DeVeDe, DVD Authoring, Video to DVD/VCD/SVCD/CVD/Divx Software

DeVeDe is a program to create video DVDs and CDs (VCD, SVCD or CVD), suitable for DVD players, from any number of video files. Many different video formats are supported (mpeg, mpeg4, avi, asf, youtube and google flash videos, wmv, ogg, etc...). DeVeDe is an open source program and is free for all use. DeVeDe for Microsoft Windows is a version of DeVeDe that has been developed for Windows and will work on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Any questions, suggestions, or problems can be posted on the forum. The main DeVeDe site is located at http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html. ImgBurn is used to create ISO files and burn DVDs. If there are any problems with DeVeDe you can always give http://www.dvdflick.net/ a try.

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Last year (2009) DeVeDe was downloaded over 50 000 times.

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DeVeDe 3.16.9 Build 4 for Windows uploaded August 19, 2010.
devede-setup-3.16.9-build4.msi - Torrent/Free

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DeVeDe 3.16.6 for Windows uploaded April 13, 2010.

devede-setup-3.16.6-build3.msi - Torrent/Free
devede-setup-3.16.6-build1.msi (40 MB) - Direct/$$

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DeVeDe 3.12.4 for Windows uploaded September 26, 2009.
devede3.12.4-setup.msi (36 MB) -ChangeLog - Download for free (direct, averages over 100 downloads a day) - Install imgburn and it will use this instead for creating the iso which should fix some problems people are having (including me).

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Fri, 08/20/2010 - 04:04 — Jem

Thanks Peter!

Peter,

After all your hard work on fixing the outstanding issues, I thought I'd just come back and say Thanks! DeVeDe may be flaky at times running on Windows, but in my (fairly extensive) experience it IS the best program of it's type on Windows - and it's free! So 'Cheers'!!....

One of the reasons it's better than the others for PAL 'watchers' is that it does a significantly better job converting a 23 FPS avi (for example) to a 25 FPS DVD - I get no stuttering after the conversion as I do, say, with DVDFlick. It's also better, IMO, than ConvertXtoDVD, which is an expensive bit of software and does the same job, although not as well!!

Warts and all - I always end up coming back to DeVeDe - so don't give up on it Peter will you!! BTW, any news on the 'clone'?

Thanks,
Jeremy

Fri, 08/20/2010 - 08:28 — peter

Thanks, glad it is working.

Thanks, glad it is working. There are still a few more issues that I will be working on but it should be in much better shape now.

According to my logs (http://majorsilence.com/commitlog?repo=1) the last changes I made to the clone was May 29. I have been busy with other things for a while.

At the moment it is more or less a rough working demo that is not in full working order yet. You can open it add titles and files but it will not convert. I need to do some work on the titles and the files data structures. I need to fix some bugs with the mencoder commands that are produced. This is the main majority of the work and really requires a few solid days. So I am going to say by December (2010) I might have beta, but of course it may be much sooner or later. The good part of the clone is that it will work good on Linux and Windows.

It still needs code to convert from mpeg 2 dvd structure and create iso but this is very tiny fraction and will not take long (maybe a few hours to test).

Once this is done and tested I will run it through google translator to get a rough first translation of the program into the following languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Haitian, Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish.

Users will of course need to send in fixes as google translator is sure to mess with parts.

Fri, 08/20/2010 - 08:40 — Jem

Thanks for the update Peter -

Thanks for the update Peter - look forward to that. Can you answer my (probably naive) question on 'Force Subtitles'. Not entirely sure what effect that option has and when / if to use it.

Tue, 08/24/2010 - 12:37 — peter

I am not sure what the 'Force

I am not sure what the 'Force Subtitles' option is doing. I would have to look through the source code.

Tue, 08/24/2010 - 12:55 — Jem

I'd be grateful if you get

I'd be grateful if you get time. There seems to be nothing in the Help pages...

Mon, 08/16/2010 - 07:42 — Jem

3.16.9 Build2 on W7/32 Bit

Sat, 07/24/2010 - 10:08 — Anonymous

No seeds on torrent

I have been using DeVeDe for Linux for years with great results. I just decided to install the windows version for testing for my Linux challenged friends.

I noticed the newest version "devede-setup-3.16.8-build2.msi" has no seeds. Therefore I am now uploading it on my 100/100Mb/s server to seed it for you. This box has unlimited B/W and I will try to keep it seeded until you release a newer version. If you would like me to host your other projects for you, just let me know.

Thanks for your hard work!
John.

