FitCD v1.2.8
=========================
by shh
email: shh(at)shildebrand.de
homepage: http://shildebrand.de


Info:
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This is a tool that helps you calculate the exact image-size and
bitrates of a VCD or SVCD.
It includes a resizing calculator for optimal (macro)block-usage in
MPEGs. You can also export a sample script for use with avisynth.
FitCD is very accurate at calculating bitrates and optimal resizing.
No known tool can compete with its features, yet, which have grown
since April 2001.

FitCD is released as fully functional freeware-version with
NO WARRANTY and is freely usable.
Feel free to send suggestions and bug reports. Do not mail me about
DVD-, (S)VCD-, MPEG-, program- or programming-problems!
Keep your computer free from email-worms! If you don't want to,
please delete my email-address from your address book.


Why donate?
============
If you donate a small amount, you'll get the professional version of
FitCD, called Fit2Disc. With Fit2Disc you have a fully functional version
of FitCD with many useful extras like:
- Accurate imaging- & bitrates-calculation calculations for
  (mini/c)DVD-authoring and multiplexing including:
  + now also with multiplexing for DVDMaestro & Scenarist
  + new, bigger disc sizes, like DVD±R/RW
  + overhead-calculation for AC3- and DTS-audio
  + a 3rd audio-track
  + DVD-subtitles overhead
  + special min/max-rates according to the DVD-players capabilities
- A preview and small player of the source-file
- Support for mpegdecoder.dll (with automatic D2V-project creation)
- Intelligent detection of the film-area from one picture, or the whole film
- Manual cropping adjusting with preview like in VirtualDub
- Manual destination frame sizes (useful for AVI encoding)
- Entering Extra Data and the number of subtitles by browsing a directory
- Usage of a custom denoiser of the video before or after resizing
- Small analysing-box about the source-compression
- Editable default lines for the avisynth-script
For more info go to http://shildebrand.de/fit2disc.html
Keep in mind that the necessary minimum amount of donation is very
low according to other products, and you directly support the programmer
not any rich company.
For more information about donating visit http://shildebrand.de/donation.html
If you've questions about the donating-procedure or further questions
about Fit2Disc, just ask: shh(at)shildebrand.de


HowTo:
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This program is intended to fill your discs to their edge.
Many of of the options are fine in the default-position and can be left
untouched. Don't get lost with the many options and info! ;-)
Try the quick-hints: Just position the mouse-cursor over something and
wait for the hints to pop-up.
0. Copy all necessary avisynth-plugins in the plugin-directory.
   FitCD will automatically create a directory in the install-directory
   of avisynth.
   For proper decoding of old and new D2V-projects, copy the MPEG2Dec3dg.dll
   and DGDecode.dll in the plugin-directory.
1. Load a source file.
   (Press the Source-Button under MPEG-Resizing)
   Most of the source-values are detected and automatically set now:
   - PAL/NTSC
   - frames, seconds, frame-rate
   - anamorphic-flag
   - resolution and -aspect
2. Change and tune some options. For example
   - change the size of your destination CD
   - change the number of CDs you want to use
   - change destination-resolution
   - change authoring-program
   - tune the authoring to the values, you want to set later in your
     authoring-program, e.g. set more menu-pictures, ...
   - tune resizing & cropping
   - change the film-pixel and borders to correct values of your
     source. That will enhance the cropping & resizing greatly.
   - change the resizing-mode
   - add manual avisynth-options
   ...
3. Note the calculated bitrate(s) to use it in your MPEG-encoder and
   save the avisynth-script to use it as a source-file (with proper
   resizing already done) in your encoder.
4. If you want to use FitCD's avisynth-scripts, make sure, you have
   correctly installed avisynth. Copy all plugins into the directory
   FitCD creates if necessary.
   This feature is supported in avisynth since avisynth v2.0.4 and is
   necessary for FitCD's scripts to function properly.


