$Id: Changes 2398 2010-03-06 13:06:46Z joern $ Revision history and release notes for dvd::rip. 0.98.11 [stable branch] Sat Mar 6 2010, joern Notes: - Event::ExecFlow version 0.64 is required for this version. This fixes a bug where no error messages were shown after ripping short. It was reported via Ubunutu Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dvdrip/+bug/478710 (You find it in the perl-modules/ directory, which was updated to the most recent versions btw) Features: - Updated Danish and Catalan translation. Thanks to Ysangkok, Kenneth Nielson and Joan Farrerons. - Turn "ripping short" error message into a warning, so the ripping process continues and it's up to the user to decide whether this is critical or not. Bugfixes: - Fixed h264 2pass cluster mode bug, generating a malformed transcode command. Reported by semkath <semkath AT arcor.de> and Christiaan Putter <ceputter AT googlemail.com>. 0.98.10 [stable branch] Sun Feb 22 2009, joern Features: - transcode 1.1 compatibility improved, warning about experimental dvd::rip support removed; there are still issues with some filters in the filter preview dialog; your mileage may vary. - Workaround for transcode h264 two-pass problem, so dvd::rip now supports h264 two-pass encoding. - Applied patch from Jussi Judin <jjudin+dvdrip AT iki.fi> to detect GraphicMagicks as an ImageMagick replacement. - No files will be placed in /tmp anymore, instead all temporary files will go to PROJECT_DIR/tmp. Thanks for the hint to Michael Renner <michael.renner AT gmx.de>. - dvdrip-master doesn't throw warnings on unneeded missing binaries anymore, if installed alone without the full (anyway on the master unneeded) packages. Suggested by Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart AT gmail.com>. - Added .ogv extension for OGG files as another option. Suggested by Nicolas Chauvet. Bugfixes: - Fixed cluster mode audio processing with transcode 1.1.x. Thanks for the report to Samuele Giovanni Tonon <samu AT linuxasylum.net>. - Fixed race condition which could result in a missing audio merge in cluster mode when title has one track. Based on a patch from Matt Lawrence <m3lawren AT uwaterloo.ca>. - Fixed wrong progress information (not taking chunks into account) in cluster mode. - Added a patch from Nicolas Chauvet to fix a problem with Fedora's Perl (setlocale). 0.98.9 [stable branch] Sun Oct 5 2008, joern Features: - Full support for anamorph transcoding by setting the pixel aspect ratio in the transcoded files if no resizing is applied. - New "Autoadjust, Clipping only" preset by Marc Sherman <msherman AT projectile.ca>., which makes use of the new anamorph transcoding feature. - New preference option for the default Clip & Zoom preset. - Updated Catalan translation. - New Danish translation by Ysangkok. Bugfixes: - Fixed a race condition in cluster node version detection. Thanks for the report to Sean Gallagher <stgallag AT gmail.com>. - Fixed a division by zero condition when video is not resized. - Fixed cluster mode problem with avi merging. Thanks for help debugging this to Helge Mühlmeier <H_Muehlmeier AT gmx.de>. 0.98.8 [stable branch] Thu Aug 95 2007, joern Bugfixes: - Tooltips were missing in the Preferences dialog. Features: - Added a small screen layout mode. The default layout doesn't fit well on wide screens with a small veritical resolution. On initial startup the "small" mode is activated, when the screen resolution has less than 1024 lines, but you can change it in the preferences at any time. Requested by Olivier Choquet <olivier.choquet AT gmail.com>, Guelden Cevik <Guelden_Cevik AT yahoo.de> and many I can't remember anymore ;) - dvd::rip now remembers the main window size between sessions. 0.98.7 [stable branch] Sun Aug 05 2007, joern Bugfixes: - tools/gensplash was missing what made "make install" in ./l10n fail. Thanks for the reports to Flavio <qazav3.0 AT gmail.com> and Joan Farrerons. - Cluster mode node check was disabled until a GUI connected to the master. - Small fixes regarding missing project name and utf8 problems in the logfile. Thanks to tropikhajma <tropikhajma AT gmail.com>. - Fixed grabbing previews from the wrong title with on-the-fly processing. Thanks for the patch to Wolfram Kresse <wk AT wkresse.de> - Fixed problems with fping not installed in /usr/sbin. Now dvdrip-master supports /usr/sbin and /usr/bin as well. Reported by Neill Mitchell <mitchell_neill AT hotmail.com>. - Determine svn versions of ffmpeg properly. - Fixed close button in "About" dialog. Features: - A Catalan translation provided by Joan Farrerons <jfarrerons AT economistes.com>. - Spanish and Italian translation updates. - Added dvdrip.desktop file. Thanks to Christian Marillat. 0.98.6 [stable branch] Fri Apr 14 2007, joern Features: - Swedish and Serbian translation updates. Bugfixes: - Crash on first dvd::rip startup (initial configuration) fixed. Thanks for the report to Christian Marillat. 0.98.5 [stable branch] Fri Apr 13 2007, joern Notes: - This version requires Event::ExecFlow 0.63. Grab it from the perl-modules/ directory of this dvd::rip tarball. Bugfixes: - Fixed a typo which made the the subtitle preview window crash. Thanks for the report to Dario Castellarin. - Fixed ffmpeg preview grabbing with newer ffmpeg builds. Thanks for the report to Christian Marillat. - Fixed a buffering issue in the cluster control GUI when processing progress update events from the master. Thanks for the report to Joe Plunkett <ragnarok_it AT yahoo.com>. - Stopping a cluster node didn't work when it was actually executing a job. - Cluster node test now checks for ogmtools as well. Thanks for this suggestion to Bart Nagel <bart AT bnagel.net>. - Programs in cluster node check now are executed in C locale to prevent any problems due to different default locales on cluster nodes. - Restarting a cluster project which finished with errors didn't work under specific circumstances (bug in Event::ExecFlow). - Prevent putting non-audio titles with ogg container on a cluster, since ogmcat doesn't support ogg files without audio. Thanks for the report to Carlos-Manuel Major <cmajor AT free.fr>. 0.98.4 [stable branch] Sat Mar 24 2007, joern Notes: - Added a new dependency to the ffmpeg command line program. It's optional for now, but recommended, in particular if you're suffering from the preview hanging bug (see below). Features: - Experimental support for transcode 1.1.x branch. You get a warning if this transcode version is detected. Basic operation seems to work with 1.1.x, but it's not deeply tested yet. Please report bugs, if you find them. Preview stuff (subtitle, filters) is currently known not to be working with transcode 1.1.x. Bugfixes: - Fixed occasional hanging bug on preview grabbing by using ffmpeg instead of transcode to decode the preview image. - Fixed crash with Italian locale when opening cluster control menu. Patch by Davide Capodaglio <davidecapod AT inwind.it>. - Really fixed crash on DVD titles without audio. Fix was announced in 0.98.3 but went lost somehow. - Missed adding Daniel Nylander to the translators list of the About dialog (Swedish translation). 0.98.3 [stable branch] Sat Mar 10 2007, joern Features: - Project's tmp/ directory is now created with 0775 permissions, which enables cluster mode running with different users belonging to the same group. Patch by Tom <mailbin AT comcast.net>. - Added swedish translation from Daniel Nylander <po AT danielnylander.se> Bugfixes: - Added another patch from Tom fixing cluster processes not running with the correct nice value. - "Exit dvd::rip after transcoding" didn't work. - Fixed off by one bug in dvd::rip command line option to select a specific title. - Try to workaround transcode hanging on preview frame grabbing by providing a different import filter. Based on comments from Francesco Romani and Jesse Heitler <jheitler AT po2.com>. - Fixed crash on DVD image paths with whitespaces. Thanks for their reports to Franz Brauße <mike-nought AT gmx.de> and Thomas Wendt <thoemy AT gmail.com>. - Fixed crash on DVD titles without audio. Thanks for the report to Edward Doolittle. - Fixed mplayer version detection. 0.98.2 [stable branch] Sat Nov 25 2006, joern Features: - Updated Serbian translation, now in latin variation as well, thanks to Filip Miletic <filmil AT gmail.com>. - Added Italian splash screen, thanks to Fabio Russo. - Dependency check: accept SVN versions of mplayer as well. 0.98.1 [stable branch] Fri Aug 25 2006, joern Features: - Updated spanish translation. Thanks to Sergio Cambra. Bugfixes: - Fixed exception when TOC reading failed for some reason. Thanks for the report to Jimmi <jimmi AT bglug.it>. - Spaces in the VOB file path were not refused but gave wrong error messages on TOC reading later. Made special character checking on project name and paths more strict. Reported by Google Roxxort <larspb AT hotmail.com>. - Preferences window: places buttons at the bottom of the window. Thanks for the hint to Gert Brinkmann <g111 AT netcologne.de>. - Preferences window: when changing the DVD drive from the popup, result checking output wasn't updated. - Added "Add node" button to the cluster control window (was lost somehow... ;) Notes: - Updated COPYRIGHT file. 0.98.0 [stable branch] Sun Aug 20 2006, joern Features: - Improved TOC reading: when lsdvd fails (version 0.16 sometimes does), fallback to tcprobe. - Select longest title after TOC reading. - Select nice value 19 by default. - Improved installation procedure: most required Perl modules are shipped with the dvd::rip tarball and installed together with dvd::rip if missing on the system. Refer to the installation docs for details. Bugfixes: - Fixed wrong "Ripping stopped short" warning on NTSC movies whith wrongly detected framerate on TOC reading. Thanks to Ben <ben AT starlitworld.com> for his hints on this topic. - transcode options addition didn't work since Event::ExecFlow is in use, reported by Kyle Husmann <kyle.husmann AT gmail.com> - When default container preference was changed after reading TOC, audio widgets weren't setup up properly (e.g. vorbis missing for OGG containers) right after ripping. - Grabbed subtitle preview images didn't show up immediately after ripping, only after reselection of the subtitle. - Fixed some missing widget deactivation when no title was selected. - Preferences: missed updating the checking result text after creating a data directory. - Frame rate popdown listed wrong format depending on the selected system locale (e.g. 23,976 instead of 23.976) - Framerate / count corrections didn't show up in the TOC right after ripping, only after reopening the project file. - Changed transcode version suggestion to 1.0.2. - Don't reset all transcode settings to defaults after ripping, just these which may be affected due to attribute changes (e.g. correctly detected frame rate). - No "Save file" request appeared after ripping, even if ripping changed attributes and settings. - Cluster mode: when creating the first node, dvd::rip complained about creating the master node first. 0.97.13 [unstable branch] Sat Aug 5 2006, joern Features: - Updated French translation from Christophe Combelles. - Updated German translation. - Initial preferences setup: - Show additional message with some notes on intial setup - Select first DVD device by default (if HAL is present) - Default language setting is derived from user's locale - Default dvd::rip data directores is set to $HOME/dvdrip-data - Added a "Create directory" button besides the corresponding entries - Rearanged pages, so most important settings are on the first page. Bugfixes: - dvd::rip missed creating the tmp/backup.rip file. Thanks for the report to Ben Lancaster <lists AT benlancaster.co.uk> - Chapter transcoding didn't work. Thanks for reporting this one to Daniel <komet AT stolzesherz.de> and Robert Tell <robert.tell AT gmx.net> - Fix thumbnail generation with older ImageMagick. Thanks for the patch to Kevin Pulo <kev AT pulo.com.au>. - Grey out subtitle language selection box on the "Rip" page for titles without subtitles. - Test results in the Preferences dialog was not colored correctly in non-englisch environments. 