ratDVD update online
p2pnet.net News:- ratDVD V0.6 has now been released.
You’ll recall ratDVD, from students at the university of Aarhus in Denmark and St Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (LETI) in Russia, takes a DVD movie and puts it into a highly compressed .ratDVD container format file without losing the features of the original DVD.
AfterDawn says the new version includes:
- Windows 2000 support
- AC-3 SP/DIF support (see settings tool)
- Implemented warning for corrupted input material from DVD
- Some optimizations regarding speed
- Tagging for ratDVD movie collections
The new ratDVD 0.6 now enables tagging information such as title, actors, director, plot, etc. to be embedded into the ratDVD file.
“Until now, downloaded movies were just a filename on your harddisk,” says AfterDawn.
“With ratDVD tagging information, you can build your own digital library of virtually hundreds of movies and never lose track of which one is which.
“The ratDVD tagging information is retrieved online from imdb.com and is stored as XML inside the ratDVD file. Windows Explorer displays all ratDVD files with the original cover as thumbnail. P2P programs could use this information to provide detailed information about a ratDVD when searching. Source code for developers will be made available shortly.”
The new version also includes these bugfixes:
- Delete only created destination folder when cancelling conversion to DVD
- Convert to DVD creates separate folder in which the VIDEO_TS is stored.
- VIDEO_TS title search pointers corrected
- Fix for DVDs created with DVDlab(Pro)
- Fix for "list index out of bounds" when removing specific titles on some DVDs
- Fix for pink blocks occurring on specific chapter changes on some discs when reconverting to DVD
- Fix for displaying three/five black/white images during playback on some computers
- Fix for subtitle handling in .ratDVD playback (subtitles were displayed too often)
- Flickering in progress dialog when converting stills or very short titles
Download V0.6 from p2pnet here or from AfterDawn here.
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See:-
ratDVD – ratDVD: DVD compression ; ), p2pnet, June 1, 2005
AfterDawn – ratDVD v0.6 released, June 13, 2005
