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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) [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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.

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