CrystalPlayer Professional: History of changes

New in 1.98 version (Vista)

• New: Complete Windows Vista support: overlays, WMV playback, Glass, Shadows
• New: Vista Glass support in skin engine
• New: Keyboard with multimedia keys support, right mouse click using 'Menu' keyboard key
• New: Built-in MPEG4 decoder
• New: Nullsoft installer, translation .ttb files are now located just in the installation folder
• New: Each codec in the codecbase now uses its own installer
• New: Major speed optimizations for huge playlists loading
• New: Drag&Drop subtitles acceptance
• New: Languages update - Arabic and Dutch added
• New: Current splitter and decoder are now shown in property dialog ('P' key)
• New: Better move by mouse in playlist
• New: Show messages during adding file to playlist and searching codec
• New: Playlist is automatically saved after any playlist change
• New: Auto-deinterlacing filter
• New: Show total playback time in the playlist mode
• New: Sticky movie and system time in the playback mode
• New: Supersampling doesn't leave "red line" on the right border
• New: Autoclick to menu on OSD when moving the mouse
• New: AC3 Decoder LFE channel mix in stereo mode
• New: Save current position in playlist
• New: Playlist is not saved in wife-protection mode
• New: Equalizer and Seeking Bar display can be toggled on/off
• Bugfix: Skins bugfixes, redownload skins please
• Bugfix: Windows 98 is finally supported (95 is not)
• Bugfix: Misc AVI Splitter fixes
• Bugfix: YV12 on non-standard widths fixed
• Bugfix: Better playlist randomization
• Bugfix: MPEG2 Decoder fixes with Vista MPEG2 splitter
• Bugfix: CD/DVD while where is no any compact disc in device problem
• Bugfix: Playlist sorting
• Bugfix: If minimized and run other file form explorer - window restored not into foreground
• Bugfix: New scale for volume control (not -12..+12, but 0-100-200)
• Bugfix: Equalizer fixes
• Bugfix: Timebar repaint fix - more time until fadeout if mouse under timebar or equalizer
• Workaround: Latest DivX put icon in taskbar and CP loses focus
• Bugfix: Copy to clipboard didn't always work
• Bugfix: Current playing file is now in the top of the recent list

New in 1.97 version (AVI)

• New: WhenU Save addon in Free version
• Bugfix: Several fixes in Crystal MPEG2 Decoder
• Bugfix: Minor bugfixes in Crystal AC3 Decoder
• Bugfix: Huge AVI files (> 2 Gb) support

New in 1.96 version (CMEA v3)

• New: Release of CMEAv3 decoder, even better quality on the same bitrate

New in 1.95 version (MPEG2)

• Bugfix: Massive bugfixes in Crystal MPEG2 decoder, now on by default
• Bugfix: MPEG2 splitter fixes
• New:New CMEA decoder, better quality on the same bitrate

New in 1.9 version (Towards DVD)

• New: Built-in Crystal Reality MPEG1/2 video decoder (beta)
• New: Built-in Crystal Reality ATSC A52 (AC3) multichannel audio decoder (beta)
• New: Bookmarks in playlist with import and export functionality
• New: Precise 10 band spectrum equalizer
• New: On Screen Display controls
• Bugfix: CrystalPlayer now works with QuickTime-alternative
• Playlists now work in fullscreen
• New: Deinterlacing video filter (for DVD)

New in 1.85 version (Christmas Edition)

• New: Greatly improved multisampling, techniques use optimizations for hyper-threading (Pentium-IV), support of any video format (compared to competing technologies), motion morphing
• New MPEG splitter
• New Real splitter - more stable than Real One's
• Wife Protection - erases recently viewed files
• New skin feature - regions by mask
• Bugfix: WMV hangs if no seeking
• Bugfix: WMV no video with WMP7
• Bugfix: WMV Video Decoder DMO (WMP7) hangs in YV12 mode
• Bugfix: Old ASF parser hangs trying to seek -> rewind now
• Bugfix: Aspect Rate with SuperSampling
• Bugfix: Restart saving window position
• Bugfix: Flashing while MultiSampling
• Bugfix: Subtitles Engine is updated
• Bugfix: Cursor flashing in fullscreen mode