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 15:29 — peter

Each new torrent I upload has

Each new torrent I upload has a permanent web seed with a 100mb/s connection. If it is not showing up it is probably just temporarily down and if you check again later it should be back up.

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 07:55 — carolinason

DevedeLauncher.exe

i've installed the windows version, DeVeDe 3.16.8 Build 2 and the shortcut it creates in the start menu points me to a file called DevedeLauncher.exe. running this executable gives me an application error that the application failed to initialize and a hex number. i'm usually running linux, so this is new to me, so pardon me if this is a windows error and not a devede error. searching for help didn't produce much other than maybe a permission/acl issue, but the account is an admistrator and my machine for that matter. the file devede.exe works fine. i could simply change the path in the shortcut, but didn't know if i was missing something with the file, DevedeLauncher.exe. -thanks

Thu, 07/08/2010 - 08:23 — peter

You can change the shortcut

You can change the shortcut to the devede.exe. DevedeLauncher.exe requires that .net 2.0 is installed and the only reason it is used is so a proper icon for devede is displayed on windows Vista/7.

A second problem you may run into is that devede will run and you can see it in the task manager but it never displays to the screen. This seems to be an intermittent problem and is probably caused by the code checking to see if the backend programs are available.

Overall devede on windows is not a stable as it is on Linux but it works for me.

Mon, 07/12/2010 - 21:54 — Anonymous

thank you!

Sat, 03/27/2010 - 03:44 — Anonymous

AUDIO_TS and VIDEO _TS

In which version this audio and video _ts dvd create plz help me

Fri, 02/19/2010 - 07:36 — Jem

3.16.0 / W7

Sure you know this already - 3.16.0 fails (hangs) at the 'DVD Tree Structure' stage under W7 (32 Bit). I have ImgBurn installed.

Nice to see though that you're trying to add the 'No Menu' option back.

3.15.2 is fine.

Sat, 04/10/2010 - 22:20 — Anonymous

Same problem here

Same problem here, running Windows XP Professional 32 Bit, So it's not just a Windows 7 problem apparently. Very disappointing as I was wanting this DVD made and my hardware means it takes hours. I knew I should have went with the Ubuntu boot Devede.... damn windows apps are so unreliable.

Mon, 04/12/2010 - 19:40 — peter

If it stalls at the end of

If it stalls at the end of the conversion process before starting the convert to dvd layout part you probably do not have to start over from the beginning. The files are converted to dvd compliant mpegs. Copy the mpegs out of the destination folder.

Open devede -> Video DVD -> Add the mpegs you copy out of the destination folder -> On each video click Properties -> Click Advanced -> Click Misc -> Click This file is already a DVD/xCD-suitable MPEG-PS file.

I am in agreement that ported linux gtk apps are not the most reliable on windows. You can always try covertXtoDVD (http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/). I hear good things about it. Or you could try http://www.dvdflick.net/ if you still want something free.

Or you could fix the problem (http://majorsilence.com/windows_devede_development_instructions) or pay to have it fixed (http://majorsilence.com/devede_customization).

Take a look at devede_executor.py in the source. See the functions "refresh", "read_line_from_output", and the class "MyPopen". The problems lie there. Especially in the steaming pile of crap that is MyPopen.

As a final note I would also like to say that as long as I am not having a problem with devede on Windows (which I am not) I currently have no motivation to fix any problems for most other people.

Fri, 02/19/2010 - 08:45 — peter

Thanks for letting me know.

Thanks for letting me know. I was unaware of that problem on Windows 7. I will see what I can do but I do not have Windows 7 so I cannot promise anything.

Sat, 02/20/2010 - 21:20 — Jem

3.16.0 works after all...

...without ImgBurn!

Bizarre. I tried again with a clean install of 3.16.0 with the following results:

a) The ISO creation was successful.
b) ImgBurn did NOT kick in. DeVeDe created the ISO itself.
c) Even though I had pointed DeVeDe at an existing folder that I'd created under my 'user name' folder in W7, it still created the ISO in it's own folder (using the name I'd chosen for the ISO) one level up. I used the DeVeDe file dialogue to create a new folder instead called 'DVD's' and that worked fine next time around.

So, bottom line, DeVeDe is working fine (at the moment) under W7. No ImgBurn (and it won't seem to use it anyway), and it seems that DeVeDe does not like using a destination folder that was created outside it's own interface.

Sat, 02/13/2010 - 15:46 — Anonymous

How change language?