0.97.12 [unstable branch] Sat Jul 2 2006, joern Notes: - New (optional) dependency: dvd::rip now uses HAL for DVD device scanning. - Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory 0.65 is required, which fixes a serious 0.64 bug. Features: - Dropped 'DVD image' ripping mode, but added a more generic approach of DVD input selection as a replacement. This way you can 'rip' from a DVD image e.g. to fulfill cluster mode requirements without hacking the DVD device preference anymore. Suggested by Stefan Ollermann <Stefan.Ollermann AT gmx.de>. - Added DVD device scanning using HAL. This is optional, you can always select the DVD device file directly. - French splash screen and generally updated splash screen design by Christophe Combelles. - Updated italian translation by Fabio Russo. - Message finetuning, added more tooltips, updated German translation. Bugfixes: - Removed all preference settings and dependencies for CD burning, since this module doesn't exist anymore. - Fixed minor free diskspace calculation bugs. 0.97.11 [unstable branch] Sat Jun 17 2006, joern Dependency notes: - libintl-perl resp. Locale::TextDomain 1.16 is required - Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory 0.64 is required - Event::ExecFlow 0.62 is required Features: - Filters & Preview finally ported to 0.97.x Gtk2 branch. Please note that transcode 1.0.2 has a bug which breaks most filters in the preview window :( This tar.gz ships a patch which fixes this issue: patches/transcode-1.0.x-filter-patch.txt - Removed utf-8 l10n workaround which isn't necessary with libintl-perl 1.16 anymore. - Added new preference setting for default subtitle grabbing mode. Feature request by Christian Marillat. - Added a hint to the subtitle grabbing radio boxes tooltips that subtitle grabbing may slowdown ripping process. - Added support for transcode 1.1.x development branch, but this is highly experimental. - Updated German translation and optimized some messages for GUI space. Now the German GUI isn't much wider than the English. Bugfixes: - Job execution: some errors could left the GUI in an unusable state. - Applied a patch from Eric Festinger <eric.festinger AT gmail.com> which makes changing color index B work again. - NPTL workaround option is disabled, if workaround is not possible for the running architecture (e.g. amd64). - Filter color mode check now ignores pure audio filters. - Message dialogs are not attached to the main GUI window anymore, which was confusing for dialogs opened from child windows. - Added a workaround for a strange Data::Dumper bug on some platforms (fixes 29,576 <-> 29.576 frame rate issue). 0.97.10 [unstable branch] Mon Apr 24 2006, joern Features: - Updated spanish translation (and a spanish splash screen ;). Thanks to Sergio Cambra. Bugfixes: - Preview grabbing didn't work due to a broken (and untested, my bad) fix in 0.97.9. 0.97.9 [unstable branch] Sun Apr 23 2006, joern Note: - Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory 0.63 is required for this release. It fixes a bug with with dvd::rip's Preference dialog. Thanks for the report to Niki Kovacs <contact AT kikinovak.net>. Bugfixes: - Volume scanning didn't work anymore, thanks for the report to Alexander Skwar. - dvdrip-master didn't start, still used a factored out module. Thanks for report & fix to Andreas Vinsander <andreas AT vinsander.se> - Under some circumstances preview grabbing didn't work due to missing default values for width/height settings. Thanks for the report to Christian Marillat. 0.97.8 [unstable branch] Mon Apr 10 2006, joern Note: - Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory 0.62 is required for this release. It fixes a nasty bug with recent libgtk2 versions. Thanks for debugging assistance to Alex Petkov <alexandphyllis AT excite.com>. Features: - Support AC3 passthrough for on-the-fly and dvd image encoding as well, by doing an extra audio bitrate probe once AC3 codec is selected on the Transcode tab. Bugfixes: - Fixed a divison-by-zero condition in bitrate calculation module, thanks for the pointer to Dhek Bhun Kho <bhun.kho AT gmail.com>. - Subtitle preview didn't work in 0.97.7 due to a missing module. Thanks for the report to Rafael Kolless <rafael AT mondoria.de>. 0.97.7 [unstable branch] Sun Apr 2 2006, joern Notes: - dvd::rip now depends on a new Perl module: Event::ExecFlow version 0.61. You can get it from CPAN or better from the exit1.org homepage: http://www.exit1.org/Event-ExecFlow/ - Event::ExecFlow itself needs the AnyEvent module, which is available from CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/AnyEvent-1.02/ - Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory needs to be at least version 0.61 - Event::RPC needs to be at least version 0.89 Features: - Refactored out the internal command execution engine to Event::ExecFlow introducing some interesting new features. - New graphical progress window showing all jobs of the current task in a nice hierarchical treeview. Just hit on the magnifying glass symbol besides the progress bar - Pausing/resuming the running job by one click - Extensive rewrite of the cluster mode using the new execution engine and progress widget which visualizes the tree structure of cluster jobs much butter than the old cluster job display. - More cluster features are: - Allow cluster encoding without audio - You can specify a speed index for each cluster node. - Faster machines will be preferred. - vobsub file generation added - dvdrip-master now does a clean shutdown on signals. - Cluster window now has it's own menu bar with menu items - Connect/Disconnect the cluster master daemon from here. - Dropped "DVD mount dir" preference, because dvd::rip now determines the mount point of your DVD device automatically. Thanks for the suggestion to Dario Castellarin <dacstp AT tiscali.it>. - Generating preview images doesn't block the GUI anymore. - Improved Clip & Zoom clipping windows: added text entries for clipping values and meaningful warnings when values aren't even or not divisible by 16, which is required for transcodes internal processing and/or most video codecs. - Make "ffmpeg/af6 codec" field a combo box with presets for ffmpeg "mpeg4" and "h264" codecs. - A new nicer splash image including a Gnome compliant About dialog, with credits for the translators. - Updated Italian translation, thanks to Fabio Russo. - Updated German translation. - Added icons to the project's notebook tabs Bugfixes: - Preview frame grabbing failed for multi-PSU titles when the frame number goes beyond the first PSU. This fix should make the "use slow grabbing" checkbox mostly useless. It's still there but will likely be dropped in future versions. - TOC reading with lsdvd and DVD-image mode still accessed the physical DVD device instead of the DVD-image directory. Thanks for their reports to Triffid hunter and <mykhal AT centrum.cz>. - Disable multipass transcoding for ffmpeg/h264, since transcode currently doesn't support this. - lsdvd was used even if it was too old. Thanks for the report to Garnet Ulrich <garnet.ulrich AT gmx.net> and Sören Brunk <soerenbrunk AT gmx.de>. - Preferences: base project dir need to be absolute, which is checked now in the dialog. - Preferences: changed default video codec from 'divx4' to 'xvid4' (this was overdue... ;) - Consistent button behaviour: all buttons triggering actions now grey out if a task is active. - Some smaller bugfixes in the cluster mode GUI, inconsistencies between GUI and the master's state. - Clip & Zoom image windows: recalculate images only if the user changed something. - Subtitles: "Create VOBSUB now" just works on the currently selected subtitle. No need to mark it for vobsub creation anymore. - Fixed wrong frame counting during ripping, which resulted in too big frame numbers and thus incorrect bitrate calculation. Thanks to Christian Marillat for reporting this one. - Audio channel numbers on the GUI now start at 1, not at 0, which is more convenient. - Fixed regression: don't ask for project file save on exit if just the selected notebook page changed. - And a lot of more smaller bugs not counted here... 0.97.6 [unstable branch] Tue Jan 3 2005, joern Bugfixes: - Fixed off by one bugs in viewing angle and chapter selection. Thanks for the report to Chandler Carruth <chandlerc AT gmail.com>. - Deactivate multipass GUI elements for MPEG encodings. - Fixed cluster mode 'dvdrip-exec' bug introduced in 0.97.5. Thanks for the report to Karl Kashofer <karl AT kashofer.org>. 0.97.5 [unstable branch] Wed Dec 28 2005, joern Notes: - This version requires Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory 0.59. Features: - Set default lame/MP3 quality level to 2 instead of 0, which is very slow but without an appropriate quality gain. Thanks for the hint to Fridtjof Busse. Bugfixes: - When ripping a title again the Clip & Zoom was reset to 'auto_medium_fast' even if it was changed in the meantime. - When ripping multiple titles preview images were generated only for the first selected title. Thanks for the report to Fridtjof Busse. - MANIFEST lacked files for dvdrip-tet. Thanks for the report to Jacob Joseph <jmjoseph AT andrew.cmu.edu>. - dvdrip-tet: fixed a typo in "exit afterwards" function. Thanks for the report to Fridtjof Busse (again ;) - Store LD_ASSUME_KERNEL in tool_version_cache file and discard cache if LD_ASSUME_KERNEL changed in the meantime; fixes nptl_workaround deadlock problem on Gentoo. Thanks to Triffid Hunter for the detailed report. - Workaround Locale::TextDomain utf-8 bug, which destroyed 8 bit characters in the GUI if an utf-8 locale was in effect. - Since 0.97.4 all subprocesses were executed with nice level 19, the GUI setting was ignored. Thanks for the report to Alex <gaaf AT gmx.net>, 0.97.4 [unstable branch] Sun Oct 30 2005, joern Bugfixes: - Various critical cluster mode fixes (in particular some endless loop conditions) - Subtitle preview didn't work due to conflicts with latest internal API changes. - dvd::rip rejected negative vertical subtitle offsets, which are absolutely valid. Thanks for the report to elerran <elerran AT freemail.gr>. - Fixed bug with wrong audio track assignment with old tcprobe based TOC reading (new lsdvd mode was not affected). Thanks for the report to Markus Frisch <markus AT frisch.com> - Volume scanning progress bar didn't work; scanned value didn't appear in GUI. Thanks for the report to Triffid Hunter. - dvdrip-tet crashed if a confirmation request should pop up. For know dvdrip-tet just assumes "Yes" to the question and continues. 0.97.3 [unstable branch] Sun Oct 9 2005, joern Notes: - This version requires Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory 0.58. - New optional dependency: with lsdvd dvd::rip reads DVD TOC much faster. - Source directory layout changed slightly. All scripts and binaries moved into the bin/ subdirectory. All additional program files now have a "dvdrip-" prefix, the old "dr_" prefix for some binaries was dropped. Features: - Subtitle preview images may be grabbed while ripping which makes finding the correct subtitles much easier since no long-winded preview grabbing has to be done later. You can chosse to rip no subs, all of them or by language. Aware: your CPU will glow a bit more while ripping if you use this feature ;) - dvd::rip now has a command line frontend for pure transcoding without any GUI: dvdrip-tet (task execution terminal). Just execute "dvdrip-tet" to get some help about the the command line options. - With dvdrip-replex an experimental command line application is shipped which does DVD shrinking based on a ripped DVD and the corresponding dvd::rip project file. Just a prove-of-concept. The functionality will be added to the GUI sometimes... - Added a simple 'configure' script to fulfill GNU Source Installer requirements. Thanks for the suggestion to Claudio Fontana <sick_soul AT yahoo.it>. - Ported "force slow frame grabbing" feature from 0.52 to 0.97 branch. - Preferences dialog now has a "Cancel" button. - Added an "dvd::rip" entry to the dependency table which checks whether all dvd::rip command files are found in the PATH. Bugfixes: - Cluster control web service was broken. - Applied a patch from Ulrich Spoerlein <q AT galgenberg.net> removing the -ping option from the ImageMagick "identify" calls, since recent ImageMagick versions don't have this option anymore. - Applied minor patches from Ulrich Spoerlein to improve FreeBSD compatability. - Parsing output of the ImageMagick identify command was broken with specific filenames. Thanks for the report to Colin Wheat <cwheat AT ami.com.au>. - Dropped "identify -ping" option, since not any longer supported with newer versions. Thanks for the report to Avinash Chopde <avinash AT acm.org>. - X(S)VCD processing with manual bitrate setting didn't work. Thanks for the report to Ed Doolittle <ed.doolittle AT utoronto.ca> - dvd::rip dependency check was broken if tools didn't run due to NPTL issues. Switching NPTL workaround on/off didn't help anymore because the results were