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Default entries for the MOVIE section in INI Editor did not contain
the AVI3Name entry. |
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The file type .MVD will now automatically registered when the player
starts and the file type is not yet associated with anything. |
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The INI Editor open dialog only showed INI files, no MVD
files |
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Added a new splash screen and improved the about box |
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So far the full path name to the directory of the selected skin was
written to MDVDP.INI, from now on only the skin name itself is written,
and the path to MDVDP.EXE, plus "\Skins\" will be added
automatically. |
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The option Auto-Fullscreen when starting File caused a division-by-
zero exception when running a playlist with audio-only files. |
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Entered digits appeared in reverse order when opening the chapterlist
by pressing a number. |
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The player now self-registers the OSD font when you start the
application. Registering it manually or via the installation program is no
longer necessary. |
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Added an exception handler for the case that the config file is write-
protected or Win NT/2k write permissions are missing, avoiding the nasty
Windows access violation requester. |
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A new command line option: if you feed the player with a path name as
parameter, denoted by a \ as last character, that directory and all its
subdirs are scanned, media files are added to the playlist and
played. |
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Added a Tip of the Day window. |
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The Movie Info window is now opened by clicking the Movie Name /
Chapter Title texts in the display area of the control bar. The ? opens
the Tip-of-the-Day window now, from where you can also open the
Documentation.HTML |
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The default keyboard assignments have been changed to include the new
functions, and to improve keyboard layout a bit. |
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INI-Editor: Split the menu command INSERT NEW PAGE SECTION into two
commands, inserting a page section with useful entries for either
background mode Video Range or Still Image |
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INI-Editor: The seperator character in the subtitles list of the INI
wizard is now no longer a space, so spaces can be used in file
names. |
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INI-Editor: Made necessary changes to reflect new/changed INI file
entries in subtitle section |
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There are two configurable keys for the Pan&Scan function now. One of
them will toggle through the available P&S modes, the same you can also do
in the config, and the other will turn P&S on and off. |
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The Playlist Editor has undergone a major design and
functionality update, and a counter-part for MDVD movies has been added:
the Movie Catalog. Along with those additions, some buttons got new
functions. The MENU button no longer opens the playlist. The QUICK-INI
button now opens the playlist editor if in FILE mode, and the Catalog
Editor if in MDVD mode. The CHAPTERS button will list the chapters if an
MDVD is playing, or the files if in FILE mode, or the catalog contents if
in MDVD mode and NO movie is playing. |
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Some minor bugfixes in menu behaviour. Mouse is now positioned on the
new default selection on page switch when the new page is actually
visible, keyboard navigation is possible during overlay init, and mouse
positioning after going to menu from the movie should work okay in
fullscreen mode. |
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A mouseclick in fullscreen was not regarded as "mouse
activity" concerning disappearing of the control bar |
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Some minor bugfixes in the INI Editor |
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The movie's titles are now stored in the recent-files list together
with the INI files' pathnames |
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There was a problem with configuring the serial port for the remote
control, resulting in an CANNOT OPEN PORT message though everything was
okay. |
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The Eject button is now the universal load-files button.
Selection of INI file for Load-from-HDD mode and of files for QuickINI has
been removed from the config screen, and is both done via the Eject button
now, depending on what mode the player is in. Also the function of the
QuickINI button has changed to Catalog/Playlist Editor. |
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The Eject button now has three purposes, depending on current
File/Source mode: in MDVD-From-CD mode it ejects CDs, in MDVD-From-HDD
mode it opens a file requester to quickly choose an INI file, and then
plays it, and in FILE mode it opens a file requester to quickly choose a
media file to append to the playlist and play. |
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Added a little indicator mark in the control bar's display area
showing the state of overlay init/presence. More indicators may follow
later. |
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The chapterlist and similar lists are now shown "semi-
transparently" centered over the video if fullscreen and overlay is
active. Looks cool! :) |
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Subtitle font size can now be dynamically and automatically changed,
thus compensating for different movie sizes in windowed mode, fullscreen
and different resolutions. |
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The movie window can now be moved by clicking+dragging anywhere
inside, and the control bar can be turned off/on in window mode by
clicking into the movie window. |
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The screen resolution can now be changed when switching to fullscreen
mode, either choosing from a list of supported resolutions, or using an
optimal resolution for the video being played. |
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A new keyboard function: Quick-jump N seconds forward/backward in the
movie (configurable) |
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The maximum number of subtitles per movie is now 30. |
