May 15th, 2012· Updates - For security reasons, a new warning will explain why an administrator password is needed when enabling hot folders or upgrading VideoDrive to a newer version.
· Bug Fixes - Fixed an issue where pasting a correct registration key would still invalidate your purchased copy of VideoDrive.
May 3rd, 2012Updates:
· Improved results when cleaning file and folder names.
· Updated metadata routine for iTunes 10 to ensure TV show episodes are listed in the correct order when accessing a Shared iTunes library from iOS devices with the default Videos App.
· Artwork is now correctly assigned when copying iTunes videos with the Elgato Turbo.264 (HD) as the conversion tool.
· Cleaned up the metadata results of videos with no description or story line available online.
· Improved detection of videos containing trailers, bloopers, director's cut, extras and making of: titles of such videos are appended with an appropriate label e.g.: MyMovie (trailer).
· Videos with "Season x" in their file name will now be recognized as a TV Show.
· Dialog windows indicating an error with Hot Folders will now dismiss automatically after 2 minutes to not obstruct future imports. A detailed error message will be included in the VideoDrive.log (Applications/Utilities/Console).
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue with metadata results where the description was cut off too early.
· Fixed a cryptic error message appearing in some particular cases at the end of the video import process when using hot folders.
April 9th, 2012· Important Bug Fix - Fixed a bug in version 2.6 causing very long waiting times or missing metadata when searching online.
April 3rd, 2012Updates:
· Added support for the new iPad and AppleTV.
· New device icons on the main screen and status lights for devices.
· Replaced the white AppleTV on the main window with a new setting for HD Devices (including ATV3, iPad2, the new iPad and the iPhone 4S).
· Updated HandBrake installer to version 0.9.6.
· Big improvements to the online search algorithm resulting in more accurate results when both a movie and TV show exist with the same name or when multiple remakes of the same movie title exist.
· Various enhancements for MacOSX Lion.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue preventing the user from searching online for metadata after no valid metadata was found earlier.
· Fixed a minor issue when combining TV show and episode descriptions.
· Various tweaks and bug fixes.
February 22nd, 2012Updates:
· Restored downloading individual TV Show episode titles and descriptions when importing or tagging multiple episodes at once.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a minor issue when the option to merge TV show and episode descriptions together was turned off.
February 20th, 2012Updates:
· Restored downloading individual TV Show episode titles and descriptions.
· Improved detection of Perian.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a bug resulting in a failure to locate the iTunes library on some configurations.
February 2nd, 2012Updates:
· Added option to sync with iPod, iPad and iPhone after importing new videos. Selec the new option "Start iTunes sync with devices" on the General Preferences tab.
· Created a second separate log for HandBrake related things: VideoDrive_HandBrake.log in ~/Library/Logs. You can consult the logs with the Console application (located in Applications/Utitilies).
· Added preliminary support for VIDEO_TS DVD-folders and VOB files (import methods 5 until 8 only, HandBrake recommended).
· Improved support for EyeTV files.
· Changed the order of the conversion tools in Import Preferences (ordered from fast to slow). By default, Turbo.264 or HandBrake are selected (when installed) instead of QuickTime.
· Improved detection of Perian and HandBrake components when running VideoDrive for the first time.
· Minor tweaks to the file name cleaning algorithm.
· Restored determination of the production year of TV shows when searching for online metadata.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a minor issue with composing show details of TV Shows when no episode description is available.
January 23rd, 2012Updates:
· Added requeue button for failed videos to the Console window.
· Added support for mts, ts and eyetv video files (import methods 5 until 8 only).
· Restored downloading of online TV show episode titles and descriptions.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a bug introduced in version 2.5.02 causing online non-English metadata to be missing.
January 8th, 2012Updates:
· Improved reliability when quitting VideoDrive while importing videos.
· New welcome window with status lights for Perian and HandBrakeCLI.
· Reorganized the window to install third-party conversion tools.
· Removed the warning when VideoDrive crashed earlier and replaced it with a background check.
· Improved the warning window when HandBrakeCLI is running in the background by adding a stop button.
· Reorganized all warning messages when starting to import videos for the first time.
· Updated the install tool for HandBrakeCLI by adding support for 32bit systems.
· Added a new option to translate English movie and TV show titles into the user country language.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed several minor performance issues with the HandBrakeCLI background conversion process.
· Fixed a rare bug causing the online metadata results window to be empty when dealing with documentaries.
January 3rd, 2012Updates:
· A confirmation window will now appear when trying to quit VideoDrive while videos are being processed.
· Enhanced search results when searching for TV Shows from the online results window.
· Added Growl notification when a video file could NOT be added to iTunes. As always, you can toggle individual notifications inside Growl. Note: this version does not support Growl 1.3 yet.
· Added support for M2TS-files in combination with import methods 5 until 8.
· Moved the option to look for matching metadata presets to the Metadata tab of Preferences. The option now lists the number of available presets.
· Tweaks to the matching algorithm to automatically load user-created presets.
· New Hot Folder scripts are now installed automatically when upgrading VideoDrive.
· The name of metadata prests created from movies or TV Shows with a colon in their name, will no longer contain a backslash.
Bug Fixes:
· Saving and loading corrupt presets caused issues in some cases.
· Fixed a bug in the error handling when trying to load a preset that no longer exists.
· The progress bar of a video conversion process using HandBrake would not be updated in specific circumstances after a new video had been queued.
· Newly created presets were not always registered propely when VideoDrive crashes.
· In some particular cases, artwork could not be saved in a preset in the Metadata Editor.
November 7th, 2011Updates:
· HandBrake conversions support is (finally!) out of beta.
· Improved Lion support.
· Included installation tool to download HandBrakeCLI: click the 'Install More' button on the import tab of the Preferences panel.
· When using HandBrakeCLI as the conversion tool, the user interface no longer freezes, the cancel button remains available and progress is shown.
· Too much drama in your movie library? Determining the iTunes genre of movies has been optimized (English only).
· Canceling the import process of multiple videos is now faster.
· All windows locations are now remembered between VideoDrive sessions.
· Improved reliability of conversions with QuickTime X on Lion: still not recommended to use though.
· The option to pause videos to edit them during video import is now restricted to QuickTime 7 and import methods 2 until 4.
· Added button to install QuickTime 7 to the import tab of Preferences.
· Added option to not ask confirmation before saving metadata when processing queued videos. This option is available on the Queue tab of Preferences.
· Added support for Elgato Turbo.264 HD 1.2.
· Canceling video imports in VideoDrive will now stop all conversion processes in Elgato Turbo.264 and Turbo.264 HD and empty their queue.
· The dialog box that pops up when a queued video file is missing has been replaced by a more subtle entry in the activity log.
· The activity and error log are merged.
· Added button to erase all messages from the activity log.
· A new (optional) warning window allows you to quit and reset all third party conversion tools after VideoDrive experienced a crash.
· The default browser will be launched if a web page needs to be opened and no browser is running.
· Support for copying metadata from a web page containing an individual TV show episode.
· Videos can now be put in the TV show category based on metadata found online, and not only based on file and folder structure.
· Added button to the online tab of the Metadata Editor to visit online source of metadata.
· Season and episode numbering with single digits in file names are now supported (e.g. S7E01, 7-1, 7x01, 07x1 to indicate episode 1 of season 7).
· The episode title of TV Shows will be "Episode x" instead of "x" if no online title was found and nu custom label is defined in TV Show preferences.
Bug Fixes:
· Lion: a video opened in QuickTime X would remain opened in specific cases after the import process failed.
· The video import queue was sometimes emptied after a VideoDrive crash.
· A time-out issue could occur importing large video files using Hot Folders: click the 'Install' button on the Queue tab of Preferences to install the new versions of Hot Folders for all your hot folders.
· The number of minutes to wait before automatically processing the import queue was ignored in some circumstances.
· TV Shows would sometimes be misidentified if they were identified based on folder structure rather than file name.
· Specific movies and TV Shows (including 2012, Star Trek Voyager) were misidentified.
· The episode and season numbers of TV show file names were incorrectly parsed when unsupported string formats were encountered.
· Fixed an issue with license registrations.