Options & Shown Values:
========================
Window-Moving:
For easier window-moving, just click (and hold the button) somewhere
in the window and move around. The window also pops to the borders of
your workspace, for easier positioning.

Stream & Authoring:
Set your video-length. The framerate is the rate of the encoded video.
Set the kbps (=1000bps) of your audio-tracks. If you don't want a
second audio-track, set it's bitrate to 0kbps.
If you want to include subtitles: Enter the number of BMPs. FitCD
will try to estimate the BMP-sizes on your harddisk.
For more accurate calculation of the multiplexing (and so the resulting
bitrate), please enter the GOP-length you want to encode and if you
want to use scene-detection.
At Multiplexing, choose the multiplexing(-program) you'd like to use.
The multiplexers have different overhead and some produce better streams
for *your* DVD-Player, some not. You can also enter, if you want to
hack some additional matrices in the stream with ReStream.
Sequence-header aligning and SVCD scan offsets (which are only optional
with some multiplexers) are not necessary for proper playback. Although
the SVCD-standard requires SVCD scan offsets and sequence-header
aligning every access-point-sector (= chapter jump-in), not using them
can save you many unnecessary overhead.
At Authoring, choose your program that authors your video-discs. They
all have quite different overhead, what varies the necessary bitrate
of your video to fill your discs. You can also enter the number of
Menu-pictures you'd like to add, and some extra data, you want to save
to your discs.
Enter number of discs you want to use for the encoded video, and also
their size.
Then look at the xxxx-kbps value for the video. That’s the value your
encoder should match exactly, the final average bitrate of your video.

MPEG Resizing:
Load a source-file to let FitCD detect several options (including
anamorphic-flag, resolution, aspect, PAL/NTSC ...)
Afterwards, you can some tune options of your source, if they weren't
detected correctly.
With the box below the source-button, you can ensure that the codec
provides a specific colorspace. This helps with some codecs, which
provide broken YUY2 or YV12.
Enter the (black) borders around film. This area is cut away, when you
rezize your video. The other area is retained.
ITU-R BT.601-4 option: This is a sad story. Many sources (especially
DVDs don't take care for the correct pixel-aspect, defined in this
standard. Instead of calculating with correct TV-pixel-aspect-ratios
(PAL:128/117 and NTSC:4320/4739) the producers use some 'generic-aspects'
4:3 or 16:9 ... These generic-aspects do not have the correct aspect-
ratio on your TV-set! Note that many guides upon aspect-ratios are
wrong. If you're interested in more about that, read:
http://www.uwasa.fi/~f76998/video/conversion/
Conclusion: If the source has correct aspect: check the ITU-R BT.601-4
box. If you uncheck the box, a 'generic-pixel-aspect' of PAL:48/45 and
NTSC:8/9 is used which leads to e.g. exact 1.33333.
Next to the resizing-size there are some compression values according
to the final film. A compression of ~1:36 generally means "very good
quality", ~1:40 means "good quality". Higher compression-ratios than
1:42 are not recommended and can look good, if you do some major
filtering of the video. Note that interlacing or much noise or motion
in films each need about 25% more bitrate.
FitCD will then resize and crop by your favourite method:
no cropping: what it means: the coded film pixel are not cropped. If
             you resize then this will cause aspect-ratio error of the
             destination. If you don't resize (choose "no resizing" at
             the avisynth-options) the borders are cut away and added
             again. This produces a proper blackened overscan-area.
accurate: The calculator tries to retain as many source-pixels as
          possible with a correct aspect-ratio. Since a correct aspect-
          ratio is the law, cropping is often necessary.
max.height: This tries to retain the entire coded pixel in Y.
max.width: This tries to retain the entire coded pixel in X.
The cropping-calculator sets an optimal cropping-range for the
destination-size (=resizing-size). Set the round-sliders as you see fit.
If you want to crop more just increase the border-area. If you think
FitCD is cropping too much of your source, try to increase the
CodedFilmPixel-Y-size or choose another method.
If you want manual resizing: Enter a custom destination-y-value.
To optimize encoding, set the round-bar. The higher you set it, the more
optimized the destination-size will be, because the sizes are chosen,
not to waste (macro)blocks.
For interlaced-sources check the Interlaced-box. This will produces
accurate (field-wise) resizing and tries to retain the field-order.
If you want more or less black borders encoded (which aren't visible on
TV because of overscan), adjust the 'Blocks TV-overscan'-value.
If you want to convert your MPEG-TV-format, do a PAL<->NTSC picture
conversion, (un)set the PAL-format box according to your needs.