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In the Jump-to-Time window you can now set the hours, minutes and
seconds with seperate arrow-buttons. |
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When switching back from fullscreen to window, especially when a pan-
and-scan mode was active, the picture sometimes became black in the left
half. This shouldn't happen anymore now. :) |
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The functions of the button "Toggle elapsed/remaining time"
and clicking the counter ("jump to time") have been
swapped. |
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The tooltips of the control bar buttons now dynamically show the
assigned keyboard shortcut in brackets, and not always the default
one. |
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Fixed some problems with the drag-and-drop ability of the control
bar. |
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Added some workaround for inconsequences in the TMPlayer subtitle
format. Now single- and double-digit hours are accepted, and empty lines
with "0:00:00:" at the end are ignored. |
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The Format of subtitle files can now be set individually for
each subtitle file (before it was a global setting for all subtitles
belonging to one movie) by placing the "Format=" line under the
line specifying the short+longname of the subtitle. |
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The Pan-and-Scan mode can now be changed without having to
restart the player. |
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And another new option: "automatically turn on first subtitle, if
available, when running a movie for the first time". After the first
start, the last selected subtitle will be stored and reactivated, if this
option is active (it IS by default). Thanks to 2ge for this
idea. |
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Added "snap to screen edge" options. |
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Greatly improved the Transparent Subtitles/OSD function! Found out now
how exactly the "putting a window transparently over a video"
works. Result: automatic detection of transparence ability, no more timer
for initialization, no more black box/frozen frame! Plus transparent
subtitles in windowed mode, and on-the-fly toggling of transparence
mode. Thanks to Blight for some really valuable hints! |
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Closing the player using the task bar menu is now possible. |
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The player now also accept MDVD.MVD as ini file on a CD, and
not only MDVD.INI. Therefore you don't need to have both the .INI and .MVD
on the CD for autostarting method 2 anymore, the .MVD alone will do
now. |
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Movie kept playing, even when the option "Don't pause when
minimizing" was turned off, when minimizing the control bar thru the
windows taskbar instead of the minimize button |
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Overriding the screen saver works in Windows 2000 now too, plus I made
this behaviour optional by adding a config checkbox to turn it on/off
(default is ON). |
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The behaviour "switch player to MDVD-From-CD mode when an INI/MVD
file on a CD is passed via command line" can now be forced to
"MDVD-From-HDD mode" using a config option. This is meant as a
workaround for users who e.g. burned multiple movies to one CD, starting
them via a MVD file association. The new default behaviour causes this
method to cease functioning. |
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Clicking the menu button when in MDVD-Mode and no movie is
currently playing, a list of all recently used INI/MVD files from HDD is
displayed for quick access. |
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When running the player with an INI or MVD file as parameter, and the
file is located on a CD, the primary CD-ROM drive is now set to the drive
where the INI is loaded from. Then the player is set to MDVD-From-CD mode
and the movie is started. |
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The runtime error "Ungültige Gleitkommaoperation" that
happened during use of the QuickINI is gone. Actually it wasn't caused by
the QuickINI, but always happened when you had the option "Auto go to
fullscreen when running main movie" active, and the movie did not
contain a nav menu or resolution entries in the INI file. |
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If in a menu page both ActionAtEnd and JumpAtEnd are defined, the
Action is executed first, and then the Jump. Until now the jump was
ignored in this case. |
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The selection window for chapter/playlist entry/languages etc. now has
a scrollbar if more than 35 entries have to fit in the window, so that
also very long playlists/chapterlists will fit. |
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The maximum size of the playlist is now 1000 entries (formerly
100). |
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Trying to use the function "Copy secondary audio files from CD to
a temp HDD directory" would always result in an error message, due to
a bug in Delphi, making it try to open the source file on the CD in
read/write mode. Using API calls now, that works better. :) |
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Fixed some errors in the playlist editor (M3U playlist files were not
expanded, directory of files wasn't added in front of filenames
etc.) |
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Added a Movie Information Window which can be opened by
clicking on the Movie Title/Chapter Name texts of the control bars's
display area. Check it out, looks nice! :) |
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The Quick INI button now allows you to quickly choose a file to
play if the player is in File Mode, without having to enter the
playlist and add the file there. |
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The audio mode parameter of the Intervideo Audio Codec can now
be set from within MDVDP. |
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The player now supports Sub Station Alpha subtitle files. So
far without styles, just the plain text and start/end-frames. |
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The maximum setting for "Minimum wind/sync delay" in the
config is now 20 seconds, before it was 5. |
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The config dialog underwent a major design update. |
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When switching to the next movie file or the next CD, the subtitles