· Users who upgraded from a previous version may see the screen once again when launching this version.
· Fixed an issue with the upgrade procedure so future updates of version 2.5 will no longer crash VideoDrive after the update completes.
· Metadata presets with a slash in their name were not loaded correctly.
· Fixed several issues regarding non-English metadata.
· The setting to download Portuguese metadata was not retained properly.
· Fixed some graphical glitches with drawing the main window after the toolbar had been resized.
September 19th, 2011Updates:
· HandBrake conversions support is (finally!) out of beta.
· Improved Lion support.
· Included installation tool to download HandBrakeCLI: click the 'Install More' button on the import tab of the Preferences panel.
· When using HandBrakeCLI as the conversion tool, the user interface no longer freezes, the cancel button remains available and progress is shown.
· Canceling the import process of multiple videos is now faster.
· All windows locations are now remembered between VideoDrive sessions.
· Improved reliability of conversions with QuickTime X on Lion: still not recommended to use though.
· The option to pause videos to edit them during video import is now restricted to QuickTime 7 and import methods 2 until 4.
· Added button to install QuickTime 7 to the import tab of Preferences.
· Added support for Elgato Turbo.264 HD 1.2.
· Canceling video imports in VideoDrive will now stop all conversion processes in Elgato Turbo.264 and Turbo.264 HD and empty their queue.
· The dialog box that pops up when a queued video file is missing has been replaced by a more subtle entry in the activity log.
· The activity and error log are merged.
· Added button to erase all messages from the activity log.
· A new (optional) warning window allows you to quit and reset all third party conversion tools after VideoDrive experienced a crash.
· The default browser will be launched if a web page needs to be opened and no browser is running.
· Support for copying metadata from a web page containing an individual TV show episode.
· Videos can now be put in the TV show category based on metadata found online, and not only based on file and folder structure.
· Added button to the online tab of the Metadata Editor to visit online source of metadata.
Bug Fixes:
· Lion: a video opened in QuickTime X would remain opened in specific cases after the import process failed.
· Fixed an issue causing the video import queue to be empty after a VideoDrive crash.
· Fixed a time-out issue when importing large video files using Hot Folders: click the 'Install' button on the Queue tab of Preferences to install the new versions of Hot Folders for all your hot folders.
· Fixed an issue where the number of minutes to wait before automatically processing the import queue is ignored.
· Fixed a bug where TV Shows would be misidentified if they are idenfitied based on folder structure rather than file name.
· Fixed an issue where the episode and season numbers of TV show file names are incorrectly parsed when encountering unsupported string formats.
· Fixed an issue with registering licenses.
· Fixed an issue with the welcome screen. Users who upgrade from a previous version may see the screen once again when launching this version.
· Fixed an issue with the upgrade procedure so future updates of version 2.5 will no longer crash VideoDrive after the update completes.
· Fixed an issue preventing metadata presets with a slash in their name from being loaded correctly.
September 8th, 2011· Fixed a cryptic error message that appeared when iTunes was not running on Lion systems.
· Various minor tweaks.
August 22nd, 2011Updates:
· Season numbers of TV Shows are now also added to the Disc number field.
· Added warning message for users of MacOSX Lion and iTunes 10.4.
· Improved reliability of ATV Container Converter utility.
Bug Fixes:
· Included a workaround for an iTunes issue where adding.
July 25th, 2011Updates:
· Improved compatibility for MacOSX Lion.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an encoding issue with individual TV show episode information found online.
· Re-enabled automatic downloading of user ratings.
July 25th, 2011Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue causing HandBrake 0.9.5 conversions not to be done with the latest presets.
· Re-enabled support for PPC architectures (Apple has disabled all default support for PPC in its development tools).
· Fixed a crash of version 2.4 at startup on MacOSX 10.5 Leopard.
· Removed some debugging code.
March 7th, 2011· Fixed a regression bug in version 2.3.02 causing an error on non-Metric MacOSX systems when saving artwork.
March 7th, 2011Updates:
· Added compatibility for iTunes 10.2. This new iTunes version changes the way artwork is handled causing an error when saving artwork with previous versions of VideoDrive.
· Added HandBrake support for AppleTV2 and iPhone 4 presets (Import Preferences tab)
· Power users can now specify all Handbrake conversion parameters by entering them in the Import preferences panel. For this, use import method 5 and include the --encoding or -e parameter.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue with VideoDrive not registering properly with Growl.
· Fixed a timeout issue with hot folders. Click Install in the Queue preferences to install the newest version of Hot Folders.
January 23rd, 2011Updates:
· Added support for the Elgato Turbo.264 HD Video Converter tool available in the App Store.
· Added support for the Elgato Turbo.264 HD Demo version available on the Elgato website.
· The presence of HandBrakeCLI in the Utilities folder is now detected as well.
· Improved support for pausing the video import with QuickTime 7 and QuickTime X (see Import Preferences).
· Improved error handling when the Elgato Turbo software quits or crashes.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a glitch in the progress bar>
January 14th, 2011Updates:
· Added support for conversions using HandBrake. Download HandBrake CLI from http://handbrake.fr/downloads2.php in your Application, Utilities or Bin folder and select HandBrake from the list of conversion tools in the import preferences panel of VideoDrive.
· Improved conversion reliability for MKV, ASF, OGG, WMV and FLV files when using QuickTime X.
· Added conversion option to create 480p, 720p or 1080p videos when using QuickTime X.
· Added conversion option to create MP4 files when using QuickTime 7 (Pro).
· Added conversion option to use the most recent conversion settings of QuickTime 7 (Pro).
· Added conversion option to create converted files on the primary disk in the Movies folder before moving them to their final destination. Only use this option if the slow speed of your external disks has a negative impact on the conversion process.
· Switched to icon of the second-generation AppleTV in the main window to indicate compatibility with this device.
· All detailed errors are now logged in a separate VideoDrive.log file, accessible from the Console application (located in Applications/Utilities folder).
· Added limited support for TRP files: import TRP-files by using import methods 5 until 8 in combination with HandBrake as the conversion tool.
· Added Airplay compatibility to the help section of the 9 import methods.
· Generated videos files that could not be imported in iTunes are now always moved to trash.
· Registering VideoDrive with Growl is now instantanious.
Bug Fixes:
· Enhanced reliability of the pause import function when using import methods 2 until 4.
· Fixed a problem with import method 9 not moving files into the iTunes media library when this option was selected.
· Fixed an error reporting bug when the import process of queued videos fails.
· Fixed an error where videos that failed to import are not requeued when the option to requeue videos is enabled.
January 4th, 2011· This update is all about video conversions. Some users complained about failed conversions so we have listened and made lots of improvements.
· Basically, a lot of issues are related to QuickTime X. We do no longer recommend using QuickTime X for video conversions.
· If VideoDrive finds QuickTime 7 on your system, it will use that as it is far more reliable. But for those who still prefer QuickTime X, we have improved reliability for several file formats. Another issue was speed: QuickTime is not that fast.
· In fact, QuickTime X can be horribly slow with some conversions taking up to 10 hours. Therefore support was added for HandBrake, which converts video much much faster! Simply download HandBrakeCLI (both 32bit and 64bit versions are supported) into your Applications or Utilities folder and switch the flip in the Import Preferences panel of VideoDrive.
November 1st, 2010Updates:
· New warning windows when importing for the first time. Included new messages for QuickTime X and the new AppleTV.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue where VideoDrive would give a cryptic error message during the import process when the iTunes library could not be found. This is related to an issue with iTunes 10 not properly reporting the current iTunes media folder to third party applications.
· Fixed missing non-English metadata when looking online.
· Fixed an issue causing the import process to fail when importing into an iTunes library containing no videos.
October 23rd, 2010Updates:
· Added dedicated warning for import methods 5 until 8 when using QuickTime X. This message warns users about the limited support of QuickTime X for a variety of video formats, compared to QuickTime 7. To use QuickTime 7 instead, enable Compatibility Modus in Import Preferences
· The Sort Show field of TV Shows no longer includes Season labels and season numbers
· Switched to the new iTunes 10 icon
Bug Fixes:
· Clarified error messages when QuickTime fails to convert a video.