AviSynth Script:
Choose your favourite resizing-method. (Some are faster, some better)
"No crop&resizing" let's you do all other things but skips the cropping
and resizing of the source. "No resizing" just skips rezizing what's good
if you want to pad overscan-area black, but don't want to resize.
Adjusting the position-slider (centered, (macro)block aligned), you
can choose the vertical position of the destination film-pixel to the
resolution. If you choose macroblock aligning for example, the film-
position is being moved up (if necessary) so that the film-pixel start
at a new macroblock-slice. This can enhance encoding efficiency.
If you have bottom-field-first (bff) videos like DV-AVIs from your
camcorder, you can check the bff->tff box to convert it to a top-field-
first video.
If you want to use the avisynth-script in other programs like TMPGEnc,
or want to encapsulate it in a VFAPI-frameserver-AVI, check the
RGB-output-box, to ensure that programs get a proper color-space. For
YV12-input it's probably faster to convert to YUY2.

If you use the CCE with Athlon-CPUs, you might want to check the CCE-
fix-box. This prevents the CCE from crashing when you drag the scripts
into it.
Note, that the avisynth-script is intended to be a SAMPLE. The AviSynth-
language is much to powerful to cover all options. Just play with them:
Type some new/additional options and/or correct the sample, then save
the script. For more info go to: http://www.avisynth.org/


Additional Options not covered by the GUI:
===========================================
Some options are not covered by the GUI, because they need to be
adjusted only once, and would just overload the GUI.
For changing this options just edit the FitCD.ini with a text-editor.
- Enter your player's streamrate-capabilities:
  To show correct min/max values matching your DVD-player's
  capabilities, change the values PlayerRateSVCDMin &
  PlayerRateSVCDMax [kbps] under [Global] in the ini-file.
  Default is 1x & 2x CD-speed (1394 and 2788).
- Change the safety-value:
  To adjust the blocks, which are left free of your discs, change the
  Safety value under [Image]. Increasing can be necessary, if your
  encoder isn't good at holding the given bitrates.
- Change the safety-value:
  To adjust the blocks, which are left free of your discs, change the
  Safety value under [Image]. Increasing can be necessary, if your
  encoder isn't good at holding the given bitrates.
- Some default-lines of the avisynth-script:
  Under [AVSscript] change the string after WorkingDir, to set a default
  path for plugins or video-files.
  Under [AVSscript] change the LoadPlugin* strings to load some plugins
  at the beginning of the script. Some people prefer that more than using
  a plugin-directory.
- If you don't like FitCD to get exteded infos from the source, like it's
  colorspace of the source, you might want to switch it off by setting
  the value GetExtendedSrcInfo to 0.
  This might come handy, if you like to open faulty scripts in FitCD, but
  want to process them with the correct resolution etc.


