# DeVeDe, a video DVD creator

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## History of versions

Version 3.12

- Supports pathnames with &, <, >, ' and "
- When the user chooses a folder in the menu background, it removes the preview
- New disc type chooser window (based on a model from Jonathan Estrella)
- When the output path exists, it asks before deleting it

Version 3.11b

- Fixed some language issues in EL, PL, SK and SV locales.

Version 3.11

- Now recovers the menu options when loading a disc structure
- Changed the appearance to make it more eye-candy
- Shows the menu's NTSC preview at the right size
- Shows right the menu's title tipography
- Added compatibility with GenISOimage
- Better code to avoid antialiasing when creating the menu entries
- Now limits the number of files to 61 to avoid problems with DVDAuthor

Version 3.10

- Now the user chooses a global format (PAL or NTSC) for videos and menus.
- Removed the limit of 12 titles; now can create discs with up to 90 titles and/or 90 files.
- Allows to add a title to the menu, and shadows to the menu texts.
- Allows to put the menu texts at the right, left or center.
- Now shows a preview of the selected picture when choosing the menu background.
- Added YADIF deinterlace filter support.
- Added contextual help.
- New background picture.
- Support for resolution of 160x128 pixels in DivX.
- Added a preview button in the Menu options window.
- Now hides the advanced options in the main window.
- Fixed the bug that made the menus to be shown only one second in some players.
- Now it always honours the PAL/NTSC menu type.
- Now,when creating a PAL disk from a 24fps source, DeVeDe speeds up it instead of adding one frame each 24, obtaining a more fluid animation.
- The silence sound file has been changed from WAV to MP3 to free some disk space.
- Fixed a little bug when using HD resolutions for DivX.
- Modified code to simplify adding new options to the DVD's menus.

Version 3.9

- Due to the use of VRC_MINRATE option, sometimes the final disk size was bigger than the predicted. Fixed.
- Now remembers the directory from where the user added a movie file.
- Fixed the detection of the number of cores in the system.
- Adds the menu type (PAL or NTSC) when creating a menuless disk.
- Uses transparent pictures for the menus, ensuring that they work fine in more players.
- Removed CONVERT dependency (Thanks to Peter Gill).

Version 3.8c

- Now are really fixed the translation bugs.

Version 3.8b

- Fixed a bug in the italian translation.
- Fixed a bug in the poland translation.

Version 3.8

- Automatic video bitrate adjust, to ensure that the ISO or BIN/CUE image occupies the maximum size in the disk.
- Support for up to 32 subtitles tracks.
- Allows to specify the subtitle's language.
- Allows to choose the language to use when the original video contains several audio tracks.
- Added the L5 deinterlacing filter.
- Support for rotating and flipping the video.
- Muticore support.
- Allows to mix classic and widescreen videos in the same disk.
- High Definition support in DivX.
- Allows to Drag&Drop subtitles in the properties window, or to load a configuration file by Dragging&Dropping.
- Uses a GOP of 12 frames to ensure maximum compatibility.
- Uses the Telecine parameter to improve quality in 24fps films.
- Adjusted the maximum bitrate for DivX.
- Allows to add extra parameters in -lavcopts, -vf and -lameopts.
- Now stores the status of the buttons for delete temporary files and to choose the action to do.
- Added an icon to all windows.
- Fixed a bug when Mplayer is compiled with --enable-color-console.
- Allows to choose the colors and the position of the menus.
- More elegant menu system (based on code from Mojoholder)

Version 3.7

- Fixed a bug when runing in a system configured with Catalan language
- Now asks for confirmation when closing the disk type selection window
- The final size of the ISO image is now much more accurate
- Fixed some Win32 bugs (thanks to Peter Gill)

Version 3.6

- Added a safe margin 5% in the occupied size, to have in mind the size needed by disk structures (like directories, file info and so on).
- Fixed a some bugs in poland translation.
- Fixed some windows compatibility bugs.

Version 3.5

- Improved compatibility by using CGOP and SC_THRESOLD.
- Now uses a GOP of 15 frames instead of 18 when creating a NTSC, 24fps disc, as dictates the standard.
- Fixed a bug in italian translation which prevented the "Not enought disk space" message to be shown.
- Added translation to russian and greek.

Version 3.4

- Allows to create DVDs with 5.1 sound
- Allows to use a GOP of 12 frames to improve compatibility with some broken DVD players
- Fixes a bug when creating VCD disks
- Fixed a bug which prevented to previsualizate in DIVX mode.
- Final code refactorization: finally the code is clean and maintenable.

