<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>DeVeDe, a video DVD creator</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#E8E8F0"> <p><div style="text-align: center;"><h1>DeVeDe, a video DVD creator</h1></div></p> <p><a href="index.html">Up: help index</a></p> <p><h2>History of versions</h2></p> <p><b>Version 3.14.0</b></p> <ul> <li>Now doesn't add black bars when creating an NTSC disc from an 720x480 file without ASPECT RATIO parameter embedded</li> <li>Allows to repack a file as MPEG-PS without recompress the streams (useful to work with VOB files)</li> <li>Allows to swap the field order in interlaced videos</li> <li>Allows to change the subtitle's font size</li> <li>Now supports subtitle filenames with XML-reserved characters</li> <li>Supports all picture types for menu backgrounds (not only PNG)</li> <li>Now removes previous preview files if they already existed, when using LN</li> <li>Fixed free disk space calcule in Windows 2000 and the SetPriority function (thanks to Peter Gill)</li> <li>Adjusted the media sizes to ensure that the ISOs always will fit in the disc</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.13.1</b></p> <ul> <li><b>Save as...</b> option now works.</li> <li>The Title properties window closes when the user changes the action to do when the title ends. Fixed.</li> <li>When the <strong>$HOME/.spumux</strong> directory didn't exists, DeVeDe is unable to find the font for subtitles. Fixed.</li> <li>Added TTF-DEJAVU-CORE package in the DEB dependencies.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.13.0</b></p> <ul> <li>Fixed the greek translation</li> <li>Doesn't fail when LANG is not defined</li> <li>Migration from LibGLADE to GtkBuilder</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.12c</b></p> <ul> <li>Updated french translation</li> <li>Updated file Changelog.Debian</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.12b</b></p> <ul> <li>Fixed french translation and added italian translation</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.12</b></p> <ul> <li>Supports pathnames with &, <, >, ' and "</li> <li>When the user chooses a folder in the menu background, it removes the preview</li> <li>New disc type chooser window (based on a model from Jonathan Estrella)</li> <li>When the output path exists, it asks before deleting it</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.11b</b></p> <ul> <li>Fixed some language issues in EL, PL, SK and SV locales.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.11</b></p> <ul> <li>Now recovers the menu options when loading a disc structure</li> <li>Changed the appearance to make it more eye-candy</li> <li>Shows the menu's NTSC preview at the right size</li> <li>Shows right the menu's title tipography</li> <li>Added compatibility with GenISOimage</li> <li>Better code to avoid antialiasing when creating the menu entries</li> <li>Now limits the number of files to 61 to avoid problems with DVDAuthor</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.10</b></p> <ul> <li>Now the user chooses a global format (PAL or NTSC) for videos and menus.</li> <li>Removed the limit of 12 titles; now can create discs with up to 90 titles and/or 90 files.</li> <li>Allows to add a title to the menu, and shadows to the menu texts.</li> <li>Allows to put the menu texts at the right, left or center.</li> <li>Now shows a preview of the selected picture when choosing the menu background.</li> <li>Added YADIF deinterlace filter support.</li> <li>Added contextual help.</li> <li>New background picture.</li> <li>Support for resolution of 160x128 pixels in DivX.</li> <li>Added a preview button in the Menu options window.</li> <li>Now hides the advanced options in the main window.</li> <li>Fixed the bug that made the menus to be shown only one second in some players.</li> <li>Now it always honours the PAL/NTSC menu type.</li> <li>Now,when creating a PAL disk from a 24fps source, DeVeDe speeds up it instead of adding one frame each 24, obtaining a more fluid animation.</li> <li>The silence sound file has been changed from WAV to MP3 to free some disk space.</li> <li>Fixed a little bug when using HD resolutions for DivX.</li> <li>Modified code to simplify adding new options to the DVD's menus.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.9</b></p> <ul> <li>Due to the use of VRC_MINRATE option, sometimes the final disk size was bigger than the predicted. Fixed.</li> <li>Now remembers the directory from where the user added a movie file.</li> <li>Fixed the detection of the number of cores in the system.</li> <li>Adds the menu type (PAL or NTSC) when creating a menuless disk.</li> <li>Uses transparent pictures for the menus, ensuring that they work fine in more players.</li> <li>Removed CONVERT dependency (Thanks to Peter Gill).</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.8c</b></p> <ul> <li>Now are really fixed the translation bugs.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.8b</b></p> <ul> <li>Fixed a bug in the italian translation.</li> <li>Fixed a bug in the poland translation.