New in 1.8 version (Killer)

• New: Updated skin.
• Bugfix: Video jump while playback.
• Bugfix: Proportional resizing & opening new file problem.
• New: Sharpness on-screen control
• New: CrystalMobile Engine 1.5 with sound!
• New: Supersamling feature: automatic bilinear resizing of the low-resolution movies into normal overlay resolution - greatly improves the quality (Professional only).
• New: Multisampling feature: adds additional interpolated frames between normal frames in the movie - improves quality by increasing framerate (Professional only).
• Bugfix: Screenshot filepath was incorrect
• Bugfix: Mouse cursor flashing in fullscreen
• Bugfix: Splitter rounding problem
• Bugfix: strange window resizing with missing codecs
• Bugfix: Options->Audio->Disable Audio and Options->Audio->Mute checkboxes problem
• New: Force back speakers audio playback
• New: Hue on-screen control
• New: Alt+Keypad can be used to scroll the zoomed image
• New: Recently played menu
• New: Support of more than one soundcard
• New: Automatic PC shutdown after the playback

New in 1.76 version (Fixes and Fixes)

• Bugfixed: video lock while playback - audio goes while video is stopped.
• Bugfixed: repeat forever + non shuffle = crash
• Italian language pack updated
• Bugfixed: Windows NT installation troubles
• Bugfixed: WMV files positioning hang up

New in 1.75 version (Towards 2.0)

• New Video Renderer:
  • Supports following rendering modes:
  • Overlays (hardware rendering of video during monitor refreshing)
  • HWCodec (hardware rendering of video in physical video memory)
  • DirectDraw (DirectDraw unit is used to render video)
  • DrawDIB (software rendering, optimized convertions, resizing methods)
  • Supports following pixel formats:
  • RGB15 (5 bits per red, greean and blue conponents) known as High Color
  • RGB16 (5 bits per red and blue and 6 bits for green component) known as High Color
  • RGB24 (8 bits per red, greean and blue conponents) known as True Color
  • RGB32 (8 bits per red, greean and blue conponents and 8 bits for alpha channel) known as True Color
  • YUY2 Packed YUV 4:2:2 format
  • YVYU Packed YUV 4:2:2 format
  • UYVY Packed YUV 4:2:2 format
  • YV12 Planar YUV 4:2:0 format (fastest color format - used as main pixel format in Crystal Player video kernel)
  • Supports double buffering for overlays, vertical sync wait for HWCodec and DirectDraw modes, nearest point and bi-linear interpolation modes for DrawDIB software resizing.
• Crystal Player Mobile engine is optimized so now you can convert your videos to CME format with 10fps for 176x144 and 12fps for 160x128.
• JPEG format for screenshots is supported (thanks to libjpeg)
• Major updates of REAL splitter
• Clean Picture feature for truncated AVI files (DivX 3,4,5 supported - it was dirty picture after seeking before)
• Fast change of Aspect Rate (just press shift and resize main window)
• Force FourCC feature. Automatically replace compatible FourCC of the video to be recognized by your codecs. More video files are avaliable.
• Shuffle feature - plays files from the playlist in random order.
• New remove noise filter: higher quality now.
• Bug fixed: video lock while playback - audio goes while video is stopped.
• Bug fixed: GDI objects leak on Win9x - after few hours of playing subtitles are becoming small.
• Some bugfixes in Internal Splitters.
• Some minor bugfixes.

New in 1.7 Version (Cleanup)

• Security Unit. Catches some errors in buggy codecs. More stability.
• Internal Help. Just Press F1 key on menu item you're interested in.
• New codec database. More codecs are avaliable to autodownload.
• Pentium-4 SSE2 Optiomizations. Up to 2x faster Crystal Player filters. Optimized Brightness/Contrast/Saturation filter.
• Boss Key. BackSpace/Ctrl+Shift+BackSpace to Hide, Ctrl+Shift+BackSpace to Show.
• New Source Data Cache kernel. Loading prediction.
• Key Shortcuts for skew corrections.
• Multi-desktop feature supported.
• Mute Key Control + some usability fixes relative to disable audio control.
• New Audio Renderer Implementation: Faster seeking is now avaliable.
• Major bugfixes in MPEG, Real and VIVO parsers.
• AVI Splitter feature: partly index supported.
• XML Parser global optimizations, faster CrystalPlayer loading.
• Plain pentium assembler implementation of some filters. Now it works on even on old processors.
• Bug fixed: external audio files support.
• Some minor bugfixes.

