Hey Matroska users,
here's another release of mkvtoolnix, 2.4.0. New features include support for VC1 video read from elementary streams and MPEG program streams, Dirac video elementary streams, support for 7.1 channel EAC3 tracks and the extraction of Theora video tracks into Ogg files. Bug that were fixed include the handling of unknown tracks in Ogg files, the automatic garbage detection for AC3/MP3 tracks, the handling of DTS in MPEG program streams, (E)AC3 files bigger than 2 GB and many more.
Here are the usual links...
...to the home page:
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/
...to the source code:
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkv...-2.4.0.tar.bz2
...to the Windows installer:
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkv....4.0-setup.exe
The Linux binaries that I provide myself (Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE and Fedora Core) have already been uploaded and are available from the home page.
Here's the full ChangeLog since release 2.3.0:
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2008-10-11 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* Released v2.4.0.
* mmg: bug fix: The chapter editor's function "save to Matroska file" was corrupting the target file in some cases. Fix for bug 307.
2008-10-06 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: mkvmerge was only writing one reference block for real B frames. Patch by Daniel Glckner. Fix for bug 306.
* all: bug fix: The Windows uninstaller was not removing all start menu entries during uninstallation on Windows Vista. The installer now creates the start menu entries for all users instead of the current user only. Fix for bug 305.
2008-10-05 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mmg: bug fix: The "language" drop down box contained some entries twice or more. Fix for bug 304.
2008-10-04 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Incorrect usage of the iconv library caused some conversions to omit the last character of each converted entry (e.g. for the conversion from Hebrew to UTF-8). Fix for bug 302.
2008-09-25 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: enhancement: mkvmerge will use the timecodes provided by the MPEG program stream source file for VC1 video tracks.
2008-09-24 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Reading EVOBs with multiple VC1 video tracks was broken (all packets where put into a single video track).
2008-09-22 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvextract: new feature: Added support for handling SimpleBlocks for timecode extraction.
2008-09-21 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Reading raw (E)AC3 files bigger than 2 GB was broken.
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for Dirac video tracks.
2008-09-20 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Improved the detection of MPEG-1/-2 and AVC/h.264 video tracks in MPEG program streams (VOBs/EVOBs).
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed reading DTS audio tracks from MPEG program streams (VOBs/EVOBs).
2008-09-19 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mmg: enhancement: Added the extensions "evo", "evob" and "vob" to mmg's "add file" dialog.
2008-09-18 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for muxing VC1 video tracks read from MPEG program streams (EVOBs) or raw VC1 elementary streams (e.g. as produced by EVODemux).
2008-09-17 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: new feature: Added support for 7.1 channel EAC3 files. Fix for bug 301.
2008-09-13 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Revision 3831 (the change to the "--delay" and "--sync" options) caused mkvmerge to no longer respect the delay caused by garbage at the beginning of MP3 and AC3 audio tracks in AVI files. The timecodes of such tracks are now delayed appropriately again. Fix for bug 300.
2008-09-12 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Unknown stream types in Ogg files (e.g. skeleton tracks) don't cause mkvmerge to abort anymore. They're simply ignored. Fix for bug 299.
* mkvextract: new feature: Added support for extracting Theora video tracks into Ogg files. Fix for bug 298.
* mkvmerge: bug fix: Fixed the frame type (key or non-key frame) detection for Theora tracks.
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Have fun
Regards,
Mosu