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ConvertXToDVD (aka DivXtoDVD) is a 1 click solution to convert your movie files to a compatible DVD playable on any home DVD player. ConvertXToDVD supports most popular format such Blu-Ray(M2TS), DivX, Xvid, MOV, VOB, Mpeg, Mpeg4, AVI, WMV, MP4, MKV, DV and stream formats. It converts your single files into a compliant DVD Video set of files and burns it on a DVD media. Supports switchable subtitles from srt,sub/idx.
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Trialware ($50)  Win  Released: Size:26.6MB |
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Latest version: 5.0.0.51 beta (March 22, 2013) Download sites: Visit developer's site More download options: Download latest beta version Sponsored software: Supported operating systems: Windows
More information and other downloads: Download the old free DivXtoDVD 0.5.2 here. Download BatchXToDVD here or from BatchXtoDVD mirror here, it is a graphical batch processor for ConvertXtoDVD. Sections/Browse similar tools: All In One DVD Converters, Video Encoders / Converters, Video Encoders (MPG/DVD) |
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ConvertXtoDVD - 5.0.0.51 (Released 2013-03-22) [ View Issues ] View full changelog ============================================== - 0006558: [Bug] INIT ERROR: Input path (C:test) is empty. (cedric) - resolved. - 0006542: [Bug] Cut doesn't work when merging files (audio not cut) (felicia) - resolved. All features / Full description: Convert to DVD
Watch your videos on any TV with our avi to dvd converter software. Convert to DVD 1 or more videos. Designed for beginners, but with advanced settings available. AVI to DVD MKV to DVD MOV to DVD Divx to DVD WMV to DVD MTS and M2TS to DVD Mpeg to DVD, MP4 to DVD and more (see supported formats) Create menus & chapters, cut videos, total customization with live preview Edit your project with the various settings and features listed below. Watch results before converting! Create menus with videos and music Integrated video player for live Preview Cut unwanted parts of the video Add chapters - automatic or custom Subtitle files supported Convert NTSC to PAL and vice-versa Merge function - like for CD1 + CD2 Rotate video, add brightness/contrast Advanced features Advanced settings for ultimate conversions: 2 pass encoding for enhanced quality Hardware decoding for faster conversions Video/Audio/Subtitle synchronisation Various audio output formats Image resize filters (lanczos, linear, cubic, etc . . .) Multiple encoding profiles Multi-core processor optimized Audio amplifier Padding and cropping De-interlacing Batch converter Multiple conversions processed simultaneously Quality advisor Burn to DVD, create ISO file or store on PC Create DVD video standard videos (vob files) to guarantee compatibility with all home DVD players. Compatible with any disks (see supported format tab) ISO output available NTSC + PAL region formats 16:9 widescreen + 4:3 fullscreen Burn multiple copies VSO burning engine included Various SD resolutions available Custom output size Burn on DVD/USB key or store on PC
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This is a great product in regards to the interface (GUI), in fact, just like it's predecessor, it really is a joy to use. But just like it's predecessor, the quality of the encoding engine is shameful, the amount of bitrate that has to be thrown at the project just to be considered OK.... is absurd, granted Mpeg2 compression capabilities are not great in regards to low bitrates (it was never meant to be), but even when chucking high bitrates at a project, the quality of the output is still arguably terrible when compared to something like HC Encoder, in fact HC Encoder is far superior to FFMpeg (the underlying encoding engine this program uses) when it comes to quality, and even though HC Encoder does require a lot more processing speed, these days are not an issue due to Mpeg2 encoding being very easy, even CPU's of three generations ago could easily run HC Encoder at MAX settings with more than satisfactory speed. I had high hopes when i heard that a new version was coming out, but ConvertXtoDVD is just as disappointing as it's predecessor when it comes down to what matters the most.... Quality. The reason for bad scoring regarding value for money, is mainly because there are so many products out there that does the same as this one, and they all roughly charge the same..... and nearly all of them are powered by FFMpeg not HC Encoder unfortunately (HC Encoder is free, the developer will obviously not allow it to be used for commercial gains) it's quite unfortunate