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.8</b></p> <ul> <li>Automatic video bitrate adjust, to ensure that the ISO or BIN/CUE image occupies the maximum size in the disk.</li> <li>Support for up to 32 subtitles tracks.</li> <li>Allows to specify the subtitle's language.</li> <li>Allows to choose the language to use when the original video contains several audio tracks.</li> <li>Added the L5 deinterlacing filter.</li> <li>Support for rotating and flipping the video.</li> <li>Muticore support.</li> <li>Allows to mix classic and widescreen videos in the same disk.</li> <li>High Definition support in DivX.</li> <li>Allows to Drag&Drop subtitles in the <b>properties window</b>, or to load a configuration file by Dragging&Dropping.</li> <li>Uses a GOP of 12 frames to ensure maximum compatibility.</li> <li>Uses the Telecine parameter to improve quality in 24fps films.</li> <li>Adjusted the maximum bitrate for DivX.</li> <li>Allows to add extra parameters in <b>-lavcopts</b>, <b>-vf</b> and <b>-lameopts</b>.</li> <li>Now stores the status of the buttons for delete temporary files and to choose the action to do.</li> <li>Added an icon to all windows.</li> <li>Fixed a bug when Mplayer is compiled with <b>--enable-color-console</b>.</li> <li>Allows to choose the colors and the position of the menus.</li> <li>More elegant menu system (based on code from Mojoholder)</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.7</b></p> <ul> <li>Fixed a bug when runing in a system configured with Catalan language</li> <li>Now asks for confirmation when closing the disk type selection window</li> <li>The final size of the ISO image is now much more accurate</li> <li>Fixed some Win32 bugs (thanks to Peter Gill)</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.6</b></p> <ul> <li>Added a safe margin 5% in the occupied size, to have in mind the size needed by disk structures (like directories, file info and so on).</li> <li>Fixed a some bugs in poland translation.</li> <li>Fixed some windows compatibility bugs.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.5</b></p> <ul> <li>Improved compatibility by using CGOP and SC_THRESOLD.</li> <li>Now uses a GOP of 15 frames instead of 18 when creating a NTSC, 24fps disc, as dictates the standard.</li> <li>Fixed a bug in italian translation which prevented the "Not enought disk space" message to be shown.</li> <li>Added translation to russian and greek.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.4</b></p> <ul> <li>Allows to create DVDs with 5.1 sound</li> <li>Allows to use a GOP of 12 frames to improve compatibility with some broken DVD players</li> <li>Fixes a bug when creating VCD disks</li> <li>Fixed a bug which prevented to previsualizate in DIVX mode.</li> <li>Final code refactorization: finally the code is clean and maintenable.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.3</b></p> <ul> <li>The EXPAND parameter in Mencoder now uses always an even offset to avoid some artifacts when the offset was odd.</li> <li>Fixed a bug when draging&dropping video files.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.2</b></p> <ul> <li>Fixed a bug when using extra parameters with Mencoder</li> <li>Fixed pt_PT translation</li> <li>Fixed a bug with pl translation</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.1b</b></p> <ul> <li>Fixed a little bug which prevented version 3.1 to work with Python 2.4</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.1</b></p> <ul> <li>Fixed some problems under windows.</li> <li>Now returns to the main window after creating the disk.</li> <li>When opening the file selector, it filters the files by type, showing only the videos.</li> <li>When using the NEW menu option to clean the disk structure and start again, it asks the disk type again.</li> <li>Now, when loading a disk structure, if the disk type is different than the current selected, automatically changes to the new type.</li> <li>Added new translations.</li> <li>Added new icon (thanks to Jonah Naylor).</li> <li>Second major code refactorization to improve maintenability.</li> <li>License changed to GPL version 3.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.01</b></p> <ul> <li>Added new patches for windows version.</li> <li>Removed the use of lower priority, because it made the conversion slower.</li> <li>Fixed a little bug when the final directory contains blank spaces.</li> <li>Added translation to Catala, and fixed the French one.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 3.0</b></p> <ul> <li>Allows to add a menu to the DVD with a list of the titles and a custom background picture.</li> <li>Allows to save the current disc structure, in order to reutilize it, or continue working in other moment.</li> <li>Allows to choose up to 448kbit/sec for audio.</li> <li>Now asks before canceling a job.</li> <li>A little bigger font size for subtitles.</li> <li>When creating a DivX file, now it uses .AVI extension.</li> <li>Fixed a bug with non-UTF8 locales.</li> <li>Fixed a bug in the "Insuficient free space..." message. Now is shown translated.</li> <li>Fixed a bug when erasing conflicting files and directories.