DVDisaster v0.72.6 stable

Most important changes in this version:

• Support for Blu-Ray media
• "Raw" reading and C2 scans for CD media
• Selectable number of reading attempts
• First native Mac OS X application bundle
• NetBSD-Port by Sergey Svishchev
• Improved media type recognition
• Info window describing inserted medium
• Improved and enhanced preferences dialog
• Reworked and enhanced documentation
• Russian translations by Igor Gorbounov
• ... and many more small changes and fixes.

Patches (small changes after version 0.72; files above have been updated):

0.72 pl6 Minor fix in the source code to make sure that the size of future optical media is treated correctly. For currently available media sizes the update is not required. (28-May-2014)

0.72 pl5 Fixes a problem which may result in CD/DVD/BD drives being not detected if more than 10 devices are connected to a GNU/Linux or FreeBSD system. Thanks to Bill Eisele for reporting this. (11-Oct-2013)

0.72 pl4 Updated for new versions and programming libraries of GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD. (07-Apr-2012)

0.72 pl3 Fixed a problem with the "Verify" function when working with RS01 error correction files larger than 2GB. Thanks to Volodymyr Bychkoviak for reporting the problem and sending a fix. (05-Okt-2011)

0.72 pl2 This version introduces a workaround which prevents parallel SCSI adapters from freezing under Linux. Upward compatibility with versions 0.79.x has been improved.
The Windows and Mac OS X versions are now built with the development environment of dvdisaster 0.79.x and are therefore shipped with newer versions of the GTK+ graphical toolkit libraries. This update requires some changes in internal scripts resulting in a different checksum of the source package (the package published on Oct 31th had the md5 checksum 86110e212aa1bf336a52ba89d3daa93d and is still valid for Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD).(07-11-2010)

0.72 pl1 Pablo Almeida provided Portuguese translations of the screen texts. Added workaround to avoid Win XP freezing on certain CD-RW/drive pairs.(08-Aug-2009)

Update: The workaround has been found to be ineffective in some cases. A better workaround is included in version 0.79.x; unfortunately it can not be easily backported into the stable version. (06-Feb-2010)

0.72 This is the first stable version of the 0.72 branch. Igor Gorbounov has completed the russian online documentation. Some minor bugs from the first release candidate have been removed.

Newer Windows versions may not display the proper screen language under certain language settings. This problem is rather complex and will be addressed in the upcoming 0.73.x releases. (04-Jul-2009)

0.72-rc1 First release candidate. (11-Apr-2009)

DVDisaster v0.79.3 experimental

Alpha (developer) versions

Help us testing! This page contains experimental dvdisaster versions which are created on the way to the next stable release.
A word of caution: This version is still evolving and some parts are not yet implemented. It may contain severe bugs and fail in non-obvious ways, even in functions which worked in previous versions. Do not process important data with this version and do not keep images and error correction data for archival purposes; that's what the stable version 0.72 is for.

All platforms: These releases contain major internal changes compared to 0.72.x. Please use them carefully.

CHANGES

0.79.3 (21-Nov-2010)

• GNU/Linux: Starting with this version the SG_IO driver is used by default for accessing optical drives; the previously used CDROM_SEND_PACKET driver can be selected optionally. Driver defaults were the other way around in previous versions; but in recent Linux kernels the SG_IO driver provides better compatibility.
• Michael Klein provided Altivec optimization for the RS03 codec.

0.79.2 (28-Feb-2010)

• A binary package for Mac OS X is available now. The Mac OS X development environment has been updated; this removed some glitches in the graphical user interface.
• Development of the RS03 codec makes progress, but is far from being finished yet.

0.79.1 (07-Feb-2010)

• The SCSI layer contains a workaround for buggy chipsets found in recent drives. Starting a read or scan operation would case a system freeze with such drives. The problem seems to be especially visible under Windows XP, but other OS might expose similar failures. Please test if these drives are working now, and also report if some drives stopped working which were okay previously.
• A reference implementation of the RS03 codec is included. This version is only supplied so that interested people can compare it against its specification. Take care and do not use it for productive work. The final version will be released with version 0.80.

Windows: All components of the development environment and the supplied libraries have been updated. Please test whether the graphical user interface and localization still work as expected.

Planned changes in future versions in this branch

• Implement some small additions which have been put on hold during the 0.72 development cycle. [not yet started]
• Remove obsolete functionality. [completed]
• Clean up source code and prepare for multithreading and multi core processors. [in progress]
• Implement the multithreaded RS03 codec. [in progress]
• Document RS03 usage. [not yet started]