| 2002-2007 |
| We have updated our tools/software list with links to old versions for most freeware and free software, like DVD43, tsMuxeR. And we are also of course hosting the last versions for most video freeware and free software, just click on the Mirror download link to download the latest version directly. Baldrick - Apr 12 06:09 |
| We had our first server hardware crash yesterday, the RAM had failed. It's replaced now and everything should work as usual. Baldrick - Mar 30 05:53 |
| As you may have noticed have we updated our site design, centered, rounded corners and a new color scheme. If you don't like a centered site you can change to a Left-aligned layout in the menu to the left.
And please contact us directly if you find a link that wont work. Baldrick - Aug 27 13:02 |
| We have added HD DVD writers to our HD DVD, Blu-ray and DVD Writer list.
HD DVD, Blu-ray Decrypters and Authoring sections in our Tools list. HD DVD, Blu-ray technical video details and folder file structure. Baldrick - Jan 25 03:12 |
| We have had some email sending problems the last 2 months. Some picky email servers requires a so called SPF record for the sender domain name and we haven't had one. We are working on it and we will also resend all activation emails. And be sure to check the SPAM/JUNK folders also. Baldrick - Nov 23 01:50 |
| • Receive an email when your favorite software has been updated, just search for the tool in our Tool list and click on Notify Me / Alert Me.
• We have updated BD and HD DVD video technical details and added BD and HD DVD media in our Media list. Baldrick - Oct 26 04:50 |
| Our site will experience some planned downtime on this Sunday (July 30) for a server upgrade. Baldrick - Jul 28 04:59 |
| We have added Computer Blu-ray Disc (BD) writers to our DVD Writer list. Baldrick - May 24 12:15 |
| As you may have noticed have we added some HD-DVD and BluRay information,
HD-DVD and BluRay What is Section, far from complete though. HD-DVD and BluRay(no bluray out yet) players in our DVD Player list. We will soon also add hddvd,bluray PC writers and desktop recorders. Baldrick - May 08 08:12 |
| Firstly, thanks to all the entrants into the first VideoHelp.com Short Film Competition. It has been hard work on our side getting this competition off the ground, but it pales into insignificance compared to the obvious planning, effort and thought that has gone into the excellent short film submissions.
Prizes: http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=291436 Baldrick - Jan 29 05:09 |
| There are twelve short films that are eligible for the competition!
Compressed versions are now open for viewing to the public from here: http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=290070 Voting on the films will remain open for a total of 14 days from this date, after which, the Member's Choice Award will be determined! Please go and download these excellent short films and choose your favourite! Baldrick - Jan 14 05:42 |
| We have added some new searchable DVD Features,
- Portable DVD Players - DVD Recorder with VCR - 14" TV DVD Players - MPEG2HD/TS(hdtv files) DVD Players - 720p/1080i UpScaling/UpConversion DVD Players - HDMI Output DVD Players - AVC/H264 DVD Players - Memory Card Reader DVD Players - WMVHD DVD Players These new features are only added to new added DVD Players. Baldrick - Nov 17 04:45 |
| The inaugral VideoHelp.com Short Film Competition is now Open!
There are some great prizes to be won... with the winner of The Baldrick taking home a cool $US 500 cash prize! The competition closes on December 15 so get cracking! The official website with more information on the competition is here: http://shortfilm.videohelp.com Best of luck! Baldrick - Sep 24 12:55 |
| Desktop DVD Recorders with DVD-R DL write support. Baldrick - Jun 14 15:08 |
| Video De/Multiplexers - AVI, OGM, MKV, VOB, MPG, MP4, TS, DVB video multiplexers and demultiplexer(join/split video and audio).
Desktop/Screen capture - Screen capture recording tools. Video encoders H264/AVC - H264/AVC video encoders. Basic Video Editors MPG - Cut and join MPG,SVCD,DVD,MPG2,VOB video editors. Basic Video Editors AVI - Cut and join AVI,WMV,ASF,DivX,XviD video editors. Baldrick - Jun 05 07:04 |
| We have added DivX/XviD chipset to our DVD Player list. You can also search by chipset or chipset manufacturer, some examples
DVD Players with Sigma DM8500 chipset DVD Players with MediaTek chipset DVD Players with ESS Vibratto chipset DVD Players with Sigma EM8620L chipset (High Definition) We have not added chipset to all DivX DVD Players yet because it is not easy to find information for all players. If you want to help add chipset information mail us or read this forum topic. Baldrick - May 06 08:18 |
| April Fools! The required subscription was just a april fool joke...:-). Discuss in our forum. Baldrick - Apr 01 13:16 |
| We have added some new video formats to our DVD Player list, separated DivX and XviD and added WMV, WMV HD, DivX HD, XviD HD, MPEG2HD/HDTV TS. Please help us update the list, post your user reports now!
Baldrick - Mar 14 09:13 |
| You may have already noticed that we have added RSS feeds in the menu here to the left. We have RSS news feeds for our forum and tools.
Latest tools: http://www.videohelp.com/rss/tools Latest forum topics: http://www.videohelp.com/rss/forum Copy the url and paste in your RSS feed software. Baldrick - Mar 11 10:33 |
| We have added DVD-R DL in the DVD Player list. Remember that the DVD Player list is based on your user report, so don't forget to report how DVD-R DL or any other media works on your DVD Player. You can also post your media comments in our DVD Media list. Baldrick - Feb 19 08:02 |
| We have made it easier to sort dvd media by the Media Code / Manufacturer ID, just click on the code to search for all media with that code. Examples
TYG02 media TYG01 media YUDEN000T02 media Baldrick - Feb 06 19:52 |
| We have updated our Site Statistics. Over 2 million unique visitors visited our site in January and they viewed a total of 24 million pages.
Monthly statistics Daily statistics Country statistics Connect to site from Browsers statistics Operating System statistics Baldrick - Feb 02 07:29 |
| We had some server problems yesterday and this morning but it should hopefully work a bit better now. We may have been targeted by a Denial Of Service attack. CDRlabs.com experienced similiar problems yesterday. Baldrick - Jan 25 07:43 |
| Happy New Year! Thanks once again to all who have donated and to all who visits our sponsors (check at the bottom right of this page or in the menu to the left). It helps us keep this site running. Baldrick - Jan 01 08:31 |
| We have added DVD-R DL also called DVD-R9 to the DVD Writer list. A DVD-R DL is a dual/double layered DVD-R that can store 7.95 computer GB. Baldrick - Dec 28 05:28 |
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| Our site will be down a few hours tomorrow (Dec 22). We need to update some server web software. Baldrick - Dec 21 18:09 |
| Some of you may have seen messed up column tables in the DVD Writer, DVD Player and the DVD Recorder lists. But it should be fixed now. Thanks to all who reported it. Baldrick - Dec 16 09:03 |
| Basic Video Editors MPG - MPG, MPG2, VCD, SVCD, DVD basic join and cut editors. No video reencoding.
Basic Video Editors AVI - AVI, DivX, XviD, DV basic join and cut editors. Baldrick - Nov 30 08:40 |
| Video Streaming Recording - Download streaming media to your hd.
Video Encoders to DVD - Convert video to DVD, no all-in-one dvd tools. Video Encoders to AVI - Convert video to AVI, DivX, XviD. All converters, encoders are under the Video Encoders section. Baldrick - Nov 28 12:47 |
| If you want to restore your old crappy video visit our new Restoration Forum, the process of improving the quality of your audio and video whether by means of hardware or software. Moderated by lordsmurf. Baldrick - Nov 27 07:29 |
| We have moved all 266 Desktop DVD Recorders from the DVD Writer list to a new DVD Recorder list. You can search by both write features and read support.
Example: DVD Recordes with DVD+and-R/W support DVD Recordes with minimum 100 GB HDD DVD Recordes with HDD and MP3 read support But note that most read support features are based user reports. Baldrick - Nov 14 16:34 |
| I have added 4 new tool sections,
Handheld/Mobile/PocketPC - Convert your video to mobile,pocketpc video formats. All-In-One DVD Converters - Convert, Author and burn with one tool. Codec/Video Identifiers - Identify video formats and installed video codecs Video Streaming - Stream TV/Video over the internet and "capture" streaming media. If you miss a tool submit it here. Baldrick - Oct 05 09:22 |
| Our site will be offline for a 10-20 minute time frame between the hours of 12:00am and 6:00am CDT/GMT-6 (7.00-13.00 CEST/GMT+1) tomorrow Friday, October 1st. Baldrick - Sep 30 04:14 |
Login to our forum, then go to the guides section and add the favorite guides to your own personal list by click on the "Add this to your personal list".
To view your own list in the guides section just select your username under "Personal guide list". You can also view other users guides lists, My, Baldrick, guides list daamon guides list Baldrick - Sep 21 05:55 |
| You can now select hits per page in all our lists, example
All Pioneer DVD Players (200 hits per page) All dual layer DVD Writers (100 hits per page) It is max 200 per page or it will slow down our site too much. Baldrick - Sep 19 08:28 |
| Thanks for all donations!!! It has helped us get a new host, www.theplanet.com, and also a new faster server. Most stuff should have been moved to this new server now but if you still see some errors please post them in our forum or contact us.
