| Search tool or Browse all tools by sections |
| Tool | Description | Type | Rating | Comment | |||||||||||
FairUse Wizard |
FairUse is a DVD backup software designed to be very easy to use. It makes turning DVD into high quality DivX, XviD, H264 avi or mp4 files a breeze by guiding you in a step-by-step "wizard" interface. Conversion profiles for Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, PS3, Xbox 360, Tivo, Zune and standalone DivX DVD players.
|
Trialware ($30) v2.9  |
8.6 (8.6) 57 votes Guides Similar tools |
Read
57 comments (4827277 views) |
|||||||||||
|
Latest version: 2.9 (October 20, 2008) Download sites: Download from author site Windows More information and other downloads: The lite version is free, if you want all features it costs $30 or download the old free full version 2.8 here. Sections/Browse similar tools: DVD to AVI/DivX/XviD, DVD to MP4/MKV/H264, Portable/Mobile/PSP/iPod Alert me! when this software has been updated. |
 Click to enlarge screenshot |
||||||||||||||
Version history:
2.9 View entire changelog Fixed: Corrected some corrupted discs handling Fixed the audio encoding error that occured with AAC-based profiles Fixed the codec error that occured at the first run Fixed a potential hang that could occur right before encoding begins Fixed IDX/SUB files not taking into account the default project folder Fixed IDX/SUB files not taking into account the custom file naming introduced with FairUse 2.8 Fixed subtitles drifting when exporting to sub/idx while splitting to multiple parts Similar tools/Alternative to FairUse Wizard: AutoGK, HandBrake, SimpleDivX, StaxRip, XviD4PSP Sponsored tools: Guides and How to's:
DVD to iPod with subtitles burned into mp4 format using FairUse Wizard - Read View all guides with guide description here How to Backup DVD's for your GM PhatNoise MiniVan - Read How to convert DVD TV episodes to AVI Xvid or MP4 H264 with optional subtitles - Read How to convert DVD with FairUse Wizard to MKV with VC1 & AC3 - Read How to easily rip a DVD to DivX / XviD using FairUse Wizard - Read How to rip a DVD to XviD/H264 using FairUse Wizard 2 - Read Tool features, Convert: Acronyms / Also Known As: fu, fuw
Report this tool(dead link/new version out)
|
|||||||||||||||
| Comments | |||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
Great tool indeed! Used it for 3 movie-backups so far (.avi/XViD) and even in two-pass mode - template "encoding speed" selected - speed and quality are awesome on my system: 1.8 Ghz Intel Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HDD. A 1:42 h movie took less than three hours in two-pass(!) mode, result veeery satisfying. Picture is crisp and in addition there seems to be a subtle color-adjustment taking place(?) that makes those movies look better on the TV-screen (mpeg4-certified standalone) as well as on the CRT. I give it a 9 for 'Ease of Use', since I think for experienced users like myself it is really easy, but newbies might get confused, if unchecking "automatic mode" (am using German translation, correct English term used in the app might be slightly different.)
|
|||||||||||||||
I've recently evaluated FairUse 2.8 and HandBrake 0.9.2 for my DVD to H264 conversion. Conclusion is that I will use FairUse at the moment and wait for HandBrake to improve on its usability in Windows. Some advantages of FairUse over HandBrake: 1. Automatic detection of telecine or interleave content. 2. Preview window for cropping and checking of subtitle. HandBrake do not have a preview window for Windows. 3. Using the "H264/AAC/MP4, Slow" profile and quality setting, the speed of conversion is slightly faster than HandBrake quality preset. 4. Appears to be more stable than HandBrake. Disadvantages of FairUse: 1. Cannot convert DVD files on hard disk rip by other programs, e.g. DVDFab Decrypter. You have to convert the DVD-Video files to an iso image before FairUse can read it. 2. Limited documentation and community support. HandBrake on the other hand has great documentation and forum support. 3. HandBrake seems to be more actively developed.
|
|||||||||||||||
With this new version (2.8) that adds xbox 360, ps3, etc. functionality, Fairuse Wizard is simply awesome. No hiccups, hangups or any problem at all. I encoded 2 movies for the xbox 360, and the quality is superb. While no program is perfect, this one comes close.
|
|||||||||||||||
excellent program worked perfectly all the time. It would be very nice if it can take DVD directory from hard disk. If possible file mode like Auto GK.
