What's new in Video Monkey 0.17
Feb 17, 2015
- Fixed a bug that TheTVDB no longer worked because VM was not sending the proper API key. Also added the ability to recognize file names with embedded season/episode number in 4 digit format (SSEE).
- Bugs fixed:
- Made TheTVDB search work again
New in Video Monkey 0.16 (Oct 14, 2013)
- Bugs fixed:
- Switched to themoviedb.org v 3.0 API. Movie metadata searches work again. It’s faster and doesn’t hang, too.
- Fixed bug where switch between themoviedb and thetvdb would not do a new search.
- Added a check box to turn off the feature of snapping the video size to a 16 pixel boundary.
- Removed DVD Image as an output format. I’ve decided that feature is out of scope for Video Monkey. DVDs are so 5 years ago.
- Fixed bug where movies were getting placed in the Home Video category when adding to iTunes.
New in Video Monkey 0.15 (Oct 29, 2012)
- Bugs fixed:
- Made framerate detection much more robust
- Switched to 1.0 version of ffmpeg
- Added pix_fmt yuv420p for all formats. This format can be read by Quicktime while others cannot.
New in Video Monkey 0.14 (Oct 22, 2012)
- Bugs fixed:
- Fixed bad param in Fastest encoding
- New version of mediainfo which does not crash when getting info from mp4 files
- Selecting an item from the drop down list now fires off a search
- Got rid of logic that removed characters from search string typed into search box
- Fixed quality slider starting position. It now starts out in the middle rather than near the low quality end
New in Video Monkey 0.13 (Oct 6, 2012)
- The big feature in this release is the custom settings panel. Just go to the Output Pane of the File Info Panel and you’ll see several check boxes. Click one and you can adjust that parameter. I’ve tried to make the UI as simple and intuitive as possible. For instance, when you adjust the cropping values, the Movie Panel will reflect them so you know what the final video output will look like.
New in Video Monkey 0.12 (Aug 10, 2011)
- New in this release:
- Changed how bitrate is computed to give better results at more frame sizes
- Made all formats (except DV) using half framerate at lowest quality setting
- Make performance button always start out as normal to avoid it annoyingly always coming up as fastest
- Bugs fixed:
- http://bugs.marrin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7 - Failure to encode dual pass in OS X 10.7 Lion
- http://bugs.marrin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5 - Crash for AVI with Lion
- Use 10.5 SDK so VideoMonkey runs on Leopard
- Fixed bug where quality slider was sometimes disabled in error
New in Video Monkey 0.11 (Aug 8, 2011)
- New in this release:
- Added Growl support
- Added ability for many video formats (all non-Apple formats except DV and certain MPEG-1/2 formats) to encode to various frame sizes, up to full frame size
- Bugs fixed:
- https://github.com/cmarrin/videomonkey/issues/52 - No video on original appleTV
- https://github.com/cmarrin/videomonkey/issues/61 - Overall Progress spelled incorrectly
- http://bugs.marrin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2 - Attempting to encode file with umlaut or Kanji fails
- http://bugs.marrin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3 - Avi framerate stuck on 29.97fps and 720x544
- Javascript error when trying to move slider to high quality for Tivo
- Tolerate missing video bitrate in input file. Use overall bitrate instead.
New in Video Monkey 0.10 (Mar 18, 2011)
- New in this release:
- New version of ffmpeg, but 32 bit only
- Bugs fixed:
- https://github.com/cmarrin/videomonkey/issues/closed#issue/57 - Output Framerate stuck at 10fps
- https://github.com/cmarrin/videomonkey/issues/closed#issue/42 - ffprobe and ffmpeg crashes with videomonkey 0.9
- https://github.com/cmarrin/videomonkey/issues/closed#issue/44 - All Video Formats are obeying 320 Pixels Wide flag
- https://github.com/cmarrin/videomonkey/issues/closed#issue/41 - resizing info box
New in Video Monkey 0.9 (Mar 8, 2011)
- New in this release:
- Added new output video formats: AVI, MP4, Quicktime, WMV, Flash, MPEG, DVNew AV offset UI in Movie panel. Offsets audio relative to video to fix lip sync problemsNew version of ffmpeg with many bug fixes and some new format support.Added elapsed time of commands to consoleUpdated ffpreset usage.Disable metadata panel for output formats that don't support metadata (all except MP4)Fixed bugs in doing 2 pass encodingReduced the number of performance entries. Now only one 2 pass entryFixed bug in having special chars in file pathsNow use ffprobe to detect the number and order of streams, for AV sync featureCan now select multiple files and type an entry in the search box. The search will be applied to all filesEven with multiple files selected, the search box will show a list of results from most recent search.Fixed frame size setting bugs for Apple TV.
- Bugs fixed:
- 2984591 - Metadata error message3037146 - First time searching for metadata for multiple files fails
New in Video Monkey 0.7 (Apr 6, 2010)
- a quick fix for the crash when trying to encode around 3 files.
New in Video Monkey 0.6 (Dec 18, 2009)
- This is mostly to get rid of the automatic metadata search function, which was causing problems when the metadata search sites went down. Now by default automatic search is turned off. To search for metadata, open the Info panel, select the metadata pane and select the search menu at the bottom of the pane. Here you will find options to search for metadata on the currently selected file(s) or on all files in the list. You can also check the auto-search on load item to enable the old behavior. I still have a bit of work to do to improve the robustness of the search feature. But this should prevent annoying delays when loading files.
- I’ve also added a preferences panel. It only has two values currently. You can set your default search site and the number of threads to use for encoding. You can use this both to reduce the number of CPUs you use, if, for instance, you have a new 16 core Mac Pro and want to reserve some CPU power for other tasks. Or you can use it use more threads than you have CPUs to see if that gives you any better performance. The auto setting will use the same number of threads as you have CPUs.
- This release also adds a progress bar to the dock icon. Thanks to Lars Koerkemeier for the implementation.
New in Video Monkey 0.5 (Aug 27, 2009)
- This release is mainly to support the upcoming Snow Leopard release.
- But it includes a couple of important bug fixes to make Video Monkey work better.
New in Video Monkey 0.4 (Jul 30, 2009)
- Version 0.3 had a bad bug where it couldn’t write metadata. Thanks to all those who let me know. I have done a quick spin and now 0.4 has a fix. Please update and you should have the shiny new metadata features!
New in Video Monkey 0.1 (Mar 10, 2009)
- Conversion for all popular Apple devices
- Quality settings, which adjusts bitrate, frame size, frame rate and audio quality
- Performance settings which tradeoff speed of encoding for quality
- Drag and drop file list
- Enable or disable encoding of each file
- Display of output file size (approximate)
- Preview window of the currently selected file
- Console log
- Progress bars in both the main window and file list
- Pause and Stop encoding
- Auto-update
- Saving last user settings