Videomass 5.0.21

Changes

• Update French language (thanks to Phil Aug).
• Update Spanish language (thanks to katnatek).
• Update Russian language (thanks to ChourS).
• Improved file doc-strings.
• Improved build using pyproject.toml file.
• Improved build using pyinstaller_setup.py file.
• Improved requirements.
• Fixed some broken link.
• Fixed an issue when restoring the configuration directory, which copied unnecessary files and directories.
• Fixed issue with using physically non-existent and access-denied output paths (e.g. removing USB sticks, hard drives, etc.) which would inevitably lead to an application reset during startup (Very annoying).
• Fixed NameError: name 'tarbal' is not defined. Did you mean: 'tarball'? during presets download operation.
• Changed: Unlike portable mode, in installed mode output directories are no longer automatically recreated if they do not exist.
• Changed the names of the default output directories when using the application in portable mode (see Media/Transcoding + Media/Downloads).

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Videomass 5.0.20

Changes

• Added requirements-linux.txt to build videomass wheel from source.
• Updated INSTALL file, now includes new information and procedures.
• Added *.mo item to .gitignore file to auto-escludes that item.
• Fix pyproject.toml file: added artifacts to include MO files on wheel binary even if the .gitignore file excludes them.
• Update dependencies list on hatchling.toml file.
• Added StartupNotify and StartupWMClass entries to xdg/*.desktop file to fix App icon not dislpayed in some taskbar.
• Improved xdg/*.xml file.
• Fixed app-const.py file to backwards compatibility using wxPython v4.0.7.

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Videomass 5.0.18

Changes

• Created new gettext utilities.
• Italian translation completed thanks to @bovirus .
• Improved AUTHORS and traslation list on about dialog.
• Enabling the Queue button on any panel if a queue is set up.
• Create generate_MO_file.sh script.
• Improved gettext_utils scripts.
• Provide a Hatch Build Hook to compile catalogs when building wheels.
• All MO files have been removed as they will be compiled when building packages.
• Added babel as a new dependency needed for compiling language catalogs when building binaries.
• Added compile MO files option before build standalone App using pyinstaller.
• Fixed accelerators shortcuts on Italian language catalog (leave same as USA keyboard).
• Added a new Python script that includes some functionality based on the babel program, convenient on operating systems that do not have gettext installed.
• Fixed app_const not listing the es_CU locale code language.
• Improved build using pyinstaller.py wrap script .
• Added support for Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Czech (Czechia), German (Germany), Hungarian (Hungary) translations.
• Update Localization_Guidelines at: https://jeanslack.github.io/Videomass/Pages/Localization_Guidelines.html .
• Update presets and profiles to v0.24 .

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Videomass 5.0.16

What's New in This Release

• Videomass now uses hatchling as the default build backend which replaces setuptools.
• New feature created that allows you to import the yt_dlp package externally, replacing the one installed on your system or the one on your virtual environment (see #328). Standalone application are excluded from using this feature.

Improvements

• Improved startup configuration script.
• Created a new convenient about_app script to store program description data which replace msg_info.
• Go menu bar items are now fully enabled on every panel (see #332).

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Videomass 5.0.14

What's New in This Release

• User guide documentation up-to-date v5.0.14

Improvements

• Improved GUI layout for AV-Conversions, Presets Manager and YouTube Downloader.
• [AV Conversions] Improved Save profile functionality + bug fixes #316.
• [Presets Manager] Improved error handling writing profiles.

Bug Fixes

• [AV Conversions] Fixed crop area display (crop filter) issue using Wayland.
• [Timeline] Fixed selected area display using Wayland.
• [Still Image Maker] Fixed duration to milliseconds conversion issue that raised wxAssertionError invalid value in wxGauge::SetValue().
• [AV Conversions] Fixed preview issue using stabilze filter on MS-Windows.
• Fixed issue in Preferences dialog when yt-dlp was enabled but the yt_dlp Python module was not found. This fixes the incorrect display of the restart message by setting other preferences.
• Fixed «Next» button incorrectly enabled during transcoding.

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Videomass 5.0.13

What's New in This Release

• Update english user guide documentation (pdf docs) and related references.
• [YouTube Downloader] audio/video qualities #305 #307
• Added shutdown system and auto-exit the application #306 .
• Includes portable version for MS-Windows (64 bit)

Improvements

• [YouTube Downloader] Improved playlists/channels check before start download.

Bug Fixes

• [YouTube Downloader] Fix --playlist-items using executable.
• [AV Conversions] Fixed wrong deinterlace command option using w3fdif filter.

