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Title: DeVeDe
Author/Publisher: Raster Software
Ease of use: Not Rated
Latest Version: 3.14.0 (details)
OS Support: Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 Linux/Unix Windows Vista
License: Open Source
Date Added: Mar 20, 2006
Last Updated: Jul 20, 2009
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Revision History:

Version 3.14.0
  • Release Date: Jul 20, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • Now doesn't add black bars when creating an NTSC disc from an 720x480 file without ASPECT RATIO parameter embedded
  • Allows to repack a file as MPEG-PS without recompress the streams (useful to work with VOB files)
  • Allows to swap the field order in interlaced videos
  • Allows to change the subtitle's font size
  • Now supports subtitle filenames with XML-reserved characters
  • Supports all picture types for menu backgrounds (not only PNG)
  • Now removes previous preview files if they already existed, when using LN
  • Fixed free disk space calcule in Windows 2000 and the SetPriority function (thanks to Peter Gill)
  • Adjusted the media sizes to ensure that the ISOs always will fit in the disc
  • Now doesn't hangs when adding a video file in an unknown format
Version 3.13.1
  • Release Date: May 26, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • Save as... option now works.
  • The Title properties window closes when the user changes the action to do when the title ends. Fixed.
  • When the $HOME/.spumux directory didn't exists, DeVeDe is unable to find the font for subtitles. Fixed.
  • Added TTF-DEJAVU-CORE package in the DEB dependencies.
Version 3.13.0
  • Release Date: May 15, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • Fixed the greek translation
  • Doesn't fail when LANG is not defined
  • Migration from LibGLADE to GtkBuilder
Version 3.12.2 Version 3.12c
  • Release Date: Jan 27, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • Updated the french translation
  • Updated file Changelog.Debian
Version 3.12b
  • Release Date: Jan 26, 2009
  • Fixed a bug in the french translation, and added italian translation
Version 3.12
  • Release Date: Jan 25, 2009
  • Allows to add files with the characters <, > &, " and '
  • When the user selects a directory in the menu, removes the preview, to avoid a bug.
  • Now, when the output directory already exists, asks to the user before deleting it.
  • New disc type selection window (thanks to Jonathan Estrella).
Version 3.11b
  • Release Date: Aug 27, 2008
  • Download(s):
  • Fixed some language issues in EL, PL, SK and SV locales.
Version 3.11
  • Release Date: Aug 25, 2008
  • Now recovers the menu options when loading a disc structure
  • Changed the appearance to make it more eye-candy
  • Shows the menu's NTSC preview at the right size
  • Shows right the menu's title tipography
  • Added compatibility with GenISOimage
  • Better code to avoid antialiasing when creating the menu entries
  • Now limits the number of files to 61 to avoid problems with DVDAuthor
Version 3.10
  • Release Date: Aug 17, 2008
  • Available official DEB packages.
  • Now the user chooses a global format (PAL or NTSC) for videos and menus.
  • Removed the limit of 12 titles; now can create discs with up to 90 titles and/or 90 files.
  • Allows to add a title to the menu, and shadows to the menu texts.
  • Allows to put the menu texts at the right, left or center.
  • Now shows a preview of the selected picture when choosing the menu background.
  • Added YADIF deinterlace filter support.
  • Added contextual help.
  • New background picture.
  • Support for resolution of 160x128 pixels in DivX.
  • Added a preview button in the Menu options window.
  • Now hides the advanced options in the main window.
  • Fixed the bug that made the menus to be shown only one second in some players.
  • Now it always honours the PAL/NTSC menu type.
  • Now,when creating a PAL disk from a 24fps source, DeVeDe speeds up it instead of adding one frame each 24, obtaining a more fluid animation.
  • The silence sound file has been changed from WAV to MP3 to free some disk space.
  • Fixed a little bug when using HD resolutions for DivX.
  • Modified code to simplify adding new options to the DVD's menus.
