Archive for the 'F.A.Q' Category

DVD Catalyst 3 3.90.x recall, 3.86.2 current latest version.

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

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 [...]

New device, device not listed

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

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.

DVD Catalyst displays multiple items on the DVD, what to choose?

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

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 [...]

Non-standard DVD protection popup

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Digital Copy – Apple iTunes- / Amazon- Purchase / Rental – Bluray

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

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

Partial conversions

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

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 [...]

Why is the resolution different than what you have selected?

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

Video comes in different formats and sizes.

Troubleshooting conversion issues

Friday, June 11th, 2010

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 [...]

MKV2MP4 0.1 – A Format-Changer to make MKV files play on XBOX 360 and PS3

Monday, May 10th, 2010

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.

Multiple devices : One file for all or one file for each?

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

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 on the MAC, sort of

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

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.

DVD Catalyst 3 Multi-Device Conversions

Monday, February 8th, 2010

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) [...]

Free AVI file merger

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

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.

99 Tracks found, restarted scanning etc.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

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 [...]

Device not listed in DVD Catalyst

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Because new devices come out every day, as well as devices that exist under one name, and some cellphone company decides the name isnt cool enough so they rebrand it, it is impossible to list every single device on the planet in DVD Catalyst. While already DVD Catalyst has profiles for 100’s of different devices, [...]

DVD Catalyst 3 supported formats

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Because DVD Catalyst uses the opensource mplayer/mencoder tools for it’s conversion engine it can read and create a huge number of video formats.

Zune 30 Boosterpack

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

IMPORTANT: THE ZUNE 30 PROFILE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE BOOSTER PACK !
The Zune30 is quite picky in the format of video file that it accepts. Due to a bug in the conversion engine installed by the boosterpack, an incorrect video quality setting is reported to the Zune Software with created video files. The setting [...]

How to update DVD Catalyst 3 to the latest version

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

To update DVD Catalyst 3 to the latest version, all that needs to be done is to click on the (big) cat-eyes on the top left in the program.