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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. |