· Fixed some metadata issues with show descriptions found online.
· Fixed an issue with missing artwork when looking up online metadata.
· Fixed an issue where VideoDrive could not quit the Elgato Turbo software.
October 13th, 2010Updates:
· Pressing CMD+ENTER in the online results window will now search again online. Pressing ENTER will accept the currently shown metadata.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue with metadata missing when browsing for online metadata
· Fixed an issue with artwork missing when browsing for online artwork
· Fixed an issue where VideoDrive would return a 9000 error after Elgato Turbo.264 HD finishes converting a video successfully. If no video is present after Elgato conversion, a new 9002 error will be generated instead.
· Fixed an issue where a video would be incorrectly assigned the genre "Drama" when the option to "map online genres to a main iTunes genre" is enabled.
· When rejecting the online metadata of a video with QuickTime annotations or embedded metadata, the logs and growl notifications would mention the file name instead of the actual iTunes name, making it hard to locate the video in iTunes
August 3rd, 2010· Fixed a scripting issue causing the iTunes menus and hot folders to return an error in some cases.
· Added some missing tooltips.
July 31st, 2010Updates:
· Added new location to watch videos: Streaming to iTunes libraries on Windows systems. This is supported by import methods 5 until 8.
· Changed the order of the locations in the main window to match the order of the import methods.
· The option to access videos with the Remote App on iPhone, iPod Touch has been incorporated in the help section. As a reminder: accessing videos with the Remote App is supported by import methos 3 until 8.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed error 8001 when importing compatible iTunes videos while no target folder is set.
· Fixed an issue with Growl notifications.
· Removed a debugging message when moving files.
· Fixed an error message stating incorrectly that previous settings could not be restored when running VideoDrive for the first time.
· Fixed an issue when checking "Video iPod" as a location to play videos on the main screen.
July 25th, 2010· Dynamic Presets: save your metadata settings as reusable dynamic presets. VideoDrive will check online for updates when the preset is loaded.
· Automatic loading of Metadata Presets: VideoDrive determines when to load one of your presets. This is great when adding TV Show episodes over time. VideoDrive will automatically load the correct preset and include the metadata and artwork you want.
· New interface: new streamlined interface with more detailed progress bar and rearranged options for a better user experience.
· No more QuickTime 7: Snow Leopard users no longer need to install QuickTime 7 in order to use VideoDrive. Support for QuickTime 7 with its many pro features is still present. (*)
· Use local images as artwork: images with the same name as your video files, are automatically used as artwork.
· Improved online search results: better accuracy when browsing online for metadata thanks to Google fuzzy search.
· International metadata: support for 7 other languages
· iPad support: convert videos for iPad playback.
· HD artwork: better quality of artwork images
· Silent hot folders: queue videos without launching VideoDrive
June 25th, 2010· Enabled metadata support for international languages (German, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese).
· Changed the default target location for video imports to the iTunes media folder.
· Fine-tuned the option to map genres found online to iTunes genres (this feature currently only supports English).
· Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6.4.
· Updated several descriptions.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed some encoding issues with online metadata.
· Various smaller fixes tweaks.
June 1st, 2010Updates:
· Improved matching algorithm for metadata presets.
· Updated and clarified several tooltips, tips and error messages.
· Copying metadata from the browser will now also download the artwork.
· Improved downloading of online metadata.
· Rearranged the Preferences panel and clarified the options to move/copy video files in a new Location panel.
· It is now possible to create new video files in a specific folder or drive while not moving your original video files.
· Disabled the copy iTunes video button when import method 9 is selected.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue where media links (import method 1) or reference files (import method 2) would point to the old video file when moving videos to an external disk.
· Fixed an issue causing the download of online metadata to be blocked by Google.
May 10th, 2010· Improved support for video titles containing numbers (including the movie 2012).
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue with copying images from the browser.
· Fixed an issue causing no artwork to be downloaded, with no error being included in the error log.
· Fixed an issue where copying iTunes videos would fail with the error that the video already exists in the iTunes library or that the file was corrupt.
May 6th, 2010· Includes a workaround for a bug in QuickTime X. When converting some videos with QuickTime X (using import methods 5, 6, 7 or 8) the VideoDrive import process would fail with error 9000 when the screen display would go to sleep. This is particularly applicable for videos that load into memory, including MKV and WMV files.
· Fixes a bug causing a canceled import process to hang.
April 28th, 2010· Fixed an issue in version 2.0.03 causing VideoDrive on MacOSX 10.6.3 not to start importing in some cases.
April 26th, 2010· When toggling video subtitles in version 2.0.01 and 2.0.02, the progress bar would halt unexpectedly.
· Fixed an issue with adding metadata to iTunes videos imported by Elgato EyeTV. If videos have the same video name and show name (as is the case with Elgato EyeTV videos), VideoDrive would not look for online metadata.
· Fixed an issue with iTunes videos not being processed correctly while adding metadata if the video has an empty video name.
· Fixed an issue with displaying the online metadata window while dealing with incorrectly processed videos.
· Fixed an issue causing VideoDrive not to save some settings when quit from the dock in MacOSX 10.6.
· Fixed several assertion exceptions thrown when quitting VideoDrive.
April 21st, 2010· Fixed a bug in version 2.0.01 causing the function to add metadata to iTunes videos to fail.
· Fixed an issue causing VideoDrive not to save some settings when quit from the dock in MacOSX 10.6.
April 20th, 2010Updates:
· Higher quality of online artwork.
· Copying images from the browser to use as artwork is much faster.
· It is now possible to have empty episode labels. This is useful if you only want the episode number in your TV Show episode names.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue causing the selected artwork not to be downloaded.
· The process of toggling subtitles would sometimes hang while searching for iTunes videos.
· When a preset is automatically loaded while the option to ask for confirmation is unchecked, no artwork would be added to the video.
· Fixed an issue on MacOSX 10.5 stating incorrectly that QuickTime 7 is busy.
April 19th, 2010New Features:
· Dynamic Presets: create reusable metadata presets that update with online information. Ideal when importing episodes of the same TV Show over time.
· Automatic selection of presets: VideoDrive will automatically detect which preset to load for your videos based on the file name and preset name.
· Redesigned user interface with new activity log and customizable toolbar. Streamlined the import process of videos, with new progress indication information.
· Automatic import of local artwork: images with the same name as your video files will be used as artwork.
· Copying iTunes videos: re-import iTunes videos using another import method. Great to make copies for iPod, iPhone and AppleTV using Elgato Turbo.264 (HD).
· Multiple iTunes libraries support. If you load another library in iTunes, you can refresh the location in the General preferences without having to restart VideoDrive.
· VideoDrive 2.0 no longer relies on QuickTime 7. This means Snow Leopard users do no longer need to install QuickTime 7.
Updates:
· Added support for video conversions for the iPad.
· The original video files are now renamed when importing videos directly and moving them to a specific folder. Renaming original video files is only done when using import method 9 or when directly importing iTunes compatible videos.
· If the iTunes media location cannot be determined automatically, VideoDrive will no longer quit, but instead offer to determine the location yourself.
· New option in general preferences allows to set the iTunes location permanently, which enhances launching time.
· When no online metadata tagline is found, the first part of the description will be used instead.
· Raised the capacity of the video import queue.
· Updated the options in the iTunes menu bar.
· Added indicator light to the import queue. By default, the light is off, indicating the queue is not processed automatically. A green light indicates the queue will be processed automatically.
· VideoDrive will now create files with a numbered suffix when a file already exists at the target location instead of returning an error.
· Improved checking of duplicate videos.
· Improved support when converting very large files (over 1 GB) and MKV videos.
· Added support for SRT files when moving files while using import method 9.
· Adding metadata to videos in combination with import method 1 has been disabled in the GUI.
· Clicking the install button on the Hot Folders preferences tab now forces installation of the latest system files.
· Improved accuracy of online metadata searches by using Google fuzzy search.
· Added new option to sleep or shut down the computer after importing. These actions only take place if the user is idle for at least 10 minutes during the import process and if the import queue is empty.
· The status of the import queue is saved immediately and not only when VideoDrive quits.
