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1.3.1, 2023-10-12
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x Fix critical bug where QCTools would use context from the thumbnail track of the QCTools report, if present, rather than the context of the source file.
1.3, 2023-09-13
=== Thanks to New York Public Library and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) for their support and contributions on this release ===
+ Refactor of method to generate statistics, panels, and thumbnails based on QtAVPlayer.
+ Updates to several playback filters to support RGB based pixel formats.
+ Additional Value Highlight playback filter to show specific values in addition to ranges.
+ Options to show Action Safe and Title Safe boundaries, thx @bbgdzxng1.
+ Improvements to several filters including Broadcast Illegal Focus, Bit Plane, and Waveform Target.
+ Replacement of the Chroma Delay playback filter with one based upon FFmpeg's chromashift.
+ Added support with Pixel Scope playback filter with smaller videos.
x Fix typo that broke part of the Extract Planes Equalized playback filter.
x Improvements on reading files that contain non-audiovisual streams.
+ Readnig panels from qctools.mkv report.
+ The Datascope, Waveform Target, Vectorscope Target, Zoom, and Pixel Scope filters now use a resizable/movable selection box to determine their area of focus.
+ Adding a blockdetect and blurdetect graph.
+ Switching to QtAVPlayer for graphing and playback, which also adds ffmpeg5 support to QCTools
x Fix issue with saving reports with comments (#738).
+ Added tests for valid files.
+ Performance improvements in player via QtAVPlayer.
x Fixes to audio statistics timestamps (#778).
x Fixes for loading/saving panels.
x Fixes to playback via the graph view.
1.2.1, 2022-02-12
x Fix issue with piped input to qcli (PR #704)
1.2, 2020-12-18
=== Thanks to TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology for their vision and support on this release ===
+ Adds panel tracks which show timeline-based images that depict audio or video tracks (PR #651). Initial tracks supported are:
| - Tiled Center Column
| - Tiled Center Column (Field Split)
| - Tiled Center Row
| - Horizontal Blur
| - Audio Waveform (Linear)
| - Audio Waveform (Logarithmic)
| - Audio NormalizedAudio Histogram
+ Move toggle for graph/panel display from a toolbar to a popup window (PR #651)
+ Add a graph of zero-crossing rate for audio tracks (PR #669/675)
+ Add a graph of active video bitdepth (PR #672)
+ Add a QCVault feature to qcli and QCTools to save QCTools reports in a selected folder or to a sidecar file
+ Change default QCTools reporting format from gzipped xml (.xml.gz) to Matroska (.qctools.mkv) (PR #660)
+ Added options to qcli for panel and track selection, reading/setting preferences shared with qctools (PR #666, 667)
x Fix astats plotting issues by evaluating audio data as floats(PR #669)
x Fix selection of fill/highlight color in qctools player (PR #663)
x Fix when plotting audio sample tracks that are not 48kHz when the ebur128 graph is enabled (PR #675)
x Fix to provide graphs for more than one audio or video track (PR #668)
x Fix a crash when expected metadata was not avaialble for first few frames (PR #677)
x Fix stack overflow when skimming graphs (PR #630)
1.1, 2020-03-05
=== Thanks to New York Public Library and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden for their support ===
+ Player is refactored to QtAV/mdk
+ Updates to support GitHub Actions for testing environment
+ Add more filter options to CIE Scope, Waveform
+ Add debug mode and graphmonitor for filterchains
+ Add export to image option for the player
+ Add Temporal Histogram
x Fix reset of histeq variable in some filters
+ Add metadata overlap for Normal player
+ Refactor Frame Tiles as Filmstrip
+ Adjust scaling to neighbor as a filterchain default
+ Update bit plane viewer to allow the full image of each bit plane
+ Updates to READeia608 filter
+ UI to adjust playback speed
+ Updates to player geomtry management and redrawing
+ Separate Luma and Chroma Adjustments to occur before the overall filterchain
+ Add 'fit to grid' option to force geometry of components of the filterchain
x Fix crash is the first track was not video or audio
1.0, 2018-04-09
+ Add possibility to wrap 'qctools.xml.gzip' report into 'mkv' to save thumbnails too
+ Add 'Entropy' and 'Entropy-diff' filters
+ Add 'Line Over Time' player
+ Add bar charts:
|- support of multiple colored conditions per chart
|- ability to specify condition using JS syntax
|- conditions editor with autocomplete and conditions validation
|- saving/loading charts conditions
|- predefined set of conditions
+ Introduce scriptable min/max for y-axis with JS syntax
+ Extract & save all the stats from each frame (eliminate the difference in output between ffmpeg & qcli)
+ Add xflat option to waveform
+ Polish UI (move filters view icon to the right, disable some menu items if no files selected, reduce space between thumbnails etc.)
