Announcing DVDAuthor 0.7.1

It’s getting on to two years since the major 0.7.0 release of
DVDAuthor. The number-one trouble report from users in that time has
been with how to specify the video format (NTSC or PAL).

To recap, prior to 0.7.0, the main dvdauthor tool defaulted to NTSC
unless you specified the format was PAL, while spumux (the subtitle
generator) had defaults more appropriate to PAL. I unified this in
0.7.0 by allowing you to specify the default format for all tools in
the suite in the following ways (in order of increasing precedence):
  * at build time (--enable-default-video-format=ntsc|pal)
  * in a systemwide config file (/etc/video_format)
  * in a per-user config file (~/.config/video_format)
  * in an environment variable (VIDEO_FORMAT)
  * in the XML control file.

And to avoid taking sides, if you didn’t specify a format at any of
those first four places, then there was no default, and you had to
explicitly say what the format was in the XML control file.

Unfortunately, there was a limitation in the valid XML syntax in 0.7.0,
in that it could not actually specify the format for every possible
place, and so if there was no default you got the dreaded “ERR:  no
video format specified for VMGM/VTSM” message.

This oversight is fixed in 0.7.1. Right at the start of the XML file,
you can now say “<dvdauthor format="ntsc|pal">” and set the format for
the entire disc, with no need to keep repeating the format spec further
down.

As usual, links to downloads, GitHub repo etc are at
<http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/>.

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