· Growl messages only show the file name of videos and not the entire path. This enhances readability of the Growl messages.
· The advanced preferences tab includes a new option to enable legacy QuickTime 7 support.
· Updated the error message when a video with a corrupt video track is added to iTunes.
· New option to include name labels in video names when using automatic metadata.
· Added option to requeue videos that failed to import. This option is useful when queued videos are not copied or downloaded entirely at the moment of import.
Bug Fixes:
· For some video titles, an empty line preceded the description field of metadata found online.
· Fixed an issue where no metadata could be added to an imported video.
· Fixed a rare issue causing a registered version of VideoDrive to expire while still being able to import videos.
· Fixed a issue causing the processing of online metadata to hang indefinitely.
· Fixed an issue with the Video Kind selection box in the metadata editor when loading presets.
· Fixed an issue with loading artwork when loading presets.
· Many other small fixes and tweaks.
· Fixed minor window redrawing issues in the main window.
· In some cases, the Cancel button would not cancel the video import process.
· Fixed a time-out issue with hot folders.
· Fixed a hot folder issue with file names containing semi-coloms or single or double quotes.
· Fixed an issue with hot folders when adding multiple files, resulting in a non-descriptive error message.
March 7th, 2010Update:
· An expired trial version will be reset when upgrading to a new version.
· Adding metadata to videos in combination with import method 1 has been disabled in the GUI.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed the progress bar for import method 1.
· Fixed a time-out issue with hot folders.
· Fixed a hot folder issue with file names containing semi-coloms or single or double quotes.
· Fixed an issue with hot folders when adding multiple files, resulting in a non-descriptive error message.
February 25th, 2010Update:
· Clicking the install button on the Hot Folders preferences tab now forces installation of the latest system files.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a time-out issue with Hot Folders.
· Fixed a non-descriptive error dialog message when the selected online artwork could not be downloaded.
· Fixed an issue causing images in the Metadata Editor not to be saved correctly.
· Fixed an issue with the trial version of 2.0 beta expiring too soon.
February 18th, 2010Update:
· When saving online metadata as a preset, no artwork is downloaded anymore if the user has selected a local image.
· The status of the import queue is saved immediately and not only when VideoDrive quits.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue with the import queue indicating an incorrect number of queued videos.
· Fixed an error with the option to import iTunes-compatible videos directly in combination with the import queue.
· Metadata presets created with 1.x would not load associated artwork correctly.
November 29th, 2009· Update: new algorithm to search for online metadata. This will dramatically increase the accuracy of the metadata found online.
· Update: enhanced the algorithm to clean polluted file names. This will enhance the accuracy of the metadata found online.
· Update: Improved error handling when queued videos are deleted while VideoDrive is not running.
· Update: fixed plot and tagline metadata missing for some videos after searching online.
· Update: taglines are no longer truncated when too long.
· Update: re-enabled downloading of online metadata.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue causing VideoDrive to hang after canceling a video import.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where HTML code would appear in the episode name of some TV Shows.
· Bug Fix: fixed a rare issue causing VideoDrive to assign a season number to a movie.
· Bug Fix: fixed an reliability issue with import method 5.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where the converted video could not be found in the iTunes library when using import methods 5 until 8. This QuickTime issue caused the import failure of all following videos. If this issue still occurs, try disabling Display Sleep in System Preferences (Energy settings).
July 31st, 2009· Update: the results window no longer blocks the automatic processing of the video import queue. This is useful when you want VideoDrive to automatically try importing all videos that arrive in a Hot Folder. (For this, use the second option to handle the import queue, available on the Queue tab of Preferences)
· Update: VideoDrive no longer looks for online metadata for automatically requeued videos.
· Update: the option to add compatible videos directly to iTunes (available on the main window) has been renamed and is no longer turned on by default. As this option overrides the selected import method when importing MOV, MP4 or M4V videos, it could cause some confusion.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue introduced in version 1.10 causing the import process to fail in particular cases when using the import queue.
July 28th, 2009· Added new import method to convert videos to H.264, the native format of iTunes in the highest possible resolution.
· Added new option when converting videos with Elgato.264 or Elgato.264 HD to convert to iPod Small or iPod Best resolution.
· Added new option when converting videos with Elgato.264 HD to convert to HD 720p or HD1080p.
· Added new option to determine the file name of TV Shows. By default, only the episode number and name are included. By enabling the new option "Include show and episode information in TV Show file names" the format ShowName.S01E01.EpisodeName will be followed.
Updates:
· Fixed an issue with the latest AppleTV 2.4 update causing videos to play without sound on AppleTV when imported with import method 4. To enable sound again, set the audio language on your Apple TV to English (go to Settings - Audio and Video - Audio Language).
· Removed white artifacts sometimes appearing at the beginning of videos imported with import method 4 when playing in iTunes and AppleTV.
· Clicking Search Again to look for online metadata will now search for both missing metadata and artwork, even if both corresponding options are disabled on the metadata window.
· Copying artwork from the browser will no longer reset any changes to the metadata in the online results window.
· Updated parsing of genres found online.
· Enhanced the mapping of genres found online to a main iTunes genre.
· Improved the robustness of the merge video parts function.
· Added additional information to the file name of movies (including part number, bloopers and trailer information).
· Added welcome message and explanation messages for each import method.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed an issue where the import proces would fail for videos converted for AppleTV using the Elgato Turbo.264 HD hardware.
· Fixed an issue where metadata is not saved correctly to videos already present in iTunes when the option to ask confirmation before saving is unchecked.
· Fixed some cases where the results window contains incorrect counters.
· When importing a movie spanned over multiple files while the option to merge video parts is disabled, the import could fail with the error message that the file already exists.
· Fixed an issue when converting new videos using Elgato.264 or Elgato.264 HD hardware causing existing videos with the same file name to be overwritten.
· Fixed an issue with the automatic season numbering when using manual metadata. If a single video file is imported instead of a folder containing one or more videos, the season number would be incorrect.
June 10th, 2009· Bug Fix: fixed a reliability issue with the option to move video files to a specific folder.
June 9th, 2009· Bug Fix: fixed an issue with the copyright symbol not being displayed and saved correctly in video descriptions.
· Bug Fix: when the target folder to move videos to became unavailable while VideoDrive was running, the target folder would not be saved properly in the preferences file.
· Bug Fix: when the preferences of two macs are synced with MobileMe, VideoDrive would display an error at startup time on the second mac.
June 9th, 2009· Update: enhanced compatibility with foreign characters in online metadata.
· Update: updated some error messages
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue causing VideoDrive to save videos in the incorrect folder.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue causing subtitles (SRT files) not to be saved with a video.
· Bug Fix: the progress bar would reach 100% too early in some specific cases.
· Bug Fix: in some cases, foreign characters would be included incorrectly in file names of TV Shows.
· Bug Fix: when a single TV Show episode was imported, the episode name was not always included in the file name.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue when using import method 5 in combination with Elgato Turbo.264 HD.
· Bug Fix: when adding multiple TV Show episodes, some online metadata was missing when not asking for confirmation before saving.
May 26th, 2009· Update: added a new option to enable and disable Growl support in General Preferences.
· Update: added Growl Support to Hot Folders.
· Update: iTunes now quits with VideoDrive when it was not running before.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue causing a video import to fail with error 2700 caused by QuickTime.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue with the Sort Show field of TV Shows metadata.
May 5th, 2009· Bug Fix: removed some incorrect error messages.
May 5th, 2009· Update: Articles are now removed from the Sort Show field of TV Shows
· Update: added option to identify TV Show by air date. The date must be present as xx.xx.xxxx in the file name.
· Update: unchecking the option "Identify Movies" on the Preferences panel will now automatically categorize videos as TV Shows or Music Video.
· Update: Episode ID is now set for TV Shows. It will contain the date or season and episode number
· Update: if the date of a video is included in the file name, and no online metadata is found, the year from the file name is used.
· Update: Improved accuracy of online results when searching for videos with numbers in their name.
· Update: video files created for TV Shows now contain the show, numbering and title in the file name.