Version 3.3

- The EXPAND parameter in Mencoder now uses always an even offset to avoid some artifacts when the offset was odd.
- Fixed a bug when draging&dropping video files.

Version 3.2

- Fixed a bug when using extra parameters with Mencoder
- Fixed pt_PT translation
- Fixed a bug with pl translation

Version 3.1b

- Fixed a little bug which prevented version 3.1 to work with Python 2.4

Version 3.1

- Fixed some problems under windows.
- Now returns to the main window after creating the disk.
- When opening the file selector, it filters the files by type, showing only the videos.
- When using the NEW menu option to clean the disk structure and start again, it asks the disk type again.
- Now, when loading a disk structure, if the disk type is different than the current selected, automatically changes to the new type.
- Added new translations.
- Added new icon (thanks to Jonah Naylor).
- Second major code refactorization to improve maintenability.
- License changed to GPL version 3.

Version 3.01

- Added new patches for windows version.
- Removed the use of lower priority, because it made the conversion slower.
- Fixed a little bug when the final directory contains blank spaces.
- Added translation to Catala, and fixed the French one.

Version 3.0

- Allows to add a menu to the DVD with a list of the titles and a custom background picture.
- Allows to save the current disc structure, in order to reutilize it, or continue working in other moment.
- Allows to choose up to 448kbit/sec for audio.
- Now asks before canceling a job.
- A little bigger font size for subtitles.
- When creating a DivX file, now it uses .AVI extension.
- Fixed a bug with non-UTF8 locales.
- Fixed a bug in the "Insuficient free space..." message. Now is shown translated.
- Fixed a bug when erasing conflicting files and directories.
- Fixed a bug when trying to create a DivX from a file with an original size equal to the final size.
- Now, when the conversion fails, it doesn't show a "Success" message.

Version 2.13d

- Fixed the german translation
- Changed the Mplayer/Mencoder version to the one from Ubuntu Edgy, due to some bugs when creating PAL videos.

Version 2.13c

- Changed the MPlayer/Mencoder files, using version 0.99Pre8.

Version 2.13b

- Added a MPlayer/Mencoder package for Ubuntu Feisty users.

Version 2.13

- Added creation of MPEG4/DIVX files.
- Added swedish and slovak translations.
- Fixed some issues with translations (thanks to Marco de Freitas).

Version 2.12

- New and more flexibles install and uninstall scripts (thanks to Patrick Monnerat).
- Added french translation.
- Fixed some issues with non-UTF8 systems (thanks to Marco de Freitas).

Version 2.11

- Allows to specify the codepage for subtitles, allowing to use UTF-8 coded files (or with other codepages).
- Allows to put the subtitles a little upper, fine when using the ZOOM option in 16:9 TVs or with old CRT receivers
- Now can add subtitles with horizontal resolutions of 480 and 352 pixels without using too big fonts, nor crashing SPUMUX.
- When the original video has 24 fps and the destination is a NTSC DVD, DeVeDe will use 24000/1001 fps instead of 30000/1001.
- Fixed some little bugs when erasing temporary files.
- Fixed some bugs in the main loop that sometimes hanged up the conversion process.
- Now shows a kind of progress numbers during subtitle adding and while creating the DVD structure.
- Now translates fine all the sentences in the interface.
- Now detects if DeVeDe has permissions to write in the destination directory when doing a preview.
- Now uses MP2 instead of AC3 to ensure full compatibility.
- Now detects again when mencoder or spumux fails and shows an error message.
- Now really allows to abort the process while adding subtitles.
- Now supplies all the needed data to SPUMUX, so subtitles in NTSC format will be full visible.
- Fixed some issues in Windows code (thanks again to Peter Gill).
- Added new translations into German and norwegian, and completed the old ones.

Version 2.10

- Added italian translation
- The INSTALL script didn't create the GNOME/KDE menu entry. Fixed.

Version 2.9

- Now DeVeDe can work under Windows, thanks to Peter Gill (see the FAQ for details).
- Fixed some little bugs that prevented to use DeVeDe with some files taken from video capture cards.
- Fixed a bug with the Drag&Drop in the main window.
- Fixed a bug that prevented DeVeDe to detect errors in the execution of MKISOFS.
- Added a warning about VFAT/FAT32 partitions.

Version 2.8

- Now only allows to create 16:9 DVDs when the final width is 720 pixels, and don't allow to create 16:9 VCDs, SVCDs or CVDs.

