Elecard MPEG Player 5.

7 Release Notes
June 2010

Copyright information
Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Elecard.
All Rights Reserved.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The shareware version of Elecard MPEG Player has the 30-day evaluation period. The
shareware version of Elecard MPEG Player has a Logo in the upper-right corner of
the decoded video.
When the 30-day evaluation period expires, the Elecard MPEG-2 Video Decoder or
Elecard MPEG-4 Video Decoder displays a �running� string (it will be also visible
at playback in other players, unless you uninstall the Elecard MPEG-2 Video Decoder
and Elecard MPEG-4 Video Decoder).
Therefore, you should purchase a license and activate Elecard MPEG Player (with the
Elecard MPEG-2 Video Decoder and Elecard MPEG-4 Video Decoder inside) or,
otherwise, uninstall it completely.

For more details on the registration contact Elecard Sales Department

(sales@elecard.com).
And to find more information on the activation procedure, please visit Elecard site
http://www.elecard.com.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Elecard MPEG Player is a real time, software-only MPEG Player, providing high
resolution, full quality decoding of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP/ASP and AVC/H.264
(if Elecard AVC PlugIn is installed), optimized for the most efficient CPU usage.
The built-in DirectShow� compatible decoders enable Elecard MPEG Player to play a
number of common multimedia formats such as AVI, WAV, MP3, and MOV.

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 5.7
New features:
o Customizable data waiting time during a broadcast stream opening.
o Customizable time interval for data waiting, if the broadcast data receiving
is lost.
o Ability of the whole playlist saving/restoring, when the player is
closed/started.
o Automatic jump to the next playlist item after the specified time.
o Disabling of the error message displaying, if any file opening error occurs.
o Video window size and position saving/restoring, when the player is
closed/started.
o Improved displaying of the stream information (program sorting, current
program highlighting, etc.).
o Automatic change of audio stream according to the selected video stream.
o Addition to the playlist of all numbered file parts, if any part is opened.
o Hot key for the 'On Top' mode toggling.
Main fixed bugs:
o Incorrect processing of DVB subtitles.
o Incorrect parsing of UDP/RTP strings from M3U lists.
Updated Components:
o Elecard NWSource-Plus
o Elecard RTSP NetSource

Supported Formats
o MPEG-1 System Stream including VideoCD-compliant
o MPEG-1 Video Only
o MPEG-2 Program Stream including DVD-compliant (VOB) and SuperVCD-compliant
(SVCD)
o MPEG-2 Video Only
o MPEG-2 Transport Stream
o MPEG-2 HDTV (including ATSC)
o PIM2 (AVI including MPEG-2 format)
o All 18 ATSC formats
o AVC/H.264 (if Elecard AVC PlugIn is installed)
o Sony PSP MP4
o MP4 System
o MPEG-4 SP-ASP (ISO/IEC 14496-2)

Audio
o MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-2.5, LPCM
o AAC, HE-AAC (SBR, PS) (if Elecard AVC PlugIn is installed)
o LATM AAC (ISO/IEC 14496-3) (if Elecard AVC PlugIn is installed)
o S/PDIF output if available

FEATURES
Standard Features
o Correct aspect ratio displaying
o Full Screen mode
o Video frame capturing (pixel-by-pixel, aspect ratio or user defined) and
saving in BMP/JPEG/GIF format
o DirectShow and ActiveMovie compliance
o MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-2.5, LPCM audio support
o Play list support
o Sound control
o Support of multiple Player instances
o Compatibility with the video card supporting the YUV overlay
o Always on top � prevents other windows from covering the program window
o Playback of all of the well-known and widespread multimedia formats (AVI, WAV,
MOV etc.)