|
|||||||||||||||
Updated FairUse Wizard to version 2.6. Used DVDFab Decrypter to rip main movie to ISO file.Converted movie to 700Mb avi file using the internal x264 codec. Amazing quality result. This program rocks
|
|||||||||||||||
Celtic Druid's 2.6 Version works perfectly fine on Vista. Did over 3 continuous days of coding of 8 films (lil slow computer). needs external x.264 codec (recommended anyway to use the latest) NOTE: uses vfw x264. latest (r654) has good visual improvement over the build included in FUW2.5
|
|||||||||||||||
Celtic Druid's version 2.6 doesn't contain trojan. Great program, better than AutoGK (sync issues, expecially with stand alone players)). 1) Rip with DvdFabDecrypter 2) Make .iso with dvdshrink using NO COMPRESSION (less than 10 minutes) 3) Make xvid with FairUse.
|
|||||||||||||||
This is an excellent program which delivers quality results in your conversions. I compared the output from this program with that of AutoGK, and I have to admit the results from FairUse Wizard were superior. The video was sharper, and retained better detail overall. I honestly can't think of a better program than this if you want to make high quality Divx or Xvid files. The only gripe I have is that if your source files are stored on your hard drive, FairUse wants them to be in the ISO format. This is unfortunately completely unnecessary. All this does is to add a needless extra step and is a complete waste of time. I have DVD compliant videos stored on my drive and whenever I want to compress them into an Xvid or Divx avi format, I am first forced to bundle these files into the ISO format. I find this extra step, which FairUse requires, useless, burdensome, and extremely irritating. No other DVD to avi converting programs out there require this unnecessary and ridiculous step. I gave this program an 8. It would have earned a 10 from me if they had dropped the ISO source file requirement and let me load DVD folders normally, and not make me waste my time on an extra step. Well, maybe in the future they will, like all other programs, allow us to load the files normally. Then this program will really earn a 10 out of 10.
|
|||||||||||||||
To drakesis: You review is right on the money in that FairUse Wizard dominates! However, you're really wasting a step + 50 minutes + quality by using DVDShrink before using FairUse Wizard. I highly recommend that you (and anyone else who comes along and reads this) pass on that step in the future as it is not only unnecessary, but can and probably does result in slightly lower quality. Why? Because the conversion from DVD to DivX/XviD is lossy compression, as is using DVDShrink to compress the MPEG2 streams. What this means in simplest terms is that you are compressing (FairUse) an already compressed image (DVDShrink) thus loosing quality on what you would wind up with if you skipped the DVDShrink step entirely. By all means pop your DVD in, fire up FairUse Wizard and copy straight from disc.
|
|||||||||||||||
Excellent .. produces very compatible files for standalone players. BUT it does lack some of the subtlties of AuTOGK in that the tweaking of the codec and sound quality are more difficult to access. My only gripe really is that there is no option to keep the original ac3 sound.. If I have 192k ac3 stereo sound then I gain virtually nothing by converting that to 128k mp3, and sometimes the original ac3 sound is what you wish to keep. All in all tho, good, and easily understandable, with enough control to ensure hi quality output files. Commercial status cloudy.
|
|||||||||||||||
I like converting DVD's to fit on 1 cdr disc (700mb) if I can and Fair Use produces the highest quality out of all the all-in-ones I've use (and that includes AutoGK) The conversion process takes a bit longer, but the quality of the encode when using XviD is exceptional.
|
|||||||||||||||
I have tried tons of other tools to convert Dvd's to Xvid (ie. AutoGK, Gordian Knot, etc..) and they were crap, or didn't work at all. After using Fairuse Wizard for the first time, it worked perfect! Audio is insync. Picture quality is still great! I was worried it would lose quality, after all the different process's. Here's what I do: 1. I rip with DVDFab Decrypter as a DVD9 (~20 mins) 2. I use DVDShrink to compress (w/ Deep Analysis) into a ISO (~50 mins) 3. Open the ISO in Fairuse Wizard, followed through the step by step wizard, it made the Xvid Avi (~2 hours)
|
|||||||||||||||
To gonwk: ...There is absolutely no trojan in Celtic Druid 's build. Don't know about the original version,haven't used it, at least in the latest versions.But I bet that even for them, it's just a stupid false positive by some AV products. FU,as the FairUse executable is called, is also the name of a old,easily detectable nowadays rootkit. My guess,that this would be the main reason for these warnings? Money for nothing: this pretty much shows the quality of nowadays AV products, as most of them frequently detect NSIS installers or say, UPX packed executables,as infected,"suspicious" etc... FairUse is open-source, everyone can download the code and compile it for him/herself, why should they put a trojan in it? The one edition/version is sold when in binary form, therefore targeted as a supplemententary for making a living, celtic_druid on the other side, a well-known/respectable member on various video-related forums, decided to share/make publicly available his personal build, since he made a lot of interesting modifications in it. You can read all about it here: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=60358&page=13 To the rest of the people,that stated there is a virus/trojan: a)Learn how to use your OS.Period. b)Learn to interpret your "super-secure" AV product's results, before spreading wrong impressions in the rest of the world...