weren't displayed anymore until you switched to windowed mode and back, or
jumped in the movie etc. Was caused by a lag effect in the "determine
next subtitle to display" function. |
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Added a new Subtitle file control code to set the charset
(russian, hebrew, greek, etc.) of the individual subtitle file, overriding
the setting made in the config dialog. This code has to be entered in the
{DEFAULT} line. See documentation for details. |
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When running the player with an INI file located on a CD as parameter,
it always auto- started the movie, skipping the menu, as if the PLAY
button was clicked two times. |
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The commands to set font style individually in subtitle lines did not
work correctly. Thanks to Thunder for the report. |
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When playing an audio-only file and confirming the config dialog with
OK, the (2 pixels wide) movie window became visible. |
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If you run the player a second time, maybe through clicking an
associated file, it passes the command line to the already running
instance. This feature did not work correctly. |
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The player can now register file types so that files like AVI, MPG,
MVD etc. are automatically started with MDVDP if you execute them. A
potential existing type registration is backed up and restored if you
unregister the filetype with MDVDP. |
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Added a "jump to specific time" input box that
appears when you click the clock/movie time display. |
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Added an option "minimum vertical distance between subtitles and
screen edge". |
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In the INI Editor Wizard, the textbox to enter the Dialog String on
the subtitles page was deactivated (no text could be entered). Thanks to
digizen for the report! |
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Maximum number of entries in the Recent Files list of INI files
loaded from HDD is now 100. Addition of further files is no longer
possible if the count reaches 100, avoiding program crashes. Thanks to
Matevz for the report. |
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The secondary language file name of CD 3 (in case of a 3-CD main
movie) was also used for CD 2. Workaround till new version is out: use the
same filename for CD 2 and 3. Thanks to bewis for the
report. |
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A narrow black bar was drawn over the video at the right edge of the
screen when in fullscreen mode. |
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When starting a special video after having watched the main movie
with a secondary language active, that language file was played for the
special video. |
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I noticed a nasty bug in my Windows 2000 gfx card driver: whenever
I start a movie in Media Player or other players, the colors of the
output become severely garbled. Well, I included a quick-and-dirty
but functioning workaround for this in MDVDP. :) Check the new option
in config, section MOVIE, tab MOVIE.
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Added two new parameters to the SUBTITLES section of the INI file:
Offset and Multiplier, enabling the user to shift the
start/end-frames of subtitles back/forwards and/or 'stretching' the
subtitle times, thus correcting the frame numbers in case the
subtitles are displayed out-of-sync with the video (due to mistakes
made during ripping of the subtitles, or if you got the subtitles
file from a different source than the movie). See Documentation for
details on this. |
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The default setting for the transparent subtitle feature is now
"OFF", avoiding a further bunch of about 3 emails per day asking me
about the frozen frame/black box issue though it's clearly explained
in the FAQ. :-) |
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Fixed the problem with the "Konnte Daten fuer Brightness nicht holen"
error message when opening config. |
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Limit for number of subtitle lines in a subfile is now 10000 (up
to now it was 3000, but as usual with such limits, there ARE users who need
more :-) ). |
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When calling the player with AVI files as command line, the files are
now added to the playlist (playlist is no longer cleared) if the option
Add file to playlist instead of emptying it in the MISC tab of the
configuration is active |
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The player now also accepts AVIName2 besides the correct form
AVI2Name, since the INI-Editor had a bug and put the wrong form in
the INI files, and many people already burned CDs with the wrong
entry. |
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When importing M3U playlists, lines starting with a '#' (some kind of
info text lines in a newer WinAMP playlist file format) are ignored
now. |
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When assigning keys to functions in the player's config, and the pressed
key is already assigned to another function, a warning is shown allowing you
to remove the previous assignment and create the new one. |
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There are three new configuration options: auto-switch to
fullscreen when the main movie of an MDVD starts (staying in window mode for
the menu), keep control bar always on top in window mode, and keep movie
running when minimizing the player |
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There are two new functions available via keyboard (and in future remote
controls): Go to next lang/sub without opening selection
window. |
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If a MDVD nav menu has no video, and no picture size is set in the INI
file, a warning is now displayed and the movie aborted. |
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The file attributes (read-only etc.) of the MDVDP.INI config file are
now cleared before the file is written |
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The Language and Subtitle OSD element now show the text "None"
when watching a special feature video. |
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When watching a special feature video and then switching to the main
movie again, the yellow chapter start boxes in the OSD were not displayed
until you turn the OSD off and on again. |
