Beta Testing Guide

If you want to be a beta tester, grab builds from http://www.cccp-project.net/beta/ and poke them. Note that some builds are really really broken, or include huge painful changes just for the fun of it, so don't let it near your system unless you know how to clean up the mess. Idle in IRC to hear about maybe 50% of new builds uploaded there.

Bugs can be reported at the IRC channel, and if really seen as bugs and not user error or already fixed -> use the current testing thread.

Known Issues

• Annex B in MP4-type containers does not work with LAV Video, this has been reported to upstream but hasn't been handled yet.
• Since ffdshow-tryout was removed, all the fancy filters it had won't be available. The most important is probably the video resize one, to work around broken video drivers that hate non-mod4.

Other Things of Note

In MPC-HC: The Ctrl key no longer needs to be held to seek. Seek which used to be Ctrl+Left Arrow or Ctrl+Right Arrow is now simply the Left or Right Arrow.

Changelog

• 2013-05-20: A new LAV Filters release means that we're closing up on a new release here at CCCP as well :-) . First release candidate is thus out.
  • Updated components
    • LAV Filters 0.57.0.0-d8dc0ef
    • MPC-HC 1.6.8.7308
  • General changelog
    • Minor network initialization fix in LAV Splitter.
    • Updated MPC-HC to current git HEAD.
• 2013-05-18: LAV Splitter went RC, and the timing seems to match rather well with a new CCCP release.
  • Updated components
    • LAV Filters 0.56.2.0-96c2f0f
    • MPC-HC 1.6.8.7287
  • General changelog
    • After the change of the last beta was made more proper, nevcairiel was poked with it. It seems like opinions matched, and nev reimplemented it without separate user-set'able IDs for virtual and non-virtual tracks in mainline LAV Splitter.
    • Updated MPC-HC to current git HEAD.
• 2013-05-13: A beta to test a patch for LAV Splitter's default subtitle track selection.
  • Updated components
    • LAV Filters 0.56.2.0-9a4254e
    • MPC-HC 1.6.8.7228
  • General changelog
    • Enabled JPEG2000 and VMWare Screen Codec by default in LAV Video.
    • Patched LAV Splitter to prefer 'default' tracks rather than 'forced' tracks in case user has not set any specific preference about track language or type.
      • Makes track selection more consistent with files that contain subtitle track(s) of which one is set to be 'default', and in which at least one track contains PGS subpictures. Before this, LAV Splitter's virtual "Forced Subtitles" track creation function, which would only show the forced PGS subpictures from the subtitle track matching the currently played audio language, would cause the track selection algorithm to select such a track instead of the one set as 'default' in the file. Not really a proper proper fix, but should generally give a workable result until the proper fix can be implemented.
• 2013-05-12: Now that LAV has gotten some other updates into its git repository, another beta.
  • Updated components
    • LAV Filters 0.56.2.0-9a4254e
    • MPC-HC 1.6.8.7226
  • General changelog
    • Optimized Matroska seeking in LAV Splitter.
    • A new file extension blacklist added in LAV Splitter so it would not accidentally open .ifo or .bup files.
    • JPEG2000 support added in LAV Splitter and LAV Video. Not enabled by default yet in LAV Video because JEEB forgot to modify the defaults.
    • A pop-up menu added to LAV Splitter's tray icon for stream/chapter/edition switching. Enabled by default for now for testing purposes.
• 2013-05-03: Mostly a LAV update that brings fixes to segment linked files with Vorbis and different extradata between the segments.
  • Updated components
    • LAV Filters 0.56.2.0-34569a5
    • MPC-HC 1.6.8.7140
  • General changelog
    • Optimized reading of Matroska files for linked segment searching in LAV Splitter.
    • Extradata is now properly updated between segments with Vorbis in LAV Splitter. Fixes the noise that happened with linked segments that contained differently encoded Vorbis.
    • Channel mapping is now read from the FLAC extradata by LAV Splitter/Audio, and used.

Old Beta Changes

See Beta changelog.

Parts of the 2011 changelog were instead posted on the forum.

Beta Testers System Specs

Cpuroast
Intel Core i7 3720QM @ 2.6-3.6Ghz, Intel HM77, 8GB DDR3-1600, Nvidia GT 650M 1GB, Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1
Intel Core i7 2600S @ 2.8-3.8Ghz, Intel Z68, 8GB DDR3-1333, AMD HD 6770M 512MB, Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1
Intel Core i7 870 @ 2.93-3.6Ghz, Intel 3450, 8GB DDR3-1333, Nvidia 8800 GT 512MB, Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1

Osjur
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.8Ghz, DFI LanParty X48, 8GB DDR2, Geforce 280GTX, Auzentech X-FI Prelude, Windows Seven X64 Beta
Intel Celeron D 3.33Ghz, Intel Mobo, 512MB DDR2, Ati Radeon 9200SE, Windows XP SP3
AMD Sempron 2500+ 1.8Ghz, Asus A7N8X-E, 1GB DDR, Ati Radeon 9600SE, Windows XP SP3

maxstep
i7 920@4.4, EVGA Classified, 12Gb@2000, 2x ATI HD 4870 X2 QuadFire, X-Fi, Windows 7 Professional x64, 30" HP LP3065c

Kovensky
AMD Sempron "Palermo" 2800+ 64-bit SSE3 @ 1.76GHz, PCCHIPS M760G, 768MB DDR, NVidia GeForce4 MX4000, Realtek AC'97, Windows XP 32-bits

bb10
Intel Core2 Duo "Penryn" P7350 2.0GHz @ 2.26GHz, Intel PM45, 4GB DDR2, Nvidia Geforce 9600M GT, Realtek HD Audio ALC888s, Windows 7 64bit/Windows Vista SP2 32bit

JEEB
Intel Core 2 Duo "Penryn" P8400 @ 2.26GHz, Intel PM45, 4GB DDR2, Nvidia GeForce 9600M GS, Realtek Audio, Windows 7 64bit Professional