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Project Status

The following table contains the current list of tasks and their status as of the latest alpha release. If you are willing to help, please post a message to the mailing list.

Multichannel to be revised
Task % Done Notes
MLP audio tracks (Aug 2018) 50%
Audio extraction to WAV, including from MLP-encoded discs. 95 % Under development.
Qt5 GUI Core features: 100%. Added ffplay for track playback and core menu and MLP features. Version to be developed with lplex support.
Development features 100%
  • 08.08-dev version and later: header-repair module, padding options.
  • New features: multichannel and multiformat, SoX support.
  • SoX support
    100%
    Upgraded to version 14.3.1 with cross-compiled libsox.a for Windows.
    Ogg FLAC support 100% with 08.08-dev version
    LibFLAC 1.2.1 support 100% Native Windows version fixed
    Hybrid DVD-Audio/Video discs 100% Audio-to-Video zone navigation
  • Bundling dvda-author with Lplex to make Hybrid DVDs (Hplex package/dvda-author 08.06): 100%
  • Added DVD-Audio and Hybrid DVD support to mkisofs.
  • Multiple Groups 100% Done - up to 9 groups are supported (the maximum allowed in the DVD-Audio standard)
    Audio title management: fused titles, anti-gap features. 75%
    Experimental and possibly of little use for most users.
    Mono/Stereo audio 80% 16-bit and 24-bit Mono/Stereo audio supported at all six DVD-Audio samplerates. Correct packing of 20-bit LPCM samples in AOB file not implemented yet.
    Multi-channel audio 100% Done (Lee and Tim Feldkamp, revised by Fabrice Nicol 2018). Multichannel MLP under development.
    FLAC support 100% Done. dvda-author accepts FLAC and WAV files as input
    Still Pictures 100% With transition effects and time control features.
    Video menus 75% Top menus : 95% Imported VOBS with sound OK.

    mkisofs

    The mkisofs application was adapted to correctly create a UDF disk image based on the sector pointers in the DVD-Audio IFO files.

    Usage

    mkisofs -o image.iso -dvd-audio DVD/

    The patch proposed by the dvd-audio project was accepted by the developer of the cdrtools package, Jorg Schilling. It is available out-of-the box.

    This patch against mkisofs also bundles the -dvd-audio and -dvd-video options into a -dvd-hybrid switch.

    DVD-Audio player

    The VLC player plays back both standard PCM and MLP encoded DVD-audio discs.