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old-hack
17th October 2003, 21:39
content removed (see posts below).

Eyes`Only
17th October 2003, 21:51
This product violates the GPL! Do NOT support it!

From int21:

Uhm, this product violates the GPL, its using DVD2AVI sourcecode in the product's mview.exe which allows the user to preview the movie before encoding.

When I first looked at this, it definitely looked like a familiar interface, so then I decided to nose around a little bit in the executable source itself and found the following strings:



code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A b o u t D V D 2 A V I

F i e l d O p e r a t i o n
:€N o n e €F o r c e d F I L M
€ ;€S w a p F i e l d O r d e r
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


There are many, many more strings which give this away, they even list the SAME shortcut keys as DVD2AVI. Anyone who is curious can see for themselves, beginning at offset 0002ADA0H.

I would recommend avoiding this product until the author sorts out the offending code issues and properly acknowledges the original author of his preview facilities (Jackei) and also releases his changes (if any) of the sourcecode.

Doom9
18th October 2003, 23:04
in fact, we won't support it by providing a forum for program related discussion as long as this issue has not been resolved. Thread closed.