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Bombono DVD 1.2.2: Two-Pass Encoding
Friday, 8 March 2013
Now Bombono DVD can fill out DVD space precisely, making use of Two-Pass Encoding feature in FFmpeg/Libav. Changelog:
Two-Pass Encoding option: Project -> Preferences; also fixes #80
Black and blue icons for DVD menus (thanks to abstrusus)
for Windows: checking bad image files (thanks to Roonwhit)
for Linux:
fixes for latest versions of gcc, ffmpeg 1.1/libav 9.2, boost 1.53
#86: users are encouraged to update to GTK >= 2.24.15
More closed tickets: #85, #89
Translations: Spanish, Esperanto (Felipe Castro), Galician (Leandro Regueiro), Slovak (Dušan Kazik), Vietnamese
Bombono DVD 1.2.1
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Changelog:
for Windows:
do not crash if PATH contains non-Latin characters, "Debug Error! This app has requested the Runtime to terminate it..." (thanks to Oleg P.)
Bombono generates now more useful information if it crashes (minidumps, with help from Breakpad)
for Linux:
Fixes for new ffmpeg (0.8-0.10) and avconv (0.7, 0.8) versions
Due to the fact that ffmpeg encoder is no more supported in libav, avconv is used instead if it exists at runtime
twolame' dependency is removed
Alec Leamas did a great and difficult job to integrate the program into the RPM Fusion repository (the latter is associated with Fedora and Red Hat), many thanks to him; though something is stuck in RPM Fusion again, due to their complicated rules, but we will continue to hope...
Translation update: Czech
Bug fix for the error "Can't seek through the file" when the index is far from start but valid, see #68
Bombono DVD 1.2: Multi-core processor support
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Now Bombono DVD can fully utilize multi-core CPUs: it spawns transcoding jobs in parallel and/or use -threads the option of ffmpeg rationally. Depending on your CPU it can greatly reduce time to make DVD.
Changelog:
Multi-core CPU support for transcoding videos
Time calculation left to take authoring
Translations: Chinese simplified (Wylmer Wang), Danish, German (Roland Illig), Finnish, Italian, Ukrainian
No File Browser, see #60
More menu items:
Arrows and other icons can be used in menus, not only frames; if you want to use your own pictures then just add them to ~/AppData/Roaming/bombono-dvd/icons (Win7) or ~/.config/bombono-dvd/icons (Linux)
New frames, from Dietrich Martin
Many default icons: checks, arrows, rounds etc (thanks to abstrusus)
Web browser integration for getting menu backgrounds
Better 16:9 DVD support:
Generation of two subpicture streams for 16:9 menus: letterbox and widescreen, see #56
More than 12 buttons for 16:9
Splash screen (an app can't live without it, seriously)
Bitrate Calculator:
Apply changes for multiple videos at once, see #58
Custom ffmpeg options entry
Copy&Paste&Cut for menu items; Copy Menu function, see #50
Error Report before authoring, if needed: buttons overlap, DVD capacity exceeded, etc
Menu Editor:
Preserve aspect ratio when resizing buttons, see #45 (with Shift)
Highlight border only, see #27
Snap to grid, see #44
3 styles to span background of menu: Fill, Fit and Stretch
Rename items in Menu|Media Browser via function "Rename" & no conflict with DnD
The ticket #32 fix: Cannot jump to chapter N of title M, only N-1 exist
Changelog for Windows:
Add Videos from DVD is on
Look & Feel:
Modern UI themes based on Murrine engine added: Ambiance, Dust, Dust Sand, Radiance, see Screenshots; you can turn them on in Preferences
Humanity icon theme applied
Native Windows folder selection dialog is used now instead of Gtk' one
SVG support
WMP (Windows Media Player) support for playing results
Bug fixes:
fix for checking blank DVD+R media before burning
fix for dialogs keep blank, see discussion
fix for disc labels having spaces
version 1.2 got a price tag, see Buy Now; versions 1.0.x remain free of cost though and are rebranded as Bombono DVD Free
Other tech fixes and remarks:
Closed tickets: #36, #43
Fix for main menu (Project-Go-Help) in Ubuntu 11.04: do not cover it with main tabs
SCons is now optional for authoring
Various fixes for ffmpeg/libav libraries >= 0.7, including crashes like that (Linux)
MIME data added from Carlos Sánchez (Linux)