New in 1.6 Version (Mobile Engine)

• Internal CME compressor & muxer. Capturing. Allows you to generate .cme stream dump for Crystal Player Mobile Edition to play them on your phone.
• Internal CME splitter & decompressor. Allows you to watch .cme dumped streams in Crystal Player.
• New Compact Base skin.
• MPEG1/2 (PS) Internal Splitter new implementation. Fast opening, playing and seeking your MPEGs. Supported Formats: MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD, SVCD, Nero images of VCD&SVCD.
• Real Video (RV) Internal Splitter. Can use external DirectShow decompressor and RealPlayer decompressor.
• VIVO Internal Splitter. Fast opening, playing and seeking your *.viv files in Crystal. You can hardly find another one program could seek in VIVO files (we never saw one).
• Preload file thumbnails and short info.
• New File Manager kernel. Fast playlist operations, cache file information and settings.
• Internal XML parser (no need MSXML2.0 or IE4 or newer to be installed)
• SSE Memory management. It's a little bit faster for Pentium III and above.
• Work around in Internal AVI Splitter: work with AVI files with incorrect stream ID.
• Bug Fixed: Incorrect working with High FrameRate (about 1000fps) in Internal AVI Splitter
• Bug Fixed: Incorrect working with Huge AVI2 Files (more than 2GB) in Internal AVI Splitter
• Bug Fixed: Leak about 200K every playback start.
• Some minor bugfixes.

New in 1.5 Version (AVI & MPEG)

• New AVI Internal Splitter implementation. Now you'll play corrupted AVI's, play files during downloading.
  • OpenDML AVI File Format Indexes support.
  • Turbo Opening (Playing without Index Table loading)
  • Index Table Reconstruction while playing in RealTime for corrupted files.
  • Heuristic seeking (without any index tables) for corrupted files. Nonprecise seeking.
  • Flexible Speed Troubleshoting - Jump Keyframes in AVI (even corrupted) and OpenDML files.
• MPEG1/2 (PS) Internal Splitter implementation (Optional). Fast opening, seeking and playing your MPEGs. Supported Formats: MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD, SVCD
• One more video mode: Hardware Blitting (YUV->RGB conversion, resize & print) for Ge-Force and other 3D-accelerators.
• Postprocessing. Fast horizontal deblocking, vertical deblocking filters.
• Auto Postprocessing. Postprocessing level depend on computer speed.
• Corrected downloading codecs system. Downloading more codecs, MPEG decompressors.
• More Subtitles format: "SSA"
• Additional features in Subtitles: Karaoke, scrolling and etc.
• More Intelligent YV12 connection. More decompressors connect with Crystal in YV12 correctly.
• Work around scheme for Mother Boards those work incorrectly with High-Perfomance Timer.
• Time Stabilization for incorrect time (Force Average Video FrameRate mode). Now you may use FFDShow decompressor to play your MPEGs. Note: it works only in Crystal.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected Direct File Access for NT.
• Bug Fixed: Incorrect File Preloading.
• Bug Fixed: Alt-Tab in Fullscreen corrected.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected DirectDraw support (Can't use overlays error from Console mode).
• Bug Fixed: Color lines with Subtitles Outside the screen mode.
• Bug Fixed: File Write Sharing. Allows you to play the file while another application writes it.
• Bug Fixed: Horizontal line in fullscreen in AutoHide TaskBar mode.

New in 1.41 Version (Work around)

• Work around scheme for decompressors those work incorrectly with YV12 format.
• Downloading more codecs.