Exclusive Features
o High definition video decoding and playback
o Ability to decode MPEG-2 video in multithread mode on multiprocessor systems
o Real-time, high resolution video playback at D1 720x480 at 30fps for NTSC and
720x576 at 25fps for PAL playback on Pentium II 450 MHz with DirectX
o Brightness control
o Deinterlace vertical filter
o Deinterlace field interpolation
o Seek forward and Seek backward options - ability to look through a movie by
step. You can define step size as an interval of time (1, 2, 5, 10, 15 and 30
seconds) or as a number of frames
o Quarter resolution playback (Preview mode)
o Detailed stream information from the video sequence and system headers and
from the audio sample headers, statistics from the decoders and render filters
o Stream opening (URL typing or selection from the announcement list) for
playback
o Ability to work as an RTSP client
o Fast forward/backward rewind in the RTSP client mode
o Ability to save the result of video trimming as an uncompressed raw data file
(YV12, YUY2, UYVY, RGB24, RGB565, RGB555, RGB32)
o File trimming and saving into MPEG-2 and MP4 formats
o Ability to select elementary streams for saving in a file after trimming
o Playback can be started in Full Screen mode at startup. This mode is switched
off after movie ends.
o Tracing of video resolution changes and corresponding adjustment of the Video
Window size
 o Audio stream output statistics (from Audio Renderer)
o MPEG-4 support
o MP4 System support
o AVC/H.264 and AAC support (if Elecard AVC PlugIn is installed)
o Improved DXVA hardware acceleration support - full bitstream decoding mode is
supported (most recent nVidia & ATI cards support this mode known as VLD or
BitStreamRaw)
o Closed Captions support
o DVD subtitles support
o DVB subtitles support
o Auto-shrink of the video window (important for HD video)
o Play list merging
o Multimedia hot keys support
o Full Screen media controls
o GOP-accurate AVI (DV, XviD, DivX, 3ivX, etc) trimming
o Support of Sony PSP and Apple iPod compatible streams
o M3U list support
o Multi language support
o Skins support
o Support of black/white filter lists
o Shortcut menu in the main panel, in the video window and in the full-screen
mode
o Ability to minimize the player in system tray
o Ability to disable the file history displaying
o Fast stream switching using the special selection mode (selection of one video
and one audio channels)
o Multi channel mode (available only to registered users)
o Registration of filename extensions (file association)
o Hot keys settings
o Playback stop, if the player window is minimized
o Screensaver disabling, if playback is started
o MPEG-2 files indexing
o Support of the player window docking to the screen edge
o Ability to hide the player window, when the video window is displayed
o Ability to display GOP timecodes (in place of current position)
o AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
o Storing playlist and current stream position at the time of the player closing
(when the player is run next time, the stream playback is started from this
position)
o Time settings for automatic jump to the next playlist item

COMPONENTS
o Elecard MPEG Player (MPEGPlayer.exe)
o Elecard License Control (LC.dll)
o Elecard Registrator (Registrator.exe)
o Elecard MPEG-2 Video Decoder (em2vd.ax)
o Elecard MPEG-4 Video Decoder (em4vdec.ax)
o Elecard MP4 Demultiplexer (emp4demux.ax)
o Elecard MPEG Demultiplexer (mpgdmx.ax)
o Elecard MPEG Audio Decoder (emad.ax)
o Elecard Sink Filter (esf.ax)
o Elecard RTSP Net source (ertspnws.ax)
o Elecard NW Source-Plus (enwsplus.ax)
o Elecard MPEG Push Demultiplexer (empgpdmx.ax)
o Elecard File List Source (efls.ax)
o Elecard XMuxer Engine (exmuxenginepro.dll)
o Elecard MPEG Multiplexer (empegmux.ax)
o Elecard MP4 Multiplexer (emp4mux.ax) o
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
o Windows� 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
o SSE-enhanced CPU (Intel� Pentium III, Celeron, AMD� Athlon, Opteron etc.)
o 128 MB RAM
o Any VGA card
o About 15 MB of free disk space

INSTALLATION
Please, uninstall all previous versions of Elecard MPEG Player before installing a
new one.
Run the delivery pack and follow the instructions of Wizard. After you click
"Finish" the program is ready to run and doesn't require rebooting your computer.
During the installation the program copies DirectShow(R) filters (MPEG-2 Video
Decoder, MPEG-4 Video Decoder, Audio Decoder, etc). For additional information on
including DirectShow(R) filters please read Elecard MPEG Player User Guide.

UNINSTALLATION
To uninstall the program, click "Start"->"Programs"->"Elecard"->"Elecard MPEG
Player X.X"->"Uninstall Elecard MPEG Player X.X".
During the uninstallation all the above-mentioned filters and programs are
uninstalled.
Note: During the uninstallation some dialogs can be placed behind the top window
that stops the process, please give attention to this situation and switch active
windows.

