Icaros Shell Extensions

Icaros 2.3.0:
- NEW Property Handler Component
- Property Handler completely rewritten in C++
- Added support for Speex, TrueAudio, and OptimFROG properties
- No .NET dependency or any other depencies
- Fixed .NET error in event log while indexing properties (Message ID: 0x2509)
- Fixed crash in Metro File Picker
- Fixed property indexing on Windows 8+
- Fixed handling of AVI properties on Windows 8+
- Fixed handling of MKV properties on Windows 10
- Improved registration of property handler
- Can now read and manage multiple tags in files
- Improved many of the parsers
- Now fully conforms to MS guidelines
- Added H264 parser to extract more properties from files with H264 streams
- Added support for displaying covers in quicktime (MOV) files
- Added 'estimate duration from bitrate' functionality for files with no duration info present
- Added support for legacy OGG cover art
- Icaros now prefers front covers in music files with mulitple embedded covers
- Made rm, rmvb, spx, tta, ofr, ofs, wav, xvid, divx default thumbnail filetypes (to match the property filetypes)
- Made xvid and divx default property filetypes
- Improved parsing of WavPack thumbnails and properties
- Fixed crash with certain RM files
- Fixed parsing of covers in files with ApeTags + ID3v1 tags
- Fixed parsing of unicode properties in ID3v1 tags
- Fixed a couple of file specific crashes
- Fixed rare crash with WMP
- Fixed donation link
- Fixed a few minor bugs
- Updated Readme file
- Updated FFmpeg

Icaros 2.2.7:
- Added support for Tak thumbnailing
- Added support for Tak properties
- Added support for WavPack thumbnailing
- Added support for WavPack properties
- Added support for Webm properties
- Added support for DV-AVI properties
- Added support for Opus thumbnailing
- Added support for Opus properties
- Added 'Bit Depth' property to music files
- Made Ogg, Opus, Webm, Tak, and Wv default thumbnail filetypes
- Fixed gray thumbnails for certain HEVC/H265 files
- Fixed property handler hang with certain avi files
- Fixed thumbnailing of incomplete Wtv files
- Fixed small thumbnails for very large images
- Fixed channel count for mpc files
- Fixed property parsing for certain apetag files with covers
- Fixed Multiple artist entries not showing up consistently
- Changed Ogg to display music properties
- Improved Ogg/Ogm parser to get more metadata
- Improved HEVC level idc detection (shown in the Video Tracks property)
- foobar2000's album artist tag is now recognized
- In case of duplicate artist names, only a single entry will be displayed
- A couple of decoding tweaks to the thumbnail provider
- Many minor fixes and changes
- Updated FFmpeg

Improved installer
- Locked files are now handled directly by the installer
- Installer should now work properly with /SILENT and /VERYSILENT switches

Icaros 2.2.6:
- Improved the core thumbnailing code (should result in a small speed boost)
- Improved thumbnailing speed of HEVC files
- Improved swf thumbnailing in general
- Added support for rare on2vp8 format in ogv files
- Fixed Icaros on Win XP
- Fixed crash when thumbnailing shortcuts (Thanks Sahil)
- Fixed aspect ratio of specific mp4/mov files
- Fixed a couple of swf thumbnailing regressions
- Fixed rare jpg files displaying upside down
- Fixed crash with certain mkv files on 32-bit systems (Thanks hervansaputra)
- Many minor fixes and improvements
- Improved FFmpeg build
- Updated FFmpeg

Icaros 2.2.5:
- Added the possibility of setting a timestamp offset (Only via the registry for now)
- Fixed SSE incompatibility
- Fixed association bug on Windows 8.1 Update 1
- Fixed parsing of properties in some incomplete mkv files on Windows 8
- Fixed thumbnailing of some incomplete mkv files on Windows 8
- Fixed thumbnailing of images with invalid orientation tag
- Fixed SWF Content Type
- Fixed and improved consecutive calls to thumbnail provider (related to thirdparty file managers)
- Improved filetype registration
- IcarosConfig now displays the proper version number
- Spring cleaning of code and project files
- Many minor fixes and improvements
- Updated FFmpeg

