SmallDVD 2.0 beta 1

Monday, August 24, 2009

I'm pleased to announce the availability of a first beta version of SmallDVD 2.0. Intel and PPC versions are available on the download page.

Main features of this release are:

Control over the conversion bitrate for non-MPEG2 input files

Overhauled user interface, which merges the video file selection and template editor windows

The reason it's a beta release is because there are one or two things not quite finished.

Currently, only three conversion rates are available, "Good", "Better" and "Best". In the future I will add more, and allow custom settings. "Good" and "Better" fit about 130 minutes onto a 4.3Gb DVD, "Best" fits about 95 minutes. "Good" is does a single pass conversion, "Better" and "Best" do two-pass conversion which is slower, but higher quality.

When selecting "New" or "Load" from the file menu, there's an error displayed. You can just ignore this, it doesn't do any harm.

All feedback, error reports, etc, very gratefully received.

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