+ Add 'Pixel Scope' player
+ Allow to jump into selected file's folder using 'reveal file location' menu item
+ Improve accuracy of grid overlay
+ Add 'Corners' player
+ Have QCTools open with the same filters that were selected when it was last closed
+ Show list of 20 recently opened files in 'File' menu
+ Add ability to zoom x/y axis and pan with mouse wheel & middle mouse button
+ Add code of conduct, update documentation, tooltips & contributing guidelines
- Remove support for dotXml sidecars
- Remove csv export
- Remove experimental blackmagic integration
~ Code cleanup
x Add 'bits_per_raw_sample' to stream stats
x Fix compatibility issues with the latest ffmpeg
x Fix crash when there is no video stream and first stream is not audio either
x Use correct labelling for interlacement values
x Fix sample rate value in table
x Fix sample aspect ratio in table
x Fix limiter default max value for non 8-bit footage
x Fix a few plots alignment issues
x Fix 'Arrow keys do not page through frames in filter view' https://github.com/bavc/qctools/issues/417
x Flush filtering pipeline to write stats for the last frame correctly
0.9, 2017-08-15
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+ Add scaling options for players (now with 100%, fit to window, and free scale)
+ Oscilloscope player
+ Support for a comments track for temporal annotations
+ Support a horizontal offset variable in 10 column Bit Plane player
+ Update graph selection from checkboxes to toggle buttons
+ Refactoring player code, deduplication, and cleanup
+ Add phase meter player
+ Documentation updates
+ Expanded --debug mode
+ Add a deflicker graph
+ Keyboard shortcut to copy the active timestamp
+ Add a chroma delay player
+ Add a luma adjust player
+ Add limiter player
+ Add Vectorscope High Low player
+ Update Broadcast Illegal Focus to use lutyuv rather than geq, better with non-8-bit
x Fixes to frame tiles and value highlight players
x Fixes scaling issues when there is a selection box
x Fix loading pkt_size and pkt_duration from xml.gz files
x Fix to use of VREP player with field split
0.8, 2017-04-15
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+ Added a QCTools command line interface, "qcli"
+ Added integration with Signalserver, uploading QCTools Report
+ Added aphasemeter player
+ Optimizations for playback and multithreading
+ Added ffprobe's stream and format metadata to the QCTools Report
+ Added graphs to plot packet duration time and packet size
+ Adjusted graphs y-axis to accommodate non-8 bit values
+ Display frame type in playback window
+ Added Cb and Cr shifting to the Chroma Adjust player
+ Added documentation for filters, thx @retokromer @kieranjol
+ Rework of documentation from development in HTML to Markdown
+ Added audio bitscope player (abitscope)
+ Added a 10 column bit player (shows a sample of the first 10 MSBs)
+ Added integration of font management to drawing text in playback filters
+ Graphs can be rearranged by dragging their checkboxes
+ The List view can be sorted by filename
+ Alphabetized the playback filter menu
+ Consolidate to one .pro file with options to build with homebrew or with decklink
+ Added EIA608 and VITC viewer
+ Added contribution guidelines to repository
- Fix crash on incomplete Matroska
- Fix to vectorscope when fields are split
- Fix crashes when the input contains audio but no video
- Fixing on opening xml.gz files
0.7.3, 2016-10-10
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+ Added graphing the SSIM (Structural SImilarity Metric) between the two fields
+ Added graphing interlacement detection data
+ Added graphing audio metric data via astats filter
+ Draggable/resizeable selection area in Waveform Target, Vectorscope Target, and Zoom
+ Support for plotting data in 10 bit when revelant (affects graphs for Y, U, V, Diffs, and SAT)
+ Add shortcut to zoom in on the graphs to show one sample per display pixel
+ Update waveform and vectorscope to show graticules
+ Sortable graph order
+ Improve playback filter for bitplanenoise
+ Add playback filter for bitplanenoisegraph
+ Add playback filter for waveform target