cached even on that case. Thanks for figuring that out to Joe Zbiciak <intvnut AT gmail.com>. - Sightly cluster mode node editor GUI improvements 0.97.2 [unstable branch] Mon Aug 1 2005, joern Notes: - You need at least Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory 0.57. Download from here because it may not reached all CPAN sites yet: http://www.exit1.org/Gtk2-Ex-FormFactory/ Features: - Ported cluster mode GUI to Gtk2, including a slightly internal code redesign of dvdrip-master, which introduces another Perl module dependency: Event::RPC 0.84. Download the module from CPAN or from the project's homepage: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Event/ http://www.exit1.org/Event-RPC I think I fixed a bunch of smaller bugs in the cluster mode during the code review and redesign as well... ;) - New button "Create project" on Storage page. So we have a definitive point when the project was created, after that the name may not change again and the data directory structure, logfile etc. is created. Bugfixes: - Preferences: changing DVD mount point and setting a directory as the DVD device didn't work. Thanks for the report to Christian Marillat. - When creating a new project: changing the project name was impossible once the name matched an existing project name in the dvd::rip data directory. - Delete volume rescale when a audio filter is set. - Fixed wrong viewing angle mplayer DVD command preset. Thanks for the report to Brian J. Murrell <brian AT interlinx.bc.ca> - Missed log file creation for new projects. - Subtitle preview window was broken - Bitrate calculation stuff wasn't initialized correctly if a default BBP was set in the Preferences 0.97.1 [unstable branch] Sat Jul 23 2005, joern Features: - Extensive GUI redesign. dvd::rip now uses Gtk2 and Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory, so we have new dependencies here. The Perl Gtk2 binding should be part of every modern Linux distribution, e.g. Debian has a libgtk2-perl package. Otherwise grab it from CPAN (see URL below). I personally use version 1.082, but lower versions may work as well. Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory is rather new and not yet packaged for any Linux distro, at least I'm not aware of. Installation is straight forward (perl Makefile.PL && make test && make install). Version 0.56 is required. You can grab both Gtk2 and Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory from here: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Gtk2/ - A bunch of smaller features / changes, in particular making the GUI more comfortable. Too many to list them all, just poke around to find them ;) Notes: - This is an ALPHA release, so please use with care, but *please* use it and report any bugs to the dvdrip-users list. - The project file format didn't change significantly. Files from older dvd::rip versions will just work. Even opening files created with 0.97.1 should work in older versions. As usual you should make backups nevertheless. - The redesign is not yet fully completed. The cluster, transcode filter & preview and burning stuff is currently missing. Cluster stuff will be added soon, filter stuff a bit later and burning stuff probably never: depends on user feedback ;) - Only the German translation is complete, other languages will follow. - The online web documentation still covers the old Gtk1 based version. This will change with the 0.98 stable release based on this 0.97 branch. Since the main functionality didn't change much this should be no problem at all. 0.52.7 [stable branch] Sat Mar 18 2006, joern Bugfixes: - Added a workaround for strange transcode bug with VOB directory input - Backported NPTL-Workaround-Tool-Version-Caching bugfix into stable branch. - NPTL Workaround now disabled by default, because it's in general not necessary anymore with newer transcode releases and makes problems on some platforms. - VCD bitrate calculation wasn't accurate, multiplex reserve wasn't considered. - Adjusted transcode frame count regex to cover new output format of transcode 1.1.x as well. - Applied a patch from Ulrich Spoerlein <q AT galgenberg.net> removing the -ping option from the ImageMagick "identify" calls, since recent ImageMagick versions don't have this option anymore. - Applied minor patches from Ulrich Spoerlein to improve FreeBSD compatability. 0.52.6 [stable branch] Sat Jul 23 2005, joern Notes: - Using transcode newer than version 0.6.14 is *not* recommended. At least subtitling is broken for these versions, and it seems there are still several NPTL related issues making problems. Features: - Added LD_ASSUME_KERNEL version number entry to the Preferences dialog extending the NPTL workaround feature introduced in 0.52.4. Initially set to version 2.4.30, since this number seems to be more appropriate, while the prior 2.2.5 made problems at least on Gentoo. Thanks for figuring that out to <robert AT firehead.org>. - Added a "Force slow grabbing" checkbox to the Clip&Zoom page to workaround fast nav seeking problems with some DVD's. Suggested by Ivan Villanueva. - Updated italian translation by Fabio Russo. Bugfixes: - Cluster mode: client/server communication didn't work if the corresponding machines had different endianess (e.g. i686 vs. amd64). Thanks for the report to Benjamin Van Laere <B.VanLaere AT unpeu.com>. - Cluster mode: ogg/vorbis projects didn't work since 0.52.5. Thanks for the reports to Sören Brunk <soerenbrunk AT gmx.de>, Alexander Skwar <listen AT alexander.skwar.name> and Knic Knic <oneeyedelf1 AT hotmail.com>. - Deferred vobsub creation didn't work if dvd::rip was configured to exit after transcoding. Thanks to Ivan Villanueva <dvdrip AT artificialidea.com> for the report. 0.52.5 [stable branch] Mon May 16 2005, joern Features: - Updated italian translation from Fabio Russo, which was *one* minute too late for the 0.52.4 release ;) Bugfixes: - Cluster mode: merging PSU chunks for a OGG/Vorbis title failed due to a dumb typo. 0.52.4 [stable branch] Mon May 16 2005, joern Features: - Full featured support for BPP (bits per pixel) resp. quality based video bitrate calculation (based on a request by Daniel Faber <mail AT daniel-faber.de>): - Permanent display of the bpp value on the transcode tab in a combo box - BPP value may be edited, video bitrate is recalculated accordingly, a list of reasonable preset values is available for convenience. BPP and bitrate follow changes of the frame size immediately. - A new preset "Default BPP" (in the misc section) is used by default for newly ripped titles once set. - Bitrate calculation sheet now shows different calculations depending on whether a manual bitrate was set or not. Suggested by Daniel Faber. - Subtitle preview improved; old tedious test transcoding dropped, instead you can open a realtime transcode preview window straight from the Subtitle tab without opening the transcode Filter dialog first. Movie starts with a leadtime of 15 seconds before the first subtitle timestamp. - Keyframe interval can be edited on the transcode page. transcode defaults internally to 250, now you can change this (dvd::rip defaults to 50). - Added a patch from Larry Siden <lsiden AT gmail.com> which makes dvd::rip compatible with dvdrecord. Just select "dvdrecord" as the CD burning command (a correspondent preset was added) and dvd::rip will generate a proper command line for dvdrecord. - Added DVD device placeholder %d to the DVD player command template and extended the xine and mplayer default commands accordingly. This is necessary if DVD devices located at a different path as the /dev/dvd default. - dvd::rip now workarounds transcode NPTL bugs by setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL. If you encounter problems with this you can switch this off in the Preferences / Misc section. - Cluster mode - Execute jobs with umask 0002. This helps solving permission problems, if commands are executed by different users on the nodes. With this umask the correponding users merely need to be in the same group. Based on a request from Triffid Hunter <triffid_hunter AT funkmunch.net>. - Don't log fping command. It's useless and too noisy. - Set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL on the nodes as well if set on the master. Bugfixes: - mplayer CVS versions are now recognized properly. A CVS version always satisfies the dependency module, assuming people using CVS versions know what they're doing ;) Thanks for reports and hints to Philippe Monroux <monroux-listes AT wanadoo.fr>, Christian Marillat and Fabio Russo. - xvid4conf didn't read the defauls properly from ~/.transcode/xvid4.cfg, looks like ~ isn't substituted, although this is xvid4conf's own default. Now dvd::rip passes the full path. - Filters didn't work since 0.52.3. Thanks for the report to Christian Marillat. - Combo box tooltips didn't appear in the Preferences dialog. - OGG overhead wasn't calculated correctly if a frame range was set. Thanks for the report to Daniel Faber. - Filter preview window: fixed a race condition when starting transcode; now wait max. 10 seconds on transcode startup using a Glib timer. Thanks for the bug report to Mathias Anselmann <M.Anselmann AT web.de>. - Cluster mode: when merging video chunks of a PSU in an OGG/Vorbis project the progress information was missing. 0.52.3 [stable branch] Sun Mar 13 2005, joern Features - Updated french translation from Christophe Combelles <ccomb AT free.fr> - Skip 1st pass (if "reuse log" is checked) even if Ogg/Vorbis vbr audio is enabled. Bugfixes: - PCM passthrough didn't work. - Newer transcode release seem not to need -d for PCM audio tracks anymore, so it's used only with versions < 0.6.13. - Mistaken switch to RGB color space if audio only filters are added to the filter chain. Reported by Dag Rune Sneeggen <contactus AT dudcore.net>. - Applied a patch from Fabio Russo fixing a potential problem with mplayer playback of DVD titles with an audio codec reported by transcode as 'mpeg1', although neither Fabio nor I ever had such a DVD in the hand ;) - Removed POSIX::setlocale(), since it's not necessary and probably the reason for a crash on Mandrake. 0.52.2 [stable branch] Sun Jan 9 2005, joern Bugfixes: - Missed adding Italian and Serbin translation files to the distribution tarball. 0.52.1 [stable branch] Sun Jan 9 2005, joern Features: - Italian translation added by Fabio Russo and Costantino. 0.52.0 [stable branch] Tue Jan 4 2005, joern Notes: - This is just a stable release of 0.51.4. Only change is that the suggested transcode minimum version is 0.6.14. - For changes since the last stable release 0.50.18 please refer to the change log entries of the 0.51 branch. 0.51.4 [unstable branch] Sat Dec 13 2004, joern Bugfix: - The central dvd::rip tools dr_splitpipe and dr_progress where broken due to changes to the Makefile. Thanks for the reports to Lukas Postupa <postupa AT gmx.de> and Christian Marillat. 0.51.3 [unstable branch] Sat Dec 11 2004, joern Features: - Set transcode -M 2 as default for NTSC movies to improve A/V sync unless the user provides -M on its own using the transcode options entry. Suggested by Peter Hutnick <hutnick AT gmail.com>. Note: default is -M 1, so enter this to transcode's option entry if the new -M 2 doesn't work for you. - More generic Makefile for the dvd::rip parts written in C. Thanks for the patch to Mike Frysinger <vapier AT gentoo.org>. Bugfixes: - Cluster mode / OGM: PSU chunks were not deleted afterwards even if the user requsted that. Thanks for the patch to Jonathan Hall <flimzy AT flimzy.com>. - Increased portion of data to be analyzed for detailed audio characteristics after ripping. Should fix problems with wrong detection of AC3 bitrates and switching off AC3 passthrough. Thanks to Nicholas E Andrade <neandrad AT ieng9.ucsd.edu> who helped figuring that out. 0.51.2 [unstable branch] Fri Oct 29 2004, joern Notes: - If you want to use transcode 0.6.13, you need this dvd::rip release. Older releases doesn't work. - Unfortunately transcode 0.6.13 has a bug which affects most operations of dvd::rip. You need to recompile transcode with a tiny patch, which is contained in dvd::rip's tarball: patches/transcode-0.6.13-bitstream.patch Features: - Deinterlace preset 'smartdeinter' now uses transcode's smartyuv filter instead of smartdeinter. It's much faster, assembly optimized and works in YUV colorspace. - Bojan Bozeovic added a Serbian translation. transcode 0.6.13 compatability: - Previews were flipped and wrongly colored. Thanks for the patch to Robin Hill <robin AT robinhill.me.uk>. - transcode's colorspace default setting changed from RGB to YUV, this required according changes in dvd::rip. 0.51.1 [unstable branch] Sun Oct 10 2004, joern Notes: - A new dependency: the Perl module Locale::TextDomain, often packaged as libintl-perl resp. libintl-xs-perl in many distribtions. Bugfixes: - Merging multiple PSU's with OGG/Vorbis in cluster mode didn't work. Thanks for the reports to Daniel Baughman <danrb AT codenet.net>, Sybren <sybren AT thirdtower.com> and Henning <einpfundhirn AT web.de>. - backup.rip creation failed if project's tmp/ directory was missing. Thanks for the report to Felix Knecht. - Gray out RIP button in DVD Image and DVD on-the-fly modes, because makes no sense here. Thanks for the report to Geoffrey Trexler <skynet AT charter.net> - dvdrip --help didn't work with recent Perl versions Features: - Full localization support (l10n). A lot of work for this was done by Oliver Kramer, who translated dvd::rip to German and send me a patch, which turned dvd::rip into a German version. I used this patch to extract all messages from dvd::rip source code and converted it to a patch, which added gettext() like calls, instead of a hardcoded German translation. Read l10n/README if you're interested in maintaining translations and contact me. - Translations and their maintainers in this release: Czech: Ales Tosovsky <tosovsky AT wo.cz> French: Sebastien Corot <scorot AT libertysurf.fr> German: Jörn Reder <joern AT zyn.de> Spanish: Sergio Cambra <runico AT users.berlios.de> The file l10/MAINTAINERS will always list all actual translation maintainers. - Support for Vorbis quality of -1, suggested by Bennett Perkins <bennett.perkins AT optusnet.com.au>. 