News - 2008/09/24
The project is actually under heavy modifications:
- Rewriting from scratch in Python and adding improvements
- New name: RypDVD (means RipDVD in Python)
- Menus reorganisation (make them smaller and much more comprehensible)
- Add colors for better visual effects
- Add support for dumping the dvd to the hard drive
- Add the "explode" feature that encodes each chapter of the movie into a single file
- Add the ability to pause and resume the encoding
- More new fun things ;)
- Adding version revision control with Git
- Moving website under Subversion for easy update on Sourceforge
At most 70% of the whole job is done:
- Git up and working
- Website moved to Subversion
- Work done:
- Automatic installation an packaging
- Internationalization support
- Automatic mode
- Dumping with pv (Pipe Viewer) and "old" dd
- Dynamic coloring: green means encoding speeds up, red means it slows down
Still to be done:
- Command line options, "expert" mode
- "Explode" feature
- Pause/Resume feature
- Automatisation of makefile for translators
- Documentation (almost done)
Features that may be added in the future
- Mkv support
- Ogm support
Features that have been removed and why
- Split: file spliting using Mencoder was not really reliable (-ss option is not a precision tool) and I don't want to add more dependencies (transcode a/o avifile). Besides, RypDVD is a tool for ripping dvd movies, if you want to split the file, take a look at avidemux.