|
|||||||||||||||
An awesome program that provides excellent results. I'm using celtic_druid's version 2.5...simply superb.
|
|||||||||||||||
Latest version has a trojon in it,reported buy AVGfree,all so been taken down by softpedia maybe because it has a trojan,gave 6 overall because it does work but has a trojon.
|
|||||||||||||||
With regard to the previous posts about Fairuse Wizard being infected with the Ransome virus I suspect this is a false positive. Ewido is the only scanner that seems to report this infestation in Fairuse. Other well known applications such as NOD32 and Spysweeper do not as far as I know.
|
|||||||||||||||
i too can confirm there's a trojan on 2.5. Apart from that, its not a bad app. Will be wary of anything they release in the future though.
|
|||||||||||||||
Version 2.5 contains the ransom virus, but version 2.1 isn't infected with it.
|
|||||||||||||||
*** Trojan.Ransom.a found in installer and program files *** Was very happy with Fairuse until doing a ewido scan today and found the mentioned trojan. Could other members test this also pls? and if confirmed I will be seeking a refund.
|
|||||||||||||||
I have been using other tools (IMTOO Platinum ripper, Gordion Knot, etc.) and all of them either didn't produce good output for me or were a little on the complex side for a person of my skill level. Fairuse is the solution to those problems. The out of sync problem and the jerky motion problem I got with IMTOO Platinum, or the "too many steps" problem with the other solutions are gone. I now just use Fairuse for my portable video solutions.
|
|||||||||||||||
First impressions - comment may be ammended in the future. Almost went right past this program because of the method used to load your dvds (ie. movies) but I'm glad I got past that and gave it a go. I tried SimpleDivx and had inconsistency problems and AutoGK gave me a/v sync problems - so far FairUse is going well for me although there are a few options I'm not sure I should touch or not - they're sorta semi-hidden as if to say 'don't touch unless you really think you have to'. Especially like the cropping and clipping options. Have just queued up a three movies to do overnight - probably get two done as 4-5 hours seems to be the average time on a Celeron2400 or a P4-1800.
|
|||||||||||||||
Have used many programs to encode to either xvid or divx this has given me no problems whatsoever I have tested on my desktop and on my notebook both working perfect with good video and no lip sinc problems,the free version that you can download is the perfect to encoded tv shows but have also used it to do movies aswell but you can only go up to 700 mb per file Have encoded movies of over 2 hours and came out realy good this program is easy to use for the complete newbie as all the options that are selected on startup of the program will do fine
|
|||||||||||||||
I kept getting a run time error message virtual dub mod, so I couldn't get the prog to work.
|
|||||||||||||||
I have had the same experience with bad sync of audio and video. If they could fix that, it would be great tool.
|
|||||||||||||||
This new Fairuse Wizard is full of bugs. Things are looking good until the comversion is complete. And then I get AVI file with bad sync of audio and video. I tried different settings, audio tracks and bunch of other things, but the resault was the same. Since I have 1.0 that worked OK, I tried that one, and it was bad too. I had to uninstall both of them, clean registry and install 1.0 to get the things working again. 2.0 is slower then 1.0. It is three times slower while making doing copy of the DVD to hard drive. So stay away from 2.0 until the problems are solved.
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||
| 1 tool hits, Showing 1 to 1 tools |
-
|
Explanation:
New tool= New tool since your last visit
New version= New version since your last visit
New comments= New comments since your last visit
Type
Adware = Free tool but supported by displaying advertising
Freeware = Free tool
Free software = Free tool and also open source code
Payware = No demo or trial available
Spyware = Free tool but installs annoying advertising products (browser popups etc)
Trialware = Also called shareware, demo. Trial version available for download and testing
($PRICE) = The price in US Dollar
Windows
Mac OS
Linux
v1.0.1 = Latest version available
Old versions = Free downloads of previous versions of the program
Rating
The first rating is a standard average rating and the one between () is a weighted average.
Browse software by sections