Recommendations (just a few important ones):
=============================================
1. Don't use SVCD scan offsets in a SVCD stream. No known firmware
   and/or MPEG-decoder-chip even parses this extra overhead.
2. Don't use sequence-header aligning. No problems are known if you
   leave this overhead out.
3. Crop/resize to even-resolutions (round:2) to let the MMX-acceleration
   kick in. Slightly aspect-ratio violations aren't visible for the
   end-user. If you use YUY2 and YV12 colorspaces round:4 might be
   necessary.
4. Use TV-overscan borders, because nearly no one is able to see the
   overscan-area on TV. You can't see this additional border-info when
   watching a DVD, either. It just vanishes somewhere in your TV-set.
   Do not encode what you can't see!
   This can significantly enhance quality, because more bandwidth is
   available for the visible blocks of film-resolution.
5. Set the round-slider of "Resize" to 16 to optimize macroblock-usage.
   Then you resize to resolutions of which the macroblocks (=16x16pixel)
   are filled fully. This enhances encoding quality and speed.
   Also use the positioning-slider at the avisynth-script to align the
   video to the (macro)blocks.
   Ensure, that no denoiser or the weired "upper-field-first"-option of
   the CCE destroys your block-optimizing.
6. Always use the newest versions of avisynth. Since avisynth is still
   being enhanced, no one knows what bugs occur and get fixed. Also the
   processing-speed of avisynth steadily gets improved.
7. If you transcode MPEGs, use the mpeg2dec*.dll in conjunction with a
   *.d2v project-file from DVD2AVI. Or use the new DGDecode suite by D.G.
   This significantly enhances encoding speed if the encoder can handle
   YUY2 as input (because the YUV->RGB, RGB->YUV conversation isn't
   necessary anymore).


Resources:
====================
DGDECODE: http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/dgmpgdec.html
DVD2AVI:  http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~jackei/dvd2avi/
          http://neuron2.net/fixd2v/decodefix.html
MPEG2DEC: http://neuron2.net/fixd2v/decodefix.html and
          http://users.win.be/dividee/avisynth.html
AVISYNTH: http://www.avisynth.org/
AVISYNTH-FILTERS: http://www.avisynth.org/warpenterprises
Convolution3D: http://hellninjacommando.com/con3d/
About ITU-R BT.601-4: http://www.uwasa.fi/~f76998/video/conversion/


