Changes

CosmoPod 4.5.1 - 11 June 2010

• Fixes support for Safari 5 (32-bit) on Mac OS 10.6
• Fixes Quicktime metadata parsing bug
• Uses hd=1 to load YouTube HD video automatically
• Fixes duplicated video downloads

CosmoPod 4.5 - 09 June 2010

• Adds support for Safari 5 and Mac OS 10.5 and 10.6
• Adds support for Safari 4.1 and Mac OS 10.4
• Fix iPhone and iPod touch conversion interrupted bug on some files
• Improves Quicktime Metadata parsing
• Properly clears unconverted successful downloads

CosmoPod 4.4.1 - 20 May 2010

• Adds support for HTML5 audio tag
• Automatically clears successful conversions
• Video picture cropping can be toggled on/off
• Improves file recognition / extension assignment mechanism
• Improves Real media stream analysis
• Fixes a bug in video stream detection
• Toolbar button highlighting behaviour improved

CosmoPod 4.4 - 3 May 2010

• Adds support for saving audio mp3, wma, etc from last.fm, mp3.com, vivamusic.org and others
• Improved command key down user interaction when dropping multiple files for audio extraction
• Fix a bug in the audio extraction mechanism that would produce file readable with Quicktime but not with iTunes
• Fix a crash when generating video preview icons

CosmoPod 4.3.2 - 12 April 2010

• Installer reliability has been improved
• Speeds up Safari's startup sequence
• Two important bugs have been fixed in Quicktime code
• A couple of memory leaks have been solved

CosmoPod 4.3.1 - 27 March 2010

• Toolbar button better indicates when a video is available for download
• Improves Quicktime interpreter on 10.4
• Improves embed tag support
• Fix EXC_I386_DIV and qtFMMovieDidPlayToTheEnd bugs
• Reduced Installer file size (now approx. 4MB only)

CosmoPod 4.3 - 20 March 2010

• New Quicktime movies interpreter that just works with tutorial movies and trailers from apple.com
• CosmoPod toolbar button now features a handy menu. Hold-click on the toolbar button to bring it on screen
• Automatic detection of 720p YouTubeHD video
• Fix a bug with Quicktime X on Mac OS 10.6
• Small adjustments made so that CosmoPod better interacts with Safari 4.0.5

CosmoPod 4.2.1 - 01 March 2010

• Selectable file extensions for converted files (m4v / mp4)
• Dragging VIDEO_TS folders now start the DVD import wizard
• Adds m4v file extensions to droppable file types
• Growl framework updated to 1.2.1
• New DVD Import section in user manual
• Drop zone window overlay bug has been fixed

CosmoPod 4.2 - 10 February 2010

• HTML5 video tag support
• Conversions are now handled by HandBrake
• Import and convert DVD to mp4 (10.5 and later only)
• New and improved video encoding presets thanks to Handbrake (10.5 and later only)
• Support for turbo.264 on 10.6 when running Safari in 32-bit mode
• Better cache mechanism for large files
• Prevent Safari from loosing focus at launch on 10.6
• Correctly handles multiple videos on one page
• Correctly adds extracted audio files to iTunes
• Fix Cache Manager error that might occur when quitting Safari
• Proper handling of xml files

CosmoPod 4.1 - 24 October 2009

• New Video Profile detection so that only required MP4 will be converted upon successful download
• Clicking CosmoPod icon while holding down the shift key will open the currently playing video in Quicktime Player or VLC
• New AAC 5.1 support
• Improved Audio extraction on Mac OS 10.5 and above
• Improved license verification process
• New check box added to the upgrade information panel so feature can be quickly to turned off
• Fix audio extraction bug on Mac OS 10.4
• Fix CosmoPod video detection system bug that would cause Safari to hang or to not detect video properly on some websites
• Fix visuals bugs at Safari's launch on Mac OS 10.6

CosmoPod 4.0 - 08 October 2009

• Improved video detection process
• New video cache system so you don't have to download the same file twice
• Support added for Mac OS 10.6 and 64-bit (Please note that Elgato turbo.264 is not available in 64-bit at the moment)
• Improved User Interface on Mac OS 10.4

CosmoPod 3.1 - 18 August 2009

• Support added for Safari 4.0.2 and above

CosmoPod 3.0.1 - 06 July 2009

• CosmoPod now detects audio files (such as wma) and converts them to m4a automatically (Flip4Mac, OGG component and Perian highly recommended).
• Improved support for Elgato turbo.264

CosmoPod 3.0 - 10 June 2009

• Audio Extraction : extract the audio track from most video files and converts it to m4a
• Support added for both Turbo.264 and Turbo.264 HD USB keys from Elgato
• MKV support added
• Fixed video size detection bug
• Fixed embedded player crash o completed conversion preview
• Small user interface fix
• Improved French localization

CosmoPod 2.9.1 - 04 March 2009

• Fixed compatibility issues with Mac OS 10.4
• Improved installer support for Safari 4
• Fixed iTunes Artwork issues

CosmoPod 2.9 - 25 February 2009

• Support added for h264/aac flash videos
• FFmpeg updated to SVN-r17538 version
• Compatibility with Safari 4 Public Beta is confirmed