FEEDBACK
Visit Elecard on WWW at http://www.elecard.com
On technical issues, please contact the Technical Support Team: tsup@elecard.com
For licensing information, please contact Elecard Sales Department:
sales@elecard.com

HISTORY OF CHANGES

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 5.6
New features:
o Timecode displaying
o DVB subtitles support
o AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
o Storing the current stream position at the time of the player closing (when
the player is run next time, the stream playback is started from this position)
Main fixed bugs:
o Aspect Ratio in full-screen mode (user defined value is used)
o 'Save As' function use for MPEG-2 streams
o Registered DS filters sometimes are not loaded

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 5.5
New features:
o Skins support
o Multi language support
o Support of black/white filter lists
o Shortcut menu in the main panel, in the video window and in the full-screen
mode
o Ability to minimize the player in system tray
o Ability to disable the file history displaying
o Fast stream switching using the special selection mode (selection of one video
and one audio channels)
o Multi channel mode (available only to registered users)
o Registration of filename extensions (file association)
 o Hot keys settings
o Playback stop, if the player window is minimized
o Screensaver disabling, if playback is started
o MPEG-2 files indexing
o Support of the player window docking to the screen edge
o Ability to hide the player window, when the video window is displayed
o Improved Information window (three tabs - Info, Statistics, Parameters)
o Support of DVD subtitles
o Improved source opening (File, Folder, Network)
o Fast forward/backward rewind in the RTSP client mode
o Stream opening (URL typing or selection from the announcement list) for
playback
o Support of new version of Elecard XMuxer Engine
New components:
o Elecard XMuxer Engine Pro
o Elecard MP4 Multiplexer
o Elecard Multiplexer

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 5.3
New features:
o Support of Closed Caption in AVC video ( if Elecard AVC PlugIn v 2.3 or later
is installed)

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 5.2
Main changes:
o MainConcept MP4 Demultiplexer is substituted with new component.
o MainConcept AC3 Audio Decoder, MainConcept Multiplexer, and Elecard Xmuxer
Engine are removed from package.
New components:
o Elecard MP4 Demultiplexer
New features:
o LATM AAC support ( if Elecard AVC PlugIn v 2.2 or later is installed)

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 5.1
Main changes:
o MainConcept MPEG-4 Video Decoder and Elecard Audio Decoder are substituted
with new components.
New components:
o Elecard MPEG-4 Video Decoder
o Elecard MPEG Audio Decoder

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 5.0
New components:
o MainConcept AC3 Audio Decoder
New features:
o Dolby Digital audio decoding
o M3U list support

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 4.5
New components:
o Elecard Raw Data Engine
o Elecard XMuxer Engine
New features:
o GOP-accurate MPEG-4, AVC/H.264 trimming using re-multiplexing procedure
o GOP-accurate AVI (DV, XviD, DivX, 3ivX, etc) trimming
o Full Screen media controls.
o Sony PSP and Apple iPod compatible re-multiplexed streams
o Verimatrix Content Authority System support
Fixed bugs:
Elecard License Control
o Problem with components registration on East Asia localized Windows (Korean,
Japan, China etc.).

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 4.0.5
New components:
o MainConcept MP4 Multiplexer
New features:
Elecard MPEG Player
o Multimedia hot keys support
Elecard MPEG Demultiplexer
o DVB subpicture support
o AES3 support for TS
o LATM AAC support
Fixed bugs:
Elecard MPEG Player
o Loading the files list containing the network path
o Multi-stream files opening
o Moving of the stop trim position when the "Close player at the end of the
playback" flag is set
Elecard MPEG Demultiplexer
o LPCM detection
o AC-3 support in the type 6 of stream in the TS (private stream)
o Support some streams with invalid GOP header
o MPEG-2 PES detection
o Work with Verimatrix source
o Navigation through the AVC field streams
o AVC multi-slice navigation
o Work under the Windows 98 operating system

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 4.0.4
New components:
o Elecard File List Source
New features:
Elecard MPEG Player
o Play list merging