+ Improve playback filter for waveforms, datascope, line select, ciescope, histogram
x Fixes error when opening files on external hard drives
x Fixed many crashes
x Fix on sliders when they increment in steps smaller than 1
0.7.2, 2015-11-17
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+ Add plotlines for reference black and white in YUV graphs (GitHub issue #96)
+ Add plotlines for broadcast illegal and yuv illegal saturation levels
+ Update waveform and vectorscope filters to new waveform and vectorscope filters in FFmpeg 2.8
+ Add field modes to Tile and Zoom
+ Add astats-based audio data
+ Preferences
x Fixed crash with some big MOV files having count of audio samples of the count of audio blocks in the track header instead
0.7.1, 2015-05-15
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+ Expanded documentation and example images
+ Sample range filter - show broadcast against full range interpretation
x Fixed crash with MOV files having non video/audio tracks (e.g. a caption track)
x Fixed crash with some AVI files having streams with unknown format
x Mac-styled toolbar disabled because the toolbar dos not permit to move the window as expected by Mac users
x Show hh:mm:ss.mmm in playback window even if evaluation hasn’t happened yet
x Fix crash with files having timecode as the first track
0.7.0, 2015-02-17
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+ Saturation Highlight playback filter
+ Zoom playback filter
+ Graph tracker text with semi transparent gray background
+ Basic support of Blackmagic DeckLink (tested on Mac, looking for a tester on Windows and Linux)
+ Added metadata columns in table view for color space, color range, frame rate details, sample aspect ratio
+ Added 'Broadcast Illegal Focus' filter
x Zooming in with more than the default graphs, shifts display offset (GitHub issue #41)
x Left-align graph labels, instead of centering them (GitHub issue #45)
x Y-scale label values disappear when zooming (GitHub issue #46)
x Seek was not possible in the playback window during the analysis
x Some colors change, marker text contains data values (GitHub issue #23)
x Support of Mac OS X 10.6 (GitHub issue #63)
0.6.2, 2014-10-29
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x Memory leaks removed
0.6.1, 2014-10-15
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x Crash with MP4 files on Mac OS X 10.7 (GitHub issue #40)
0.6.0, 2014-10-09
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+ Summarization statistics
+ pkt_duration_time is added to tha sidecar stats file in order to get the real end timestamp of the stream
+ The full width of graphs is used
+ File list info shows empty data instead of 0 when the video file is not present
+ Speed improvements
+ The graph marker is now on a frame value
+ RHEL/CentOS 6/7 binaries
+ Debian 6 binaries
+ Ctrl+G keyboard shortcut for "Go to frame at position" (GitHub issue #30)
+ F1 keyboard shortcut for help
x Minimize/maximize button on video preview window (GitHub issue #24)
x Position of cursor in graph not updated, when moving in preview window (GitHub issue #18)
x YUVJ (full range) were shrinked to broadcast range, now using Ffmpeg update for better YUVJ handling (GitHub issue #36)
x Wrong graphs in case FFmpeg does not provide a PTS e.g. with AVI (GitHub issue #12)
x Slight documentation corrections
x The sidecar stats file was not correctly detected if the media file is open instead of the sidecar stats file
x Linux only: The sidecar stats file was not correctly loaded
x Fix corrupted Broadcast Range display in some inputs (GitHub issue #10)
x Line select now plots one line in a waveform, previous the next line and next line were plotted
x MSEf, PSNR: Y and V were inverted
x UI was not showing graphs if the file is open via the menu
x Windows: icon was not always displayed in Windows menu
x Mac: Playback window was not pushed to the forefront of the screen when a user clicks on a thumbnail but the first time
x When clicking the "zoom in" button an insane number of times, QCTools was crashing (GitHub issue #39)
0.5.0, 2014-09-12
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+ New graph filters (Crop...)
