-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DVD2AVI 1.82 readme (by OGO) 03/10/2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This version of DVD2AVI is a rework of DVD2AVI 1.

76 : - I added the MMX resizer from avisynth. This resizer supports YUV and RGB24 out put. You should always use YUV which is much faster. Whith this resize, DVD2AVI is a bit faster than the latest MPEG2AVI - New "Clip & Resize" window. You can preselect a predefined aspect ratio, and/o r resize and crop all by yourself (use "free" ratio for this), and choose the fi ltering mode (bilinear, bicubic) - Load/save session support. This function allow to load and save all the settin gs for a particular session. - Automation from command line : * dvd2avi /preview <session_file> : load specified session and start pre view. Quit when user stop preview. * dvd2avi /saveavi <session_file> : load specified session and start avi encoding after codec selection. Quit when encoding is finished - More statistics (projected file size, bits/pixel, average bitrate, average FPS ) - Small (very small) speed improvements - Bug fixes : threading, overlay management Please note that the resizer does NOT work with VFAPI, and i don't really plan t o add it (i don't see why it could be necessary !) Please post your comments, bugs, and suggestions on www.doom9.org forums :-) Future work : - 2 pass support - avi cut on specified size AND on keyframe (YUV only) - dual avi support (maybe) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Version history: 1.82: released 03/10/2001 * fixed the bug that made dvd2avi wait forever without quitting at the e nd of the 1 pass in a DIVX4 2 pass session * better avi file size estimation indicator * more precise average fps indicator 1.81: released 02/10/2001 * initial release 1.80: not released (testing) 1.76: initial version from which i started

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here is below the DVDAVI 1.76 original readme : Since I am clumsy at English writing, I put it briefly. - The development of DVD2AVI is based on MSSG MPEG2Decode http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/MSSG/ and adds features as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. GUI interface (gui.cpp) VFAPI support (vfapi.c vfapidec.c) AC3/MPA/LPCM demux (getbit.c) Auto-split AVI output through RGB24/YUY2 (store.c) YUY2 DirectDraw Overlay (store.c gui.cpp) revised I/O routine (getbit.c getbic.h) MMX-optimized motion compensation (recon.c getpic.c) MMX-optimized color space conversion (store.c) audio normalization (norm.c) quality improvement of Dolby Digital decoding (AC3Dec)

- The author of TMPGEnc, Hiroyuki Hori, defines the spec of VFAPI (Video File AP I). You can find the Delphi-based VFAPI SDK on his page. http://www.yks.ne.jp/~hori/VFAPI.html - The development of VFAPI Plug-In refers to MPEG-2 VIDEO VFAPI Plug-In developed by Kazuhiro Mogi. It's helpful to C programmers. http://www.isc.meiji.ac.jp/~ee69011/mpeg2/ - 32-bit MMX/SSEMMX iDCT is implanted from Peter Gubanov's hand-tuned iDCT. http://www.elecard.com/peter/idct.shtml - Floating Point and Reference iDCT are implanted from Miha's hand-tuned iDCT. http://miha.peternel.homepage.com/idct.html - Dolby Digital decoding (AC3Dec) is implanted from LiViD Project developed by Aaron Holtzman. http://linuxvideo.org/ - 48->44.1KHz downsampling (wavefs44.c) is implanted from WAVEFS44 developed by WTC. http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~mp4m-truc/SOUND/WTC/WAVECONV.HTM * Known Bugs * 1. DVD2AVI only aligns the start point of A/V streams. If the movie is not encoded at once that PTS restarts (such as bonus track or different episodes) It's possible to lose synchronization from the break poin t. 2. DVD2AVI treats all Linear PCM as 16bit/48KHz/Stereo without header identifica tion. 2000/03/25 by Chia-chen Kuo, jackei@arbor.ee.ntu.ed u.tw