DVDx 2.3 : DVD to VCD/SCVD/AVI converter by Jean-Luc PONS DVDx allows you to convert DVD to 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 ! DVDx has been tested on Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP What do you need ? ================== -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 ? ================ - Run the Setup program Version history: =============== 2.3: Gui: -small changes Decoders: -Angle handling fix(key search on only) -Compiler based dual cpu and P4 with HT support Avi: -Video codecs settings fix (MS vcm9 ,Huffyuv ,FFvfw) Internal mpeg encoder: -Changed rate control to reduce underflows -Small speed increase Other: -Stopped F1 key asking for help file -Added Danish and Polish language files -Updated installer to multi-lingual Innosetup 4 -Authentication no longer attempted when going from a hard drive. Debug builds: -Stopped eventual crashing/memory corruption from console -Added output to text file (c:\DVDx_debug.txt) 2.2: GUI: -4/3 correction (custom zoom mode) -Monitoring improved Decoders: -Wrong NTSC time reported fixed Avi: -New codec management -AVI settings are now saved -Various 2Pass AVI fixes Internal mpeg encoder: -New rate control algorithm for VBV Underflow/overFlow prevention 2.1: Skins and gui: -changed buttons to single bitmap -added 'file' button to select output file name -changed order of buttons -Selectable preview aspect ratio Avi: -added 2 pass encoding -YUY2 export now works for Xvid codec -AviSetStream failure for Divx 5.0.3 fixed Internal mpeg encoder: -faster motion search (20% in high motion search) -quantization done in double (iDCT/DCT setting) -occasional less frames than premiere plugins fixed -'normal' calculation mode haze fixed -picture quality improved Decoders: -mpeg/vob scanning fix -Mpeg1 demuxer fix -Support for DVD with non consecutives cells -Best management of invalid streams and damaged DVD (ASPI mode) -Audio frequency detection (MPEG1 scanning) Premiere plugins: -48khz audio support (can use '48khz no conversion') -Support for CCE 2.66 -CCE stop while encoding fixed Other: -added updating output estimation for avi and internal encoder -temporary 'SaveDVD' HD file is now selectable location/name -shutdown properly for Windows 98/ME and 2000/XP -DVDx.exe and DVDxP4.exe merged -Added TAP resize filter (HQ 2 Pass filtering) -Interface for VCDWizard (Add chapter in your VCD/SVCD) 2.0: Bugs fixed: -Decoder initialisation -MPA decoder -Player -Shutdown bug on 2000,XP -Audio and subtitle stream ID GUI improvement Skinned GUI AV synch improvement 48KHz support for AVI Support for new release of nLame 1.8a: Bugs fixed: -Motion Compensation (decoder) -Wrong subtite color SSE/3DnowExt BiLinear filtering SSE/3DnowExt Motion comp (decoder) 1.8: Bugs fixed: -WNASPI (for file bigger than 1Gb) -Blinking subtitle -Crash with subtitle -Crackling sound (The end) Support for Lame MP3. Solve all DivX synch problem (at least for me) Playback Multi Language More reliable AV Synch algorithm iDCT SSE Full MPEG1/2 input Load/Save project 1.7: Export AC3 (AVI+Premiere) Export YUV (AVI+Premiere) Bit rate calculator (when splitting by chapter) P4 Optimizations and other speed improvements 1.6: Chapter support (Now you can split AVI/MPG by chapter) Integrated AVI multiplexer Integrated Audio Codec support (no more WAV export) Best resize/crop Volume don't exceed combo box 1.5a: Bug fixed: Cracking sound when encoding through the premiere interface Dolby Suround downmix flag 1.5: Bugs fixed: GUI bugs Volume greater than 4Gb Resize Filters (no more bad side) AVI splitting (no more crash when splitting DivX) DeMacrovision HDD Buffer (Save the DVD drive) Resize / Crop (Custom zoom) PX3 optimization (not ended) Few improvement in the motion search (internal encoder) 1.4b: Bugs fixed: CCE premiere plugin bugs. AVI output (only compressed AVI) 1.4a; Bugs fixed: 29.97 Frame rate when usign Premiere plugin. Deinterlace Filter (PAL Only) 1.4: Bugs fixed: Bugs with K6 processors. Bugs in audio normal quality mode. Automatic Audio/Video Synchronisation Best filter (highest