+ Updated playback filters (with more options e.g. color picker, vertical filters)
+ Y-axis has minutes, hours options
+ Frame positioning vertical line
+ Import/Export of .qctools.xml.gz stats file (compatible with Ffmpeg 2.3 output)
+ Updated documentation
+ Using official FFmpeg 2.3
0.4.0, 2014-04-26
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+ New graph filters (MSEf, PSNR...)
+ New playback filters (Value hightlight, Chroma adjust...)
+ Configurable playback filters (with checkboxes, radiobuttons, sliders...)
+ Multifiles support
+ Refreshed UI
+ Speed optimizations
+ Tested compatibility with Windows XP to 8, Mac OS X 10.6 to 10.9
0.3.0, 2014-01-27
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+ Refactoring of code, optimization of performance/binary size/memory footprint/count of bytes read from disk
+ Using display aspect ratio from the stream
+ Video filters update
+ Documentation update
+ Slider in Video Analysis Window
+ Double-view in Video Analysis Window
+ Resizable Video Analysis Window
+ License update (more detailed)
x Documentation is now conform to XHTML strict
x HEAD values were not correctly loaded from the sidecar CSV file
0.2.0, 2014-01-20
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+ Using ffmpeg library instead of ffmpeg command line for thumbnail creation and picture display (speed improvement)
+ Playback (fast/normal/slow rewind, fast/normal/slow forward)
+ Documentation update
+ Tooltips above checkboxes
+ "License" renamed to "About" (moved to the application menu on Mac OS X in order to meet UI guidelines)
+ CSV export: an header line is added
+ Ability to read the sidecar CSV file (named "FileName.FileExtension.qctools.csv") during file opening
0.1.6, 2013-11-11
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+ FFmpeg is compiled with YASM and GPLv3: smoother decoding and all predefined filters are present
+ Possibility to select frames instead of seconds for X axis
+ New block in main window with all stats about the current frame
x Small shift of x axis is corrected (Mac only)
0.1.5, 2013-11-07
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x Plots add/remove is smoother
x Plots add/remove was crashing if no file is open (0.1.4 regression)
x previous/next buttons in image display window are back (0.1.4 regression)
x previous/next buttons in image display window disabled when not applicable (e.g. Previous is disabled with frame 0)
x All Diffs plots are correclty scaled and limited to 255
x x axis were no more aligned due to the "Frame" label (0.1.3 regression)
+ y axis is forced to 0-1 scale (intead of -1 to 1) if data is always 0
0.1.4, 2013-11-07
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x Partially re-factorized code for better stability
x Zoom out does not show anymore empty parts of the graphs
x FFmpeg filtering with missing filters in formula are removed
0.1.3, 2013-10-30
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x Zoom is centered on the current frame
0.1.2, 2013-10-30
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+ add previous/next buttons to image display window
x Fluctuating Graph Widths
x Big main window
0.1.1, 2013-10-02
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+ License update
+ Help files update
+ ffmpeg update in order to fix timescale issue
+ frames bigger as screen are resized
+ frames cache size reduced to 20 frames (instead of 100 frames) for speed improvement