Version 3.9
  • Release Date: Jun 24, 2008
  • Due to the use of VRC_MINRATE option, sometimes the final disk size was bigger than the predicted. Fixed.
  • Now remembers the directory from where the user added a movie file.
  • Fixed the detection of the number of cores in the system.
  • Adds the menu type (PAL or NTSC) when creating a menuless disk.
  • Uses transparent pictures for the menus, ensuring that they work fine in more players.
  • Removed CONVERT dependency (Thanks to Peter Gill).
Version 3.8c
  • Release Date: May 26, 2008
  • 3.8c: Now are really fixed the translation bugs
  • 3.8b: Fixed a bug in the italian translation.
  • 3.8b: Fixed a bug in the poland translation.
Version 3.8
  • Release Date: May 25, 2008
  • Automatic video bitrate adjust, to ensure that the ISO or BIN/CUE image occupies the maximum size in the disk.
  • Support for up to 32 subtitles tracks.
  • Allows to specify the subtitle's language.
  • Allows to choose the language to use when the original video contains several audio tracks.
  • Added the L5 deinterlacing filter.
  • Support for rotating and flipping the video.
  • Muticore support.
  • Allows to mix classic and widescreen videos in the same disk.
  • High Definition support in DivX.
  • Allows to Drag&Drop subtitles in the properties window, or to load a configuration file by Dragging&Dropping.
  • By default uses a GOP of 12 frames to ensure maximum compatibility.
  • Uses the Telecine parameter to improve quality in 24fps films.
  • Allows to add extra parameters in -lavcopts, -vf and -lameopts.
  • Now stores the status of the buttons for delete temporary files and to choose the action to do.
  • Added an icon to all windows.
  • More elegant menu system (based on code from Mojoholder)
  • Allows to choose the colors and the position of the menus.
  • Adjusted the maximum bitrate for DivX.
  • Fixed a bug when Mplayer is compiled with --enable-color-console.
Version 3.7
  • Release Date: Apr 16, 2008
  • Fixed a bug when runing in a system configured with Catalan language
  • Now asks for confirmation when closing the disk type selection window
  • The final size of the ISO image is now much more accurate
  • Fixed some Win32 bugs (thanks to Peter Gill)
Version 3.6
  • Release Date: Dec 12, 2007
  • Added a safe margin 5% in the occupied size, to have in mind the size needed by disk structures (like directories, file info and so on).
  • Fixed a some bugs in poland translation.
  • Fixed some windows compatibility bugs.
Version 3.5
  • Release Date: Dec 9, 2007
  • Improved compatibility by using CGOP and SC_THRESOLD.
  • Now uses a GOP of 15 frames instead of 18 when creating a NTSC, 24fps disc, as dictates the standard.
  • Fixed a bug in italian translation which prevented the "Not enought disk space" message to be shown.
  • Added translation to russian and greek.
Version 3.4
  • Release Date: Nov 22, 2007
  • Allows to create DVDs with 5.1 sound
  • Allows to use a GOP of 12 frames to improve compatibility with some broken DVD players
  • Fixes a bug when creating VCD disks
  • Fixed a bug which prevented to previsualizate in DIVX mode.
  • Final code refactorization: finally the code is clean and maintenable.
Version 3.3
  • Release Date: Oct 22, 2007
  • The EXPAND parameter in Mencoder now uses always an even offset to avoid some artifacts when the offset was odd.
  • Fixed a bug when draging&dropping video files.
Version 3.2
  • Release Date: Sep 17, 2007
  • Fixed a bug when using extra parameters with Mencoder
  • Fixed pt_PT translation
  • Fixed a bug with pl translation
Version 3.1b
  • Release Date: Sep 10, 2007
  • Fixed a little bug which prevented version 3.1 to run under Python 2.4.
Version 3.1
  • Release Date: Sep 10, 2007
  • Fixed some problems under windows.
  • Now returns to the main window after creating the disk.
  • When opening the file selector, it filters the files by type, showing only the videos.
