Disco+ Observations

[Mactrav]

First off I want to thank the developers for this application, I have many little fingers here and big fingers here that love DVD's, Me and my brother have 500+ DVD's so this is awsome for my personal investment.

Here are some observations of using Disco and Disco+ for the last few days.

Disco plus problems, Dumbo 60th aniversary edition has a french, english and spanish begining on the converted disc, this makes it unplayable, this is due to bad authoring of Dumbo, but I believe could be rectified with the user being able to chose audio tracks like (Disco) instead of automatically converting all audio tracks, and also due to the fact that all subtitles are automatically converted, a user choice option would help here too, I will never speak or understand spanish or french and for my home use all I need is english. This may make the conversions smaller?

Second, the iso. option does not work, I know this is being worked on.

Third, Selecting a single title off of a DVD such as OZ second season 2.3 gigs converts to 2.3 gigs single iso file with Disco but Disco+ Converts the same episode to two discs 4 gigs and 2 gigs, just one episode not the whole disc.

Fourth, the file sizes are larger with Disco+ then Disco this goes along with the third question, convertions with DIsco that were 2 disks 4 gigs and a 250 meg are now 4 gigs and 2 gigs with Disco+ the question here is I like the option of combinging a smaller second disc with the larger 1st disc so I only burn 1 DVD-R disc. It was so close with Disco but way larger w/ Disco+ reference disc (Ken Burns Jazz Disc #1).

Anybody else have any observations, please mention the DVD too.

Mactrav

[jazzman]

I finally got it to work...once, with an original DVD. I tried it with my store bought copy of EYES WIDE SHUT. The resulting DVD1 folder starts out with a Tom Cruise interview with no sound track. When it finally hits the main feature the sounds starts. I would like to be able to use Disco+ as a finish utility that splits a prepared file rather than an all encompassing program . I want to be able to feed it a decrypted DVD Backup file that has been converted with Toast to a disc image. This would probably end once and for all the audio synch and mpeg appending issues I have to overcome with most rips using OSex. Every time I try Disco+ however (with a ripped Toast image) I end up with one large DVD folder that is about the same size as the original. I know that Kia & company are working on enhancements and bug fixes so here's to hoping. By the way I'm a paying customer.

[KaiCherry]

First off:

If you are one of our customers the best place to get support is from us directly

That being said:

Disco+ uses an *entirely* different engine to do its work, so it has features and issues that Disco does not.

That said, for v1.5, we are looking at more discreet distraction, as long as this does not do things like change region or macrovision, for example, as this will piss off Valenti to no end.

We are also going to support DVD-Ready mpeg2 muxed streams as input.

Disco+ v1.5 (no eta as of yet) will not be a free upgrade.

Disco+ 1.01, which is due *any minute now*, will be.

Besides the experimental Synchronous FastMode and other fixes/improvents metioned here before, we also added some .iso features:

-Integrated burn support:

You can burn DVDs from Disco+ now if you'd like. In the registered version, You can chose not to burn you .isos, to burn them and keep the .isos or to burn them and delete the .isos when complete.

-DVD Naming:

You can also name your DVDs whatever you want, D+ will add a "1" or "2" to the end of the name. In the Unregistered version, your dvds will have DISCODVD prepended to the name.

As far as I know, disc images do not work. There isn't any support for this in the code, so it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't work.

-K