gvfs is needed for web browser integration (Linux)
Button to reset subtitles selection, for videos
playing filename with blank in its name
Fix for nasty Gtk filechooser bug
mkisofs => genisoimage (Linux)
(For experts) when building with USE_EXT_BOOST=1 and gcc >= 4.6: Boost version should be >= 1.47 because of #5279; or build without USE_EXT_BOOST=1, you have been warned
Fix for Italian translation in Windows
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Bombono DVD 1.0.3: not to crash when opening dialogs for save/open files
First stable version 1.0.2 for MS Windows
Monday, 4 July 2011
Bombono DVD is stable for Windows now. Changelog:
No File Browser: "Add Media Files" Dialog instead, see Compact View (previous mode is available too, see Preferences)
Native Open/Save dialogs are used instead of GTK' ones if possible
Right Ok/Cancel button order for dialogs
Hot keys are fixed for nonlatin letters
Beta 3 for MS Windows
Thursday, 16 June 2011
One fix: not to crash when opening certainly edited mpeg2 video files (thanks to barsnick).
Beta 2 for MS Windows
Sunday, 5 June 2011
One fix: no crash when opening elementary video streams (*.m2v; thanks to OldPaul).
Beta 1 for MS Windows
Thursday, 26 May 2011
After 5 months of development Bombono DVD is ready for Windows, too. The program is fully working as Linux one except a few issues to be fixed:
Win32 console is still involved during authoring operation
No import from DVD
Hot keys do not work e.g. in Output tab
Autocomplete is disabled for font selection
Bombono DVD 1.0.2
Monday, 18 April 2011
Changelog:
Fixes for new distros:
libxml++ 2.33.1 changes: projects can be opened
update for spumux, dvdauthor 0.7.0
(For experts) one line setting ~/.config/bombono-dvd/av_seek_shift: set to "-N" (e.g. -4 seconds) to avoid missing keyframes/visual artefacts of videos
Bombono DVD 1.0.1
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Changelog:
* Translation updates: Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan), Danish, Norwegian
* Fix for loading a project: set right TV type (NTSC/PAL)
* Fix for text buttons: highlight text precisely
* Fix for ffmpeg running:
o don't break on non-text log
o
ffmpeg >= 0.7(current trunk): -padX => -vf pad=X
Bombono DVD 1.0: Can eat every video you have
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Now Bombono DVD can handle all video formats, thanks to FFmpeg. Transcoding is to be done when required; to adjust transcoding options (bitrate, dimensions) just right-click with the mouse at the video in Media List and choose Bitrate Calculator.
Changelog:
* BmD can import all that ffmpeg can handle, not only DVD-compliant videos (AVI/MKV/MOV/TS/MPG/MPEG4/WEBM/OGG/...); excellent "frame by frame" video access is retained
* Translation updates: Finnish, French, Russian, Spanish
* Transcoding:
o Black padding for not DVD-aspect videos
o All audio streams being transcoded, not only first one
o Audio transcoding bitrate: 320kbit/s, not 448kbit/s
* Bitrate Calculator
* Adjust Bitrate to Fit to Disc
* Subtitles support:
o spumux is used for text rendering
o Trying to guess subtitles encoding with Enca
* Segfault fix while loading bad/legacy projects
* Small changes:
o Fix for non-UTF8 locales like ru_RU.KOI8-R, #40
o Fix for running totem with a file with spaces etc
o .bmd for projects instead of .xml
o Online help reference in menu Help
Bombono DVD 0.8.1
Saturday, 13 November 2010
Changelog:
* Translation updates: Danish, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian
* fixes for ffmpeg >= 0.6 (motion menus):
o explicit stream mapping (-map NxM)
o parsing formats and codecs of ffmpeg
* fix for non-latin directories while authoring
* build fix for USE_EXT_BOOST=1 & Boost <= 1.44:
o scons CPPFLAGS='-UBOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED'
Bombono DVD 0.8: Motion menus in action
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Motion menus can be rendered (with ffmpeg as encoder); to set a menu as a motion one just right-click it in Menu Browser and choose Menu Settings; set "motion" flag, duration, etc and try to build the project. Background and frame items (everything) will be motion if they can; use Set Poster feature to adjust it your own way.
