We screwed up.
We were so excited about the new features in DVD Catalyst 3.90 that we took too much on our plates. During development, we added the new file-transfer code recently included in DVD Catalyst Free Plus, and besides inclusion of new device profiles, we modified 2-pass conversions so that the first pass would be [...]

A small bug in 3.90 in regards of black bar removal came to light today, and was causing some major havoc with some DVD conversions “(FAILED)”. DVD Catalyst 3.90.1 takes care of these issues. In addition, the black border removal code has been tweaked a bit for better results.
Of course the new profiles and the [...]

DVD Catalyst 3 includes support for more devices than all similar products combined. 100’s of different devices have their own conversion profiles, and are easily selectable using the dropdowns. However, every day new phones and media players are released and it is impossible to include profiles for each one of them.

Depending on the content on the DVD, DVD Catalyst can display additional video content after scanning, besides the movie.
DVD Catalyst uses a “minimum playtime” filter to ignore things like trailers and advertisements on a DVD, but to make it as easy as possible to convert both movies and TV show DVDs, every track on the [...]

DVD Catalyst 3 does not work with Bluray Discs or so-called Digital Copies

The trial version of DVD Catalyst 3 does not convert your movies and video files all the way to the end. As soon as the conversion progress reaches 25%, the conversion continues to the next item, or finished the conversion.
While earlier trial versions of DVD Catalyst did not have this restriction and actually worked for [...]

Video comes in different formats and sizes.

If you are experiencing complications during the conversion, there are a couple of things you can try.
(This applies to DVD Catalyst as well as most other DVD and video file conversion tools)
* 99 Tracks / Scrambled Scenes. Some newer DVDs feature a non-DVD compliant protection system. This protection system (called ARCOSS) can affect playback on [...]

If you have a collection of MKV files, and are looking for a quick and easy way to make these files play on your XBOX 360 or PS3, MKV2MP4 might be the tool for you.

Over the last couple of weeks, some people have reported issues in regards of audio synchronization (lips dont match the spoken words) with some HTC phones running WIndows Mobile, such as the HD2.
The problem lies in the phone. Playing the video files on anything else (tip: use Quicktime on a PC to verify your files) [...]

One of the most powerful (and less known) features of DVD Catalyst 3 is the capability to queue up multiple devices. While extremely handy if you own a collection of different types of video players, we often receive questions in regards of creating one video file that would play on multiple devices.

DVD Catalyst is currently only available for Windows-based computers. While some people have reported that it works on Linux by use of the Wine windows-compatibility layer, not all the features and options work.
To use DVD Catalyst on an Apple computer or laptop, there are a few options to make things work.

For my previous post, the Box Office Trailers, I converted 10 Movie trailers for 4 different devices. While the video format for these devices is similar, I used a feature of DVD Catalyst 3 that can not be found in any other product on the market; Multi-Device.
Multi-Device enables you to queue up multiple devices (Multi-Device) [...]

For some reason today a lot of people are asking questions in regards of Digital Copies.
I have seen quite a few on forum websites, as well as received several by email today, so I figured I’d write up a small article in this regard.

CONVERSION SPEED
*Install the Boosterpack. The boosterpack installs an additional conversion engine, which is basically a newer version than the one DVD Catalyst has. It’s a free download, and will speed things up considerably, even with the same settings.
*Turn off the CPU indicators.  In Global Settings > Advanced, remove the checkmark for them, restart DVD Catalyst, [...]

A few days ago, I was asked to write up something about video quality and conversion speed. There are a lot of ideasfloating around the web on this topic, written by people who think they know a lot about video (including me).  In most of these write-ups, people just throw around a bunch of numbers, [...]

I received a question in regards of merging split avi files into a single video file so that it could be converted into a 1-file movie.

When DVD Catalyst reports that it has found 99 tracks on a DVD, this is due to a protection system on the DVD. ARCCOS, as it is nicely called, is a non-standard protection system mostly used by Sony for high-profile movies. The protection system generates a lot of “fake” tracks on the DVD, and adjusts [...]

DVD Catalyst 3 Updated to v3.83.1