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4.11 (v4.11.452)
Compile date: November 19, 2005
- [ADD] Support for Haali Media Splitter
- [FIX] Lot's of small stuff we can't remember ;-)


Whats new in TCMP 4.02:
- [ADD] TCMP Control Module (command line interface)
- [ADD] support for FoxyTunes (www.foxytunes.org)
- [ADD] Option to Enable/Disable Windows Explorer shell context menu
- [ADD] Dynamic duration update
- [ADD] Windows Explorer context menu item "Add to TCMP and Play"
- [ADD] Pressing middle mouse button in video window or in main form do a play/pause action.
- [CHG] More generic splitter handling
- [CHG] Better jump box
- [CHG] File list added from explorer is now alphabetically sorted. (CoreShellAgent.cll)
- [CHG] In MKV subtitles are now hidden if no rules match and no default track are specified mkv
- [CHG] Next/previous button now go to next/previous chapter if any.
- [CHG] Installed Documentation and URLs updated - [FIX] For non 4:3 screen resolution
- [FIX] Duration for CDDA (playlist refreshes)
- [FIX] CDDA and ASPI on Win2k/XP (use native mode instead) (CDDASource.cll)
- [FIX] CDDA exception in CoreMediaProp
- [FIX] CDDA filer releasing bug (can't plat next track)
- [FIX] Video size initialization when opening from bookmar


What new in TCMP 4.01:
- [FIX] Win9x b0rk (so many fixes Toff can't remember them all)
- [FIX] Stop time in Playlist
- [FIX] DVD seeking and current position
- [CHG] MPC decoder plug-in works in 16 bits now
- [CHG] Updated APE plug-ins with their latest SDK (3.99)


4.0 Final (v4.00.449)
- [ADD] VIS 3 Pack to distro
- [ADD] MM3D Vertical Skin
- [CHG] Media Properties tree is now expanded by default
- [FIX] Focus was b0rked (e.g. click 2 times to activate a button)
- [FIX] OGM subtitle handling was broken in RC6
- [FIX] TCMP was hanging up when exiting with vobsub/vsfilter

Release Candidate 6 (v4.00.46)
- [ADD] Directshow BlackLister, let you blacklist unwanted directshow filters
- [ADD] AVI audio stream name display support
- [ADD] RM to Media Library
- [ADD] MediaProperties CDL updated for Real Audio and Video Files
- [ADD] Gradients in menu
- [ADD] Title is displayed in tray icon
- [ADD] MMD3 Horizontal skin
- [ADD] OSD Volume position can be set in options
- [ADD] Remove duplicates option in playlist
- [ADD] Logarithmic Volume Control
- [ADD] DVD Filter Properties Access (from right click menu)
- [CHG] Rearranged the Playlist option menus
- [FIX] Crash with CDDA on some systems
- [FIX] MP3 length detection with some VBR files
- [FIX] Now honor default track flag in matroska files
- [FIX] Matroska current chapter was wrongly detected for chapters without stop time
- [FIX] Drag & drop in playlist, dropped element was inserted in reverse order.
- [FIX] Bug when pressing stop and seeking in DVD intro
- [FIX] Cleaned up extension handling code (no more, duplicate, and coreplayer.ini is righly updated)
- [FIX] Audio switcher with DC-DSP was not working correctly
- [FIX] Did some fixes on the multimonitor support, you can go fullcreen on the monitor of your choice, and cycle monitor now work with differents resolutions. Thanks to LinuxWalker for the Video card ;)
- [FIX] Relative path in NPL playlist when reloading TCMP
- [FIX] Playlist duration was wrong sometimes (00:00)
- [FIX] Fullscreen control panel was disappearing when going to next/previous file
- [FIX] Fix the B0rked error that appears when the playlist provide the next item to play while the workstation is locked (Windows+L keys)
- [FIX] MatroskaINFO CDL Media Library Fix for file names with more than one "_" in it.
- [FIX] Memory leaks found and eliminated
- [FIX] Taskbar was disappearing when minimizing/restoring TCMP with audio files and after a fullscreen video file playing
- [FIX] Monitor cycle was b0rked when cycling with only 1 monitor or whith audio files
- [FIX] When going from 1 video file to another TCMP was stealing focus
- [FIX] When disabling MediaLibrary auto-scan, playlist tag reading was skipped
- [FIX] Scrolling title for CDDA (issue still exist for first track played after cddb request)

