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               thoggen :: news
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 v0.7.0 - Long Time No See
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 * Fix problems with the aspect ratio of some
   DVDs.

 * Ask before overwriting existing files

 * Use ffdeinterlace from gst-ffmpeg for
   deinterlacing if it is available; the
   quality is significantly better than
   with our own deinterlacer plugin.

 * Have desirable, but missing elements
   like ffdeinterlace, dtsdec or dvdlpcmdec
   installed automatically via GStreamer's
   codec-install mechanism; this will only
   work if the distro supports it (which
   currently means: ubuntu feisty, gutsy or
   hardy, or Fedora Core 8)

 * Allow ripping of all languages (Bram Neijt)

 * Don't hard-code output to 25fps, but use
   framerate specified in dvd headers, so that
   29.97fps is used for NTSC material.

 * Keep track of recently-used DVD .iso files
   and VIDEO_TS directories.

 * Use (higher quality) 4-tap method for scaling
   the picture if gst-plugins-base >= 0.10.17 is
   available.

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 v0.6.0 - Procrastination
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 * Port to GStreamer-0.10

 * Fix pad detection for titles where the
   logical audio stream number does not match
   the physical number used in the mpeg stream

 * New spiffy preview dialog, nicer cropping
   dialog

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 v0.4.2 - Apocalypse
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 * add hack to force EOS at the end of a
   title if for some reason it doesn't
   stop encoding at the end
 * recognise and accept mp3 audio streams
 * add stdint include before including the
   libdvdread headers, which is required
   for recent libdvdread versions
   (Hanno Bck)
 * fix .desktop file generation and
   translation (Sebastian Drge)

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 v0.4.1 - Duplicity
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 * Use installed iso-codes if they exist
 * Don't dist debian/ directory
 * Remember last output directory

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 v0.4 - Diegetic Reality
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Major Changes:

 * Make things work with the new HAL/DBus API
   (FC4, Ubuntu breezy, Gentoo etc.)
 * Improve audio stream detection
 * Ask for confirmation when cancelling a job
   job via the cancel button as well (would 
   only ask when closing the window previously)
 * Add .desktop file (Bastien Nocera)
 * Requires GStreamer plugins 0.8.10 (which
   contains a lot of improvements for 
   audio/video sync and ogg muxing)

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 v0.3 - Leopard
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Major Changes:

 * Fixed audio stream detection
 * Fixed language selection
 * Build fixes for non-x86 archs
 * ca. 30% speed-up through new scaling code
 * Support for LPCM and DTS audio streams
 * Dialogs keep their position on the screen
 * Allow input to be folder with video DVD files
 * Write title and comment tags
 * Requires Gtk+-2.6 now
 * Requires GStreamer plugins 0.8.8 now
 * Improved Audio/Video sync (mostly due to 
    the work of Jan Schmidt and Ronald Bultje
    in gst-plugins)
 
New Translations:
 
 * Catalan (Jose M. Fernández)
 * Danish (David Nielsen)
 * Dutch (Eric Spierings et al.)
 * French (Baptiste Mille-Mathias,
      Claessens Xavier, Grgory Gathy,
      Guillaume Desmottes, Hazard Xavier,
      Laurent Bigonville, Matthieu Lagouge, 
      Olivier Le Thanh Duong, et al.)
 * Polish (Maciej Groman, Maciej Rozmus)
 * Portuguese (Fbio de Oliveira, DaviDK)
 * Spanish (Emiliano Goday Caneda, eSe,
      Alberto Nez, Jos Francisco Ibarra,
      Daniel Alejandro Yucra Sotomayor)
 * Swedish (Christian Bjlevik et al.)

Translation updates:

 * German

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 v0.2 - The 'MulTiGlOtt/pOlyLinGuaL' release 
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 * New features:
    - DVD drive detection for 2.4 kernels
    - Language selection for audio track
    - Pausing/Unpausing of encoding possible
    - Choice of quality or file-size target
    - Check free disk space before encoding
       and regularly during encoding; pause
       automatically just before running out
       of disk space.

 * Improved DVD drive and medium detection:
    - should work for Linux 2.4 kernels now
    - fixed DVD disc detection for some cases
    - do media check polling ourselves if
       required
    - check THOGGEN_DVD_DRIVE_DEVICE environment
       variable (for non-Linux kernels, or if the
       existing detection methods fail).

 * Configuration dialog improvements:
    - restore previously used filename 
       for same title

 * Use slightly less memory and renice 
    at startup, so that thoggen only
    uses CPU cycles that are not needed 
    for more important things.

 * Preview right title in case where some of
    the titles on the DVD have been hidden.

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 v0.1 - The 'First' release
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 * Everything is new in this release

