Yet Another "Recoder"

[ron spencer]

Given that people sell links to DVDShrink on Ebay, I though this was interesting when I came upon it. Anyone heard of it?

http://www.dvdrecode.com

[Amnon82]

Looks realy like ReJig 0.5...

... or not?

[KungFuCow]

It sure does seem like a variant of it. It even makes you figure the compression level manually.

[mrbass]

@ron spencer
just curious but where did you "hear" about or find this. Do you search google or was it published on some dvd news site?

[ron spencer]

actually, I was curious just how many people are taking freeware and "changing" it into something you pay for. So I did a bunch of searches on google, lycos, etc. Then I got to thinking about commercial stuff that may be "messed with" (not that this prog is messing with stuff). So I did a search on Recode...it apparently reached the 34 million mark in downloads......POPULAR!!!. Then I added some stuff before and after recode in the search engine and after about 5 min this came up. Strange how it has recode in its name ;) I am gonna try it.

[KungFuCow]

Ive yet to make a DVD size backup of anything with this to see how the quality looks. This has got to be some sort of Rejig ripoff tho. You have to manually select the compression ratio, its all done in multiples of 5 (95%, 90%, etc) and you can only keep 1 subtitle and 1 audio stream.

[DMagic1]

I was able to test this app.

As I watched it process and create files, I said this sure looks like all the motions Rejig makes.

The final output created a folder named DVD with the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS.

The size was correct and subs worked properly along with audio.

The picture quality was almost an exact match with Rejig from my earlier test.

The funny thing is that it has one of the same bugs as Rejig. The chapters were off but not by as much as I've seen in Rejig.

I believe it could be using the same transcoder.

[brynolf]

Isn't this really just speculations? Couldn't it be that its actually a progam that just happens to have some similarities to ReJIG?

[DMagic1]

We were not saying that it is Rejig.
Rejig started with a freely available transcoder source. We are saying that it could be from that same source.

[mrbass]

with a screenshot of 70% default....that's the same as rejig.

[DMagic1]

I take that back, subtitles don't show. Its shows an option to turn them on in PowerDVD and WinDVD but once on they never show.

[Nic]

Well it definitely breaks the GPL. It has mplex in there along with (perhaps) mkisofs. Another rip off.....

EDIT:
Yup that's got ReJig code alright....Just had a proper look....Just use a hex editor to check. I do weird things in code (very easy to spot :) )

Shame someones trying to rip it off....They should have waiting till 0.6. 0.5 aint worth anything to anyone ;) But 0.6 is :)

-Nic

ps
look for strings like Muxed.vob, etc. Only I would produce such a daft way of making VOB files ;) (that's all gone in 0.6)
Also one of my debug messages in the VStrip code is:"THIS PTS %s %d %X %X !!!" For when I was getting angry at the Sub synching. That's in this prog too if you need further proof....(he has tried to cover alot of it up though)

[ron spencer]

I wonder how many other net searches one could do to find such "mod-ed" programs....people will do anything I guess

[int 21h]

@Nic:

Are you going to pursue this further with the program's author?

[Nic]

I've contacted them, but with no reply as yet. Now contacted RegSoft. Ill see what they say, but I fear they will be reluctant to remove it without full proof and to know exactly who I am, etc, etc.

We'll see how it goes...

-Nic