New in 1.4 Version (Subtitles)

• New Subtitles engine. One of the best and the fastest implementation. Multi-Color, Anti-Aliased, Dynamic Fonts and etc.
  Formats supported: "SRT", "SMI", "SUB", "JS", "DKS", "MPL", "RT", "SMIL"
• New AVI Splitter Feature: Seeking in Truncated AVI files.
• New Remove Noise filter. Much faster and much better quality one.
• DirectSound Buffering in real time. Seeking became faster.
• Additional information about decompressors should be installed to play the file.
• Several audio streams supported, new stream kernel.
• Attaching external audio files.
• Optional auto downloading and instaliing required decompressors, additional informations about required decompressors.
• Sticking. Allows to stick Crystal to the corner of your Desktop.
• Seek Bar, Volume Bar, Menues works much faster now, some optimizations.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected Outside the screen subtitles mode and playback odd resolution videos.
• Bug Fixed: RGB24/RGB32 input format correction.
• Bug Fixed: Playback with several audio channels.

New in 1.3 Version (New Video Engine)

• New Video engine. Now Crystal internal data processing is in YUY4:2:0 format
  If your video card supports YV12 Overlay it takes about 10%-15% speed superiority
  All video filters are 30%-50% faster and finally it allows to buffer more frames.
• New input formats are suppored: YV12, YVYU, UYVY, RGB32, RGB15, RGB16
  Now Supported: YV12, YUY2, YVYU, UYVY, RGB32, RGB24, RGB16, RGB15
• New output overlay format is suppored: UYVY
  Now Supported: YV12, YUY2, YVYU, UYVY, RGB32, RGB24, RGB16, RGB15
• Colorful, Blending on-screen items
• Trial support of URL-Files source
• System Icon and other details are implemented
• Few new features in XML SKIN engine
• New language. Turkish.
• Tooptips.
• Current time is avaliable in TopRight corner in Fullscreen.
• On-Line Purchase Processing. Now you can purchase the Crystal in ON-LINE mode.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected COM Interfaces implementing.

New in 1.2 Version (Multifunctionality)

• Some new features in XML SKIN engine.
• Expanded video window for subtitles to be out of the screen.
• Storing settings into XML - now Crystal will not reset settings when you'll updade it.
• Zooming. Now you can zoom the picture to view it in details.
• New languages. Hebrew, Lithuanian, Serbian, Danish.
• Panarama. Now you can force the aspect ratio of the movie proportionally.
• Drag&Drop. Now you can drop files from windows explorer to Crystal's window.
• Dolby Sound. Now Crystal's renderer supports multichannel sound as AC3.
• Corrected playback of many files in fullscreen mode - Crystal remains in fullscreen.
• Disabling menu items. For example, when stopped there is no sense to pause.
• Optional Storing of playback position.
• Crystal Skin Files. ZIPs renamed to *.csa - now you don't need to unzip and load skins.
• Bug Fixed. Non-standart font scaled modes is supported now.

New in 1.01 Version (Spanish and Polish)

• Some new features in XML SKIN engine.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected Spanish and Polish language support.

New in 1.0 Version (First Release)

• Official Support and Professional Version.
• Optional Installation.
• New File Reading Kernal. Preloading, read block size tuning.
• Optional Proportional Sizing.
• Optional Auto Sizing.
• File Associations.
• Audio Filter Bass.
• Audio Filter Accent Stereo.
• Showing Non-Located Codec names for AVI.
• New languages. Brazilian, Croatian, Finnish, Slovak, Swedish.
• Bug Fixed: Microsoft Windows doesn't support Huge-Block Memory Allocation (infinite Initialization...)
• Bug Fixed: Resource Slack. Crashed within a long seance.
• Bug Fixed: Base Skin loading under Win9x.

New in 036 Version (The Last beta)

• MMX-Memory transfering. It's a little bit faster.
• Skinable Menu Sealing (as system menu).
• Palette Support in Non-True Color movies.
• Advanced features in XML Skins and Bug fixes.
• Capturing. Allows you to make ScreenShots.
• New languages. Bulgarian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Norvegian, Polish, Romana, Spanish.
• Bug Fixed: WinNT4.0 menu crash.
• Bug Fixed: Synchronous playback with other multimedia applications.