I have also updated the donation list, added all donation comments, ordered by latest first and the two latest donations will be listed on the front page. Thanks again for all donations and comments! Baldrick - Sep 12 17:23 |
| We are currently moving to a new server so everything may not work as it should for a few days. Post bug reports here. Baldrick - Sep 06 23:03 |
| We have now added OEM, Chipset and Write type(CAV, CLV, PCAV, ZCLV) to most of the 494 PC DVD Writers in our DVD Writer list. For explanations of these new features scroll down at the bottom of the DVD Writer list. Baldrick - Aug 18 14:28 |
| We have added some new searchable features to our DVD Writer list,
PC DVD Writers: CD-ROM read speed, example 48x DVD-ROM read speed, example 16x Slim Size Half height/Standard External Desktop DVD Recorders: FireWire VCR HD and size, example 40GB, 160GB We are also currently adding OEM drive, chipset and writing type(CAV,PCAV, ZCLV, CLV) to most PC DVD Writers. It will be listed and searchable later. Baldrick - Aug 04 07:28 |
| Site statistics from July 2004. Baldrick - Aug 03 15:38 |
| I have added two new tool subsections,
All-In-One DVD Converters, tools that can convert, author and burn DVD. HTPC, Home Theatre PC tools Baldrick - Jun 29 07:29 |
| You can now post a DVD Media package picture when you post a comment or add a new media in our DVD Media list. Hopefully it will make it easier to identify the media. Baldrick - May 20 08:11 |
| I have added some new subsections to our tool list,
DV DigitalTV/DVB/HDTV ISO/Image Baldrick - May 11 07:12 |
| I have splitted up our digital cards by DVB and HDTV type,
DVB-T cards DVB-C cards DVB-S cards HDTV cards if you find a digital card that we haven't added submit it here. Baldrick - May 09 09:25 |
| I added DVD+R DL to our DVD Player list. Baldrick - May 01 12:58 |
| I have added DVD+R Dual Layer to our DVD Writer list. Example:
DVD+R DL DVD Writers Baldrick - Apr 29 12:57 |
| You can now change our site layout, you find it under the menu here to the left. You must have cookies enabled or it wont work. We will add more site layouts in the future, you can also customize your own site layout(choose custom layout). Baldrick - Apr 26 06:12 |
| We have changed domain name to VideoHelp.com. DVDRHelp.com and VCDHelp.com will still work fine but you will automatically be forwarded to our new domain. Baldrick - Apr 26 05:29 |
| Point your mouse over any latest tool, any latest guide or any latest forum topic, wait a second and you will be able to read the description or the first and last forum post without clicking on the link.
Example: AVI to VCD wont play on newer dvd player 
DvdReMake - Strip Down A DVD. Baldrick - Apr 04 05:50 |
I have added tool version history to the tool list. You can also view the latest version history on the front page, just point the mouse over the  -icon.Baldrick - Mar 29 14:04 |
| You can now search DVD Players by country,
DivX DVD Players available in United States DivX DVD Players available in Sweden MP3 DVD Players available in Spain Remember that the DVD Player features and also the country are based on user reports. We have not verified any features. Baldrick - Mar 13 06:50 |
| I have updated the DVD Media list, added
-Media Package type and number of disks in each package -Media Made In -UPC/EAN Code to each user comment, it helps other users to identify the dvd media. Baldrick - Feb 28 02:40 |
| I have updated the guide list,
- Rate guides, only once/IP - List all guides by Popularity/Views, Clicks or Rating - Old guides will be moved to an archive - Remember that you also can search on conversion, tools and author like VCD to DVD, IfoEdit and SatStorm. Submit guides here. Baldrick - Jan 31 08:03 |
| I have added some new features to the DVD Player list,
DVD-JPG, JPG Images on DVD Media DivX/XviD selectable subs DVD Recorder DVI Output Home Cinema System and also Country, it will help other users to locate the DVD Player. Remember that you must report about the new features. Search for your player and submit a report. Baldrick - Jan 15 14:48 |
| I have added order by features to the DVD Writer list and also BitSetting support, for example
Dual DVD±R/W Writers ordered by Rating Popular DVD Writers Dual DVD±R/W Writers with BitSetting support Baldrick - Jan 10 10:46 |
| I have also added order by features to the Capture Card list, for example
DV Converters ordered by Rating MPEG2 realtime Capture Cards ordered by Price Capture Cards ordered by Views/Popularity. Baldrick - Jan 10 09:00 |
| I have added better "Order by"-features to the DVD player list, for example
DivX Players ordered by Rating Pioneer Players ordered by Rating Sony Players ordered by Price Philips Players ordered by Views/Popularity (Views is a new feature so most Players will have 0) Baldrick - Jan 09 12:33 |
| I added a weighted rating to the DVD Writer list. It requires at least 5 votes to get a decent weighted rating value. Top rated PC DVD Writers Top rated Desktop DVD Recorders Baldrick - Dec 04 08:14 |
| Our site should respond a bit faster now. I did some database cleaning and optimized some stuff and it will hopefully help for a while. Baldrick - Dec 03 13:26 |
| We have lately had a huge increase of visitors(+20%) and our server can't handle that very well( it is very slow between 12.00-18:00 GMT-6). I will try fix it but it can take some days. If anyone is interested in helping us host some part of the site like the forum please email me. Baldrick - Dec 02 17:04 |
| Values between ( ) are from November 2002.
1 500 000 unique visitors* (1 000 000) 15 000 000 page views (7 000 000) 900 GB bandwitdh (1000) 70 000 daily unique visitors* (50 000) 500 000 daily page views (250 000) 30 GB daily bandwitdh (35) visitors from these countries(Top 10): 42% from United States 12% Great Britain 7% Canada 5% Germany 4% Sweden 4% Netherlands 3% Australia 2% Italy 2% France 2% Spain *unique visitors = unique IP-Address Baldrick - Nov 02 03:17 |
| I have updated the order by Compatibility in the Media list. It is based on both how many dvd players the media works on and burning reliability. Baldrick - Oct 31 07:44 |
| I have added some new Tool list features,
-Search for conversion, like DVDs to one DVDR tools MOV to tools RM to AVI tools -Search for dvd author features, like Selectable subtitle support (but I haven\'t updated all dvd author tools yet though, if you are interested in helping me add dvd author features read this) I have also added a new order by button, order by Popular tools. You can also order each section by Views/Popularity, just select a section under Search this section and Views/Popularity under List order by, like DVD Author tools order by Views/Popularity. Baldrick - Oct 08 11:21 |
| Sorry for the downtime. We have had some overheating problems with our server but we have now changed to a bigger server case. It will hopefully fix the problems. Baldrick - Sep 30 06:15 |
| Here is what\'s new in this final release of v2.3:
1) ADDED: The Following programs have been added: - EasyDivX v0.82 - DVD2SVCD v1.2.1 b2 2) UPDATED: The Following programs have been updated: - CladDVD 2.5.0 - VirtualDub 1.5.4 - burnatonce 0.99a - VCDEasy v1.1.5.2 - VCDwizard v2.8.2.0 - FireBurner v2.21 WE - Alcohol 120% v1.4.6 - DVD Decrypter v3.1.6 - BlindWrite Suite v4.5.7 - MC MPEG Encoder v1.4 - Nero Burning-ROM v6.0 You find Sefy\'s guides at www.dvdrhelp.com/sefy or under our DVD RIP section. Baldrick - Sep 21 03:04 |
| Thanks once again for all donations! We have now received over 1000 donations. Donations helps us and inspire us to keep this site going and updated (and freee). You find our donate page here. Baldrick - Sep 19 07:40 |
| Sefy has updated the CD and DVD ReWriters 90/99 minutes list. Baldrick - Sep 17 12:24 |
| I have updated the DVD Media list
. Added DVD-RAM support . Added Media inkjet printable reliability in the comments section . Improved the search for media codes, searching for example for MXLRG01 did not give any hits but now it does(it ignores spaces and .). Baldrick - Sep 16 05:32 |
| I have added search by write speed, for example 8x DVD+R writers. Baldrick - Sep 08 04:18 |
| Sorry for the last days downtime. Our new upgraded server crashed. It was probably some overheating problems with our new faster CPUs. We are working on it but we haven\'t fixed it yet so the site may crash again. Baldrick - Sep 07 02:29 |
| The server upgrade yesterday went like planned. The upgrade, new faster CPUs, will hopefully make our site a bit faster. Baldrick - Sep 04 15:11 |
| Tomorrow(Sep 3) around 14.00(GMT-6)/21.00(GMT+1) will our site be down a few hours. We are going to upgrade our server. Baldrick - Sep 02 14:46 |
| I have updated the DVD Writer list again, -Moved all write speeds to the Write support column -Added cd and dvd-rom read speeds -Added Buffer size -Updated all more info-links -Updated all prices Baldrick - Aug 14 08:53 |
| I have updated the Capture Card list, -Updated all more info-links -Updated all prices -Added a description to all Cards(info from manufacturer site) -Added USB2 -Added Digital TV and HDTV -Added price search. Please help us keep the list correct and up to date, if you find any errors email me and submit new Capture Cards here. Baldrick - Aug 12 06:12 |
| I added a new PC connection type, PCMCIA. I also changed USB to USB2 because all DVD Writers supports it and most does also require it. Baldrick - Aug 09 06:38 |
| I have updated the Tools list with two new features, screenshots(click on the tool to view it) and price information(under Type). Please also help us keep the Tools list up to date by report new versions, wrong links and such by click on Report this tool. You can also submit tools that we not yet have added. Baldrick - Jul 30 06:26 |
| Our site is back online after a few hours of downtime. The colo facility where our server is located did a test with there backup batteries last night and it failed. Baldrick - Jun 27 08:53 |
| We have added a forum user warning system. If you violate any of our forum rules you may receive a warning and after 5 warnings you will be banned. Baldrick - Jun 25 04:35 |
| Our site may be down on Saturday and Sundary(21-22 June). We are are going to change to a new IP.
Baldrick - Jun 19 04:13 |
| I have finally updated the DVD Player list with some new features, . DVD-RAM support . Multisystem real PAL/NTSC converting . Portable DVD Player . DVD-TV Combo . SVCD with VCD Header and I have also added so you can search on . Dolby Digital built-in decoder . DTS built decoder . Progressive scanning. But remember that YOU must report about the features so it will take a while until the list is kinda accurate. Baldrick - Jun 17 05:22 |
| I have updated our Tools page to a Tool user comments list similar to our other \"lists\". To be able to post comments and rate tools you must have a forum account.
