QCTools version 0.8

Downloads: Downloads for Mac and Windows installers for QCTools and qcli are attached. For additional installers for many operating systems, see https://mediaarea.net/QCTools/Download.

0.8, 2017-04-15

• Added a QCTools command line interface, "qcli"
• Added integration with Signalserver, uploading QCTools Report
• Added aphasemeter player
• Optimizations for playback and multithreading
• Added ffprobe's stream and format metadata to the QCTools Report
• Added graphs to plot packet duration time and packet size
• Adjusted graphs y-axis to accommodate non-8 bit values
• Display frame type in playback window
• Added Cb and Cr shifting to the Chroma Adjust player
• Added documentation for filters, thx @retokromer @kieranjol
• Rework of documentation from development in HTML to Markdown
• Added audio bitscope player (abitscope)
• Added a 10 column bit player (shows a sample of the first 10 MSBs)
• Added integration of font management to drawing text in playback filters
• Graphs can be rearranged by dragging their checkboxes
• The List view can be sorted by filename
• Alphabetized the playback filter menu
• Consolidate to one .pro file with options to build with homebrew or with decklink
• Added EIA608 and VITC viewer
• Added contribution guidelines to repository

• Fix crash on incomplete Matroska
• Fix to vectorscope when fields are split
• Fix crashes when the input contains audio but no video
• Fixing on opening xml.gz files

Note: The original 0.8 builds shared here were using ffmpeg without freetype which caused an error when using the EIA608 and VITC viewer. The 0.8fix1 builds address this issue and should be preferred.

QCTools version 0.7.3

• Added graphing the SSIM (Structural SImilarity Metric) between the two fields
• Added graphing interlacement detection data
• Added graphing audio metric data via astats filter
• Draggable/resizeable selection area in Waveform Target, Vectorscope Target, and Zoom
• Support for plotting data in 10 bit when revelant (affects graphs for Y, U, V, Diffs, and SAT)
• Add shortcut to zoom in on the graphs to show one sample per display pixel
• Update waveform and vectorscope to show graticules
• Sortable graph order
• Improve playback filter for bitplanenoise
• Add playback filter for bitplanenoisegraph
• Add playback filter for waveform target
• Improve playback filter for waveforms, datascope, line select, ciescope, histogram
  x Fixes error when opening files on external hard drives
  x Fixed many crashes
  x Fix on sliders when they increment in steps smaller than 1

Mac and Windows installers are below. Other versions are offered by MediaArea.

QCTools version 0.7.2

• Add plotlines for reference black and white in YUV graphs (GitHub issue #96)
• Add plotlines for broadcast illegal and yuv illegal saturation levels
• Update waveform and vectorscope filters to new waveform and vectorscope filters in FFmpeg 2.8
• Add field modes to Tile and Zoom
• Add astats-based audio data
• Preferences
  x Fixed crash with some big MOV files having count of audio samples of the count of audio blocks in the track header instead

QCTools version 0.7.1

See full release list at http://bavc.org/qctools

QCTools version 0.7

v0.7

Remove accidentally committed test files

QCTools version 0.6

released at #amia14

v0.6a4

Support of more file formats, including the ones with no frame count …

QCTools version 0.6 alpha 2

Development release. For review and testing only.

QCTools version 0.5

Noteworthy updates to version .05 include:

User Interface

The inclusion of additional view & playback options (by minutes, in addition to frames & seconds).
Dynamic positioning update during playback to better pinpoint specific parts of video.

Reporting

Support for the creation, import & export of .xml-format reports (compressed and stored as a gzip, or .gz file, and formatted according to the ffprobe xml standard).
Underlying reporting analysis was accepted by ffmpeg as a ‘signalstats filter’, meaning that users can now create QCTools reports using ffmpeg if desired.

Documentation

Addition of the ‘Data Format’ tab giving background, context and interpretation guidance for the QCTools metadata report.

Performance

Utilizing multithreaded analysis, QCTools can now analyze more than one video file at a time.
Additional optimizations for enhanced speed & response.
Support for additional file types.