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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. |
