qBlank 6.0.1

Recording

• Fixed: recordings used the wrong colour matrix (red too orange, green too dark)
• Fixed: recordings carried no colour description
• Fixed: HDR recordings and AVIF screenshots were not marked as HDR

qBlank 6.0.0

Nothing holds up a frame

• Changed: settings, screenshots, disk checks, device lists and folders each run on a thread of their own
• Changed: screenshots no longer wait for the GPU
• Changed: ffmpeg starts and stops without the render thread waiting
• Changed: microphone and virtual camera install open off the render thread
• Fixed: toasts, notices and the crop tool raised the frame age to 17–34 ms while shown

Recording

• Added: a notice when the encoder cannot keep up
• Fixed: the delay line dropped frames above 128 fps

Capture

• Added: recovery from a lost graphics device (driver update, GPU reset)
• Changed: faster capture start for uncompressed formats
• Fixed: black picture without a message when the source textures failed
• Fixed: shared audio output after a refused exclusive mode
• Fixed: the crop tool undid other picture changes

Other

• Fixed: a cancelled remux left ffmpeg running
• Fixed: an update download went on after closing
• Changed: dead code removed, Windows code kept behind its own files

qBlank 5.8.0

Native pixel grid

• Added: pixel art detection; with no source width set, a notice offers the width (Set, Show me, Ignore)
• Added: the card's blur is measured instead of assumed
• Fixed: fine texture (e.g. wood grain) smoothed away by the pixel cleanup

Composite

• Fixed: dirt on fades to and from black

qBlank 5.7.0

Composite

• Changed: dot crawl demodulator works on the cleaned line
• Fixed: crawl left on consoles whose crawl does not cycle (e.g. PAL SNES)
• Added: colour edges rebuilt from brightness, cleaner outlines and less colour noise

Native pixel grid

• Changed: grid position measured from the picture instead of assumed
• Added: console pixels rebuilt from the card's blurred samples (analogue sources)
• Added: per-pixel cleanup: uniform colours, PAL line colour, edge overshoot
• Changed: sharpening is off while snapping

qBlank 5.6.0

Capture

• Added: Automatic colour format, picked again whenever the input changes
• Fixed: possible crash when the card switches format while running
• Fixed: SD picture too narrow on cards that report VIDEOINFOHEADER2
• Fixed: "Pixel format kept" notice after every card reinitialisation

Recording and virtual camera

• Fixed: recording and virtual camera froze while the window was minimised
• Fixed: the ffmpeg path field started ffmpeg on every keystroke
• Fixed: a hanging ffmpeg could block qBlank
• Changed: ffmpeg is looked for in the background, qBlank starts faster

Screenshots

• Changed: encoded and saved in the background, no stall on F10

Performance

• Composite: the clean pass is skipped when nothing has changed
• Analyses, tray and HDR check run after the frame is shown
• Virtual camera reuses its frame buffer

Removed

• Chroma delay measurement (it only wrote to the log)

qBlank 5.5.1

Video standard

• Dark, saturated scenes no longer start a colour check mid-game once the standard has proven itself

Composite

• Extended history: no more ghosts between the letters of pulsing menu text either

qBlank 5.5.0

Toolbar

• F3 shows and hides the toolbar (rebindable)
• The Hide tooltip, the right-click menu and the settings checkbox show the key

Window

• Ctrl+Enter toggles borderless (rebindable)

Deinterlacing

• YADIF: no more jagged teeth on fine slanted lines
• YADIF: fast, finely patterned surfaces no longer comb
• Motion adaptive: catches motion in coloured edges, e.g. pulsing menu text
• Auto: detects interlacing from small motion like a pause menu
• Auto: tells 240p/288p from 480i/576i by the line pairs
• Auto: scanlines and line patterns no longer read as interlacing

Composite

• No more ghosts between the letters of pulsing menu text

Settings

• The composite and scanline hints wrap instead of being cut off

Startup

• Direct3D 11 starts right away, also after an update; the shader cache file is gone

qBlank 5.4.3

New

• About tab in the settings: version, copyright, licence, links to the website, the manual and GitHub.
• The update check lives in About now; the Updates tab is gone.
• A user manual on the website, in English and German.
• The website is now in German too, with a language switch.

qBlank 5.4.1

Fixed

• Faint moving textures, such as a road surface, no longer smear into streaks with "Average what stands still" or Extended history.
• Standing pictures keep their crawl removal; no extra latency.

qBlank 5.4.0

Extended history (new, composite)

• New checkbox above "Average what stands still", off by default
• Looks twelve frames back, takes dot crawl out of every frame
• Also where something moves or fades: around text, in transparencies
• PAL, PAL 60, PAL M, PAL N, NTSC (crawl cycle 2 or 4)
• GPU time only, no frame of delay

Average what stands still

• Gate checks that a change repeats one crawl cycle later
• Capped by the local luma range
• Bandwidth restore and shimmer filter read the cleaned pixels

Standard search

• A flipping NTSC now vouches for PAL on the same carrier