ALShow Version History

### ALShow v2.01 ###

### ALPlayer v2.0 ###

** Revolutionary Changes (External Changes) **

Renamed as "ALPlayer" from ALShow
Changes in user interfaces and skins
- Added: Skin fading out during playback
- Added: Transparency adjusting of controller
- Changed: Main screen
- Changed: Default skin structure and design
- Changed: Menus and shortcut keys
- Changed: Seperated Bookmarks in a dialog box from Playlist tab

** Internal Changes **

Improved: MP4 formats have better playback support
Improved: AVI formats (v210 codec) have better playback support
Fixed: Screen blacking out when playing captured videos
Fixed: Program terminating when using some .smi subtitle files
Fixed: Some Qclp codecs' audio playing faster

### ALShow v1.91 ###

Improved: Support for Windows 7
Added: Controller on Thumbnail (Windows 7)
Added: "Delete Recently Played List" option on Jumplist (Windows 7)
Added: Video Output feature in Preferences
Fixed: Some file extensions playing slow
Fixed: Problems with playing IFO and VOB files
Fixed: Bug when associating files
Fixed: Empty items creating in favorites
Fixed: Capture folder keep creating

### ALShow v1.8 ###

Added: Unicode support
Added: Support SWF format files
Added: Display copyright
Added: Icon for FLV file
Improved: File icon for Windows Vista
Improved: Updated FFmpeg Codec
Fixed: Not synchronizing with some MP4 files
Fixed: Screen size not showing properly when playing MP4 file
Fixed: Malfunction in Favorites menu
Fixed: Bookmarks tooltip not displaying properly
Fixed: ALShow terminating problem when file name is long
Fixed: Screen ratio setting not functioning properly
Fixed: Not able to play when dragging both movie file and caption file
Fixed: Problems related to mouse dragging
Fixed: Some errors in FLV files
Changed: File extension connecting process

### ALShow v1.7 ###

Added: MPEG video and audio filter
Added: Support for M4V file format
Added: Support for FLV file format
Improved: Support for MP4 audio codec
Improved: Better playback support for DVDs
Fixed: Some SRT caption files caused an error when dragged to screen
Fixed: Playing some video files with caption caused ALShow to crash occasionally
Fixed: ALShow is not responding when playing H.264 files
Fixed: When prompted to play the next song, the first file in the folder was played instead
Fixed: Could not play AVI file with more than 2GB
Fixed: Could not play MMS file
Fixed: Failed to render MP4, TP file format
Fixed: ALShow did not properly display the screen size
Fixed: Could not play video that uses WMV3 codec if file is still downloading
Fixed: ALShow crashes on exit when uploading to ALShow codec center
Fixed: ALShow crashes on exit when playback is stopped after deleting playback history
Fixed: ALShow crashes on exit when saving the caption sync.
Fixed: ALShow now can select the source filter when playing streaming videos
Fixed: With Vista, WMV video played in black screen
Fixed: With Vista, ALShow could not automatically reclaim file association
Fixed: With Vista, ALShow flashed when playing files

### ALShow v1.62 ###

Added: MP4 source filter
Added: Support for SRT caption files
Fixed: Problems with Fast Forward and Rewind (Shift Left / Right) not behaving properly
Fixed: On some specific PCs the CD-ROM would open when ALShow played
Fixed: When adjusting the picture (brightness, contrast, etc.) playback would skip forward
Fixed: Errors when skipping forward/backward by x seconds
Fixed: New OGG file format support added and source filter fixed

### ALShow v1.6 ###

Added: Video filter upgrades
- Faster rendering with CPU optimizations
- H.264, x264 playback support
- H.263, S263 playback support
- VSSH, DAVC, AVC1 playback support
Added: Language selection support for VobSub captions
Added: CVID video format support
Added: TP file format support
Added: Language selection for ALShow
Improved: MPEG formats now have better playback support
Fixed: Video capture now prompts users for video files with no video content (i.e. only audio content)
Fixed: Audio capture now prompts users for video files with no audio content (i.e. only video content)
Fixed: All language captions were displayed by default for multilingual caption files and required manual setting after each restart
Improved: Better support for ASX files with http media and ASX files with malformed headers
Fixed: ALShow did not properly connect to the ALShow codec center for installing MKV codecs
Fixed: Could not change caption locations onscreen when rendering captions in image mode
Fixed: Could not seek through captions (Home, End keys) when captions were renedered in image mode
Fixed: Errors adding, changing, deleting in the favorites list when not logged in through an administrator account
Fixed: Under Preferences > Playback unchecking "Stop repeating segments after x times." did not allow for infinite playback loops
Fixed: Under the File menu, Favorites > Organize Favorites, deleting items caused an error
Fixed: Changing the volume on the keyboard did not adjust volume properly
Fixed: Changing skins on Windows 98 sometimes caused ALShow to crash
Improved: Better support for ASF formats
Fixed: Connected to codec center when playing CDXA videos even when proper codec was installed

### ALShow v1.5 beta1 ###

Added: Option to increase screen size to 200%
Improved: Playback speed adjustments
Fixed: Skin occasionally appeared darkened
Fixed: Some MOV files caused an error
Fixed: Pressing ESC during MP3 playback did not stop sound
Fixed: Video capture did not always properly capture video
Fixed: Resetting preferences erroneously created a default ALShow capture folder if none was defined
Improved: Changing skins in the preferences is now instantaneous
Improved: Can now change caption sizes for TV output
Fixed: ALShow did not resize properly if caption display mode was changed during movie playback
Fixed: Adding captions while playing a movie caused captions toaalways appear in TV Out mode