DVDXCopyExpress released

[Fishingeek]

DVDXCopy Express will convert your DVD into a single DVD. If you are a DVDXCopy customer in good standing, you can download it for free. I am backing-up Saving Private Ryan right now and will post results to those interested.

Fishingeek

[MackemX]

also note it's movie only, so why pay $50 when DVDShrink does it for free and you can also chop the end titles off

a quality comparision would be nice tho , but I doubt it's gonna be worth $50 if you ain't getting it for free cos you paid for DVDXCopy

[Faustus]

Well depends on if I'm more happy with the output... wonder how good their transcoder works?

[jarvis1781]

have you seen the comparison chart on their site?

IC7 has the option to remove extras as well as being able to do episodic discs...they must have missed those points.

[KungFuCow]

Actually they didnt. XCopy Express was never intended to do that sort of DVD. All Express is supposed to do is the main movie, like the old DVD2One.

The next version, DVDXCopy Platinum is supposed to reencode, allow removing of extras, etc. Basically be Instantcopy with hopefully better quality.

[Bob W]

Actually they didnt. XCopy Express was never intended to do that sort of DVD. All Express is supposed to do is the main movie, like the old DVD2One.

The next version, DVDXCopy Platinum is supposed to reencode, allow removing of extras, etc. Basically be Instantcopy with hopefully better quality.

Oh goody and if they somehow are able to make it slower than Instant Copy they could call it "Prolonged Copy".

[Bulten]

hey hey...
now these complaints about instantcopy being slow... again
Actually some of us prefer quality, and don't care that much about the speed.
also you could do something else while waiting. Spending all day in front of the computer isn't healthy. As I told you before, read a good book!

[MackemX]

DXC Express will NOT include menus or special features, but will provide the ability to "squeeze" a DVD9 movie onto ONE DVD5 with superb video quality and lightning fast encoding times.

Super Fast, Patent Pending Encoding to Fit ALL DVD-9 contents including menu, special features and movie to ONE DVDR(-+) with virtually no perceptible quality loss in video!

supposedly it's encoding yet Allistah told me it took 25 mins, the quality is good he reckons but really we need a comparision to see what it's really like

I doubt very much if it will be better quality than IC, though I may be proven wrong and I would like to see it cos I can really say that yet

I bet it's just a trancoder but they have mistakenly on purpose said it's an encoder

25mins including ripping the DVD and it's supposed to be encoding

hmmmmmmmmmmm, very suspicious

[cdtruckn]

made 3 backups with express can't tell the diff. from the masters.

[zerogravity22]

Downloaded express yesterday and have backed up fast and the furious, gladiator, and minority report.... I have dvdshrink and dvd2one also and the quality for express, in my opinion is much much better in comparison.... the rip to burn times were pretty speedy as well.. faster then dvdshrink... all in all, seems like a quality product so far... just like most dvdxcopy members who bought direct from their site, i'm currently in anticipation for the release of Platinum so hopefully that will show promise as well...

[pogue1000]

yep i just got my email from them.... i will have to try this out

but do they still put that annoying warning at the beginning..

I own dvdxcopy but they seem to be one step behind in the game,,

my 2 cents that is!

[NYPlayer]

Well they are not a step behind in DVDXCOPY XPRESS. It's the only 1 click true movie only backup software out there. Transcodes as it rips then burns the DVD.

[Bob W]

If it sold for $20 I would buy it.

[zerogravity22]

Pogue, unfortunately yes that warning screen is still up but I don't much care waiting a couple of seconds in the beginning so long as I have my movie on one disc... Since you're a previous dxc customer, just wanted to let you know, if you didn't already,that you're entitled to a free download of dxc express. hope that helps

[Bob W]

Pogue, unfortunately yes that warning screen is still up but I don't much care waiting a couple of seconds in the beginning so long as I have my movie on one disc... Since you're a previous dxc customer, just wanted to let you know, if you didn't already,that you're entitled to a free download of dxc express. hope that helps

Really a free download? I bought DVDX Copy from the online site so you're saying I get dxc express for nothing?

[NYPlayer]

Yes all licensed users of DVDXCOPY or DVDSPLIT get it for free.

[zerogravity22]

Yeap I believe that free offer for Express is for all dxc customers who purchased it before it's release, either directly from the site, or in retail (If purchased in retail stores or outside the direct site, a fax must be sent over to customer service with proof of the 99.99 purchase of the original dxc), before the release date on 4/28 , hope that helps

Below is what was posted in the dxc forum to clear up any confusion as to what upgrades members are entitled to:



http://dvdxcopy.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/31712

[Bob W]

Well so much for this software. I tried it on two discs and while reading the DVD it gets to 99% and then just stops responding.

[tommyoz]

hey hey...
now these complaints about instantcopy being slow... again
Actually some of us prefer quality, and don't care that much about the speed.
also you could do something else while waiting. Spending all day in front of the computer isn't healthy. As I told you before, read a good book!

Exactly what everyone needs to understand, I've been trying to get this message accross for a while.

[MackemX]

hey hey...
now these complaints about instantcopy being slow... again
Actually some of us prefer quality, and don't care that much about the speed.
also you could do something else while waiting. Spending all day in front of the computer isn't healthy. As I told you before, read a good book!

WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't have to sit here watching the progress bar???

why couldn't someone have told me 50 backups ago

I thought, cos all these guys who are so desperate for speed actually sat in front of the PC watching the progress bar, mean't that I had to sit and watch it aswell cos the longer I sat there the better the quality seemed to be and I was right, it is better

and now you tell me I don't have to sit there but I can read a book!!

won't that affect the quality?

p.s. I think I'll teach the dog to sit and stare at the progress bar instead just in case

[vric]

IF I look to this screen:
http://www.dvdxcopy.com/images/SCREENSHOT.DXCX.options.jpg

you can select only 1 language for the rip ? ok I stick with DVD2one or DVDShrink this "one click" software need a litle bit more option. after all, if you have a DVD-RW, you should have a brain..... you should be able to choose 1 or 2 thing..

[Bob W]

For what it's worth I tried this software since it was free to me having bought DVDX Copy. Anyway my first attempt was a failure, the software just got to 99% in step one and stopped responding (DVD was "Two Weeks Notice"). My second attempt with a different DVD was better and it did the full backup and pretty darn fast IMO. Playback quality is good. The thing I do like about this program is that the DVD I backed up was one that had both wide and full screen versions on the same disc and it's easy with DVDX Copy Express to copy the format you want.

[Bob W]

One thing about DVDX Copy Express that is a plus (I guess) is that I don't have to create a folder on my hard drive for the ripped files and another one for the re-processed files from programs like DVD2one. Just insert the original DVD, Insert a blank DVDR in my burner open DVDX Express and click start.

[MackemX]

One thing about DVDX Copy Express that is a plus (I guess) is that I don't have to create a folder on my hard drive for the ripped files and another one for the re-processed files from programs like DVD2one. Just insert the original DVD, Insert a blank DVDR in my burner open DVDX Express and click start.

I must buy! , I must buy! , excellent time saving unique feature!

just kidding

but what I would like to know Bob W, is a quality comparision between say DVD2One/DVDShrink/Xpressor any other app possible from you?

someone will probably do it quite soon cos the others apps normally had one up within a day of their release

but I'm surprised no-one why no-one has done it for this already, is it not worth mentioning or are all the Xpress owners keeping this new tool under wraps?

[wallace]

I personally have not had the chance to look at theis program, however something I read over at 321 forums made me wonder something. They stated that they do compress the audio, and I have never heard of any of the other one click solution programs (IC, dvd2one, dvdshrink, etc..) compressing the DTS audio. Does anyone have any further information on this and how it might affect your playback, or better yet some testing between original and DXCe on a good sound system??? This just seems to be something completely new in this line of software and I am surprised there hasn't been any discussion on it yet.

[pclady]

The interesting thing for me is that I've spent the last 3 weeks trying to successfully burn dvd movies. I've used every combination possible (with 2 different computers), and NOTHING worked all of the time. Here's the software I've used: InstantCopy, DVD2One, DVD95Copy, DVDShrink and burned with Nero (last 2 versions including Express), RecordNow, DVDDecrypter, ImgTools...Nothing worked all the time...just sometimes.

I was starting to think it was my dvd media cuz I bought cheap ones (Matrix brand), but then it kept happening with the Maxell dvds I bought, too. I even updated my ASPI files. Well, until I used DVDxCopy version 1.5. Now even the cheap media burns PERFECTLY every time (no matter which computer I use). And (my biggest issue which was) the dvds NOT being recognized by every dvd drive...well now they are. So, WOW...this software really works for me.

I myself am looking forward to the Express, so I can fit everything on 1 disc. Never mind Platinum, so I can keep the menus. Yippeee!!!!


Good to hear some have had success already.

Although, in my research - since I used the same burner and discs in more than 1 computer...I'm convinced this whole DVD burning business truly depends on the system's environment. Some things work for some but not for others. I agree with MackemX

[cplevel42]

wallace,

I think that DVDXCopy DOES compress the audio, so that is a negative. There are other negatives as well. The intro warning is a joke and very cheesy. Also, dvdxcopy puts an ID tag file on the burned disc so that if it ever makes its way into an evidence for a legal issue, your system ID is on that DVD.

DVDXcopy was offering a $10,000.00 reward in conjuction with the RIAA for any copied DVDs that were sold on Ebay that had a DVDXCopy ID. While I think it is OK to be against pirated copies being sold on Ebay, I think it is two faced for xcopy to have teemed with the RIAA with all of the trouble they have made for "fare use" advocacy groups.

[NYPlayer]

They claim it compresses the audio... but I believe that is not a true statement. I did the movie the Godfather using DVDXCOPYXPRESS. I then demuxed the audio of the Copy and then the original. I compared the sizes of the audio and they were exactly the same.

[cdtruckn]

dvdxcopy copy's 1.1, dvdxcopy express will if need-be compress audio&video so just the movie fits on a dvd recordable. :?

[Fishingeek]

Well I've done 2 movies and the quility is great. I couldn't see a difference from the original on my 36" TV. The speed on the first movie took awhile but that was on my 2nd computer. On my P4 2.53 it blazed right through a movie. Looks like a great program.

Fishingeek