0.

26 Alpha
1. A quick fix to index generation
0.25 Alpha
1. Better support for XVID encoded videos, although still the original xvid deco
der is
recommended (ffdshow is not supported).
2. Save as feature is now operational. So one can save previews of videos being
downloaded and watch them in a common player. Corrupted files can be fixed
permanently this way. It only works as Save as under a different name, you cannot
write into the file you previewing, should be updated in later releases.
3. File switching and update speedup.
4. All known memory leaks are fixed.
5. Volume control
6. Right mouse click brings a floating menu up with major control functions.
7. Zoom functions: 50%, 100%, 200%, Full Screen.
8. Cleanup of the recently accessed files (in the Tools menu).
9. Smaller number of DirectX warnings in general and ability to switch them off
permanently (Settings->Show DirectX Warnings). Caution, if you turn it off, ther
e
will be no way for you to know what went wrong (in case anything did).
10. Better stability (again hopefully :).
11. I am back to MFC 4.2, so all win98 troubles should be gone.

Issues (discovered):
1. Some DirectX filters may leak memory. It is general DirectX problem not
much
can be done here. Just restart Avipreview once in a while and (win2000-XP)
system should perform the cleanup.
2. Visit www.avipreview.com for the list of the known ones
0.21 Alpha
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1. Tired of fighting the stability issues under WinXP-Win2000 I just recomp
iled the
program in VC++7.0 (6.0 before) and linked statically MFC 7.0 (dynamic dlls
MFC 4.2 before). Have not experienced a single crash since. Did not change a
single line of code weird but is the way it is. Looks like DirectX and MFC 4.2
just not go along very well.
0.20 Alpha
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1. MPG (MPEG) support is now on.
2. AVI index generation has a progress bar and can be stopped any time. On
next
file data update it will continue from the point you stopped.
3. Smart Key Frame search algorithm. On more than 50% of AVI file keyframes
can
be found precisely resulting in better seeking performance. The algorithm
introduces no additional computational load. User can turn the algorithm
ON/OFF.
4. Win 2000-XP: third party applications can move/rename/delete the file yo
u are
previewing
5. Win98-ME: File releasing is now correct.
6. Controls are disabled then index generation is the progress.
7. Faster index generation algorithm. Plus some bugs fixed.
8. Stop button: stop and release the file.
9. Keyboard shortcuts to main commands
10. Tooltips for buttons are now always on.
11. Hopefully more informative error messages.
0.17 Alpha
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1. File->Open works even for extremely long file names.
2. Video should now be always visible (toggle full screen on/off).
3. Once file information has been updated the movie rewinds to the last pla
yed
portion.
4. Slider works a bit better.
0.16 Alpha
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1. Check for update now really checks only the part of the file which has not
been
checked since the last index regeneration. Update is MUCH faster now.
2. Using Esc to go from full screen back to windowed mode. Well, the issue of
video window disappearance is still where but happens less often. Perhaps, it
happens only in my setup. None seems to complain about it. Anyway, (TMP
solution) move the main program window (or change its size) for windows to
appear. Or press Esc again (go full screen) and then go windowed mode.
3. Empty start of the file - took a lot of time for program to realize that n
othing
could be done here. Now AVIPreview by AJ checks explicitly if the beginning of
the file is present and looks like AVI. So it takes no time to figure out that w
here
is no data in the start of the file.
4. Update or opening a new file causes the internal video window to jump ou
t of the
main frame. Solved.
5. Visit www.avipreview.com does not work on some platforms. Now it should
be
in working order.
0.1 ALPHA First Release
Issues (discovered):
3. Esc (toggle full screen on) may not work. Temp solution: use go full scr
een
button.
4. Visit www.avipreview.com for the list of the known ones