New screenshot: Motion Menu Dialog
Also:
* Translations:
o brand new: Czech (Marek Černocký), French (Olivier Girard), Spanish (Carlos Sánchez)
o updates for languages: Danish, Finnish, Italian, Russian, Vietnamese
* "Play All" type of linking, see #33
* The program now remembers its size and position on display; sizes of browsers File Browser and Media List are remembered too
* Subpicture colors for menus can be adjusted now, in Menu Settings, #26
* The only bug been fixed, #35
* Menu Editor: Distribute Horizontally/Vertically by tekkno genius
* New Frames (Buttons): "shadow", "shadow & white", "shadow2" and "slide" by wronguser
* Bombono DVD can now be built with Clang (LLVM) compiler 2.8+ (2.9 if you need PCH support), experimental support); GCC is still out of competition, though
I'm glad to introduce new version of Bombono DVD, 0.5.10. New features:
* Translations: Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Norwegian, Danish, Russian
* 16:9 menus
* Poster Link
* 'Safe Area' frame
* Multiple items align for editor
* Automatic chaptering
* Mux feature with mplex: "Project->Mux"
* Play current position from Timeline, in media player (Totem)
* 'Post Action' feature for video
* User frames(buttons)
* Program preferences
Bombono DVD 0.5.9 - Release Candidate for Next Stable Version
Friday, 2 April 2010
New features and fixes:
* menu encoding fix: better quality with mpeg2enc (thanks to stagediverr)
* translations: Finnish (Jorma Karvonen), Swedish (Daniel Nylander), Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall), Norwegian (Eivind Řdegĺrd), Danish (Joe Hansen)
* 16:9 menus, fixes #3
* Poster Link, fixes #4
* 'Safe Area' frame, fixes #5
* multiple items align for editor, fixes #12
* automatic chaptering, fixes #6
* mux feature with mplex: "Project->Mux", fixes #14
* play current position from Timeline, in media player (Totem)
* 'Post Action' feature for video
* user frames(buttons) in ~/.config/bombono-dvd/frames
* program preferences, fixes #22
Bomboo DVD 0.5.5 - Development Release
Saturday, 6 March 2010
New in this release:
* full i18n (the program is ready for translation to languages other than English)
* Russian translation
* GUI fixes: #18: "Buttons lacking description..."; several DVD Import fixes
* fixed #19
Bombono DVD 0.5.2 - Bugfix Release
Monday, 28 September 2009
Changes in this release:
* Error "File is not open" fix with read only and >2GB files (#7, #8)
* 252x240 and 252x288 MPEG-2 videos are now accepted (#9)
* Close button fix in About dialog
* Error message box about rejected files is not too big now.
Bombono DVD 0.5.1 - Bugfix Release
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Changes in this release:
* compile errors fixes
* authoring error fix with SCons v1.2.0
* fix with 16:9 format not accepted
* 64bit support
Also:
* issue/bug tracking system is opened for the project.
* repositories for Ubuntu and ALT Linux are available. See Download.
Thanks to Alexandre Poliakov and all who wrote me about issues in the program. :)
Bombono DVD 0.5 Released!
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
The first public version of Bombono DVD is available for download.
Changes in this release:
* DVD-Import is included.