  • When using the NEW menu option to clean the disk structure and start again, it asks the disk type again.
  • Now, when loading a disk structure, if the disk type is different than the current selected, automatically changes to the new type.
  • Added new translations.
  • Added new icon (thanks to Jonah Naylor).
  • Second major code refactorization to improve maintenability.
  • License changed to GPL version 3.
Version 3.01
  • Release Date: Jun 30, 2007
  • Added new patches for windows version.
  • Removed the use of lower priority, because it made the conversion slower.
  • Fixed a little bug when the final directory contains blank spaces.
  • Added translation to Catala, and fixed the French one.
Version 3.0
  • Release Date: Jun 24, 2007
  • Allows to add a menu to the DVD with a list of the titles and a custom background picture.
  • Allows to save the current disc structure, in order to reutilize it, or continue working in other moment.
  • Allows to choose up to 448kbit/sec for audio.
  • Now asks before canceling a job.
  • A little bigger font size for subtitles.
  • When creating a DivX file, now it uses .AVI extension.
  • Fixed a bug with non-UTF8 locales.
  • Fixed a bug in the "Insuficient free space..." message. Now is shown translated.
  • Fixed a bug when erasing conflicting files and directories.
  • Fixed a bug when trying to create a DivX from a file with an original size equal to the final size.
  • Now, when the conversion fails, it doesn't show a "Success" message.
Version 2.13
  • Release Date: Apr 16, 2007
  • Added creation of MPEG4/DIVX files.
  • Added swedish and slovak translations.
  • Fixed some issues with translations (thanks to Marco de Freitas).
Version 2.12
  • Release Date: Feb 26, 2007
  • New and more flexibles install and uninstall scripts (thanks to Patrick Monnerat).
  • Added french translation.
  • Fixed some issues with non-UTF8 systems (thanks to Marco de Freitas).
Version 2.11
  • Release Date: Feb 9, 2007
  • Allows to specify the codepage for subtitles, allowing to use UTF-8 coded files (or with other codepages).
  • Allows to put the subtitles a little upper, fine when using the ZOOM option in 16:9 TVs or with old CRT receivers
  • When the original video has 24 fps and the destination is a NTSC DVD, DeVeDe will use 24000/1001 fps instead of 30000/1001.
  • Now supplies all the needed data to SPUMUX, so subtitles in NTSC format will be full visible.
  • Fixed some little bugs when erasing temporary files.
  • Fixed some bugs in the main loop that sometimes hanged up the conversion process.
  • Now shows a kind of progress numbers during subtitle adding and while creating the DVD structure.
  • Now translates fine all the sentences in the interface.
  • Now detects if DeVeDe has permissions to write in the destination directory when doing a preview.
  • Now uses again MP2 instead of AC3 to ensure full compatibility.
  • Now detects again when mencoder or spumux fails and shows an error message.
  • Now really allows to abort the process while adding subtitles.
  • Fixed some issues in Windows code (thanks again to Peter Gill).
  • Added new translations into German and norwegian, and completed the old ones.
Version 2.10
  • Release Date: Jan 18, 2007
  • Added italian translation.
  • The INSTALL script didn't create the GNOME/KDE menu entry. Fixed
Version 2.9
  • Release Date: Jan 1, 2007
  • Now DeVeDe can work under Windows (thanks to Peter Gill).
  • Fixed some little bugs that prevented to use DeVeDe with some files taken from video capture cards.
  • Fixed a bug with the Drag&Drop in the main window.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented DeVeDe to detect errors in the execution of MKISOFS.
  • Added a warning about VFAT/FAT32 partitions.
Version 2.8
  • Release Date: Dec 21, 2006
  • Now only allows to create 16:9 DVDs when the final width is 720 pixels, and don't allow to create 16:9 VCDs, SVCDs or CVDs.
