Current version: 3.7

DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, sVCD or CVD), suitables for home players, from any number of video files, in any of the formats supported by Mplayer. The big advantage over other utilites is that it only needs Mplayer, Mencoder, DVDAuthor, VCDImager and MKisofs (well, and Python, PyGTK and PyGlade), so its dependencies are really small.

Note for Ubuntu Feisty users: currently (as April 20, 2007), the Mplayer/Mencoder version in Ubuntu Feisty is buggy and produces noisy sound when used with DeVeDe. While the maintainer doesn't fix it, you can use the package with the previous version, available in the Download section).

Note for Ubuntu Gutsy users: by default (as November 21, 2007) Gutsy comes with Mplayer/Mencoder buggy version 1.0RC1 (like Feisty); but fortunately there's the version 1.0rc2 avaiblable in the backports repository, which fixes the sound bug. To install it, just go to System->Admin->Software repositories and activate the Backports source.

Note for Windows users: you can download a ready-to-use version from the Peter Gill's home page. Devede for Windows

History of versions

• 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