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2013-07-02 21:17:19

MobileMate-0.1a42.1 release notes:

This is the first public release of MobileMate video and audio converting tool. Based on TinyCore Linux 3.7.1, the main changes of MobileMate as below:

1, Kernel image and modules:

Keep “CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y” and set “CONFIG_IDE is not set”, dropped IDE support(so “hda” became “sda”, and CD became “sr0”, “sr1”,…), added PATA and NLS_CODEPAGE_936 modules, etc..

2, Disk mount:

Make disk mount automatically, use udev rules to detect hot plug driver, and use own script to detect CD drive activity.

3, Internationazition:

Added UTF-8 support and supplement some Simplified Chinese translation for some desktop environment software.

4, MobileMate video and audio converting tool:

This is the main application in the tool, currently, has the main features:

• It use Bash to glue some open source tools such as MPlayer, FFmpeg(Libav), Zenity, Grep, Sed, etc., easy to modify fit your own needs;
• You can choose Mencoder or FFmpeg(Libav) to decode video or audio file, if confirm FFmpeg can decode all the files Mencoder can, maybe drop Mencoder in the future;
• Wizard mode for configuring and converting;
• Based on config file;
• Bulk converting;
• Running several instances of tool and processing several tasks in an instance concurrently, dig the power of multicore CPU or multiprocessor machine;
• Resume unfinished converting job.

5, Other usage:

MobieMate V0.1 is customized on TinyCore Linux 3.7.1, so the common usage of MobileMate please read TinyCore Wiki at: http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/ .

6, Note:

Because the change of TinyCore Linux, the tcz package search function failed in MobileMate-0.1a42.1, but you can still use Appbrowser or command “tce-load” to install tcz packages.