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Videomass 5.0.12

Changelog

What's New in This Release

• Ability to edit command arguments "on-the-fly" in the queue dialog.
• [A/V Conversions] Added opus output format option to Audio Target Media.
• [File drop List] Added context menu by right mouse clicking.
• [YouTube Downloader] Added proxy setup #246.
• [YouTube Downloader] Added authentication + Video password setup.
• [YouTube Downloader] Now it has its own setup dialog, a new convenient window for YouTube Downloader options.
• Most options in the preferences dialogs no longer require restarting the application, except for toggling yt_dlp, application language, and look-and-feel options.
• [YouTube Downloader] Added Geo-restriction options. This feature geo verification proxy, geo bypass, geo bypass country, geo bypass ip block.
• [YouTube Downloader] Added cookies options and some convenient automations about cookies.
• [YouTube Downloader] Login passwords and video password will not be stored anywhere. The user will be forced to re-enter his credentials every time he restarts the application.
• [FFprobe] Added "UnicodeDecodeError" to the exceptions list in the ffprobe module to ensure that files that cannot be encoded with utf-8 unicode are handled by the application.
• Added the ability to change the encoding for files that contain metadata with non-UTF-8 encoded characters. The function is found in the Preferences dialog (Advanced tab).
• [YouTube Downloader] Added ability to use the yt-dlp executable only for download not for get format code and statistics. This feature would allow you to interrupt the process from any point of the download #300 .
• [YouTube Downloader] Added Medium High precompiled video and Medium Low precompiled vieo.
• [YouTube Downloader] Added the ability to run/rerun downloads directly in the Downloader Message Monitoring panel.

Improvements

• Improved description strings on menu bar.
• [Presets Manager] Improved profile settings dialog layout.
• Made some cosmetic improvements.
• [Presets Manager] Improved dialog layout when warning about supported formats.
• Added destination path display for any confirmation dialog before running batch processes.
• Improved closing of ffmpeg by clicking the stop button to close FFmpeg gracefully programmatically by writing "q" to the subprocess's stdin pipe simulating the user pressing the "q" key.
• Improved the pop-up dialog box for temporary messages.

Other changes

• Text on toolbar buttons will now always be shown below their respective icons.
• Show log messages window is been moved to menu bar -> Help.
• Removed "Clear" icon on the toolbars because it was obsolete. Now to remove items there are keyboard shortcuts, options in the Edit menus plus mouse right-click context menus.
• Preferences dialog has been moved to the Edit menu.
• Removed menu for setting destination folders and restoring default destination folder.
• Changing the destination folders in the file list and URL list panels will now make the destination paths the new default paths without the need to open preferences dialog.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2]" traceback at the end of the process, raised if the "Trash the source files" checkbox had been checked to delete the same file more than once.
• [Presets Manager] Fixed bug in supported formats check. If the warning about supported formats was triggered, the program silently prevented the conversion processes from starting.
• Fixed errors and inconsistencies on initialize trash directory path name.
• [YouTube Downloader] Fixed Best precompiled video issue to truly get the best precompiled video.
• [YouTube Downloader] Fixed Worst precompiled video issue to truly get the worst precompiled video.
• [YouTube Downloader] Fixed option mapping issue to pass to YdlExtractInfo thread to get data for format code and Statistics.

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Videomass 5.0.11

Fixes

• This release fixes an issue of the previous version v5.0.10 (see #288)

What's New in This Release

• Added a queue management available for both Presets Manager and A/V Conversions.
• Ability to enter additional pre-input arguments for hardware acceleration using the Presets Manager.
• Improved GUI for H.264/H.265 video encoders.
• Improved GUI for VP9 video encoder.
• Added new GUI for SVT-AV1 video encoder.
• Added new UI for AOM-AV1 video encoder.
• Added GUI for XVID MPEG-4 part 2 (xvidcore) video encoder.
• Added One-passes Loudnorm (EBU R128) audio normalization.
• Improved High-quality two-pass Loudnorm normalization (EBU R128). No more limitations by enabling or not two-pass encoding or using the stabilizer filter.
• The "Stabilize" video filter can also now be applied to both single-pass and double-pass encoding.
• "Make Duo" feature on "Stabilize" video filter is now only available for preview, not for producing the final video.
• Removed Vp8 (libvpx) video encoder from A/V Conversions.
• Removed libtheora video encoder from A/V Conversions.
• Fixed various bugs.
• Update presets to v0.23.

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Videomass 5.0.10

What's New in This Release

• Added a queue management available for both Presets Manager and A/V Conversions.
• Ability to enter additional pre-input arguments for hardware acceleration using the Presets Manager.
• Improved GUI for H.264/H.265 video encoders.
• Improved GUI for VP9 video encoder.
• Added new GUI for SVT-AV1 video encoder.
• Added new UI for AOM-AV1 video encoder.
• Added GUI for XVID MPEG-4 part 2 (xvidcore) video encoder.
• Added One-passes Loudnorm (EBU R128) audio normalization.
• Improved High-quality two-pass Loudnorm normalization (EBU R128). No more limitations by enabling or not two-pass encoding or using the stabilizer filter.
• The "Stabilize" video filter can also now be applied to both single-pass and double-pass encoding.
• "Make Duo" feature on "Stabilize" video filter is now only available for preview, not for producing the final video.
• Removed Vp8 (libvpx) video encoder from A/V Conversions.
• Removed libtheora video encoder from A/V Conversions.
• Fixed various bugs.
• Update presets to v0.23.

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Videomass 5.0.6

What's Changed

• fix ValueError passing N/A string by @jeanslack in #261
• column width storing by @jeanslack in #262
• Fix seeking by @jeanslack in #264
• fix compatibility to wxPython>=4.1.1 by @jeanslack in #263
• fix slideshow prog bar + improves by @jeanslack in #265
• improve resize filter by @jeanslack in #266
• release 5.0.5-0 by @jeanslack in #268
• release 5.0.5-1 by @jeanslack in #269
• release 5.0.6-0 by @jeanslack in #270

Full Changelog: v5.0.4...v5.0.6

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