Moviejack

[sommersby]

Has anyone had experience with this program, I happen to come across a copy of it and was thinking about trying it out, the reviews of it said it works pretty well when you can get it to work, I have read that hardware compatibilty is the main issue with it. It is supposed to be like dvd2svcd only for vcd. Anyone tried it?

[xzarkad]

I have no experience with it, but I have read multiple reviews about this program.
I is a newbie program which basically does the same as DVDx, except that it has burning software integrated.
At the moment the program supports only VCD. SVCD will be available in the next release. The VCD quality seems to be worse that the VCD quality of DVDx.
The software adds a kind of commercial block in the movie; each time that you'll have to change your CD (as VCD's are mostly stored on more than one CD), you will see at the end of the movie part a commercial for their own product, and legal information.
This program, like DVDx, rips the movie directly from the DVD, and encodes this into Mpeg1. So you do not need 5-10 GB free space on your hardrive. This process can take up to 10 hours. This can result in overheating you DVD drive.
This program does not support a preview option, so you cannot make any mistakes about the format of the source.
Another problem is; Moviejack does not check if you have enough available space on your harddrive. This means that Moviejack can give you an error message after a few hours, and the Mpeg file is useless.
There is only one big "pro": it is very userfriendly.
After reading all those reviews I have decided to stick to TMPGEnc. (Or DVDx, although I think that Mpeg1 output from
DVDx has less quality that TMPGEnc)

[sommersby]

I am sure I will stick to the methode I use now, untill something better comes along, as I have been happy for over a year with the results, I was more wanting to try it or get opinions so as to use it as a recomendation for people new to making vcd's since it does appear to be very user freindly.