Gnome Subtitles 0.9 is out!

[Pedro Castro <mail pedrocastro org>]

What's It?
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Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common
text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, conversion and synchronization.


* About: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/about
* Screenshots: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/screenshots
* Download: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/download

What's New?
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Release notes with accompanying screenshots are available at: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/gnome-subtitles-release-0.9. Changes follow:

- New interactive Synchronize Timings dialog:
  * Allows to synchronize using multiple sync points
  * Each sync point represents the correct time of a subtitle
  * Shows help message to ease the synchronization task

  * Can synchronize all subtitles based on a set of sync points
- New Seek To dialog that allows to seek the video to a specified time/frame
- More polished user interface, by removing the border relief in video-related

  buttons and decreasing their size
- Allow to close a file without quitting the application (File Close)
- Replace All now replaces translations too, besides the normal subtitle text
- Don't change the timing mode, after saving a file, to reflect the timing mode

  of the subtitle format chosen for saving
- Added Insert and Delete Subtitles toolbar buttons, removed Find and Replace
  from the toolbar
- Added MIME Type association to the SubRip, MPSub, SubStation Alpha and

  MicroDVD subtitle formats
- Improved handling of text formatting tags in SubRip files
- Show Matroska Video files (MKV) when listing video files
- Fixed crash on opening a translation file with no subtitles loaded

- SubLib merged into Gnome Subtitles, making both easier to maintain and package
- Major refactoring of the video playback engine:
  * GStreamer Playbin (code from the FuseMC project) has been incorporated into
    the project source tree
  * Gstreamer Playbin no longer builds as a separate package (no separate dll,
    although the .so lib is still built separately)
  * GStreamer events are now received asynchronously, which means the user
    interface adapts to the video in an asynchronous/non-blocking way

- Fixed some bugs in the video playback engine:
  * Loading a file when the previously loaded file wasn't played
  * Video position not being correctly updated after loading the video and
    before starting playback

- Display an error dialog when the help contents cannot be opened
- Fixed the use of Bug Buddy for bug reporting
- Changes in the project dependencies:
  * Requires gtk, gtk-sharp, glade-sharp and gconf-sharp 2.12 or higher

  * No longer requires gnome-sharp nor sublib

Translations:
- Djihed Afifi (ar)
- Joan Duran (ca)
- Kamil Paral, Lucas Lommer, Petr Kovar, Rinu (cs)
- Joe Hansen, Kristian Kjærgaard (da)
- Felix Braun, Mario Blättermann (de)

- Gabriel Ruiz, Jorge González (es)
- Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
- Luca Ferretti, Simone Oberti (it)
- Kjartan Maraas (nb)
- Yannig Marchegay (oc)
- Piotr Drąg (pl)
- António Lima (pt)
- César Veiga, Fábio Nogueira, Henrique P Machado, Leonardo Ferreira

  Fontenelle (pt_BR)
- Nickolay V. Shmyrev (ru)
- Daniel Nylander (sv)

Bug fixes:
- The file with a movie is not always automatically selected (#417975)
- Improvements to selection types in timings dialogs (#430737)

- Add support for viewing and correcting line length (#430961)
- Synchronize subtitles using multiple sync points (#471393)
- Allow to seek to a specified time instant (#504560)
- Configure script doesn't check for gstreamer-plugins-base headers (#520171)

- Make frequently-used menu items accessible in the toolbar (#530833)
- German Translation (#534748)
- Parallel build fails (#534889)
- Crash when trying to open a file (#540009)
- Suboptimal parsing of SRT-file (#552221)

- Strings like 'gtk-cancel' and so should not be translatable (#576197)
- Build error (#577127)

Contributors:
- Arx Cruz, Lucas Lommer

Additional thanks:
- Adam Dixon, Julian Sikorski, Luciano A. Ferrer, Marcin Zajaczkowski,

  Satoshi Tanabe


Enjoy,

--
Pedro Castro