that we don't have many alternatives that does give us a great GUI (like ConvertXtoDVD) and powered by HC Encoder.... AVStoDVD is still being developed from time to time..... but getting the program working on your system (codecs need to be installed and also setup just how the program likes them to be!!!!) can be difficult, but if it does work..... WOW, regarding quality.... AMAZING, thanks to HC Encoder. DVD-VIDEO is a dying breed now though, which is of course why so many options stopped being developed a long time ago. x264 or even Xvid is the more better option, I will say that ConvertXtoDVD can produce great quality, but only if the bitrate given to it is very high. 90-130minutes of video (SD resolution) = DVD-9 (double layer DVD) xx-75minutes = DVD-5 (single layer DVD.... Normal DVD-/+)
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To all of the nay-sayers about this software, to those who have posted comments about CXTODVD conversions not filling the disc, READ THIS - http://forums.vso-software.fr/understanding-cx2d- ... 13008.html
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Seeing that I've posted quite a few comments about this app in the past, I thought I'd try the new v5 beta and see what it has hopefully improved on. I ran a 7.95gb mkv through it and the dvd5 conversion settings spit out a 3.83 dvd. Quality is not bad at all but but there is a full 500mb's of space the ConvertXtoDvd could have used to improve it a bit. V4 was nowhere near what v3 was but it seems that with v5, they're trying to work the kinks out...hopefully.
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Im used for fullhd procesing to dvd (short project, 40min) very satisfied with results.
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I also use the short project for my DVD's and no menu if only a single title. I use the custom settings for size and set the dvd-5 size to 4464 and the dvd-9 to 8250 (I believe 8300 will also work). Fills up most of the disks.
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RedDwarfer. just use ConvertXtoDvd 3 380 193
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AVISynth support is extremely poor in CX. After many attempts with many different avi's it would not correctly identify the fps, resolution or duration for the main video. Instead showing a green thin line no matter how I opened the video in AVISynth. AVISource, AVIFileSource, OpenDMLSource & Directshowsource have all been tried without success with any avi I tried. I have encountered the same problem on two different Windows XP Pro installs. The strange thing is, it would open an Mpeg 4 AVC served AVISynth script used for a background animation on the title menu but apart from that nothing would work. Encoding the video from an XVid AVI works however the quality is quite poor. It does not use a bitrate high enough to fill a DVD5. It concentrates on speed and not quality. Therefore for people who like it done quickly and quality is a very minor consideration then ConvertXtoDVD might be your ideal choice but for anyone who wants quality, find something better such as multiAVCHD.
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Although many people have remarked about how the program does not fill a disk and creates mediocre quality output, I have not had that issue since changing the "Encoding Options" from the "Automatic" (Recommended)" to "SP (Short Projects)." I have created single title and multi-title episodic disks, and in each case nearly the full capacity of DVD-5 disk has been used and the quality has been quite satisfactory. I have not tried using a DVD-9 with this setting yet.
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I agree with the two people below. I used a 6.44 GB excellent quality 720p MKV, set it to encode to DVD-9 target size/long project. It took over 1 hour to encode and the result was 3.8 GB with a video bit rate of 2,572 Kbps. A double layer DVD wasted. Why bother having a DVD-9 setting. I shouldn't have let it write to the DVD and viewed the VOB files first. I know that you lose some quality when you downscale HD to DVD but not like this. The produced DVD didn't preserve hardly any of the visible detail in the source MKV; the video looked mediocre and contained artifacts, audio sounded bad, subtitles looked awful, with choppy DVD playback. I think the problem is that their constant quality encoding method uses way to much compression producing too low a bit rate, and it re-encodes the audio, the source audio is already lossy so you're better off just passing it through. I don't recommend this program if you looking to produce a DVD with quality results.
