Version history

7.7 (812)

can load and save subtitles in more than 100 different encoding (uses GNU libiconv)
only ASS/SSA, SRT, MVD and simple time subtitles can be in Unicode, other formats loaded through XSP can only be in regular 8bit encoding.

Language files can now be in UTF-8 or any other 8bit encoding supported by Iconv
UTF-8 is preferred, other encodings are internally converted to UTF-8, thus slowing down the translation process a little.
16bit or 32bit encodings are not supported by the xml parser (e.g. UTF-16, UCS-2, UCS-4), use UTF-8 instead, it can encode all Unicode characters.
All language files must now have correct XML header with encoding, otherwise they will not be loaded correctly.

Settings INI file is also UTF-8 and incompatibilities may occur with ini files from previous SP versions
Old UI Layout files are incompatible because the toolbars were somewhat changed and resized (due to some components not supporting Unicode)
Some components are still not showing Unicode captions correctly
Changed all windows to be able to display Unicode captions, also open/Save dialogs can display Unicode

Added the possibility to change font size in subtitle grids in Editor and Translator. Also added the possibility to change row height (the original size was good for 8pt font but 20pt font will have hard time trying to fit there:-) )
Changed Editor functions tab sheets to toolbars so every tab can be undocked from the functions panel and docked anywhere else (or left floating)
Column customization in Editor subtitles list

Can hide / show columns
Can change order of columns by dragging
Position, visibility and order is stored in UI layout file or main settings (when layout is configured to be persistent)

Duration, Subtitle style, Layer, Type, Margin L, R, V, V2, Character name, Effect, Character count, Margins together (in format L, R, V, V2)

New Text synchronization panel - for timing text files without separated dialogs

Setting of subtitles overlap minimum length for highlighting / searching overlapping subtitles
Can delete multiple items at once in PlayList

Removed Codepage transcoding from text corrections, it is not applicable because all texts are now in Unicode
Improved error messages when loading subtitles(no more 'Error on line -1')
Changed behavior of audio stream switching when opening new movie

The stream index is now preserved when opening new multimedia file (old behavior was to always select the stream specified in Configuration), useful when watching multiple episodes of a series, the ugly English dub is in the first track and you have to select the nice Japanese original (second track) each time new episode is opened;-)
The configured stream index is still used for the first opened file

When external subtitles are loaded and automatic VobSub configured, VobSub appears in the stream list and replaces the internal streams. So if you want to watch the internal subtitles, DON'T load external subs.

When opened a multimedia file with unknown extension, it wasn't played due to bug in playlist code
in Transitions tab in Editor functions, the button was not visible (it was 20000 pixels away from left boundary:) )
Importing text files with ~2000 lines could take one minute to load (P4 2.66 GHz) and every change of a timestamp could take the same time due to the calculation of overlapping subtitles (since all subtitles are imported as starting at 0 and thus all overlap with each other). Limited the overlapping calculation to a maximum of 10 to overcome this.
'Item' and 'Pls' were swapped in time display mode menu
Disabled Audio stream select button (this b*tch kept constantly disabling itself for unknown reason, hopefully fixed this time)
Invalid handling of subtitles for files with chapters
Improper resizing of PlayList window
Infinite loop when drag-dropping an item over it's nested subitem