DVD-Audio Tools 09.09 dev

Development version 09.09 released

This development version offers new features.

* Automatic and customized top menu authoring, using a new patch against dvdauthor.
* Optional animated menu with sound
* Slideshows with transition effects for each track (as of build 12)
* man page
* Source code
* Single track groups and other advanced audio options to smooth out audio gaps.
* Automatic download and build of source code dependencies.
* New! menus with track links-top menus with several menu screens.
* New! hierarchical menus (as of build 40).


Version 09.05 released

* Multiformat support (through an interface with SoX)
* Multichannel support for both encoding and decoding, thanks to work by Lee and Tim Feldkamp.
* man page
* Source code
* Ogg FLAC support
* Configuration file
* Long options
* Specific wav header repair module (fixwav)
* Portability enhancements (improved GNU build system)
* Integrated DVD-Audio-to-wav file converter (ats2wav)
* Advanced audio control options to avoid playback gaps


2009-02-08Fabrice Nicol <fabnicol@users.sourceforge.net>
* Add recent project file management.


2009-01-29
* Add: Menus, toolbar, drag-and-drop support.

2009-01-12
* Add: project manager, full screen, XML project file authoring.

2009-01-10
* Add: Burn button, cdrecord and startsector options .
* Add: help icon and direct launch of local html help
page.
* Add: configure and Exit icons.
* Add: burn progress bar and correspodning kill button.
* Minor layout changes.
* New: spec file and rmp/deb builds.
* Update doc.

2008-12-28
* Add: mingwm10.dll for Windows platforms.
* New feature: Extract button. Enhanced tree refresh.
* Change: Run label to Encode.


New version 08.12 released

* Multiformat support (through an interface with SoX)
* Multichannel support for both encoding and decoding, thanks to work by Lee and Tim Feldkamp.
* man page
* Source code for *nix platforms
* Source code and binary for Windows platforms
* Ogg FLAC support
* Configuration file
* Long options
* Specific wav header repair module (fixwav)
* Portability enhancements (improved GNU build system)
* Integrated DVD-Audio-to-wav file converter (ats2wav)
* Padding/Pruning options to avoid playback gaps


2008-09-20 Fabrice Nicol <fabnicol@users.sourceforge.net>

* add large file support
* add libats2wav module for extracting DVD-Audio titlesets into .wav files.
* enhance fixwav module, option adjustments.
* portable to *nix by using GNU libc sources (strdup, strndup, getsubopt) under glibc/
* portable to Windows (limited API code snippets for truncate() porting).
* increase portability if compiling with GCC using libiberty.a
* GNU build system enhancements: autoconf library checks/replacements for
libFLAC, libogg and GNU libc functions (stdup, strndup, getsubopt)
* bugfixes


2008-08-10 Fabrice Nicol <fabnicol@users.sourceforge.net>

* dvda-author 08.08-dev released
* Features: Ogg FLAC support, header repair module, long options,
configuration file parsing, padding/pruning options; .

* command line:
add as short options: -0, -f, -F, -S, -v
add as long options:--version, --help, --debug, --input, --fixwav
--fixwav-virtual, --log, --no-videozone, --output, --startoffset, --pause, --quiet, --sox, --videolink, --PTS-factor, --videodir, --rights, --no-padding


* command_line_parsing.c, endianness.c, launch_manager.c, lexer.c: new files
* dvda-author2.c: rewrite, code partly moved to launch_manager.c

* Header repair module: add libfixwav-1.3.a, new library (libfixwav/src directory)
* libfixwav directory:add directories src, include
* files auxiliary.c, checkData.c, checkParameters.c, manager.c,
readHeader.c, repair.c: new source files
* checKData.h, checkPrameters.h, fixwav_auxiliary.h, fixwav.h, fixwav_manager.h,
readHeader.h repair.h: new header files

* dvda-author.conf: editable configuration file for command-line defaults (top directory)

* Enhanced GNU build system:
new options --enable-all-builds, --enable-ogg-flac
new nested build system for fixwav library, see libfixwav/README and INSTALL files.
full Ogg-FLAC support
autogen: new script
configuration summary.


2008-08-02 Fabrice Nicol <fabnicol@users.sourceforge.net>

* dvda-author 08.07 released
* Patches against c_utils.c, c_utils.h and critical patch against samg2.c
* Corrects memory allocation of array samg in samg2.c
* Directory creation fully enabled.
* Defined constant __CB__ for building linkable libFLAC library
with Code::Blocks.

2008-07-04Fabrice Nicol <fabnicol@users.sourceforge.net>

* dvda-author version 08.06 released

* Features: rewrite memory allocation; legacy syntax preserved.

* command line: add --version, --help, -d, -i, -n, -o, -q, -T,-U, -V, -w

* videoimport.c, auxiliary.c, file_input_parsing.c: new files
* samg.c, amg.c: new versions, rename samg2.c and amg2.c
* dvda-author.c: rewrite from scratch, rename dvda-author2.c
* libc_utils.a : new auxiliary library (libutils directory)


2008-06-20Fabrice Nicol <fabnicol@users.sourceforge.net>

* Features: add videolinking groups to amg2.c and dvda-author2.c
new command-line switches:
input directory parsing, log file,
VIDEO_TS import, access rights to video directory,
end pause, video links

* Processing: Use dynamic memory allocation in dvda-author2.c

* Patches-Bugfixes

* GNU autoconf/automake build scripts for dvda-author,
libFLAC123.a and libc_utils.a (nested)

* Code::Blocks projects for Windows users.


20050703 Alpha
* Bugfixes - correctly deal with the case of 9 groups, and ignore extra non-PCM RIFF chunks at the end of a WAV file (fixes some "clicks between tracks" problems)