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I thought I'd revise my update and see if in all this time the software/vid guys over at Cx2Dvd got this thing worked out. Well, they haven't. It' a shame cause at one time this was one kickin' piece of dvd conversion software. It still is the easiest to use. Setup is dead simple, but, it still totally undersizes dvd's so I would have to say to anyone that wants to get the most quality out of there videos, try something else. There are plenty of freeware apps that eclipse Cx2Dvd by a mile in terms of video quality and features. AvStoDvd, FAVC and Multiavchd to name the main ones. I hope in the future the authors over at VSO change things around to get this app back to the way it was. As I mentioned in my last review over a year ago, "why not just remove the Custom size feature, cause it doesn't work." No matter what size you input for dvd5 or 9 size, it never even gets close to size you input.
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Overall this program is pretty easy to use. You have pretty good templates to choose from and a detailed but simple option tree to set up your disk. It is also one of the better options I've found for converting some of the more difficult formats like MKV. Unfortunately, as many have already stated, it has issues with output size. I just packed 2 hours of video on a DVD-5 at full D1 resolution and high quality settings and only used about 2.5 GB of space on the disk. Quality is not that great. VSO offers the following answer: http://forums.vso-software.fr/answers-to-most-of- ... 11326.html Unfortunately that is no answer at all. It basically says the program uses some awesome encoding method (a hundred other programs just call it CQ or Constant Quality) and does not attempt to fill the disk, but to focus on quality because higher bitrate and larger file size does not mean better quality. That's a flat out lie. If you have good quality source video then higher bitrate does mean better output quality. The source files I just used were very good quality h264 MKV files. The output is grainy and blocky. I ran the VOBs through VirtualDubMod and find an average bitrate of around 2000 on all of them. This program use to be very good, but with the output size problem, it isn't usable for me anymore. I certainly can't recommend anyone actually pay for it. They need to fix the problems before selling a product like this.
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An Excellent Job! Nice Software, easy to use for Newbie. In fact, I enjoy it with VSO watermark which ido not mind, due this watermark (smart advertisement), a friend of mine who borrowed my DVD to watch out of curiosity already purchased it for a long run. :)
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When i've opted for DVD9 it generally produces files totalling 5 or 6GB - it never gets past 6.5GB. Nevertheless, i've recently tried this app for converting a few HD MKVs to DVD. Out of the various apps i've used, this one produces by far the best quality image. The only issue I have is that on about 30% of the DVDs there is a slight, and for the most part, imperceptible stutter. It doesn't matter what bitrate or FPS are chosen. It's annoying because otherwise the image is great. As it only happens with about a third of my MKVs, i'm hoping it is a bug they will manage to fix soon.
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had several crashes on window7 found it runs flawless as administator after much testing for output size found best for me[ always over 4gigs] encoding sp-short project up 110mins dvd-5 highest 2pass
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I've been using this app for quite a few years and having nothing but high praise for its ease of use and quality, that being said, the last few revisions have been quite odd in it changes they've introduced...mainly with the output sizing...i can remember last summer using this app on a 5 gb mkv and setting it to a custom 4478mb's and it getting very close after finishing, like 4.2...which i'm ok with...i'm doing a mkv at the moment thats 6.6 gb's in size and regardless of the custom size setting or setting it to dvd5, its produces a file size ridiculously smaller than it needs to be...this title i'm doing is 1hr and 55mns long and the output size comes out to 2.6gb's. I can set it to slow, medium or high and cant get past 2.6gb's, so i thought i'd first go to VSO's site and see if others were having the same issue. Ofcourse others were but the only answer to the issue is that particular way of encoding is equal in quality to filling out a dvd5 so theres no use to bother posting or asking why this change has been implemented. The first thing that came to my mind is that the creators of Dvd Shrink/Nero Recode, Dvd Rebuilder, DvdFab, Dvd2One and others apps similar that hit the size mark or get close, must all be wrong or they don't have a clue about encoding. I'm guessing this is probably incorrect cause the apps are still being used and are quite popular and the results speak for themselves. Also, why wouldn't have Hollywood or companies that do encoding not go for the same type of encoding theory that VSO does and cram a trilogy of titles onto 1 dvd9 to save space and money? There's an answer to that question though, it's because the quality isnt as good. VSO, please fix this and make it to were your customers actually get close to what they want, a title that's close to a size they want...not 40 to 50% off the mark...If not, why not just get rid of the "Custom" size feature..its useless and doesn't work to begin with(it use to)