Changes:
=========
v1.2.8: September, 8th 2005
  - Added: Some src-preview optimizations for high resolutions [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: Hack for proper HDTV1080 border detection [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: D2V parsing bug with an empty MPEG-file
  - Fixed: Sequence-header searching of HDTV- and broken DVB-streams
  - Fixed: Combined start/stop button staying at stop at the end [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: Detection of HDTV aspect-ratios (hopefully)
v1.2.7: September, 4th 2005
  - Added: Support for the newer D2V-project format DGIndexProjectFile11
  - Added: Edit/Reload of the preview window source file [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: Restart the preview-video, when it is at the end [Fit2Disc]
  - Changed: Forced colorspace for D2Vs is now done by upConv=
  - Changed: Clean up avi/avs decoding [Fit2Disc]
  - Changed: Combined stop- and play-button [Fit2Disc]
  - Changed: Preview-window [Fit2Disc]
v1.2.6: February, 27th 2005
  - Added: Support for the newer D2V-project format DGIndexProjectFile08 - 10
  - Added: Minimim height for the preview-window [Fit2Disc]
  - Changed: Error-handling of D2V-project loading
  - Fixed: Opening new files while preview window is open [Fit2Disc]
v1.2.5.1: January, 21st 2004
  - Added: 8.5 DVD+R(W) disc-sizes [Fit2Disc]
v1.2.5: November, 22nd 2004
  - Added: More intelligent cropping of the resizing-core
  - Changed: Pixelform to the more common PAR (=pixel-aspect-ratio)
  - Changed: Forced codec colorspace is now a drop-down-box
  - Fixed: D2V-pulldown should now be detected and interpreted correctly
v1.2.4: August, 3rd 2004
  - Fixed: Cropping wasn't recalculated on changes in the preview-window [Fit2Disc]
v1.2.3: July, 3rd 2004
  - Added: Support for newer D2V-projects like the DGIndexProjectFile
  - Added: Getting the number of frames from MPEG-sources
  - Added: Getting framerate of an avisynth source file
  - Added: Colorspace detection of source
  - Added: Support for WMV files
  - Added: Border-snapping of the preview [Fit2Disc]
  - Changed: Error-handling of many functions
  - Changed: Reimplemented border-snapping
  - Changed: Default maximum rate for DVDs is the max. streamrate [Fit2Disc]
  - Changed: Removed usage of AVIStream*Streaming() [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: D2V-field counting for NTSC-MPEGs
  - Fixed: Optional resizing sometimes threw out an error-message
  - Fixed: A PGetFrame was sometimes allocated twice [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: Cut/Copy/Paste didn't work with number-fields in the preview-window [Fit2Disc]
v1.2.2: March, 19th 2004
  - Added: Colorspace converting of MPEG sources
  - Added: Only crop when necessary
  - Fixed: Delete codec-info when no AVI is loaded.
  - Fixed: When a new file was loaded the values sometimes weren't recalculated
  - Fixed: Better loading of AVIs in the preview-window [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: AVIs with unknown audio didn't load correctly [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: Exception on closing Fit2Disc [Fit2Disc]
v1.2.1: March, 12th 2004
  - Added: Setting a default avisynth working directory
  - Added: Manually load some plugins
  - Added: Force the codecs to other colorspaces than just RGB24
  - Added: Do some default-stuff (an avisynth-line) before video-loading [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: Do some default-stuff (avisynth-lines) after video-loading [Fit2Disc]
  - Changed: First new destination size is now even better
  - Changed: Directory-chooser for subtitle-pics & extra data [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: Minor refresh bug, when source-borders have changed.
v1.2.0: March, 10th 2004
  - Changed: Rewrite of the resizer-engine
  - Changed: Rewrite of the cropping part
  - Changed: Rewrite of the letterboxing (and optimal positioning) part
  - Changed: Rewrite of avisynth-scripting
  - Changed: Film pixel are now entered by the borders
  - Changed: ResampleAudio-Box is now a CCE-fix-box
  - Changed: Enhanced Tab-order
  - Changed: Resizing error-value is now in the quick-hint of the aspect-ratio
  - Changed: Removed "Average cropping"
  - Changed: Multiplexing <-> authoring dependencies
  - Changed: Increased the maximums of film-minutes and disc-size
  - Changed: Removed entering subtitle-BMP size in KB
  - Changed: Look of preview window [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: YUY2 colorspace conversion
  - Added: Support for AviSynth v2.5x
  - Added: Detection of avisynth & plugin-directories
  - Added: Detection of mpeg2dec*.dll
  - Added: Automatic setting of a plugin-directory if it doesn't exist
  - Added: Support for much more source-types (via DirectShow)