Thanks for the new version!
Just installed DeVeDe 3.16.0 and I noticed that the graphical interface is in english. How change it for my Winxp language (brazilian portuguese)? This was set automatically in DeVeDe 3.12.4 ...

Mon, 02/15/2010 - 16:54 — peter

It is a regression in the

It is a regression in the underlying technology that devede is built on (pygtk, gtk) on windows. The new way for doing user interfaces will not load the translations on windows. I can force it but then it is only partial translations. I will make sure this is done for build 2 of 3.16.0. Its not perfect but at least some of it will be translated.

Another weird problem with forcing it is that it causes any non ascii characters to break the translation.

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 18:29 — Jem

Fails with two titles

I have 3.15.2 running on W7 32 Bit. If I add two avi titles, adjust disc usage to 99% and use default options otherwise, the conversion fails - no errors, it just stops - no CPU / RAM usage. If I try to cancel, DeVeDe hangs and I need to use Task Manager to kill it. It stops in different places during the conversion (I've tried a few times) which makes it harder to diagnose. Hopefully you can suggest something... (I have ImgBurn installed, but it's failing well before ISO creation)

Sat, 04/17/2010 - 05:57 — Anonymous

Disk usage calculation is flawed

Estimating how much space a show requires is very difficult. The underlying memcoder is very conservative. Don't sacrifice quality just because it says > 100%. IME with TV shows you can get 4 'hour' long episodes on a DVD but as most series are 13 parters you only need to do that for episodes 1-4.
With HD you will safely get 2 episodes on a DVD (approx 3.1Gb). Don't bother trying to squeeze on a 3rd as you will probably find it needs 3.7Gb and 1bit :-(

Thu, 02/11/2010 - 20:46 — peter

Fixed

I believe I have fixed the problem and have uploaded 3.15.2 build 8 as the final build for 3.15.2.

Sun, 02/14/2010 - 14:50 — Jem

Fixed indeed...

Working fine... Thanks

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 18:49 — peter

I am having the same problems

I am having the same problems with 3.15.2. I am not having the problems with 3.12.4. My suggesting is to stick with 3.12.4 if it was working for you.

I know what is causing the issue but when I fix it the conversion is 4 or 5 times slower. Once this issue is solved I will move 3.15.2 out of testing.

Wed, 12/09/2009 - 11:10 — Jem

That was removed to comply

That was removed to comply with dvd standards. What you can do is set the title to play automatically.

Click the "Menu options" button then take a look at this screen shot. See the "Disc startup options" section. Select "Jump to the first title at startup" and it will play automatically.
http://files.majorsilence.com/devede/docs/menu_opts.jpg

For more information on this see http://www.majorsilence.com/node/66.

Tue, 12/01/2009 - 05:21 — Anonymous

Any news on a Version 3.14.0 release for Windows

I often use Devede to reauthor dvds by extracting the original audio and video stream to a single vob file. In version 3.14.0 a new option was added to Devede that helps to simplify the re-authoring process. Instead of having to re-encode the audio/video I can simply check the box labeled "Repack audio and video without reencoding." Unfortunately that option is only available in Devede for Linux. It would be great to have that option available in Windows as well.

Sat, 01/23/2010 - 18:08 — peter

I have DeVeDe 3.15.2 working

I have DeVeDe 3.15.2 working now. There are a couple issues that I have found that I am working on but I suspect that I will upload zipped folder of the build shortly. If there are no problems sometime this week I will upload new installers for version 3.15.2.

Tue, 12/01/2009 - 13:13 — peter

This is an unfortunate

This is an unfortunate situation that will be fixed as soon as PyGTK works decently on windows.

Basically the problem is that devede depends on PyGTK and the latest release is 2.12.2 on Windows but parts of devede require pygtk 2.14 for it to function correctly.

Fri, 12/11/2009 - 10:58 — Anonymous

Interim solution?

Dieter Verfaillie posted that he has test snapshots of more recent win32 versions available (at http://www.optionexplicit.be/projects/gnome-windows/20091106/ ). If you haven't already, you might want to try using these (perhaps labeling devede build against this as untested, pre-beta code?) until something official is release.

Fri, 12/11/2009 - 19:10 — peter

I have just tried pygtk from

I have just tried pygtk from both http://www.optionexplicit.be/projects/gnome-windows/20091106/ and http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/2009/09/pygtk-2160-python-25-win32-un... and was not able to get either of them to work. So it looks like I will once again be waiting for an official pygtk build.

