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tsMuxeR 3.1.0
3.1.0 fixes 66 faults of earlier versions and brings 30 new features and improvements, each listed below. Every fault that the final tests turned up was fixed before this release. Tests cannot find every fault, so some may remain: if something does not work as it should, please report it, as docs/REPORTING_A_PROBLEM.md describes.

The title list of a disc is new: if it names a title, a version or an angle wrongly, the title list from tsMuxeR --report=report.txt <disc> and the small files of the disc (for a Blu-ray the PLAYLIST and CLIPINF folders with index.bdmv and MovieObject.bdmv, for a DVD the .IFO files) are enough to look into it.

The Intel macOS build has been back since 2.19.0, and Mac users are still asked to test. It has been built and checked, but it has not been run on an Intel Mac, because no Mac is available here. If you have an Intel Mac, please try it and report whether it works. On any Mac, please also report whether ASS subtitles are drawn with libass after brew install libass, and what happens when you change the subtitle font and colour in the window.

Disc images
A disc image is read without mounting it. A file inside an .iso is named by its path after the image, film.iso/BDMV/PLAYLIST/00011.mpls, as a source on the command line and in a meta file, and --bdmv-to-iso takes an image as its source too. Blu-ray, UHD Blu-ray and DVD images are read, and the stream files are read in place, without a copy. An image had to be mounted before, which Windows 7 cannot do without extra software. An output named as the image a source is read from is refused.

A disc folder or image given alone lists its titles. tsMuxeR film.iso or tsMuxeR <disc folder> stopped with "give the playlist of the title", and a disc can hold hundreds of playlists. The listing now shows each title with its length, chapters, clips and audio languages, the main film first, then the other cuts of it and the versions with other audio or subtitles. Under a version that plays clips of its own, two lines say where it differs from its main title and which clips it plays there, as the lines under a title of several angles do. A disc of episodes or of several films has more than one main title: a title that plays footage of its own for at least three quarters of the main film's footage and at least 15 minutes is marked as one too, and the listing says how many there are and which one title=main takes. The main film stays first; episodes of one length are listed in the order of the disc. A playlist that is no title is left out with the reason: one clip repeated, many short pieces, a copy of another playlist, the same clips in another order, or shorter than 2 minutes. A title whose clips are not all there says which are missing. --all-playlists lists every playlist as a title, and --min-title-length=<seconds> sets the length a title needs. In a meta file, title=main or title=<number> on the line of a disc folder or image takes the playlist of that title. The main film is a best guess: the title that plays the most footage. A disc with several main titles says so, and title=main takes the first. It can miss on some discs, as with an HDR and an SDR version of one length, so check the list before a long mux. Any title can be chosen by its number.

A DVD folder or image lists its titles, and a title is muxed by its number. tsMuxeR <DVD folder> or tsMuxeR dvd.iso lists the titles of the DVD-Video disc with length, chapters and audio and subtitle languages, the main film first. Titles shorter than 2 minutes, and copies of another title, are left out with the reason. On a meta line, title=main or title=<number> after the disc reads the cells of that title in the order the disc plays them, in the first angle where there are several. A VOB file could only be muxed whole before, and it can hold several titles, or one title in pieces out of order. The audio and the subtitles take the language the disc gives, and a Matroska output gets the title's chapters. --show-title=<number|main> <disc> lists the tracks of one title, with its chapters as a --custom-chapters value for a disc output. dvd-title=<number> names a title by the number the disc gives it, which stays the same in a saved meta file whatever the listing makes of the disc, and also names the titles the listing leaves out. A title whose video is still encrypted is refused with that reason.

A damaged VOB no longer hangs tsMuxeR (#31 K58). A packet of length 0 stopped the listing and the mux for ever. It is now passed over.

A folder of discs names its discs. tsMuxeR <folder> on a folder that holds disc folders or images, such as a box set copied disc by disc, said only "it is a folder. Give a file as the source." It now names each Blu-ray and DVD disc folder and image in it, to be listed with tsMuxeR <its path>, and a meta line that gives such a folder as a source says how many discs it holds. In the window, adding such a folder shows the discs in it.

The window adds a disc by its titles. A disc folder, a drive or a disc image, added with "add", with the new "add disc" button or dropped on the window, opens "Choose a title": the disc's titles with length, chapters, audio and subtitles, the main titles in bold, and the left-out ones with their reason on request. A Blu-ray title is added as its playlist, a DVD title by its disc number with its audio languages and chapters. Such a source gave "Unsupported format" before. The BDMV folder to ISO tab takes a disc image as its source too ("Image...").

Choose the angle of a title. A Blu-ray playlist of several angles was muxed in its first angle only. angle=<n> on a meta line now takes angle n, for a playlist and for a disc title (title= or dvd-title=). The listing says at which times the angles differ, and for a Blu-ray which clip each angle plays there. In the window, Choose a title shows a row for each angle, and the output is named after the angle, as "00011 angle 2". All the lines of one playlist or disc title take the same angle.

