
DESCRIPTION
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AVStoDVD is a flexible tool to convert various media formats to DVD compliant streams and author them into a highly compatible multiple tracks DVD with customizable menus. AVStoDVD has to be considered a front-end GUI (Graphical User Interface) to other free tools, included into AVStoDVD 'Installer' and 'NoInstall' packages.
Features:

·	Video encoding using HCEnc/FFmpeg.
·	Audio encoding using Wavi/Aften/FFmpeg. Multiple Audio tracks are supported.
·	Subtitles encoding using SubtitlesCreator/BDSup2Sub/VobSub. Multiple subtitles tracks are supported.
·	DVD Authoring using MuxMan/BatchMux.
·	ISO Image Building and DVD Burning using ImgBurn (not included in the installer package).
·	Internal DVD Menu Editor with customizable static and motion menus.
·	Video and Audio editing using AviSynth filters.
·	Batch encoding is supported.


HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
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·	CPU capable to process SSE2 instructions (i.e. from Pentium 4)
·	10GB Hard Disk or more
·	1GB RAM or more
·	DVD Burning Drive (not mandatory)


SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
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·	Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10
·	Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or higher
·	AviSynth 2.6.0 or higher (AviSynth 2.6.0 is included in the Installer)
·	A good media splitter (LAV Filters is included in the Installer)
·	A good 32bit DirectShow codecs/filters suite (LAV Filters is included in the Installer, ffdshow is a valid alternative, but do not install both of them)
·	Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 ActiveX Library (mscomctl.ocx, included in the Installer, see the NOTE below)
·	Microsoft .NET Framework 2 (required to encode and author text-based subtitles)
·	Java Runtime Environment (required to encode and author bitmap-based subtitles)
·	ImgBurn 2.5.0.0 or higher (not mandatory, but required to build DVD ISO Images and to burn DVDs - http://www.imgburn.com)


NOTE for Windows Common Controls 6.0 ActiveX Library (mscomctl.ocx)
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AVStoDVD is developed with good old Visual Basic 6.0 and uses the ActiveX library mscomctl.ocx.
This library is common and very likely it is already installed in your system (MS Office does include it).
The Installer package does include mscomctl.ocx too, so it will takes care to install it if not present.
Anyway, if there is already an old or broken mscomctl.ocx file, the Installer will not overwrite it.
In that case AVStoDVD will complain. You have to:

·	Delete any previous mscomctl.ocx files in your system folders (e.g. C:\Windows\System32 for Win32 or C:\Windows\SysWOW64 for Win64)
·	Run as administrator .\AVStoDVD\Lib\mscomctl_reg.bat file


SPECIAL THANKS TO:
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Very special thanks to these very special people:

Tips and debug at the beginning and throughout the project
·	Briareos
·	Entreri
·	JacoL
·	Bubuz
·	Manolito

Coding
·	Manolito for development of following add-on tools:
	- ff_vbr.bat (ffmpeg VBR modes)
	- Wavi_mod.bat (Alternative Audio Normalizing)

Graphics
·	JacoJ (original Splash Screen and DVD Menu Templates)
·	OAKSide (main Icons)
·	8ternity (new Splash Screens and Skins)
·	JohnJ (new Splash Screens and Skins)

GUI languages
·	Manolito for German translation

General support
·	All guys from Doom9 Forums (International and Italian) and from VideoHelp Forum who helped AVStoDVD development
·	MrsC (for her infinite patience)


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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I would like to thank all the following great guys. They are true programmers!

·	Justin Ruggles and Prakash Punnoor for Aften
·	the AviSynth Team for AviSynth
·	Groucho2004 for AVSMeter
·	Sir Didymus for BatchMux
·	0xdeadbeef for BDSup2Sub
·	Donald A. Graft for DGPulldown and DGIndex
·	FFmpeg Team (http://ffmpeg.org) for FFmpeg
·	Hank315 for HCenc
·	MONOGRAM Multimedia for GraphStudio
·	LIGHTNING UK! for ImgBurn
·	Nevcairiel for LAV Filters
·	Zenitram for MediaInfo
·	Moritz Bunkus for MKVtoolnix
·	MPUCoder for MuxMan
·	Erik Vullings for SubtitleCreator
·	Gabest for VobSub
·	Tamas Kurucsai for Wavi
·	All the great guys (mostly from Doom9 forum) for creating the AviSynth plugins and functions used by AVStoDVD


KNOWN OPEN ISSUES
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·	Cannot customize VobSub IDX/SUB and BluRay PGS subtitles


CONTACT
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To get more information about AVStoDVD, visit AVStoDVD HomePage (http://sites.google.com/site/avstodvdmain/) or SouceForge WebPage (http://sourceforge.net/projects/avstodvd).

Please send any comments and suggestions to: avstodvd@gmail.com

AVStoDVD is always in development, and despite my testing, bugs are probably plenty in numbers. If you encounter any, please send me an email describing how to reproduce the bug (if you can) and the exact error message AVStoDVD reported, if any. Sending attachments of log files produced by AVStoDVD is also very helpful.
