History of versions

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

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