The window names the output after the film. A Blu-ray that names its film gives the name of the output file, the title of a Matroska output and the label of an ISO image, as long as those are not set. English comes first. A name that says only "Blu-ray" is passed over, and a colon becomes a dash in the file name. The listing gives the name as Disc title:.

The title listing shows the picture of each title. Each title of a disc now says whether its picture is SDR, HDR10, HDR10+ or Dolby Vision, with the Dolby Vision profile where it is known, or a combination such as "HDR10, Dolby Vision profile 7". So a UHD disc with an SDR and an HDR version of one film, or a disc where only one title carries Dolby Vision, can be told apart in the listing. What the playlist says is read always, also when only the control files of a disc are there. HDR10+ and single layer Dolby Vision are in the video only: tsMuxeR reads the start of the main clip of each main title for them, when the clip is there. A DVD title is SDR. Choose a title shows this in a column of its own, Picture.

Preview a title, an angle or a clip in a player. The General tab has a player for previews: a program with its arguments, or none for the system's default player. Choose a title has a Preview button beside Add title, and the dialog stays open to try another title or angle. Under a title of several angles, the clip each angle plays at a part is a link: a click plays that clip as it is, with no conversion. The same holds for a version of a main title: its row opens to the places where it differs, each with its clip. The input list has Play in its context menu. A clip of a disc folder, or any file, is opened as it is. For a title, or a clip inside a disc image, tsMuxeR first makes a 30 second preview of it in its angle, with the progress window of a mux, where Abort stops it; the player needs no disc support for it, and this also runs on Windows 7. mpv opens a Blu-ray title directly in its angle (mpv 0.41 or later), and VLC a DVD title in its first angle. A player can also be given for Blu-ray titles and one for DVD titles, for example mpv and VLC. The previews go into a temporary folder that is removed when the window closes.

MP4 and MOV input
The sound of a fragmented MP4 came late when its moov follows the first fragment. A file written with an empty moov after its first fragment (ffmpeg's delay_moov) counted the start of its video edit list twice: the sound came 83 ms late with two B pictures in every output (and in the listing of AAC), and a cut file of this kind by its pre-roll more (500 ms for a cut 0.5 s after a key picture). Such a file now gives the same times as the same streams in an ordinary MP4, also in joins and with timeshift. (#54) Thanks to @Moonghost-coder.

A video that starts at another frame rate no longer moves the sound. In a fragmented MP4, or one without edit lists, a video that starts at 6 pictures a second and goes on at 24 had its first picture taken as a later start, and the sound came 125 ms early. A later start is now measured against the second sample, which is how such a file writes it. (#55) Thanks to @Moonghost-coder.

AAC LC without its decoder configuration is no longer written as AAC Main. When the esds of an MP4 has no AudioSpecificConfig, the TS, the Matroska output and a demux all said AAC Main. Such a track is now AAC LC, or the profile that an MPEG-2 AAC esds names. HE-AAC of this kind also got the full sample rate in its header, and decoders failed on every frame: frames of 2048 samples are now written as HE-AAC is, with the core at half the rate. A Matroska A_AAC track without CodecPrivate stopped with "Unknown exception"; it is now read as AAC LC with the sample rate and channels of the track. (#56) Thanks to @Moonghost-coder.

PCM above 65535 Hz in an MP4 is read at its own rate. ipcm and fpcm of 96 or 192 kHz were read as 48 kHz, so the sound of every output played...

Supported incoming formats:

* TS;
* M2TS;
* Blu-ray;
* Demux option.

Supported videocodecs:

* H.264
* Microsoft VC-1;
* MPEG-2.

Supported audiocodecs:

* AAC;
* AC3 / E-AC3(DD+);
* Dolby True HD (for streams with AC3 core only);
* DTS/ DTS-HD;
* LPCM.

Supported subtitle types:

* M2TS Presentation graphic stream.
* SRT text subtitles

Supported containers and formats:

* Elementary stream;
* Transport stream TS and M2TS;
* Program stream EVO/VOB/MPG;
* Matroska MKV/MKA;
* MP4/MOV

Main features:

* Automatic or manual fps adjustment while mixing;
* Level changing as well as SEI, SPS/PPS elements and NAL unit delimiter cycle insertion while mixing H.264;
* Audio tracks and subtitles time shifting;
* Ability to extract DTS core from DTS-HD;
* Ability to extract AC3 core from True-HD;
* Ability to join files;
* Ability to adjust fps for subtitles;
* Ability to convert LPCM streams into WAVE and vice versa;
* Track language information injection into blu-ray structure and TS header;
* Ability to cut source files;
* Ability to split output file;
* Ability to detect audio delay for TS/M2TS/MPG/VOB/EVO sources;
* Ability to remove pulldown info from stream;
* Ability to open Blu-ray playlist (MPLS) files;
* Ability to convert SRT subtitles to PGS;
* Tags for SRT subtitles support - tags for changing font, color, size, etc.; tag's syntax is similar to HTML;
* United cross-platform GUI - Windows, Linux, MacOS.