert from length prefix to start code prefix when remuxing to m2ts/mts/ts
* Cosmetics

ChangeLog for ffx264 4.0.1

* Removed an unneeded check for audio codec in the conerror_func() function
* Removed a stale "" in the case statement that checks the channels for AC3
* Support setting the matrixed stereo type when resampling stereo input
* Support setting the filter type of the audio resample filter
* Cosmetics

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.0.3

* Merged two case statements in the metadata code for mkv/mp4/mov
* Support dithering when downscaling to 8-bit pixels

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.0.4

* Bugfix: Using ADPCM encoding for DTS audio wasn't possible due to wrong variable used in the if conditional

ChangeLog for ffx264 4.0.2

* Merged two case statements in the metadata code for mkv/mp4/mov
* Bugfix: Using ADPCM encoding for DTS audio wasn't possible due to wrong variable used in the if conditional

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.0.5 and ffx264 4.0.3

* Added support for the (newer) deblock filter

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.0.6

* Update the default encoding options

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.0.7

* Update default encoding options and CRF value

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.0.8

* Update default encoding options and CRF value; V2

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.0.9

* Update default encoding options, v3

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.1.0

* Default encoding options tweaks. Add qcomp=0.7 and go back to standard non-hierarchical motion estimation. Also increased tu-{inter,intra}-depth to 4 and reference frames to 5
* Lower default CRF value to 20

NOTE: Currently, Sourceforge has problems and errors out when uploading the new version. Temporarily you can find it at https://ffhevc.teambelgium.net/ffhevc-4.1.0.tar.gz
When SF is fixed again, I'll upload it there.

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.1.1

* Switch to AQ mode 2
* Increase default bframes from 6 to 8
* Keep quantization group size at the same size as the max CTU

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.1.2

* Increase deblocking values from -3,-3 to -1,-1
* Enable strong intra smoothing
* Lower qcomp to its default value of 0.6

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.1.3

* More fine-tuning to the default encoding options that should preserve noise and especially mosquito noise on dark backgrounds while at the same time increasing quality with a slightly higher bitrate cost

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.1.4 and ffx264 4.0.4

* Add support for the noise video filter. Can be beneficial on (very) clean sources by applying some noise to avoid things like color/light banding in the encode
* Fine-tuning to the default encoding options

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.1.5

* psy-rd/psy-rdoq psycho-visual tuning to the default encoding options. Aim is to preserve the energy of the input as much as possible without introducing noticable artifacts such as ringing

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.1.6

* Go back to uniform AQ (mode 1) with a strength of 1.0
* Bump up qcomp to 0.72
* Increase psy-rdoq to 15.0 and psy-rd to 4.0
* Increase reference frames to 5

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.1.7

* Add option to force signaling of HDR in case max-cll is 0,0

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.1.8

* More psycho-visual tunings

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.1.9

* Rename hdr option to hdr10. Requires latest libx265 compiled from the default branch
* Rename hdr-opt to hdr10-opt. Requires latest libx265 compiled from the default branch
* Support HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma) HDR
* Some minor psy-rd/rdoq tunings

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.2.0

* Minor optimizations to the default encoding options. Lower qcomp to 0.7

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.2.1 and ffx264 4.0.5

* Use MPlayer for crop detection instead of FFmpeg which seems to have issues with 4k/UHD content

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.2.2 and ffx264 4.0.6

* Go back to FFmpeg for crop detection

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ChangeLog for ffx264 4.0.7

* Bugfix: missing if conditional in the crop code

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ChangeLog for ffhevc 4.2.3

* Update default encoding options