  - Added: 'No resizing' avisynth-option
  - Added: Destination size- & border-visualisation
  - Added: Autom. colorspace-fix for the Canopus DV-codec + MJPEG-codecs
  - Added: Forcing codecs to decode to RGB24.
  - Added: Up/Down-button for manually adjusting the bitrate by 100kbps
  - Added: Aspect-Ratio '1:2 Monitor' for some capture-devices
  - Added: Options to compress or stretch YUV-colorspace
  - Added: Don't resize when source- & destination-sizes are the same
  - Added: DVD+R and DVD+RW disc-sizes [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: manual cropping in the preview-window [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: Detection/Support of Mpegdecoder.dll [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: DTS-bitrates & -overhead calculation [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: preview of the temp. avs-file to load the preview [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: Editing of the Denoiser-string [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: Manual destination-resolutions [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: DVD-multiplexing for MP2 with DVDMaestro & Scenarist [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: Subtitle calculations for DVDMaestro & Scenarist [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: Browse-button for counting subtitle BMPs in a directory [Fit2Disc]
  - Added: Browse-button to enter Extra Data by directory-size [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: First new destination size should now be better
  - Fixed: Cropping values weren't always updated on aspect-ratio change
  - Fixed: Aspect-Ratios for the 3/4-D1 formats
  - Fixed: Don't crop lesser than div4 with interlaced-resizing
  - Fixed: (macro)block calculation wasn't dependent on the (macro)block's vertical position
  - Fixed: Under WinXP, the window moved down a pixel, on window-swiching
  - Fixed: Cut, Copy and Paste didn't work with number-fields.
  - Fixed: Manual setting of min- & max-datarates in the INI didn't work
  - Fixed: Optimization is now dependent on interlaced resizing
  - Fixed: Removed error-message on startup, when the source-file doesn't exist.
  - Fixed: Denoise output wasn't done field-wise with interlaced material [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: Preview didn't show videos with one frame [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: DVD-subtitle overhead calculation should be more accurate now [Fit2Disc]
v1.1.2: December, 5th 2002
  - Fixed: offsets sometimes weren't updated in the script
  - Offsets are now handled better when roundings change
  - Added player-streamrate editing for DVD-authoring [Fit2Disc]
  - Added saving of last window-position
  - Added editable default lines for the avisynth-script [Fit2Disc]
  - Added extra-cropping of some pixels after pixel-detection [Fit2Disc]
  - Changed how to enter extra data
  - Seconds, frames, I-frames are now instantly shown again
  - Small bugfixes and refinings
v1.1.1: November, 16th 2002
  - DVD-rates are now also bound to DVD-disc sizes [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: min/max DVD-rates [Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed: not updating the film-pixels in the script
  - Fixed: top-offset wasn't always correct
v1.1.0: November, 12th 2002
  - License-change: Now two versions exist:
    FitCD: Freeware
    Fit2Disc: Extended version for donators
  - Rewrite of imaging- & bitrates-calculation
    + (mini/c)DVD-support [only Fit2Disc]
    + DVD-multiplexing [only Fit2Disc]
    + overhead-calculation for Dolby Digital audio (AC3) [only Fit2Disc]
    + DVD-subtitles [only Fit2Disc]
    + simple DVD-authoring [only Fit2Disc]
  - Expanded the destination disc sizes [only Fit2Disc]
  - A preview and small player of the source-file [only Fit2Disc]
  - Intelligent detection of the film-area from one picture,
    or the whole film [only Fit2Disc]
  - Usage of a custom denoiser of the video before or after
    resizing [only Fit2Disc]
  - Small analysing-box of the source-compression [only Fit2Disc]
  - Fixed a bug with subtitles and multiple CDs
  - Rewrite of the file-reading routines: Enhanced file-reading
    and error-reporting with support for file-sizes >2GB
  - Enhanced search for seq-header
  - Revised scene-detection estimation
  - Removed CCE-optimizing because it's obsolete. Always de-select
    "Upper field first" in CCE and don't use the denoiser
    => Optimizing is not necessary anymore.
  - Expanded maximum value of Extra Data (again)
  - Moved many infos to the quick-hints
  - Removed MPEG-Tracks-logic
  - Removed the safety-value (it is still available via ini-file)
  - Cropped d2v-projects are now properly detected