* Fix in building - one can install program in arbitrary prefix
* Many improvements in design
* Created binary packages for Ubuntu Hardy, openSUSE 11.0
Friday, 8 March 2013
Now Bombono DVD can fill out DVD space precisely, making use of Two-Pass Encoding feature in FFmpeg/Libav. Changelog:
Two-Pass Encoding option: Project -> Preferences; also fixes #80
Black and blue icons for DVD menus (thanks to abstrusus)
for Windows: checking bad image files (thanks to Roonwhit)
for Linux:
fixes for latest versions of gcc, ffmpeg 1.1/libav 9.2, boost 1.53
#86: users are encouraged to update to GTK >= 2.24.15
More closed tickets: #85, #89
Translations: Spanish, Esperanto (Felipe Castro), Galician (Leandro Regueiro), Slovak (Dušan Kazik), Vietnamese
Bombono DVD 1.2.1
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Changelog:
for Windows:
do not crash if PATH contains non-Latin characters, "Debug Error! This app has requested the Runtime to terminate it..." (thanks to Oleg P.)
Bombono generates now more useful information if it crashes (minidumps, with help from Breakpad)
for Linux:
Fixes for new ffmpeg (0.8-0.10) and avconv (0.7, 0.8) versions
Due to the fact that ffmpeg encoder is no more supported in libav, avconv is used instead if it exists at runtime
twolame' dependency is removed
Alec Leamas did a great and difficult job to integrate the program into the RPM Fusion repository (the latter is associated with Fedora and Red Hat), many thanks to him; though something is stuck in RPM Fusion again, due to their complicated rules, but we will continue to hope...
Translation update: Czech
Bug fix for the error "Can't seek through the file" when the index is far from start but valid, see #68
Bombono DVD 1.2: Multi-core processor support
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Now Bombono DVD can fully utilize multi-core CPUs: it spawns transcoding jobs in parallel and/or use -threads the option of ffmpeg rationally. Depending on your CPU it can greatly reduce time to make DVD.
Changelog:
Multi-core CPU support for transcoding videos
Time calculation left to take authoring
Translations: Chinese simplified (Wylmer Wang), Danish, German (Roland Illig), Finnish, Italian, Ukrainian
No File Browser, see #60
More menu items:
Arrows and other icons can be used in menus, not only frames; if you want to use your own pictures then just add them to ~/AppData/Roaming/bombono-dvd/icons (Win7) or ~/.config/bombono-dvd/icons (Linux)
New frames, from Dietrich Martin
Many default icons: checks, arrows, rounds etc (thanks to abstrusus)
Web browser integration for getting menu backgrounds
Better 16:9 DVD support:
Generation of two subpicture streams for 16:9 menus: letterbox and widescreen, see #56
More than 12 buttons for 16:9
Splash screen (an app can't live without it, seriously)
Bitrate Calculator:
Apply changes for multiple videos at once, see #58
Custom ffmpeg options entry
Copy&Paste&Cut for menu items; Copy Menu function, see #50
Error Report before authoring, if needed: buttons overlap, DVD capacity exceeded, etc
Menu Editor:
Preserve aspect ratio when resizing buttons, see #45 (with Shift)
Highlight border only, see #27
Snap to grid, see #44
3 styles to span background of menu: Fill, Fit and Stretch
Rename items in Menu|Media Browser via function "Rename" & no conflict with DnD
The ticket #32 fix: Cannot jump to chapter N of title M, only N-1 exist
Changelog for Windows:
Add Videos from DVD is on
Look & Feel:
Modern UI themes based on Murrine engine added: Ambiance, Dust, Dust Sand, Radiance, see Screenshots; you can turn them on in Preferences
Humanity icon theme applied
Native Windows folder selection dialog is used now instead of Gtk' one
SVG support
WMP (Windows Media Player) support for playing results
Bug fixes:
fix for checking blank DVD+R media before burning
fix for dialogs keep blank, see discussion
fix for disc labels having spaces
version 1.2 got a price tag, see Buy Now; versions 1.0.x remain free of cost though and are rebranded as Bombono DVD Free
Other tech fixes and remarks:
Closed tickets: #36, #43
Fix for main menu (Project-Go-Help) in Ubuntu 11.04: do not cover it with main tabs
SCons is now optional for authoring
Various fixes for ffmpeg/libav libraries >= 0.7, including crashes like that (Linux)
