
OggConvert 0.2.1
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This is the third release of OggConvert, a simple Gnome utility to convert
media files into the patent-free Theora, Dirac and Vorbis formats.

Dirac encoding requires GStreamer 0.10.11 and the Schroedinger encoder. Be aware
that the encoder is still experimental, and that videos you encode today might
not be watchable in future as the decoder develops.

OggConvert is written in Python using PyGTK and PyGST. It is released under the 
GNU LGPL.

What's new in version 0.2.1
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* Minor release to make life easier for packagers

* Incorrect '#!' invocations removed from source files

* oggconvert.desktop now conforms to freedesktop.org standards

* A basic manpage is included as some package formats (Debian) require one.
  It is not installed by Python distutils, but is available if packagers want to
  use it. It's not actually very useful, as OggConvert doesn't have a 
  command-line interface yet.
  
  Thanks to Luca Falavigna for this.

* GObject threading initialised before gtk_init(), thus (hopefully) preventing 
  Fedora's build server from predicting the end of the world.

* We still have no icon. I'd encourage packagers to ship OggConvert without one,
  rather than borrowing an icon from another app, to (hopefully) encourage
  somebody with more artistic talent than me to help out.
  
* Oh, okay, one proper bugfix: #119586 (Convert dialog is not resizable)

What's new in version 0.2.0
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* Support for Dirac. Wooo!
 
* OggConvert now actually quits when you close it with the window manager
  (although nobody actually complained about that in the last version)
  
* OggConvert no longer crashes horribly with pitfdll (although it still can't
  use it for encoding)
  
* We now check whether the encoder has stalled, and warn the user. This helps 
  with the common case of the end-of-stream message not being fired correctly, 
  and the process being stuck on 99.5% or so.
  
* OggConvert can now handle GStreamer not being able to report the current 
  position or duration of the stream (this occasionally happens with files
  using the ffmpeg demuxers)

* A lovely new "about" dialogue!

* Many, many other small bugfixes



Known issues with this release:
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* The video quality setting doesn't do anything for Dirac encoding, due to the
  encoder not (yet) having this option available.

* With GStreamer 0.10.10 (the version used in Ubuntu Edgy), transcoding from
  certain containers (Matroka and ASF in particular) will result in very choppy
  audio. This is worked around in GStreamer 0.10.11 and above
  
* OggConvert uses the GStreamer decodebin, so it *should* be able to convert any
  file which is playable in Totem. However, there is currently a problem with
  files which use the pitfdll/W32codecs package, whereby the pipeline doesn't
  preroll.
  
* OggConvert should Just Work(tm) with the Fluendo codec packages. However, I 
  don't own a copy of these plugins, so I haven't tested it.
  
