0.5.1
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* menu timeout and playback mode
  - added new option TIMEOUT to config file. titles are started automatically from vmgm menu, if no button is pressed for $TIMEOUT seconds
  - added new option PAUSE to config file to specify the amount of seconds to pause after a title has been played.
  - added new option LOPOP to config file and new CLI switch -L|--loop to dvdwizard and mk_vmgm to control display of vmgm menu between titles

* user-spec menu sound
  - added options -MS and -ms to specify background soundfiles for menus either for the whole dvd (-MS) or for a specific titleset.
  - switched to ac3 menu sound for silent audio track
  - replaced twolame by ffmpeg to generate silent audio track

* Intro Movie (FPC)
  - Added option (-I|--intro) to play an intro movie when the dvd is inserted, 
    based on a patch provided by Ralph Glasstaetter

* configurable font faces&colors
  - make font faces and colors configurable via config file
    thx to Ralf Glasstaetter for a great portion of coding and hints

* user-spec and localized overlay-texts
  - added localized text elements for overlays to config file (TXT_OVERLAY...)
  - added separate font face and sizes for overlays (OFONT...)

* Configurable chapter button spacing
  - Added config options THUMBBORDER and THUMBSPACE to let the user choose the outline around buttons and the spacing between them
  - better calculation of thumbnail sizes for optimal usage of available space on the menu

* limit generated chapters to length of mpeg file
  - determine length of mpeg file with ffmpeg and create chapter timecodes only up to this length
  
* New translations of menu items
  - New portuguese translation for european portuguese contributed by Rui Santos (Language code PT)
  - Added portuguese translation for south american portuguese supplied by Danilo Marques (Language code BR)
  - Italian menu text items. Contributed by Roberto Neri

* Reduce flickering of menus on TV
  - Added a little motion blur to the menu backgrounds to avoid flickering on TV (contributed by Rick Harris)

* A bunch of bugfixes
  - Chapter screenshots recorded in correct aspect ratio
  - Fix broken Return function in Chapter Menu
  - Remove working directories only if owned by user
  - Fix handling of paths with embedded spaces
  - Fix call to mk_vtsm from dvdwizard to include -b option
  - Cut long titlestrings to fit into title container
  - Supply defaults for mandatory config variables if missing
  - Fixed typos in mk_vtsm_lang and dvdwizard
  - updated description on language assignment to audio tracks
  - fixed syntax errors when calculating length of NTSC frames
  - bypass check for exact millisecond timecode for NTSC
  - Fixed fractions with less than 3 digits
  - Avoid loop when only one chapter timecode is specified
  - place language buttons in mk_vtsm_lang about 10 px lower
  - ImageMagick issued error messages when adding prev/next buttons in chapter selection menu with explicitly specifying the output image type PNG
  - Prepended "png:" ot the output filename 

* Improved error handling
  - Replaced printing the whole usage message by "See $thisscript -h for more infos" in case of abnormal termination of a script
  - Ask users permission before clearing existing, non-empty directories
  - Added option -y|--yes to dvdwizard to allow all delete operations on target directories without any user interference
  - Check for empty directory- and filenames in mk_check_dir and mk_check_file
  - Added descriptive string to parms for mk_check_dir and mk_check_file

* Improved installation script
  - Making scripts executable before copying to BINDIR as "darcs dist" won't set the executable bits in the tarball
  - Some improved error checking in the install process
  - More verbose output during installation
  - Backup existing config, if user permits overwrite
  - Rewrote installation description in README
  - Renamed install script to install.sh

* Patches provided by Claus Regelmann
  - New command line option '--xmlkeep'
  - Don't recreate destination directory in case of a restart
  - Handle missing stream characteristics more gently (add warnings and continue instead of silently failing)
  - display usage notes if called without any command line options

0.5
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- Complete new graphical layout of menu pages, make use of action-tags
- better support for ImageMagick > 6.0
- many, many bugfixes
- config file now mandatory
- Subtitle menu (rewrote mk_vtsm_audio into mk_vtsm_lang)
- Info panel (new scripts mk_vtsm_info and txt2png)
- check availability of needed programs/tools at runtime
- support for national languages in menus
- better performance by reusing common objects rather than creating them over and over again
- adjustable Nice-level for tools called from dvdwizard (see config-file)
- lots of more things, I forgot.

0.4.2c:
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- Patched dvdwizard, dvdwizardrc, mk_vmgm, mk_vtsm to work with 
  bash 3.1 in Debian-Sid
- Patch for correct audio language assignment contributed by Claus Regelmann

0.4.2b:
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- Patched mk_vmgm, mk_vtsm and mk_vtsm_audio to work with 
  mjpegtools > 1.6

0.4.2a:
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- Patched mk_vtsm to work again with some newer 
  Image-Magick versions (at least 6.1.6)

0.4.2:
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- Subtitle-Support (-s parm)
- Widescreen option (-WS | -ws)
- Specify Video Characteristics in dvdauthor-xml
- Support for dts and pcm audio formats
- New Option --audio-seq; lets languages be assigned
  in sequential mode regardless of audio formats
- Support for transcode v0.6.13
- Support for up to 8 audio tracks 
  (maximum dvdauthor can handle)
- simple installation script
- Some bugfixes

0.4.1
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- Thrown out jumppad, not neccessary anymore
- Some bugfixes

0.4.0
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- Almost completely rewritten
- Support for multiple titlesets
- Audio Selection Menus

0.0.1a
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- Initial version