MIME data added from Carlos Sánchez (Linux)
gvfs is needed for web browser integration (Linux)
Button to reset subtitles selection, for videos
playing filename with blank in its name
Fix for nasty Gtk filechooser bug
mkisofs => genisoimage (Linux)
(For experts) when building with USE_EXT_BOOST=1 and gcc >= 4.6: Boost version should be >= 1.47 because of #5279; or build without USE_EXT_BOOST=1, you have been warned
Fix for Italian translation in Windows
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Bombono DVD 1.0.3: not to crash when opening dialogs for save/open files
First stable version 1.0.2 for MS Windows
Monday, 4 July 2011
Bombono DVD is stable for Windows now. Changelog:
No File Browser: "Add Media Files" Dialog instead, see Compact View (previous mode is available too, see Preferences)
Native Open/Save dialogs are used instead of GTK' ones if possible
Right Ok/Cancel button order for dialogs
Hot keys are fixed for nonlatin letters
Beta 3 for MS Windows
Thursday, 16 June 2011
One fix: not to crash when opening certainly edited mpeg2 video files (thanks to barsnick).
Beta 2 for MS Windows
Sunday, 5 June 2011
One fix: no crash when opening elementary video streams (*.m2v; thanks to OldPaul).
Beta 1 for MS Windows
Thursday, 26 May 2011
After 5 months of development Bombono DVD is ready for Windows, too. The program is fully working as Linux one except a few issues to be fixed:
Win32 console is still involved during authoring operation
No import from DVD
Hot keys do not work e.g. in Output tab
Autocomplete is disabled for font selection
Bombono DVD 1.0.2
Monday, 18 April 2011
Changelog:
Fixes for new distros:
libxml++ 2.33.1 changes: projects can be opened
update for spumux, dvdauthor 0.7.0
(For experts) one line setting ~/.config/bombono-dvd/av_seek_shift: set to "-N" (e.g. -4 seconds) to avoid missing keyframes/visual artefacts of videos
Bombono DVD 1.0.1
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Changelog:
* Translation updates: Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan), Danish, Norwegian
* Fix for loading a project: set right TV type (NTSC/PAL)
* Fix for text buttons: highlight text precisely
* Fix for ffmpeg running:
o don't break on non-text log
o
ffmpeg >= 0.7(current trunk): -padX => -vf pad=X
Bombono DVD 1.0: Can eat every video you have
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Now Bombono DVD can handle all video formats, thanks to FFmpeg. Transcoding is to be done when required; to adjust transcoding options (bitrate, dimensions) just right-click with the mouse at the video in Media List and choose Bitrate Calculator.
Changelog:
* BmD can import all that ffmpeg can handle, not only DVD-compliant videos (AVI/MKV/MOV/TS/MPG/MPEG4/WEBM/OGG/...); excellent "frame by frame" video access is retained
* Translation updates: Finnish, French, Russian, Spanish
* Transcoding:
o Black padding for not DVD-aspect videos
o All audio streams being transcoded, not only first one
o Audio transcoding bitrate: 320kbit/s, not 448kbit/s
* Bitrate Calculator
* Adjust Bitrate to Fit to Disc
* Subtitles support:
o spumux is used for text rendering
o Trying to guess subtitles encoding with Enca
* Segfault fix while loading bad/legacy projects
* Small changes:
o Fix for non-UTF8 locales like ru_RU.KOI8-R, #40
o Fix for running totem with a file with spaces etc
o .bmd for projects instead of .xml
o Online help reference in menu Help
Bombono DVD 0.8.1
Saturday, 13 November 2010
Changelog:
* Translation updates: Danish, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian
* fixes for ffmpeg >= 0.6 (motion menus):
o explicit stream mapping (-map NxM)
o parsing formats and codecs of ffmpeg
* fix for non-latin directories while authoring
* build fix for USE_EXT_BOOST=1 & Boost <= 1.44:
o scons CPPFLAGS='-UBOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED'
Bombono DVD 0.8: Motion menus in action
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Motion menus can be rendered (with ffmpeg as encoder); to set a menu as a motion one just right-click it in Menu Browser and choose Menu Settings; set "motion" flag, duration, etc and try to build the project. Background and frame items (everything) will be motion if they can; use Set Poster feature to adjust it your own way.
