DivxToDVD program, anyone else tried it?

[Happygolucky]

Note: I am not, NOT, affiliated in any way with the author is this program, I'm only a home user who found it, tried it, and so far have been impressed with it.

I saw online a freeware program called DivxTODVD (from http://www.vso-software.fr). It will accept any AVI file as input that is encoded with Divx or Xvid. The output is DVD-ready VIDEO_TS folder with VOB, BUP, IFO files ready to burn. If you have the optional CopyToDVD freeware installed, it will do the burning for you, too.

Anyway, I've tried this software, now at version 0.3.0, and I've been surprised at the good quality of the results, and the speed is impressive. Using TMPGEnc XPress to transcode an AVI file to MPEG2/MP2 for DVD takes about 5 hours, then about another 30 minutes for DVD Author to do the authoring. This DivxTODVD did the same AVI file to authored DVD in just over 1 hour. The picture quality was nearly identical to that of the TMPGENC encoded version.

I noted in the Readme file that the developer says that while the version now is free, future versions may not be. But they have what appears to be a pretty neat product.

Here is the ReadMe of the current version:

DivxToDVD by VSO-Software

This is a sneak preview of DivxToDVD, which launches development of new products in the future.

At this time the application is designed to convert files (AVI, DIVX, VOB, satellite streams, MPEG, IVX, WMV etc.) to a compatible DVD file structure. This can be useful if you want to watch a video file on your TV using a standard home DVD player rather than on your PC.


How it works:

Select your video file (only one in the current version), select the output folder, and press Convert.

During the process the preview window allows you to check if the file is correctly readable and not damaged.

The conversion time depends on your computer's speed and overall configuration.
Once finished, it will try to launch CopyToDVD to burn, which is the recommended burning engine to use, but you can also use other DVD recording products.

This version is free, future versions will implement new features and may not be free anymore.

To obtain more information, please visit: www.vso-software.fr

Version 0.3
- improve support for mpeg4, nerodigital, aac, H264, H263, mov
- more detailed log

Version 0.2.0.13
- fix some aspect ratio problem.
- update some languages
- Do not support nero digital files yet.

Version 0.1.3.13
- Add new translations
- Fix a problem with cancel button and CopyToDVD
- Add command lines options for better integration to CopyToDVD

Version 0.1.2.12
-Fixed conversion crash if source file was > 2 Gigs
-Fixed NTSC frame rate to 29.97 Fps instead of 30 Fps
-Added a combo to select the output video standard (automatic, force PAL or force NTSC)

Version 0.1.1.1 introduces translation and force aspect ratio

Version 0.1 first version

[buzzqw]

as i said in http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&goto=lastpost&threadid=47777 vso are using avcodec.dll as ffmpeg

Try quenc/nuenc/freeenc it's basically the same software without a fancy gui but with less option and without avs support

best regards

BHH

[Happygolucky]

Originally posted by buzzqw
as i said in http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&goto=lastpost&threadid=47777 vso are using avcodec.dll as ffmpeg

Try quenc/nuenc/freeenc it's basically the same software without a fancy gui but with less option and without avs support

best regards

BHH

Why would I want to use something that is "basically the same software" but is less functional?

My only complaint right now with the software is that it doesn't seem to utilize available space well. It took at 2 hour AVI file and made a 2GB DVD. It could have easily increased the bitrate to increase the size of the video files. But, perhaps it is analyzing the AVI file and basing the MPEG2 bitrate on the bitrate of the AVI. No need to use a really high bitrate for the MPEG2 if the original AVI can't provide better. That could be it.

[buzzqw]

Afaik with nuEnc you can specify the number of pass, max/min bitrate,cbr/vbr encoding, aspect ratio, dc precision, encoding matrix, and much much more.

My english isn't good. I cuold better explain with:
NuEnc is basically the same software but with more and more fuctionalities.

Try it

BHH

[Happygolucky]

Originally posted by buzzqw
Afaik with nuEnc you can specify the number of pass, max/min bitrate,cbr/vbr encoding, aspect ratio, dc precision, encoding matrix, and much much more.

My english isn't good. I cuold better explain with:
NuEnc is basically the same software but with more and more fuctionalities.

Try it

BHH OK, that makes sense. With the software I mentioned you don't have any control over anything, it is simply a point and click solution. Could be nice to have some fine-tuning abilities. Thanks.

[Happygolucky]

Originally posted by buzzqw
Afaik with nuEnc you can specify the number of pass, max/min bitrate,cbr/vbr encoding, aspect ratio, dc precision, encoding matrix, and much much more.

My english isn't good. I cuold better explain with:
NuEnc is basically the same software but with more and more fuctionalities.

Try it

BHH
I tried the same AVI file with nuEnc, DivxToDVD, and TMPGEnc Xpress. For NuEnc and TMPG I even used the same .AVS file. I have to say, of the three, NuEnc produced the worst results, I was not impressed at all. It is very configurable, and perhaps with a lot of tweaking I would be able to improve the results. But, with the other two producing better results without all that trial-and-error tweaking, why bother with NuEnc?

I think the DivxToDVD tool is a neat thing. I will probably still use my tried-and-true method of using TMPGEnc Plus or TMPGEnc Xpress, but for a quick and easy tool, I'll keep DivxToDVD on hand.