Update HCenc and DGDecode

[mtobc]

In the free version, would it be okay if I updated HCenc and DGDecode to the latest versions. Or would this just do more harm than good. Would I then be able to use the latest features of HCenc by specifying the settings in HC.ini?

Thanks.

[steptoe]

DCDecode is best left alone as its usually tried and tested to work with one specific release, the later ones may 'break' things

HCEnc should be okay to update, the latest is a beta 0.24 that doesn't really add much in the way of functionaility, but I was using 0.23 long before it was officially upgraded from 0.22

Give it a try, its really a case of just replacing the files with the updated ones, but make sure if you are replacing them that the files names are exactly the same as the old ones, or you will get an error as the software is looking for those specific files

[manolito]

DCDecode is best left alone as its usually tried and tested to work with one specific release, the later ones may 'break' things

Using later versions of DGDecode with DVD-RB free certainly WILL break things!

JDobbs does not use DGIndex, DVD-RB does the indexing all by itself. And for the free version the format of the D2V file is only compatible to DGDecode.dll version 1.1.0.

The only alternative you have is to use the modded version of DGIndex by NaN. Have a look here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=766018#post766018


For HC the situation is different. The free version of DVD-RB knows nothing about HC, it just issues QuEnc command line parameters to the HC encoder. Luckily HC is nice enough to just ignore parameters it does not recognize, so all the HC settings you specify in HC.ini will be honored.

This means that you can specify a custom matrix, you can even use the new 1-pass mode of the latest HC beta. I like this behavior much better than the DVD-RB pro version. In the pro version DVD-RB always creates a new HC.ini file from the settings you specify inside DVD-RB. Your original HC.ini file will be ignored. Whenever a new HC version with new features comes out, you will have to wait for a new DVD-RB version to be able to use these new features.


Cheers
manolito