Thema: MediaInfo / VideoInspector / PlayTime etc.

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Version 0.7.45, 2011-06-15
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+ Belarusian translation updated
+ QuickTime: Support of EIA-608 streams created by Final Cut
+ Matroska: Support of Matroska tags
+ Matroska: parsing of tags at the end of the file (previously: only tags at the beginning)
+ MP4/MOV with uncompressed streams: scan type (interlaced/progressive)
+ YUV4MPEG2 (Y4M) support
+ GXF: more information about AES3 audio streams
+ EXR: Basic support
+ E-AC-3: dialnorm/dynrng (first frame / first block) information
+ LXF: support of DV PAL
+ DPX: Support of Cineon old format
+ DPX: Support of file with Little Endian configuration
+ MPEG-4: better support of file with more than one mdat or moov atom
+ WAV: more details from bext chunk
+ MXF: AFD (in both descriptor or ANC) support
+ MXF: Support of AES3 / Dolby E in 2 mono channels
+ MPEG-4: support of some malformed (without mdat atom) files
+ MXF: Better detection of streams without Essence Compression descriptor
x MPEG Video: Custom matrix detection was broken
x DPX: Industry specific header was not well decoded
x JPEG-2000: Chroma subsampling 4:2:0 was recognized as 4:4:4.
x Matroska: Handling default values for TrackVideoDisplayWidth and TrackVideoDisplayHeight
x MPEG-TS: private audio streams with 0xCO stream_id were not correctly detected
x FLV and RIFF: Changing Sorenson H.263 to Sorenson Spark because this stream format is too much incompatible with H.263
x MXF: Some specific files (including AFD in descriptor) were not well parsed

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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Version 0.7.46, 2011-07-04
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+ Ukrainian translation updated
+ MXF: TrackName
+ DCP: Basic support (video and audio streams), both Interop and SMPTE versions
+ P2 Clip: Supporting directories with wrong letter case
+ MXF: detection of AES3/Dolby E in mono PCM streams without compression scheme
+ MP4: first frame duration difference if first frame has not the same duration than all other frames
+ MP4: frame rate set as CFR if only the first frame has a different duration
+ MP4: Handling of track duration smaller than media duration (track duration and stream size have priority)
+ #3348936, MXF: OP-Atom profile
+ Matroska, Stereo Layout support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
x libcurl (FTP/HTTP): seek request was buggy, invalid data was read
x MPEG Video in MPEG-TS or MP4: streams were wrongly detected as VBR or CBR, any bit rate mode is removed until a working solution is found
x AES (S302M): was no more detected if the packet was split in several PES
x #3325235, Vorbis: streams were wrongly reported as CBR
x EXR: Width/Height were 1 less than real value
x #3344635, MP4/MOV: Delay missing if timecode track found before audio/video, thanks to Peter Chapman

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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What's new: >>

Added:

    ISM (ISM/ISMV/ISMA/PIFF...) support
    SCC (Scenarist Closed Captioning) support
    #3201768, BMP: BitmapV4Header support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
    MP4: enda atom support (Endianess)
    MXF: expliciting PCM endianess

Fixed:

    Vorbis in AVI, version 3+ was displayed as 2+
    MPEG-4/MOV: files with big "free" atom were not parsed

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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Version 0.7.48, 2011-08-16
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+ Russian translation updated
+ ISM (ISM/ISMV/ISMA/PIFF...): more attributes (frame rate, frame count, duration)
+ MP3: support of VBRI header in a corrupted frame
+ Active Format Description: muxing mode (A/35 or SMPTE ST 2016-3)
+ MP4/MOV: Displaying info about first description atom of a track (instead of all of them)
x MP4/MOV: scan order (Top/Bottom) from container, thanks to Peter Chapman
x MP4: Channel layout was not filled in some cases
x libmms: default behavior is using official libmms API only
x Vorbis comment: album performer data was in performer field
x Captions in AVC: some captions were not detected and decoded
x AVC: GOP structure info was often wrong
x MXF: IndexTable search was buggy (parsing the whole file) for some rare files (index present twice)

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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Version 0.7.49, 2011-09-09
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+ AES3: analyzing AAC, AC-3, MPEG Audio embedded in AES3 stream
+ GXF: detection of DolbyE in AES3 in GXF
+ WAV: detecting AES3 non-PCM audio inside WAV
+ MPEG Video: more precise duration for 29.97 fps material having time code without drop frame flag set
+ MPEG-4/MOV: delay from time code track conforming to Final cut (using integral frame rate value if frame drop flag is not set)
+ Overall bit rate mode (CBR or VBR)
+ DVB Subtitle: region_horizontal_address / region_vertical_address (hidden by default)
+ MPEG-TS: option (--ParseSpeed=0. for testing the stream until all advertised streams are detected
x MXF: some files with SDTI were not well demuxed (frame number) or were crashing
x Some files where wrongly detected as MPEG-PS without streams
x AC-3: non-48 KHz streams were not analyzed
x 3164893, JPEG: issue with some JPEG files with no/incorrect extention
x 3403338, crash with four character filenames