Release Candidate 5 (v4.00.45)
Compile date: 27th November 2003
- [ADD] Support for 'REAL Alternative' Codec (.RM, .RMVB to list of video extension)
- [FIX] Removed CDDB autoselect entry when there is only 1, the entry can be wrong
- [FIX] Crash when exiting (a thread was still working in background to refresh playlist)
- [FIX] Switching from a DVD to a file in playlist was not working (infinite DVD playing)
- [FIX] Putting video in fullscreen before the file was completely loaded was causing an error
- [FIX] Sometimes TCMP was staying hidden in the background after exiting
- [FIX] Bug in audio switcher when stream of same type was not consecutive and subtitles was before audio
Pre-RC5
- [ADD] System of rules to automatically select the matroska track language
- [ADD] Preferred language for subtitle/audio stream in OGM
- [ADD] Load all subtitles with the same prefix as the movie (prefix is filename without extension)
- [ADD] Handle Matroska audio stream name (track name (language))
- [ADD] Handle Matroska nested chapters
- [ADD] Next/Previous for Matroska chapters
- [ADD] Better multi-monitors support, the fullscreen function is now applied on the active monitor.
- [ADD] Option to set the media library auto-scan feature
- [ADD] Playlist historic
- [ADD] Use title from IAMMediaContent as scrolling title if available
- [FIX] "Audio Streams" menu is now always called "Media Streams"
- [FIX] Disabled TCMP vobsub settings (vsfilter doesn't seems to work anymore)
- [FIX] Playlist loading behaviour from shell ...
- [FIX] MatroskaSplitter & MatroskaSource are now both handled for chapter and audio switching
- [FIX] Equalizer was removed when stream switching
- [FIX] Rate was not correctly set to 100% when opening a new file
- [FIX] Check if video window has at least a part on screen (VobSub and double resolution could cause this problem)
- [FIX] TaskBar was hidden when opening the first audio file with "Start playback in fullscreen mode"
- [FIX] Added checking so subtitles settings should'nt lead to completely offscreen subtitles
- [FIX] Loading of subrip file starting at index 0 and error are now reported in the console
- [FIX] Screensaver is now disabled only with video and while playing
- [FIX] "Currently playing" in PL after remove all was not set back to 0
- [FIX] Handling of absolute path in m3u playlist
- [FIX] Volume reset when switching

Release Candidate 4 (v4.00.42) - TCMP Reloaded
Compile date: 4th august 2003
- [ADD] New Powerfull XML based Media library
- [ADD] Shoutcast Streaming Support
- [ADD] MP3 Streaming (support for http streaming with secure mode)
- [ADD] New CCAS API, now supports multichannel audio and can read from a audio stream
- [ADD] CDL API version now == 101 (v1.01), metadata read support added
- [ADD] Matroska audio stream switching
- [ADD] Audio streaming support for DivX Matermind
- [ADD] Chapter next/previous support for OGM
- [ADD] Live OGM chapter display in menu
- [ADD] CDL API addition, a CDL plugin can now export the metadata using MediaPropExec2, other plug-ins can then read them using CDL_GetMetadata.
- [ADD] CD track title is updated after a CDDB request without a TCMP reload/restart
- [ADD] Media library 'sexy' configuration dialog in the options menu :)
- [ADD] A "Reset all" button added for for keyboard shortcuts
- [ADD] The 'Elapsed time mode' is now saved
- [ADD] Ctrl+Open button now shows the 'Open url' dialog box
- [ADD] Drag & drop support for folders and multiple playlist
- [ADD] Files are now sorted on drag and drop into the Playlist
- [ADD] New "Refresh playlist" and "Remove dead entries" in the PL menu entry
- [ADD] Drag & drop is now supported on the video windows
- [ADD] Picture support is now supported via the Media Library (jpg, gif, bmp)
- [ADD] Added a Media Library button, just add MediaLib.top, MediaLib.left, etc in the PSkin.ini under [MainPlayer] and create the three bitmaps Bml.bmp; BmlOver.bmp ;BmlUp.bmp
- [ADD] Now "Show Player" can also hide it in video mode to show only the video windows
- [FIX] 50% Faster player load time
- [FIX] Optimized Playlist code for substantial increase in PL performance
- [FIX] Better autoscaling relative to video windows size for subtitles
- [FIX] CDL API fix, CDL_SetDAR and CDL_SetPAR should now preserve the new aspect ratio
- [FIX] Fixed the div by 0 bug in the subtitles settings
- [FIX] Reworked the seeking code for audio playback. much better.
- [FIX] Fixed a crash in the Open URL box that appeared only on craps computers like Toff's one :D
- [FIX] Subtitle position is now in percent of windows
- [FIX] Fixed bold subtitle option
- [FIX] Fixed playlist scrollbar (also new autofire button ;))
and other scrollbar (eg: the volume scrollbar can be put to the max now with a mouse)
- [FIX] Removed third pary popup menu component and added our own component
- [FIX] New hidden windows with defined windows message for remote control program (ex:girder) and function to get info about current title
- [FIX] Faster playlist thread using CCAS to calculate length
- [FIX] Video windows size is kept when you go from fullscreen to normal mode
- [FIX] Safer loading skin function to avoid loosing all settings on restart
- [FIX] the "Play DVD/Audio CD" menu also open VCD/SVCD now
- [FIX] the graph filter menu is updated when switching audio stream if needed
- [FIX] Fixed volume handling with horizontal scrollbar
- [FIX] Balance control is now more linear
- [FIX] Fixed an access violation that happen if you play a video then a DVD
- [FIX] Mouse wheel modifier key with configurable commands
- [FIX] Mouse wheel and shortcut should works everywhere regardless of windows focus
- [FIX] Clicking options button if it's already visible hide the dialog
- [FIX] Skin loading from explorer when TCMP is already opened
- [FIX] DynEQ preamp is synchronized between Options dialog and skin
- [FIX] Cycle Aspect Ratio shortcut
- [FIX] Fixed a bug that make the player load very slowly (freeze) on WinXP SP1
- [FIX] 100+ other little cleanups and bug fixes (and probably new bugs :))

