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DVDAuthor: ChangeLog

0.6.11: February 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)

0.6.10: March 15, 2004

• better audio type detection logic
• clear seamless flag on audio discontinuity
• only allow <titles> to exist once per titleset
• use 'name' attribute for buttons and actions in spumux (to be consistant with dvdauthor)
• dynamically allocate PGC buffer
• allow up to 2730 titles
• allow reading from filedescriptors for VOBs, palette, and XML
• allow empty pre, post, cell, etc commands (parses to NOP)
• optimize link & button=X instructions together
• fix parsing of textsub->transparent
• add text subtitle documentation
• fix SVCD subtitling
• support specifying resume cells from calls; default to #1 for post commands
• make spuunmux use read instead of lseek (works on pipes)
• fix YUV handling in spuunmux and subgen
• handle 99 titlesets in dvdunauthor
• support nonexistant audio channels
• lazy colormap allocation
• support VOBU's without audio or video

0.6.9: January 16, 2004

• cap maximum # of tmapt entries to 2040
• convert filenames from UTF8 to locale
• strip out END marker from program stream (clean up mplex output)
• allow more than 512 chapters/titles
• fix handling of programs (not chapters)
• make VMGM IFO scanner deal with lowercase filenames
• fix handling of text subtitles that use frame #'s as timecodes
• fix bug in mpeg audio header scanning
• languages must be in lowercase
• better audio gap setting
• fix PAL/NTSC issue
• rename dvddirgen to dvddirdel to better reflect purpose
• better support for nonstandard frame rates
• don't set seamless flag for cells with commands or stilltime
• bounds check #cells/vob, programs/pgc

0.6.8: December 14, 2003

• allow xoffset and yoffset in spu tags
• support multiple menu languages
• support mpeg-1 video
• support incorrect frame rates
• fix/allow open GOP's on cell boundaries if sequential playback
• fix bug in analyzing video codes (spurious sequence end codes)
• add proper scanning of ac3 and pcm audio stream details
• add support for NTSC closed captioning
• support 96khz audio
• support holes in video (aka audio cd's)
• make subtitle placement dependent on pack dts, not video pts
• add spuunmux; properly handle menu button colors
• include XML schemas for XML verification

0.6.7: November 24, 2003

• autodetect io.h presense for Cygwin
• have spumux deal with incomplete reads/writes to/from pipes
• have spumux work with odd sized subtitles
• allow XML comments in dvd code
• support else for if statements
• add 'not' boolean expr
• add support for cells and programs
• add mini optimizer
• fix subtitle ptr logic in VOBU packets (perfectly matches Grosse Pointe Blank)
• make ff/rew ptr handling more like commercial dvds
• fix corner case in reference frame end calculation

0.6.6: November 13, 2003

• fix makefile for case insensitive filesystem (adds .PHONY rule)
• allow jumps to menu entries from VMGM without jumppad
• fix bug where jumppads were not generated in a VMGM if no VMGM menus existed
• allow forced subtitles -- now all menus REQUIRE 'force="1"' option
• base chapters on PTS not SCR
• allow expressions

0.6.5: November 6, 2003

• workaround for libxml2 2.5.4 -- manually check for whitespace in TEXT elements
• fix xml parser when chapters are not specified
• support <video widescreen="nopanscan|noletterbox" />
• have jumps to other titles within the same titleset use *JumpVTS_TT, not LinkPGCN
• add some error checking on title/chapter jumping
• fix bug when stuffing subtitles

0.6.4: November 1, 2003

• fix bug in if statement -- it was doing the opposite
• set O_BINARY for stdin, stdout in spumux
• allow pgcs without any sources

0.6.3: October 30, 2003

• fix bug in setting audio, subtitle, angle, button values
• more documentation

0.6.2: October 27, 2003

• fix segfault when parsing certain xml files
• add HTML documentation

0.6.1: October 26, 2003

• fix incorrect command length field for menu entries
• move menu entry pgcs to the end of the list to make numbering simpler
• allow jumping/calling to a wider variety of targets
• fix bug in autonavigation
• fix segfault if button is not defined in spumux
• fix stilltime for vobs
• add stilltime for pgc
• reduce libxml2 requirement to 2.5.0

0.6.0: October 21, 2003

• rename submux to spumux
• set default button to #1 when entering a menu
• add support for autoaction buttons
• pass button navigation and color information from spumux to dvdauthor
• support (optional) ImageMagick (or GraphicsMagick) libraries
• create new programming language for buttons, pre, post, and fpc cmds
• use XML configuration files for dvdauthor and spumux

0.5.4: October 4, 2003

• vobu pointers only point within a cell -- fixes chapter playback for some players (thanks to <selva at mailaps dot org>)
• fix uninitialized variable hasseqend (thanks to <selva at mailaps dot org>)
• read button color index information from palette file (thanks to <selva at mailaps dot org>)
• fix handling of vobus without video (thanks to <selva at mailaps dot org>)
• fix handling of audio sectors that are outside the pts range of the vobu (thanks to <selva at mailaps dot org>)
• compute pts based on frame counts (handles 3:2 correctly)
• fix incorrect NTSC fps (29.97 instead of 29.97002997.....)
• fix discontinuity flag on TMAP -- should be on all chapters, not *just vob boundaries, also should be set for future discontinuity, not past
• compute audio gap (for AC3 and MP2 only...)
• fix handling of field encoded video
• allow post commands on menus
• fix subtitles that have packets within 6 bytes of a sector (thanks to <panteltje>)
• allow specification of button movement (thanks to Mark Rages)

