DVDx ... Is anyone out there ??

[parotface]

I seem to be having very good results using DVDx. Does anyone else use this? I'm curious because I don't see a lot of people bragging about it too much. Maybe I'm doing something wrong or there's another program out there that's better.

I hate to change since I've used this one several times (for simple manuvers) and have gotten use to it. The pictures (video) seem to be pretty good when I encode to SVCD. Any comments would be appreciated.

[theDruid]

parotface,

it's all very subjective I suppose - I personally wasn't that impressed with the quality of the video on DVDx. I don't really do SVCD (and didn't actually realise you could encode to MPEG2 with DVDx), but the MPEG1/VCD quality on DVDx didn't really do much for me when I tried using it on DVD's I'd ripped.

I personally prefer the output from TMPGEnc or Panasonic (standalone or plugin to Flask) - I find that there are fewer obvious compression artifacts in the output from these. Again, I'm talking about MPEG1/VCD here.

DVDx is a good tool - and I do have it installed, and will try it if I'm having problems getting a certain file to encode with my other apps.

That's my 2 pennies worth, anyway.

cheers,

mcdruid.

[Kingnog]

I used to use DVDx for everything! It would work great for VCD's....but when I tried SVCD's, i found that the sound would "pop" every second...which got REALLY annoying, REALLY fast. So thats why I dont use it (plus the fact that im running windows XP and it crashes a lot)