I have added many new tools but far from all so please help us and submit new tools here. I\'m also working to add feature search, search on conversion and some specific features (DVD Author features and DVD to DVD features to begin with). Baldrick - Jun 11 07:18 |
| Our site is back online after a few hours of downtime(server moved). Baldrick - Jun 08 04:10 |
| Our site will be down a few hours this weekend(probably Saturday) because our webprovider will physical move the server. Baldrick - Jun 05 16:20 |
| I have updated the online Bitrate calculator, it should now calculate better for DivX4+(I used 1kbit=1024bits before but most encoders use 1kbit=1000bits). The SVCD/CVD and DVD are also updated, if you click on advanced you will see how big the actually video mpeg file will be and also how big the \"overhead\" will be. The overhead is extra bytes that get added when you author to SVCD/CVD or DVD. Baldrick - Jun 05 16:15 |
| We have made a new SVCD2DVDMPG forum in cooperation with the SVCD2DVDMPG author, Chrissyboy. You find the forum in our main forum here. Baldrick - May 29 05:06 |
| Site is back after a few minutes of downtime(I changed IP too early...we are not going to change IP until 20th June). But everything may not work as it should for a few hours. Baldrick - May 27 13:08 |
| I added DV Converter as a search feature in our Capture Card list. If you are interested in helping us moderate the capture card list(add new capture cards, remove \"bad\" user comments) then email me. Baldrick - May 26 10:05 |
| Our site may be down on Tuesday and Wednesday(27-28 May). We are currently trying to fix the problem without any downtime but it may not work(we are going to change IP). Baldrick - May 23 18:29 |
| Looking for an advanced but fairly easy to use DVD Authoring tool? Then try DVD-lab, it supports many DVD features and can also directly import SVCD and SATV mpg files. Download DVD-lab trial here. Discuss DVD-lab 1.1 here Baldrick - May 20 07:00 |
| The plus version of SVCD2DVDMPG makes it even easier for you to \"convert\" VCDs or SVCDs to DVDs, it has basic DVD authoring support and can also mix PAL/NTSC VCD or SVCD on same DVD. View the SVCD2DVDMPG+ how to here(screenshots) and discuss it here. Baldrick - May 06 05:45 |
| We have made a new forum category dedicated to ffmpegX, a MacOSX VCD, SVCD, DVD and DivX tool, in cooperation with the ffmpegX creator and our mac forum moderator major. You find the ffmpegX forums here or just go the forum main page and scroll down a bit. Baldrick - May 06 04:03 |
| TMPGEnc 2.511 has been relased. Discuss the new version here. Baldrick - Apr 29 18:03 |
| 321 studios have released a new DVD9 to one DVDR ripping tool, DVDXCopy Xpress. Discuss it here. Baldrick - Apr 29 18:02 |
| The TMPGEnc team have released a DVD Authoring tool, TMPGEnc DVD Author. It supports basic DVD Authoring with menus and chapters, it can also \"reauthor\" DVDs directly from VCDs or DVDs. Download the TMPGEnc DVD Author trial here and discuss it here. Baldrick - Apr 26 11:56 |
| DVD2one for MacOS X has been released. Get the DVD2oneX trial here and discuss it in our Mac forum here. Baldrick - Apr 22 08:30 |
| Thanks once again for all donations. It encourage us to keep this site running and updated. Baldrick - Apr 10 06:49 |
| We have made a new Guide, How To and Article list. It is a list with Guides,How To\'s or other video articles on our site and other sites. You can search or list guides by tools, made by, format conversion, OS and by category. Some examples: Tools search - DVD Shrink guides, Made by search - Guides made by Truman, Format conversion - DivX to DVD, Category search - Beginner all-in-one guides, OS search - MacOS guides. We will constantly add new guides and articles and you can submit your guide or some guide that we have misssed here. The list is still under construction so you may experience some minor bugs. You find the guides list in our menu to the left under HOW TO. Baldrick - Apr 09 06:24 |
| DVD Shrink is a new and free DVD9 to DVD5 backup tool. It rips and shrinks your DVDs so it fits on one recordable DVD in 15-60 minutes. You can choose to backup the movie only or the entire dvd with menus and extra materials. Download it here and discuss it here. Baldrick - Apr 07 05:49 |
| Have you been looking for a \"cheap\" and also advanced DVD Authoring tool? Then may DVDLab be something for you, it supports many DVD features such as advanced menus, menu transitions, AC3(DD) and DTS support and you can even put SVCDs directly on DVDs without any preparation. Download the DVDLab pre-release trial here and test it. Discuss DVDLab here. Baldrick - Apr 07 04:15 |
| Sefy has updated his DVD Backup guides. Read here what\'s new in version 2.2. Baldrick - Apr 07 04:03 |
| Read here what is new or download it here. Baldrick - Apr 07 03:56 |
| Tired of using several different tools to copy/convert your (S)VCDs to DVDs then try (S)VCD2DVDMPG v1.0. It helps you to rip (S)VCD BIN/CUE files or (S)VCD MPGs directly to mpg files that can be authored to DVD. (S)VCD2DVDMPG requires the .net framework to run. Discuss (S)VCD2DVDMPG here. Baldrick - Apr 01 03:31 |
| DVD2ONE v1.1.0 does now support full disk copy mode, convert a DVD9 including everything such as menus and extra material to one DVD5 in about 15-30 minutes. Discuss DVD2ONE v1.1 here.
If you are using Instant Copy be sure to get the latest update 7.0.1.114. You can get it from mrbass great Instant Copy guide here. Discuss Instant Copy 7.0.1 here. DVD95Copy is another new and pretty fast(30-120 minutes) DVD9 to one DVD5 tool. Discuss DVD95Copy here. Baldrick - Mar 20 08:04 |
| We have made a forum archive for all forum posts. You don\'t need to use the archive yet because all posts still exists in our main forum. But in the future we may clean the main forum and then you can find old topics the archive. Baldrick - Mar 12 14:25 |
| Have you made your own guide/tutorial/howto? or just know a good guide that we have not linked to. Then post it in our Guides on other sites forum. Forum users can then discuss the guide and we will also add the guide link to our how to sections. If you want to make a guide and don\'t have any webspace you can post the guide with images in our User guides forum here. Baldrick - Mar 08 07:57 |
| As you may have noticed has our site been very slow some parts of the day lately. But we have found the server problems and fixed them so our site should respond a bit faster now. (It was our beta DVD Media list that was very very badly optimized) Baldrick - Feb 23 02:55 |
| I updated the VCD to DVD guide, removed the tmpgenc audio converting because Ulead Moviefactory can both convert and burn. Moviefactory will only convert the audio to standard dvd audio and not the video part. Baldrick - Feb 19 16:36 |
| As you probably have noticed lately have our server been a bit slow. But we are currently working on it, adding more hardware, upgrading and trying new web software and we will also clean(archive) our forum to improve the speed. But it will take some days to get it all together and the site will probably be down a bit now and then but just try again later. Baldrick - Feb 19 04:29 |
| Pinnacle have released their new DVD Copying tool, Pinnacle InstantCopy. InstantCopy supports DVD-9 to one recordable DVD-5 converting (removing extra features or/and reconvert), DVD-5 to DVD-5 Copying and also DVD to VCD/SVCD and CD Copying. Demo available here. Discuss InstantCopy here. I updated my DVD-9 to one recordable DVD guide to include InstantCopy. DVDBot is another new DVD Copying tool with also DVD-9 to one DVD-5 converting features. It supports DVD2ONE fast compression and has also built in ripping/decrypting. Beta version available here. Discuss DVDBot here. Baldrick - Feb 14 08:20 |
| You can now upload an image when you post a new topic or reply in our forum. Like a screenshot of your video problems or applications settings. In the message just write [img]filename.gif[/img] and under Upload Image choose your image file. Baldrick - Feb 11 14:58 |
| Added How to identify a video source, what video and audio codecs it requires and its properties. to our PLAY section. Baldrick - Feb 10 19:52 |
| Our irc webchat should work better now and it also works with more browsers. You can also join our chat using MiRC, join the network dalnet and the channel #vcdhelp. Remember to stay in the chat for a while. Baldrick - Feb 07 12:57 |
| We have changed our name to DVDRHelp.com. It does not mean that we are going to abandon VCD(SVCD,CVD,XVCD), it just means that we will focus more on DVD Recordable in the future and less on VCD. You can still use vcdhelp.com but you will be automatically forwarded to dvdrhelp.com. Baldrick - Feb 03 12:10 |
| The DVD Media list now supports DVD+R and DVD+RW media, new report features such as burning reliability and dvd writer firmware. You can now also search for media burnt with your dvd writer or media that works with your dvd player. Examples: Media burnt with Sony DRU500A Media that works with the Sony Playstation 2 In the future will we also try to moderate(remove,edit bad reports) the list better. Remember that the list is still a beta version, so you may experience some bugs but everything you post will be saved. Baldrick - Jan 31 18:48 |
| Our email server does not work as it should. If you have posted a dvd player, dvd writer, dvd hack, dvd media, capture card comment or have registered in our forum lately and not have received any activation email, then you can email me and I can manually resend the activation email. Baldrick - Jan 30 07:39 |
| You can now list the DVD Writers by connection in our DVD Writer comments list, for example DVD Writers with USB/USB2 connection. If you find any DVD Writers features that are not correct please email us and please also report "bad" comments by clicking on the report this post-link. Baldrick - Jan 29 06:02 |
| Tired of using several different tools to convert your dual layer DVD-9s to one recordable DVD+-R/W? Then try DVD2ONE, it transcodes your DVD-9 to one recordable DVD(DVD-5) in 15-30 minutes, including several audio tracks and subtitles. But it does not keep the menus or extra video material and the video quality may not be the best(these features will be added and improved in future versions). You can download the DVD2ONE demo here. Discuss DVD2ONE here. Baldrick - Jan 27 06:43 |
| As you probably have noticed, we have added a new Glossary section with explanations of common video terms. Today there are only a few terms but expect many more video terms in the future. If you are interested in helping us add new glossary entries read this. You find our Glossary in our menu here to left under the WHAT IS section. Baldrick - Jan 25 04:03 |
| Our simple java bitrate calculator should work better now. I had compiled it wrong, it did not work using some java versions. Let me know if you still get any Java errors while running it. Baldrick - Jan 24 10:00 |
