2005/11/08	Released version 1.2: added subtitle support for Matroska files and minor useful features; fixed minor bugs
2005/11/08	Changed my email address
2005/09/03	Released version 1.1.4: some bugs about locale fixed

ANDREW's main features are:

• Possibility of splitting movies in several files
• Possibility of encoding few chapters only
• Support for NTSC and PAL video formats
• Automatic removal of video black borders
• Video rescaling on the basis of bit rate and mean quantizer
• Support for VobSub subtitles from DVDs and SRT from external files
• On-the-fly encoding to use as small as possible disk space
• Control of needed disk space availability
• Possibility of halting the system when the job is finished
• Internationalisation by GNU gettext
• Localisation in English, Italian and Spanish

ANDREW should work with any operating system where you can install and execute the following software (tested on a i686 running GNU/Linux):

• GNU BASH (no effort to make ANDREW a portable shell script was done; tested with version 2.05b.0(1)-release; it should work with versions upper than 2.03-alpha)
• GNU Coreutils (5.2.1)
• GNU iconv (2.3.2)
• GNU grep (2.5.1)
• GNU sed (4.1.2)
• GNU gettext (0.14.4)
• GNU bc (1.06)
• Ncurses (5.4.20040208)
• less (382)
• MPlayer (1.0pre7try2-3.3.5)
• MEncoder (1.0pre7try2-3.3.5)
• OggEnc (1.0.1)
• lsdvd (0.15; >0.10)
• dvdxchap (1.5; >1.4.1)
• ogmmerge (1.5; >1.4.1)
• mkvmerge (1.6.0. ; >0.9.7)
• mkvextract (1.6.0. ; >0.9.7)

ANDREW package includes localised man pages and localisation files.
See NEWS and ChangeLog to know all the changes made to ANDREW.

Package	Version	Date	Size (kB)	Download
andrew	1.2	2005/11/08	167	tar.bz2
andrew	1.1.4	2005/09/03	192	tar.bz2
andrew	1.1.3	2005/06/21	190	tar.bz2
andrew	1.1.2	2005/03/20	176	tar.bz2
andrew	1.1.1	2004/12/31	175	tar.bz2
andrew	1.1	2004/12/20	174	tar.bz2
andrew	1.0.1	2004/11/26	172	tar.bz2
andrew	1.0	2004/11/18	172	tar.bz2

How can I play DVDs and video files (including .ogm and .mkv)?

Operating System	Player	Not for
GNU/Linux	MPlayer	DVD menus
	VLC media player
	xine
Windows	Media Player Classic + ffdshow + oggds
	VLC media player
	Windows Media Player + Matroska Pack Full + oggds	DVDs, some files, Freedom
Other	MPlayer	DVD menus
	VLC media player
	xine

What are .ogm files?

OGM meaning Ogg Media File, was developed by Tobias Waldvogel. It is a container format (for video, audio and subtitles), which can do a few things what the AVI format cannot: chapter support; Vorbis audio support. Just like AVI, it also supports: multiple subtitle tracks, multiple audio tracks, of various formats (MP3, AC3, Vorbis (not in AVI), WAV).
(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGM)

What are .mkv files?

Matroska aims to become THE standard of multimedia container formats [...]. It incorporates features you would expect from a modern container format, like: fast seeking in the file; high error recovery; chapter entries; selectable subtitle streams; selectable audio streams; modularly extendable; streamable over internet (HTTP and RTP audio & video streams); menus (like DVDs have) [...]. Matroska is an open standards project.
(from www.matroska.org)

What is Vorbis?

Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source. Learn more by reading the FAQ.
(from www.vorbis.com)

What is FFmpeg?

FFmpeg is a project released under the GNU Lesser General Public License [...]. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library [...] that includes, in its turn, an ISO/IEC MPEG-4 Part 2 compliant video codec.
(from ffmpeg.sourceforge.net)

What is XviD?

XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec, so designed to compress/decompress digital video. It's a open source project, which is developed and maintained by a handful of skilled and interested engineers from all over the world.
(from www.xvid.org )

What does NAQ mean?

Never Asked Questions...

Who hosts this project?

ANDREW is actually hosted by www.memebot.com, for free and without forced advertisements.

Send questions, suggestions, comments, translations, invitations to dinner and more-than-80%-cocoa chocolate to Alessandro Di Rubbo, at liquidgnome@bluebottle.com (follow the instructions in the reply to your message to have your address added to my allowed list and to ensure delivery of your email).