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- DVDx 2.1 : 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
- -A CDROM burning tool to write your VCD/SVCD (preferably VCDeasy)
- -Adaptec ASPI Driver 4.60 (highly recommended)
- -Eventualy a DVD player (like WinDVD or Power DVD)
-
- How to install ?
- ================
-
- - Run the Setup program
-
- Version history:
- ===============
-
- 2.2:
-
- GUI:
- -4/3 correction (custom zoom mode)
- -Monitoring improved
-
- Decoders:
- -Wrong NTSC time repported fixed
-
- Avi:
- -New codec management
- -AVI settings are now saved
- -Various 2Pass AVI fixes
-
- Internal mpeg encoder:
- -New rate control algorithm for best vbvUnderflow/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')
- -Supprt 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 donwloaded 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 nformation 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 and his intensive participation in the forum
-
- 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 and skin
-
- Dietmar Hedden for the test NTSC stream
-
- 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 2.1 (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
-