| VCDEasy v1.1.4 is now available. Ulead DVD PictureShow 2.0 has also recently been released. Baldrick - Jan 23 08:15 |
| Tired of "jerky" video playback when playing AVI(DivX,XviD) or MPG(DVD,SVCD) on a PC connected to a TV using Video-Out/TV-Out? Then try ReClock, it is a DirectShow filter with a new reference clock that is locked to the video cards clock to ensure good playback and it can also adjust the frame rate to match the video card refresh rate. Read the included readme.rtf for a full description. Download ReClock 0.99e here. Baldrick - Jan 19 13:16 |
| Get this VirtualDub-MPEG2 v1.4.13 mod if you are tired of using DVD2AVI or VFAPI to be able to open MPEG2/VOB files in Virtualdub. This Virtualdub mod supports MPEG2(SVCD,DVD) and VOB file import. I updated the Virtualdub Guide to include a SVCD to DivX using Virtualdub-MPEG2. Baldrick - Jan 18 18:41 |
| TMPGEnc 2.510 has been released. If you have had problem making XVCD, for example if you have tried fitting one movie on one CD and it would never fit even if you changed the bitrate, then be sure to get this new version. It was a known bug in TMPGEnc 2.59. Remember also to select Video CD (non standard) under Settings->System when making XVCD. Download TMPGEnc 2.510 here. Baldrick - Jan 17 08:41 |
| Sonic Foundry has released public beta versions of their new video tools, the new updated proffesional editing software Vegas Video 4.0 and a new DVD authoring tool, DVD Architect 1.0. Download the beta versions here. Baldrick - Jan 16 14:38 |
| I updated the VCD to DVDR guide and SVCD to DVDR guide. I added how to author and burn with Ulead MovieFactory 2 instead of the old no longer sold SpruceUp. Ulead MovieFactory 2 will let you make a simple menu and it will also make the VCD/SVCD clips play continues without having to join the MPGs before(often causing sync problems). Baldrick - Jan 15 11:19 |
| Our user DVD Player compatibility list now contains over 2 000 DVD Players! If your DVD Player is not in the list please submit it here. Please also help us keep the list correct by post your comments and please also report user reports that are incorrect by clicking on the report this post-link. Baldrick - Jan 14 09:15 |
| Sony's first desktop DVD Recorder will be the first dual DVD-R/W and DVD+RW recorder, the Sony RDR-GX7. It also supports DVD-R but no DVD+R. You find more technical details here and Sony's press release here . But it won't be out until June... Baldrick - Jan 11 06:38 |
| I updated the basic vcdhelp java bitrate calculator. Changed the layout a bit, added hours, changed the custom CD/DVD size to MB for all types in advanced mode and you are now also able to calculate the size for a specific bitrate, just change the "calculated bitrate"(it only works in advanced mode). Baldrick - Jan 09 15:21 |
| The Norwegian teenager who helped crack a code meant to protect the content of DVDs won full backing from an Oslo court on Tuesday. The court acquitted him on all charges, a ruling that comes as a crushing blow to public prosecutors and entertainment giants. Read the full news article here or discuss in our forum. Baldrick - Jan 07 06:04 |
| 2003 promises to be an exciting year for VCDHelp.com and to coincide with the new year, the new Official VCDHelp.com Demo Video-CD has been released by vitualis! This is a VCD2.0 disc on an 8-cm CD-R that's packed full of useful tests and resources -- just the test disc you need when you go hunting for a new DVD player! At $US 10 + $US 5 (p&h) shipping internationally, get your copy now! For more information and on-line purchasing, click here! Baldrick - Jan 01 06:04 |
| Sefy has updated the Ultimate Newbie DVD Conversion Guide to version 2.1. Read here what is new in v2.1. Sefy´s classical guide is also updated. Baldrick - Dec 31 05:32 |
Baldrick - Dec 23 15:12 |
| I have updated the old DivX/AVI cut/split Virtualdub guide to cover if the audio is in VBR(Variable BitRate), How to cut a DivX/AVI using Virtualdub. I have also updated the how to convert to DivX guide with the new DivX 4+ and also with MP3 audio, How to convert to DivX using Virtualdub. The guides are very basic(cause this is not really a DivX site...), if you want more Virtualdub information read the included help, doom9.org guides, DivX.com guides or Nickys guides. Baldrick - Dec 20 08:33 |
| Adam has created a dvd menu ripping guide, how to rip the menus, motion menus and chapters from a DVD and recreate them on a VCD or SVCD. You find adam's DVD to (S)VCD with Menu’s and Chapters guide here. Baldrick - Dec 13 04:19 |
| Sefy has updated the CD & DVD Writers comparison list, all links and prices are updated. Baldrick - Dec 10 09:47 |
| Sorry about the downtime yesterday(Dec 9). But this time it was not our server that crashed, it was our DNS service from www.mydomain.com that was down. Our host name www.vcdhelp.com points to mydomain's Domain Name System nameservers and it points to our server so when all nameservers are down you can not access our site. Baldrick - Dec 10 03:05 |
| Thanks once again to all who have donated. It really encourage us to keep this site running and also to make it better. Donate anything from $1 to $anything here. Thanks also to all who have posted in our dvd player, capture card, dvd hack, dvd media and dvd writers lists, to all who made guides and articles and to all that help users in our forum. Thanks. Baldrick - Dec 07 09:01 |
| If you have problem playing DVD±R/Ws on your standalone DVD-Player that you have burnt with Nero in DVD-Video mode try instead burn in UDF 1.02 mode(more dvd compliant). See this guide how to burn DVD in UDF 1.02 mode. You could also try burn using other tools like Vob Instant DVD or Stomp RecordNow Max, they both burn DVD±R/W Video in UDF mode 1.02 by default. Baldrick - Dec 05 06:13 |
| VCDEasy 1.1.3 is out, read here what is new or download here. Baldrick - Nov 30 04:51 |
| Our mail server is back online. If you have registered in our forum the last days you have not received any activation email but I have manually activated all forum accounts so you should be able to login now, with the username and the password you choosed. I will also resend all dvd player list activation emails. If you posted a dvd writer,capture card or dvd hack comment you have to repost it. Baldrick - Nov 29 11:57 |
| Our mail server is temporarily down. It means that you wont get any activation emails when you post in our lists and register in our forum. You will also not receive any forum email notifications. We will try to resend the lists and forum activation emails when the server works again. Baldrick - Nov 29 04:11 |
| If you search for a specific DVD Player feature with or without a DVD Player name/brand in our DVD Player compatibility list you will now get some statistics, how many that support that feature, how many that do not support it and how many that are not tested. Examples, all DVD Players with DVD-RW, all DVD Players with DVD+RW, Sony Players with DVD-R and Sony Players with DVD+R. Note that you will only see statistics if you search for ONE feature. Please also help us keep the DVD Player list correct, click on the Report this post if you find a report that is wrong. Baldrick - Nov 25 13:28 |
| Nerovision Express is a new VCD, SVCD and DVD capturing, editing, authoring and burning software from the creators of Nero. Download the demo here or see this forum topic for more information. Baldrick - Nov 22 11:37 |
| Steinberg has recently released DVD Movie Copy, a DVD/CD-copying tool with features like DVD to VCD, DVD to SVCD and DVD to DVD±R/W with automatic sizing to DVD-5 discs. See this forum topic for more information. Baldrick - Nov 22 10:27 |
| DVD2DVDR is another new free DVD to DVD±R/W all-in-one rip tool. More information about DVD2DVDR can be found in this forum topic. Baldrick - Nov 19 07:18 |
| Before you post in our forum please observe our new Forum rules/Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). Baldrick - Nov 18 08:24 |
| We are sorry for the downtime, our webprovider had a minor network problem but it should be fixed now. Baldrick - Nov 15 09:11 |
| DVDSplit is a new DVD rip tool from the creator of Ifoedit, it helps you to split DVD-9 to two DVD±R/Ws. It also includes a burn utility to directly burn DVDs(it requires Nero). DVDXCopy is another all-in-one DVD-Video to DVD±R/Ws rip utility, note that it also does split to two DVD±R/Ws if it doesn't fit on one DVD±R/W. Both tools are kinda new so they may not work perfect yet and they are NOT free. Remember that you can do most of these stuff using free tools like Ifoedit, DVDDecrypter but it may be a bit more tricky. Baldrick - Nov 11 11:21 |
| The great all-in-one DVD or AVI to VCD/SVCD tool DVD2SVCD v1.1.0 build 1 has been released, read whats new here and download from here. Baldrick - Nov 07 16:24 |
| Ifoedit 0.9.5 now supports DVD Authoring with chapters and subtitles. It means that the free Ifoedit DVD Author tool now supports several selectable audio tracks in all audio formats(PCM,MPEG1,AC3 and DTS), several selectable subtitles and chapters. Download it from doom9 and read our basic ifoedit authoring guide and the doom9s ifoedit authoring guide for more info how to use it. Baldrick - Nov 07 06:12 |
| Our forum moderator skittelsen has tested and reviewed the Snazzi III DV.AV, a realtime DVD, SVCD, VCD(MPEG2/MPEG1) analog and DV capture card. We have also included some short VCD,SVCD and DVD video samples so you can check out the capture video quality for yourself. You find all our (few) reviews under the Reviews section. Baldrick - Nov 01 08:48 |
| Sefy has updated the CD Writers comparison list. The list will give you an estimate of which CD Writer to choose from, with information such as burn speed, overburn support, 90/99min support, best price and also what kind of technology the writer uses. Baldrick - Oct 30 04:31 |
| James has written why and how to Capture analog video using a Digital Camcorder. You find a link to it under our Capture section. Baldrick - Oct 28 17:17 |
| I have changed our site search to Google site search. Google indexes our site a bit slower than our last search engine but google indexes them much better. Google does not yet index our forum so be sure to use our own forum search for that. Baldrick - Oct 22 04:25 |
| Pleease help us keep our lists clean! If you find any posts in our Capture Card, DVD Player, DVD Writer or DVD Hack lists that don't belong there please click on the Report this post and we will remove that post in some few days. Posts that don't belong in our comment and compatibility lists are questions, requests, wrong information, spam or just crap. If you have any questions,request please use our forum instead. Baldrick - Oct 17 08:07 |
| Ifoedit is a free tool mainly for editing already made DVDs(VOBs/IFOs) but latest Ifoedit 0.9.4 now support very basic DVD authoring also. You select DVD Author and add your own made video and audio file(s) and you will get a very basic DVD with no menus,chapters or anything extra, just the movie plain and simple. Baldrick - Oct 14 17:13 |