</li> <li>Fixed a bug when trying to create a DivX from a file with an original size equal to the final size.</li> <li>Now, when the conversion fails, it doesn't show a "Success" message.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.13d</b></p> <ul> <li>Fixed the german translation</li> <li>Changed the Mplayer/Mencoder version to the one from Ubuntu Edgy, due to some bugs when creating PAL videos.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.13c</b></p> <ul> <li>Changed the MPlayer/Mencoder files, using version 0.99Pre8.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.13b</b></p> <ul> <li>Added a MPlayer/Mencoder package for Ubuntu Feisty users.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.13</b></p> <ul> <li>Added creation of MPEG4/DIVX files.</li> <li>Added swedish and slovak translations.</li> <li>Fixed some issues with translations (thanks to Marco de Freitas).</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.12</b></p> <ul> <li>New and more flexibles install and uninstall scripts (thanks to Patrick Monnerat).</li> <li>Added french translation.</li> <li>Fixed some issues with non-UTF8 systems (thanks to Marco de Freitas).</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.11</b></p> <ul> <li>Allows to specify the codepage for subtitles, allowing to use UTF-8 coded files (or with other codepages).</li> <li>Allows to put the subtitles a little upper, fine when using the ZOOM option in 16:9 TVs or with old CRT receivers</li> <li>Now can add subtitles with horizontal resolutions of 480 and 352 pixels without using too big fonts, nor crashing SPUMUX.</li> <li>When the original video has 24 fps and the destination is a NTSC DVD, DeVeDe will use 24000/1001 fps instead of 30000/1001.</li> <li>Fixed some little bugs when erasing temporary files.</li> <li>Fixed some bugs in the main loop that sometimes hanged up the conversion process.</li> <li>Now shows a kind of progress numbers during subtitle adding and while creating the DVD structure.</li> <li>Now translates fine all the sentences in the interface.</li> <li>Now detects if DeVeDe has permissions to write in the destination directory when doing a preview.</li> <li>Now uses MP2 instead of AC3 to ensure full compatibility.</li> <li>Now detects again when mencoder or spumux fails and shows an error message.</li> <li>Now really allows to abort the process while adding subtitles.</li> <li>Now supplies all the needed data to SPUMUX, so subtitles in NTSC format will be full visible.</li> <li>Fixed some issues in Windows code (thanks again to Peter Gill).</li> <li>Added new translations into German and norwegian, and completed the old ones.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.10</b></p> <ul> <li>Added italian translation</li> <li>The INSTALL script didn't create the GNOME/KDE menu entry. Fixed.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.9</b></p> <ul> <li>Now DeVeDe can work under Windows, thanks to Peter Gill (see the <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a> for details).</li> <li>Fixed some little bugs that prevented to use DeVeDe with some files taken from video capture cards.</li> <li>Fixed a bug with the Drag&Drop in the main window.</li> <li>Fixed a bug that prevented DeVeDe to detect errors in the execution of MKISOFS.</li> <li>Added a warning about VFAT/FAT32 partitions.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.8</b></p> <ul> <li>Now only allows to create 16:9 DVDs when the final width is 720 pixels, and don't allow to create 16:9 VCDs, SVCDs or CVDs.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.7</b></p> <ul> <li>Support for true DVD subtitles</li> <li>Can create 16:9 DVDs from widescreen videos</li> <li>Default MBD changed to 2 (slower but greater quality)</li> <li>Now installs in /urs/local</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.6</b></p> <ul> <li>When the video wasn't subdivided in chapters, the XML file was incorrect and DVDAuthor complained. Fixed.</li> <li>Fixed a bug when the output directory was no writable.</li> <li>Added translation for Portugues do Brasil</li> <li>Added a FAQ.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.5</b></p> <ul> <li>Fixed another bug with directories and/or filenames with blank spaces</li> <li>Added a workaround for a bug found in very old DVD Players, that can't play fast forward between the last chapter and the end of a file.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.4A</b></p> <ul> <li>Added translation for Czech</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.4</b></p> <ul> <li>Allows to specify that a file is already a DVD-compliant MPEG-PS file, so it won't be recompresed, but stored "as is" into the disc (usefull when you capture video from a TV capturer of other sources).</li> <li>Alows to deinterlace the video.</li> <li>Allows to choose the MacroBlock algorithm and use Trellis, to enhace the final picture quality.</li> <li>Allows to choose the directory for the temporary file used during preview, and remembers it.</li> <li>Before creating a new disc it erases the files with conflicting names in the destination directory.