0.50.18 [stable branch] Sun Apr 18 2004, joern Bugfixes: - ac3 passthrough was broken. Thanks for reporting to James Broberg <jbrobergAT cs.rmit.edu.au> and TOSOVSKY Ales <tosovsky AT znalecka.cz> 0.50.17 [stable branch] Sat Apr 10 2004, joern Features: - support for another transcode deinterlacer (I=5), suggested by Jean-Yves Simon <lethalwp AT tiscali.be> Bugfixes: - mp3 samplerate setting didn't work, only 48khz for CVD. Thanks for the report to Neverstopdreaming <neverstopdreaming AT tiscali.it>. - dvd::rip couldn't open empty project files - prevent timeouts when encoding Ogg/Vorbis in cluster mode - vobsub creation now splits with millisecond precision, thanks for the patch to Jean-Yves Simon 0.50.16 [stable branch] Sun Oct 26 2003, joern Note: - If you have Perl 5.8.1 you *need* this release. Older versions of dvd::rip do not work with Perl 5.8.1. Features: - New checkbox "Reuse log" for 2-pass encoding on the Transcode tab. Once activated an existent 2-pass logfile will be reused resp. pass 1 is skipped. This way you can continue a 2-pass transcoding if the 2nd pass went wrong for some reason. Long awaited feature requested by many users, including myself ;) - Workaround for transcode filters which declare options multiple times (as the unsharp filter in transcode 0.6.10). Reported by Fabio Russo. Bugfixes: - Perl 5.8.1 compatability issue fixed. Opening project files saved with a Perl 5.8.1 dvd::rip didn't work. - Transcode diskspace calculation was wrong in chapter mode. - cdrecord-clone (Debian unstable) is detected correctly now. Thanks for the report to Ben Handley <ben AT steelgarden.com> and Christian Marillat <marillat AT free.fr>. - XVCD multiplexing didn't work for higher video bitrates. Reported by <dvdrip AT vikas.mailshell.com>. - Deinterlacing settings 'smart' and 'inverse telecine' didn't restore correctly after saving/reopening. Reported by xavier <list.dvdrip-users AT natch.dyndns.org> and Jean-Yves Simon <lethalwp AT tiscali.be>. - If the transcode installation lacks filters, which are still referred in the project file, these referrals are removed to prevent dvd::rip from later crashing. Reported by <jawashin AT uiuc.edu>. - Video bitrate 'manual' setting wasn't deactivated when switching from X(S)VCD to (S)VCD. - Cluster control window: when removing a project the first project was selected internally but not on the GUI. Reported by Mark Rose <shifted AT shifted.ca>. - Ripping and snapshot grabbing failed if the title had no audio at all. Reported by Sean Dwyer <ewe2 AT can.org.au>. - dvd::rip hung if a autoadjust preset was applied on a completely black frame. 0.50.15 [stable branch] Sun Aug 24 2003, joern Features: - Expanded the subtitle selection popup to the maximum of 32 entries, not only the probed entries. With some DVD's the subtitle probing fails. This way you can select even "impossible" subtitles, if they weren't detected correctly. Thanks for the suggestion to Stefan Raspl <stefan.raspl AT playofmind.net>. - Blank CD-RW (uses the configured cdrecord command and device), supporting 'fast' and 'all' methods (choose in the preferences). Not really tested yet due to lack of CD-RW media. Suggested by <dvdrip AT vikas.mailshell.com>. - New preference "Preferred language". Default audio track and subtitle are selected accordingly after reading TOC, resp. the first audio track / subtitle matching the preferred language will be selected. Note that you still should review this setting, because the first matching item found must not be the one you really want. Suggested by John Washington <washingtonj AT acm.org>. Credits for the list of available language codes go to Chris Phillips <acid_kewpie AT users.sourceforge.net>, the author of lsdvd, from which I extracted the list. - Video codec list takes the new XviD variants of transcode 0.6.9 into account (xvid, xvid2, xvid3 and xvid4). For earlier transcode versions still xvid and xvidcvs are listed here. - Support for xvid4conf, a tool to tweak all options of the new dev-api-4 XviD codec. You need at least transcode 0.6.9 and xvid4conf 1.6 for this to work. Note: the xvid4 settings will be used for all titles of your project. Also they don't take effect in cluster mode. This will change for future dvd::rip/transcode releases. New/Changed X?S?VCD|CVD stuff: ============================== - Renamed '(S)VCD' container format to 'MPEG', which is in fact what it is. - Added new MPEG "Codecs": XSVCD, XVCD and CVD - SVCD and VCD create standard conform streams. You can't change parameters to non-standard values. - XSVCD and XVCD allow you to choose arbitrary video and audio bitrates / samplerates. - CVD allows you everything (like X(S)VCD), but additionally dvd::rip checks for correct frame sizes. - Added new Clip & Zoom presets: CVD anamorph and XSVCD anamorph for PAL and NTSC. - Added new Preference: "Default Container Format", fixing also a mismatch, if you choosed 'SVCD' or 'VCD' as a default codec, but dvd::rip still set to 'avi' container format by default. - Audio bitrate 224 was missing in the popup list. - Renamed 'Target format' to 'Select container' and the 'Video codec' label got renamed to 'MPEG variant' for the MPEG container" Thanks to James L. Paul who urged me to implement the CVD stuff, which hopefully introduced not too many bugs ;) Bugfixes: - mplayer DVD player command didn't work for LPCM tracks. Thanks to Fabio Russo for the patch. You must re-select the mplayer command from the Preferences page for this to take effect. - Free diskspace warning wasn't exact. Thanks for the patch to Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm AT informatik.uni-bremen.de>. - Fixed a typo in the --avilimit option (for AVI files >2GB). Thanks for the report to Jarkko Seppa <Jarkko.Seppa AT oulu.fi>. - Default target size was set to 1406, instead of 1400 (2x700). 0.50.14 [stable branch] Sun 29 Jun 2003, joern Features: - transcode >= 0.6.6 sets mpeg2enc -I 0 by default, but older versions doesn't. This speeds up things signifcantly, because now mpeg2enc skips deinterlace processing (it was done even for non-interlaced material and wasted time). dvd::rip now sets -I0, too. Thanks for the hint to Simone Lehmann - Warn about AVI files >2GB and set transcode option --avi_limit 9999, otherwise transcode splits automatically at 2GB. Bugfixes: - NTSC A/V sync enhancement: dvd::rip's -x vob,null transcode option in the 1st pass of a multipass transcoding was good for performance, but could be bad for A/V sync with some NTSC material, because the audio information is always needed for proper synchronisation. Thanks to Florin and Tilmann for figuring this out. - NTSC: -M2 isn't set anymore by dvd::rip, because transcode does autodetect this. Thanks to Tilmann for the hint. - Fixed a small mismatch (about 1%) in the audio size calculation, which affected video bitrate calculation. Thanks for the report to Charles François Rey <charlesfr.rey AT epfl.ch>. - Automatic setting of PERLIO=stdio failed, if PERLIO was already set to some value. Thanks for the report to Richard Kilgore <rkilgore AT hotpop.com>. - Progress bar was messed up with PSU core. Thanks for the report to Tyler <dvdrip AT unixgod.net> and Florin. - NTSC: resolution was set to 720x480, even if the movie had 704x480. dvd::rip now sets no resolution at all, because transcode autodetects the resolution. Thanks for the report to Francisco J. León <fleona AT cantv.net>. 0.50.13 [stable branch] Thu 23 May 2003, joern Features: - New deinterlace preset: inverse telecine (for NTSC). Suggested by Andrew Ukrainec <ukrainec AT sympatico.ca> and Thanasis Tsiodras <ttsiod AT softlab.ece.ntua.gr>. - Added dvdxchap dependency (which is part of ogmtools), because you get proper chapter progress bars only if dvdxchap is installed. Bugfixes: - Removed a small copy protection related function. You can read details about why this happened on http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ news entry 2003/05/23. - Default disc size for a new project was still 703 MB (instead of 700). Also the Zoom Calculator showed 703 MB in the disc size popup. Thanks for the report to Fridtjof Busse. - Audio bitrate combo box popdown button was sensitive for VCD, although VCD has a fixed rate of 224. Reported by Andreas Volz <andreas AT brachttal.net>. - Sometimes the chapter progress bar was messed up, if no dvdxchap is installed on the system (which is part of ogmtools). 0.50.12 [stable branch] Thu 1 May 2003, joern Features: - Yet another useless feature ;) You can start the dvdrip-master cluster control daemon with the -w option to fire up a webserver (listening on port 8888 by default, can be changed with -W) which delivers the cluster status as HTML. Based on an inspiriation by Fabio Russo. Maybe somewhat senseless but much fun to implement ;) Bugfixes: - Removed the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL workaround for RedHat 9. At least on gentoo dvd::rip didn't start anymore. So all RH9 users, which suffer from the transcode/NPTL problem, need to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 on their own before starting dvd::rip. Thanks a lot to Fridtjof Busse who helped me debugging this issue. - When no title is selected all notebook pages with title specific settings are disabled now. Some entries threw exceptions if you enter them with no titles selected. Thanks for the report to Fabio Russo. - Prefefined mplayer command played all chapters from the selected chapter on. Now it plays only the one selected chapter. Thanks for the report to Fabio Russo. 