Bombono DVD: Author DVD Freely

Bombono DVD in RPM Fusion

^{Friday, 13 April 2012}
Bombono DVD has been packaged for Fedora 16 in RPM Fusion. RPM Fusion ships Fedora packages which cannot be shipped from the main project, e. g. due to US patent laws.

In the beginning (i. e., April) bombono-dvd lives in the rpmfusion-free-updates-testing repository. Experienced Fedora users know how to enable this and install the package.

For others, the package will be readily available after the testing period, just as rpmfusion is enabled. During the test period it can be downloaded from i386 or x86_64.

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 not more supported in libav, avconv is used instead if it exists at runtime
  • twolame' dependency is removed

  • Alec Leamas did great and difficult work 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

www.bombono.org est disponible en Français (is available in French)

^{Friday, 6 January 2012}
Merci à Fred.

Bombono DVD French Tutorial

^{Thursday, 1 December 2011}
The tutorial by Fred R.

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

Bombono DVD German Tutorial

^{Saturday, 12 November 2011}
The tutorial by Dietrich Martin. Further wikihelp from native speakers ist welcome.

The project site changes

^{Friday, 11 November 2011}
The project site http://www.bombono.org has been moved from SourceForge hosting. If you notice any errors with the site, please contact me on the forum or by email (below).

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 (thanks to gianca).
Download.

Seven video tutorials in Italian about Bombono DVD

^{Sunday, 24 July 2011}
The article from Antonio Cantaro.