Version 2.7
  • Release Date: Dec 19, 2006
  • Support for true DVD subtitles
  • Can create 16:9 DVDs from widescreen videos
  • Default MBD changed to 2 (slower but greater quality)
  • Now installs in /urs/local
Version 2.6
  • Release Date: Oct 31, 2006
  • When the video wasn't subdivided in chapters, the XML file was incorrect and DVDAuthor complained. Fixed.
  • Fixed a bug when the output directory was no writable.
  • Added translation for Portugues do Brasil
  • Added a FAQ.
Version 2.5
  • Release Date: Oct 8, 2006
  • Fixed another bug with directories and/or filenames with blank spaces.
  • Added a workaround for a bug found in very old DVD Players, which can't play fast forward between the last chapter and the end of a file.
Version 2.4A
  • Release Date: Oct 4, 2006
  • Added translation to Czech
Version 2.4
  • Release Date: Sep 25, 2006
  • Allows to specify that a file is already a DVD-compliant MPEG-PS file, so it won't be recompresed, but stored "as is" into the disc (usefull when you capture video from a TV capturer of other sources).
  • Alows to deinterlace the video.
  • Allows to choose the MacroBlock algorithm and use Trellis, to enhace the final picture quality.
  • Allows to choose the directory for the temporary file used during preview, and remembers it.
  • Before creating a new disc it erases the files with conflicting names in the destination directory.
  • Allows to cancel the process during the creation of the BIN/CUE image of a VCD, SVCD or CVD.
  • Added a VRC_MINRATE parameter when creating VCDs, SVCDs and CVDs, to ensure full compatibility.
  • Changed the video bitrate for VCDs from 1150 to 1152, and the minimum video bitrate for SVCDs and CVD from 500 to 600.
  • Ensures that the progress bar while converting a file is refreshed at least each two senconds.
  • First major code refactorization to enhace the maintenability.
Version 2.3
  • Release Date: Sep 1, 2006
  • In version 2.1 I added support for B frames, which produces problems with some DVD players. Fixed.
Version 2.2
  • Release Date: Aug 18, 2006
  • Fixed a little bug
Version 2.1
  • Release Date: Jul 5, 2006
  • Optimized some loops. Now DeVeDe is about 30% faster during video conversion.
  • Now checks that you have enought free disk space.
  • Allows to maintain the temporary files instead of deleting them.
  • Fixed a litle bug with the erasing of temporary files.
Version 2.0
  • Release Date: Jun 18, 2006
  • Now can create VideoCD, SuperVideoCD and China VideoDisks.
  • Allows the user to override the default resolution and use the one he wants.
  • Allows to pass custom commands to Mencoder, allowing to render subtitles, cut the file in chunks, select an audio stream when the file has two or more...
  • Allows to change the order of the files and titles.
  • Changed the position of some elements, making the interface a little more intuitive.
  • The advanced features have been grouped, so novices will see only the most important options while advanced users can have access to a lot of extra functions with just a single click.
  • Fixed a litle bug when a video header tells that it has an aspect ratio of 0 or 1.
  • Installation more compliant with FreeDesktop and Debian normatives.
Version 1.6
  • Release Date: Jun 2, 2006
  • Added support for resolutions 352x480 (in NTSC) and 352x576 (in PAL).
  • Fully support for movies with aspect ratios different than 4:3 (now, with 16:9 movies it adds the right black bars to ensure that a circle IS a circle).
  • Fixed a bug with audio/video sync when converting a PAL video to NTSC or vice-versa.
Version 1.5
  • Release Date: May 22, 2006
  • Now works with video files without audio track.
  • Transforms blank spaces in the generic filename to underscores (in previous versions, DeVeDe failed if a blank space was inserted).
  • Fixed the translation to Galego.
  • Added an uninstall script.
Version 1.4
  • Release Date: Mar 20, 2006
  • Added Drag&Drop support.
  • Translatable strings (currently supports english, spanish and galego).
  • Set a default video rate based on the final resolution.
  • Shows the elapsed time used to create de DVD.
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