Newsletter
March 12th, 2014
- DVDx 4.1 Beta 1.2 for Windows is out
- New: Bluray/DVD ISO Backup and FREE converter with H.265/HEVC
- New tutorial: Backup DVD or Blu-ray disc to ISO image
- Help: Reading, saving and sending job report
- MyDVDx license: +1 reason to register
1. DVDx 4.1 Beta 1.2 for Windows is out
Release 4.1.1.2 a.k.a. Beta 1.2, released the 12th this month, comes with FREE converter, new H.265/HEVC profile and new disc-to-ISO backup feature (see complete changelog).
Now you can backup Blu-ray, DVD and HD-DVD disc to ISO images with decrypted content (AACS and CSS removed).
What's new in DVDx 4.1 Beta 1.2 ?
- Add Blu-ray/DVD/HD-DVD 1:1 ISO copy and decryption
- Add new video profile:
h265.ini: H.265/HEVC (HDTV) - Add backend components to support ISO backup
- Add QuickTime (MOV format) support to H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC profiles
- Improved MKV muxing with H.265/HEVC video stream
- Updated H.264, VPX (VP8-VP9), Vorbis and ASS player libraries
- Converter button now opens converter with current file
- Font cache update no longer required for MPlayer
Previously in Beta 1.1 (February release)
- Add option to workaround picture-based canvas size issue with subtitles
- Improve audio profile support in ripper
- Improve audio profile support in converter
- Support burnt-in subtitle text (srt/ssa) from video file input
- Add new job menu in DVD/Bluray ripping job manager
- Add new job menu in video converter job manager
- Add save job report feature
- Add new tutorials in help menu
- Abort button in job window becomes magic button (abort/play/report/open)
- Add selection to show/hide audio profiles
- Set Android VisualOn as AAC encoder for 3G2/3GPP (3g2.ini)
- Add VP9 in WebM profile (webm.ini)
- Improved guessing to set video deinterlacing
- Change load process to avoid all crash at start (and speed up start)
- Improved ripping for discs with mastering errors
- Improve AVC and PCM support in MKV muxer
- Improve VC1 transcoder
- Improve AC3 decoder
- Enable Google VP9 encoding
- Enable AAC 7.1 encoding
- Improve HEVC detection
- Improve WMV player support
- Updated VPX, ASS and DVD player libraries
- Fix crash when video streams aren't the very first ones in files (MKV)
Download:
Windows Version: dvdx-4.1.1.2-win32.exe
2. New tutorial: Backup DVD or Blu-ray disc to ISO image
Load a disc, DVDx 4.1 analyzes its content and calculates required space on hard-drive to perform the backup:
Blu-ray (and HD-DVD) disc ISO backup job
Blu-ray disc ISO backup job performs decrypting to hard-drive (so was required space calculated) and then generates an ISO image file:
Blu-ray disc (or HD-DVD disc) ISO backup takes about 1 hour.
DVD disc ISO backup job
DVD disc ISO backup job creates, first, an encrypted ISO image file (so any modern protections have no effect :-), then explodes the ISO image in a folder to perform decrypting for every VOB files (DeCSS) and, last, generates an ISO image file:
DVD disc ISO backup (with decrypting) takes about 40 minutes for a dual-layer disc (DVD9) and less than 1/2 hour for DVD5 (4.5GB).
On-line: Backup DVD or Blu-ray disc to ISO image...
3. Help: Reading, saving and sending job report
Job reports are available from the job managers. Reports provide job description ans status, detailed ripping/transcoding input information as well as transcoding profile settings.
Reports also include processing information: related messages extracted from processing log and processing console output...
On-line: Reading and saving and sending job report...
4. MyDVDx license: +1 reason to register
+1 as Blu-ray / DVD ripping and backup features are available only for registered users.
You can register or extend your current MyDVDx License for 1 year or 2 years for $49.00 or $79.00 (39.00€ or 59.00€).
Most MyDVDs users have subscribed these new 2-year pass so we're able to sustain the development efforts for DVDx 4.1 and to support Starbuck's FreePlayer project.
MyDVDx License is required to activate DVDx 4.1 Bluray/DVD Ripper and DVDx 4.0 Smart Edition.
The 1-Year VIP Pass is only US$ 49.00 (€39.00).