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wow, what a great free converter, i always used neros vision express but this is much faster (about an hour for 700mb compared to about 4 hours in nero, must be single pass transcoding) and the results to my eye are pretty much indistinguishable. in fact the reason why i tried this is because nero was giving me some really unsmooth encoding on some avis, it would become slightly jumpy with some avis every second so so (like a delayed frame or something) which showed up on panning shots. this encoder made it much smoother, in some cases unnoticeable so it is better than nero in handling some avis that are jumpy when transcoded.
it automatically puts chapters in every 5 minutes which means you dont have to spend time making your own menus although it takes longer to skip to the middle of a film. if u use dvdlab pro the chapters arent present when you put the mpegs in to it so you can just make your own menus with it as normal.
divxtodvd doesnt have its own menu making facility or custom chapters option so unfortunately if you download a film as 2 avi files and transcode them together in divxtodvd it wont join them together and there is a 1-2 second pause when you playback in your standalone player as it moves on to the second transcoded avi and the chapters start from one again (this is probably a good thing for doing separate epidoes though). on one film i did this with for some reason it speeded up the second avi slightly when i played it back on my player so i still used nero some of the time for smoothly joining up films that come as 2 avis.
the only problem apart from that ive had so far is once it didnt put in the audio delay when i transcoded 2 avis at once so it came out with the audio out of sync on one of the avis.
however it still works brillently most of the time when handling 2 avis or more in the same transcoding session, and the simple interface is a refreshing change from most of the complex dvd programs out there, so its taken place as my favourite transcoder. |