Version 2.7

- Support for true DVD subtitles
- Can create 16:9 DVDs from widescreen videos
- Default MBD changed to 2 (slower but greater quality)
- Now installs in /urs/local

Version 2.6

- When the video wasn't subdivided in chapters, the XML file was incorrect and DVDAuthor complained. Fixed.
- Fixed a bug when the output directory was no writable.
- Added translation for Portugues do Brasil
- Added a FAQ.

Version 2.5

- Fixed another bug with directories and/or filenames with blank spaces
- Added a workaround for a bug found in very old DVD Players, that can't play fast forward between the last chapter and the end of a file.

Version 2.4A

- Added translation for Czech

Version 2.4

- Allows to specify that a file is already a DVD-compliant MPEG-PS file, so it won't be recompresed, but stored "as is" into the disc (usefull when you capture video from a TV capturer of other sources).
- Alows to deinterlace the video.
- Allows to choose the MacroBlock algorithm and use Trellis, to enhace the final picture quality.
- Allows to choose the directory for the temporary file used during preview, and remembers it.
- Before creating a new disc it erases the files with conflicting names in the destination directory.
- Allows to cancel the process during the creation of the BIN/CUE image of a VCD, SVCD or CVD.
- Added a VRC_MINRATE parameter when creating VCDs, SVCDs and CVDs, to ensure full compatibility.
- Changed the video bitrate for VCDs from 1150 to 1152, and the minimum video bitrate for SVCDs and CVD from 500 to 600.
- Ensures that the progress bar while converting a file is refreshed at least each two senconds.
- First major code refactorization to enhace the maintenability.

Version 2.3

- Removed the use of B-frames (which was added in version 2.1) because it produces problems with some DVD players.

Version 2.2

- In some very inusual cases mencoder could trigger a bug with an undeclared variable. Fixed.

Version 2.1

- Optimized some loops. Now DeVeDe is about 30% faster during video conversion.
- Now checks that you have enought free disk space.
- Allows to maintain the temporary files instead of deleting them.
- Fixed a little bug with the erasing of temporary files.

Version 2.0

- Now can create VideoCD, SuperVideoCD and China VideoDisks.
- Allows the user to override the default resolution and use the one he wants.
- Allows to pass custom commands to Mencoder, allowing to render subtitles, cut the file in chunks, select an audio stream when the file has two or more...
- Allows to change the order of the files and titles.
- Changed the position of some elements, making the interface a little more intuitive.
- The advanced features have been grouped, so novices will see only the most important options while advanced users can have access to a lot of extra functions with just a single click.
- Fixed a litle bug when a video header tells that it has an aspect ratio of 0 or 1.
- Installation more compliant with FreeDesktop and Debian normatives.

Version 1.6

- Added support for resolutions 352x480 (in NTSC) and 352x576 (in PAL).
- Fully support for movies with aspect ratios different than 4:3 (now, with 16:9 movies it adds the right black bars to ensure that a circle IS a circle).
- Fixed a bug with audio/video sync when converting a PAL video to NTSC or vice-versa.

Version 1.5

- Now works with video files without audio track.
- Transforms blank spaces in the generic filename to underscores (in previous versions, DeVeDe failed if a blank space was inserted).
- Fixed the translation to Galego.
- Added an uninstall script.

Version 1.4

- Added Drag&Drop support.
- Translatable strings (currently supports english, spanish and galego).
- Set a default video rate based on the final resolution.
- Shows the elapsed time used to create de DVD.

Version 1.3

- Added fully support for PAL/SECAM and NTSC. Now the user can choose the kind of disc to create.
- Added support for more resolutions (352x288/352x240), so DVDs made from low-resolution videos will have better quality.
- Now DeVeDe scales the video or resamples the audio if needed, so the conversion is a litle faster (not much faster, but faster anyway).
- Some minor bugfixes.

Version 1.2

- Now DeVeDe REALLY creates a NTSC DVD when the framerate is 30fps (that was the original intention, but due to a litle bug it didn't work before).

Version 1.1

- Allows to adjust the audio delay, to ensure perfect audio/video sync.
- Added a Preview button, to check the video quality and the audio sync without converting all the files.
- Now DeVeDe reduces a litle its priority when launched, allowing to continue working with the computer without speed penalties.
- Now checks if you have write permissions at the destination directory.
- Fixed the install script; now doesn't supposes that install is at /usr/bin.
- Interface much more compliant with the Gnome HIG.

Version 1.02b

- Due to the hurry to fix an error, I packed an incorrect version in the .tar.bz2. Fixed here.

Version 1.02

- With some specific files DeVeDe failed. Fixed in this version.
- Now DeVeDe can be installed in the home directory.

Version 1.01

- Fixed a little problem with MPlayer and pipes

Version 1.0

- First public version

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