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These comments apply mostly to the new v. 4. (I started a while back with late v. 2, and went through many v. 3 releases.) Some of the new v. 4 features seem intriguing, and may prove to be quite good and important improvements over time. But, despite trying to keep up with the changelogs, I've always noted *substantial* reliability differences between the versions I've installed. Some of them have definitely worked a lot better for me than others. It's early yet, but so far I'm getting plenty of failures with v. 4: during conversion, the frame progress indicator drops dead, because CX2D has locked up; have to kill it with Task Manager. Don't tell me it's overheating, or a hardware problem: Like Hell it Is ! Not if I can *immediately* turn around and convert / burn the **exact same selection of clips** using v. 3.6.4.158, which has been one of the more stable, reliable 3.x versions I've used, so I'm going to keep it around as an option. (I had similar experiences in the past, as between v. 2x and some of the 3.x versions. Given that inconsistency, problems have to come down to the software. Ignore my H/W profile info, which is out of date.) There are more variables to sort through now with v. 4, such as filter choice, 1-pass vs. 2-pass, and I can't say yet how they may factor in with these conversion failures. With various versions, there has also been a certain incidence of burn failures, after a successful conversion, but in that case I have reason to suspect that the burner is going to need replacement in due course. But I do hope they get the v. 4 bugs ironed out, as this is one of my favorite programs !
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Try HQ in Encoding options. I always get a filesize > 4 GB
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Choosing DVD5 and expecting to get a 4.3 gig project size has been something I stopped expecting. I now just choose DVD9 and if it is bigger than 4.3 GB ... I use DVDRB Pro to shrink it down in size.
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Try selecting a preferred file size under the encoding tab "custom"
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Sandy B, "The answer is "This is ALWAYS the result of a veriable bitrate as opposed to a fixed bitrate." Since we do not get to choose variable or constant within ConvertX, I guess that's not the answer, huh?
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The answer is "This is ALWAYS the result of a veriable bitrate as opposed to a fixed bitrate.
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I have to agree also with the last 2 commenters, the seemingly random output file sizes and the lack of a fixed output to disc size option is a huge minus, ie: one movie into 4.7gig highest possible quality, not as a 2.3gig unknown bitrate output etc. this software is constantly being updated so maybe will see some effort into this soon.
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Just to piggyback on Cosmo's comments -- me too! :-) All version 3s tend to give strange output size results. Often, I get 2-hour-plus movies authored to a size of 2.5 gigs, 2.3 gigs, 2.9 etc. How come??
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I have used this since version 0.xx. Version 3 is broadly faster than older versions and offers support for Core 2 Quad processors that Version 2 did not. There is one problem that seems to be inherent to v3 and that is the extreme data compression it prefers to use. For example, I had a video of about 105 minutes duration which I expected to fill a standard single layer DVD. What I got was a set of files totalling 1.1 GB. I tried the same conversion with DVD Flick and it produced a full 4.3 GB with seemingly better quality. Version 2 always produced output of 3.9 GB or more, sometimes admittedly 4.4 GB or so. I can only assume that lower output sizes also mean reduced quality. No one else seems to have commented on this and I know the settings I use were those previously used in V2.
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Great utility. Recently used it to add 99 family videos with a functional menu. Probably use this app more than anything else on my computer!
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