New screenshot: Motion Menu Dialog
Also:
* Translations:
o brand new: Czech (Marek Černocký), French (Olivier Girard), Spanish (Carlos Sánchez)
o updates for languages: Danish, Finnish, Italian, Russian, Vietnamese
* "Play All" type of linking, see #33
* The program now remembers its size and position on display; sizes of browsers File Browser and Media List are remembered too
* Subpicture colors for menus can be adjusted now, in Menu Settings, #26
* The only bug been fixed, #35
* Menu Editor: Distribute Horizontally/Vertically by tekkno genius
* New Frames (Buttons): "shadow", "shadow & white", "shadow2" and "slide" by wronguser
* Bombono DVD can now be built with Clang (LLVM) compiler 2.8+ (2.9 if you need PCH support), experimental support); GCC is still out of competition, though
I'm glad to introduce new version of Bombono DVD, 0.5.10. New features:
* Translations: Finnish, Swedish, Vietnamese, Norwegian, Danish, Russian
* 16:9 menus
* Poster Link
* 'Safe Area' frame
* Multiple items align for editor
* Automatic chaptering
* Mux feature with mplex: "Project->Mux"
* Play current position from Timeline, in media player (Totem)
* 'Post Action' feature for video
* User frames(buttons)
* Program preferences
Bombono DVD 0.5.9 - Release Candidate for Next Stable Version
Friday, 2 April 2010
New features and fixes:
* menu encoding fix: better quality with mpeg2enc (thanks to stagediverr)
* translations: Finnish (Jorma Karvonen), Swedish (Daniel Nylander), Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall), Norwegian (Eivind Řdegĺrd), Danish (Joe Hansen)
* 16:9 menus, fixes #3
* Poster Link, fixes #4
* 'Safe Area' frame, fixes #5
* multiple items align for editor, fixes #12
* automatic chaptering, fixes #6
* mux feature with mplex: "Project->Mux", fixes #14
* play current position from Timeline, in media player (Totem)
* 'Post Action' feature for video
* user frames(buttons) in ~/.config/bombono-dvd/frames
* program preferences, fixes #22
Bomboo DVD 0.5.5 - Development Release
Saturday, 6 March 2010
New in this release:
* full i18n (the program is ready for translation to languages other than English)
* Russian translation
* GUI fixes: #18: "Buttons lacking description..."; several DVD Import fixes
* fixed #19
Bombono DVD 0.5.2 - Bugfix Release
Monday, 28 September 2009
Changes in this release:
* Error "File is not open" fix with read only and >2GB files (#7, #8)
* 252x240 and 252x288 MPEG-2 videos are now accepted (#9)
* Close button fix in About dialog
* Error message box about rejected files is not too big now.
Bombono DVD 0.5.1 - Bugfix Release
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Changes in this release:
* compile errors fixes
* authoring error fix with SCons v1.2.0
* fix with 16:9 format not accepted
* 64bit support
Also:
* issue/bug tracking system is opened for the project.
* repositories for Ubuntu and ALT Linux are available. See Download.
Thanks to Alexandre Poliakov and all who wrote me about issues in the program. :)
Bombono DVD 0.5 Released!
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
The first public version of Bombono DVD is available for download.
Changes in this release:
* DVD-Import is included.
* Fix in building - one can install program in arbitrary prefix
* Many improvements in design
* Created binary packages for Ubuntu Hardy, openSUSE 11.0