Changes for version 0.39
- Bugfixes:
- "4:3 No Letterbox, Fast Resize" preset violated shrink/expand fast resize rule.
- VCD did produce anamorphic result, which isn't supported by the spec. The frame is now resized with aspect ratio correction, --export-asr is set to 1 so signal that the movie has already the correct aspect ratio. SVCD presets still result in anamorphic videos. This isn't currently tested for NTSC, but should work.
Changes for version 0.39_05
- Features:
- Cluster mode:
- improved Node test. Unrecognized output from the client is reported, which helps solving unusual ssh problems
- Bugfixes:
- Cluster mode: transcode test was broken
- (S)VCD mode: use --export_asr to set correct aspect ratio for the generated mpeg file. Thanks to Uwe Fischer <uwe.fischer AT berlin.de> for his hint and extensive feedback on (S)VCD mode.
- VCD was broken, it was in fact a somewhat reduced SVCD rip. This one was reported by Uwe Fischer, too.
Changes for version 0.39_04
- Features:
- rip a multiple selection of titles at once, suggested by Hrvoje Husic <husic AT zyn.de>. First adjust options (audio, viewing angle, chapter mode) for each title, then select all titles using Ctrl and/or Shift key and press "Rip Selected Title(s)" as usual and all titles are ripped without interception, each with the options you specified before.
- Bugfixes:
- audio bitrate parameters were not passed to transcode in cluster mode. Thanks to Rainer Lay for the bug report.
Changes for version 0.39_03
- Bugfixes:
- convert NTSC framerate 29.97 to -f 30,4 instead of -f 30,1. Thanks to Thomas Östreich for the hint.
Changes for version 0.39_02
- Features:
- added 160 kbit/s to audio bitrate popup, requested by Christian Lambert
- frame rate values 23.976 and 29.97 are interally converted to transcode's -f 24,1 (resp. 30,1), so transcode calculates with exact values for NTSC movies. With transcode 0.6.0pre5-* you can try to ommit the framerate completely, because these transcode versions do a better job with autodetecting. Thanks to Christian Lambert for his hint.
- I added some experimental (S)VCD capabilities. Not tested very well and also my knowledge about (S)VCD is very limited, so this first version might have fundamental problems, but I created (S)VCD mpegs which are played well by xine. Not tested yet with a standalone DVD player. You'll need the mjpeg tools and transcode's mjpeg export filter. bbmpeg filter is currently unsupported. I'll really appreciate any hints regarding the (S)VCD mode.
- MINI HOWTO: on the Clip&Zoom tab select one of the (S)VCD
- presets (PAL or NTSC). They only will scale the image to the correct target size, assuming the player will correct the aspect ratio (worked at least with xine, but maybe dvd::rip has to take care of it). On the Transcode tab select SVCD or VCD as Video Codec. All parameters which doesn't make sense for (S)VCD will either be disabled or set to some fixed values (e.g. bitrates in case of VCD). The .mpg file will appear in the AVI target folder of the project. Cluster mode does not support (S)VCD, also the Chapter Mode isn't available yet for (S)VCD (to be added in future releases).
- Bugfixes:
- size of the 1st clipping image was not calculated in realtime after changing 1st clipping values by hand. Also "Move 2nd Clipping" threw an exception if the width and height fields were empty. Thanks to Akos Maroy <darkeye AT tyrell.hu> for his detailed bugreport.
Changes for version 0.39_01
- Features:
- major redesign of the Transcode tab. Grouping of the options should now make much more sense. Video Codec, Video Framerate, Audio Bitrate and Process nice level are combo boxes with reasonable preset values.
- video bitrate calculation is much more flexible: you can enter a target size by hand or use the dics count and size popups for calculating the target size. All values are recalculated on demand, no need to press a "suggest bitrate" button anymore. Inspired by a suggestion of Chrstian Lambert putting more values into the disc size popup.
- divx4 multipass is switched on by default
- new MP3 Quality popup, suggested by Christian Lambert. Needs transcode 0.6 or better. Default is best quality (on my system I loose only about 0.5 fps compared with transcode's medium quality default value), and I want dvd::rip to default to high quality rips.
- Bugfixes:
- in seldom cases dvd::rip threw an error message at the end of the preview frame grabbing. This happend with projects which were ripped with 0.37, saved without making a preset selection, and then opened with 0.38. Thanks to Davide "Black Shark" <bshark AT libero.it> for his bug report.
- the nice program is not installed under /usr/bin/nice on all Linux systems. nice is now executed with `which nice`, so this hopefully is no longer a problem. Thanks to Alexander Toppmann <talex AT karyopse.de> and Christian Lambert, who reported that this is a problem on Red Hat and Mandrake systems.
- Alexander Troppmann also reported that the Cluster Node test suite fails, if different RedHat releases are used on master and slave (7.2 vs. 7.0), because of different implementations of the ls command - *sigh*. I implemented the directory content test with "echo" instead, hopefully at least this behaves identically on all Linux systems... ;)
Modules
GUI for copying DVDs, based on an open Low Level API
Provides
in lib/Video/DVDRip.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Base.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Job.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Job/Audio.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Job/MergeAudio.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Job/MergeChunks.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Job/MergePSUs.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Job/RemoveVOBs.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Job/Split.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Job/Transcode.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Job/TranscodeAudio.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Master.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Node.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/PSU.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Pipe.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Project.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Cluster/Title.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Config.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Content.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Base.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Cluster/Control.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Cluster/Node.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Cluster/Title.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Component.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Config.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/ImageClip.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Logger.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Main.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/MinSizeGroup.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Progress.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Project.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Project/ClipZoomTab.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Project/LoggingTab.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Project/StorageTab.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Project/TitleTab.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Project/TranscodeTab.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/GUI/Window.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/PSU.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Preset.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Probe.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Project.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/RPC/Client.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/RPC/Message.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/RPC/Server.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/RPC/Server.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/RPC/Server.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Scan.pm
in lib/Video/DVDRip/Title.pm