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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What's new: >>

- Ukrainian translation updated
- DVB Subtitle: region_width / region_height / region_depth (hidden by default)
- MPEG-4: hdv6 and mx4p CodecID support (MPEG Video)
- AVI: v210 CodecID (YUV) detect
- #3411596, CDDA support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
- MXF: support of AC-3
- #3411999, AVi: detection of GeoVision MPEG-4, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
- #3411999, MPEG-4: detection of VC-1 (WMV3), Nellymoser and WMA2, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
- AVI: Better support of 2 video streams (e.g. "3D AVI") in a file
- MPEG-TS: Duration was not provided in some cases
- FLV: Delay and duration for AAC was wrong if delay was not 0, thanks to Justin Greer http://zencoder.com
- #3408005, IFO: crash with some files
- MPEG-4: some bitrates where wrong if smooth streaming is used

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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VideoInspector is meant to provide you with as many details about your video files as possible. This is the perfect tool to solve "codec-related" problems.

Freeware

http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?vtb

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What's new: >>

Added:

    MKV: add support for default and forced track flags
    RK Audio format support
    LA: version field
    MPEG-4: basic support of Aigo .3dv files
    MPEG-2 Video: color display info (colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients)
    QuickTime: color display info (colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients)
    QuickTime: ProRes LT, Proxy, 4:4:4 profiles detection
    QuickTime: mpeg CodecID support
    Template inputs are now insensitive to carriage return kind (Windows \r\n, Mac \r, Linux \n)
    MPEG-TS: Support of ISO 8859-2 in EPG
    MPEG-4: more CodedIDs supported
    GXF: more info about DV streams
    GXF: Handling of files with more than 1 Time code

Fixed:

    GXF: using only the first map chunk for duration calculation
    Id3v2: was not able to extract covers with UTF-16 description
    video from several files: crash if there is not enough place for the frame number
    DVD-Video (IFO): Crash when scanning some malformed IFO files
    Matroska: parser hanging in case of huge zero-padded files
    MPEG-4: was not providing some info about tracks with sample table before media header
    MXF: better support of corrupted indexes
    MediaInfo library: unload wrong DLL, thanks to McSpecky
    MPEG-TS: Better handling of EPG running_status flag
    MXF: Handling of "file:///" in Network loacators
    FLV: audio delay was sometimes wrong
    H264: Buffer size was in bytes instead of bits like with other formats
    no output if absolute file name, on Linux
    FLV: wrong detection when FLV header is corrupt
    BLu-ray: crash if MPLS files are on the root of a disk
    Blu-ray: parsing was very slow if MPLS was pointing thousands of times on the same file
    Matroska: crash if AAC sample rate is not provided by the container

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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What's new: >>

    Georgian translation
    MXF with referenced files: if the referenced file is not available, trying to open local files
    MPEG Video: GOP size for I-Frame only streams
    MXF: support of CEA-608 in ancillary data for some other formats than MPEG Video, if there is no B-frame
    LXF: support of SMPTE ST291/CDP/CEA-608/CEA-708 in ancillary data
    WAV: better handling of files not having word alignment
    DV: crash (division by zero) in some cases
    DV: DVCPRO HD was sometimes not detected (low bitrate)
    MXF: Crash if AFD field has an invalid value
    MXF: Wrong endianess for some big endian PCM streams
    MXF: some MXF referencing files have wrong duration
    MXF: duration was wrong with some specific files
    DVD-Video: detection of 20-bit and 24-bit PCM
    XML output: it was sometimes containing some invalid characters
    MPEG-4: considering default char set as ISO-8859-1
    MXF: better handling of referencing files having the same ID for all tracks
    MXF: Handling of MXF files with wrong FooterPartition field
    MXF: Some captions (not starting at the beginning of the file) were not detected
    WAV: duration was missing is some cases
    RMP3 support was broken

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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What's new: >>

+ DV: option for ignoring transmitting flags (TF1/TF2/TF3) (DLL and CLI only)
+ Matroska: ProRes detection
+ MPEG-4: official DTS CodecIDs (dtsc/dtsh/dtsl/dtse) support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
+ Matroska: stream order (hidden by default), in order to provide the same numbers as mkvtoolnix 5.2+ Track ID
+ #3471516, BLu-ray: wrong channel count for mono/3-channel/5-channel/7-channel PCM streams
+ AVI: ISMP (SMPTE Time code), Tdat tc_o/tc_a (Adobe Premier time code) support
+ reVTMD output
+ --Output is synonym of --Inform option
x QuickTime: crash and sometimes wrong info with some files having compressed header
x MPEG-4: commercial format typo error (EX422 instead of HD422)
x MXF: handling wrong MXF header having frame height instead of field height
x #3471053, Tags: Id3v1 tag was used instead of Id3v2 if the file is short
x #3463117, MPEG-TS: crash if Conditioal Access PID is same as the PES
x Custom output: better handling of cases with special character strings (\n...) in the file content
x #3440664: Audio only AVI file is missing duration
x #3453476: detection so incorrect duration information in tkhd atom
x Detailled XML output was producing duplicate xml-tags