quality and speed) Multi PASS support (tested with TMPGEnc) Fast routines from AMD develloper connexion (Only K7 or higher) 1.3: Bugs fixed: SVCD bugs Premiere plugin encoder support (not 100% of plugins and 1 PASS only) More input and output settings Auto setting for VCD/SVCD 1.2: Bugs fixed: Bad looking subtitle. DVDx crash when jumping near the end. SVCD support LPCM support Best quality features Faster MMX quantization DVD root window (more friendly way to select IFO) 1.1: Bugs fixed New frame rate converter (should work with NTSC now) Drive Authentification Assembly DeCSS Subtitle More input and output parameters 1.0a: Few bugs fixed MPEG2 Decoder initialistation improvement 1.0: First realease How to compile the source ? =========================== - DVDx source can be downloaded from sourceforge http://dvdx.sourceforge.net - You need Microsoft VC++ 6.0 + SP5 + Processor Pack + DirectX 8.1 SDK - Intel C++ Compiler 5.0 or higher to build the release version - Main project is called mpeg_encode (not DVDx) About Adobe Premiere Plugins: ============================= -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\DVDx\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: =========================================== DVDx 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 DVDx. 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 DVDx directory. For more information please visit the official site: (http://www.videotools.net) What are future work priority for DVDx ? ======================================== Have a look at the Forum. http://www.labdv.com/forum Thanks for your interest. Known problems: ============== -LSX, Panasonic MPEG and CinemaCraft Encoder plugin for Premiere work with DVDx 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. Author comments: =============== Unfortunaly I didn't test DVDx on lots of NTSC DVD. So if you get troubles with some of them don't hesitate to email me. This project has been inspired from lots of sources found on the web: DVD2AVI , vStrip , vobdec , AVI2MPG , bbMPEG, Mpeg sources, ... I did a big big job for merging all these softwares and get a real 'all in one' DVD2VCD/SVCD converter. Anyway, I would like to thank and congratulate all people who have participated to these projects. Really congratulation to the Author of vStrip for his peferct clean code. Special thanks to : ================== Mijo Rebic aka Okami for testing , suggestions , help and the first DVDx home page. (http://www.inet.hr/~mirebic) Edwin van Eggelen for his support with the premiere interface. (http://www.videotools.net) Stephane Cazat for his nice guide in french. (http://www.planete-numerique.com/Pages/Guides/Dvdxr.htm) Jim for the DVDx hosting (http://www.labdv.com) PX3 (Rolf Rother) for his speed optimization. Alex Klimovitski for the P4 routines Oliver DERVYN for the new fullsearch algorithm Dragongodz for the FAQ ,fixes/changes ,ideas ,research and forum work Rene de Ruyter for the subtitle bug fixes Michael Fink for nLame (http://winlame.sourceforge.net) Cedomir Igaly for the MPA decoder fix Bash for the test NTSC dvd ,support ,skin and skin guide Dietmar Hedden for the test NTSC stream Bob Hale for testing and NTSC dvds ThOtto for memory leaks and authentication Thanks to: ========= maven for vStrip Chia-chen Kuo for DVD2AVI Brent Beyeler for bbMpeg Nautilus for auth.dll Avery Lee for VirtualDub DivXNetworks for the DivX codec Alberto Vigata for Flask Xis for Xmpeg mssg for all the MPEG stuff All the Lame team About language file: ==================== 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. DVDx Homepage: ============== http://www.labdv.com Support: ======= You can email me "DVDx 2.3 (and a brief description)" as subject if you find out some problems. (Read the Known problems section first) Try to describe me the problem the best you can (especialy don't forget to indicate your input and output settings). Avoid screenshots please (I have an only 6Meg mail box at yahoo). email: jlp_38@yahoo.com Copying: ======= This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA