$Id: Changes,v 1.122.2.7 2002/12/13 22:38:31 joern Exp $
Revision history and release notes for dvd::rip.
0.48.6 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 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 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 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 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 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 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>.
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