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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What's new: >>

Added:

    Russian translation updated
    Matroska: parsing of WebM-style frame rate info
    ALAC: parsing of the alac atom, for real bit depth / sample rate
    DV: fields order (TFF/BFF)
    MPEG-4: more video 4CCs binded to MPEG Video
    H.263: raw stream parsing (width, height, aspect ratio), comparison with container data
    Speed improvements
    MPEG-PS: supporting parsing of some non-conform files
    Full support of CEA-608 (separation of CC1-CC4, T1-T4)
    MPEG-4: trying to detect wrong duration in track header
    MPEG-4 with embedded MXF track (XDCAM...): separation of video bitrate and padding bitrate
    Compound streams (e.g. DV): separation of video bitrate and audio bitrate
    Blu-ray: LPCM mono real bit rate is separated from the encoded (stereo) bit rate
    Support of https, sftp scp protocols (custom builds only)
    AVI: vprp (OpenDML) display aspect ratio support

Bugs fixed:

    File names with non-US characters were sometimes not open
    Matroska: some frame rates are incorrect in the file, trying to detect this kind of malformed file
    AVC: segmentation fault
    AAC: wrong detection for some malformed AAC streams
    MPEG-4: wrong analysis of some files having track header after media information
    MXF: Height was wrong for MXF with FrameLayout = Mixed fields
    Blu-ray: displaying PGS in all cases (even if PES is not detected, they are too much rare)
    MPEG-4: delay between audio and video was no more detected
    MPEG-4: crash with some files having fragments
    MPEG-4: channel position in case of channel atom is configured with ChannelBitmap
    MPEG-TS: crash with some buggy files (a PID indicated as PSI and PES at the same time)
    AES3: not detecting Dolby E stream if there is guard band before the Dolby E frame, in MPEG-TS
    DPX: some files with some invalid fields were not detected
    DTVCC Captions: crash with some buggy streams

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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Changes in MediaInfo 0.7.55:

+ Italian translation updated
+ AC-3: support of little endian streams
+ LXF: support of format version 0
+ HLS: support of .m3u8 index and sequence referencing a bunch of MPEG-TS files
+ MPEG-4: Added support of glbl atom and corresponding 4CC (ai12, ai15, ai1q, ai5q)
+ MPEG-4: Added detection of files with mx5p files wrongly filled with raw MPEG Video instead of MXF
+ MPEG-TS: Detection of 20-bit Dolby E even if the SMPTE 302 M header is set to 24-bit
x #3513490, Id3v2: mapping of "Encoded by" and "Encoding library" is conform to the specs now
x MXF: hang up with some clip-wrapped files
x MPEG-4: AVC-100 bit rate was not coherent depending of the container (MPEG-4 or MXF)
x reVTMD output is disabled due to its non-free (point of view of FSF and DFSG) licensing.

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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Play Time quickly calculates the total play time of a list of most any music or movie file. Features a drag & drop interface, and can export all/selected rows to a spreadsheet (CSV). Total time is automatically calculated when you add/remove files from the list.

The program can optionally add a shell extension.

License: Freeware

What's new: >>

    Fixed problem with the Extra menu.

http://skwire.dcmembers.com/wb/pages/software/playtime.php

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What's new: >>

Added:

    Better support of machines lacking of std::stringstream
    Better support of machines requesting explicit stdc++ library link option (e.g. some ARM embedded devices)

Bug fixed:

    MPEG-4: crash with MPEG-4 container + H264/AVC video stream
    MPEG Audio: infinite loop (freeze) with some files
    Video: Well known 1.85:1 display aspect ratio was incorrectly displayed as 16:9
    File interface: No output if filename contain a colon
    MPEG-4: some specific files were not detected
    AVI: infinite loop (freeze) with some files (having index containing 0-sized chunk)
    AVC: memory leaks
    libcurl support: libcurl config from MediaInfo is compatible with libcurl+gnutls
    CLI only: --LogFile carriage return format was not the one of the OS

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

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DSF/MFT Viewer is a DirectShow Filter (DSF) and Media Foundation Transorm (MFT) Viewer able to display various information about splitters, filters, decoders, etc installed on computer.

DirectShow provides a set of default filters in Windows. These filters support many data formats while providing a high degree of hardware independence. An application can also register and install custom filters on the target system.

Media Foundation transforms (MFTs) provide a generic model for processing media data. MFTs are used for decoders, encoders, and digital signal processors (DSPs). In short, anything that sits in the media pipleine between the media source and the media sink is an MFT.

DSF/MFT Viewer displays detailed information on the right side of main window and allows you to register or unregister the files.

In addition, the meaning of the numbers that appear in front of the name is as follows:

1. 32: DSF / MFT 32bit applications
2. 64: DSF / MFT 64bit applications
3. 3264: DSF / MFT available from both the 32bit and 64bit

http://bluesky23.yu-nagi.com/en/index.html#DsfMftViewer