| I added 3 new features to our DVD Player list, MPEG1/2 ISO , DVD/VCR Combo and DivX4+ support. MPEG1/2 ISO is if your DVD Player can play MPEG1/MPEG2 files with no authoring like select MPEG files from the CD/DVD using a file browser. DVD/VCR Combo is pretty self-explanatory and DivX also. One of the first soon to be released standalone DVD Player with DivX 4+ support is the Kiss DP-450. Remember that the list is user based which means that YOU have to report about all features. Baldrick - Oct 07 08:09 |
| I fixed a minor...or major bug in our DVD Player hacks list, it wasn't possible to add hacks for every Player in our main DVD Player list (it was only possible to add new hacks for Players that already had hacks). But it is fixed now, just search on the Player you want to add a hack for and click add hack. Baldrick - Oct 03 11:24 |
| I will soon add some new features in our DVD Player Compatibility list such as DVD/VHS Combo Player. If you have new features ideas please post them here. Baldrick - Oct 02 16:12 |
| All user accounts in our forum with none working email-addresses will be disabled in the next few days. So if you have an invalid email please change it immediately under your Profile. If you don't want your email to be public just set the Always show my Email Address: to No under the Profile->Preferences. Baldrick - Oct 02 09:33 |
| Problem deciding what DVD Writer to get, the DVD-R/W or the DVD+R/W standard ? Why not get both in same writer, the new Sony DRU500A supports both and also CD-R/W for only about 300 US dollar. You find most DVD Writers, both desktop and PC, in our DVD Writers comments lists here. If you are interested in helping us keeping the list correct, add new writers, update feature compatiblity and so please contact me. Baldrick - Sep 28 10:01 |
| I have made a new forum category dedicated to VCDEasy issues in cooperation with delphi.stuff, the creator of VCDEasy. You find the VCDEasy forums here or just go the forum and scroll to the bottom. Baldrick - Sep 28 05:04 |
| Panasonic has finally relased their MPEG2(SVCD,DVD) Encoder. Read more here or download the Panasonic MPEG2 demo direct from here. While you are testing new encoders be sure to test the new Main Concept Encoder also. If you don't want to test yourself you could view this new MPEG2/MPEG1(VCD,SVCD,DVD) comparison between TMPGEnc, CCE, Main Concept and soon also Panasonic MPEG2 Encoder and more. Baldrick - Sep 27 05:04 |
| Interested in advertising here on VCDHelp? We have over 50 000 video interested visitors daily, mainly from US but we can restrict your banner to only visitors from your country. Read more here. Baldrick - Sep 23 09:49 |
| Easy VCD makes it easier for you to convert your DVDs to VCDs. Read more in our forum. Baldrick - Sep 23 09:05 |
| Be very very careful if you are thinking of buying one of those commercial DVD Ripping packages, most are basicly just guides similiar as Sefy's all-in-one DVD Ripping guide and includes only free software such as VCDEasy, Smartripper, DVD2AVI, TMPGEnc, DVDx. Be sure to either get a demo of their product or at least screenshots before you buy it, if no such do not buy it! Read more at VCDEAsy.org and in our forum. Baldrick - Sep 20 05:39 |
| You can now add DVD-RW and also DVD-RA(Authoring) media to our DVD Media list. But the list will be useless if you do not help us to add new DVD-R or DVD-RW media. Added also a What is and How to use ADVDInfo. Baldrick - Sep 16 11:46 |
| We have made a new list, a DVD Recordable Media list, a list with dvd brands and information such as where to get them (cheapest), manufacturer id(some brands may be same but with different manufacturer names) and also some dvd players compatibility linked directly to our dvd players list. The list is user-based such as most our "lists", it means that you have to post new media brands and also post comments like where to get them cheapest and also some compatibility information, but we will try to check all new dvd media posted. The list does only support dvd-r media so far but dvd-rw and also dvd+r,dvd+rw will be added later. All data that you post will be saved even if it is a beta (not tests posts though). Baldrick - Sep 11 15:20 |
| Please help us keep the Capture Cards comments clean from questions, spam or just crap posts. Click on the Report this post on the comment to report about it and we will then later check it. Baldrick - Sep 06 09:18 |
| VCDEasy 1.1.2 is out, some bugfixes but mainly feature improvements read more and download from here. Baldrick - Sep 05 06:42 |
| If you find any features that are not correct in our Capture Cards list(such as not mpeg1,2,4 hardware support) or DVD Writers list(such as wrong writing speed) please email us instead of posting it as a comment. I have no time to read every comment. In our DVD Players list that is entirely based from user reports use the report this post if anyone has reported wrong features. Baldrick - Sep 05 05:30 |
| macmercy has made a DVD to 2 SVCDs Mac OS X workshop/tutorial in german. Baldrick - Sep 04 12:41 |
| I was thinking of maybe improve our latest news with more than mainly site news, with news about new guides on other sites, new vcd,svcd,dvd stuff, new tools and so. But if so I would like help gathering and also post the news, read more here if you are interested. Baldrick - Sep 04 10:45 |
| vitualis has created a new GUI for vcdimager, but it is not a XML authoring tool similiar as TSCV or VCDEasy it is only a GUI for all the tools in VCDImager. Read more and download from here. Baldrick - Sep 04 10:40 |
| Our random forum crashes problem is solved now after months of problems...at least do we think so because it hasn't crashed for over 3 weeks :-). If you would receive some garbled pages on our site while browsing just clear you temp cache and reload the page and it should work fine. It is because we are using compressed pages that can cause some minor bugs but it helps us to reduce the bandwitdh a lot and most pages loads faster on your computer too. Baldrick - Sep 04 10:23 |
| If you are from Holland and/or read dutch you may wanna visit www.svcdnewbie.nl for all your SVCD needs. Baldrick - Sep 03 13:46 |
| Added over 30 new DVD Players to our compatibility list. If you can't find your player in the list please submit it here, remember to include a valid direct link to a site with info about the player. Baldrick - Aug 26 05:59 |
| I made a new forum section for everything about DVD to DVDR. Baldrick - Aug 24 07:35 |
| I added MPEG4(DivX4+) realtime encoding as a feature in our Capture Card list. Baldrick - Aug 17 08:48 |
| Our forum is a bit buggy at the moment but just hit reload of you receive any kind of error and it should work. Read more here. Baldrick - Aug 16 09:34 |
| We have upgraded our server to a new and faster one, thanks to mushkin.com. If you would receive some strange errors or bugs please email us immediately because we have probably forgot to update some minor settings. And we have also moved our forum to this new faster server to see if it stops crashes. Baldrick - Aug 15 18:06 |
| I added two new features to the DVD Players compatibility list, CVD and DVD-MP3. But remember that you must report if it works or not because the list is entirely based from your user reports. Baldrick - Aug 12 12:55 |
| I have made CVD Sample for download but I'm not sure if the CVD subs works so if anyone with a SVCD CVD subs capable standalone DVD player could test it first. Read more here. Baldrick - Aug 10 08:19 |
| Thanks to all who have donated! and thanks in advance to all new donators :-). It really helps and inspire us to continue run and improve the site. We are currently working on a DVDR Media list and we are also thinking of adding some kind of review/comments/rating section for software/tools in our tools section. Baldrick - Aug 07 17:27 |
| We had some minor server network problems yesterday but hopefully should they be fixed now. Baldrick - Aug 03 00:05 |
| I have updated and fixed all "More info"-links in our DVD Players compatibility list. The "More info"-link is a link to the manufacturer site, a review or a store with more technical features. If no link I didn't find any decent information. Baldrick - Jul 31 12:59 |
| Using MAC OSX? Check out ffmpegX. It converts almost anything to DivX, VCD and XVCD, you find it under our MAC,Linux tools section. I also added some more DVD authoring tools to our tools section and a new capture utility, VirtualVCR. And our forum should be up now, sorry for the downtime. Baldrick - Jul 28 12:38 |
| Our forum seems to crash every other day again. But I hope to soon get another server to test it on. If you would like to help us host the forum please email me. Baldrick - Jul 27 01:07 |
| Added VCD, SVCD and DVD file/folder structure information to the WHAT IS pages. Please email me if you find any typos or errors. Baldrick - Jul 24 11:18 |
| I have cleaned up and updated the Capture Card list, it is now easier to see what type of card it is like a video card or just a tv tuner card. I also added what type of hardware realtime compressions it supports such as mpeg2, mpeg1, mjpeg and what type of pc connection. And most "More info"-links are updated.But remember to help us add new capture cards. Baldrick - Jul 24 02:32 |
| Interesting in adverting your products on our site? We are now able to restrict the banners by countries if you example only want British customers, read more under the advertise page. Baldrick - Jul 22 02:14 |
| Forum up and running. The forum still crash randomly but only once a month now instead of every other day. Does anybody have a dedicated linux apache+php+mysql server or a shared server with not that high traffic over? so I could test the forum a while on another server and see if it is the forum that cause the crashes. If so email me. Baldrick - Jul 21 09:34 |
| Thinking about buying a new video card with TV-Out/Video-Out? Then you might want to read tvtools TV chip comparison. Baldrick - Jul 19 09:12 |
| Please help us keep the DVD Players compatibility list correct by reporting post that does not add anything to the list such as questions, spam and especially reports that either says that everything works or nothing. Click on the report post link on the current post to report it. I have also removed some dvd features in the list because too many reported features were wrong and we have no time to check all features on every player. Remember that ALL information is based from user reports. Baldrick - Jul 19 01:44 |
| I added printer-friendly links to our forum, you find it in the top right corner in all topics. I also added a forum search box to all forum pages so you can faster and easier search. Baldrick - Jul 16 08:58 |