CosmoPod 2.8.1 - 30 December 2008

• Fix some errors and crashes when converting files using Elgato turbo.264 devices
• Improved compatibility with Perian 1.1.3

CosmoPod 2.8 - 15 December 2008

• Enhanced video detection system
• Added compatibility with latest WebKit builds

CosmoPod 2.7 - 18 August 2008

• Improved Elgato turbo.264 support
• Play sounds upon file conversion to indicate success or failure
• Better video format detection, conversions should no longer get cancelled

CosmoPod 2.6 - 17 July 2008

• CosmoPod is now compatible with Elgato Turbo.264
• Picture aspect is preserved when resizing video to iPod, iPhone and AppleTV
• Important fix for a bug introduced in CosmoPod 2.5 video conversion process
• User interface and localization improvements

CosmoPod 2.5 - 13 June 2008

• Convert video using their original bitrates (produces smaller files, faster)
• Automatically resize YouTube HD & H.264 videos to the iPod/AppleTV settings defined in CosmoPod Preferences
• Improved H.264 video detection
• Improved MMS support
• Improved Intel Mac RealMedia support
• Faster window flipping
• Files can be optionally move to your Trash after they've been converted or imported to iTunes (instead of being immediately deleted)
• Improved application's Installer
• Bug fixed in video detection system

CosmoPod 2.4 - 18 April 2008

• Fix WMV bug on YouTube
• Support added for the lastest Quicktime WMV Component
• Better parsing of WMV and Real Media playlist
• Fix a few typos and localization

CosmoPod 2.3 - 20 March 2008

• Fixes issues introduced in v2.2

CosmoPod 2.2 - 19 March 2008

• Automatically detects HD Videos on YouTube (usually in iPod-ready format so you don't even need to convert it).
• Add option to hide CosmoPod from Safari contextual menu.
• Fix for crash at startup on some Mac.
• Fix for "Conversion Interrupted" syndrom on videos which frame size was not a multiple of 2.

CosmoPod 2.1 - 13 Febuary 2008

• AppleTV support improved. H.264 video quality now up to 1.5Mbps.
• Ability to set iTunes movie tags before importing video to iTunes.
• Download/Queue several videos from a single page at once.
• New option to limit the number of simultaneous downloads.
• Fix a bug when downloading mpeg files.
• Fix YouTube Error (Cannot Lookup hostname) and better handling of ads in stream.

CosmoPod 2.0 - 28 January 2008

• H.264 encoding support
• Better support for Real, WMV and DivX video streams
• Better Growl Support
• Set video name on-the-fly
• New Preferences UI
• Download from URL bug fixed on Mac OS 10.5
• Workaround Quicktime 7.4 issue (video width=0)

CosmoPod 1.9.4 - 14 November 2007

• Japanese localization
• New toolbar icon

CosmoPod 1.9.3 - 12 November 2007

• Improved Mac OS 10.5 compatibility

CosmoPod 1.9.2 - 27 October 2007

• Compatible with Mac OS 10.5

CosmoPod 1.9.1 - 21 September 2007

• New video download from URL now handles Real / Windows Media playlists
• CosmoPod in Safari's Window Menu has been rearranged
• French / German Localization update
• Few minor bugs have been fixed

CosmoPod 1.9 - 12 September 2007

• Improved Real and Windows Media support
• Video locations can be manually specified to CosmoPod
• Download Linked File with CosmoPod added to Safari links' contextual menu.

CosmoPod 1.8 - 30 July 2007

• Enhanced FLV detection
• Better DivX support
• iPhone and AppleTV are now supported
• Support for Windows Media Video and Windows Media Streams
• Support for Real Media Video and Real Media Streams
• Convert files (FLV, DivX, WMV, Real Videos, MPEG, MOV) already on your hard drive using drag n' drop
• New application installer
• Better auto-update mechanism

CosmoPod 1.7 - 22 June 2007

• German Localization
• Fix for Growl

CosmoPod 1.6 - 18 June 2007

• Google Video support is back

CosmoPod 1.5 - 13 June 2007

• Improved flash video detection

CosmoPod 1.4 - 03 May 2007

• Growl Integration. You'll be notified when the work is done
• CosmoPod embedded video player has been improved
• Preferences a la Dashboard

CosmoPod 1.3 - 27 April 2007

• Support for Yahoo's Videos
• A progress bar for video conversion has been added
• Bugs fixed in installation and video conversion processes

CosmoPod 1.2 - 16 March 2007

• Videos can be encoded using either H.264 or MPEG4 video codec
• You can now get a video preview of your downloads with CosmoPod embedded video player
• New application installer / uninstaller

CosmoPod 1.1 - 09 March 2007

• A limit on simultaneous conversions can be set in the application preferences
• New video detection system. CosmoPod is now compatible with more than 20 websites and should work where most Flash Video files are loaded in Safari

CosmoPod 1.0.2 - 06 March 2007

• iTunes integration has been improved
• Video conversion to 640x480 has been added

CosmoPod 1.0.1 - 05 March 2007

• French Localization added

CosmoPod 1.0 - 02 March 2007

• Initial announcement