Fedora 23 Update: mkvtoolnix-8.7.0-1.fc23

Sat Jan 9 21:58:57 UTC 2016

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-5304fc6142
2016-01-09 18:23:05.847233
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Name        : mkvtoolnix
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 8.7.0
Release     : 1.fc23
URL         : http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/index.html
Summary     : Matroska container manipulation utilities
Description :
Mkvtoolnix is a set of utilities to mux and demux audio, video and subtitle
streams into and from Matroska containers.

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Update Information:

>From upstream changelog:  * mkvmerge: bug fix: fixed the handling of a PES size
of 0 ( = unknown). Tracks whose PES packets had such a size were sometimes not
detected at all, and even if they were their content was incomplete. Fixes
#1553. * mkvmerge: bug fix: made the MPEG 1/2 video elementary stream file type
recognition more resilient and more flexible dropping the requirement for a file
to start with an MPEG start code (0x00 00 01). Fixes #1462. * mkvpropedit: bug
fix: when changing the track language it is now verified to be a valid ISO 639-2
language code before writing it to the file. Fixes #1550. * mkvmerge:
enhancement: the MP4 reader will keep the display dimensions from the track
header atom ("tkhd") and use them as the display width & height. See also #1547.
* MKVToolNix GUI: merge tool enhancement: the "add source files" button now has
optional popup menu containing actions for adding/appending files and adding
files as additional parts for easier discovery of those actions. This popup is
only shown if the user clicks on the arrow shown on the right of the button. *
mkvmerge: new feature: TrueHD tracks that contain Dolby Atmos will be identified
as "TrueHD Atmos". Implements #1519. * mkvmerge: bug fix: the Matroska reader
now uses TrueHD-specific code when reading Matroska files. This can fix things
like wrong frame type flags. * mkvmerge: bug fix: MP4 edit lists of certain
types (two entries, first entry's media_time is -1, second entry's
segment_duration is != 0) weren't handled properly resulting in key frame flags
being assigned to the wrong frames. Fixes #1547. * mkvmerge: bug fix: the
h.265/HEVC code was writing SEI NALUs twice. This had already been mentioned in
#1076 but never fixed. Patch by Vladimír Pilný. * mkvmerge: bug fix: the
h.265/HEVC code wasn't converting slice NALUs to RBSP form before parsing it
resulting in wrongly timestamped frames under certain conditions. This is a
similar fix to the issues reported in #918 and #1548. * mkvmerge: bug fix: the
h.264/AVC code wasn't converting slice NALUs to RBSP form before parsing it
resulting in wrongly timestamped frames under certain conditions. Fixes #918 and
#1548. * mkvmerge: bug fix: the MP4 reader can now understand the 'random access
point' sample grouping information for marking open GOP random access points as
key frames. Fixes #1543. * mkvmerge: bug fix: fixed the decisions whether or not
to write the last frame of a track as a BlockGroup or a SimpleBlock and whether
or not to write a block duration for that frame. Fixes #1545. * MKVToolNix GUI:
new merge tool feature: added menu options in the "Merge" menu for copying
either the first source file's name or the current output file's name into the
"file title" control. * mkvpropedit: new feature: added an option for
calculating statistics for all tracks and adding new/updating existing
statistics tags in a file. Second half of the implementation of #1507. *
mkvmerge: bug fix: the progress calculation was sometimes outputting negative
numbers when appending Matroska files whose timestamps don't start at 0 (e.g. if
they were created by splitting with linking enabled). In the the GUI this
resulted in lines like "#GUI#progress -2%" in the job's output. * mkvpropedit:
new feature: added an option for removing all existing track statistics tags
from a file. Part of the implementation of #1507. * mkvmerge: bug fix: AAC with
low sampling frequencies was sometimes mis-detected with the wrong profile
preventing appending it to other AAC tracks. Fixes #1540. * mkvmerge: bug fix:
chapters were output as both "chapters" and "track_tags" in JSON identification
mode. Fixes #1538. * mkvmerge: enhancement: added the container's internal track
ID as the "number" attribute in verbose & JSON identification modes for several
container types (QuickTime/MP4: the track ID from the 'tkhd' atom; MPEG program
stream: the sub-stream ID in the upper 32 bits and the stream ID in the lower 32
bits; MPEG transport stream: the program ID; Ogg/OGM: the stream's serial number
field; RealMedia: the track ID). Implements #1541. * MKVToolNix GUI: bug fix:
the "split mode" drop-down box got reset to "do not split" each time the
preferences dialog was closed with the "OK" button. Fixes #1539. * mkvmerge:
enhancement: if JSON identification mode is active then warnings and errors will
be output as JSON as well. They're output as arrays of strings as the keys
"warnings" and "errors" of the main JSON object. Implements #1537. * all:
reversion of a change: several ISO 639-2 codes of languages that are very old
and not spoken anymore have been re-added (e.g. "English, Middle (1100-1500)")
due to feedback from users who did have a use for such codes. * all: reversion
of a change: all of the tools will write a byte-order mark (BOM) to text files
encoded any of the UTF-* schemes again. This reverts the change in release 8.6.0
due to user feedback preferring the old way. * mkvpropedit: enhancement: when
using --add-attachment, --replace-attachment or --update-attachment the UID can
be changed with --attachment-uid. See #1532. * mkvpropedit: new feature: added
an option "--update-attachment" for updating the properties of existing
attachments without replacing their content. Implements #1532. * MKVToolNix GUI:
new feature: added options for running arbitrary programs after a job has
finished or after the queue has finished. Implements #1406. * MKVToolNix GUI:
merge tool enhancement: if files are dragged & dropped from an external
application with the right mouse button being pressed then the GUI will always
ask the user what to do with the files even if the user has configured the GUI
not to ask. Implements #1508. * MKVToolNix GUI: enhancement: when starting the
GUI with a saved settings file then the GUI won't contain an empty tab in the
merge tool anymore. Fixes #1504. * mkvmerge: bug fix: fixed the key frame
detection for VP9 video tracks. * MKVToolNix GUI: bug fix: relative file names
given on the command line were interpreted as being relative to the user's home
directory. Fixes #1534. * MKVToolNix GUI: the preferences dialog has been
reworked heavily in order to provide a better overview and to be less
overwhelming.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1295020 - mkvtoolnix-8.7.0 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1295020
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