0.50.11 [stable branch] Sat 26 Apr 2003, joern Note: - To all RedHat 9 Users: RedHat's default kernel uses the new Native Posix Thread Library, which makes problems with transcode. Setting the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 may workaround this problem (also installing all RedHat errata). dvd::rip now sets LD_ASSUME_KERNEL, just to prevent "yet another FAQ" ;) There are reports, that it doesn't work even with this variable set. Please keep an eye on the transcode-users list, if you suffer from this problem. I can't help you - don't use RedHat ;) Bugfixes: - dvdrip -v reported nothing, in particular not the version number ;) - Movies with no audio track within the first few MB of the stream made strange problems. Added -H 10 to the correspondent transcode commands, which extends the area of audio probing, so this shouldn't happen anymore. Thanks for the hint to Tillmann Bitterberg. - Changed 703 MB cd preset to 700 MB. 703 was too tight. Also added the "-overburn" option to the cdrecord command. - Workaround for a transcode bug: for NTSC movies the frame rate sometimes isn't detected propery from DVD. Only probing the VOB's after ripping reports always the correct frame rate. Thanks for the report to Douglas Bollinger. - Progress bar was messed up when transcoding with PSU Core. Thanks for the report to Douglas Bollinger. - Cluster mode: the dr_exec program (part of dvd::rip) was needed on remote nodes, although no dvd::rip software is installed on them. This is fixed now, no dr_exec necessary anymore on remote nodes. Thanks for the report to Lethal Weapon. - Reduced OGG overhead value for video bitrate calculation. from 1.15% to 0.25% of total stream size, which is an estimation based on several test rips I made (using xvid, which has obviously the best vbr control from all existent mpeg4 codecs). With this value most of my test rip's hit the target size with a maximum error of 1 MB. 0.50.10 [stable branch] Tue 1 Apr 2003, joern Features: - If you re-read the TOC you get a warning, that this will override all settings of the current project. - A warning message appears, if you add a project with frame range setting to the cluster, because always the full movie is transcoded in cluster mode. Bugfixes: - GUI doesn't block anymore on first DVD access when reading TOC. Also the complete tcprobe output is printed, if something went wrong, which helps solving transcode related problems. - Extended preferences check of the cdrecord device, which also may be a device file on Linux 2.5 systems, since IDE burning support is native here. Thanks for the hint to Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm AT informatik.uni-bremen.de>. - Transcoding a frame range in chapter mode didn't show correct progress information. Reported by Ole Tange. - Viewing a subtitle test transcode movie in chapter mode didn't work. - A video avi file was generated during the first pass with ogg quality proccessing. Thanks for the report to Jonathan Rogers. 0.50.9 [stable branch] Fri 28 Mar 2003, joern Features: - Dropped cluster mode restriction for OGG projects with more than one PSU. Thanks for the patch to Jonathan Rogers <jonner AT mailandnews.com>. Now dvd::rip needs ogmtools >= 0.972. Bugfixes: - Fixed another division by zero condition in the Clip & Zoom module. Thanks for the report to Mike Oosten <shaggy AT slavery.cx>. - Burning page was disabled if only one of the four burning related tools (mkisofs, cdrecord, vcdimager, cdrdao) was missing, although you e.g. don't need mkisofs for VCD burning and no cdrdao for CDROM burning. Now dvd::rip is more specific here und disables only the corresponding burning types. - Adjusted xine DVD player preference for actual versions of xine. Thanks for the hint to Fridtjof Busse. - Additional transcode options entry didn't work (most probably since 0.50.4). Thanks to James L. Paul <james AT mauibay.net> - Vorbis quality mode didn't work in cluster mode. Thanks for the fix to Jonathan Rogers. - Lock audio selection popup, during a volume rescale scan. Otherwise the scanned value would be assigned to the latest selected channel, which may be wrong. Reported by Felix Knecht. 0.50.8 [stable branch] Thu 6 Mar 2003, joern Bugfixes: - Cluster mode: dvdrip-master daemon bailed out with an error message on startup. Thanks for the report to David Chan <davidchan AT rcn.com>. - Cluster mode: if file cleanup was requested and file splitting not necessary (because the file is smaller than one disc) the transcoded file was removed. 0.50.7 [stable branch] Tue 4 Mar 2003, joern Bugfixes: - Encoding multiple audio tracks with OGG and PSU core enabled didn't work. Thanks for the report to Daniel Egger <degger AT fhm.edu>. - Revoked the mplex change from version 0.50.4, because several users reported problems with it. 0.50.6 [stable branch] Mon 3 Mar 2003, joern Bugfixes: - Fixed an evil bug, which overwrote the preferences file on each startup. Sorry for the inconvenience. I also lost my preferences due to it... Thanks for the report to Matthias Saou <matthias AT rpmforge.net>. 0.50.5 [stable branch] Mon 3 Mar 2003, joern Features: - You can pass the preferences filename with the new command line option -p to have multiple configurations (default is still ~/.dvdriprc). Suggested by Harald Dunkel. - Log last output of aborted job's. Suggested by Felix Enning <felix AT hfsclub.de>. - Don't split the movie, if it fits already on one disc. Suggested by Nicos Panayides <anarxia AT gmx.net>. - subtitle language ID is now patched into the vobsub .idx file, requested by Douglas Bollinger. Bugfixes: - Video bitrate entry was not greyed out for VCD. Other bitrates than the standard value of 1152 are not supported. - Creating splitted vobsub's was broken. Thanks for their reports to Lutz Birkhahn <lutz.birkhahn AT gmx.de> and Douglas Bollinger. - transcode's version number was missing in .dvdrip-info file. 0.50.4 [stable branch] Sun 24 Feb 2003, joern Features: - Minor layout improvements. GUI should now look better with different sized fonts. - I removed the ps command dependency - found a completely different and more flexible solution, which doesn't depend on external tools. A new helper program called dr_exec is used to print the main PID of the current job, which is needed for cancellation. Bugfixes: - Wrong options were passed to transcode for Vorbis quality encoding. Thanks for the report to Brian Healy <brianhealy AT vodafone.ie>. - mplex SVCD command used wrong profile for SVCD. Thanks for the report to Davros <tashuu AT newsguy.com>. - Using the smart deinterlacer switched off YUV processing, which isn't necessary for transcode >= 0.6.3 anymore. Thanks for the report to Mark Dirix. 0.50.3 [stable branch] Mon 17 Feb 2003, joern Bugfixes: - Dropped the pstree dependend stuff completely. Now ps is used, using Posix conform options only, so this should work on most systems without problems. - Thanks to Ron Smits, who reported a problem with a few zombie processes per dvd::rip session on a Slackware system. After about an hour of IRC chatting we found a solution for it ;) 0.50.2 [stable branch] Sat 15 Feb 2003, joern Features: - Some layout optimizations: squeezed the GUI again a bit and the preview images are now slightly bigger. Bugfixes: - Fixed a typo in SVCD transcode command. Reported by several users. - Cancellation of some tasks left processes over. Changed back to old cancellation method, which depends on pstree, so this is now listed "mandatory" in the dependency window. Reported by Fridtjof Busse <fridtjof AT fbunet.de>. - Depend check didn't check for absolute path of /usr/sbin/fping. Also reported by Fridtjof Busse. - Cancellation of a vobsub PS1 extraction left files over, so further vobsub PS1 extraction didn't work. Thanks for the report to Gregorio Guidi <g.guidi AT sns.it>. - Changed two internal Perl namespaces, which confused the CPAN/PAUSE Perl module indexer. 0.50.1 [stable branch] Tue 11 Feb 2003, joern Bugfixes: - NTSC VCD film encoding (at 23.976) didn't work. Thanks for the report to Chris Elston <celston AT corky.sapien.net>. - dvd::rip's main window was too tall for standard desktops with 1024x768 resolution. I could save some space within the "Calculated storage" frame to fix this. On my system the window has now 657x696 pixels, which should be Ok for 1024x768 desktops. Thanks for the report to Florin. - Subtitle selection wasn't activated, even if subtitle2pgm was detected correctly. 0.50.0 [stable branch] Mon 10 Feb 2003, joern Notes: - This is a new stable release, closing the 0.49.x unstable branch. - Project file format changed since 0.48.x. Older files are converted automatically, but you can't use files saved with this release with older dvd::rip versions. - You should use at least transcode 0.6.3 to get all new features, but transcode 0.6.2 is still supported. - To get full and bugfree support for the new Filter & Preview feature, read the entry of 0.49.11 and apply the patch mentioned there, unless you have transcode > 0.6.3 (which doesn't exist as of this writing). - From now on dvd::rip insists on Perl >= 5.6.0. - For a full list of changes and bugfixes, refer to the 0.49.x change log entries below. Features and bugfixes listed next are changes to 0.49.13. Features: - New button "Check all settings" in Preference dialog. Suggested by Ole Tange. Bugfixes: - Dependencies listed ogmtools with minimum 0.954, but correct is 0.960 (mp3/ac3 only works since this version). - Dependency check didn't consider maximum rar version (must be a 2.x version, no 3.x). - Filter removal didn't affect an opened preview window. - Negative values in the cropping entries were rejected. Thanks for the report to Mauro Spluga <ferluga AT inwind.it> 0.49.13 [unstable branch] Sat 08 Feb 2003, joern Features: - A more sophisticated dependency check. A new window (menu item "Debug/Check dependencies") lists all needed tools with minimum, suggested and installed version numbers. On startup dvd::rip opens this window with a corresponding error message, if a mandatory tool is missing. Optional modules are disabled, if the correspondent tool isn't installed (affects subtitles, (S)VCD, OGG/Vorbis and CD burning). - Filter & preview: an activated subtitle rendering (from the Subtitle page) is passed through, so this is a better option to test your subtitle settings - compared to the slow test transcoding facility on the Subtitle page. - PSU core is enabled by default only for NTSC movies which have more than one PSU. Thanks for this suggestion to Florin. - Full volume scanning support in chapter mode. A patch from Kianusch Sayah Karadji. Bugfixes: - Filter preview: transcode has to be started with -u 1, otherwise pause/undo jumps between different frames. Thanks to Tilmann for the hint. - Enabled nice for all cluster jobs (was enabled only for video transcoding). Reported by Michael Dratz <midra AT web.de>. - A uncaught exception was thrown, if dvd::rip couldn't connect to a remote cluster master daemon. Reported by Fabio Russo. 0.49.12 [unstable branch] Thu 06 Feb 2003, joern Bugfixes: - Reading TOC threw an exception, reported by Tilmann. - Opening a filter preview frame with a freshly ripped title segfaulted transcode, because the preview buffer size was empty. Now it's 20 by default. - Stopping a paused preview window didn't close the window. 0.49.11 [unstable branch] Thu 06 Feb 2003, joern Note: - Filter & Preview enabled only for transcode >= 0.6.3 stable. Features: - Added a warning message about non-standard (S)VCD frame sizes. - SVCD video framerate is now limited to a maximum of 2600 (overall bitrate as supplied before is limited to 2748). - Added Open/Close DVD/Burner tray buttons on Title and Burn pages. Based on a patch from Kianusch Sayah Karadji <kianusch AT sk-tech.net>. You need to configure your "burner device" in the Preferences and must have the 'eject' command installed on your system. - Special support for logo, logoaway and mask filters: you can select a rectangular area on the preview window and the corresponding position / size values are automatically filled into the entries on the GUI. For PRE filters (currently mask only), the coordinates are transformed correctly - needed because the preview window shows the POST result, while the filter expects PRE coordinates (prior clipping and resizing). Also in YUV mode dvd::rip takes care, that the values are even. - File selection dialog for filename filter options. - YUV is automatically disabled, if you have a filter which supports RGB only (indeed, currently all transcode filters support YUV) or if you crop or resize with odd values. So now there is no need for the "YUV internal" checkbox to come back. - Filter preview loops, if end of the movie or frame range is reached. - Applying filters in pause mode enabled again - also the "Undo" button is back. You need transcode 0.6.3 with this patch from Tilmann: (to be applied on vanilla 0.6.3) http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/dist/patches/tc-0.6.3-preview-pause.patch % cd transcode-0.6.3 % patch -p1 < tc-0.6.3-preview-pause.patch - Multiple instances of the same filter are now fully supported. Bugfixes: - VCD Clip&Zoom presets didn't produce correct aspect ratio. Thanks for the hint to Simone Lehmann <simone AT lisanet.de>. - Quotes in the project name resp. project paths confuse dvd::rip. The path fields on the storage page now reject a bunch of special characters, as a first bugfix. Thanks for the report to Spencer Ogden <spencero AT mail.utexas.edu>. - Added mpeg2enc options "-I 0 -p" for NTSC 23.976 fps movies, because otherwise A/V sync is messy. Thanks for the hint to Andrew Ukrainec <ukrainec AT sympatico.ca>. - Closing the "Configure filter" window when a preview window was playing, didn't close the preview window also. - PSU core disabled for filter preview, because the generated transcode command doesn't work with it. Thanks for the report to Douglas Bollinger. - GUI for filters with no options (e.g. dilyuvmmx) was messed up. - Changing some filter frame range options didn't work. - Some legal fractional values were rejected by dvd::rip's value check module. - Fixed a typo on the burning page. Thanks to Yves Duret <yves AT zarb.org>. 