New in 035 Version (Multilingual support)

• Multilingual Support: English, Russian, Italian.
• Design Changes.
• Advanced features in XML Skins: Animated pictures.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected Playback when minimized.
• Faster Skin release.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected Non-Russian ANSI Char Subtitles.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected Connection with FFDShow filter.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected Playback Secondary Audio Stream.

New in 034 Version (Bugfixes)

• Advanced features in XML Skins: XML Skinable Menu
• Subtitles Skew Correction.
• Seekin Bar Bonus.
• Remember Last Directories.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected Seeking *.asf.
• Bug Fixed: v0.33 Failed Playing *.mpg.
• Bug Fixed: Forward Seeking.
• Bug Fixed: Double Slash (Such as E:\\).

New in 033 Version (Skin documentation)

• Storing the Playlist to Register.
• Use Secondary Audio - Try to use Secondary Audio.
• Advanced features in XML Skins.
• Corrected XML Parser
• You don't need XML Parser 3.0 Installed on your computer to use XML Skins.
• Bug Fixed: Forward Seeking.
• Bug Fixed: Full Path from Command Line.

New in 032 Version (Skins)

• XML Skins.
• Bug Fixed: Memory Slack (~2MB).

New in 031 Version (OSD)

• RunTime Menu (Trial).
• Seeking Bar (Trial).
• Bug Fixed: Russian Chars in Playlist file.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected Internal AVI Splitter (Synchronization).
• Bug Fixed: Corrected (again) support of DirectSound. Hardware/Sofware mixing.

New in 030 Version (Variable Frame Rate)

• New Kernel. Correct support of Variable Frame Rate movies.
• Aspect Ratio Customize.
• Corrected Audio/Video synchronization.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected support of files without audio stream.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected support of DirectSound. Hardware/Sofware mixing.

New in 029 Version (Bugfixes)

• File Reading Optimized for Win9x/Me (DMA). WinNT/2K/XP kernel provides such optimization automatically.
• Fadeout Brightness/Contrast/Saturation Control Bar.
• Bug Fixed: Corrected View when Buffering (Keep Fast Motion)
• Bug Fixed: Corrected InStream Synchronization
• Bug Fixed: Corrected Connection with WMA Decompressor Filter
• Bug Fixed: DeadLock during playing AVIs

New in 028 Version (DirectShow Parsers)

• YV12 Overlay support.
• Runtime help messages. Crystal shows you help messages directly to the screen during playback.
• Fadeout subtitles. A visual effect.
• DirectShow as source support. It allows Crystal to play xqt; mov, mpg, mpeg, m1v, vob files if corresponding codecs and splitters are present.

New in 027 Version (Bugfixes)

• Some Changes in Video Filters control.
• Corrected Properties control.
• Corrected upside down movie cases. Support of incorrect codecs and filters with headlong-like playing in YUV.
• Bug fixed: Corrected Audio Filters control.

New in 026 Version (Subtitles as OSD)

• Fast Subtitles with Anti-Aliasing, AutoSize, Top/Bottom Alignment.
• Noise Filter. Removes the temporary noise from the movie.
• Corrected playback processing. Updating with accuracy of about 5 ms.
• Bug fixed: now DShow filters can resize video frames and change audio format.

New in 025 Version (More friendship)

• Corrected DirectSound support, large sound buffer. New unit.
• Registering DirectShow Filter Graph in ROT.
• Help Contents.
• Bug fixed: corrected DirectShow support. (Can't RUN Filter Graph error).
• Bug fixed: corrected pause when file without sound track is playing.

New in 024 Version (More usability)

• It's now possible to access Brightness/Contrast/Saturation and Volume control in paused state.
• Additional information about AVI file's; Video's FourCC, Audio's FormatTag.
• Render/Connect Pin mode. (was Connect only).

New in 023 Version (First beta)

• Global update of controls.
• It's now possible to setup Time Displacement in playlist directly.