Release Candidate 3 - Matroska Edition build 41 (v4.00.41) -
Compile date: Apr 30 2003
- [INF] Well, not a lot of changes, that's because we are working on some new API/features and it's not ready yet :) So be prepared for more quick releases...
- [ADD] Support for Matroska - the new robust audio/video file container ! http://www.matroska.org
- [ADD] CDDA filter updated so you can choose between multiple CDDB titles and they are displayed correctly the first time in the playlist.
- [ADD] Added Avih & Dext XCD filter (thanks to them), allow SVCD and MODE2 playback flawlessly
- [ADD] Equalizer now support 16/24/32/32_FLOAT input
- [ADD] Open URL box has been enhanced and now save the last 4 url, plus you can press enter
- [ADD] file:// is now accepted from playlist files and open location
- [ADD] You can now define the lentgh in milliseconds of the jump forward/backward functions
- [ADD] The DRC volume curve has changed a little, it is now more accurate
- [ADD] New range for the preamp (from -15dB to +15dB)
- [ADD] Added 3 new hotkeys to add or remove delay for subtitles by 100ms steps
- [ADD] PLS playlist loading and m3u loading will also load the title and file lentgh
- [FIX] Fixed a bug where you can't open a new file from the explorer while the filename contains more than one dot.
- [FIX] Player can now load skins with a .zip extension
- [FIX] DVD Decoders selection now saved
- [FIX] Plugins path now saved properly
- [FIX] You can't set the desktop mode when playing an audio file. (Moo)
- [FIX] The Pause shortcut is not removing the pause anymore when pressed a second time
- [INF] Option menu changes

Release Candidate 3 - When I was young I was a Jedi.
Compile date: Mar 20 2003, on breakfast

{build Hinata-inn}
- [ADD] Last minute addition, there is now a checkbox that will force the player to save the Dynamic Range Control value ;)
- [FIX] Last minute fix, the player was crashing on a fresh install

