Version History
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FMV-Extractor V 1.3 Beta 1
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- MP3 support is back
- added ID3 Tag V1.0 support
- Improved support for 'fragmented' MP3
(but as a result, MP3-Mode is _very_ slow ...)
- introduced option to ignore read-errors.
FMV-Extractor V 1.2 Release
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- Temporarily removed MP3-Support, as it is not reliable enough yet.
- Fixed Form not updating
- Fixed GPF on exit when analysis still running
FMV-Extractor V 1.2 Beta 4
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- Added preliminary MP3 support
- Bitmaps with any color depths supported
- added Clip info box
- internal playback for AVI,WAV,MIDI,MPEG,MP3 (depends on System), old Quicktime
- external playback support
- improved QuickTime search (less 'false alarms')
FMV-Extractor V 1.2 Beta 3
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- Added support for Quicktime, RealVideo, Midi
- Added Timer / ETA
- ASPI-Drivers no longer required for CD-Mode if running NT/2000/XP
- Fixed a bug introduced in Beta 2 that caused major slowdown
FMV-Extractor V 1.2 Beta 2
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- Added Drag&Drop support, which was about time.
This should improve usability quite a bit.
- Smacker support is back in.
FMV-Extractor V 1.2 Beta 1
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- The V1.1 batch was too unstable, so I rewrote everything.
From scratch. Everything.
As a result, Smacker and Videolive are still missing,
but they'll be back soon.
Furthermore, V1.2 is single-threaded.
- At last wrote a help file
- Added a toolbar
- Re-designed the UI
- Introduced a more 'thorough' analysis engine.
As a result, analysis takes quite a bit longer, but the chances
of finding clips have improved even more.
- Introduced search for BMP and JPG
FMV-Extractor V 1.1 Alpha 4
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- hopefully fixed a nasty thread-related bug that caused random GPFs
- slightly improved CD-Mode speed
FMV-Extractor V 1.1 Alpha 3
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- consolidated large portion of the code
- some minor GUI tweaks
FMV-Extractor V 1.1 Alpha 2
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- ported CD-Mode code to Win9x
- added Pause / Resume button
FMV-Extractor V 1.1 Alpha 1
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- added basic CD-Mode (NT/Win2K only)
- made another absolutely unjustified jump in version numbers :)
FMV-Extractor V 1.01 Beta 3
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- added support for WAV audio by request (thanks to Palamedes)
FMV-Extractor V 1.01 Beta 2
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- added support for MPEG-1 System streams
FMV-Extractor V 1.01 Beta 1
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- added support for VideoLive videos by request (thanks to Euro Nguyen)
FMV-Extractor V 1.01 Beta 1
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- moved the analysis routine to a seperate thread
(so the progress bar gets updated properly)
FMV-Extractor V 1.0
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- skipped (I don't like .0 - releases :)
FMV-Extractor V 0.9a
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- massively improved the search for Interplay MVE files by changing the
search pattern
FMV-Extractor V 0.9
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- added a status indicator (which was about time)
- cleaned up the code
- improved the error handling a bit
FMV-Extractor V 0.8 (unreleased)
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- improved the search for Smacker files by changing the search pattern
FMV-Extractor V 0.7 (unreleased)
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- re-designed the GUI
FMV-Extractor V 0.6 (unreleased)
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- added support for Smacker (R) videos, thus covering over 2000 (!) games
FMV-Extractor V 0.5 (unreleased)
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- introduced a little error handling
- improved the search for AVI files by changing the search pattern
FMV-Extractor V 0.4 (unreleased)
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- added support for AVI video files, although I haven't found a game that
uses those ...
FMV-Extractor V 0.3 (unreleased)
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- added support for Interplay (R) video files
- renamed the project to FMV-Extractor, as BIK-Extractor was no longer
appropirate :)
- introduced version numbers instead of build numbers
BIK-Extractor Build 003003 (unreleased)
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- hopefully fixed the bug that occasionally corrupted the last frame of
the video, causing the player to crash.
BIK-Extractor Build 002902
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- initial release
Known Issues / Limitations
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- VideoLive support has been removed.
- MP3-Mode very very very slow :(
Plans for the next release(s)
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- Implement multi-language support
- Add custom search option
If there's any feature you'd like to see in FMV-Extractor, just let me know,
and I'll see what I can do.
zoth-ommog@gmx.net