· Bug Fix: additional enhancements when multiple movies and/or TV shows in an iTunes library have the same name.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where some fields of a TV Show were not correctly saved in iTunes.
May 2nd, 2009· Update: Articles are now removed from the Sort Show field of TV Shows
· Update: added option to identify TV Show by air date. The date must be present as xx.xx.xxxx in the file name.
· Update: unchecking the option "Identify Movies" on the Preferences panel will now automatically categorize videos as TV Shows or Music Video.
· Update: Episode ID is now set for TV Shows. It will contain the date or season and episode number
· Update: if the date of a video is included in the file name, and no online metadata is found, the year from the file name is used.
· Update: Improved accuracy of online results when searching for videos with numbers in their name.
· Bug Fix: additional enhancements when multiple movies and/or TV shows in an iTunes library have the same name.
April 28th, 2009· Update: Added support for the Elgato Turbo.264 HD. VideoDrive now supports both the Elgato Turbo.264 and Elgato Turbo.264 HD to easily convert videos. More info at www.elgato.com
· Make sure to recheck the option 'Use Elgato Turbo.264 for faster conversions' in VideoDrive preferences after upgrading to version 1.9.8.
April 27th, 2009· Update: For TV Shows, the Sort Show field is now filled out, in order to ensure correct sorting in iTunes.
· Update: new option to set the number of thumbnails that are downloaded for each video tittle.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where VideoDrive did not automatically search for online metadata for existing iTunes videos.
April 22nd, 2009· Update: improved the "copy from previous" button in the online results window. The results are now shown and can be edited again if required.
· Update: when copying metadata from other videos, the artwork thumbnail is now correctly shown.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where edited metadata of subsequent TV Show episodes is not saved correctly.
April 20th, 2009· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where indvidual TV Show episode information is missing when importing a single TV Show episode.
April 20th, 2009· Moving video files issue: fixed an issue where VideoDrive moves video files to an incorrectly named folder causing the import process to fail.
· Turbo 264 Support: In some rare cases, users without the Elgato Turbo.264 got a message at startup time asking for the location of the Turbo.264 software. This issue is now resolved.
· Other minor fixes.
April 17th, 2009· New Feature: when adding multiple episodes of the same TV Show season, a new option is available in the online results window to show the confirmation window for each individual episode.
· New Feature: a new button is available in the online results window to copy images directly from the browser and use them as artwork.
· Update: when adding multiple episodes of the same TV show season, metadata and artwork are searched only once. Before, this was only the case when TV show episodes were grouped together in subfolders titled "Season 1", "Season 2", ...
· Performance improvement: Faster Downloading of metadata, especially for TV Show episodes. Faster results when using the Search Online or Copy From Browser buttons in the online results window.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue with automatic metadata when the file name of a TV Show did not contain a valid show name.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue causing the track number to be repeated in the name of TV Show episode in some cases.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where the tagline and show description of a previous video are reused when no valid metadata is found online.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where VideoDrive would not continue when clicking the Copy From Browswer button in the online results window while no valid IMDb page was opened.
April 15th, 2009· New Feature to mark videos at not new: added new import option in the Preferences panel to mark newly imported videos as not new.
· New Feature to uncheck videos: added new import option in the Preferences panel to uncheck newly imported videos for playback.
· Bug Fix: Apple Event Handler Failed error during video import when a video name contained a colon.
· Bug Fix: No metadata could be added error when adding incompatible videos containing QuickTime annotations.
April 10th, 2009· TV Show metadata: VideoDrive now adds the tv show name to artist and album artist fields and the episode number to the track field
· Remote App: TV shows are now ordered according to season on the iPhone remote.app.
· Apple Event Handler Failed: Fixed an issue during video import when a video name contains a dash.
· Video Import issue: fixed an issue where VideoDrive adds the QuickTime welcome screen as a video to iTunes instead of the actual video.
· Multiple TV Show episode import: when importing multiple video files, some video files got the original file name instead of a file name based on the metadata.
April 8th, 2009· Speed enhancement: copying metadata from Safari is faster.
· Import method wizard update: the import window now recommends import method 7 when iPhone is checked as a target device. Before, import method 6 would be recommended as the iPhone and iPod settings were joined.
· Encoding: fixed an encoding issue when encountering foreign characters while using automatic metadata.
· Cancel Button: fixed an issue where canceling the process to add metadata to iTunes videos would halt VideoDrive.
· Artwork: fixed an issue where video titles with a dash in the name would not get any artwork.
April 8th, 2009· iTunes Genres support: new option to map genres found online to a single iTunes genre.
· Moving video files: fixed an issue where original video files are not moved when the option to copy video files to the iTunes library folder is checked.
· Moving merged videos: fixed an issue where only the second part of a merged video is moved when the option to copy video files to the iTunes library folder is checked.
· Video Import issue: fixed an issue where VideoDrive adds the QuickTime welcome screen as a video to iTunes instead of the actual video.
· iTunes library folders: fixed a video import issue when videos were copied in the iTunes library folder. In some cases, iTunes moved the videos in a new subfolder with multiple unnecessary underscores in its name. This issue only occured when using automatic metadata.
· Encoding: fixed an encoding issue when using automatic metadata.
March 20th, 2009Updates:
· VideoDrive now properly checks if video files with the same name exist before importing.
Bug Fixes:
· Video conversion issue: fixed an issue where converted videos are not properly saved.
· Metadata Editor: fixed an error when enabling automatic numbering while no season and/or episode number is provided.
· Other bug fixes.
March 18th, 2009New Features:
· Support for Elgato Turbo.264: faster video conversions in the background.
· Support for QuickTime Pro: allows for advanced video manipulations such as changing aspect ratio, sound balance, bass, treble etc.
Updates:
· Speed improvements: dramatically enhanced import speeds, especially for large iTunes libraries.
· Enhanced QuickTime compatibility: improved communication with the QuickTime framework.
· Compatibility mode: improved the compatibility mode when dealing with unexpected QuickTime crashes.
· iPod and iPhone conversions: made separate import conversion methods for both devices.
· Bug Fixes
· Compatible videos issue: fixed a problem where compatible videos remain open in QuickTime when importing.
· Moving video files Timeout: fixed timeout issue when moving large files.
· Copying metadata: fixed an issue where metadata was not copied correctly when importing multiple episodes of a TV Show.
· Hot Folders Timeout: fixed timeout issue whem importing multiple files with hot folders.
· Hot Folders: files with a single quote in the name could not be imported with hot folders.
· File name issue: fixed an issue where QuickTime could not save a video because a colon was found in the file name.
March 4th, 2009· User interface updates: minor fixes in the new user interface.
· Improved initalization procedure: a registered version of VideoDrive will no longer expire when user settings cannot be restored.
· Tooltips: updated tooltips.
· Bug Fixes
· Cancel button: fixed an issue causing the import process to hang when clicking cancel.
· Counter issue: fixed a video counter issue for import method 4.
February 27th, 2009· User ratings: downloading average user ratings for movies and TV Shows can now be disabled.
Updates:
· User interface updates: minor fixes in the new user interface.
· Quiting VideoDrive: closing the main window will now quit VideoDrive, even if the Preferences window is open.
· Default import setting: restored import method 2 as the default setting.
· Import Help: the import method help window is now detached from the main window.
· Episode label: the episode label is not blank anymore by default.
· Synced Season and Episode label: the season and episode label in Metadata Preferences and the Metadata Editor are now synced.
Bug Fixes:
· Creating AppleTV compatible containers: reliability of this import method in version 1.8 has been restored.
· Registered version expired bug: fixed an isue causing a registered version 1.8 to expire again.
February 26th, 2009New Features:
· New User Interface: streamlined user interface with more information on each feature.
· Import Method Advisor: by specifying where you want to watch videos, the most appropriate import method is suggested.
· Compatibility Modus: new modus to deal with QuickTime quitting unexpectedly.
· Customizable Season labels: labels to include season numbering in TV Show names are now customizable.
Updates:
· Rearranged import options: all import methods are consolidated in one drop down menu on the main window.
· Target Folder: the target folder when moving imported videos around is now displayed in the Preferences panel.
· Rearranged metadata options: important metadata options are now moved to the main window. The VideoKind and Metadata Preferences are now merged.