{build Suu-chan}
- [ADD] New plugin system: CCAS (CoreCodec Audio Source) which allow 3rd party developers to add specific support for an audio format (and it's damn easy). SDK available on www.corecoded.com
- [ADD] Plugins for APE and MPC Musepack support :) (Toff u r0x) (source code to be found in the TCMP SDK)
- [ADD] Lot of improvements in the installer to make it easier
- [ADD] Rewrote the DVD Playback graph generation because I was really bored to see the decoders filters fighting or ffdshow preventing DVD playback. You can now select the audio and video decoder. You can add more by editing ".DbDVD Filters.xml". RenderDVDVolume sucks.
- [ADD] You can now select the audio renderer for DVD playback
- [ADD] Added support for multi-users (Win98/Me/2K/Xp (No ideas if this works on Win95 without IE4 installed)). Settings and default playlist are now saved in the application data folder
- [ADD] CoreMediaProp CDL updated for Monkey Audio, MPC and APE Tags
- [ADD] You can now repeat the entire playlist by clicking on the repeat button two times (not a double-click)
- [ADD] Equalizer settings now saved and loaded automatically
- [ADD] Last item played in the playlist now remembered when exiting
- [ADD] Added an option to follow the playlist cursor
- [ADD] Added an option to auto resize subtitles
- [ADD] Player load faster by ~300ms
- [INF] You must be an administrator to install TCMP
- [FIX] Previous button while shuffle mode is on is working now
- [FIX] Fixed the DVD open Range Check Error (stupid me, I activated an option in the compiler)
- [FIX] Fixed the aspect ratio error in DVD menus (was using the title AR)
- [FIX] Fixed the bug where the DVD menu button wasn't hilighted properly on the mouse over event. (you're lucky if you understand me)
- [FIX] Loading a M3U files after adding some files in the playlist, then quitting and restarting the player made the file paths screwed: fixed
- [FIX] Fixed the bug when exiting the fullscreen mode which made all windows always on top (caused by the taskbar)
- [FIX] Main Player GUI is now the owner of the focus when loading
- [FIX] Rewrote CoreShellAgent.dll (Enqueue items from explorer ActiveX), before: 185KB, now: 54.4KB. Will also bring the player to front after adding the files.
- [FIX] Fixed the bug where the char '&' was showed as an underscore in the playlist
- [FIX] Player should now restore properly the windows SPI_SETDRAGFULLWINDOWS when exiting
- [FIX] Fixed the bug 'Failed to set data for '' on limited account
- [FIX] Player prevents the screensaver only if there is a video stream
- [FIX] Fixed the delay when reading the CDDA informations in cdplayer.ini (ie was reading the track01 for track 0)
- [FIX] Some other minor fixes I can't remember (I fixed them without paying attention)


TCMP 4.0 Release Candidate 2 - Goodbye Reunion Island...
Compile date: Mar 1 2003, late in the night;

{build Reunion}
- [REM] OpenGL Demo. Will be again at a later date.
- [ADD] Toff: added Audio CD playback abilities with CDDB support.
- [ADD] Added a new Core Media Player song theme :)
- [ADD] antp: reworked the playlist title formatting system, far better !
- [FIX] Playlist now use faster methods to get the duration while scanning for MP3, CDA, OGG
- [FIX] Fixed the bug where adding a directory from the root (ie: d:) was adding a backslash (who gave d:myfile.mp3)

{build Eve}
- [ADD] The player will check for updates on startup, you can disable the feature in the options
- [ADD] Windows XP AutoPlay event handlers for Music, Video and Audio CD, also available for OGG,OGM,MKV and MKA contents
- [ADD] The player is now backuping the old file associations and will restore them once uninstalled

{build Liz}
- [ADD] OSD messages are now also showed in the main GUI scrolling text
- [ADD] Added an option so that a single click on the video window will play/pause the movie
- [ADD] Some very minors skin additions, you can now change the size of the balance and set the volume slider to the horizontal position.
- [FIX] Fixed the OGM/AC3/SUB seeking freeze. It is caused by the OGM filters but I managed to force it to make the demuxer to flush the subtitle stream by disabling the stream and re-enabling it after seeking. (Tobias, I have a lot of things to get fixed in your filters :D)
- [FIX] DirectVobSub don't like the previous fix so from now the player is forcing the ISCR filter. That's not the only reason, too long to explain.
- [FIX] Fixed the bug where OGM embedded subtitles were cutted at the end (last char of each lines). From what I think, it was because VirtualDubMod does not insert the same characters control signifying the end of the line (10# instead of #10+#13) as the OggDS DSF muxer does. But that's also possible that the ISCR filter coming along with DirectX9 is the reason.
- [FIX] Toff: fixed the frame-based subtitles desynchronization and also some bugs with Subviewer 1/2 files parsing (a story of dot versus comma).
- [FIX] Rewrote the framerate and AVI audio streams detection code, this save 800ms of CPU time while opening an AVI file and 400ms for the other video files. Framerate is now detected only before opening a subtitle file.
- [FIX] There was a bug in the new code designed to change the audio renderer when used on a file without any audio streams, it's now fixed.
- [FIX] Fixed the 'AWFULL_MS_*DING*' sound when pressing the ENTER key on the playlist/console/jumpto edit boxes

