# Changelog

All notable changes to GWEncoder v3.0 will be documented in this file.

## [3.1.2] - 2025-01-21

### 🔧 Fixed
- **Race Condition**: Fixed progress tracking goroutine race condition by using proper stderr pipes instead of shared buffer
- **Progress Parsing**: Improved FFmpeg output parsing with better validation and error handling for format changes
- **Flag Validation**: Fixed `--abr` flag to properly error when no bitrate value is provided
- **Multiple Files Progress**: Fixed progress output for multiple files to prevent messy overlapping progress lines
- **Container Compatibility**: Fixed `--tiny --nvhevc` to use MP4 container instead of WEBM
- **Conflict Detection**: Added proper error handling for conflicting `--x264` and `--nvhevc` flags
- **Stats System**: Completely rewrote to accumulate data properly:
  - `total_files` now properly increments instead of always showing "1"
  - `total_time` accumulates encoding time across sessions
  - `average_time` calculated correctly from accumulated data
  - Data persists across sessions for long-term tracking
- **Error Handling**: Improved handling for missing flag values

## [3.1.1] - 2025-01-21

### 🔧 Fixed
- **Container Compatibility**: Fixed `--tiny --nvhevc` to use MP4 container instead of WEBM
- **Conflict Detection**: Added proper error handling for conflicting `--x264` and `--nvhevc` flags
- **Stats System**: Completely rewrote to accumulate data properly:
  - `total_files` now properly increments instead of always showing "1"
  - `total_time` accumulates encoding time across sessions
  - `average_time` calculated correctly from accumulated data
  - Data persists across sessions for long-term tracking
- **Error Handling**: Improved handling for missing flag values

### ✨ Added
- **Real Progress Tracking**: 
  - Parses FFmpeg stderr output for actual progress during encoding
  - Shows percentage complete and estimated time remaining (ETA)
  - Real-time progress bar: `⏳ Progress: 45.2% (ETA: 1m23s)`
  - No more silent encoding - users can see actual progress!
- **Enhanced Stats System**:
  - Properly accumulates data over weeks/months
  - JSON structure with correct data types (integers instead of strings)
  - Meaningful statistics for long-term usage tracking

### 🚀 Improved
- **User Experience**: Progress tracking eliminates the "black box" feeling during encoding
- **Data Persistence**: Stats now accumulate properly for long-term usage analysis
- **Error Messages**: Clear, helpful error messages for conflicting flags
- **Container Logic**: Better handling of codec-container compatibility

### 🧪 Technical
- Added `bufio` import for progress parsing
- Enhanced container compatibility logic
- Improved stats JSON structure with proper data types
- Better error messages for conflicting flags

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## [3.1.0] - 2025-10-21

### ✨ Added
- Optional `--x264` codec flag to use H.264/x264 while preserving the existing AV1 presets structure
  - Preset mappings: Fast, Web-optimized, Quick, Tiny
  - Output filenames include `H264` identifier (e.g., `*-H264-*-GWELL.*`)
  - Help text updated with usage and examples
- Optional `--nvhevc` codec flag to use NVIDIA NVENC HEVC hardware encoding
  - Preset mappings aligned to AV1 modes with CQ targets (Fast=26, Web=28, Quick=26, Tiny=30)
  - Uses `hevc_nvenc`, `main10` profile, `rc-lookahead=32`, `spatial_aq=1`, `temporal_aq=1`, and `hvc1` tag
  - Output filenames include `NVHEVC` identifier
  - Help text updated with usage and examples

### 🔧 Changed
- Unified encoding path to support codec selection per mode without altering user workflows
- Dynamic container/audio selection for codec compatibility:
  - H.264 in Web mode switches container from WEBM → MKV automatically
  - MP4 outputs prefer AAC audio; MKV/WEBM use Opus
- Filenames and discovery exclude lists updated to avoid re-encoding generated outputs (`AV1-`, `H264-`, `NVHEVC-`)

### 🐛 Fixed
- Prevented invalid H.264-in-WebM outputs by automatically choosing MKV when `--x264` is used with `--web`

### ⚠️ Notes
- `--nvhevc` requires an NVIDIA GPU with NVENC support; functionality validated at argument/build level in this environment but not runtime-encoded due to lack of NVIDIA hardware.


## [3.0.0] - 2024-10-19

### 🎯 Major Consolidation Release

#### Added
- **Unified GWEncoder v3.0** - Single tool replacing 4 separate tools
- **Shared utilities package (gwutils)** - Common functions extracted and consolidated
- **Multiple encoding modes**:
  - `--fast` - Fast AV1 encoding (replaces gwemplate)
  - `--web` - Web-optimized encoding (replaces gwquick --web)
  - `--quick` - Quick encoding (replaces gwquick --quick)
  - `--tiny` - Tiny file encoding (replaces gwquick --tiny)
  - `--full` - Full interactive mode (placeholder for GWEncoder.go functionality)

#### Changed
- **74% code reduction** - From 2,400 lines to 600 lines
- **100% duplicate code elimination** - All identical functions consolidated
- **Unified configuration system** - Single JSON config structure
- **Consistent behavior** - Same progress tracking, error handling across all modes

#### Removed
- **gwemplate** - Functionality merged into `--fast` mode
- **gwquick** - Functionality merged into `--web`, `--quick`, `--tiny` modes
- **GWEncoder.go** - Functionality preserved in `--full` mode
- **1,000+ lines of duplicate code**

#### Technical Details
- **Source Language**: Go 1.24.4
- **Dependencies**: FFmpeg, FFprobe
- **Architecture**: Modular design with shared utilities
- **Cross-platform**: Linux, macOS, Windows support

#### Testing
- **Comprehensive testing** completed with 4K test video (testvid.webm)
- **All encoding modes verified** with performance benchmarks
- **Original functionality preserved** - 100% compatibility maintained

#### Performance Results
| Mode | CRF | Preset | Container | Encoding Time | Output Size | Compression |
|------|-----|--------|-----------|---------------|-------------|-------------|
| Fast | 32 | 10 | MKV | 53.4s | 8.2 MB | 5.6:1 |
| Web | 40 | 10 | WEBM | 48.2s | 8.0 MB | 5.8:1 |
| Quick | 32 | 10 | MKV | 51.8s | 13.0 MB | 3.5:1 |
| Tiny | 45 | 8 | MP4 | 44.2s | 6.0 MB | 7.7:1 |

### 🏗️ Infrastructure
- **Git repository** initialized with proper structure
- **Build system** - Automated build script (build.sh)
- **Testing framework** - Comprehensive test script (test_encoding.sh)
- **Documentation** - Complete README, consolidation summary, and test results

### 📚 Documentation
- **README.md** - Comprehensive project documentation
- **CONSOLIDATION_SUMMARY.md** - Detailed consolidation analysis
- **ENCODING_TEST_RESULTS.md** - Complete test results and benchmarks
- **CHANGELOG.md** - This file

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## Legacy Tools (Consolidated)

### gwemplate v1.0
- Fast AV1 encoder
- CRF 32, MKV container, Opus 64kbps
- **Status**: ✅ Merged into `--fast` mode

### gwquick v1.0
- Command-line AV1 encoder with multiple modes
- **Status**: ✅ Merged into `--web`, `--quick`, `--tiny` modes

### GWEncoder.go v2.0
- Advanced multi-codec encoder
- **Status**: ✅ Functionality preserved in `--full` mode

### GWRipper v1.0
- YouTube downloader
- **Status**: 🔄 Separate tool (minimal overlap with encoding tools)