Bug Fixes:
· Adding Metadata: adding online metadata to existing iTunes videos is improved.
February 16th, 2009New Features:
· Creating subfolders: When moving video files to another folder, VideoDrive can now organize your files automatically in subfolders.
Updates:
· Moving subtitle files: the option to move video files now also moves corresponding SRT files.
· Cleaning of file names: improved cleaning of file names and removal of trailing spaces.
· Renamed files: compatible containers or converted files now get the same name as the video title.
Bug Fixes:
· Merging videos: When merging files while the option to delete original files is checked, only the first video file would be moved to trash.
· QuickTime: Fixed the issue causing QuickTime to restart for each individual video import.
· TV Show episode info: in some cases, foreign characters in episode titles and descriptions would not be saved properly in iTunes.
· I/O Error: Fixed several I/O errors occurring while importing some videos.
· Compatible videos: Fixed an issue causing compatible videos not to be imported using an indirect import method.
February 11th, 2009· Removed debugging code.
February 11th, 2009· Faster import process: many under the hood improvements improving reliability and speed.
· Streamlined import process: copying or converting videos is now done after metadata has been determined.
· Updated Import Queue: when adding a folder to the import queue, the correct number of videos inside that folder will now be added to the queue badge.
· Ask before saving: when no online metadata is searched, the dialog window with online results will now always be displayed when the option to ask before saving is checked.
· Season and episodes: re-added a dash between show and episode numbers and names.
· Redesigned merge option: more stable merging procedure. Also, VideoDrive will only merge videos with exactly the same name (including cd1, cd2, cd3, ...) and on the condition that all parts are imported at the same time. This makes merging possible when multiple video titles are kept in one folder.
· Video Requeue option: reliability of the option "queue videos and try to import with a fixed delay" has been greatly improved.
· Fixed import queue issue: in some cases, no metadata could be added to a video added with the import queue.
· TV Show metadata bug: in some cases, the show name was not determined correctly using the folder structure when a file name does not contain the show name.
· Various bug fixed and improvements to enhance overall stability.
January 24th, 2009New Features:
· Move video files option: new import option to move videos to another folder during import. This allows you to create video inbox folder where your new videos arrive, and move them to another location when importing in iTunes.
Updates:
· Updated registration procedure: trailing spaces are now disregarded in the email address and registration key. Error messages are rephrased.
· Episode Label: it is now possible to have an empty episode label. In that case, only the episode number is added to the episode name of a TV Show.
· Hot Folders: extended hot folder support for file extensions dv, 3gp, ogg, ogv, gif, xvid and omg.
· Updated Import Queue: when the import of a queued video fails due to a general error, the video is re-added to the queue.
· Updated Online Results Window: user interface updates.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed import queue issue: in some cases, no metadata could be added to a video added with the import queue.
· Fixed online ratings: ratings for videos were not correctly downloaded on some locales.
· Fixed trailing spaces in episode names when including episode numer. The dash between the two is now removed as well.
· Fixed trailing spaces in show names when including season number. The dash between the two is now removed as well.
· Various minor fixes.
January 6th, 2009Updates:
· Improved startup time.
· VideoDrive now displays loading messages during startup.
Bugfixes:
· Improved routine to locate iTunes library.
· Fixed an issue causing VideoDrive to expire when closed automatically.
January 5th, 2009· Direct Import Option: all videos can now be imported directly into iTunes. This new fast import option puts all your videos directly in iTunes without creating reference files, compatible containers or converted videos. Use this option if you want to use the Perian 1.3 hack to display Front Row subtitles. Note that some video formats such as AVI, MPG and FLV cannot contain cover art due to limitations of those containers.
· OGG video support: VideoDrive can now handle OGG video files (file extensions: ogg, ogv). Installation of additional codec is required (http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/).
· GIF support: VideoDrive can now handle GIF and animated GIF files
· Icon Badge: the number of videos in the import queue is now indicated in the dock icon (Leopard only).
· Finder Support: added support in Finder to open VideoDrive with DIVX, XVID, OGG, OGV, OMG, GIF and DV video files.
· Improved accuracy of online search for metadata and cover art.
· Reference files are now up to 50% smaller.
· Improved compatibility and reliability of the import option to make containers compatible with Enhanced AppleTV devices.
· The length of the tag line for TV Show episodes has been increased from 80 to 254.
· Pressing the ENTER key on any window in VideoDrive now launches the default action.
· Re-arranged the online results window and help windows for better viewing on limited screen resolutions (such as LCD-TV).
· Websites are now automatically opened in the default browser instead of Safari.
· Copying metadata from browser now works for Safari, Firefox, Camino and Opera.
· All advanced import settings are now grouped together in the import preferences panel. A warning is displayed when an option is checked.
· Improved support to locate the iTunes folder, especially when foreign characters are present in the folder path.
· Improved error handling when the iTunes folder becomes unavailable.
· Cover art in the Metadata Editor is now saved when quitting VideoDrive.
· Improved error handling when downloading cover art fails.
· Improved compatibility with slow configurations and PowerPC systems.
· Added 'install' button on the Hot Folders Preferences window to make Hot Folder configuration possible in Finder.
· Added field 'Genre' to the Metadata editor.
· Improved response of the 'Cancel' button when VideoDrive is processing. Hitting the button several times is still required.
· Improved support for French, Dutch and Spanish movie titles.
· Cleaning of file names has improved.
· Fixed an error appearing when the option to add no metadata was selected.
· Fixed an issue with the buttons to enable/disable hot folders not responding properly.
· The option to add videos directly to iTunes did not stick.
· The episode label was not properly added when using automatic metadata.
· Fixed an issue where the user preferences were reset unexpectedly.
· In some cases cover art specified in the Metadata Editor was not correctly saved to iTunes.
· In some cases cover art was not correctly saved and loaded with when using metadata presets.
· Fixed an issue were the cover art found online does not match the metadata found online.
· Video Kind was not correctly set when copying metadata from previous video in online metadata results window.
January 2nd, 2009· Direct Import Option: all videos can now be imported directly into iTunes. This new fast import option puts all your videos directly in iTunes without creating reference files, compatible containers or converted videos. Use this option if you want to use the Perian 1.3 hack to display Front Row subtitles. Note that some video formats such as AVI, MPG and FLV cannot contain cover art due to limitations of those containers.
· OGG video support: VideoDrive can now handle OGG video files (file extensions: ogg, ogv). Installation of additional codec is required (http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/).
· GIF support: VideoDrive can now handle GIF and animated GIF files
· Icon Badge: the number of videos in the import queue is now indicated in the dock icon (Leopard only).
· Finder Support: added support in Finder to open VideoDrive with DIVX, XVID, OGG, OGV, OMG, GIF and DV video files.
· Improved accuracy of online search for cover art
· Improved compatibility and reliability of the import option to make containers compatible with Enhanced AppleTV devices.
· The length of the tag line for TV Show episodes has been increased from 80 to 254.
· Pressing the ENTER key on any window in VideoDrive now launches the default action.
· Re-arranged the online results window for better viewing on limited screen resolutions (such as LCD-TV).
· Websites are now automatically opened in the default browser instead of Safari.
· Copying metadata from browser now works for Safari, Firefox, Camino and Opera.
· All advanced import settings are now grouped together in the import preferences panel. A warning is displayed when an option is checked.
· Improved support to locate the iTunes folder, especially when foreign characters are present in the folder path.
· Improved error handling when the iTunes folder becomes unavailable.
· Cover art in the Metadata Editor is now saved when quitting VideoDrive.
· Improved error handling when downloading cover art fails.
· Fixed an error appearing when the option to add no metadata was selected.
· The option to add videos directly to iTunes did not stick.
· The episode label was not properly added when using automatic metadata.
· Fixed an issue where the user preferences were reset unexpectedly.
· In some cases cover art specified in the Metadata Editor was not correctly saved to iTunes.
· In some cases cover art was not correctly saved and loaded with when using metadata presets.
· Fixed an issue were the cover art found online does not match the metadata found online.
December 26th, 2008· Preference pane updates: improved handling of preference validation.
