ratDVD v0.7.1235 has been released today with several changes made from the previous release. Several new features have been added to ratDVD including the addition of direct burning capability and an ISO creation menu (both require Nero) and several smaller items that were requested several times on our ratDVD forum including the option to shutdown your computer on completion. Below is the changelog of the release followed by some download and guide links.
- New Features:
- Added Direct burning capability
- Added ISO creation engine
- (Nero needs to be installed for ISO creation / DVD burning functionality)
- Added MCE (Windows Media Center Edition 2005) support
- *ratDVD files are listed as video files
- *full control with mouse and remote control
- Codec quality/speed optimizations
- Added advanced Codec options
- *Ignore scaler
- *Use alternate quantization model
- *MV Search Path
- *P Bonus
- Multi-Language support
- *ar - Arabic
- *ca - Catalan
- *cz - Czech
- *de - German
- *dk - Danish
- *en - English
- *es - Spanish
- *fr - French
- *gr - Greek
- *hu - Hungarian
- *it - Italian
- *nl - Dutch
- *pl - Polish
- *pt - Portuguese
- *pt_BR - Portuguese (Brazil)
- *ro - Romanian
- *ru - Russian
- *sr - Serbian
- *sk - Slovak
- *th - Thai
- *tr - Turkish
- *uk - Ukranian
- ratDVD naming scheme
- *Automatic content based naming extension
- Tag editing while adding tagging
- Shut down after convert
- Setting for conversion task priority
- Custom sounds
- *For successful completions
- *For failed completions
- Remote Control Support with WM_Input interface
- *Allows usage of WM_Input compatible remote controls (like the Microsoft Media center remote control) to control ratDVD playback.
- New default quality set to 105
- New maximum quality to 120
- Source import plug-in architecture
- *Allows extensions for different source material (e.g. ISO Images, all kind of optical media, etc.)
- Destination export plug-in architecture
- *Allows extensions for all kind of different output targets (e.g. ISO Images, or Transcoding to other formats, etc.)
- Custom action at end of successful conversion process
- *Allows a higher degree of automation (e.g. automatic batch conversions, transfers in ratDVD archives, etc.)
- Bug fixes:
- Playback fixes:
- *Chapter change after seek was sometime not correct
- *Wrong time display in Media Player
- *Acceptance of only known video render filters solves problems with some codec packs/ffdshow
- *Fix for illegal NAV pack positions that sometimes happens in DVD Shrink created discs
- *Fix for wrong subtitle display on some movies
- *Wrapping of navigation component as COM module – can now be used from all programs system wide
- *Fix for wrong audio/subtitle switching at next chapter after seek
- *Fix for changing Aspect ratio change with VMR9 (Video Mixing Renderer)
- *Fix for graph stopping in certain situations
- Support for >4GB images
- Fix for “list index out of bounds” conversion issue for some movies
- Known Issues:
- Seek bar in Media Player
- *No reset at new title start
- *Does not reflect complete length with some movies
- Resume ratDVD function in MCE2005 starts movie from the beginning
You can download ratDVD from: http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_tools/ratdvd.cfm
You can read our ratDVD guide here: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd_to_ratdvd.cfm
Visit our ratDVD forum at: http://forums.afterdawn.com/forum_view.cfm/155
Visit the ratDVD homepage at: http://www.ratdvd.dk/index.htm
The ratDVD guide will be updated to this latest version very soon.






