DVD Rebuilder 0.94 Free + QuEnc 0.61 + Custom Matrix

[manolito]

By now everybody knows that only the pro version of DVD-RB supports the use of custom matrices. If you use QuEnc, you also know that the current versions do support custom matrices. Just run QuEnc, click "Advanced Options" and select an XVid matrix file. But if QuEnc is called by DVD-RB Free, any custom matrix that has been selected this way will be disabled. With the free version of DVD-RB you can only use the QuEnc Standard Matrix and the QLB Matrix.

But there is a workaround. Just rename the QuEnc executable to FreeEnc.exe and point DVD-RB to this file instead of QuEnc.exe. Now the custom matrix that has been selected before in the QuEnc GUI will be used.

How?
FreeEnc does not support the newer QuEnc parameters -cmatrix and -nocmatrix. If DVD-RB detects that FreeEnc has been selected as your encoder, it will not issue these parameters because otherwise FreeEnc would quit with a message "Unknown parameter". If these parameters are absent from the QuEnc command line, QuEnc will use any matrix that has been specified before in the QuEnc GUI.


Cheers
manolito

[jptheripper]

wait, are you really posting, in the authors forum, on how to cheat the author of this program out of a $10 donation?

[manolito]

wait, are you really posting, in the authors forum, on how to cheat the author of this program out of a $10 donation?
Hey hey, would you please cool down a bit...

Support for using custom matrices is a feature of QuEnc. It is perfectly alright to offer a free version of a software that has limited features, but it is not alright for any software to cripple featues of someone else's software. I am absolutely sure that jdobbs had no intention to do this. Support for QuEnc in the free version of DVD-RB is still based on older versions of QuEnc when QuEnc did not support custom matrices.

I would prefer if the free version of DVD-RB had no QuEnc matrix support whatsoever (meaning no "-cmatrix" or "-nocmatrix" parameter is issued). This way the user has to select his desired matrix in QuEnc before he starts DVD-RB. This would be consistent with the treatment for FreeEnc and HC. But of course this is a decision jdobbs alone can make.

In the meantime I would really appreciate not being insulted for publishing a workaround for (as I see it) a minor issue of DVD-RB.

Cheers
manolito

[jptheripper]

my apoligies

im so annoyed with apfraats right now that i allowed it to spill into this thread without fully appreciating what you were commenting on. I had read the gist of you msg as "heres how to get one of the pay features with the free version" i realize now that was not your intent.

[SpazzHH]

I had read the gist of you msg as "heres how to get one of the pay features with the free version" i realize now that was not your intent.
@manolito
Due to the number of other people who will also be seeing this thread, perhaps the more tactful way to have handled things, would have been to make a request to jdobbs for future support of QuEnc's new features. That way, you're not coming into his forum and telling everyone how to gain Pro features for free because (as I see it) a minor issue of DVD-RB.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but how you see it doesn't matter nearly as much as how the man that has put in all the long hours of hard work sees it. Most likely, the lack of support for QuEnc's new features, is just one of those things that has fallen through the cracks with all his work trying to get version 1.0 out the door. But if not, and he truly wishes to keep Custum Matrice support a feature of the Pro version only(who could blame him, it's his software), it certainly would not be right to be posting "workarounds", now would it? Certainly, a "New Feature Request" would have been a much better way to have handled the situation.