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Jim@labDV.com
26th March 2007, 14:42
Download Ultra Edition from labDV: http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/download.php
Download standard "ripper free" version from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=72208&package_id=71998

We're proud to announce the availability of DVDx 2.8 release, available on labDV server, on DVDx web site and on SourceForge servers.

Starbuck and Jim teamworked for hours of C++/COM coding to extend WMV encoding support created by DVDx Dev (James). Now you can edit every parameter of the WMV profile, save it as a standard XML (.prx) file. You can load any WMV profile containing one video stream and one audio stream, from any third party application. The standard and Ultra Edition installers contain several useful pre-defined profiles: Film (24fps), NTSC (30fps) and PAL (25fps) for computer display (low and medium screens), HD720p, VHS quality, CD-sized movies and Pocket PC (standard and widescreen display). What's new in 2.8:

Encoder:

- extended Windows Media support, now the WM audio/video profile is fully editable and can be saved or loaded from standard PRX file. You can now create movies for your Windows based Smartphone and PDA as well as upscale DVD video to high-definition video thanks to WMV HD-Video.
- WM predefined profiles: Film small and standard screen, Pocket PC standard and widescreen, CD-sized for PAL/NTSC standard and widescreen movies, PAL and NTSC computer low and medium file size, PAL/NTSC HDTV 720p.
- multipass (2-pass encoding) isn't supported yet for Windows Media. So audio VBR 2-pass format aren't populated in the format combobox list and video constrained VBR neither.
- uncompressed streams aren't supported yet, so the check boxes are disabled in the WM profile setting window.

Multilang:

- updated MAX_ITEM from 100 to 120 to allow more than 100 error items.

Skins:

- modified SkComboBox control to allow more drop list items (required to display 232 Windows Media Audio formats). Previously limited by a RECT[50] array, now we use a CArray (MFC) collection to dynamically allocate an unlimited number of drop list items in sinkable combo box.
- added new EnableFullText method to SkEdit control (which was limited to 0-9 and . and -) in order to enable full text edition in this control (full text is restricted to aA..aZ, 0..9, space and .:*-+).
- added EnableUnsignedInteger method to SkEdit control to get a more restrictive behavior, limiting inputs to positive integer entries.

Download DVDx standard version "ripper free" (and source code; all for free from SourceForge.net) and DVDx Ultra Edition (MyDVDx VIP only) from DVDx website.

BTW: changes in skin controls may help coders to use the DVDx skin source code for their own projects (GPL'd by JLP).