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New Features

• Allow seeking and range playback during range playback (#149).
• Allow pausing during range playback (#149).

Fixes

• Workaround an issue with PlaybackPipeline since GStreamer 1.18 (c48af1c).
• Remove output file when an error occurs during text export (4a9374c).
• Fix already borrowed panic when loading another media (#151).
• Fix panic seeking when the stream is not ready (66af86d).
• Disable open action from menu while exporting / splitting (c2d24af).
• Fix panic closing app when a question is asked (de6f553).
• Fix split filename when tags are missing (d1fed5d & 487b3eb).
• Fix overflow exporting to CUE sheet (cd88c58).
• Fix stream tags handling (e5bfcb1).
• Fix infinite loop splitting a chapter-less media (bc916ba).
• Prevent the user from accidentally changing chapter when not on the playback perspective (8a4aec9).
• Split: workaround for decoders advertising random stream ids (b200922).
• Split: temporary workaround for some tracks with a toc (383f6f0).
• Split pipeline: remove unneeded queue (59f9287).
• Use weak references in closures / callbacks (ebebec1).
• Fix AudioBuffer not draining (230cf7b).

Other Improvements

• Use Futures in the UI (#146).
• Refactor WaveformRenderer as a clean state machine (#150).
• Implement media event handler as a state machine (ab70b25).
• Revert to using audio playback ts instead of frame time for current sample (0fc25df).
• New types: track caller to ease debugging (89dfac9).

Limitations

• When exporting the TOC to a Matroska container, subtitles are not included in the resulting file. See these issues: #116 & #136.
• Exporting the TOC to a Matroska container requires gst-plugins-good 1.14 or above.
• Prior to version 1.14, the GStreamer decoding element used for media playback enters a loop after the end of stream which causes high CPU usage.
• UI labels are not translated on macOS. See https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/124
• Application icons are not displayed on Windows & macOS.

New Features

• Allow cancelling export / split (#115).
• Ask for confirmation before overwriting an existing file (#118).

Other Improvements & Fixes

• Fixed accels catching keystrokes when editing a chapter's title (#145).
• Fixed tag handling (#135 & #139).
• Fixed panics when the export / split target file is read only (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/9cd3b5ddebdbb209e042105001c8e422d4343fa8).
• Enhanced cursor convergence after an in-window seek (#143).
• Fixed a waveform hang after an audio stream change and a seek forward (#137).
• Fixed UTF-8 labels on Windows (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/3915ee3ad6e2feeabdc7cc198753f7732a2e6dec).
• Added benches and tried different approaches to improve waveform rendering CPU usage (#142, and many others in the branch https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/tree/draw_each_frame).
• Improved UI architecture (#115, #129, #134, #145 and many individual commits). Only the MainController is shared as a Rc. Each controller is paired with an XXXDispatcher which handles registration of signals and callbacks. Messages are passed for some controller interactions.
• Used new types in place of raw numeric variables for timestamps, sample indices, sample ranges and durations (#141). This should help readability and correctness.
• Use LTO in release mode (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/07afb5989bf248603ded7b069f85431d8f36d646).
• Simplified the waveform rendering code.
• Many other code improvements.

Limitations

• When exporting the TOC to a Matroska container, subtitles are not included in the resulting file. See these issues: #116 & #136.
• Exporting the TOC to a Matroska container requires gst-plugins-good 1.14 or above.
• Prior to version 1.14, the GStreamer decoding element used for media playback enters a loop after the end of stream which causes high CPU usage.
• UI labels are not translated on macOS. See https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/124
• Application icons are not displayed on Windows & macOS.

New Features

• Spanish translations (thanks to @XTR81).

Other Improvements & Fixes

• Fix dependency on nom (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/bc2e06aef1c3e12046274958a579dc7d2a840f64).
• Avoid duplicating streams identifiers (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/1d7937740571c55f29aeb9d75842af32462d98e0).

Limitations

• When exporting the TOC to a Matroska container, subtitles are not included in the resulting file. See this issue.
• Exporting the TOC to a Matroska container requires gst-plugins-good 1.14 or above.
• Prior to version 1.14, the GStreamer decoding element used for media playback enters a loop after the end of stream which causes high CPU usage.
• UI labels are not translated on macOS. See https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/124
• Application icons are not displayed on Windows & macOS.

New Features

• It is now possible to select the streams to export (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/94).
• Add application icons: the big, the mid-size, the small and the symbolic.
• Add key accelerators. See the Readme file for a list.
• Add a desktop file for DE integration (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/8cc5fad20d8e643430a3ea5a37a30afb2f503922).
• Add install and uninstall scripts for XDG compliant desktops (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/123).
• Restore application's configuration: UI dimensions, video/audio paned position, chapters list panel visibility, last opened media directory & hardware acceleration (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/122).

Other Improvements & Fixes

• Activate hardware acceleration by default. If the video sink can't synchronize, hardware acceleration is automatically disabled. (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/121).
• Add a CLI parameter to deactivate hardware acceleration (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/121).
• Reduce the initial UI dimensions so that the application is usable at 1360x768 (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/5b6aee2accefec94b120d2d7c4a1038adefc2da4)
• Use nom for formats and timestamp parsers (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/79).
• Many other fixes.

