• Cleaner layout with more reasonable behavior when the window is resized.
• Added a preferences/configuration dialog which makes manual editing of the configfile obsolete.
• It is now possible to add a manually prepared MPEG2 file as title menu to the the DVD. Manual preparation is not very user-friendly, I know. But on the other hand, it gives maximum flexibility - and it's fun! I gave it a try to describe how such a menu can be created, the result can be found here and in JTVD's help.
• Grabbed videos can now be trimmed while encoding them, or in other words, parts at the beginning and/or the end of the video can be discarded. Useful to get rid of advertisements and so on. Of course this also allows to cut a video into pieces.
• MEncoder is not forcibly terminated anymore when pressing "Stop" while grabbing, but is instead shutdown gently by sending SIGINT to the process. It is very important that MEncoder is not just gunned down, because if it is, it has no chance to write the AVI index and fixup the AVI header. Without the index, seeking in the video is not possible.
• Added the option "OpenDML AVI" to the grabbing panel. OpenDML AVI's allow files > 1GB. I think this option is available since MEncoder 1.0pre5.
• It is now possible to rename files - just like in a real application :-)
• Added some warnings about possible issues (can be disabled) and fixed some bugs...

• The available inputs and TV norms are now queried from the video device using the v4l/v4l2 API, so it is not necessary anymore to configure that manually in the configfile.
• JTVD now tries to import TV stations from xawtv's config files $HOME/.xawtv or /etc/X11/xawtvrc. Additional stations can be put in .jtvd.properties.
  
• JTVD now has its own internal frequency tables for many regions in the world. They were all taken from MEncoder.
• Many small improvements, like showing the play length of the videos in the format "HH:mm:ss" instead of just in seconds, and hopefully no (new) bugs...

• Bugfix: If an audio device was specified in the configfile, the video device was used instead for grabbing
  Thanks to Geoff Horn (also for some good suggestions)

• Many improvements and fixes
• Works now again with Java 1.4.x (have accidentally used some 1.5.x features)
• Added a help dialog and a manual - also available here

• Play length of titles is now available
• Feature to insert chapters based on play length
• Some small improvements/fixes

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