HD-DVD strikes back on July 4th

[ReferenceDivx]

On July 4th of 2008 our company will be releasing the first command line capable hd-dvd multiplexer. It has taken us about 6 months and hundreds of hours of programing. We will be releasing it for an introductory price of 29.99 in US dollars, the price of about one Blu-Ray movie. Since we are releasing it as a cmd line program, we hope many other programs will be able to support it in the future. We believe that consumers that purchased HD-DVD players should have the freedom to watch the latest and greatest movies coming out in the best format possible. A link to our company's website will be forthcoming in a few days.

July 4th will now also be known as freedom from Blu-Ray Day.

Please respond with features that you would like to see or any concerns you might have.

[Kurtnoise]

it's targeted for windows platform *only* or it will support also in linux, *nix and other systems ?

[ReferenceDivx]

It is curently targeted for windows, however it could be ported to linux if there is demand. A lot of the future features will be based on requests and the demand for the software.

Video currently suppored:
AVC from x264 with frame rate of 23.976 with these settings:
--pass 2 --bitrate 8000 --stats ".stats" --level 4.1 --keyint 14 --min-keyint 2 --ref 2 --mixed-refs --bframes 2 --bime --weightb --direct auto --filter -2,-1 --partitions p8x8,b8x8,i4x4,i8x8 --8x8dct --ipratio 1.1 --pbratio 1.1 --vbv-bufsize 14475 --vbv-maxrate 24000 --qcomp 0.5 --merange 12 --threads auto --thread-input --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim --output "output" "input" --mvrange 511 --aud --nal-hrd

Audio currently supported:
AC3 and EAC3 both upto 640

Discs supported:
DVD5 entire movie
DVD9 entire movie

Features We are currently working on:
Ability to output video accross two dvd5s.

1 frame video glitch between chapters in HD-DVD player, plays fine in powerdvd though.

Subtitles are on the backburner.

[setarip_old]

@ReferenceDivX

Hi!We believe that consumers that purchased HD-DVD players should have the freedom to watch the latest and greatest movies coming out in the best format possible.If I read your postings correctly, do I understand that your (unnamed) company's forthcoming program (initially priced at $29.99) has no ability to rip Bluray discs (Or HD-DVDs for that matter) - and can convert ONLY x264 files to a format playable on a standalone HD DVD player?

[neuron2]

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