  - Many avisynth scripting-enhancements
    + Lanczos-resize
    + Custom denoising (also of input)
    + bff to tff conversion option
    + RGB-colorspace output option
    + Audio resample option
  - Avisynth-filename now comes from the source-file
  - Removed handling of avisynth-plugin path
  - Removed the box for source-compression analysis [only FitCD]
  - Removed info-window. Information about the source-file is
    now in the quick-hint of the "Open source-file" button
  - Interlaced-resizing is now on by default if input is a DV-AVI
  - Correct multiplexing-mode is chosen on changing authoring-mode
  - Much more quick-hints
  - Many internal changes
v1.0.5: August, 18th 2002
  - fixed a bug with interlaced resizing
  - fixed a resizing-bug. All multiples of 16 are now possible for DestX
  - expanded maximum value of Extra Data
  - matched the PARs to the "Industry Standard" square pixels
  - added Type1-DV AVI reading (still buggy)
  - fixed frame-number detection for some AVIs
  - fixed a bug of the fps-combobox
  - small avisynth-script changes
  - sources cleanup
v1.0.4: May, 17th 2002
  - fixed 1:1 source aspect-ratio
  - added additional matrix-overhead calculation
  - added min/max calculating for different DVD-Player capabilities
  - added calculating for multiple CDs
  - updated vcdimager authoring-overhead
  - added editing Extra Space on the CD
  - GUI changes. Less confusing options & values. [I hope]
    The info mostly moved to quick-tips
v1.0.3: February, 5th 2002
  - revised the min/max streamrate calculation.
v1.0.2: January, 31st 2002
  - bugfix: corrected avs-file for interlaced resizing with
    a non-centered film-position.
  - [forgot to bump the version number to v1.0.2]
v1.0.1: January, 31st 2002
  - bugfix: corrected avs-file for non-centered film-position.
  - [forgot to bump the version number to v1.0.1]
v1.0.0: January, 30th 2002
  - fixed a bug in the source-detection (seq-header couldn't be found)
  - GUI-fix for some graphic-cards
  - made the source-resolution editable
  - added 3/4 D1 aspect-ratios and detection
  - opened subtitles for other multiplexers than I-Author
    (although I don't know if subs with other multiplexers work)
  - added non-centered 'Coded Film pixel': Edit the top & left borders
  - added film-position optimizing
v0.9.9: December, 19th 2001
  - shh has taken over the project. ixi has retired.
  - fixed the GUI display-problem with big fonts
  - opening write-protected AVIs is now possible
  - enhanced d2v- and AVI-reading (bugfixes)
  - more convenient CCEcrashfix.
v0.9.8: December, 1st 2001
  - fixed a bug in the D2V-detection (especially for Win98-users)
v0.9.7: November, 30th 2001
  - automatic source-detection (PAL/NTSC, frames, anamorphic, aspect)
  - buggy AVI-aspect detection & correction (of DivX-AVIs e.g.)
  - automatic AVI & D2V-mode switching
  - fixed an avisynth-script bug with 1:1-sources
  - some GUI-txt-changes, more quick-tips
v0.9.6: October, 18th 2001
  - fixed an avisynth-script bug (again)
v0.9.5: October, 4th 2001
  - added interlaced-resizing
  - added simple (auto) fps-conversion
  - fixed an AVI-cropping-bug (introducing a new one)
v0.9.4: September, 29th 2001
  - added PAL<->NTSC-resizing option
  - added Tab-support
  - save SVCD-scan-offsets status [bug]
  - removed old avisynth v0.3 support [obsolete]
v0.9.3: September, 25th 2001
  - some changes in bitrate- & block analysis
  - added MPEG1-muxing support for e.g. (X)VCD
  - added NTSC-support
  - small bugfixes
  - new program-skin
v0.9.2: July, 4th 2001
  - flexible Track1-size
  - more resizing flexibility (again)
  - cropping-enhancements (again)
  - correct ITU-R BT.601-4 pixel-form for TVs obsoletes the old
    (but still available) pixel-form, coded in some DVDs
  - flexible overscan-size
  - avisynth-support for mpeg2dec.dll and *.d2v
  - colorful background (right-click on the ixi-panel to change it)
v0.9.1: June, 6th 2001
  - more resizing flexibility
  - some GUI-enhancements
  - some bugfixes (introducing new ones ;-)
v0.9.0: June, 4th 2001
  - release under the GNU GPL
  - options-saving to ini-file
  - enhanced multiplexing-logic (bbMPEG & TMPGEnc supported now)
  - enhanced authoring-logic (Nero & vcdimager supported now)
  - added subtitle-estimation
  - new resizing-logic (including NTSC)
  - more intelligent AVS-scripting
  - many additional QuickTips
  - added new outfit & cool window-moving ;-)
v0.8.9: April, 9th 2001
  - fixed a small bug with multiple MPEG-tracks
  - added exporting a sample avs-script
v0.8.8: April, 5th 2001
  - added a calculator for resizing [only for PAL]
v0.8.1: April, 3rd 2001
  - added 90min CD option
v0.8.0: Initial release [limited to PAL and I-Author]


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