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 4.0.3
Fixed bugs:
Elecard MPEG Player
o Long time parsing for large files
o Parsing co64 atom
o IAsyncReader reference leak fixed
o Seeking by frame
Elecard MPEG-2 Video Decoder
o ia44 subpicture blending
o CCube closed caption parsing
o Last closed caption delivering
o Processing and subpictures overlay
o Memory leaks
o Handles not closed
o The first frames displaying
o Menu display failure when subpictures are not
MainConcept MP4 Demultiplexer
o Incorrect IAsyncReader interface use
o Crush at the demultiplexing end
Elecard MPEG Demultiplexer
o Incorrect IAsyncReader interface use
o Mistiming
 o Jerks after positioning
o Positioning errors
o TS CRC calculation
o Incorrect H264 navigation
o IAsyncReader reference leak
o Multi-slice MPEG-2
o Incorrect multi-program MPEG-2 TS detection
o Incorrect time calculation for streams with broken PTS
Elecard Sink Filter
o Loss of the first frame operating with MPEG-2 Video Decoder
MainConcept Multiplexer
o Hang of graph, when NWRenderer is connected
o Error in the time stamps calculation for multi-slice AVC stream
o Error in the cont_counter calculation for MPEG-2 TS
o Mistiming after positioning
Elecard RTSP NetSource
o Push Demultiplexer buffer reset during the transition into pause state
Elecard NWSource-Plus
o Incorrect SDP parsing
Elecard MPEG Push Demultiplexer
o TS CRC calculation
o Start/Stop resynchronization
o Blocked detect TS with type 6 (private data) as AES3 stream - caused long
detect TS
New features and changes:
Elecard MPEG-2 Video Decoder
o Subpicture forced blending
o Added media type for closed_caption Line21_GOPPair
Elecard MPEG Demultiplexer
o PVA support
o Subpicture support
o H.263 support
o Improved performance
o File playing while recording
o Support of navigation via IMPEGSplitterSeeking interface for VC1, MPEG Video
and AVC streams
MainConcept Multiplexer
o Improved PropertyPage (announcement, frame rate and Real Bitrate information)
o Input DVD-LPCM support
o Improved interleaving
o T-STD model support
Elecard RTSP NetSource
o Ability to work with MainConcept NWSource-Plus only
o IModuleConfig interface support
o Improved PropertyPage
o Ability to build the downstream filter graph according to the description from
XML file
o Saving of settings in the registry
o AVC/H.264, AAC and MPEG-4 elementary streams support
o Dynamical output pins creation
o Ability to adjust according to the received SDP or to the transport
description requested via RTSP
o Ability to receive the MAC address of the network adapter in a current URL
o Compatibility with SeaChange VideoServer
Elecard NWSource-Plus
o AVC/H.264, AAC and MPEG-4 elementary streams support
o Ability to build filter graph according to XML-description
o Support of the list of objects subscribed to notification messages (via
IModuleConfig)
 o Saving of settings in the registry
o Data receiving holding, when the port is changed
o Ability to provide the reference clock
o Ability to load files containing the SDP configuration
o Ability to receive the SDP information using announcements

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 4.0.2
Fixed bugs:
Elecard MPEG Player
o Installation is interrupted with �Cannot register �... ElGViewer.dll" message
Elecard MPEG-2 Video Decoder
o Double rate for picture with field structure
o Some bugs in decoding engine
MainConcept MP4 Demultiplexer
o Mistiming on long streams
New features and changes:
Elecard MPEG Player
o Ability to start Player from command line with URL and options as arguments
Elecard MPEG-2 Video Decoder
o RGB8 display mode is not supported
o Deinterlacing for progressive frames
o Connection at not initialized mediatype
o SMP control (on/off parallel data processing)
Elecard Audio Decoder
o Connection at non initialized mediatype

MAIN CHANGES, FIXED BUGS AND NEW FEATURES AVAILABLE IN VERSION 4.0.1
Main changes:
o MainConcept AVC/H.264 Video Decoder and MainConcept AAC Decoder are withdrawn
from the installation pack. These components are included into the additional
package (Elecard AVC PlugIn).
Fixed bugs:
Elecard MPEG Player
o Incorrect AVC/H.264 sequence parameters receiving
Elecard MPEG-2 Video Decoder
o The decoded frames number in the DxVA mode is not equal to the decoded frames
number in the software mode
o Decoding bug in the DxVA mode
o Deinterlacing bug (field interpolation) for 4:2:2
o Color converter bug when multi-CPU platforms are used
Elecard MPEG Demultiplexer
o Bug in the stream duration detection
o Some of necessary mediatypes were not supported
o Understated playback rate
o Positioning on some streams (incorrect or disabled)
o Mistiming
o Audio LPCM was not parsed
MainConcept MP4 Demultiplexer
o Crash on AVC streams
o Incorrect sampling rate index in ADTS header
o Crash on streams containing raw audio data
o Some of streams are not parsed
New features:
Elecard MPEG Player
o Clock setting for Elecard MPEG Push Demultiplexer when URL is opened
o PTSP support
o Auto-shrink the video window not to go outside the screen boundaries
(important for HD video)
Elecard Audio Decoder
 o The AAC support is disabled (MainConcept AAC Decoder is delivered with Elecard
AVC PlugIn)
o Dolby� AC-3 (ATSC A-52) streams (if S/PDIF output is available)
MainConcept MP4 Demultiplexer
o ADTS headers for AAC