| You can now add comments in the Capture Cars user comments list. I'm currently working to clean up and add new Capture Cards so you may experience some bugs while browsing the list. Baldrick - Jul 15 11:55 |
| The Capture Card user comments list is open but only for viewing so far. And please help us keep the list up to date by adding new Capture Cards. Remember to add the entire name, manufacturer and model, and also a direct link to a site with information about the card such as the manufacturers site or review site. You find the add capture card form here. Baldrick - Jul 13 00:19 |
| To reduce the amount of "crap" posts (questions, spam) in our DVD Players compatibility list and the DVD Writers comment lists, I have changed it so that you have to activate your post by our sending you an email with activation information. That requires a working email-address but you can then select to hide your email in our lists. We won't use your email for any spam but if you are still afraid of spam use a second email-address like hotmail or something. Baldrick - Jul 11 08:36 |
| Be sure to upgrade to latest Nero 5.5.9.0 if you are burning DVD Video. Baldrick - Jul 07 13:28 |
| Are you using ReelDVD or thinking of getting it then crazy pants guide, ReelDVD Basic How To, may help you. Baldrick - Jul 03 14:15 |
| If you have problem downloading VCDEasy from www.vcdeasy.org you can download it from Tucows. Baldrick - Jun 25 06:16 |
| Do you miss any guides,articles or FAQs? Then request them here. Baldrick - Jun 18 15:15 |
| Please STOP ask questions about your DVD Player using the DVD Hacks report form or the DVD Players form!!! They are only for adding region or macrovision hacks or report about compatibility or features issues. We constantly have to delete "questions" reports and we will definitely not answer them, use the forum if you have problems with your DVD Player. Baldrick - Jun 14 10:16 |
| Thanks to all you that have donated, almost 250 donators, everything from $1 to $50. Thanks! It both encourage and helps us running this site for free. Thanks agaaaain! Baldrick - Jun 14 04:39 |
| Chat with us and other vcdhelpers, using either the webchat here or you can join us under the channel #vcdhelp in the IRC network DALnet (both are the same chat). Remember that even that it is a chat it can take some minutes before anyone answers so wait. Baldrick - Jun 07 02:19 |
| Many users seems to have problem encoding and converting with TMPGEnc so if you are one those please read the TMPGEnc common problems. If you still have problems with TMPGEnc use the search function in our forum and as a last solution you can ask in the forum. Baldrick - Jun 04 14:50 |
| If you are from Russia or speak Russian you may wanna visit VCD for rookies, a Russian site with VCD guides, FAQs, video software and hardware information and more. Baldrick - Jun 04 07:44 |
| Today begins the soccer world cup in Japan and Korea and I hope you all will watch when Sweden kicks ass! :-). Will you watch the world cup? Baldrick - May 31 02:05 |
| Dazzle 2 stream id fix v3 is released, this program fixes clips captured with the dazzle 2. Read the included readme what's new and how to use it. Baldrick - May 30 14:30 |
| Forum crashed again...so I will now drop the phpBB forum and try the vBulletin forum instead. I hope that I can easily transfer all posts and users from phpbb to vbulletin but it will probably take some days to fix. The phpbb forum will be online as long as it doesn't crash and I may close it for testing some times also. Baldrick - May 29 02:20 |
| After weeks of problems with the forum have I finally found what caused it to crash randomly. So now should it not crash so frequently anymore...I hope...:) Baldrick - May 27 14:47 |
| The latest active topics on the main page(to the right here->) is temporarily closed but the forum is working. Baldrick - May 27 07:08 |
| "To VCDhelp members, it has recently been brought to my attention that DVD Wizard is selling MY guide as an Ebook! for those of you who paid, you just paid money for a free guide! and that was ripped badly as well!..." - Sefy. Read more here. Baldrick - May 26 14:26 |
| The server crashed but it is up and running again. Baldrick - May 24 19:35 |
| Forum updated and running...if you notice any bugs please post them here. Baldrick - May 23 12:50 |
| Forum temporily down because I'm upgrading it. Baldrick - May 23 11:01 |
| I have moved the forum to www.vcdhelp.com/forum to test it on another server so you have to login again if you used automaticaly login. And email "reply-notification" is temporarily offline in the forum because email won't work on this server. Baldrick - May 22 07:32 |
| We still have forum server problems. It doesn't seem to any software that cause it to crash so it may be the hardware and if so it will take longer to fix. Baldrick - May 22 03:49 |
| I'm testing some new settings on our forum server so the forum may behave a bit strange today. Baldrick - May 20 13:55 |
| VCDEasy v1.1.0 is released, lots of bugfixes and from now you will find VCDEasy on the new official www.vcdeasy.org site.
And our forum has died again but we are working on it. Baldrick - May 19 03:58 |
| Forum up and running. Baldrick - May 18 10:15 |
| The forum server that hosts our forum and also some guides is dead again. But it will be back online really soon as I have requested a restart. We have no idea why it crashes yet, everything works perfect until it dies and the logs doesn't show any errors that may cause it... Baldrick - May 18 05:47 |
| Made a new forum section for all you Linux VCD,SVCD,DVD Creators. Baldrick - May 16 09:27 |
| Updated the TMPGEnc VCD,SVCD, DVD guides and also the DivX to VCD all-in-one guide, added more info about the Video arrange method so you can either select if you want the source aspect ratio(widescreen, fullscreen) to be same as the source or change from example widescreen to fullscreen(cut it). Baldrick - May 15 11:07 |
| I made the DVD Hacks list a bit nicer looking, easier to view reported hacks. Add region code or macrovision hacks here. Baldrick - May 14 17:55 |
| We have made a new section for both newbie beginners guides, like all-in-one guides, and articles, like tmpgenc explained, called NEWBIE. I and hopefully with help some of our forum users hope to make some more articles, for example about what capture card to get? dvd-rw or dvd+r? vcd,svcd or dvd?...You are also welcome to post your articles in the user guide forum and I will link to it from the newbie article section. Baldrick - May 14 11:54 |
| I added more search feature options in the DVD Players list such as built in DTS,DD, DVD-Changer, Kodak PhotoCD. Baldrick - May 14 11:54 |
| I splitted up the How to put VCD and SVCD on DVDR to two guides to not confuse the methods with each other, How to put VCD MPEG1 on DVDR and How to put SVCD MPEG2 on DVDR. Baldrick - May 11 05:39 |
| Forum works as it should again. Baldrick - May 09 07:45 |
| We have some strange forum problems again but we are working it...the forum should work but is a bit slow. Baldrick - May 09 05:17 |
| Everything in our DVD Player list that is in the color blue have been "verified" and is 99,9% correct, for example the Pioneer DV-444. All other compatibility and features are automatically generated based on all user reports. I will try to "verify" as many players as I can, mostly the main features because I don't know all compatibilitiy problems. If you wanna help "verify" players you are welcome to contact me... Baldrick - May 08 08:43 |
| I have put together some new samples first a DVD NTSC Sample, it is a NTSC DVD with 3 video samples, a dolby digital trailer, a VCD MPEG sample authored as DVD(DVD-VCD), a SVCD MPEG2 sample authored as DVD(DVD-SVCD) and also with a simple menu. You can both burn it on a DVD-R/RW/+R/+RW and also as a miniDVD/cDVD to test. I also have added both a XVCD and a XSVCD sample BUT because of bandwidth problem have I limit the downloads to only 100 downloads a day for each file(it is about 130 GB bandwidth a month...) so you may have to try a while before it work. If you would have some free webspace over, about 50 MB, with no bandwidth limit contact me. Baldrick - May 07 08:22 |
| I have added some new features to the DVD Players list such as Kodak Image/JPG, Dolby Digital, DTS, SACD, DVD-Audio, DVD-Changer, CVD or SVCD Subs, MP3 and WMA CBR or VBR(all features will soon also be searchable). But it requires that you report about the features. I will try to add features to the most common players but far from all 900 players... Baldrick - May 06 00:31 |
| I added so you can search on DVD+R in the DVD Players list. But please note that lots of the DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW reports are still not that reliable because of both confusion between the formats and also problems regarding authoring and burning the dvdrs correctly. Baldrick - May 02 13:52 |
| You can now easily post your computer details under your Profile in our Forum. If you provide your main computer details it will help all members to answer your questions, no need to ask about what your setup is all the time. To view the computer details you either just point over the computer details link and you will see the info or just click on it to view it under the users profile. Read more here. Baldrick - May 02 12:06 |
| TMPGenc 2.54a is out, Bug Fix - Could not read audio properly if specific external VFAPI plug-in was used.
Baldrick - May 02 09:09 |
| I updated the TMPGEnc DivX/AVI to SVCD and TMPGEnc DivX/AVI to DVD guides, with the Wizard SVCD and DVD encoding becomes much easier(automatic average bitrate calculation). I also updated the DivX/AVI to VCD guide using the Wizard and with source range cutting. Baldrick - May 01 08:07 |
The version 2.54 of TMPGenc is out! The new features are small but still interesting:
Michael - May 01 07:14 |
| If you have a Dazzle 2 Capture Card you may like the Dazzle2 Stream/Header fixer. From now you can also download Stinky's ATI AIW MMC 7.5 and 7.6 reg tools under the Tools->Capture section. Baldrick - Apr 27 05:40 |
| The free MPEG2 Codec is available for download again. Baldrick - Apr 27 05:39 |
| Sefy's latest Complete DVD Backup guides are updated, you find them here and under the DVD Ripping section. You can also find Sefys guides over at Kwag´s new site www.kvcd.net and also at digital-digest.com. Baldrick - Apr 25 09:29 |
| I and lots of other vcdhelp forum members have received a lots of viruses lately, more than usual, especially the klez virus so I beg to all you out there DO NOT RUN OR OPEN ANY FILES YOU GET IN YOUR EMAIL even if it is from your friends. If you don't open any email attachments you should be free from viruses but it is best to also install a good antivirus application, enable email-checking and remember to keep it up to date. Some have also got viruses from our vcdhelp emails but most of them comes from strange email-servers that only uses our emails as email-replys(check the headers in the email from IP it really came from).
