First release of the rewritten application. v5 replaces the Tkinter front end with a PySide6 one built on a new codebase; v4 remains available under legacy_v4 and is unaffected.
Added
- PySide6 interface with drag-and-drop input, per-stream inspection and encoding, light/dark/automatic themes, a collapsible queue panel, and restored window geometry.
- Durable encoding queue saved atomically to a versioned
jobs.json. Queued jobs stay paused across restarts, and a job that was running when the application exited is restored as failed so it can be reviewed and retried rather than silently resumed. - Crash-safe outputs. Every encode writes to a job-specific
.partfile that is published atomically only on success. Source/output self-overwrites and duplicate active destinations are rejected, and generated name collisions are numbered automatically. - DeeZy adapters for DD, DDP, DDP-BluRay, Atmos, and AC-4, including configuration-aware bitrate lists, BS.1770 and Leq(A) metering, DRC and downmix controls, and TrueHDD warp/bed controls. DeeZy's child processes are held in a Windows job object (a process-group walk elsewhere) so cancelling a job cannot leave a TrueHD decode running, and its intermediates are redirected to an application cache folder that is pruned at startup.
- Standalone encoder adapters for opusenc, qaac (Apple AAC), and fdkaac (Fraunhofer FDK AAC), fed PCM from FFmpeg over a pipe and writing straight to the queue's temporary output.
- FFmpeg adapters for Opus, FLAC, AAC, MP3, AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, and ALAC, each with curated rate-control and quality settings plus codec-aware channel layouts.
- Per-track delay handling. Container delays are detected with the bundled MediaInfo library, with filename markers such as
[DELAY -21ms]as a fallback for single-track audio-only inputs. The detected value stays editable, is baked into the encoded samples, and filename markers are stripped from generated output names. - Presets plus automatic restoration of the last encoder configuration, with stale values rejected rather than silently substituted.
- Live per-job progress, command and error details, bounded session logs, output-folder actions, and a
Help ▸ Copy diagnosticsaction that summarizes the detected toolchain. - Asynchronous, parallel tool detection, bounded media probing, rotating application logs, single-instance protection, and a
--diagnosticscommand-line report. - Corrupt settings, preset, and queue files are quarantined with a
corrupt-<timestamp>suffix instead of being overwritten.
What's Changed
Full Changelog: 4.11.3...5.0.0
What's Changed
Full Changelog: 4.11.3...5.0.0
Contributors
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