0.49.10 [unstable branch] Tue 28 Jan 2003, joern Features: - transcode filter description cache is automatically refreshed not only when transcode was updated, but also when the corresponding dvd::rip module changed. Bugfixes: - A broken .dvdriprc file could crash dvd::rip with a confusing error message. Now a better error message is printed, which suggests to remove the broken file. - Filter & Preview: - Options of 'logo' filter were not recognized correctly. Reported by Tilmann. - Adding 'logoaway' filter threw an exception. In general some filters with checkbox options didn't work correctly. Also reported by Tilmann. - Parameter passing for filter options with multiple values didn't work. - Broken filter default setting parser removed. Now String::Scanf is used, which is copied into dvd::rip's library tree, to keep the dependencies low. - transcode currently doesn't support reliably to apply filter changes in paused mode, so this isn't possible on the GUI anymore. The "Undo" button became useless due to that, so it was also removed. Now everything that's possible, should work as expected ;) - Closing the preview window now works and stops the corresponding transcode process cleanly. Note: you need to patch your transcode for that. Download http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/dist/patches/tc-20030123-preview-close.patch (from Tilmann) and and apply it with % cd transcode-0.6.3-20030123 % patch -p1 < tc-20030123-preview-close.patch Any newer snapshot as 0.6.3-20030123 should have that patch included, soon. Older unpatched versions show the same erroneous behaviour - so don't close the preview window with them and use the 'O' button instead. 0.49.9 [unstable branch] Mon 27 Jan 2003, joern Features: - A new experimental dialog "Configure filters". All filters supported by transcode's new socket interface are available here for configuration. You need at least transcode 0.6.3.20030123 for it. But it's not only a comprehensive configuration dialog - you have a live preview window and can check your changes in realtime WYSIWYG - it's really cool, guys. Thanks to Tilmann, who implemented the transcode part and send me patches immediately after my bug reports ;) Currently there is no documentation, hopefully the GUI is somewhat self- explanatory. Nevertheless: a short quick start guide: - click "Configure filters & preview" on the transcode page - double click on the "invert" filter in the left filter list - click on the ">" (Play) Button - a preview window opens, showing the movie inverted - disable the "Enable filter" checkbox - click on "A" (Apply) - the movie immediately gets normal again - any filter setting changes can be applied in realtime by clicking on the "A" button at any time. - click on the "||" (Pause) button - now you can navigate through transcode's internal preview buffer (you can modify the size of this buffer with the first entry in the "Preview settings" frame). "<<" and ">>" navigate by frame, "<<<" and ">>>" usually by 5 frames (resp. higher values for higher buffer sizes). You get green frames, if you access parts of the buffer, which aren't filled yet. - in pause mode: - change a filter setting - click on "A" (Apply) - the current picture is rendered with the new setting - now click on "U" (Undo) - the picture before you applied the last time is restored. This way you easily can compare two filter settings. - (see note about this in the "Known bugs" section beyond). - the preview window runs with maximum speed. You can slow done resp. speed up again using the "-" and "+" buttons. - click on "O" (Stop) to close the preview window - Dropped "Antialias" setting on transcode page. It's seldom used and you still can enable it using the new filters dialog (videocore filter, -C option). - Progress information for chapter ripping. dvd::rip uses dvdxchap, which is part of ogmtools, to get the chapter lengths. If you don't have ogmtools installed, dvd::rip falls back to the old bevhaviour showing no ripping progress for chapters. Known bugs: - For some reasons the pp filter doesn't work with the filter configuration dialog. Have to debug this. - Just closing the preview window doesn't really stop the process, you anyway must hit the stop button. Sometimes you even must kill transcode processes by hand, if you closed the preview window. Have to discuss this with Tilmann. - Multiple applying and undoing settings on a paused frame is cumulative. Also a subject of discussion with Tilmann ;) - transcode supports adding some filters multiple times. Due to a bug in transcode (or in dvd::rip - not figured out finally) this doesn't work with transcode 0.6.3.20030123, so it's disabled on dvd::rip's GUI until it works. Bugfixes: - Reduce disc size passed to avisplit/ogmsplit to decrease the risk of a oversized file. Thanks to Felix Knecht <felixknecht AT web.de> and Julio Sánchez for report and discussion. - Adding (S)VCD projects to cluster using the menu entry isn't possible anymore - (S)VCD is not supported by cluster mode. The corresponding button was disabled, but the menu entry not. - Remove trailing whitespace from path's on the storage page. This makes pasting from an xterm easier, if the buffer contains a trailing newline. Requested by Tilmann Bitterberg. - Subtitle preview grabbing threw an exception. 0.49.8 [unstable branch] Mon 13 Jan 2003, joern Bugfixes: - Frame range "end" entry didn't work anymore. Christoph's frame range patch of 0.49.7 was correct, but I applied an erroneous "optimization" ;) - Fixed a typo: preset "SVCD 16:9 anamorph, PAL" actually is "SVCD anamorph, PAL". 0.49.7 [unstable branch] Mon 13 Jan 2003, joern Notes: - From now on dvd::rip insists on Perl >= 5.6.0. Older versions don't provide the syntactic sugar I like. - Added a COPYRIGHT file, with references to all developers who contributed patches and share the copyright. Features: - Multiple audio track support for SVCD (you get a warning if you select more than two tracks, because this isn't standard conform). - A new checkbox "Use range" on the Transcode page enables considerung a given frame range for video bitrate calculation. This was implemented by Christoph Bartoschek <bartoschek AT gmx.de>. - Single instance windows now pop up into foreground if opened again. A patch from Matthias Riese. - DVD TOC occupies now all space available. Again a patch from Matthias Riese. - Burn page filename list occupies now all space available. Yet another a patch from Matthias Riese ;) Bugfixes: - Removed any conditional code for transcode versions < 0.6.2. This fixed also a missing "--print_status 20" transcode parameter, which increased video transcoding load unnecessarily. Thanks for the report to Vlad Spichek <spy AT mbox.ath.cx>. - According to a hint from Julio Sánchez mpeg2enc's -S parameter is set to 10000 for non-splitting operation, because mpeg2enc splits by default at 700 MB. - smartdeinter setting wasn't restored after opening a project file. Reported by Christian Lambert. - Adjusted smartdeinter settings according to a suggestion of Christian Lambert: -J smartdeinter=threshold=10:Blend=1:diffmode=2:highq=1 - Frame range: entering illegal ranges (start > end) is prevented now. Thanks for the report to Christoph Bartoschek. - Most 'focus-out' handlers are 'changed' handlers again. Transfering changes to the internal object data structure on focus-out is confusing resp. sometimes user has to click somewhere to trigger it explicitly. Reported by Florin Andrei. - Burning tab: some unusal named (S)VCD image files weren't recognized correctly. - Preferences: ffmpeg4 preset became ffmpeg. Setting 'ffmpeg' from preferences didn't set af6/ffmpeg codec to 'mpeg4' automatically. Reported by Christian Lambert. - Added fail safe code for a possible "illegal by division by zero" condition in bitrate calculator. Reported by Christoph Bartoschek. - "View AVI" was too fuzzy regarding filename globbing (.mpg files were included). Reported by Markus Dewerny. 0.49.6 [unstable branch] Tue 7 Jan 2003, joern Features: - WAV creation command now printed in the debugging window. Bugfixes: - WAV creation resulted in white noise for lpcm tracks. Thanks for the report to Damien Covey <djcovey AT softhome.net>. - WAV creation didn't worked for Chapter mode. Also reported by Damien Covey. 0.49.5 [unstable branch] Mon 6 Jan 2003, joern Features: - rar command (for vobsub compression) is now configurable. Suggested by Mikkel Mondrup Kristensen <mikkel AT tdx.dk>. Bugfixes: - CD size wasn't set in (S)VCD transcode command. Reported by Markus Dewerny <dewerny AT web.de> and Dirk Aust <dirk_aust AT gmx.de>. - Clip & Zoom: width and height of zoom/clip2 stages didn't update correctly if no zoom was set. Thanks for the report to Joakim Verona <joakim AT verona.se>. 0.49.4 [unstable branch] Wed 1 Jan 2003, joern Features: - WAV generation of the selected audio track. You find a correspondent entry in the "Operate" menu. The file is created in the project's avi/ directory. Requested by Thibaut Cousin <cousin AT in2p3.fr> and Marc Dirix <dirixmjm AT home.nl>. Thanks to Tillmann Bitterberg <transcode AT tibit.org>, who posted the shortest transcode command for this ;) - Percentage log messages of previous dvd::rip versions are back again (disappeared accidentally some versions ago). Requested by Fred Beondo <bl8206 AT mindspring.com>. Bugfixes: - Fixed a typo on the transcode tab. Thanks to Jochen Puchalla <mail AT puchalla-online.de>. - Spaces in directories / filenames (project base directory, vob/avi/tmp etc.) are not allowed, because they make problems with transcode and other tools. Thanks to David Legg <david_legg AT tiscali.co.uk>. - Changing the project name resp. project path after reading TOC isn't possible anymore, because this confuses dvd::rp, which can't find the files anymore. Thanks to Fabio Russo. - Closing a new project after reading TOC didn't open a save file dialog (because after TOC reading the project is saved to tmp/backup.rip already). - Cluster mode: dvdrip-master ignored configured nodes as long as no project ever was added to the cluster. Thanks for some hard investigation work to Wolfgang Schricker <wols AT wols.org>. - Added a fail safe check in file conversion. 0.49.3 [unstable branch] Sun 29 Dec 2002, joern Bugfixes: - File conversion didn't work for all older files, due to a bug in the version comparison routine. 0.49.2 [unstable branch] Sun 29 Dec 2002, joern Notes: - File format changed and isn't backward compatible. Old project files are autoconverted, but older dvd::rip versions can't open files saved with this version. - dvd::rip insists on transcode 0.6.2 from now on. Features: - Major internal code cleanup, hopefully without introducing too many bugs. - Added OGG/Vorbis video bitrate optimization. First all audio tracks are transcoded, after that the real audio size is known so the video bitrate can be adjusted accordingly. Correspondent messages appear in the log. This works in standard and cluster mode. Thanks to Moritz Bunkus, Markus Liebl and xercist for suggestions and discussion. - PCM passthrough (for AVI only). Requested long time ago by Jamie Manley <jamie AT homebrewcomputing.com> and xercist. - Support for transcode's smartdeinter deinterlacing filter. This switches off YUV mode, because this filter supports only RGB (it's rather slow but has good quality). Requested by Christian Lambert, Florin Andrei and others. - Slightly cluster mode optimization: master node's state is never 'offline' or 'unknown', and the node isn't fping'ed anymore. Bugfixes: - Adjusted (S)VCD bitrate overhead calculation (mpeg2enc's -B parameter) to audio + 2% of overall stream (was 1%), because 1% seems to be underestimated in general. - (S)VCD disc size calculation didn't consider the per disc overhead of 600 sectors. Again thanks to Julio Sánchez. - Vorbis sample rate conversion didn't work. - transcoding to OGG without audio didn't work. Thanks for the report to Clint Silvester <clint AT focuscompanies.com> - Volume scanning of PCM audio tracks didn't work. - Cluster mode: additional audio tracks with OGG didn't work. 0.49.1 [unstable branch] Fri 27 Dec 2002, joern Notes: - File format changed and isn't backward compatible. Old project files are autoconverted, but older dvd::rip versions can't open files saved with this version. Bugfixes: - All changes from 0.48.0 - 0.48.6 are included in this release (refer to the corresponding Changes entries for details) - Cluster mode: fixed missing progress information for merge jobs. Thanks for the fix to Fabio Russo. Features: - Applied a patch from Stefan Gmeiner <riddlebox AT freesurf.ch>, which adds the ability of estimating the image size before burning on the fly, which is needed for some drives (e.g. TEAC). - Partially applied a patch from Petros Stavrakakis <petros AT stavrakakis.de> which brings more detailed options for cdrdao, in particular you can select the cdrdao-driver and buffersize. - On the transcode tab a new setting "Container format" was added, currently with three options: AVI, OGG, (S)VCD. This way you explicitely decide a container format first, the GUI follows this decision and enables/disables all other options accordingly. If actual settings can't be done with a selected container these will be set to reasonably defaults, with correspondent messages in the log. - mp3/ac3 audio codecs now supported also for OGG container. You need at least ogmtools v0.960 (I tested with v0.970). - Preliminary support for vorbis quality based encoding. Future versions will determine real audio size after encoding the 1st pass (when using 2pass transcoding) and will adjust video bitrate accordingly for the 2nd pass. - Option to change the audio samplerate (be careful with odd values here, transcode resp. lame bails out for ununsal samplerates - 48000, 44100 and 24000 always worked for me). Requested long time ago by Certron DiSoni. - A new window "Bitrate calculation details" shows all steps of the video bitrate calculation, so you can see exactly what happens here. The window can stay open all the time. Its calculation sheet follows your settings immediately. - Bitrate calculation now considers selected chapters correctly. - A new checkbox "manual video bitrate" let you decide explicetly, if you want dvd::rip to calculate the video bitrate for you, or not. By default, it's disabled and the video bitrate entry not sensible. If you enable the "manual" checkbox, dvd::rip doesn't touch your setting, even if you change the target size, disc count popup etc. - Adjusted CD size presets to standard values: 650,703,800,870 (which are 74, 80, 90, 99 minute CD-R with 2048 bytes sector size. 2324 byte sector size for VCD is now considered, see below). Thanks to Julio Sánchez <j.sanchezf AT terra.es>. - (S)VCD sector sizes are considered for SVCD video bitrate calculation, so you can select a CD size from the popup and need not to fiddle with SVCD space on your own. This maybe somewhat confusing on the one hand (because the resulting size is magically bigger than your setting), but on the other hand the CD-ROM disc sizes are well-known. And you still can enter arbitrary MB values by hand, so I decided to leave the MB based size definition (beside a CD-R duration / minute based one). Thanks to Julio Sánchez who enlighted several details of the (S)VCD specification, which were new to me. - Some further SVCD improvements, e.g. min-gop-size and max-gop-size values depending on PAL/NTSC are set. Thanks a lot for the (S)VCD help to Tom Vijlbrief <tom.vijlbrief AT ision.nl> - AVI/OGG/MPEG container overhead is now considered for video bitrate calculation. Thanks to Markus Liebl for some tests and hints regarding measuring the overhead values, and Moritz Bunkus for information about OGG overhead. - Dropped the "YUV internally" setting from the GUI, it's always enabled. 0.48.8 [stable branch] Mon 06 Jan 2003, joern Bugfixes: - Clip & Zoom: width and height of zoom/clip2 stages didn't update correctly if no zoom was set. Thanks for the report to Joakim Verona <joakim AT verona.se>. 0.48.7 [stable branch] Mon 06 Jan 2003, joern Bugfixes: - CD size wasn't set in (S)VCD transcode command. Reported by Markus Dewerny <dewerny AT web.de> and Dirk Aust <dirk_aust AT gmx.de>. 0.48.6 [stable branch] Fri 13 Dec 2002, joern Bugfixes: - Fixed a typo in the vcdimager command (which didn't affect proper operation on my system, but it was anyway a typo ;) Thanks for report and fix to Tom Vijlbrief <tom.vijlbrief AT ision.nl> - Using "Create vobsub now" threw an exception due to a missing avi directory. Thanks to Eckehardt Luhm <bselu AT web.de>. 0.48.5 [stable branch] Sat 7 Dec 2002, joern Bugfix: - 0.48.3 introduced a bug which prevents multiple audio tracks with OGG/Vorbis. Thanks to Lethal Weapon for the report. 0.48.4 [stable branch] Wed 4 Dec 2002, joern Bugfix: - Fixed a dumb bug, where dvd::rip complained about a missing avi directory when transcoding a title the first time. Thanks for the report to Florin Andrei (I'm wondering why nobody found this bug earlier - it should exist since version 0.47.5 - anyway, now it's fixed ;) 0.48.3 [stable branch] Tue 3 Dec 2002, joern Features: - dvd::rip now checks on startup if you're using Perl 5.8 without having PERLIO=stdio set. If yes, dvd::rip sets the variable for you and restarts. (This bug is already reported to the Perl developers and hopefully fixed soon, so dvd::rip can drop this workaround somedays). Bugfixes: - Adding additional audio tracks didn't work for DVD image and on-the-fly transcoding. Reported by Matthias Hennemann <Matthias.Hennemann AT Organik.Uni-Erlangen.DE> - Free diskspace wasn't printed before ripping. Reported by Florin Andrei. - Fixed a possible bug regarding proper ac3 audio codec detection which probably depends on the used libdvdread version. Thanks to Ronny Buchmann <ronny-transcode AT vlugnet.org> who reported a bug in dvd::rip's automatic file conversion, which is most likely a consequence of an failed ac3 detection. 0.48.2 [stable branch] Sun 24 Nov 2002, joern Bugfix: - transcode 0.6.2 changed its progress output for transcoding frames ranges. dvd::rip didn't show a valid progress bar due to that. Thanks for the report to Florin Andrei. 0.48.1 [stable branch] Sat 23 Nov 2002, joern Note: - transcode 0.6.2 was released on 22. November. dvd::rip works with all 0.6 releases, but 0.6.2 is recommended. dvd::rip disables some features for smaller versions. Features: - Added 64 kbit/s audio bitrate preset entry. Suggested by Miguel J. Jimenez <cactus_espinado AT yahoo.es> - ffmpeg video codec setting adjusted to the new ffmpeg interface of transcode 0.6.2. Thanks for the hint to Stefano <stefano AT symbola.it> - subtitleripper version is now checked, a correspondent note is printed, if a version smaller than 0.3 is detected. Arne Driescher build a transcode independent tarball of this release, which you can get from Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/subtitleripper Bugfixes: - Burning tab: label information followed file selection only on the GUI, but old values were used internally. - IFO file copying didn't work for DVD image projects. Thanks for the report to Arne Driescher. - thranduil <thranduil AT free.fr> reported that dvd::rip's vcdimager command works only with long options. I can't reproduce this, but I switched over to the long options, just to be sure. 0.48.0 [stable branch] Sun 17 Nov 2002, joern Notes: - transcode 0.6.2.20021114 is the recommended version for this release. 0.6.0 and 0.6.1 still work, but dvd::rip lacks features with them, e.g. subtitle support. - From 0.47.6 on dvd::rip needs to know the mount point of your DVD device. So open the preferences dialog and enter your mount point there. Also the DVD must be mountable by the user who executes dvd::rip. - File format changed slightly with 0.47.2, but is backward compatible. dvd::rip prints a short message when converting an older file to the new format. - Version numbering changes with this release. It follows the common MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH scheme. Two branches are distuingished using the MINOR number: the stable branch uses even numbers, the unstable odd. So the next stable release is 0.50.0, bugfixes on 0.48.0 will be numbered 0.48.1, 0.48.2 etc and the next unstable branch is 0.49.1, 0.49.2 etc. - Read all change log entries of 0.47 to see what changed in detail since 0.46. Bugfixes: - Fixed a "division by zero" bug on Clip & Zoom tab. - Subtitles: test transcoding threw an exception, if no preview images were grabbed. Reported by Andreas Lemke. 0.47.12 Wed 13 Nov 2002, joern Bugfixes: - Changing mp2 bitrate threw an exception. Thanks for the report to Andreas Lemke <andreas.lemke AT epost.de> - Transcoding failed, if no subtitles were detected. Also reported by Andreas Lemke. - Message about wrong transcode version on the subtitle tab was too big, the project window needed to grow for it. 0.47.11 Tue 12 Nov 2002, joern Note: - Actual transcode pre-0.6.2 snapshots have a bug in cluster mode, which destroys A/V sync, while transcode 0.6.1 works fine. The next transcode snapshot should fix that issue. Until that happens I suggest using 0.6.1 for cluster operation. Features: - Reorganized the video options widgets on the transcode tab a bit. Makes more sense now, in my opinion. - Menu entry "Operate/Create dvdrip-info file" (dvdrip-info file is by default created when you start transcoding). - Information about subtitles added to the dvdrip-info file. Bugfixes: - The subtitle grabbing frame/timecode entry rejected timecode values. - Autoadjust presets failed, when the movie had unusual frame sizes (mostly this happened, if the preview frame was a bad choice, e.g. it's mostly black. Then letterbox detection didn't work properly and dvd::rip's autoadjust mechanism bailed out). - Subtitle sort order in selection popup was alphanumeric. - Subtitle preview grabbing still didn't work if the selection popup wasn't touched after ripping. - Pressing the "Scan volume" button did nothing if the title wasn't ripped, instead of telling the user, *that* the title isn't ripped ;) Thanks for the report to Chris Jensen <chris AT drspirograph.com>. - Cluster mode: - Nodes stopped by hand, didn't get online anymore after starting them again. - Nodes' "stopped" state wasn't restored properly in case of a dvdrip-master restart. 0.47.10 Wed 06 Nov 2002, joern Features: - DVD mounting only for copying the IFO files, not for TOC reading and ripping. Because the mount may make problems (if your system isn't configured properly), this reduces the harm a bit, because only the IFO files will be missing. This affects vobsub subtitle generation only, everything else will work as usual. Bugfixes: - IFO file copying didn't work, if the DVD wasn't mounted already. - Fractional volume rescale values were rejected. Thanks for the report to Laurent Grawet. 0.47.9 Fri 01 Nov 2002, joern Bugfixes: - Spaces in the frame range entries produced illegal transcode options. Reported by Andrea Carpani <ancarpan AT tiscalinet.it>. - All entry fields are now syntax checked (e.g. non-digits are rejected when a number is expected). - When ripping multiple titles or chapters, dvd::rip calculated 6 GB x (number of titles/chapters) as the assumed disk space, instead of assuming 6 GB once. Reported by Michel Alexandre Salim. - Cancelling a rip after a disk usage warning didn't set the ripping GUI sensitive again. - Cluster mode: switch node state from offline to online after a 20 second delay (a booting machine answeres ping requests some time before the ssh daemon is up - this way the system has 20 seconds to start the ssh daemon after starting the network; this should suffice). Requested by Matthias Kukuk <m.kukuk AT gmx.de> - AC3 audio tab was always active, even if the selected audio channel was no AC3. - Ripping didn't work, when the DVD wasn't mounted by the user before. 0.47.8 Wed 30 Oct 2002, joern Bugfixes: - Fixed a typo which breaks subtitle transcoding. Thanks to Paul Gohn <pgohn AT nexgo.de> for the report and William Hawkins <whawkins AT vt.edu> for the fix. 0.47.7 Tue 29 Oct 2002, joern Features: - Added another RPM spec file RedHat-Rawhide-Video-DVDRip.spec. Sorry for my ignorance, but I don't understand anything of RPM spec files and don't why or whether they are really distro specific or not. I just add them, if I get them. This one was sent by Ragnar Kjørstad <dvdrip AT ragnark.vestdata.no>. Thanks. Bugfixes: - The "dvd mount point" check in the preferences dialog didn't work reliably with all distributions, so I dropped it (resp. the existence of the mount point is checked only). Thanks to Douglas Bollinger for the report. - dvd::rip now checks the mount state of the DVD reliably and really mounts the DVD only, if it isn't mounted yet (considering automounters, which were problematic). Thanks to Davide Ferrari for the bug report. 