Release Notes For Video Monkey

Version 0.7 (3/29/2010)

This is a small release to fixes crashes when encoding multiple files. It also does search in background to avoid stalling Video Monkey

New in this release:

• Metadata is now searched in the background to avoid stalling VideoMonkey.
• New icon during encoding. Shows number of files to encode.
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Bugs fixed:

• Crash caused by dangling pointers and memory leaks when encoding more than about 3 files.

Version 0.6 (12/17/09)

This release adds the ability to search for metadata on demand rather than automatically. This avoids problems when the metadata search sites are down. It also fixes several bugs

New in this release:

• UI to search metadata manually. You can search the selected file or all files.
• New preferences panel. Currently allows control of automatic/manual metadata search and number of cpus to use.
• Ability to control number of cpus to use for decode. Can be set to auto to select based on number of cpus on system. Thanks to Breuhan
• Added progress bar to dock icon. Thanks to Lars Koerkemeier
• Fixed bug when parsing files with non-standard characters
• Fixed a bug where a rounding error could create a movie that can not play on Apple TV.
• Fixed a bug where wrong filename was used when transferring to iTunes in "write metadata to input file" mode
• Fixed 'Unable to select destination folder in v.5' bug. Thanks to Lars Koerkemeier
• Movie controller now remembers movie current time and pause/play state when moving between movies
• Made finding episode/season in movie more reliable
• Fixed suspend/resume
• Fixed show/hide of windows

Bugs fixed:

• Problem converting files with '*' or '?'
• VM produces movies that don't play on Apple TV

Version 0.5 (8/26/09)

This release adds Snow Leopard support and fixes a couple of bugs. With the imminent release of Snow Leopard, I thought it would be a good idea to get this out now.

New in this release:

• Snow Leopard support

Bugs fixed:

• Problem converting files with '*' or '?'
• VM produces movies that don't play on Apple TV

Version 0.4 (7/30/09)

This release adds full metadata support. The metadata tab of the info panel shows the metadata for each input file. You can then manually add or change the data. You can also type in the name of a TV show or movie and Video Monkey will search thetvdb.com or themoviedb.org and fill in the metadata it finds. Video Monkey tries to figure out the title from the file name or input metadata and automatically search for metadata. For each field you can select between input, user, or search metadata.

New in this release:

• Metadata in input files is read and shown in metadata panel 
• Metadata search from thetvdb.com and themoviedb.org
• Once search metadata available you can select other search matches, and select season and episode
• Metadata search is automatically done for each input file, using the file name to guess the name, or using input metadata
• For each metadata item you can select between input, user and search metadata
• Allow artwork to be added (using drag & drop) rearranged and selected for inclusion in output file
• Artwork is added from search, if available
• Added popup menu for each metadata item which allows item to be used in all input files
• Added tools menu which allows selecting whether to use input, user or search metadata for all fields in current file or all files
• New menu on main page allows write metadata after encoding output file, encode only, write metadata only to input file or rewrite metadata to output file

Bugs fixed:

• Make audio and video sync better
• Adjust output size to ensure square pixels, even when input is not

Version 0.3 DOA

Version 0.2 (5/5/09)

This release focuses on fixing bugs found in the first release and features to complete the basic functionality of Video Monkey.

New in this release:

• Added a new XMLDocument class for commands.xml and for use in parsing metadata files
• Better aspect ratio control of Movie Preview Window
• New Info Panel. Shows properties of input and output files and will eventually allow metadata to be displayed and set
• Checkboxes to add encoded files to iTunes, and to optionally delete the original
• Disabled not-yet-implemented checkboxes and menu items
• Added much better documentation to commands.xml.
• Updated to v0.5 of ffmpeg
• Tweaked bitrate settings to be more appropriate for various devices
• Added time remaining to progress, and made overall progress bar show progress for all files together
• Changed save path to use NSPathControl
• Added a "limit" checkbox. Allows output params (frame size, bitrate, etc.) to be limited by input properties. Avoids oversampled videos
• Fixed encoding params to always produce legal h.264 files for each device

Bugs fixed:

• 2722694 - Dragging in files with wrong device set causes exception
• 2694849 - Files converted for iPhone/iPod are not legal
• 2695089 - File Size overflowed

Version 0.1 (3/12/09)

This is the first public release of VideoMonkey. It has a lot of functionality, but is not nearly complete.

New in this release:

• Conversion for all popular Apple devices
• Quality settings, which adjusts bitrate, frame size, frame rate and audio quality
• Performance settings which tradeoff speed of encoding for quality
• Drag and drop file list
• Enable or disable encoding of each file
• Display of output file size (approximate)
• Preview window of the currently selected file
• Console log
• Progress bars in both the main window and file list
• Pause and Stop encoding
• Auto-update
• Saving last user settings

To do:

• Preferences Panel
• More supported devices
• Advanced pane (crop, pad, filters, etc.)
• Trim movie using preview window
• Metadata writing
• Watch folder(s) for automatic encoding