DVD Catalyst 4 - "Xoom Edition"

[DrWu]

Don't know if anyone uses DVD Catalyst 4 to convert DVD's for playback on the Xoom. While It's always had "Xoom" support since before the Xoom was released, they recently released a Xoom specific update. I've been using it and its fabulous.

Here's a link to their Xoom release notes - DVD Catalyst 4 XOOM Edition-FullScreen, DVD, MKV 720p, 1080P | Tools4Movies - Home of DVD Catalyst

 

[coldconfession13]

I have 4.0.2.7 right now

 

[DrWu]

I have 4.0.2.7 right now

yep, me too. The link I posted was just so people could quickly find the release notes for the Xoom release.

 

[stebog]

Wonderful piece of software, my only wish is that they would get GPU encoding up and running. Moved my quad core to the living room for family use and am running video encodes on my dual core laptop. Painful!

 

[arundc]

What software do you guys use to rip your BluRays?

 

[Holsum]

Wonderful piece of software, my only wish is that they would get GPU encoding up and running. Moved my quad core to the living room for family use and am running video encodes on my dual core laptop. Painful!

yea but with the i7 quad cores you can rip dvd's in less then 15 mins with HD settings. kinda nice

 

[coldconfession13]

Slysoft anydvd hd

 

[crewcabrob]

I have been using Catalyst on my 10 year old P4 laptop. It takes about 1 hour 45 minutes to rip a 2 hour movie on the Xoom fast setting. I don't really mind it taking that long as I can just set it up and let her go.

The fast setting looks really good and I can hook it up to my TV via HDMI and it is perfectly acceptable to watch.

Rob

 

[arundc]

Slysoft anydvd hd

Thanks, but the 1-yr option is roughly $95....

 

[Suntan]

Thanks, but the 1-yr option is roughly $95....

That?s life.

There?s also DVDfab Decrypter which has a paid version that gets the most recent updates and a free version that likely won?t rip new releases.

Then there?s makeMKV which is currently free in Beta, but is expected to cost roughly the same as the others when it goes out of beta.

Personally, AnyDVDHD has worked really well for me.

-Suntan

 

[DrWu]

Thanks, but the 1-yr option is roughly $95....

Thats the problem with BlueRay. They can update the encryption on the fly because all the blueray players are "connected" so to be able to copy blueray the software developer pretty much needs to be working full time to update the software to crack the new encryption schemes as they appear...you see this subscription model with any software that requires a nearly continuous development cycle, Anti-virus software for example.