</li> <li>Allows to cancel the process during the creation of the BIN/CUE image of a VCD, SVCD or CVD.</li> <li>Added a VRC_MINRATE parameter when creating VCDs, SVCDs and CVDs, to ensure full compatibility.</li> <li>Changed the video bitrate for VCDs from 1150 to 1152, and the minimum video bitrate for SVCDs and CVD from 500 to 600.</li> <li>Ensures that the progress bar while converting a file is refreshed at least each two senconds.</li> <li>First major code refactorization to enhace the maintenability.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.3</b></p> <ul> <li>Removed the use of B-frames (which was added in version 2.1) because it produces problems with some DVD players.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.2</b></p> <ul> <li>In some very inusual cases mencoder could trigger a bug with an undeclared variable. Fixed.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.1</b></p> <ul> <li>Optimized some loops. Now DeVeDe is about 30% faster during video conversion.</li> <li>Now checks that you have enought free disk space.</li> <li>Allows to maintain the temporary files instead of deleting them.</li> <li>Fixed a little bug with the erasing of temporary files.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 2.0</b></p> <ul> <li>Now can create VideoCD, SuperVideoCD and China VideoDisks.</li> <li>Allows the user to override the default resolution and use the one he wants.</li> <li>Allows to pass custom commands to Mencoder, allowing to render subtitles, cut the file in chunks, select an audio stream when the file has two or more...</li> <li>Allows to change the order of the files and titles.</li> <li>Changed the position of some elements, making the interface a little more intuitive.</li> <li>The advanced features have been grouped, so novices will see only the most important options while advanced users can have access to a lot of extra functions with just a single click.</li> <li>Fixed a litle bug when a video header tells that it has an aspect ratio of 0 or 1.</li> <li>Installation more compliant with FreeDesktop and Debian normatives.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 1.6</b></p> <ul> <li>Added support for resolutions 352x480 (in NTSC) and 352x576 (in PAL).</li> <li>Fully support for movies with aspect ratios different than 4:3 (now, with 16:9 movies it adds the right black bars to ensure that a circle IS a circle).</li> <li>Fixed a bug with audio/video sync when converting a PAL video to NTSC or vice-versa.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 1.5</b></p> <ul> <li>Now works with video files without audio track.</li> <li>Transforms blank spaces in the generic filename to underscores (in previous versions, DeVeDe failed if a blank space was inserted).</li> <li>Fixed the translation to Galego.</li> <li>Added an uninstall script.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 1.4</b></p> <ul> <li>Added Drag&Drop support.</li> <li>Translatable strings (currently supports english, spanish and galego).</li> <li>Set a default video rate based on the final resolution.</li> <li>Shows the elapsed time used to create de DVD.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 1.3</b></p> <ul> <li>Added fully support for <b>PAL/SECAM</b> and <b>NTSC</b>. Now the user can choose the kind of disc to create.</li> <li>Added support for more resolutions (352x288/352x240), so DVDs made from low-resolution videos will have better quality.</li> <li>Now DeVeDe scales the video or resamples the audio if needed, so the conversion is a litle faster (not much faster, but faster anyway).</li> <li>Some minor bugfixes.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 1.2</b></p> <ul> <li>Now DeVeDe REALLY creates a NTSC DVD when the framerate is 30fps (that was the original intention, but due to a litle bug it didn't work before).</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 1.1</b></p> <ul> <li>Allows to adjust the audio delay, to ensure perfect audio/video sync.</li> <li>Added a <b>Preview</b> button, to check the video quality and the audio sync without converting all the files.</li> <li>Now DeVeDe reduces a litle its priority when launched, allowing to continue working with the computer without speed penalties.</li> <li>Now checks if you have write permissions at the destination directory.</li> <li>Fixed the install script; now doesn't supposes that <b>install</b> is at <b>/usr/bin</b>.</li> <li>Interface much more compliant with the Gnome HIG.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 1.02b</b></p> <ul><li>Due to the hurry to fix an error, I packed an incorrect version in the .tar.bz2. Fixed here.</li></ul> <p><b>Version 1.02</b></p> <ul><li>With some specific files DeVeDe failed. Fixed in this version.</li> <li>Now DeVeDe can be installed in the home directory.</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 1.01</b></p> <ul><li>Fixed a little problem with MPlayer and pipes</li> </ul> <p><b>Version 1.0</b></p> <ul><li>First public version</li></ul> <p><a href="index.html">Up: help index</a></p> </body> </html>
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