Now Bombono DVD can fully utilize multi-core CPUs: it spawns transcoding jobs in parallel and/or use -threads the option of ffmpeg rationally. Depending on your CPU it can greatly reduce time to make DVD video.

Changelog:

• Multi-core CPU support for transcoding videos
• Time calculation left to take authoring
• Translations: Chinese simplified (Wylmer Wang), Danish, German (Roland Illig), Finnish, Italian, Ukrainian
• No File Browser, see #60
• More menu items:
  • Arrows and other icons can be used in menus, not only frames; if you want to use your own pictures then just add them to ~/AppData/Roaming/bombono-dvd/icons (Win7) or ~/.config/bombono-dvd/icons (Linux)
  • New frames, from Dietrich Martin
  • Many default icons: checks, arrows, rounds etc (thanks to abstrusus)
• Web browser integration for getting menu backgrounds
• Better 16:9 DVD support:
  • Generation of two subpicture streams for 16:9 menus: letterbox and widescreen, see #56
  • More than 12 buttons for 16:9
• Splash screen (an app can’t live without it, seriously)
• Bitrate Calculator:
  • Apply changes for multiple videos at once, see #58
  • Custom ffmpeg options entry
• Copy&Paste&Cut for menu items; Copy Menu function, see #50
• Error Report before authoring, if needed: buttons overlap, DVD capacity exceeded, etc
• Menu Editor:
  • Preserve aspect ratio when resizing buttons, see #45 (with Shift)
  • Highlight border only, see #27
  • Snap to grid, see #44
  • 3 styles to span background of menu: Fill, Fit and Stretch
• Rename items in Menu|Media Browser via function “Rename” & no conflict with DnD
• The ticket #32 fix: Cannot jump to chapter N of title M, only N-1 exist

Changelog for Windows:

• Add Videos from DVD is on
• Look & Feel:
  • Modern UI themes based on Murrine engine added: Ambiance, Dust, Dust Sand, Radiance, see Screenshots; you can turn them on in Preferences
  • Humanity icon theme applied
  • Native Windows folder selection dialog is used now instead of Gtk’ one
• SVG support
• WMP (Windows Media Player) support for playing results
• Bug fixes:
  • fix for checking blank DVD+R media before burning
  • fix for dialogs keep blank, see discussion
  • fix for disc labels having spaces
• version 1.2 got a price tag, see Buy Now; versions 1.0.x remain free of cost though and are rebranded as Bombono DVD Free

Other tech fixes and remarks:

• Closed tickets: #36, #43
• Fix for main menu (Project-Go-Help) in Ubuntu 11.04: do not cover it with main tabs
• SCons is now optional for authoring
• Various fixes for ffmpeg/libav libraries >= 0.7, including crashes like that (Linux)
• MIME data added from Carlos Sánchez (Linux)
• gvfs is needed for web browser integration (Linux)
• Button to reset subtitles selection, for videos
• playing filename with blank in its name
• Fix for nasty Gtk filechooser bug
• mkisofs => genisoimage (Linux)
• (For experts) when building with USE_EXT_BOOST=1 and gcc >= 4.6: Boost version should be >= 1.47 because of #5279; or build without USE_EXT_BOOST=1, you have been warned