[Thoggen-users] Thoggen 0.1 alpha released

[Tim <t....@ze...>]

Hi,

Thoggen 0.1 alpha has just been released. Get it from:

 http://thoggen.net/download/

In addition to the source tarball there is also a .deb package for debian sid 
available.


What is Thoggen?
===========

Thoggen is a DVD backup utility ('DVD ripper') for Linux, based on Gtk+ and 
GStreamer. It creates ogg/theora video files and features an extremely easy 
and intuitively to use interface. Thoggen supports picture cropping and 
resizing.

Requirements:
=========

 * Gtk+ 2.4.0 or newer
 * GStreamer 0.8.5 or newer (if you get audio-video sync issues, 
   try gst-plugins from CVS please)
 * GStreamer plugins required (debian package names in brackets):
    - a52dec            (gstreamer0.8-a52dec)
    - mpeg2dec          (gstreamer0.8-mpeg2dec)
    - dvddemux          (gstreamer0.8-misc)
    - videoscale        (gstreamer0.8-misc)
    - theoraenc         (gstreamer0.8-theora)
    - rawvorbisenc      (gstreamer0.8-vorbis)
    - oggmux            (gstreamer0.8-misc)
    - audioconvert      (gstreamer0.8-misc)
    - audioscale        (gstreamer0.8-misc)
    - ffmpegcolorspace  (gstreamer0.8-misc)
 * libdvdread3
 * dbus, dbus-glib
 * hal and libhal
 * Linux 2.6.x kernel (as HAL doesn't work on 2.4.x; not sure 
    about *BSD and other OS)


Known Issues:
=============

 * Thoggen is SLOW
   This is known and mostly due to the suboptimal way scaling 
   is done. There is a lot of room for optimisation here for
   now the motto is 'make it work first, optimise later' though.

 * DVD drive detection problems.
   If you are running kernel 2.6.x and HAL and have all required
   modules loaded, but thoggen does not detect your dvd drive, then
   please check the output of 'lshal | grep -i dvd'. If this does
   print something, please send me the output of 'lshal'. Support
   for DVD drive detection for older kernels and other OSes might
   be added in the future; it's not a priority though at the moment.

 * The created movie has A-V sync problems
   In this case you probably need the GStreamer a52dec plugin from
   CVS (part of gst-plugins). I am not 100% sure whether A-V sync
   works with the current released gst-plugins version. Double-check
   with multiple movie players if possible, just in case your 
   favourite movie player is buggy ;)


Enjoy!

Cheers
 -Tim