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More to say about 0.97.1: it's the first Gtk2 based dvd::rip release, finally! ;) But not only the underlying Gtk version changed, next to nothing of the old GUI code remained, although the GUI itself didn't change much, apart from a bunch of details making the whole thing more comfortable. dvd::rip now uses Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory, a framework which makes building such complex GUI's much easier.

Although it's an alpha release marked unstable it's in a very usable state yet and I encourage every user to try it. Installation is simple if you have a running dvd::rip already, since having the dependencies met is the most elaborate part of a dvd::rip installation. In particular there is no need to deinstall the old version, you find more details about this in the documentation.

Project files are compatible between both versions, so you can fall back to the current stable at any time, and vice versa.

Please also read the release notes if you want to give it a try.

http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/transcode

New transcode homepage. It's an open wiki, everyone is invited to add content to it. It will be available under http://www.transcoding.org as soon as the necessary DNS updates has been finished.

http://zebra.fh-weingarten.de/~transcode/

This page covers transcode up to 0.6.12, but it's not actively maintained and will be replaced by the wiki mentioned above.

http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/

This page covers transcode up to 0.6.11, but also isn't maintained anymore for a long time.

=> Localisation of dvd::rip / Notes for translators

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield

Using CVS is easy, just:

      % cvs -z3 -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.exit1.org:/cvs login
      % cvs -z3 -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.exit1.org:/cvs checkout \
            -r rel-0-50-patches dvdrip
      % cd dvdrip
      % perl Makefile.PL   # ignore "missing README" message
      % make
      % ./dvdrip
      

Hey, we missed dvd::rip's birthday. A look at the Changes file tells us, that the first release (version 0.20) was published on 27. Nov 2001. On 1. Nov 2001 I searched for a DVD ripping tool for Linux and found transcode. I contacted Thomas Östreich because I had some questions regarding PCM extraction and used it a while with much fun. On 10. Nov 2001 I asked Thomas, if anybody is working on a GUI. Nobody was, so I started the project (first working title was LightRIP... *shake* ;).

I want to say "Thanks" to all the people who supported me with good suggestions, patches and bug reports, and to Thomas and all the other transcode developers for their great work. I hope that no legal restrictions will stop dvd::rip developing somedays. It's still much fun for me to code it. Some users reported me, that they finally deleted Window$ from their harddisk, because copying DVD's was the last thing for which it was needed. That's my greatest pleasure! ;)

• Multiple AVI audio track support
• On-the-fly transcoding, and usage of existent DVD images (with some restrictions, refer to the documentation for details)
• transcode's port of mplayer's audio normalizing filter is available
• Saving a backup copy of the project file after TOC reading and ripping (for all the guys, who forget saving... ;)
• Works with Perl 5.8.0 (also with 5.6.1 and probably 5.005), transcode 0.6.0 and 0.6.1
• Many other smaller features and bugfixes. Read all 0.45_0x change log entries for details.

• The new cluster mode, which was responsable for this long series of pre-releases. Transcode your movies using all the reasonably fast computers you can grab, in parallel.
• Files are generated with names to preserve alphabetical order. WARNING: finish your projects first, because this release can't work with projects of the old format.
• Sometimes dvd::rip stopped transcoding too short. This is fixed since 0.31_02
• You can provide additional transcode options, which are currently not supported resp. generated by dvd::rip.
• Adjusting the transcode nice level per project.

Based on my thoughts, I modified the kspread file to add some new
important data.

- Calculate the target aspect ratio error (helps to make sure
we keep as close as possible to the target aspect ratio).
Target shouldn't be more than 2% off the real aspect ratio

- Make sure the final video size after 2nd clipping and resizing is
a) width dividable by 32  b) height dividable by 16

This is important for most video cards or divx players
to get fullscreen scaling acceleration working right.

Change the original resolution height to 576 if PAL dvd
or 480 for NTSC.