DEVEDE NG

WHAT IS IT?

Devede NG is a rewrite of the Devede DVD disc authoring program. This new code has been writen from scratch, and uses Python3 and Gtk3. It is also cleaner, which will allow to add new features in the future.

INSTALLING DEVEDE NG

Just type:

sudo ./setup.py install

USING DEVEDE NG

The second alpha version of Devede NG is very similar to the old devede, with the exception that, when creating a DVD disc, there are no more "titles" and "files". Instead, you just add files to the disc. It also lacks support for Mencoder, and can use only FFMpeg or AVConv for video conversion.

The current visible changes are quite small in number:

• Now allows to add several files at once
• Now makes better use of multicore systems by parallelizing the conversion of several movie files
• The menu edition is interactive
• Has a new "cut" resizing method, to allow to store as widescreen movies with black bars
• Allows to create Matroska files with H.264 video and MP3 audio
• Allows to use VLC, MPV or MPlayer for preview
• Allows to choose between Brasero or K3B for burning the discs
• Allows to set properties for several files in one step
• Allows to choose the subtitle colors
• Allows to choose between MP2 and AC3 audio for menus

THINGS TO DO

Some of the future ideas to add to Devede NG are, without an specific order:

• add more backends
• add more output formats
• allow to replace the movie's audio track with one or several MP3 or OGG audio files
• widescreen menus for DVDs
• preview of a converted menu

History of versions

• version 0.1.0 beta 12 (2015-02-01)

  • Now uses the version number available in the CONFIGURATION_DATA file for the setup process
  • Fixed the icon name in the .desktop file

• version 0.1 beta 11 (2015-01-29)

  • Now allows to automatically generate a debian package
  • Renamed the module from 'devede' to 'devedeng'
  • Renamed some files to avoid clashing with the 'classic devede' debian package.

• version 0.1 beta 10 (2015-01-22)

  • Now jumps to the desired next video when the current movie ends and the creator set it to jump to another menu entry

• version 0.1 beta 9 (2015-01-16)

  • Now doesn't fail with AVPROBE or FFPROBE if a file doesn't have streams

• version 0.1 beta 8 (2014-12-28)

  • Added an extra fix for AVPROBE and FFPROBE, using the human readable strings to get the duration
  • Cleaner code for AVPROBE and FFPROBE
  • Removed devedesans.ttf file
  • Updated the setup.py file

• version 0.1 beta 7 (2014-12-28)

  • Moved the priority of MPLAYER over AVPROBE and FFPROBE until I discover what is happening with some data fields

• version 0.1 beta 6 (2014-12-27)

  • Fixed AVPROBE and FFPROBE command line

• version 0.1 beta 5 (2014-12-27)

  • Added support for MPV as movie player
  • Added support for ffprobe and avprobe as movie info detector

• version 0.1 beta 4 (2014-12-25)

  • Now ensures that the maximum bitrate is honored
  • Added the maximum bitrates for each available format

• version 0.1 beta 3 (2014-12-21)

  • Fixed the subtitle colors
  • Now puts the video and audio streams in the right order

• version 0.1 beta 2 (2014-12-07)

  • Fixed a bug when jumping to a video not visible in the main menu
  • Fixed a bug when the main menu has two or more pages
  • Default size for main window bigger
  • Allows to change the title by double-clicking on it
  • Shows the duration of each title

• version 0.1 beta 1 (2014-09-22)

  • Fixed several strings in the menu
  • Fixed the bug that prevented to choose the final folder
  • Removed single quotes that triggered an exception when creating a DVD without menu

• version 0.1 alpha 2 (2014-08-13)

  • Updated spanish translation and added POTFILES.in file
  • Allows to choose between MP2 and AC3 audio for menus
  • Now only deletes the bare minimum files and folders to be able to create a disk in the specified final folder
  • Better message text to specify which folder will be deleted when the final folder already exists
  • It failed when the selected backend was not installed in the system. Fixed.
  • Now shows a default value for preview duration
  • Fixed progress bar for subtitle creation
  • Allows to choose the subtitle colors
  • Allows to set properties for several files in one step
  • Fixed bug when setting PAL or NTSC toggle in file properties
  • Added two-pass conversion
  • Now detects separately MKISOFS and GENISOIMAGE, allowing to have only one of them installed in the system
  • Now checks that the number of files is smaller than the limit for DVD projects
  • Now uses GLib for DBus instead of python-dbus
  • Fixed the DESKTOP file to ensure that an icon is shown in the applications menu

• version 0.1 alpha 1 (2014-08-06)

  • First public version

CONTACTING THE AUTHOR

Sergio Costas Rodriguez (Raster Software Vigo)

raster@rastersoft.com

http://www.rastersoft.com

GIT: git://github.com/rastersoft/devedeng.git