Fri, 12/11/2009 - 11:08 — peter

I have seen those builds but

I have seen those builds but have not tried anything with them. I have been waiting for an official build of pygtk but that seems unlikely to happen any time soon. So tonight I may look into some of the unofficial builds people have been working on and see how well devede works with them. If it works I will be posting a devede 3.15.2 build.

Sun, 01/10/2010 - 22:18 — Anonymous

pygtk 2.14

Not sure if this will help but I stumbled upon this blog post a while back regarding pygtk support on windows.

http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2009/07/pygtk-on-windows-land.html

http://github.com/nzjrs/pygtk/tree/

Sun, 11/01/2009 - 08:22 — chiery

Devede has a simple intuitive

Devede has a simple intuitive interface, it does everything I need, menus, multiple titles, merge titles into one, multiple output formats, subtitle support and more. It may not be as configurable as some of it's windows rivals, but for linux Devede produces excellent results. .. Great application :)

Chiery, Download Games website

Wed, 10/28/2009 - 08:02 — Anonymous

Great program

I use Win Xp Sp3 32 bit and it works(All the time, No Crashes) with mkv files better than ConvertXToDvD and better quality too. Thank for the Program and all the work you put into it. Keep up the good work.

Fri, 10/16/2009 - 01:57 — Anonymous

Non english letters in video file path

Tnx for great program.
Bug:
If there is non English letters in video file path, DeVeDe would not recognize file as valid video file.
Serj

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 09:55 — Anonymous

DEVEDE Windows menù

i have created menù but when i click on it don't start film! i have 5 files (4 film + 1 menù) ok; the 4 films files work very well if i lunch they each one at time! but nothing starts when i click they on the menù!

Tue, 09/22/2009 - 04:30 — Anonymous

Error in DeVeDe 3.12.4 for Windows?

Old version uninstalled and fresh installation of DeVeDe 3.12.4 for Windows. I can't run the program: nothing happens and I have the following messages in:

devede-err.log :
C:\Programmi\MajorSilence\DeVeDe\devede.exe:164: PangoWarning: Impossibile trovare il modulo specificato.
C:\Programmi\MajorSilence\DeVeDe\devede.exe:164: PangoWarning: Failed to load Pango module '/target/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-win32.dll' for id 'BasicScriptEngineWin32'

devede-stdout.log:
DeVeDe 3.12.4
Using direct files
Failed to load modules DEVEDE_OTHER. Exiting

Thanks in advance.

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 13:10 — Jem

So where is 3.12.4?

Download has vanished! :(

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 13:20 — peter

Broken

I have tested it on a few computers besides my development computers and it has problems. I won't be sure what it is until I check tonight, but I think it has to do with imgburn support or more likely that something got left out of the installer. I will probably be uploading 3.12.5 to replace it tonight.

Sat, 09/26/2009 - 15:24 — Jem

Any news on 3.12.5? Thanks.

Sat, 09/26/2009 - 19:36 — peter

I am uploading a new version

I am uploading a new version of 3.12.4. You should be able to download it in a few minutes.

Sun, 09/27/2009 - 04:51 — Jem

Got it. Thanks!

Fri, 09/25/2009 - 13:55 — Jem

Ok, cool. It was working here

Ok, cool. It was working here with no problems, other than the preview images in Video Scaling were missing (minor niggle)...

Mon, 08/17/2009 - 19:16 — Anonymous

Thanks for the update

Thanks for the update MajorSilence, much appreciated.

Ehtyar.

Sat, 08/22/2009 - 12:10 — Anonymous

error in new update (mencoder?)

3.12.3

when making dvd with menu and multiple avis........

sometimes will not load the next avi.......just hangs

sometimes will encode all avis.......without hanging

using 3.12.2 now with no problems.....

peace

Sun, 08/02/2009 - 11:08 — Anonymous

DeVeDe is GD

YES
This is an extremely good programe to convert avi. to dvd. So heres my problem i need a free softwaare that will burn my VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS files to dvd. Any solutions!?!

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 02:53 — Anonymous

burn , yes!!

--> ImgBurn. Free, eficiente and light.

use

--> write files/folders to disco.
In 4x velocity or -.

From Brazil.

Fri, 08/21/2009 - 02:36 — Anonymous

Download ImgBurn from

Download ImgBurn from www.imgburn.com
Install then run program. Select folders to burn (your VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders) then burn disc. Hope this helps.

Mon, 08/24/2009 - 08:08 — Anonymous

Burn the outputed Files

I need a free command line tool to burn the output files to CD/DVD.

Thanks in Advance,
Tarun

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