0.7.1    (2012-03-19)
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- Optimize and update Makefile
   - Remove autocreated DVDwizard.txt with distclean
   - Do not remove po/dvdwizard.pot with distclean
- Add po/dvdwizard.pot as persistent file
- Update german translation (po/de.po)
- Fix crash while using subtitle option (mk_vtsm_lang)
- Always generating sample config, using version string
- Update of DVDwizard.texi: more package infos, add 'direntry'
- Now use $HOME/.config/dvdwizard/ for user config file
- Check version of user config file; try update to current version
- Update po/dvdwizard.pot and german translation (po/de.po)
- Update man pages with new path for user config file

0.7.0    (2011-07-30)
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- Uninstall via Makefile installs also some of the directories installed at
  installion, but only if those directories are empty
- dvdwizard_test with Clapperboard.svg to test DVDwizard creating a test DVD
- code pretty print
- i18n user interface
- dvdwizardrc renamed into dvdwizard_common
- new error and log message handling
- every program supports -h, --help, -v, --version
- POSIX conform usage of `tr'
- support audio for vizually impaired
- cleanup code, e.g., numeric tests
- do not use ffmpeg option -ab with unit kb, because it's deprecated
- tested with ImageMagick 6.6.5-8
- tested with dvdauthor 0.7.0
- Modify selection of background color for some menus (*lang, *info)
- Add infos in NEWS about VIDEO_FORMAT for use with dvdauthor 0.7 and above
- Add search for bash shell in Makefile

0.6.4    (2011-01-02)
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- Modify selection of background color for some menus (*lang, *info)
- Check for environment variable VIDEO_FORMAT and ~/.config/video_format.
- Give explicit the tv norm while execute dvdauthor for use with newer 
  dvdauthor 0.7 and above.

0.6.3    (2010-09-26)
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- Do not use ffmpeg option '-ab' with 'kb' unit, this is old
- Add new Czech translation (thanks to Martin Palecek)
- Tested with ImageMagick 6.6.0-4

0.6.2    (2009-12-11)
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- Transcode 1.1.5 workaround for cpu accelerations
- Add PAR variable for better support for NTSC
- Use different pixel aspect ratio (PAR) for PAL and NTSC
- While restart use existing chapter screenshots
- Tested with ImageMagick 6.5.8-3

0.6.1    (2009-11-17)
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- Minimal version of ImageMagick defined to 6.3.5-0
- Second patch for ImageMagick 6.5.5-x
- Check valid duration time of video streams
- Solution for warning 'geometry does not contain image'
- Check for NTSC videos; check existance of screenshots
- Tested with transcode 1.1.5

0.6.0    (2009-09-12)
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- CONTRIB: add some informations
- Changes to next version number
- Standardize the open console logging (Version, Developer, Copyright)
- Checked with ImageMagick 6.5.2-7
- Define minimum version 6.2.5-0 of ImageMagick
- Add new debug option for tests
  
- Define larger default TVSIZE
- New bgratio option for VRATIO flexibility
- Use 16:9 background images inside 4:3 menu for widescreen videos
- Compute some sizes of menu background images
- Check whether TVSIZE is inside range

- Now using a Makefile for install and uninstall
- Define configurable path for dvdwizardrc
- Reorganize all file header and add info about GPL
- Change license from GPL-2 to GPL-3
- Create/use always user config file in $HOME/.dvdwizard
- Add swedish language for menu

- Patch for ImageMagick 6.5.5.x
- Checked with ImageMagick 6.5.5.3
- Checked with transcode 1.1.4
- Checked with ffmpeg 0.5.3 (SVN-20090823)
- Centre the title string
- Create some new manpages, update manpages
- installation of manpages with make install

0.5.7    (2009-04-07) 
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- Patch with russian translation
- Patch for new ffmpeg (0.5.1, SVN-20090318)
- Checked with ImageMagick 6.5.1.0
- Checked with Transcode 1.1.2
- Set homepage to http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdwizard/

0.5.6    (2009-02-22)
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- Patch for using with recent transcode (1.1.0)
- Patch for xml encoding in utf-8 environments
- Set new email address for bug reports
- Thanks to Wolfgang for all the work on dvdwizard
- Update of the GPL-2 licence (file COPYING)
- Optimize version-check for ImageMagick
- Checked with ImageMagick 6.4.9.6

0.5.5    (2009-02-08)
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- Patch for using fontlist of imagemagick 6.4.4 and higher (font -list font)
- Patch for bug in imagemagick 6.4.4 and higher (convert -composite)
- No more support for imagemagick before 6.2.3 (from Juni 2005)
- Change to new maintainer and author Joo Martin
- Set homepage to joonet.de/dvdwizard/
- Import new manpage from Debian

0.5.4    (2009-01-17)
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- Better color replacementvor buttons of VMGM and VTSM.
- Define better quality while creating mpeg menu streams (mpeg2enc -q5).
- Add option -ar to change aspect ratio for each titleset (4:3 or 16:9).
- Add option -W for pause time (equivalent to conf file).
- Remove only old tempdirs, no similar files (patch by Joo Martin).

0.5.3    (2009-01-03)
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- Reformatted notes in some infos.
- Set LOOP to 'inf' as default in config.
- Change font config for VMGM_PLAY and VMGM_CHAPTERS.
- Adjust color replacement to do it in the same way (hexcode).
- Define extra button font BFONT to seperate it from MFONT.
- Take the menu titles on main menu without automatic numbering.