Icaros 2.2.4:
- Added (Experimental) HEVC/H265 decoding
- Added VP9 decoding
- Added HEVC/H265 track definitions to property parser
- Added VP9 track definition to mkv property parser
- Upgraded compilers to MSVC 2013/GCC 4.8.2
- Updated Versioning scheme
- Improved FFmpeg compilation
- Decreased size of binaries by about 4-5 MB
- Fixed Green-ish image thumbnails
- Fixed 'Contains Chapters' property for certain MKV files
- Fixed a bug in the 'Reset Property Filetypes' function
- Fixed AVI regression (certain rare AVI files didn't generate proper thumbnails)
- Fixed thumbnailing of several m2ts samples (Thanks Lenmaer)
- Fixed specific m2ts crash (Thanks HD-False)
- Fixed some minor bugs
- Updated FFmpeg

Icaros 2.2.3:
- Fixed thumbnailing of several files
- Fixed thumbnailing of rm/rmvb files
- Fixed WMC crash on Windows 8 with certain AVI files
- Improved parsing of FLV properties (especially files with no metadata)
- Several small improvements
- Updated FFmpeg
- Added tooltips to the new black/white frame detection controls
- Added check to warn Win8 users, when AVI thumbnailing is blocked, and an easy dialog solution

Icaros 2.2.2:
- Added Auto-rotation for JPG and TIFF files - Based on the Exif Orientation tag
- Added 'Contains Chapters' property (shown in MKV files)
- Added FLAC rating property
- Decreased overall size of Icaros
- Fixed Windows 8 image rotate bug
- Fixed parsing of mkv properties in certain files (Thanks bars)
- Updated FFmpeg
- Optimized general security

Icaros 2.2.1:
- Added support for MP4, M4V, WMV etc. Cover Art
- Added BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF and TIFF thumbnailing
- Added MKA thumbnailing and properties
- Added partial MP3 thumbnailing (including ID3v2.4)
- Added mk3d support (3D mkv) and .mk3d as a default extension
- Allow extensions to be written both with and without a dot in the 'Thumbnail Extensions' setting
- Fixed parsing of Mkv properties in certain files
- Fixed ID3v2 cover parsing in Flac
- Fixed swsscale crash
- Fixed green thumbnails in some files
- Fixed some memory leaks
- Fixed memory alignment errors
- Fixed Custom Properties conflict (X-Change Pdf)
- Added more track definitions
- Many small code improvements
- Updated FFmpeg

Icaros 2.2.0:
- Added Avi properties
- Added Real Media properties
- Moved Admin registry settings to HKLM
- Fixed very long names/titles in Flac properties
- Added the Vorbis Comment 'Ensemble' tag to the list of allowed tags
- Added more track definitions (e.g. readable name in place of fourcc)
- Added safeguard to prevent registry backup values from being overwritten
- Implemented several failsafes into the registration routines
- Added Reset functionality to IcarosConfig, that will revert native filetypes back to their default shell extensions
- Fixed Mpeg Com Surrogate error
- Other minor fixes and internal cleanup

Icaros 2.1.5:
- Fixed two bugs in the ID3v2 property parser
- Fixed memory leak caused by invalid ape tags
- Added support for various pixel formats when extracting cover art.
- Updated FFmpeg
- Updated Licenses etc. to 2013

Icaros 2.1.2:
- Enabled Content View Properties
- Fixed thumbnailing and properties of certain Ape files
- Fixed parsing of legacy Monkeys Audio headers
- Fixed two minor bugs in Flac parser
- Flac cover art created with AIMP's Tag Editor (3.20.1165 and above), should now display
- Incremented the parsing threshold of the FLV Property parser (Should fix certain files that didn't show properties before)

Icaros 2.1.1:

Highlights
- Added support for thumbnailing in Windows XP (tested on SP3)
- Improved Windows 8 support
- Thumbnail Provider component completely rewritten in C++
- Icaros no longer requires VC++ Redist runtimes to run
- Added FLAC, APE and MPC thumbnailing
- Added FLAC, APE and MPC properties