0.5.3: May 3, 2003

• tighten mpeg boundary gap
• add discontinuity flag to TMAPT table
• clean up Makefile.in based on FreeBSD port (thanks to <pb at freebsd dot org>)
• add exit and fpc commands
• allow specification of 'post' commands
• allow specification of which menu is the entry menu for title, root, audio, subtitle, angle, and ptt
• allow setting of subtitle track as a command
• set palette per PGC
• allow palette to be RGB if the filename ends in .rgb (case insensitive)
• rewrite the aspect ratio in the sequence header
• add 'make uninstall'

0.5.2: April 30, 2003

• fix STC discontinuity and VOB/cell idn assignment bugs
• fix multiple titles within a titleset
• allow - for stdin
• allow multiple commands per button
• allow setting of audio track

0.5.1: March 19, 2003

• WARNING -- THIS RELEASE IS UNTESTED
• multiple titles within a titleset
• added submux (from Jan Panteltje <panteltje at yahoo dot com>)
• multiple menus for deeper navigation
• fix bug in detecting mp2 tracks

0.5.0: February 25, 2003

• basic menu support
  • don't allow both nopanscan and noletterbox, unless you're 4x3 -- then enforce both
  • vobu_se_e_ptm now written when sequence_end_code found
  • fix bug that doesn't write out of bounds ff/rew data correctly
  • fix pts computation bug for last vobu
  • fix bug in audio and subtitle track detection
  • fix c_eltm, e_eltm (again) -- calc in 30fps not 29.97fps (wtf?)
  • fix ff so it doesn't round up
  • add RPM spec file dvdauthor.spec (thanks to Dr. Peter Bieringer <pb at bieringer dot de>)
  • infer PCM bits/channel (though cannot infer #channels)
  • sort of handle VOBU's without video (needs work)
  • tweak TMAPT table in IFO files (god I hate NTSC)

0.4.3: February 19, 2003

• don't presume no pan/scan; add options nopanscan, noletterbox
• fix TMAPT generation bug from 0.4.2
• reduce makedvd's function

0.4.2: February 19, 2003

• fix subtitle support
• make mpeg2desc print substream info on private1
• make dvddirgen work with dirs that have spaces
• fix c_eltm, e_eltm, s_ptm, and e_ptm
• autodetection of ac3/mp2/dts audio channels and subpicture channels
• provide sector pointers for multiple audio and subpicture channels

0.4.1: February 14, 2003

• fix fatal bug in dvdvtsgen and dvdtocgen
• force user to specify -r to dvddirgen to delete dirs
• distribute files as user writable

0.4.0: February 13, 2003

• allow letterboxing
• compile under Mac OSX
• fix bug with AC3 playback
• autoconf
• largefile support
• remove dependence on getopt_long
• more efficient background mplex'ing (starts them sequentially instead of in parallel)
• support multiple audio tracks (from Jan Panteltje <panteltje at yahoo dot com>)
• support subpicture tracks (from Jan Panteltje <panteltje at yahoo dot com>)
• make subpicture colors more readable (from Jan Panteltje <panteltje at yahoo dot com>)
• allow specification of palette on commandline (from Jan Panteltje <panteltje at yahoo dot com>)
• allow shell commands as vobs
• allow working dir to be specified in a config file

0.3.1: December 31, 2002

• makevob retains proper a/v sync
• performance improvements to ifogen -- O(n) realloc (instead of O(n^2)) and O(n lg n) vobu fixup (instead of O(n^2))
• handle chapter mpegs that don't start at 0.00 sec

0.3.0: November 16, 2002

• fix bug in tocgen where the VTS was not being properly described
• better status messages from ifogen
• support multiple titlesets (thus multiple titles -- 1 per vts)
• allow specification of audio format (but no autodetect)
• fix bug in makedvd w.r.t. filenames with spaces

0.2.3: November 14, 2002

• auto detect settings from mpeg video stream:
  • frame rate (thus ntsc vs pal; only 29.97 and 25 suported)
  • resolution
  • aspect ratio
• make said settings overridable on the command line
• update README
• fix bug that could cause ifogen to miss 0-10% of the picture frames thus causing poor ff/rew

0.2.2: November 12, 2002

• no more qsort! (finally!)
• make makedvd more compatible (no more ++, workaround for no mktemp)
• fix makevob (mpeg2desc is very fifo-savvy now)
• fix # chapter in VIDEO_TS.IFO (for Ogle, Mplayer, and some settop DVD players)

0.2.1: November 11, 2002

• fix segfault on file not found
• allow spaces in mpg filenames
• fix bug in handling mpegs with much longer audio tracks than video tracks
• fix vobu_e_pts values (fixes playback on Pioneer DV343)

0.2.0: September 22, 2002

• work with clips > 1 gig
• support multiple chapters

0.1.2: July 31, 2002

• fix ff/rew

0.1.1: July 31, 2002

• allow variable size GOP's
• work with clips > 4 minutes
• nicer logging

0.1.0: July 30, 2002

• Initial release. Can write roughly a 4 minute video clip to a dvd and it will play! Limitations include 511 GOP's, 15 frames per GOP, 29.97 fps, 720x480, 48kHz audio encoded with mpeg1. But it works!