DVDx 2.0 is out !

[Leon]

The new DVDx 2.0 release is available for download ( http://www.labdv.com ).

New features:
improvement of the GUI, which is now skin enabled,
Audio/Video synchronization improvement,
48KHz support for AVI,
support for new release of nLame

... and several bug fixes.

Leon

LabDV charge $12 to enter!!!!

[Leon]

Yes, I should have told that, but I was thinking everybody knows.

Sorry for that but nobody paid us a server and a network connection.

I guess LabDV is worth it

Leon

[Waylander076]

And if i want to try DVDx 2.0 and don't have a credit card or check account
to buy a vip pass how do i go about getting a copy?

Debit cards i have but no Amex,Visa Mastercard etc...

Waylander wanting to try something and who is willing to pay the $12:95 but can't

[Leon]

Check payment would take 1/4 hour to handle (bank papers, phone, login input) which is minimum $21 manpower cost (with our nowadays high level staff it's much more and we couldn't work anylonger on DV we will become secretaries).

We've got no solution yet, maybe the e-wallet prepared by many banks and ogre Gates...

Leon

[Truman]

http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Decoders/DVDx_2_0.zip

[butol1]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHA I guess that is the backdoor to get DVDx 2.0 huh

[kwag]

DVDx 2.0 = (DVDx 1.8a + New Gui + all 1.x bugs included)

kwag

[Linuxboy00]

Whoo Hoooo...
I love DVDx
I hope people make some cool skins for it!
Cheers,
Linuxboy
And I paid my $12 a long time ago.. lol

[Leon]

I'm working on a solution to provide an "help yourself" FTP server to share DVDx skins (upload and download).

The $12 help to pay for the server and the VIP "selective" access will avoid to put in place a prohibition filter (for virus, sex etc).

Hope to get encouraging feedback (rather than usual easy backdoor, which are just alternative FTPs).

Leon

[Leon]

I've just asked Doom9 to remove DVDx 2.0 from its server.

If we could grab more money we could pay new platforms for the coders... They don't ask anything for their DVDx contribution but they love we can pay some hardware to them, NTSC DVDs for European ones etc... this helps to have a DVDx working NTSC, and less bugs...

It is the choice to any user to contribute to labDV initiatives: hosting freeware like DVDx, VCDwizard, creating and publishing guides, testing hardware.

At the moment a lot of initiatives: DVDx and VCDwizard investigate how to transfer chapter info from DVDx into VCDwizard to get automatic chaptering... Test DVD Master, DVD Complete... Prepare tutorial to make "profesioonal looking" 3D video titling, testing real-time software MPEG encoding (1.5GHz) etc...

Anyone can decide to support labDV...

Léon

[leera2]

I remember a month or so back a discussion thread about a company charging for freeware products.... It seems to me Leon, that you are no better.... you got a nerve charging people to access your site in order to download FREEWARE!!, You are no more than a Pimp!

Anyone reading this thread, there are all sorts of freeware products out there for dvd ripping, DVDx is no more than a collection of these with a gui. Save yourself $12 , and go download the software for free (see the tools section on this site) . If you still want to spend your money make a donation to this site.... Check out all the ripping and conversion guides available here they are excellent...

[Mars-L]

I tried 2.0 but I don't see really worthwhile changes, for sure not enough to pay $12 for it.
The only thing I noticed is the AWFULL skin it has, named Metal or something like that. Ain't there a way to get the old style back again ?

[Linuxboy00]

I have to admit.. I would rather have the old skin back.
I'm glad for the bug fixes and everything, but your right.. the new
skins suck.
It's nice that I can encode at 24fps with it to divx. It just blows my mind!

[Leon]

The sales of freeware you mention are DVD Copy and other which are a bunch of freeware sold as a unique magic solution. And all these packages include DVDx (and Smartripper and so on).

DVDx is an all-in-one DVD ripping freeware, not a collection of someone else, you might check before posting wrong.

I hope people don't think we're just charging freeware, and appreciate what labDV team is globally doing to contribute to DV world.

Personally I'm invloved in the infrastructure and see the bills from ISP and servers. Anyway we don't charge any software, we charge to access labDV, which provides a particularly fast FTP server so people will save downloading time (ISP charges) and it's also more fun to browse a fast site. You should remember when labDV (and DVDx homepage) weren't reachable due to traffic overload. And VCDhelp hasn't solved it's funding issue and face access speed issues from time to time...

Btw, we share our revenues with other DV sites, see Media-Video sponsoring http://www.media-video.com , these guys run the most French popular DV site and they're still looking for a solution to survive as a free site. We help them by sponsoring with our little revenues. If we had more we could help more...

Anyway, when we were free it was impossible to find fast and reliable mirrors, and now, every DV site wants to host DVDx mirror!!!

We are talking with CHIP.de and winload.de so they offer mirroring and they make some advertising for us.

So you can download DVDx from their sites for free, their download speed is somehow correct.

You can also become a labDV VIP member and access to a fast and rich (library) website dedicated to DV...

Leon

[Askani]

Here's the link to DVDX 2.0. Leon talks about this page in his comments.http://www.chip.de/downloads_updates/downloads_updates_8610367.html