dvdauthor -> Version History

This is the version history page for dvdauthor, showing the last 20 software updates. You can return to the main page for this software by clicking here.

Index:

• Version 0.7.1 (Aug 20, 2012)
• Version 0.7.0 (Oct 23, 2010)
• Version 0.6.18 (Mar 19, 2010)
• Version 0.6.15 (Mar 9, 2010)
• Version 0.6.14 (Feb 25, 2007)
• Version 0.6.13 (Jan 14, 2007)
• Version 0.6.12 (Jan 9, 2007)
• Version 0.6.11 (Feb 10, 2005)

• Release Date: Aug 20, 2012
• No longer silently fail to build dvdunauthor if libdvdread is not present; must be explicitly disabled with --disable-dvdunauthor, otherwise configure reports an error
• Allow format specification at top level of dvdauthor control file
• mpeg2desc now reports more details about video frames More explanatory XML-parsing errors

• Release Date: Oct 23, 2010
• Reworked subtitle file reading so it can now deal with encodings like UTF-16
• Default encoding for subtitle files is no longer ISO-8859-1, but taken from user's locale
• Add fontconfig support following a patch by Nicolas George
• Remove dvdauthor config files and make command line -o option take precedence over XML dest attribute.
• Video format no longer has hard-coded default to NTSC, unless you invoke configure with --enable-default-video-format=NTSC. You can also configure with --enable-default-video-format=PAL to default to PAL.
• Implement configuration of default video format as per the proposal at .
• File names are no longer converted to locale encoding, unless you invoke configure with --enable-localize-filenames.
• You can now specify fill and outline colours and outline thickness for text subtitles. Colours can be specified in additional ways, including by name and in HSV space.
• You can now also specify a shadow offset and colour for text subtitles
• Allow non-title PGCs in a titleset
• The VM language now allows C-style comments, as well as CDATA sections
• Add --nomux and --nodvdauthor-data options to spumux (thanks to TED for sponsoring this)

• Release Date: Mar 19, 2010
• implement link-subset jumps
• implement audio and subpicture content attributes
• use dynamically-sized buffer for building IFO files
• version jump to forestall fork confusion

• Release Date: Mar 9, 2010
• consistently check for errors on all file opens and when creating output directories
• fix remapping of colours for more than 8 subpicture streams
• recover from SCR moving backwards as per suggestion from Philippe Sarazin
• add patch from Wolfgang Wershofen to print out chapter timecodes
• validate all XML integer arguments and attribute values
• fix spurious error parsing video caption option
• incorporate Fedora patch from Ville Skyttä to allow building with GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick
• incorporate FriBidi patches from Ville Skyttä
• auto-action buttons have spatial extents too
• fill in more details in man pages
• include an adaptation of Martin Crossley's ivtv patch

• Release Date: Feb 25, 2007
• popen mode must be 'r' or 'w', not 'rb' or 'wb'
• make spuunmux escape filenames in xml file
• properly skip padding bytes in pack header in spuunmux
• only allow spuunmux to process mpeg-2 files
• fix bug in setting the resolution field of VTS/VMGM

• Release Date: Jan 14, 2007
• fix handling of audio packets that have no PTS
• patch from Romain Chantereau to fix libmagick6 not
• including stdarg (Closes: Debian Bug#317463)
• fix int/unsigned problem: dvdauthor dumps core on some mpegs (Closes: Debian Bug#345105)
• substantially reduce runtime memory requirements
• fix numerous memory leaks
• support '-', '&FD', and pipes more consistently and for more places
• if possible, make color #0 (of the 4 color subtitle palette) be transparent (Closes: Debian Bug#387828)
• fix byte overflow on PGC Command Table Size (Lucas Pierce)
• minor errorchecking for vobs with no filenames
• fix segfault relating to jumppad
• fix omission of jumppad table if a menu pgc was defined with ptt or title entry
• incorporate Debian manpages for dvdunauthor, dvddirdel, mpeg2desc, and spuunmux
• loosely support 24, 30, and 60fps
• buttons need even 'Y' coordinates

• Release Date: Jan 9, 2007
• print offending vob names on audio discontinuity
• change assert to verbose warning for more than 128 commands per pgc
• fix spumux "read 0, expected 4" false warning
• fix border condition with TMAPT table
• add -n flag to skip writing output
• add remap support for subtitle command #7 (CHG_COLCON)
• fix sector number overflow in IFO files
• don't escape command sent to shell
• fix underflow wraparound in computing dts for subtitles
• fill in reference pointers for all 3 frames even if less than 3 exist
• allow last vobu of cell to have a forward pointer to self
• fix TMAPT bug (ptsbase=0; matches Bullitt)
• support random(FOO) in vm
• allow the use of all 16 GPRMS via 'allgprm="yes"' option
• embed commands within the VOB if only one instruction
• set entries within the actual PGC instead of creating extra PGCs whenever possible
• vm_optimize combines set GPRM/SPRM and link command (Michael Kreuzer)
• warn if the button value is not a multiple of 1024
• fix CreateCallAdr: first 2 bytes of C_ADT contains number of vobs (Michael Kreuzer)
• fix TocGen: set frame rate (Michael Kreuzer)
• fix spuunmux button output to work with spumux (Michael Kreuzer)
• make counters work; allow hex, kilo, and lang numeric codes (Michael Kreuzer)
• remove all vestiges of button handling from post if not necessary (Michael Kreuzer)
• new vm commands added: break, goto (Michael Kreuzer)
• dvdunauthor uncompiles pre, post, fpc, cell, and button commands
• add 'crop' keyword for widescreen (crops 4:3 image for 16:9 tvs)
• if audio extends beyond video, then set sector pts accordingly
• support separate subpicture streams for normal, widescreen, letterbox, and panscan
• allow text subtitles to be forced on

• Release Date: Feb 10, 2005
• fix compile error on newer gcc compilers
• ensure a row of a subtitle takes less than 1440 bits
• fix warnings
• fix 64-bit support (iconv)
• fix video and sector pts values to be more consistant
• fix ImageMagick 6.x.x alpha detection
• improved dvdunauthor by Ralf Engels
• full sized pts/scr support (for 13+ hours DVD's)
• support really long subtitles
• fix jumps from FPC to VMGM menus (was using LinkPGCN, now uses JumpSS -- fixes crash in Ogle and Pioneer 343
• fix ability to have multiple entries for a PGC
• fix bug when decoding some subtitles
• switch to automake
• have mpeg2desc parse mpeg1 headers (thanks to Nico Sabbi)
• fix handling of NTSC 3:2 pulldown (end PTS was != start PTS of next VOBU)