Limitations

• When exporting the TOC to a Matroska container, subtitles are not included in the resulting file. See this issue.
• Exporting the TOC to a Matroska container requires gst-plugins-good 1.14 or above.
• Prior to version 1.14, the GStreamer decoding element used for media playback enters a loop after the end of stream which causes high CPU usage.
• UI labels are not translated on macOS. See https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/124
• Application icons are not displayed on Windows & macOS.

This is a bug fix release.

Improvement & Fix

• Fix Matroska export requirements check. Matroska export was incorrectly discarded when the micro part of GStreamer version was not 1.
• Add tool tips.

Limitations

• Exporting the TOC to a Matroska container requires gst-plugins-good 1.14 or above.
• Prior to version 1.14, the GStreamer decoding element used for media playback enters a loop after the end of stream which causes high CPU usage.

New Functionalities

• Display chapters boundaries on the waveform (#83) and allow dragging them to modify their position (#78).
• Display messages in the UI (#104). This includes errors and completion information.
• Localize labels and messages (only English & French available for now).

Other Improvements & Fixes

• Give more context around the cursor in paused mode (#103). In paused mode, after seeking or selecting a chapter, the cursor is now centred when possible.
• After opening a file, display the waveform as soon as enough samples are available (#100). Previously, the user had to switch to play for the waveform to display.
• Reworked the UI for Export and Split. There are now dedicated perspectives. Options come with details and hints indicating how to activate them when necessary.
• Fixed short hangs when the waveform is scrolling (#102).
• Display a message when GStreamer can't be initialized.
• Use a logger for messages in the console.
• Use symbolic icons.
• Many bug fixes.

Limitations

• Exporting the TOC to a Matroska container requires gst-plugins-good 1.14 or above.
• Prior to version 1.14, the GStreamer decoding element used for media playback enters a loop after the end of stream which causes high CPU usage.

New Functionalities

• Allow selecting the audio / video streams to display (#46).
• Optionally specify the media to open on the command line (#82).

Other Improvements & Fixes

• Adapt waveform time indicators to HiDPI screens (#68).
• Miscellaneous improvements to the chapters list: add an auto scrollbar (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/bbd60d3d9f673426a19093ceeabd9928aecd3de7) & align times to the right (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/c03a4cb86f93b67fcb052a43c4cbb2273da72e31).
• Avoid briefly selecting previous chapter when clicking on a different chapter (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/8a40124a42096bf86c5f8bcd9d98d4553c99da3c).
• Avoid some image copies during waveform rendering (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/8ac48b8d5c908d9e67bedf24a477f08df85fc5b0).
• Handle capabilities changes for the audio stream (#23).
• Switch to Rust stable toolchain (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/119e1f7264ba7ad83cf6cf14080a97f243b6929d).
• Add CI for macOS (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/9d9fc8775c069c8b43261bf99fe5ab12bb0024c2, https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/4af2e83b4fdcb4ed18a8e9b4b09ae163df0b408d & https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/4af2e83b4fdcb4ed18a8e9b4b09ae163df0b408d).
• Upgrade minimum GTK requirements to 3.18 (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/9d9fc8775c069c8b43261bf99fe5ab12bb0024c2 & https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/5491ba29648338bf3f3c1153d4e6566c62414c07).

Limitations

• Exporting the TOC to a Matroska container requires this patch. The patch should be included in the 1.14 release of gst-plugins-good. Meanwhile, you can use mkvmerge as explained in this how-to.
• decodebin3, the GStreamer decoding element used for media playback, enters a loop after the end of stream which causes high CPU usage. A patch was submitted and should be included in release 1.14 of gst-plugins-base.

New Functionalities

• Export audio chapters to lossless or lossy compression formats (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/90 & https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/91).
• Ease chapter boundaries identification: in paused mode, right-clicking on the waveform allows playing the media from the clicked position until the end of the displayed waveform (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/84).

Other Improvements & Fixes

• Export tags with audio chapters (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/87).
• Play / Pause / Open media by clicking on the video widget (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/217332856cca1d160fd8c1b80b27e71d8bfca595).
• Don't export upstream TOC to audio chapters (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/88).
• Use gtk::WidgetExt::add_tick_callback instead of a timer to refresh the waveform (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/36).
• Fix incorrect chapter addition (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/80).
• Fix integer overflow while seeking a lot (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/issues/86).
• Fix waveform disappearing after EOS with some media (https://github.com/fengalin/media-toc/commit/204a1d853653b274ae7c663365af44e9c75a4e93).

Limitation

• Exporting the TOC to a Matroska container requires this patch. The patch should be included in the 1.14 release of gst-plugins-good. Meanwhile, you can use mkvmerge as explained in this how-to.

This version proposes a basic set of functionalities: defining a table of contents (toc) for a media, exporting the toc to a Matroska container (under certain conditions, see the README file) or extracting audio files, one file per chapter. These were the original objectives for media-toc.