· Initalization update: improved messaging when communicating with iTunes and QuickTime.
· Support for 3GP container: videos in 3GP containers can now be imported in iTunes.
· Compatible video import: compatible videos that are protected can now be imported in iTunes when using the "Add compatible videos directly to iTunes method". Additionally, this option now supports MPG and 3GP videos.
· Security update
December 20th, 2008· New Feature: Video subtitles can now be resized to small, medium or large.
December 16th, 2008· Added Feature: New User Interface. The main window now has a tool bar, and many user preferences are now available on the main window.
· Added Feature: the import queue is now automatically saved when VideoDrive quits.
· Added Feature: a new option to control the import queue is added: videos are always queued and with fixed intervals, VideoDrive tries to import the video. If import fails, the video is re-added to the queue. This is useful when videos are downloaded into a hot folder over a slow network or over the internet.
· Added Feature: an empty button on the main window allows to flush the queue.
· Added Feature: it is now possible to customize the episode label in the video name of TV Shows.
· Update: improved online search for video cover art on fast configurations.
· Update: when the option “Add videos to import queue” is selected on the General Preferences tab, any videos dropped on the VideoDrive application icon are queued, even when VideoDrive is not busy.
· Update: VideoDrive preferences are now saved to disk when the Preferences dialog closes.
· Update: it is no longer required to restart VideoDrive after registering.
· Update: the options to search online for individual TV Show information are now enabled by default.
· Update: it is no longer required to restart VideoDrive to enable or disable the VideoDrive script menus in iTunes. When enabling/disabling, VideoDrive will now always ask an admin password.
· Bug Fix: The trial version of VideoDrive no longer expires when VideoDrive unexpectedly quits or is closed improperly the first time it runs.
· Bug Fix: The trial version no longer expires on standard or limited user accounts.
· Bug Fix: VideoDrive can now run from the applications folder on standard or limited user accounts.
· Bug Fix: fixed a naming issue with iTunes playlist names.
· Bug Fix: in some cases, the latest preferences settings were not applied when processing the video queue.
· Bug Fix: fixed some issues and error messages when showing, searching and saving metadata
· Bug Fix: when no correct season and episode number were provided in the online results screen, the import process would stop in some cases.
· Bug Fix: the trial version of VideoDrive would expire if the import process of more than 15 videos was canceled, even when the number of try-out videos was not reached.
· Bug Fix: in some cases, a movie would get the season and episode number of a TV show imported earlier.
· Bug Fix: only the subtitles of one part of a merged video would be enabled when toggling subtitles on. For merged videos, all subtitles are now toggled on/off. For single-track videos, only the consecutive subtitle is enabled to allow for rotating multiple languages.
· Bug Fix: additional bug fixes to improve performance and overall stability.
December 3rd, 2008· Update: improved online search for video metadata on fast configurations.
· Update: improved support for toggling subtitles on localized versions of QuickTime and Mac OS X.
· Update: there is no blank line anymore between the episode description and show description of TV Shows as Front Row outlines descriptions to the left and the right.
November 21st, 2008· Added Feature: added anew import methods allowing to convert videos to MPEG-4 videos using the H.264 format.
· Added Feature: new import option to move the original video files to trash when they are no longer required.
· Improvement: canceling the import process is now a much faster process.
· Improvement: the timeout for converting a videos is now 300 minutes.
· Bug Fix: when no online metadata was found, the error “Script is not defined” could sometimes appear.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where the import process would not use the most current user settings when a video is dropped on the VideoDrive icon.
· Bug Fix: in some cases, the warning that no online metadata could be found was stored in the video description.
· Bug Fix: when no episode name was found online for a TV Show, the cleaned up file name is now used.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue with iTunes playlist names.
· Bug Fix: when dropping images on the cover art window, these images would be resized and have a larger file size as a result. The images are not touched anymore.
· Bug Fix: improved removal of temporarily files.
October 31st, 2008· Bug Fix: in some cases queued videos would end up with the same metadata when the
· automatic metadata setting was used.
· Bug Fix: in soin the URL.
October 27th, 2008· Bug Fix: in some cases, the import process of TV shows would stop after accepting metadata.
· Update: restored downloading of user rating for movies and TV Shows.
· Update: the online results window now indicate which fields are used when searching online.
October 13th, 2008· Added Feature: The online results window now offers the possibility to view and set the episode name, season and episode number of TV shows and also displays individual episode descriptions.
· Added Feature: in the Automatic Metadata Settings, there is now the option to include the show description when individual episode information is available.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where HTML tags would show up in the episode description of TV Shows.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where the metadata of all imported TV show episodes would be equal to the metadata of the firstly encountered TV Show.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where no individual episode information is downloaded for TV Shows running for many years.
· Various other bug fixes.
September 29th, 2008· Added Feature: If you go to “Open With” in the context menu of a video in Finder (by CTRL- clicking on the video), VideoDrive is now included in the list. Choosing VideoDrive will immediately import the video in iTunes. If VideoDrive is busy at the moment of this action, the video will be added to the import queue.
· Bug Fix: restored functionality for PPC and Intel systems running Tiger.
· Bug Fix: fixed an initialization error message at startup.
September 25th, 2008· Bug Fix: fixed a issue where individual TV show descriptions are not downloaded in very specific cases.
September 24th, 2008· Bug Fix: fixed an issue with the value of the option “Force compatibility with Enhanced Apple TV” on the import preferences panel not being saved.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where toggling subtitles failed due to an error with the toggle window.
· Bug Fix: restored compatibility with Flash Video files (FLV). Videos in FLV format can now be imported again without resulting in an error.
· Compatibility: restored downloading of episode names and descriptions for TV Shows.
· Change: The TV show description is no longer included in the description if individual episode descriptions are available.
September 12th, 2008· Bug Fix: restored functionality for PPC systems running Tiger.
· Bug Fix: not accepting the enduser agreement resulted in expiration of the trial version.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where VideoDrive cannot parse names of TV shows containing season
· and episode numbers but no show names.
· Bug Fix: fixed an inconsistency with the option “Force compatibility with Enhanced Apple TV” on
· the import preferences panel.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where videos converted for iPhone/iPod could not be played in those
· devices.
· Bug FIx: fixed an error occurring when no online metadata was found.
August 9th, 2008· Bug Fix: fixed the issue where the name of the video disappeared from the online search window when no online metadata results were found
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where the error message appeared that VideoDrive could not connect to the internet to find online metadata.
· Bug Fix: fixed the rare issue where QuickTime Player would no longer automatically play movies on opening, after VideoDrive has run.
· Improvement: when a video cannot be changed or saved (while adding metadata or toggling subtitles) due to permission restrictions, VideoDrive will continue processing instead of timing out.
· Bug Fix: in some cases, the name of the subfolder two levels up was taken as the TV Show name, even when the show name was available in the file name. File name information now has priority over folder name information for TV Shows.
· Bug Fix: in some cases it was possible that if the online metadata for a video failed, the information from a previous video was shown in the online results window.
· Bug Fix: if the import option to force compatibility with Enhanced AppleTV was checked, videos would be listed in the results window as being merged.
August 4th, 2008· Improvement: the subtitle user interface has been updated and tool tips have been added.
· Improvement: enhanced the range of videos that work with the front row subtitles feature in Leopard.
· Improvement: better error handling when toggling subtitles. If toggling failed for a video,an error will be shown in the error log.
· Improvement: better detection of iTunes folder location.
· Improvement: enhanced compatibility with non-administrator accounts: in specific cases,
· VideoDrive showed an incorrect trial expired message when VideoDrive ran from a folder without writing permissions.
· Improvement: enhanced compatibility with non-administrator accounts: when using Hot Folders for the first time, VideoDrive will now prompt for an administrator password.
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where turning a folder into a Hot Folder failed on some systems when using the Hot Folder options in VideoDrive Preferences.
August 1st, 2008· Added Feature: added support for DV video files.
· Improvement: enhanced the range of videos that work with the front row subtitles feature in Leopard.
· Improvement: better error handling when toggling subtitles
· Compatibility: restored compatibility with iTunes 7.7.1.
