DVDx 2.20

It produces good quality movies in MPEG1/2 format and you don't need to have 5GB or more free on your hard disk.

DVDx produces high quality MPEG and AVI movies and advanced features provide smart settings for experimented users.

DVDx is likely the fastest solution ever to copy a DVD into a DivX file because the DVD reading (and decrypting) is done while encoding to DivX.

Alternative solutions require to copy the DVD to the hard drive with DVD Decrypter (or SmartRipper or any other DVD ripping software) which takes about 30 minutes, and then the encoding time is added. So with a 75FPS encoding speed for a 1:30 PAL (25FPS) movie, the total ripping time of alternative software is 1 hour. While DVDx will take less than 32 minutes (at 72FPS).

On a consumer HP Pavilion with a Intel Pentium 830D, the encoding DVDx frame rate is 72FPS with DivX Pro 6.1.1 and later.

To encode to MPEG VCD/SVCD with the internal encoder or to encode to Windows Media, DVDx is also the fastest solution for the same reason.

1. Code improvement:
   • fix 698 memory leaks due to multi-language error strings which weren't unallocated and 10 others due to skin objects, 12 others due to heap allocations (new), 62 others due to DVD IFO data structure. And 100s of strings in debug console.
2. MPEG-2 encoding:
   • added 2 new profiles: CVD (China Video Disc) and DVD (default DVD-LP, 6000Kbps) both with audio 48kHz which must be set in Input Settings dialog.
   • set CVD/DVD GOP to 18 frames for NTSC (15 for PAL), so compliant with DVD authoring applications.
3. WMV encoding:
   • fix charches due to pointer bugs in handling IWM interfaces.
4. GUI:
   • fixed bug in About dialog box which caused DVDx to crash in Debug/DebugP4 and unpredictable effects in all versions (Release/Release_RipperFree/NoOptim)
5. SIMD (SSE2) optimizations:
   • replaced MOVQ xmm,m64 (rejected by VC9 compiler) with MOVQ xmm,qword ptr m64 and MOVQ m64,xmm with MOVQ qword ptr m64,xmm
6. Audio MP3 encoder:
   • nLame.dll 3.98.2 (Intel 10.1 compile)
   • libmmd.dll 10.1 (Inte...
7. This program is ad-ware because:
   • Attempts to change the homepage for web browsers installed on the system
   • Attempts to change the default search engine for web browsers installed on the system
   • Offers to install ASK toolbar that the program does not require to fully function

• A CDROM burning tool to write your VCD/SVCD (preferably Nero Burning Rom)
• Adaptec ASPI Driver 4.60 (recommended but not required)
• Eventually a DVD player (like WinDVD or PowerDVD)