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DVDx 4.0 Open Edition for Mac OS X is out there!

We're proud to announce that DVDx 4.0 for Mac OS X is out!

Mac users are now able to join the great community of DVDx users. DVDx 4 Mac OS X editions offers same GUI with same features as the Windows and Linux versions, only the player window differs a bit. DVDx 4 Mac OS X edition runs MPlayer/MEncoder/FFmpeg macports which engines support all formats supported in Windows and Linux editions::

• AVI (DivX/Xvid)
• WebM (Google's VP8 video/Vorbis)
• Flash Video
  
• Matroska (H.264/DivX Plus HD)
  
• Apple QuickTime
• iPod H.264/MPEG-4
• PSP H.264/MPEG-4
• 3GP/3G2
• MPEG-1/MPEG-2 (VCD, xVCD, SVCD, CVD, DVD)
  
• Ogg Vorbis
  
• and audio formats: AC-3, AU, LPCM, MP3, MP4 and WAV.

Installation is as simple as under Windows: download the .dmg disc image, double-click the installation package and follow on the GUI (say, accept the LGPL license). DVDx 4 is installed in your /Applications, MPlayer/MEncoder/FFmpeg are installed in /opt/local (default macports prefix) and MediaInfo CLI is installed in its usual palce (/usr/local/bin).

And to do best things, DVDx 4 runs its own embedded Qt4 Framework.

DVDx 4.0 Open Edition update links:

• download page
• on-line help (DVDx 4.0 tutorials)

DVDx 4.0 Open Edition for Linux as a DEBIAN package!

We're proud to be able to announce that DVDx 4.0 for Linux is available as a DEBIAN package!

Linux users were expecting DVDx for a long time and they had to wait the completely re-written DVDx 4 versions. DVDx 4 Linux editions offers same GUI with same features as the Windows versions. DVDx 4 Linux edition runs distro MPlayer/MEncoder engines and a FFmpeg-dvdx4 build to support all formats supported in Windows editions:

• AVI (DivX/Xvid)
• WebM (Google's VP8 video/Vorbis)
• Flash Video
  
• Matroska (H.264/DivX Plus HD)
  
• Apple QuickTime
• iPod H.264/MPEG-4
• PSP H.264/MPEG-4
• 3GP/3G2
• MPEG-1/MPEG-2 (VCD, xVCD, SVCD, CVD, DVD)
  
• Ogg Vorbis
  
• and audio formats: AC-3, AU, LPCM, MP3, MP4 and WAV.

Installation is as simple as under Windows: double-click DEBIAN package on Ubuntu distro to launch Ubuntu Software Center GUI. DVDx 4 is properly integrated to package management and uninstall becomes as easy (sudo apt-get autoremove --purge dvdx4).

The DEBIAN package installs all required dependencies, including Qt4 runtime, MPlayer and MEncoder, as well as independant versions of FFmpeg and MediaInfo. To rip encrypted DVD, libdvdcss2 package must be installed.

DVDx 4.0 Open Edition update links:

• download page
• on-line help (DVDx 4.0 tutorials)

DVDx 4.0: new generation encoder and DVD copier

We're proud to announce the very first DVDx 4.0 public release, after 2 years of hard work, lab testing, it has been rewritten from scratch.

DVDx 4.0 is based on the most popular and powerful encoders: x264, MEncoder and FFmpeg. It's open-source code is written for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X platforms.

DVDx 4.0 is an audio/video encoder as well as a powerful DVD copier. You can read DVDs and quiet any audio or video files and encode them to quiet any popular video formats: VCD/CVD/SVCD/DVD, Xvid/Divx, MPEG-4, H.264, AVC, QuickTime, Flash Video, Ogg, WebM, AC.3, WAV, MP3, MP4/AAC, Lossless Audio, PCM, Vorbis etc.

DVDx 4.0 is very easy to use: open a DVD or file in the player, play it with audio/subtitle of your choice ; encode a short preview and play it to ensure it's what you expect, and then start the whole encoding job which can take about one hour but you're sure to get what you're expecting as a very good result!

DVDx 4.0 makes all good choices for you: popular video and audio codecs and appropiate settings (for fair quality, high quality or smaller size files) but you can tune the encoder with your own preferred settings.

And now DVDx 4.0 runs a job manager to encode multiplke files at once.

Download:

• DVDx 4.0 Open Edition is available from Source Forge

DVD Shrink 3.2 a smart toy!

With DVD Shrink, you can recompress a large DVD movie into a reasonable size to fit in a 4.7GB recordable DVD. It's very fast and pretty good quality, a good solution to backup your preferred movies keeping parts of menus and bonuses. The latest DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15 is available in labDV software downloads:

• Added Quality Settings tab in the backup dialog, with option to enable AEC "adaptive error compensation" algorithms.
• Updated to NeroSDK 1.05, which includes support for burning DVD-9 dual-layer media. Added DVD-9 target size in preferences window.
• Removed "burn with DVD Decrypter" checkbox and replaced with a selectable backup target.
• Added burn with CopyToDVD as a backup target, this appears if CopyToDVD is installed.
• Added automatic support for splitting ISO files if they are saved to a FAT32 partition.
• Added support for replacing a title with a custom image. A default image from Guy Incognito is installed.
• Added "InstallPath", "InstallApp" and "InstallHelp" keys to the DVD Shrink registry.
• Added "March by ZeF69" toolbar.
• Fixed bug where Panscan and Letterbox subpicture streams could be erroneously discarded in some circumstances.
• Fixed bug if volume label exceeded 32 characters.

Current labDV guide for DVD Shrink isn't obsolete and may be helpful.

Guide: TMPGenc DVD Author

Pegasys, well known for their MPEG encoding software TMPGEnc, tries now DVD authoring with TMPGenc DVD Author v 1.5 (TDA).

DVD Authoring is very easy with TMPGEnc DVD Author.

Create your own DVD's with motion menus in only a few minutes following our guide, in french.

Welcome to labDV !

Founded in April 2001, labDV is publishing valuable information to Digital Video enthusiasts as well as beginners. This exciting project has helped to build a team on benevolent contributors who continuously publish new articles, new reviews and new guides (all reachable from the left navigation tree).

Most of our helpful documents are available from the library index.

We have setup one of the most relevant software database, including DivX and MPEG encoders as well as authoring tools, DVD rippers, codecs and more (see the software database). Registered VIP members can download the software from labDV dedicated servers, which are very fast, providing more than 1,024Kbits/sec per user.

Thanks to revenues from the VIP subscription we've sponsored and hosted several open source projects such as the world most popular DVD ripper DVDx.

We're also hosting:

• Leon's Lab, personal Leon's pages with analog capture and SVCD techniques,
• Sefy's DVD Backup Guide, a lot of guides and help ripping DVD with different tools,
• VCDwizard, a cool freeware (VCD-Imager GUI) to make (S)VCD with play-back control (chapters).