0.47.6 Mon 28 Oct 2002, joern Notes: - From now on dvd::rip needs to know the mount point of your DVD device. So open the preferences dialog and enter your mount point there. Also the DVD must be mountable by the user who executes dvd::rip. - To get vobsub support you must re-read the TOC from your DVD. (which nukes your settings of the project - sorry, but it's a beta release). Features: - Subtitles: dvd::rip now creates vobsub files, which can be played with mplayer, using Arne Driescher's subtitle2vobsub. Splitting is considered, you get one vobsub per splitted file. You can create the vobsub by pressing the appropriate button on the Subtitle tab, or by checking "Create later after transcoding". Chapter mode isn't supported. Cluster mode support will follow (you can start vobsub creation from dvd::rip's Operate menu after transcoding with the cluster). A .rar file is created, if rar is present on your system. You need a recent mplayer (I use 0.90pre9) to play rar-vobsub files. Attention: your rar binary *must not* be newer than 2.x (3.x isn't supported by mplayer; I use rar 2.71 with success here). It's hard to find such an old version, so you can grab it from here: http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/contrib/rarlnx271.sfx.bin Thanks to Arne for the hint about rar-vobsub and again for his great subtitleripper package. You can play a vobsub with these mplayer options: mplayer -vobsub movie-001-sid02 movie-001.avi (In this example the vosub file(s) are "movie-001-sid02.rar" resp. "movie-001-sid02.{ifo,sub,idx}") - IFO files: dvd::rip copies the .ifo files into the project's tmp/ifo directory when reading the TOC. - Disc size popup became a combo box, so you can enter arbitrary disc sizes (for customized splitting, e.g. if you want to leave space for other stuff, you want to put on the CD's). - dvd::rip prints a warning message if you use RH 8.0 without the PERLIO=stdio environment variable set. Requested by Michael Mason <mgm AT eskimoman.net>. NEEDS TESTING, please report to dvdrip-user, whether this works! Bugfixes: - transcode supports rendering subtitles only with -x vob, that means I had to switch off rendering support for on-the-fly and dvd-image-ripping. Creating vobsub's work for all modes. - Subtitle grabbing didn't work for titles which have only one subtitle, or if you never explicetely selected a subtitle from the popup. You must re-read the TOC for the fix to take effect. Thanks to Michèl Alexandre Salim for the extensive bug report. - When ripping on-thy-fly or from an DVD image, the "Rip" button is disabled instead of alter it to a "Volume scan" button. Volume scanning can be done on the Transcode tab, so this function is rather confusing on the Rip tab. - When zoom width/height were empty, dvd::rip produced illegal fast resizing transcode options. - CD burning: list of files was refreshed when entering the transcode tab instead of the burn tab. - dvd::rip crashed on first startup, when no ~/.dvdriprc file was present. Thanks to Davide Ferarri for the detailed report. 0.47.5 Wed 16 Oct 2002, joern Features: - Extensive support for rendering subtitles on the movie (creating vobsub files is prepared, not yet implemented but coming soon). Subtitle stuff is on its own tab, documentation will follow. You need at least transcode 0.6.2.20021010 for this to work. For existent projects you must re-read the DVD TOC, because subtitle-detection is done here. Also you need a recent CVS version of subtitle2pgm from Arne Driescher's subtitleripper package. You can find it on his project homepage: http://subtitleripper.sourceforge.net/ If you're unfamilar with CVS: I put a snapshot together of the version I'm currently using. You can find it here: http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/contrib/subtitleripper-20021015.tgz Thanks a lot to Arne, who added some features on my request to make it work seamlessly with dvd::rip. dvd::rip's subtitle support isn't finished yet, a few things could be improved, e.g. the suggestion functions should be capable of addding black bars in the clip1 stage or addding black bars in clip2 for 4:3 movies etc. Stay tuned. - When transcoding a .dvdrip-info file is generated, which contains some interesting technical information about the created movie file. Thanks to Moritz Bunkus for this suggestion. - Use a notebook for the different audio codecs supported by dvd::rip, instead of struggling around with making widgets sensitive when possible. This makes things much clearer and is more flexible, because audio options can differ much more, depending on the selected codec. Also pages of codecs, which aren't supported with the current settings, are hided instead of making them unsensitive. - DVD audio popup now shows "=> skip" for audio tracks, which are not selected for transcoding. I had some reports of users regarding wrong transcoded audio channels, but in fact they missed activating the desired audio track correctly. I hope such misunderstandings don't happen anymore now. - Status bar shows free disk space, when idle. - Free disk space is checked before starting a job which needs some. dvd::rip currently doesn't know in advance how much space a ripped title will need. As a thumb rule dvd::rip warns if less than 6GB are available. Space checking applies to standard mode only, not cluster mode. - After an intensive mailing list discussion about the correct file extension for OGG files containing video tracks (.ogg vs .ogm), I yielded to Roland Seuhs arguments and decided that .ogm is now the default file extension for OGG files. You can change this in the preference dialog, if you prefer .ogg (or an arbitrary different file extension...) - CD burning / cdrdao command: if the configured cdrdao command contains the 'write' option already, dvd::rip doesn't add it again. This way you can provide specific cdrdao options. (cdrdao expects 'write' as the first parameter). Thanks to Christian Herrmann <paras.rasmatazz AT t-online.de> for the hint - Added a rpmspecs/ folder in the distribution, which currently contains RPM spec files for SuSE 8.0 and RedHat 8.0. I doesn't maintain all of these files personally, e.g. version numbers may be outdated or something like that. But I hope they are useful anyway. Thanks to Michèl Alexandre Salim <salimma1 AT yahoo.co.uk>, who provided the RedHat and to Rainer Lay Lay for the SuSE file. Bugfixes: - Clip&Zoom video preview command did not appear in the logfile. Thanks to Michael Bushey for the report. - Not enough: Clip&Zoom video preview didn't even work from ripped VOB's. Same report by Michael Bushey. - Add. transcode options weren't passed through when transcoding audio for multiple audio tracks (e.g. -D to correct A/V sync mismatch). Thanks to Clint Silvester <clint AT focuscompanies.com> for his report. - Clipping didn't work if clip entries were empty (which should be interpreted as 0 instead). Reported by Michael Bushey. - Audio size calculation on transcode tab wasn't correct (calculated base 1024 instead 1000), but the correct value was used for video bitrate calculation. - When changing from mp3 to vorbis dvd::rip automatically choose vorbis for additional tracks on the GUI, but this wasn't stored internally, so generated transcode commands still had mp3 options. Reported by edaniel <edaniel AT perso.mine.nu>. - Titles with no target audio track threw an exception in cluster mode. As long as the cluster doesn't support this, dvd::rip prevents adding such a title to a cluster. Reported by Rainer Lay. 0.47.4 Sun 6 Oct 2002, joern Bugfixes: - On the fly CD burning didn't work (fortunately without destroying the CD...). - Updated RPM spec file which now considers pstree for standard mode. 0.47.3 Sun 6 Oct 2002, joern Notes: - dvd::rip now generally depends on 'pstree' not only in cluster mode - Red Hat 8.0's Perl distribution has a bug regarding pipes using non-blocking I/O. dvd::rip doesn *not* work with RH 8.0 due to this. Refer to the news entry 2002/10/06 on http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ for details. Features: - Simple CD burning facility. Supports ISO, VCD2 and SVCD types. Needs mkisofs, cdrecord for ISO operation and vcdimager, cdrdao for (S)VCD operation. All commands can and must be configured in the global preferences. cdrecord and cdrdao must be able to operate as a normal user resp. the user who executes dvd::rip. cdrecord must either be set-uid-root or executed through xcdrwrap from an existent xcdroast installation. cdrdao must be set-uid-root or the CD burner device file must be writable by the user who executes dvd::rip. Warning: currently *no* special checking beside existence of the needed tools is done, so use this on your own risk. Try burning in "test mode" first. I tested this with * cdrecord 1.11a31 * cdrdao 1.1.5 * mkisofs 1.15a29 * vcdimager 0.7.12 and don't know if other versions work, too. - Debugging window shows CD burning commands for the selected file entries. - Global preferences now splitted into several pages of a notebook widget. Added a simple checking of the specified values, e.g. if the DVD device and default project directory are writable, or if specified tools exist. - New preference: ogg file extension. Suggested by Moritz Bunkus. dvd::rip defauls to '.ogg', but you can switch to '.ogm' or arbitrary extensions, if this makes using the files more comfortable for you. - Added a rpm spec file Video-DVDRip.spec, so you can simply build a .rpm archive from the .tar.gz using > rpm -ta Video-DVDRip-0.XX.tar.gz Thanks to Rainer Ley for the spec file template. - Button "Nuke log file" on logging tab, which resets the log file. - dvd::rip now opens the preferences dialog, if no ~/.dvdriprc is found resp. on first startup. Bugfixes: - PSU core setting was ignored when adding add. audio-tracks, reported by Lethal Weapon <lethalwp AT tiscali.be> - Window title was not cleared, if a project was closed, reported by Fabio Russo 0.47.2 Mon 30 Sep 2002, joern Note: - File format changed slightly, but is backward compatible. dvd::rip prints a short message when converting an older file to the new format. Features: - Experimental OGG/Vorbis audio support. If you choose Vorbis as an audio codec, the result will be a .ogm file with DivX/Xvid/whatever video and Vorbis audio (so this implicetely switches the resulting file container format from AVI to OGG - which will become an explicite option, once OGG support is more complete). Splitting is supported. Cluster mode support available only for movies with one PSU. Movies with more than one PSU will be supported when ogmtools provide a program for concatenating OGG streams. Multiple audio tracks are supported, but you currently can't mix mp3/ac3/vorbis codecs for the same title. (mp3/ac3 is supported by ogmtools, but without A/V sync). You need ogmtools 0.950 and transcode 0.6.1 for the whole thing to work. You can get ogmtools here: http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/index.html Thanks to Moritz Bunkus for writing ogmtools and answering my questions. - when opening a project file, dvd::rip now selects automatically the tab which was selected when the file was saved. - new dvdrip command line options "-f {transcode|transcode_split}" and "-t title-nr" to select a title of a given project file on startup and transcode (and optionally split) it. dvd::rip exits after finishing, so this can be used for simple batch transcoding a bunch of projects/titles, if cluster mode is no option for you (e.g. in case of NTSC movies). Thanks to Rainer Lay for his suggestion. Example: dvdrip -t 1 -f transcode_split movie.rip Bugfixes: - Cluster mode: if a frame range was set, dvdrip-master crashed with a fatal error (transcoding a frame range is still not supported with cluster mode, but really no need for dvdrip-master to crash here... ;) 0.47.1 Sun 29 Sep 2002, joern Bugfixes: - Progress information was messed up when transcoding chapters from a DVD image or when doing direct DVD transcoding. Because dvd::rip can't know the chapter length in advance in this case, now no progress information is printed (no percent/eta), only fps and elapsed time. Thanks to David Rosky <d_rosky AT nccn.net> for his detailed bug report. - Chapter mode: ripping progress is related to the length of the title, what is confusing if not all chapters are selected. For single chapter ripping now no percent/eta progress is printed anymore. Reported by David Rosky. - Cluster mode: node test didn't work (stalled). Thanks for the report to Fabio Russo <f.russo AT anthesia.it>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- For older releases please refer to Changes.0.46. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------