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Major new feature: The main movie of an MDVD can now also be
3 CDs long! |
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When running the player from CD and another instance is already
active, the command line is no longer passed to the active instance, since
this caused a movie to restart when inserting another CD of it which has an
AUTORUN.INF. |
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The Default settings letters for font face, size etc. in a MDVDP
style subtitle file can now also be capital letters. |
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INI Editor: In Step 2 of the Wizard, the button Aquire from Movie
did nothing, you had to manually enter the number of frames. |
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The DivX settings (except the CPU quality) did not correspond with the
number given next to the texts. |
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When starting an MDVD and the option "Skip Menu" in config is
active, the first CD was always requested before. Now the CD that is
currently inserted is played in that case. |
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When auto-starting the player with a MDVD.INI or video file, and having
it set to automatically switch to fullscreen upon playback start, the
control bar was visible during the transparency init, probably causing a
Black Box Bug |
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When activating the commands select subtitles / language on the
remote, keyboard or control bar and there is only one subtitle/language,
that one is toggled on/off instead of displaying the selection
window |
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SubConvert: The FPS rate is now given in frames per
1000 seconds (23976, 24000, 25000 etc.). This should get us rid of the
problem with different decimal points in different language Windows
installations. |
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Windows' Screen Saver will now no longer be triggered when the
player is the active application and a movie is running. |
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Fixed another bug in chapterlist window keyboad behaviour: the keypad
numbers were interpreted as cursor keys in regard of setting wind mode.
Thanks to P.Quantin for the report. |
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When running the player with a file .INI or .MVD on the command line,
and this file is on a CD, then the player is set to MDVDP Mode with movie
source CD (leaving the primary CD-ROM as it is), and the movie is started.
This is meant for the new Auto-Start From CD method introduced in the next
version. |
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INI-Editor: The Wizard put the entries AVIName and
AudioName into the MENU section even if their checkboxes were
deactivated. Thanks to Liboba for the report! |
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When running a movie in Quick-INI Mode and a subtitles file was
selected, the subtitles are automatically switched on. Thanks to
Niknik for the suggestion. |
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In Quick-INI mode, a faulty entry was added to the Recent INI
Files in the Movie Source: Directory tab. |
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I removed the special behaviour when frame-backstepping a DIVX AVI.
Advantage: no more problems with consecutive frame reverse/advance/wind
commands, no more black screen. Disadvantage: you can see quick seeking from
the previous keyframe to the desired frame (only in DIVX!). |
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The keyboard behaviour in the Message and Chapterlist window was a bit
buggy. |
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The volume can now be controlled by clicking in the volume bar
of the OSD. |
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There's a new OSD element: Video Info showing resolution and
Pan-and-Scan mode up to now. |
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The function shortly show chapter info in OSD when chapter
changes is now divided in when seeking/jumping and when
watching continuously |
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When running from CD and no config file exists yet on HDD, the player
now looks for MDVD.INI file on CD before creating a new one . If it exists,
it is copied it to user's WINDOWS dir and used. |
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When adding a file with extension LST or M3U in the playlist editor,
this file is now imported instead of added |
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When watching a 2-CD movie from CD and you have two (or more) CD-ROMs
(meaning both CDs are already inserted), the other CD-ROM spins up shortly
before the first movie part ends, thus shortening the pause for switching
movie files. |
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In Config/Subtitles, the buttons to change dialog colors 2-5 changed
the main color. Fixed, thanks to J.Saez for the report. |
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INI-Editor: The Wizard entered "AVIName2" instead of
the correct "AVI2Name" in the MOVIE textbox. Thanks to IRO
for the report. |
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The shortcuts in Tooltip Help texts were still the old keys |
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INI-Editor: There's a button REMOVE ALL CHAPTERS now in the
CHAPTERS section of the Wizard. |
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INI-Editor: the Wizard filled all entries of the MENU section
with the value for Directory. Typical copy-and-paste error. :-) |
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In File mode and when fast/slow forwarding a file, when the end of the
file is reached and the next one starts, the OSD still said "Quick Nx" even
though the next file was playing at normal speed |
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In File mode and with "Repeat All" ON, "Next" and "Previous" did not
follow the loop of the play list ie. on the last file in a play list
pressing "N" did not go back to the first. |
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Some cosmetic bugfixes: some text in config dialog was cut off at big
system font size, plus the DivX CPU textbox had no initial content when
quality was at 0. |
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The player supports a new subtitle file format now: TMPlayer
(some subtitle displayer widely used in Poland). The player, INI Editor and
Subtitle Converter have been enhanced accordingly. |
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Display of chapter marks in OSD was not correct when switching from File
to MDVD mode |