Thumbnail Provider
- Improved Thumbnailing speed
- Improved security
- Improved Swf thumbnailing
- Reduced space used in the thumbnail cache by 25%
- All extensions are now optional in the thumbnail provider
- Can now use embedded cover art in MKVs as thumbnails
- Can now thumbnail video shortcuts
- Can now thumbnail files on removable media (e.g. DVDs)
- Can now thumbnail files in 32-bit dialogs on 64-bit systems (See below for more info)
- Added option to prefer landscape covers, in files with multiple covers
- Fixed various rare bugs and thumbnail scenarios
- Changed incomplete file handling
- Updated FFmpeg
- Fixed Windows 8 Filetype association blocking issue
- Improved registration, preventing various situations where Icaros would be blocked
- Fixed hang on certain incomplete files
- Fixed corrupted thumbnails in certain TS files
- Fixed thumbnailing of MKVs with multiple video streams

Property Handler
- Added custom track info properties to MKV, OGM, and FLV
- Fixed and added some formats in the mkv property parser
- Make sure custom prop lists are not removed or overwritten
- Fixed audio channel info for matroska files with no channels property
- Fixed channels showing for consecutive audio tracks

IcarosConfig
- Fixed property filetype checkboxes
- IcarosConfig automatically downloads and installs missing wic library on XP SP2
- Added tooltips for the 'advanced' controls
- Fixed offset and cover options for non-admin users
- Rearrange the GUI slighty to accommodate the recently added filetypes
- Added several commandline options to IcarosConfig (Use 'IcarosConfig /?' to see them all)
- All advanced options can be enabled/disabled at all times
- Catch exception when trying to delete the thumbnail cache, while it is in use
- Improved cache clearing routine slightly
- Major internal refactoring of IcarosConfig

Installer
- Installer updated and improved.
- Installer can now activate icaros on completion
- Installer now supports silent install (Silent installs automatically activates Icaros)

Miscellaneous
- Fixed minor memory leaks
- Many minor fixes, improvements and structural changes

Icaros 2.0.0:

- Implemented new extraction core based on FFmpeg
- Highly improved thumbnail generation speed
- Moved all Thumbnailing to isolated process
- Lightweigth: More memory and CPU effecient
- Maintains aspect ratio in thumbnails
- No more tearing artifacts
- Supports more formats
- No longer depends on LAV
- Greater overall stability
- No more DirectShow conflicts
- Improved IcarosConfig startup checks
- Switch ContentID and Video Compression property fields
- Installer allows upgrading now
- Installer can now automatically install VC++ 2010 SP1 Redist if missing
- IcarosConfig can download and install the VC++ 2010 SP1 Redist if missing
- Bug with some unicode filenames fixed
- Icaros can now thumbnail files on network drives
- Plus many more overall improvements and fixes...

Icaros 1.3.2:
- Implemented FLV and OGM parsers
- Added Explorer properties for FLV and OGM files
- Added Total bitrate property
- New IcarosConfig design
- Added About dialog
- Downgraded DotNet 4 to Client Profile
- Clear thumbnail cache from IcarosConfig

Icaros 1.3.1:
- Improved installer
- Added .Net 4 detection to installer
- Implemented MKV cue parser (increased mkv thumbnail generation speed)
- Updated licenses to 2012

Icaros 1.3.0:
- Adds various properties to MKV files in Explorer
- Fixed rare crash
- Fixed rare stride related issue
- Various small improvements and fixes
- Moved loading of libraries (dlls) to a background thread
- Seemingly faster startup times
- Dynamic loading of shell extensions

Icaros 1.2.5:
- Fixes an issue of black thumbs when using the most up-to-date LAV filters

Icaros 1.2.3:
- Fixed a bug in stride logic (this fixes b/w and torn thumbnails)
- Fixed small upside-down bug, if certain settings in LAV video was disabled.
- Improved stability