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DVD Catalyst Newsletter 41

Thank you for reading the 41st DVD Catalyst Newsletter,

This week was still mainly MovieGallery week for me. With the update from last week, I changed something regarding the way an external video player (MX player/Dice Player) was accessed (basically made it detect/use it automatically, rather than a checkmark) but it appears there were quite a few people who preferred to use MovieGallery with an external player even for supported video file types, so I added it back in. More on that a bit later.

Star Wars The Clone Wars Movie (2008) DVD

Reported by someone as being a picky DVD, so I picked it up to run it through its paces:

Moneyball (2011) DVD

Reported last night as being a bit picky, I converted Moneyball from DVD using DVD Catalyst:

Water for Elephants (2011) DVD

Reported earlier today as only converting partially, I ran Water for Elephants through DVD Catalyst 4:

Apollo 18 (2011) Bluray

Using DVD Catalyst 4 with AnyDVD HD, this Bluray converts fine, however, due to the movie was created, a small settings change is needed to ensue the best movie playback experience.

The Thing (1982) DVD

Earlier I converted the new 2011 version of “The Thing”, so I figured I might as well do the 1982 version as well:

The Thing (2011) DVD

Using DVD Catalyst 4 (4.1.3.2), the new The Thing movie on DVD converts without any issues.

The Thing (2011) Bluray

The 2011 version of The Thing on Bluray needs AnyDVD 6.9.1.0 or higher if you want to convert it with DVD Catalyst 4.

The Wolfman (2009) DVD (and how the black border detection process works)

Someone reported some complications with “The Wolfman”.

Based on the description used, it appeared that the black-border removal feature of DVD Catalyst did not detect the borders correctly, resulting in a video file that had a bit more cut-off than what it needed.

MovieGallery now available in Amazon Appstore

Since the Kindle Fire was released, I have enabled people to use MovieGallery Free with their Kindle Fire by using a manual install. I have had a lot of questions on providing the pay-version. Finally, Amazon approved MovieGallery for the Amazon Android Appstore.

You can find it here:

http://www.amazon.com/Tools4Movies-MovieGallery/dp/B0072Y1P74/