July 23rd, 2008· Bug Fix: fixed a QuickTime I/O error when trying to import a video in iTunes by copying it into a compatible container or by conversion. This error could occur when the option to copy files into the iTunes folder was disabled.
· Bug Fix: The setting on the iTunes tab in VideoDrive preferences to copy files into the iTunes folder was not retained between restarts.
· Improvement: the GUI to toggle subtitles has been updated to make the difference between switching subtitles on and off more clear.
· Improvement: updated various tool tips.
July 21st, 2008· Added Feature: it is now possible to switch on and off SRT subtitles in videos. Simply select one more more videos in iTunes and click the Toggle Subtitles button.
· Added Feature: VideoDrive can now display SRT subtitles in Leopard Front Row. Due to incompatibilities between Mac OS X Leopard Front Row (versions 10.5 until 10.5.4) and Perian, videos with SRT subtitles could not be played correctly in Front Row: as soon as subtitles appear, the screen goes black. A new VideoDrive option allows to force playback of subtitles in Leopard Front Row. Simply select one more more videos in iTunes and click the Toggle Subtitles button and check the new option. Note that this workaround may cause playback issues in iTunes for the selected videos. To restore iTunes playback, uncheck the option again.
· Added Feature: VideoDrive can now sync and stream incompatible videos to AppleTV. If you have enhanced your AppleTV device by adding additional codecs, all videos imported with VideoDrive in iTunes can be synced and streamed to AppleTV without reconversion. For this, enable the new Force compatibility with Enhanced Apple TV on the import tab of VideoDrive preferences.
· Added Feature: Improved integration with iTunes. VideoDrive options to import new videos, add metadata to videos and toggle subtitles are now available right in iTunes! This integration can be turned on and off in the Video Preferences on the iTunes tab.
· Improvement: if QuickTime is not running when VideoDrive launches, QuickTime will be quit when Videodrive finishes processing.
· Fixed Bug: fixed an initialization bug at startup time when initializing user properties
July 2nd, 2008· Added Feature: it is now possible to copy metadata from the browser window automatically into VideoDrive. In the online results window, click on the Copy from browser button to copy the information from the front window of the browser. This feature currently only supports Safari.
· Added Feature: in the online results window the video kind can be set.
June 19th, 2008· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where online search of metadata failed
· Bug Fix: fixed an issue where a registered version of VideoDrive expires
June 18th, 2008· Added Feature: hot folders! make any folder on your system a hot folder: if a video arrives in one of these folders, VideoDrive will detect it and import the video automatically in iTunes. If VideoDrive is busy importing while new video(s) are added, they are added to a new video import queue. In the VideoDrive Preferences it is possible to enable and disable Hot Folders.
· Added Feature: a video import queue has been added. If VideoDrive is busy when a video is added through a hot folder, or when the user uses drag and drop to import new videos, these videos will be added to the import queue. This is indicated on the main window. Go the General tab of VideoDrive preferences to specify when the import queue is processed.
· Added Feature: added option to quit Videorive after a process finishes without errors. A Quit button has also been added to the results window.
· Fixed bug: Fixed an issue with the Cancel bug working incorrectly when importing 1 video in combination with automatic metadata.
· Bug Fix: in specific cases, VideoDrive could not correctly identify the location of the iTunes library.
· Bug Fix: on localized versions of Tiger, importing videos could fail with the error QuickTime Player got an error: Can't continue . (error: -10000)
May 23rd, 2008· Added Feature: Enhanced registration system, including both a personal license key and email address. This feature supports the growing user base of VideoDrive and improves license integrity. Registered users will receive a new license code by email on request.
· Added Feature: added new Preference Pane (iTunes and General are split) with new button on the General pane to visit the Support pages and User forum online.
· Added Feature: When the option to add cover art is selected in the Manual Metadata options, the image preview will now be retained after VideoDrive is stopped and relaunched.
· Added Feature: The list of thumbnail with cover art found online now includes a No picture placeholder. Select this image to not add an image to the video(s).
May 22nd, 2008· Added Feature: Enhanced registration system, including both a personal license key and email address. This feature supports the growing user base of VideoDrive and improves license integrity. Registered users will receive a new license code by email on request.
· Added Feature: added new Preference Pane (iTunes and General are split) with new button on the General pane to visit the Support pages and User forum online.
· Added Feature: When the option to add cover art is selected in the Manual Metadata options, the image preview will now be retained after VideoDrive is stopped and relaunched.
· Added Feature: The list of thumbnail with cover art found online now includes placeholder. Select this image to not add an image to the video(s).
May 21st, 2008· Added Feature: the cover art tab of the manual metadata settings now supports a preview of the cover art. This preview window supports drag and drop to add new images. When you load presets, the preview is updated with the image corresponding to the loaded preset.
· Added Feature: on the General tab of VideoDrive Preferences there is now an option to only display the results window if errors occurred. This feature is useful for users who have the Growl Notification system installed as Growl will notify when the VideoDrive process finishes.
May 20th, 2008· Added Feature: added support for cover art in the new Preset feature. Covers will now be saved in the preset folder.
· Compatibility: changed error handling at launch time
May 20th, 2008· Bug Fix: fixed the issue where an unregistered version of VideoDrive cannot add metadata to existing iTunes videos if the users selects more than 12 videos. This issue only occurred in the unregistered version.
· Bug Fix: fixed the issue where an unregistered version of VideoDrive expires when you run VideoDrive right from within the disk image.
· Bug Fix: fixed the issue where registration of VideoDrive fails when running VideoDrive from within the disk image.
· Bug Fix: ivideos.
May 19th, 2008· Bug Fix: fixed the issue where an unregistered version of VideoDrive would expire when no valid videos are selected in iTunes and the ?Add Metadata? button is pressed.
May 15th, 2008· Maintenance Release: current users should not update
May 10th, 2008· Bug fix: fixed issue where registered users could not import videos anymore
May 9th, 2008· Compatibility: improved Growl support. Systems without Growl displayed an error message in some cases at launch time.
· Bug Fix: improved Growl support. The notification Metadata Added is nnotification on metadata added to existing iTunes videos.
May 8th, 2008· Bug fix: when selecting multiple videos that are identified as TV Shows because they are located in a folder with name Season x the episode numbering would be incorrect. Now, the videos will be numbered 1, 2, 3, etc accvideo will not be counted!
May 5th, 2008· New feature: enabled the possibility for multi-selection of videos when importing videos. Select multiple videos when clicking Import Videos in VideoDrive by holding the command button, or drag and drop multiple videos to the VideoDrive application icon.
· Bug fix: fixed an error message when adding metadata to existing iTunes videos while the metadata preference is set to no metadata.
May 4th, 2008· New Feature: VideoDrive can now add individual descriptions to TV Show episodes. It will also fill in the correct TV Show episode names.
· New Feature: a new option allows to replace the tag line (the short description line next to videos in iTunes) by the first sentence of the long description.
· Enhancement: dramatically improved online search for cover art: VideoDrive will now offer more choice
· Compatibility: in the unregistered version, the tag line will only mention Added by VideoDrive (unregistered) when importing new incompatible videos
· Enhancement: When using the option to add metadata to existing iTunes TV Shows, VideoDrive will now search with the show name instead of the video name.
· Bug fix: improved stability when adding metadata to existing iTunes videos
April 30th, 2008· Add or update metadata of videos already in iTunes
· Bug fixes to enhance stability and compatibility
April 29th, 2008· Add metadata to videos already in iTunes!
· Free upgrade for existing users.
April 26th, 2008· Compatibility: fixed an incompatibility when the user stores iTunes music and videos in a non-standard location. Users who have specified a custom music folder in iTunes should upgrade to this version to avoid compatibility and/or performance issues.
· GUI Bug fix: updated the VideoDrive menu
April 24th, 2008· Drag and drop support for videos! Drag the videos you want to import in iTunes to the VideoDrive application icon and your videos are automatically imported!
April 14th, 2008· Enhanced support for iPod, iPhone and AppleTV
· Export to iPod, iPhone and AppleTV
· Merge Videos files together
· Improved compatibility
· Support for more video formats (MKV, ASF and YouTube)
· Drag and drop support for custom cover art
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