hachoir-parser 1.3.4

Package of Hachoir parsers used to open binary files

hachoir-parser 1.3.4 (2010-07-26)

• update matroska parser to support WebM videos

hachoir-parser 1.3.3 (2010-04-15)

• fix setup.py: don't use with statement to stay compatible with python 2.4

hachoir-parser 1.3.2 (2010-03-01)

• Include the README file in the tarball
• setup.py reads the README file instead of using README.py to break the build dependency on hachoir-core

hachoir-parser 1.3.1 (2010-01-28)

• Create MANIFEST.in to include extra files: README.py, README.header, tests/run_testcase.py, etc.
• Create an INSTALL file

hachoir-parser 1.3 (2010-01-20)

• New parsers:
  • BLP: Blizzard Image
  • PRC: Palm resource
• HachoirParserList() is no more a singleton: use HachoirParserList.getInstance() to get a singleton
• Add tags optional argument to createParser(), it can be used for example to force a parser
• Fix ParserList.print_(): first argument is now the title and not 'out'. If out is not specified, use sys.stdout.
• MP3: support encapsulated objects (GEOB in ID3)
• Create a dictionary: Windows codepage => charset name (CODEPAGE_CHARSET)
• ASN.1: support boolean and enum types; fix bit string parser
• MKV: use textHandler()
• AVI: create index parser, use file size header to detect padding at the end
• ISO9660: strip nul bytes in application name
• JPEG: add ICC profile chunk name
• PNG: fix transparency parser (tRNS)
• BPLIST: support empty value for markers 4, 5 and 6
• Microsoft Office summary: support more codepages (CP874, Windows 1250..1257)
• tcpdump: support ICMPv6 and IPv6
• Java: add bytecode parser, support JDK 1.6
• Python: parse lnotab content, fill a string table for the references
• MPEG Video: parse much more chunks
• MOV: Parse file type header, create the right MIME type

hachoir-parser 1.2.1 (2008-10-16)

• Improve OLE2 and MS Office parsers: - support small blocks - fix the charset of the summary properties - summary property integers are unsigned - use TimedeltaWin64 for the TotalEditingTime field - create minimum Word document parser
• Python parser: support magic numbers of Python 3000 with the keyword only arguments
• Create Apple/NeXT Binary Property List (BPLIST) parser
• MPEG audio: reject file with no valid frame nor ID3 header
• Skip subfiles in JPEG files
• Create Apple/NeXT Binary Property List (BPLIST) parser by Robert Xiao

hachoir-parser 1.2 (2008-09-03)

• Create FLAC parser, written by Esteban Loiseau
• Create Action Script parser used in Flash parser, written by Sebastien Ponce
• Create Gnome Keyring parser: able to parse the stored passwords using Python Crypto if the main password is written in the code :-)
• GIF: support text extension field; parse image content (LZW compressed data)
• Fix charset of IPTC string (guess it, it's not always ISO-8859-1)
• TIFF: Sebastien Ponce improved the parser: parse image data, add many tags, etc.
• MS Office: guess the charset for summary strings since it could be ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8

hachoir-parser 1.1 (2008-04-01)

Main changes: add "EFI Platform Initialization Firmware Volume" (PIFV) and "Microsoft Windows Help" (HLP) parsers. Details:

• MPEG audio:
  • add createContentSize() to support hachoir-subfile
  • support file starting with ID3v1
  • if file doesn't contain any frame, use ID3v1 or ID3v2 to create the description
• EXIF:
  • use "count" field value
  • create RationalInt32 and RationalUInt32
  • fix for empty value
  • add GPS tags
• JPEG:
  • support Ducky (APP12) chunk
  • support Comment chunk
  • improve validate(): make sure that first 3 chunk types are known
• RPM: use bzip2 or gzip handler to decompress content
• S3M: fix some parser bugs
• OLE2: reject negative block index (or special block index)
• ip2name(): catch KeybordInterrupt and don't resolve next addresses
• ELF: support big endian
• PE: createContentSize() works on PE program, improve resource section detection
• AMF: stop mixed array parser on empty key

hachoir-parser 1.0 (2007-07-11)

Changes:

• OLE2: Support file bigger than 6 MB (support many DIFAT blocks)
• OLE2: Add createContentSize() to guess content size
• LNK: Improve parser (now able to parse the whole file)
• EXE PE: Add more subsystem names
• PYC: Support Python 2.5c2
• Fix many spelling mistakes

Minor changes:

• PYC: Fix long integer parser (negative number), add (disabled) code to disassemble bytecode, use self.code_info to avoid replacing self.info
• OLE2: Add ".msi" file extension
• OLE2: Fix to support documents generated on Mac
• EXIF: set max IFD entry count to 1000 (instead of 200)
• EXIF: don't limit BYTE/UNDEFINED IFD entry count
• EXIF: add "User comment" tag
• GIF: fix image and screen description
• bzip2: catch decompressor error to be able to read trailing data
• Fix file extensions of AIFF
• Windows GUID use new TimestampUUID60 field type
• RIFF: convert class constant names to upper case
• Fix RIFF: don't replace self.info method
• ISO9660: Write parser for terminator content

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