Addition from Michael: If you are using Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0 I highy recommend to download a security fix from Microsoft. In the unpatched version of Outlook 5.0 the attachment may be automatically executed. For information about removing an already executed virus see here. Baldrick - Apr 24 16:12 |
| Our DVD Players, Capture Card and DVD Writers user report/comment forms haven´t worked as they should lately, it worked sometimes and some not but it should now always work. I'm also working on to add some new features to the DVD Players list, like Please note that the features will the users report about so we can of course NOT guarantee that the info is correct similiar to the compatibility issues. But we may check the most common brands too see that the features are correct. Contact me if you have any more new features and ideas I can add to the DVD Players list. Baldrick - Apr 24 07:31 |
| I, baldrick@vcdhelp.com, have been away two weeks so I have tons of email to answer(also admin@vcdhelp.com emails) and I also have lots of stuff to update and fix like Sefys new guides and fix some downloads like VCDEasy, the MPEG2 Codec. It will take some time so be patient. Baldrick - Apr 23 13:16 |
| The forum is up and running again, the problem was that the harddrive partition that the forum databases were located on had filled up. Baldrick - Apr 18 03:34 |
| Our forum section is temporarliy down but it will be up in some hours (when our forum webproviders get to work...). Baldrick - Apr 17 14:20 |
| If you get any annoying popup banners on our site you use vcdhelper.com and not vcdhelp.com so please update your bookmarks to vcdhelp.com or svcdhelp.com or dvdrhelp.com(all our sites while vcdhelper is not). Baldrick - Apr 17 13:16 |
| My email, baldrick@vcdhelp.com and also admin@vcdhelp.com, has been down some hours and if you have sent anything you probably got a "Mail delivery failed..." but it should work now. Please also note that I and the others under the contact page do not have time to answer all emails, especially not the ones where it only says like How do I convert an avi to vcd?(please try to first check our site before emailing and also try to include more info about your problems we are not psychic!) or How do I format in MAC? or How do I copy PSX 2 Games? (our site is about VIDEO). Baldrick - Apr 16 03:04 |
| For owners like me of Pinnacle TV Cards is something great avialable. Pinnacle Systems released version 5.0 of the drivers which comes with many improvements like better Windows XP support and realtime Mpeg2 capturing (Fullversion only). So, do not wait and just download them! Michael - Apr 15 10:16 |
| If you are using Nero and burning authored DVD-Video be sure to upgrade to latest Nero 5.5.8.0 because it should now fully support DVD-Video burning. Read here how to burn DVD-Video with Nero. Baldrick - Apr 05 15:40 |
| We have serious problems with our new forum server(as you probably have noticed the last days) and we have no idea why it crashes now and then yet...but at least is the new forum way faster than the old one. Baldrick - Apr 05 02:23 |
| Forum up. Baldrick - Apr 04 17:55 |
| The forum is temporarily down again(!). Baldrick - Apr 04 10:11 |
| Forum is up and running again. Baldrick - Apr 02 06:03 |
| The Forum is temporarily down but the DVD Players compatibility list is back online after some problems(win2k server...). Baldrick - Apr 02 04:19 |
| Our site may be down on March 28th from 3am - 7am (US MST GMT-7) because of maintenance by our ISP. Baldrick - Mar 27 15:57 |
| VCDEasy v1.0.9 is out, read whats new here. Baldrick - Mar 23 03:40 |
| The article about our meeting with Mr. Hori is online now. Press here. Michael - Mar 22 06:42 |
| We have had some problem with the forum (again!) the last days but it should work a bit better and faster now. I have also removed about 30000 old posts, all topics older than 6 months and also a lots of topics with no replies. If you miss some old "important" topic that may have got deleted just email me and I can get it back from the backup. Baldrick - Mar 20 08:45 |
| Yesterday I visited the CeBit in Hannover (Germany). There I had a meeting with a very important person: Mr. Hiroyuki Hori (Developer of TMPGEnc). So I had the unique chance to ask everything about TMPGEnc and see the latest version. Except a big article of this meeting and other great stuff from the CeBit about the latest developments in DVD-Burning and so on. Michael - Mar 17 06:05 |
| Thanks a lot for reporting useless dvd player compatibiliy reports! It helps a lot when I clean the compatibily list. One note though, the rating 0 in all our list is actually no rating but I have replaced it with "No rate" so it should not cause any problem anymore. Baldrick - Mar 13 09:47 |
| I removed about 8000 old forum users that registered before June 2001 and only have posted once or never to free some usernames. If you were one of those you have to register again. Baldrick - Mar 13 07:04 |
| Please help us keep the DVD Players list correct. If you find any user-reports that seems to be entirely wrong or the user only bad-mouthing the dvd player, for example reports that nothing works, then please click on the report this post link so we can remove such reports. Baldrick - Mar 10 10:44 |
| Our Forum is back online, you have to relogin if you had automatic login because the forum is on a new server and a new address, forum.vcdhelp.com. The Forum Search function is also back online and I created a hardware forum section where you find the old Hardware Playing forum, now called DVD Players and new forum for CD and DVD Writers and also about standalone VCD and DVD Recorders. Baldrick - Mar 06 18:16 |
| The forum will hopefully be back online at the end if this week if everything works okey with our new webprovider. And note that we don't publish new software releases on this site(except for some software that we host), there are already tons of such great pages like mpegx.com. Baldrick - Mar 06 11:35 |
| The Forum will be back online in some days(preliminary wednesday) on a new faster server so it should be a lot faster than before. Baldrick - Mar 04 13:07 |
| I enabled the User guides section in our forum. Baldrick - Mar 02 05:09 |
| Our forum will be closed for a while as we still have some server problems, some other sections such as the dvdplayers list will be online but they may not work perfect but just reload or try to visit our site in the morning instead(us time). I'm also trying to find a new server only for our forum to reduce the traffic on the main server, if you have a linux/freebsd server(p3/athlon 600+, 512+MB mem) that is not used that much contact me. Some daily stats for the forum, about 2-4 GB Daily transfer(~100GB a month), 333 000 daily accessses, 12000 daily unique visitors. In exchange you can have your banner(s) on our site, no banners at all or whatever. Baldrick - Mar 01 05:57 |
| Forum back online on the main server but some features such as search will be offline until we have upgraded the server or we get the new forum server working. Baldrick - Feb 27 05:28 |
| The forum may be a bit slow and wierd today and tomorrow because I'm testing it on a new server. Baldrick - Feb 26 17:36 |
| Our site is back online after some server problems(it was down the entire weeekend). Baldrick - Feb 26 07:12 |
| I added some new DVD Writers and two DVD standalone recorders to the DVD Writers Feature and Comments list. If you are interested in maintaining the dvd writers list, adding, updating writers and removing "crap" comments, then contact me. Baldrick - Feb 21 11:44 |
| VCDEasy v1.0.8 Fixed is out, read here what is new and download here. Baldrick - Feb 21 06:28 |
| I cleaned up the Capture Cards list a bit, removed over 20 double names and added some new capture cards such as ADS Instant DVD and Snazzi III so you can share your comments about them. Baldrick - Feb 18 11:03 |
| Sefy has updated his Classical Newbie DVD Ripping Guide to version 2.0, it now includes the entire process from ripping to burning only using freeware tools. And Michael has written a short comparison article between MPEG1, 2, 3 and MPEG4, How does MPEG work?. Baldrick - Feb 17 06:11 |
| VCDEasy does NOT contain any virus, read more here. Baldrick - Feb 14 17:21 |
| I, Baldrick at vcdhelp.com, will not answer all emails anymore as you probably already have noticed, it just takes too much time but I will try to answer some but please always use our forum first. Baldrick - Feb 14 17:21 |
| Some daily webstatistics, first from February 11th: 46,325 unique visitors, 1,048,561 Page views, 27,643,654,752 bytes transfered (no html compression added yet). Compared to 3 months earlier, October 29th: 25,342 unique visitors, 341,315 Page views, 7,296,439,913 bytes transfered (html compression but forum not included). Almost a 100% unique visitors increase for only 3 months is very much and to keep up with the webserver capacity is not that easy as you have noticed... Baldrick - Feb 14 11:51 |
| I added another method to fool authoring tools to burn SVCD on DVDR, using AVestensione. Baldrick - Feb 08 12:57 |
| The DVD Players compatibility list should work in Netscape 4.XX now. Baldrick - Feb 08 05:18 |
| I have updated the forum with some new features and added some old from our old forum, the latest posts will now look similiar as it was before and I also added the "participation hack" so you can easily see what topics you have posted in(the small ME-icon but you must be logged in or else it wont work). You can now also post your own guides/how to's including images in our user guides forum. And last did I change so all users can vote instead of just the registered. If you notice any forums bugs please post them in the forum feedback forum or email me. Baldrick - Feb 07 17:46 |
| Sefy has updated the CD ReWriters list with lots of new burners and a new table for 40x burners!. Baldrick - Feb 07 16:00 |
| We still have some serious server problems some parts of the day as you probably have noticed, many pages does not load properly so you have to reload all the time. The main problem is that our server can't handle all the new traffic so we are looking for a new webhost only for our forum section. Email me if you either wanna help with a free webhost or in exchange for banners or if you know any good, cheap and reliable webhosts. Baldrick - Feb 04 09:34 |
| I cleaned up the DVD Players compatibility list, removed over 80 DVD Player name duplicates and renamed some DVD Players so they will have similiar names like "Pioneer DV-XXX" or "Samsung DVD XXX". If you find some wrong names or duplicates please email me. Baldrick - Jan 29 18:30 |
| The forum is back online but all posts and new users after January 26 until today(January 29) have been lost so if you have registered as a new user you must register again. The traffic becomes too high for our server between afternoon until evening (US Time) so I then have to close some parts of the site temporarily...but the posts that got lost was my fault, instead of making a backup I accidently imported an old backup. Baldrick - Jan 29 18:22 |