0.5.2    (2008-12-12)
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- Check if IM version uses "-list font" instead of "-list type". Changed in IM 6.3.5-7
- Replace tcprobe with ffmpeg in mpgprobe
- Adjust color replacement to IM > 6.3.x
- Quotes around filename in ffmpeg-call (patch supplied on SF by Thomas Reitmayr)
- Work with newer ffmpeg output in mpgprobe (patch by Joo Martin)

0.5.1    (2007-04-12)
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* menu timeout and playback mode
  - added new option TIMEOUT to config file. titles are started automatically from vmgm menu, if no button is pressed for $TIMEOUT seconds
  - added new option PAUSE to config file to specify the amount of seconds to pause after a title has been played.
  - added new option LOOP to config file and new CLI switch -L|--loop to dvdwizard and mk_vmgm to control display of vmgm menu between titles

* user-spec menu sound
  - added options -MS and -ms to specify background soundfiles for menus either for the whole dvd (-MS) or for a specific titleset.
  - switched to ac3 menu sound for silent audio track
  - replaced twolame by ffmpeg to generate silent audio track

* Intro Movie (FPC)
  - Added option (-I|--intro) to play an intro movie when the dvd is inserted, 
    based on a patch provided by Ralph Glasstaetter

* configurable font faces&colors
  - make font faces and colors configurable via config file
    thx to Ralf Glasstaetter for a great portion of coding and hints

* user-spec and localized overlay-texts
  - added localized text elements for overlays to config file (TXT_OVERLAY...)
  - added separate font face and sizes for overlays (OFONT...)

* Configurable chapter button spacing
  - Added config options THUMBBORDER and THUMBSPACE to let the user choose the outline around buttons and the spacing between them
  - better calculation of thumbnail sizes for optimal usage of available space on the menu

* limit generated chapters to length of mpeg file
  - determine length of mpeg file with ffmpeg and create chapter timecodes only up to this length
  
* New translations of menu items
  - New portuguese translation for european portuguese contributed by Rui Santos (Language code PT)
  - Added portuguese translation for south american portuguese supplied by Danilo Marques (Language code BR)
  - Italian menu text items. Contributed by Roberto Neri

* Reduce flickering of menus on TV
  - Added a little motion blur to the menu backgrounds to avoid flickering on TV (contributed by Rick Harris)

* A bunch of bugfixes
  - Chapter screenshots recorded in correct aspect ratio
  - Fix broken Return function in Chapter Menu
  - Remove working directories only if owned by user
  - Fix handling of paths with embedded spaces
  - Fix call to mk_vtsm from dvdwizard to include -b option
  - Cut long titlestrings to fit into title container
  - Supply defaults for mandatory config variables if missing
  - Fixed typos in mk_vtsm_lang and dvdwizard
  - updated description on language assignment to audio tracks
  - fixed syntax errors when calculating length of NTSC frames
  - bypass check for exact millisecond timecode for NTSC
  - Fixed fractions with less than 3 digits
  - Avoid loop when only one chapter timecode is specified
  - place language buttons in mk_vtsm_lang about 10 px lower
  - ImageMagick issued error messages when adding prev/next buttons in chapter selection menu with explicitly specifying the output image type PNG
  - Prepended "png:" ot the output filename 

* Improved error handling
  - Replaced printing the whole usage message by "See $thisscript -h for more infos" in case of abnormal termination of a script
  - Ask users permission before clearing existing, non-empty directories
  - Added option -y|--yes to dvdwizard to allow all delete operations on target directories without any user interference
  - Check for empty directory- and filenames in mk_check_dir and mk_check_file
  - Added descriptive string to parms for mk_check_dir and mk_check_file

* Improved installation script
  - Making scripts executable before copying to BINDIR as "darcs dist" won't set the executable bits in the tarball
  - Some improved error checking in the install process
  - More verbose output during installation
  - Backup existing config, if user permits overwrite
  - Rewrote installation description in README
  - Renamed install script to install.sh

* Patches provided by Claus Regelmann
  - New command line option '--xmlkeep'
  - Don't recreate destination directory in case of a restart
  - Handle missing stream characteristics more gently (add warnings and continue instead of silently failing)
  - display usage notes if called without any command line options

0.5    (2006-08-31)
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- Complete new graphical layout of menu pages, make use of action-tags
- better support for ImageMagick > 6.0
- many, many bugfixes
- config file now mandatory
- Subtitle menu (rewrote mk_vtsm_audio into mk_vtsm_lang)
- Info panel (new scripts mk_vtsm_info and txt2png)
- check availability of needed programs/tools at runtime
- support for national languages in menus
- better performance by reusing common objects rather than creating them over and over again
- adjustable Nice-level for tools called from dvdwizard (see config-file)
- lots of more things, I forgot.

0.4.2c:
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- Patched dvdwizard, dvdwizardrc, mk_vmgm, mk_vtsm to work with 
  bash 3.1 in Debian-Sid
- Patch for correct audio language assignment contributed by Claus Regelmann

0.4.2b:
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- Patched mk_vmgm, mk_vtsm and mk_vtsm_audio to work with 
  mjpegtools > 1.6

0.4.2a:
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- Patched mk_vtsm to work again with some newer 
  Image-Magick versions (at least 6.1.6)

0.4.2:
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- Subtitle-Support (-s parm)
- Widescreen option (-WS | -ws)
- Specify Video Characteristics in dvdauthor-xml
- Support for dts and pcm audio formats
- New Option --audio-seq; lets languages be assigned
  in sequential mode regardless of audio formats
- Support for transcode v0.6.13
- Support for up to 8 audio tracks 
  (maximum dvdauthor can handle)
- simple installation script
- Some bugfixes

0.4.1
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- Thrown out jumppad, not neccessary anymore
- Some bugfixes

0.4.0
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- Almost completely rewritten
- Support for multiple titlesets
- Audio Selection Menus

0.0.1a
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- Initial version
