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 (you may return to previous mode in 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

Download.

The Forum New Location

^{Wednesday, 22 June 2011}
The forum has been moved to its new location. Old forum is kept for a while for user benefit but no more maintained. While SF keeps to support great forum service there are still (subjective) reasons to move:

• a few errors and quirks

• no possibility to add language packs (l10n) and mods (wait for your requests at http://forum.bombono.org)

• slowness (subjectively)

Beta 3 for MS Windows

^{Thursday, 16 June 2011}
One fix: not to crash when opening certainly edited mpeg2 video files (thanks to barsnick).
See Download for the Windows installer.

Beta 2 for MS Windows

^{Sunday, 5 June 2011}
One fix: not to crash when opening elementary video streams (*.m2v; thanks to OldPaul).
See Download for the Windows installer.

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

See Download for the Windows installer.

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

• (For experts) when building with USE_EXT_BOOST=1 & Boost >= 1.46:

  • scons CPPFLAGS='-DBOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION=2'

Additionally, Dr. John v. Kampen has published nice article and screencast about Bombono DVD and OpenShot Video Editor.

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:
  • don't break on non-text log

  • 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:
  • Black padding for not DVD-aspect videos
  • All audio streams being transcoded, not only first one
  • Audio transcoding bitrate: 320kbit/s, not 448kbit/s

• Bitrate Calculator

• Adjust Bitrate to Fit to Disc
• Subtitles support:
  • spumux is used for text rendering

  • Trying to guess subtitles encoding with Enca

• Segfault fix while loading bad/legacy projects
• Small changes:

  • Fix for non-UTF8 locales like ru_RU.KOI8-R, #40

  • Fix for running totem with a file with spaces etc
  • .bmd for projects instead of .xml
  • 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):

  • explicit stream mapping (-map NxM)
  • parsing formats and codecs of ffmpeg
• fix for non-latin directories while authoring

• build fix for USE_EXT_BOOST=1 & Boost <= 1.44:

  • 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

Changelog:

• Motion menus
• Translations:
  • brand new: Czech (Marek Černocký), French (Olivier Girard), Italian (Sergio Zanchetta), Spanish (Carlos Sánchez)
  • updates for languages: Danish, Finnish, 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

Bombono DVD 0.6 Released!

^{Saturday, 17 April 2010}
Changelog:

• Preferences: Default folder for authoring results, fixes #24

• build fixes for gtk <= 2.18

• error fix for "Write Disk Image" mode, see #21

Also:

• see the article about how to make user frames

• source code is available via Gitorious now; see more at Get Involved

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 Ødegård), 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

Bombono 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

It's time for translating Bombono DVD to your native language! See more how you can help.

Bombono DVD 0.5.2 - Bug Fix Release

^{Monday, 28 September 2009}
Changes in this release:

• Error "File is not open" fix with read only and >2GB files (#7, #8)

• 352x240 and 352x288 MPEG-2 videos are now accepted (#9)

• Close button fix in About dialog
• Error message box about rejected files is not too big now.

Also, now you can subscribe to Bombono mailing list and ask questions on the forum or IRC.
Thanks to Henrik and Vienna for big files problem and other reports.

Bombono DVD 0.5.1 - Bug Fix 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