DVDx news:
DVDx 2.10 release is out, added a count-down at computer shutdown when job is finished, we've completed WMV support by developing the volume splitting and the encoding by chapters. New WMV widescreen profiles for Archos Generation 4 (Archos 604 at 480x272 on 4.3" wide screen and Archos 404 at 320x240 on 3.5" screen) have be added. Shutdown can now be toggled while encoding, thru the settings menu. (30/07/2007)
DVDx 2.9 release is out, Starbuck has reworked the code which supports AVI multipass interface to provide a better user experience and a consistent estimated output file size. Xvid 2-pass encoding is the easiest to get an output file of the desired size while DivX 2-pass is easier for a constrained bitrate output file. You can use the DivX codec embedded calculator (just to adjust the audio bitrate and copy/paste the frame number from DVDx output settings window) to get the bitrate associated to a desired size of the output file. (17/05/2007)
DVDx 2.8 release is out, Starbuck and Jim teamworked for hours of C++/COM coding to extend WMV encoding support created by DVDx Dev (James). Now you can edit every parameter of the WMV profile, save it as a standard XML (.prx) file. You can load any WMV profile containing one video stream and one audio stream, from any third party application. The standard and Ultra Edition installers contain several useful pre-defined profiles: Film (24fps), NTSC (30fps) and PAL (25fps) for computer display (low and medium screens), HD720p, VHS quality, CD-sized movies and Pocket PC for standard and widescreen display (26/03/2007) .
DVDx 2.7 release is out, changed Open DVD root menu behavior, now display a Windows XP new syle file explorer dialog, initialized with last directory used by DVDx. Thus it's no longer annoying to change DVD drive for multiple drive computers or multiple DVDs ripped on hard drive. Now display MPEG (VOB) file name without path in the MPEG2 file scanning progress window, required for long path current for DVDs ripped on hard drive (24/01/2007).
DVDx 2.6 release is out, we succeeded in migrating the whole DVDx project to the latest Windows development platform: Microsoft Visual C++ 2500 Professional with Intel C++ 9.1 Compiler.
This has immediate benefit for the end-user by fixing bugs introduced by previous compiler, such as when DVDx silently crashes when exiting Input Settings with 44.1KHz or 48.0KHz (no conversion) option. This will have great benefit for developers, so end-users, by providing new productivity features such as navigation across C++ objects declarations and definitions with one right-click. Intel 9.1 C++ compiler will provide latest greatest Hyper-Threading and Multi-Core optimization. And x64 cross-compilation will be facilitated. Debug and DebugP4 versions are back, so we'll be able to debug DVDx mush more quickly (25/11/2006)
DVDx 2.5 release is updated to 2.5.1 to fix Lame DLL issues (05/05/2006)
DVDx 2.5 release is out, many thanks to James aka DVDx-Dev who solved many a/v out-of-sync problem repeated reported by users since the version 1.0 release: realtime dynamic framerate detection, adaptive framerate support, better NTSC DVD unregular telecine support, better audio/video synchronization algorithm. Added support for WMA 9.1 and WMV9, compress videos up to 50% smaller than previous versions under the same video quality. Added more options for mp3 and much more... (29/04/2006)
DVDx 2.4 release is out, new Help menu, optimized for Intel Pentium 4 and new Celeron, for AMD Athlon and new Sempron including MMX, SSE2 and SSE3, and Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading or Dual-Core, speed increase from 5% to 15%, code has been cleaned up in the CVS repository at SourceForge, new reference platform is VC++ 6.0, VC ToolKit 2003, DirectX 9 and Intel C++ 9.0 compiler and more (21/03/2006)
DVDx
2.3 release is out, some GUI changes, multi-angle DVDs are supported,
optimized support to benefit from dual processors and Pentium4
Hyper-Threading, fix video codec setting issues (MS-WMV9 VCM,
Huffyuv and FFvfw), much less internal MPEG encoder overflows,
small speed increase and more (18/08/2004)
DVDx
2.2 release is out, several bug fixes and new AVI codec management
and new rate control algorithm for best VBV underflow/overflow prevention.
Distribution has changed for smaller file downloads, now you'll
find DVDx_2_2_setup.exe and DVDx_2_2_src.zip (19/02/2003)
The Guide is now available in Arabic, for 2.1 release (18/02/2003)
The Guide is now available in Korean, for 2.1 release (11/02/2003)
The German Guide has been updated for 2.1 release (03/02/2003)
The Japanese Guide has been updated for 2.1 release (05/02/2003)
The Chinese Guide has been updated for 2.1 release (05/02/2003)
The Italian Guide has been updated for 2.1 release (05/02/2003)
The Spanish Guide has been updated for 2.1 release (05/02/2003)
The Portuguese Guide has been updated for 2.1 release (04/02/2003)
The Portuguese FAQ has been updated for 2.1 release (03/02/2003)
The French FAQ has been updated for 2.1 release (03/02/2003)
The French Guide has been updated for 2.1 release (02/02/2003)
The FAQ has been updated for 2.1 release (01/02/2003)
The Guide has been updated for 2.1 release (01/02/2003)
DVDx
2.1 release is out, added 2 pass encoding, faster motion search
(20% in high motion search), quantization done in double (iDCT/DCT
setting), picture quality improved, 48khz audio support, support
for CCE 2.66, new interface for VCDWizard (add chapter in your VCD/SVCD)
and much much more (01/02/2003)
The FAQ is now available in French (31/12/2002)
The FAQ is now available in Portuguese (Brazilian) (31/12/2002)
The guide has been updated (29/08/2002)
The
FAQ page has been updated for DVDx 2.0 (17/07/2002)
DVDx
2.0 release is out, compliant with 48kHz AVI audio and now the GUI
is skin enabled (10/06/2002)
DVDx 1.8a release is out correcting the motion compensation and
subtitle color bugs (11/03/2002)
The Chinese guide has been updated for 1.8 release (25/02/2002)
The Dutch guide has been updated for 1.8 release (25/02/2002)