| Our site may be a bit slow some parts of the day but we are working on it. Baldrick - Jan 29 07:11 |
A new version of TMPGenc is out. There are no big improvements but some nice bug fixes and new features:
Michael - Jan 28 12:56 |
| Updated the Capture Card comments list also, all user comments will now directly be added. Baldrick - Jan 27 08:03 |
| Updated the DVD Players list so you now exact can see what every user have reported that work or do not work, also each ones rating and as before the comments if any. And all user reports/comments will now directly be added to the list but not to the main compatibility list until they have been checked. Baldrick - Jan 26 19:47 |
| Forum moved again but now should it work better then yesterday so you should not even notice it, you only may need to login again if you used automatically login. Baldrick - Jan 26 04:42 |
| When adding DVD Player reports about VCD or SVCD compatibility be sure to test and report how menus,still items and chapters works. You find VCD samples with chapters,menus and stills here. When testing SVCD be sure to also test both CVD and SVCD selectable subtitles and if it supports several audio tracks. You can download SVCD samples here with CVD and SVCD selectable subs, menus, chapters and several audio tracks. Baldrick - Jan 25 10:35 |
| This server couldn't handle the Forum so I moved it back to the dvdrhelp server. Baldrick - Jan 25 08:57 |
| Moved back the forum to this main server, the old dvdrhelp.com forum will be online but it will automatically forward everything to vcdhelp.com. But if this server can't handle the forum traffic I will move it back...at the moment it looks like I have to do that, everything is very slooooow. Baldrick - Jan 25 05:35 |
| Nicolas has updated the Video Desktop Recorder section. Baldrick - Jan 23 17:43 |
| The
DVD Writers section
is done so please add your DVD
Writers comments/reviews but there are only
3 Writers so far. Are you interested in helping
maintaining the DVD Writers section, adding new writers/recorders,
modifying compatibility, features and remove "crap"
comments? Contact
me then. I'm also currently working to update the DVD Players list so you can view exact what every user have reported, every compatibility settings to the rating not just the comments. Baldrick - Jan 21 07:21 |
| All our lists, the DVD
Players compatibility, DVD
Hacks and the Capture
Cards list are now searchable and should be
easier to browse. And I'm working on a new list,
DVD (re)Writers,
where you will be able to share your comments
and it will show some main DVD features and compatibility. Baldrick - Jan 21 07:21 |
| >Some
VCD and SVCD
samples and some tools like VCDEasy
and MPEG2 codec
have been offline for some days but I have updated
the links so they should work now. Baldrick - Jan 19 07:21 |
|
The upgraded Forum
is online, report any new bugs to me.
Baldrick
- 2002 January 18
|
| The
forum
will be closed some hours tonight(morning in europe/africa
and afternoon in asia/australia) because I will upgrade
it. The upgraded forum will hopefully be a bit faster
and it also has some new nice features but it will basicly
look the same. All users and posts will remain intact(hopefully)
so you don't need to register again. Baldrick
- 2002 January 17
|
|
Nicolas has tested and reviewed a Video Desktop Recorder
the Terapin
CD Video Recorder, you find more info about Desktop
Recorders under the VCD Recorders
section.
Baldrick
- 2002 January 17
|
| We
still have some server problems...the older server can't
handle all traffic and the new freezes randomly now
and then so. And I'm also currently trying to upgrade
our forum to the latest phpBB 2.0 beta, it is a bit
more optimized and has some new features. Baldrick
- 2002 January 15
|
|
Forum
search function reenabled again...but had to close it
again due too high server load.
Baldrick
- 2002 January 14
|
| VCDEasy
v 1.0.7 has some bugfixes. Baldrick
- 2002 January 12
|
|
We are sorry for that our site is down now and then
but it isn't much we can do about it now. Our current
server just can't keep up with the high traffic load
but our webprovider is working on a new faster server
that hopefully will be online in some days. And some
have complained about that the
DVD Players list misses lots of players but it doesn't
you just have to click on the List All DVD Players
to view them all, default is to view the latest 50 to
keep down the traffic.
Baldrick
- 2002 January 10
|
| Forum
temporarily back online for testing. The forum seems to work better now so I have renabled the search function also. I think I found the main problem that causing the forum server to crash, the banners...so the forum will be bannerfree for a while, I hope you can deal with that..:-) Baldrick
- 2002 January 9
|
|
Updated the DVD Players compatibility/comments
list with over 740 new user compatibility and comments
reports, the list does now contain 881 DVD Players based
on over 5500 user reports. Thanks! and please continue
report
how cd-r,cd-rw or the new dvd+rw,dvd-rw works or anything. If you have reported after january 7 and you can't find it in the list then report again because I may have deleted some reports but remember that the report form is NOT for asking any questions about your player or how to make vcd/svcd/dvds. And always remember to read the comments when browsing the list because even that it says that it support or not supports something it may cause problems or work better with different media or how you make the vcd/svcd/dvd. And lastly does our main server have some problems so you may experience some trouble to access our site, I have to manually reboot it now and then to keep it going... Baldrick
- 2002 January 9
|
| Updated
the DVD Hacks list
with 250 new hacks and the Capture
Cards with 270 new comments, thanks for all but
PLEASE DO NOT ASK QUESTIONS using the report forms.
I'm now struggeling with over 700 new dvd player reports
so it will take some time...and I haven't been able
to fix the database on this server so the lists will
still be huge statics list that on some computer may
cause the browser to hang. Baldrick
- 2002 January 8
|
|
VCDEasy v1.0.6 is out and
I have forgot to mention that you can find TMPGEnc 2.50
at www.tmpgenc.net
(not tmpgenc.com) it now includes a wizard to simplify
the encoding process. Baldrick
- 2002 January 8
|
| We
have to close our forum temporarily because the forums
webserver can't handle the high traffic but we are currently
working on a new webserver so it will hopefully be up
again really soon. Baldrick
- 2002 January 8
|
| I
reenabled the search function on the forum
and Nicolas has updated the VCD Recorders
section. Baldrick
- 2002 January 7
|
| From
now we won't mention new how to's/guides under this
column because you will find them all under the Latest
How To's just above here. As you also can see above here do we list the latest added DVD Player compatibility, DVD Hack and Capture Card reports but they have not been updated for a while now but I'm currently trying a new server with database support that will make it much easier to keep them more up to date and it will also make them more user-friendly with search options and top lists(as it was before). Today I have to generate static htmls for every report on an other server and it is very very very very very very very very very time consuming. Baldrick
- 2002 January 6
|
| Now
is the forum
back online but I dont know for how long because I have
to see what happens and if it would genarate the same
error I have to shut it down again. Baldrick
- 2002 January 4
|
| We
are aware that the forum and also the DVD Players report
form, DVD Hacks report form and Capture Cards report
form(all database stuff) are temporarily down but we
are working to bring them back online as fast as possible. Baldrick
- 2002 January 4
|
| The
main page should work now but our forum is temporarily
closed now, our forum webprovider suddenly closed it
because of some database problems and I have to fix
that problems before they will enable it...but I have
no clue what caused it because the forum has worked
without any problems for nearly 2 months so it may take
a while to fix. Baldrick
- 2002 January 4
|
| We
have some temporarily technical difficulties with our
servers at the moment but our webprovider is working
on it and if everything goes well should it be back
online really soon. Baldrick
- 2002 January 3
|
| Happy
New Year!!! I have been away over the holidays so I haven't been able to answer any emails (all emails to baldrick@dvdrhelp.com or admin@dvdrhelp.com) and it will probably take some more days before I have answered them all as I'm currently working on our new database. With the new database I hope to bring back the DVD Players Compatibility list, DVD Hacks list and the Capture Card list to the old searchable format and also move our forum to a cheaper host so you might experience some problem with them the next few days. Baldrick
- 2002 January 1
|
|
Merry Christmas! Baldrick
- 2001 December 24
|
|
I made a short new how to: How
to put VCD MPEG on DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW, on one DVD
recordable disc you can store about 450 min VCD but
it requires a bit of work to make it DVD compatible. Baldrick
- 2001 December 21
|
| Updated
the DVD Players Compatibility
list with over 450 new user reports(from only two
weeks), lots of new DVD-R,DVD-RW and DVD+RW reports.
Thanks! also thanks for all new feedback, we are working
on to make the list easier to browse and add better
search options and also maybe add more features. But
please remember that the DVD
Player report form is only for reporting compatibility
issues and not for asking questions about the player. The other "lists", DVD Hacks and Capture Cards comments list, will be updated as soon as we have fixed our new database (hopefully in some days but can take a week or two) but you can keep report DVD hacks and Capture comments anyway. Baldrick
- 2001 December 20
|
| Sefy
has updated the CD
ReWriter comparison list. Baldrick
- 2001 December 17
|
| Updated
our search page, you can now
better select where to search like only in our how to's
sections or only in the dvd players comments and also
a site map of our entire
site. Baldrick
- 2001 December 12
|
| Arepiv
has reviewed the Pinnacle
Studio PC TV Rave TV and capture card. I hope to bring back all lists to the old format where you could easily search by name or features or list by latest or top rated in a few days if I get the new database in order. Baldrick
- 2001 December 11
|
| Michael has
tested and reviewed the Pinnacle
Bungee USB TV and capture device, watch TV on your
computer and capture directly to DVD,SVCD(MPEG2), you
find it under our Video Reviews
section. VCDEasy 1.0.5 is out, read what's new here or download it direct here. Baldrick
- 2001 December 6
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