{build Melissa}
- [ADD] Added a mute hotkey and menu item
- [FIX] Fixed a funky bug that prevented WPW and DynEQ filters to enter the graph on Win9x/Me
- [FIX] Fixed a small bug where it was impossible to put the player on top of the playlist
- [FIX] Randomly fixed a bug where the player didn't show up in ALT-TAB
- [FIX] Property pages are now showed as a modal window to prevent conflicts
- [FIX] Cosmetic fix in the default skin text.bmp so the dot is displayed properly instead of three dots
- [FIX] The option to force the reference MP3 decoder when used with an OGM file with subtitles and DirectVobSub installed made DirectShow insane.
- [FIX] Fixed a bug where it is impossible to play a file without the administrator rights. Now you can but *without* the equalizer and VIS/DSP support as the user rights do not allow to register a filter.
- [FIX] CoreMediaProp.cdl won't complain anymore if a file doesn't exist
- [FIX] Always on top was broken, fixed it
- [REM] Removed the Intervideo Audio decoder settings

{build Lina}
- [ADD] Shuffle mode + Loop mode checked will repeat the entire playlist
- [ADD] Items opened from an opendialog box are automagically sorted
- [ADD] Added Zoom 50,100,200% shortcuts
- [ADD] Added the enqueue option to directories
- [FIX] Matthias: fixed the Winamp plugins crashes, especially those from Win9x/Me
- [FIX] Rewrote the Enqueue from the explorer feature using an ActiveX object, very fast and stable now, please register your files again
- [FIX] Fixed the double subtitles bug caused by DirectVobSub, small workaround and work as long as you do not open an external subtitle file with an OGM
- [FIX] Fixed a bug where the Outline level wasn't restored when opening a subtitle file

{build Kana}
- [ADD] Added an option to force the DirectSound renderer with Vorbis streams to prevent the pops and stutterings (bug in the decoder filter)
- [ADD] Added an option to force the use of the reference Fraunhofer MPEG Layer-3 Decoder
- [FIX] Fixed the AVI with multiple audio streams crash, and while I was at it it now works with differents decoders (ie: MP3+AC3)

{build Narusegawa}
- [FIX] Rewrote again the playlists threads, now 99% stable and faster than before (hopefully, heh)
{build Kaname}
- [INF] Player load and exit faster
- [ADD] Media Properties CDLs will also load in the nefertiti window properties, in others words, you can read/edit tags from any file within the playlist
- [ADD] Added three new fields to the nefertiti playlist entry properties: Album, track and Name
- [ADD] Nefertiti fields now automatically filled with ID3v1/ID3v2/Ogg tags
- [ADD] Playlist formatting can now use the album name and the track #
- [ADD] You can now sort playlist items by album, artist and track
- [ADD] You can now open playlist through the main open button/dialog
- [ADD] MouseWheel can also be used to resize/zoom the video
- [ADD] You can now press enter in the nefertiti search box
- [ADD] Added a checkbox to prevent playback to start after opening a file
- [ADD] Added some equalizer presets, thanks quineto ;)
- [ADD] Added two video colors control presets
- [FIX] Toff: fixed a memory leak in the OSD/SUB engine occuring on Win9x/Me caused by a missing API and making everything crashing/freezing (including the OS)
- [FIX] Rewrote the audio renderer selection code, look like the Microsoft's 'Intelligent Connect' is stupid so the player now handle the job.
- [FIX] Fixed M3U loading where filepaths start with 'file://' and some others small bugs
- [FIX] Player now exit quickly even if the playlist contain a lot of files
- [FIX] Fixed some bugs in the playlist repaint method
- [FIX] Fixed the bug with the desktop mode that prevented to return to normal mode
- [FIX] Playlist now skip files that does not exists
- [FIX] Fixed the playlist highlight repaint bug and the WM_PAINT errors (that were silently ignored)
- [FIX] Fixed the playlist add files opendialog filter mask
- [FIX] Re-enabled the error messages anti-flood (to prevent to have crash reports in loop)
- [FIX] Fixed the bug where the taskbar remained hidden when minimizing the player while being in fullscreen
- [FIX] Fixed a bug where the Media Properties CDLs were unloaded when opening a subtitle file
- [FIX] Video window now correctly refreshed after switching to another skin
- [FIX] Fixed the bug making the player totally crash when selecting more than 128 items in the playlist
- [FIX] Reworked the multi-threaded parts of the player for objects-safety
- [FIX] Hopefully fixed a bug concerning playlists loading/saving and relative path
- [REM] Removed the skin alpha-blending option, way too sloooooooow
- [REM] Removed the PreAmp state saving/loading for presets