DivX DVD Ripper : DVD to DivX/VCD/SCVD/AVI converter

  DDR allows you to convert DVD to DivX/VCD2.0/SVCD1.0/AVI in one step (Including 
  multiplexing, splitting). It produces good quality movies in AVI/MPEG1/2 format 
  and you don't need to have 5Gb free on your hard disk !
  DDR has been tested on Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP

What do you need ?
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  -DirectX 8.1 or later
  -A CDROM burning tool to write your VCD/SVCD (VcdEasy, VcdWizard)
  -Adaptec ASPI Driver (4.60 highly recommended)
  -Eventualy a DVD player (like WinDVD or PowerDVD)

How to install ?
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  - Run the Setup program


About Adobe Premiere Plugins:
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  -To install an encoder for Premiere , Run the plugin setup and Select
   the directory where DVDx files have been copied.
   If you update a plugin, to avoid a conflict, you should remove 
   the old windows registry database entry where plugin setting are storred :
     HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DDR\Output_Setting\PlugSetting\a_plugin.prm
     where a_plugin.prm is the old plugin name.

  -Multi PASS with an external encoder:
   The multi pass allows the video stream to be read 2 times. This features
   has been tested with TMPGEnc (client of AVISynth) when making 2Pass VBR.
   When this flag is checked: 
    For the first pass the decoder is initialised in VIDEO_PASS. For all other
    following pass the decoder is reinited in DUAL_PASS (Audio + Video)

About the Edwin Van Eggelen's Frame server:
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  DDR has been tested with the Video Server v0.90/91/92/93
  plugin and TMPGEnc as client. It's an easy way to use an
  external encoder with DDR. An very small.AVI  file which can be 
  opened by a standalone encoder is created.

  To use this frame server you have 2 step:
  1) Install the Video Video Server package
  2) Install the video server plugin/codecs which allows DVDx
     to deal with the Frame Server.  Get the cm-videoserver.prm
    (from PremiereVideoServerPluginv093.zip) file and copy it in 
	the DDR directory.
     
     For more information please visit the official site:
     (http://www.videotools.net)
 
Known problems:
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  -LSX, Panasonic MPEG and CinemaCraft Encoder plugin for Premiere work with
   DDR but only in RGB32 format.

  -Some newer versions of premiere plugins may not work.

  -You can read file bigger than 2Gb (on DVD or HDD) only if you have the WNASPI
   driver installed.

  -You get bad looking subtitle when you open VOB files. This is due to missing
   color subtitle palette (stored in IFO file).

  -You get the error "The ordinal 11 could not be located in the dynamix link library 
   DSOUND.dll" when DirectX 8.1 is not installed

  -You get the error "WNASPI Driver initialisation failed" or "WNASPI32.DLL not found"
   when ASPI is not installed or when you have a too old ASPI driver.

  -you may get "Too much samples" error when encoding NTSC DVD, I never experienced
   personaly this problem. So i add a flag to force 24Hz. Hope it helps.

  -Authentification may not work (auth.dll) (you may need a DVD player to unlock the drive).

  -You may get an audio/video synch problem if you rip the totality of the dvd.
   It's due to audio blank located at beggining of movie (often during
   of beetween advertisement). You may also get "Samples not found or audio decoding 
   error". So start rip from the beginning of the movie or check Audio/Video synch to
   avoid this.

  -You may get tick (rarely) in the sound if you use the Audio/Video synchronistaion

  -SVCD may go out of sync when burned with Nero, use Vcdeasy in that case.


About language file:
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To keep backward compatibilty of language file, all missing lines will be replaced 
automaticaly by the default language. So for maintenance of your language file you
just have to look at the end of each section in the last "lang_eng.txt" : all
new control , menu , message will be added at the end of a section.

Copying:
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