brasero-0.6.90 released

[Philippe Rouquier <rouquier p wanadoo fr>]

Hi everyone,

brasero-0.6.90 was released today and can be grabbed at http://download.gnome.org/sources/brasero/0.6/. This is an unstable release; the last one before 0.7.0 that we intend to release around Christmas. 
It means that brasero is now string frozen for 0.7.0. 

This release features lots of new things (and bugfixes) and particularly a new plugin based backend and a more HIG compliant UI.

Please, we'd like people to test this release to make it more stable for 0.7.0.

Philippe Rouquier


Brasero (aka Bonfire) is a CD/DVD mastering tool for the gnome desktop. It has been designed to be simple and easy to use.
 
Features:

Supports multiple backends: libburn, cdrtools, cdrkit

Video DVD:
- works if you provide AUDIO_TS/VIDEO_TS (and all appropriate files) in a data project
- can be copied if you have libdvdcss

Data CD/DVD:
- supports multisession 
- import last session in multisession discs
- supports edition of discs contents (remove/move/rename files inside directories)
- can burn data CD/DVD on the fly
- automatic filtering for unwanted files (hidden files, broken/recursive symlinks, files not conforming to joliet standard, ...)
- supports joliet extension
- can write the image to the hard drive
- can check on disc file integrity

Audio CD:
- write CD-TEXT information (automatically found thanks to gstreamer)
- supports the edition of CD-TEXT information
- can burn audio CD on the fly
- can use all audio files handled by Gstreamer local installation (ogg, flac, mp3, ...)
- can search for audio files inside dropped folders
- full edition of silences between tracks

CD/DVD copy:
- can copy a CD/DVD to the hard drive
- can copy DVD and CD on the fly
- supports single-session data DVD
- supports any kind of CD


Others:
- erase CD/DVD
- can save/load projects
- can burn CD/DVD images and cue files
- song, image and video previewer
- automatic device detection
- file change notification (requires kernel > 2.6.13)
- a customisable GUI 
- supports Drag and Drop / Cut'n'Paste from nautilus (and others apps)
- can use files on a network as long as the protocol (smb, http, ftp) is handled by gnome-vfs
- can search for files thanks to beagle (search is based on keywords or on file type)
- can display a playlist and its contents (note that playlists are automatically searched through beagle)
- all disc IO is done asynchronously to prevent the application from blocking