6th May 2019

DCP-o-matic 2.14.2 was released. This is a bug-fix release which has the following changes from 2.14.1:

• Fix problems with start trim in some rare cases.
• Fix crashes (butler full errors) when using some video filters.
• Speculative fix for white lines at the bottom of full-screen playback.
• Use the correct capitalisation of the word ‘PulseAudio’

There is also an updated nl_NL translation from Rob van Nieuwkerk. Thanks, Rob!

Download it from here.

5th May 2019

DCP-o-matic 2.14.1 was released. This is a bug-fix release which has the following changes from 2.14.0:

• Fix crash reported in the audio mapping view.
• Fix crashes in the player when displaying PNG subtitles (#1545).
• Fix startup crash on Ubuntu 19.04.
• Fix missing logging in some circumstances.
• Correct formatting errors in the it_IT translation causing incorrect messages in some places.
• Don't try to re-use old video after changing the video frame rate of burnt-in subtitles.
• Don't allow the user to unset the video frame rate of DCP and video content (#1547).

There is also an updated fr_FR translation from Thierry Journet and an updated nl_NL translation from Rob van Nieuwkerk. Thanks to Thierry and Rob!

Download it from here.

1st May 2019

DCP-o-matic 2.14.0 was released.

The most significant changes in this release are:

• Support for closed captioning of DCPs.
• Support for bitmapped (PNG timed-text) subtitles.
• Optional “simple” mode with a cut-down GUI.
• A large number of bug fixes across all areas of the program.

There are also the usual set of translation updates and assorted new small features. Here's a full list:

New translations and translation updates

Major new features

• Closed captioning.
• Bitmapped (PNG timed-text) subtitles.
• Optional “simple” mode with a cut-down GUI.
• New key short-cuts: arrows to go forward/backward one frame, Ctrl-T to open timeline, space to start/stop playback (#1201).
• Full-screen mode for the player (#1329).
• Enhanced timeline view with zoom, scrolling and more details displayed about audio content (#1279).
• Option to set the quality (and hence size) of exported H264 files.
• Export 3D projects to separate left/right files (#1332).

Other new features

• Add time axis and real-time readout of time and level in the audio analysis window (#1082).
• Jump to the selected subtitle in the preview if ‘jump to selected content’ is ticked (#1200).
• Allow selection of CPL in the player (#1239).
• Some optimisation of the player to improve its frame rate.
• Export of multi-reel projects to multiple files (#1146).
• Add button to force re-encode of J2K content.
• Modify output XML namespacing to pass checks run by certain UK distribution companies.
• Note and indicate servers with bad link version (#982).
• Support in-place translation updates.
• Allow command-line configuration of config location (#1284).
• Only make 48kHz-audio DCPs for now (#1436).
• Add cancel button to player progress (#1294).
• Add pause/resume to the batch converter (#1248).
• Allow KDM download from Christie, Barco and GDC.
• Allow dialogue box and email notifications when jobs finish (#1286).
• Add option to open a DCP in the player (#1312).
• Add options to enable or disable forensic marking flags in KDMs.
• Give better errors when incorrect KDMs are used (#1326).
• Select CPL by name in the player (#1357).
• Add export button for cinemas XML (#1319).
• Add advanced configuration option to allow any container ratio, specifically because the GDC SX-2001 will only play 25fps DCPs with a 16:9 ratio (not Flat).
• Flatpak and AppImage builds.
• Allow specification of trusted devices by thumbprint rather than by full certificate.
• Accept chains in files passed to dcpomatic2_kdm_cli as well as individual certificates.
• Allow dragging of the border between the content list and the content setting tabs.
• Hopefully improve layout on high-resolution displays (#1303).
• Add File->Close to main DCP-o-matic (#1180).
• Add --encrypted/-e, 3D, 4K and --j2k-bandwidth support to dcpomatic_create.
• Suggest that DCP rates 30fps and lower are used unless the user explictly goes higher (#1441).
• Allow loading of OTF files.
• Sort KDM CPL list in reverse timestamp order (#1496).
• Warn when removing KDM decryption certificate.
• Allow explicit specification of email protocol (plain/STARTTLS/SSL).
• Add episode/promo content types.
• Bump default J2K bandwidth to 150MBit/s (#1523).

Bug fixes

• Fix assertion failure when using separate left/right 3D content (#1264).
• Fix failure to load files with non-ASCII filenames into ImageMagick.
• Keep bitmapped subtitles centered when they are scaled (#1246).
• Fix 5.1 channel mapping when playing back on Linux.
• Fix various errors in formatting of SMPTE subtitles.
• Fix failure of SMPTE DCPs to validate on Sony systems (#978).
• Fix failure to re-create config when it is bad (due to attempt to find a link in the bad file).
• Speculative fix for crash on startup with no audio devices (#1265).
• Prevent setting of negative trims by changing play length.
• A range of fixes for crashes and misbehaviour when changing things during playback.
• Check content files for changes on loading projects and before making DCPs.
• Fix missing start icon for the player in Linux.
• Remove specification of italic/bold fonts (#1451); synthesis will be used instead.
• Fix incorrect subtitle positioning when there are simultaneous subtitles at the same vposition from different reference points (#1458).
• Fix some video content appearing upside down.
• Fix crash with missing DCP content.
• Fix doubled-up subtitles in some cases.
• Fix corruption of UTF16 subtitle files.
• Fix multi-channel audio playback on Linux.
• Fix non-translated file dialogues on OS X (#1261).
• Don't write <Language> tags to SMPTE subs unless we know the language, as ‘Unknown’ is an invalid value and <Language> is optional in SMPTE.
• Tidying up of scrolling in the matrix view.
• Keep content in direct sequence when it is trimmed if the ‘sequence’ tool is enabled (#1327).
• Modify the downmix mapping so that we include Ls, Rs and Lfe (#1281).
• Fix failure to download some certificates (#1379).
• Update encoding server list when servers disappear (#1176).
• Fix default colour of subtitle effects.
• Disable OK in export dialogue until a filename has been specified (#1260).
• Big speed up when handling start-trims.
• Assume .jpf is an image (JPEG2000).
• Fix some warnings about trims not being on frame boundaries.
• Fix hangs when making very long DCPs of still frames (#1317).
• Various fixes to ru_RU DCI names.
• Fix crash on make-dcp after trimming end of text subtitles (#1275).
• Fix incorrect container size when loading a Scope VF/OV combination into the player.
• Force remake of video when subtitle colours and/or effect change (#1290).
• Fix crash on enabling telecine filter.
• Fix incorrect subtitle timing when there are several reels without subtitles.
• Fix overlaid text in, for example, lines with partial italic.
• Fix disappearing subtitles containing &
• Try to disable sub-pixel anti-aliasing (aka ‘ClearType’) when rendering subtitles.
• Various fixes for crashes when dragging content while playing.
• Save config changes made through the batch converter.
• Prevent FFmpeg errors if export filenames are specified with no or incorrect extensions.
• Don't write multiple <LoadFont> tags to Interop subtitles (#1273).
• Fix ordering of image filenames in cases where there are lots of digits in the names.
• Disable the whole interface during audio analysis (#1278).
• Fix console noise when importing non-DCP MXFs (#1362).
• Fix crash when importing DCP with multiple PKLs.
• Fix missing subrip subtitle colours when using upper-case tags.
• Prevent un-prompted overwrite of files when exporting things from config (#1383).
• Add some default filenames when exporting keys (#1383).
• Increase maximum crop to 4096 (#1401).
• Fix strange behaviour with single-frame fades (#1440).
• Re-analyse audio when DCP channel count changes (#1189).
• Make sure audio analysis is re-run even if there's an existing job for the same playlist (but with different settings) (#1257).
• Fix Gb -> GB confusion (thanks Rob van Nieuwkerk).
• Check available disk space when adding jobs to the batch converter (#1249).
• Hide U+202B characters in subtitles.
• Fix odd height reported by mediainfo (#1325).
• Check consistency of refer-to-DCP settings after adding content (#1456).
• Fix non-translated days of the week (#1455).
• Fix crash with some malformed .srt files (#1454).
• Don't enable the export OK button if we change format but have still not set an output file.
• Fix crash when loading a non-existant DCP from history in the player.
• Add missing libpulse0 dependency to Ubuntu 18.{04,10} debs.
• Warn on importing complete certificate chains (part of #1488).
• Don't offer to make KDMs for CPLs with no encrypted assets (#1490).
• Don't try to send emails to cinemas with no addresses (#1489).
• Restrict the characters used in KDM filenames to a very conservative set.
• Fix referencing of trimmed multi-reel DCPs (#1495).
• Fix missing inbuilt translations of wxWidgets in Fedora (#1502).
• Fix server status window being opened behind others (#1503).
• Fix OSX startup error in batch converter (#1501).
• Fix missing serial number controls in certificate download dialogue on OS X(#1508).
• Fix strange behaviour of the preview slider towards the end of content where there is a section at the end with no keyframe (#1522).
• Fix multi-channel playback on Windows.
• Fix errors when adding reels containing audio after referenced reels (#1528).
• Don't offer setting for line spacing with DCP subs (#1527).
• Improve recognition of non-DCP MXFs.
• Fix preview update when fade is changed (#1531).
• Fix gross colour errors when exporting projects containing fades (#1532).
• Don't try to upload to TMS after export.
• Ignore the (unrouteable) FTP passive-mode IP address given by the Dolby certificate server (#1541).

Thanks to 刘汉源, Rob van Nieuwkerk, Thierry Journet, Dan Cohen, Carsten Kurz, Tomáš Begeni, Felice D'Andrea, Riccardo Mantani, Igor Voytovich, Gökhan Aksoy and Anders Uhl Pedersen.

Download it from here.

An enormous thank-you goes out to our April supporters:

• John B. Thomas
• Chris Eller
• Barak Epstein
• Arrow Media Services
• João Gabriel Riveres
• RHI Media Robert Hoelzel
• Samuel Sanchez
• Matthieu Zingle
• Дмитрий Покровский
• Mark Allender
• Kelly Marshall
• Jose Delio Ares Garcia
• Mark Hartsuyker
• Daniel Roman
• Jaime Estrada-Torres
• Owen Morgan
• Garry Maddison
• Neil McGrath
• Paolo Mancini
• Gautam Sonti
• Swati Dandekar
• Filip Kovcin
• Timm Kröger
• Jürgen Swoboda
• Rigoberto Mora
• Mario Molinari
• Stephen Tyler
• Film.Ca Inc.
• Rodrigo Hernández Cruz
• Louis Albini
• Steve Guttag
• Mario Molinari
• Casablanca Filmkunsttheater
• Central Cinema
• Richard Anderson Productions

Your donations are a massive source of help and support to the DCP-o-matic project. Thank you!

30th April 2019

It's been a while, but we have another user on the list — welcome to the Trento Film Festival!

28th April 2019

Beta version 2.13.156 is now uploading. This has a couple of bug fixes:

• Occasional crash when dragging things in the timeline.
• Crash when resizing the DCP-o-matic window in Linux.

Any testing and bug reports are extremely welcome!

25th April 2019

Beta version 2.13.152 is now uploading. This has a few bug fixes:

• Improve recognition of non-DCP MXF files.
• Fix lack of preview update when fade is changed.
• Fix colour errors when exporting projects containing fades.
• Don't try to upload to a TMS after exporting.
• Fix crash on Windows when uploading to a FTP/SCP server.
• Fix crashes when previewing projects containing encrypted DCPs with no KDMs.
• Disable line-spacing controls with DCP subtitles.
• Fix errors when adding reels containing audio after referenced reels.

We are closing in on a release, so please test (if you can) to shake out any remaining bugs!

16th April 2019

Beta version 2.13.146 is now uploading. The only significant change is that multi-channel (i.e. more than stereo) playback should now work on Windows. Unfortunately this fix has meant a rather large change to the audio library, so I would be very grateful for any testing (especially of audio in the preview and player).

6th April 2019

Beta version 2.13.144 is now uploading. This has two main changes:

• Updated da_DK translation from Anders Uhl Pedersen.
• Option to choose CCAP track in preview / playback.

4th April 2019

Beta version 2.13.142 is now ready for download. This addresses:

• Failure to display bold and italic subtitles on some versions of OS X.
• Tidy up handling of subtitle language specifications.
• Fix strange behaviour of the preview slider towards the end of content with no keyframes near the end.
• Add EPS (episode) and PRO (promo) DCP types.

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