Freeware tools

post in here links to great freeware tools and describe what they are doing and how they worked for you. Please state if they are windows, mac or linux.


(WINDOWS) 1. Tool: TMPGenc:
The version 2.524 is freeware and is a great mpg encoder for VDC, SVCD and DVD. It also contains a very basic editor, several good filters, multipass encoding option, selectable video audio output and a hell lot of possibility to tweak it. Although not the fastest, but still a great and easy to use tool to get you DVD-ready mpgs. It can also read avs and vdr files.

Download link:
http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/e_main.html

description:
One of the best MPEG video encoders, convert to MPEG2 (SVCD, DVD) and MPEG1(VCD) with several settings and filters. Freeware MPEG1(VCD) encoding. Also basic joining, splitting, demultiplexing and multiplexing features.

Find kazillions of guiders here:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=TMPGEnc

DVD FAB DECRYPTER

DVDFab Decrypter is a simple but great working version of DVDFab Express. It copies entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying. It is more reliable than DVD Decrypter, which hasn't been updated for years.



DIKO


D.I.K.O. is a one click AVI/ DivX/ XVid/ DVD to DVD conversion tool. It works with many other softwares to achieve the best quality and efficiency possible in this conversion.

It offers conversion from avi to DVD including basic DVD authoring, all by the use of just freeware tools (CCE can also be used, but is not free)

Great program, easy to use and very efficient.



VOB2MPG



Very good little freeware program to extract the complete MPG file directly from the ripped vobs. Unfortunately it seems to support just one audio track, but nevertheless it is fast, seems flawless and very efficient. It produces a file ready to work with ULEAD MEDIA STUDIO PRO (although I would advise you to use wav audio instead of ac-3).

Definetly woorth a recommendation.

RipIt4Me

an obviously great DVD ripper which handles nowadays DVD protection.
True freeware. A must download.

Thanks for the links! And ripit4me is awesome, i've been using it for a while now!

http://www.bitburners.com/HC_Encoder/

HC ENCODER

Core features of HC Encoder:

* Input via Avisynth or DGIndex/DGDecode projects
* 2-pass variable bitrate (VBR) encoding
* Three quality modes: BEST, NORMAL and FAST
* User controllable GOP structure
* Scene change detection
* User configurable quantization matrices
* Fast encoding speed

seems to be a very good one

and it is free, so try it out.

Year: 1984
Genre(s): Horror, Workprint
Country: USA
Language: English
Directed By: Joseph Zito
Audio/Picture Quality: A/B

Friday the 13th Part 4 The Final (yeah right) Chapter with all the deleted scenes edited back into the film! Scenes include:


Nurse Rhonda was originally held up and gutted, but it ended up being cut out so that it only showed her being stabbed.

A scene cut in which Tommy shows Rob a fake guillotine. Tommy puts a stick in the guillotine. It drops and the stick is cut in two. Then, Tommy puts a fake arm in and cuts it off. Rob thinks its real and starts screaming. When Tommy starts laughing, Rob figures out that it is a joke. Trish comes in and asks Rob if he wants to stay for dinner. He doesn't.

One scene in which Doug and Sarah are on the porch. They stand outside and talk about not dancing.

In another scene, Mrs. Jarvis goes into Trish's room and tells her to go get a car part in town. Mrs. Jarvis also announces that she is going jogging before it storms.

A small scene cut during the time in which the Jarvis' car breaks down. In the original version, right after Trish tells Tommy to hurry up it cuts. It did continue with Tommy running up to Trish in a scary mask, scaring Trish. Tommy declares that he made the mask the first week that he got there.

Sarah and Doug are together in their room (before the party starts). They talk about how nice each others legs are and how nervous they are about going to the party.

A scene where Tommy shows Rob a toy soldier melting under a magnifying glass.

A scene where Trish finds her mother drowned in a bathtub.

The original script had character Tommy Jarvis splitting Jason's head open with a machete at the conclusion. Tom Savini wasn't particularly enthused with this lackluster method, and after a member of his effects crew (John Vulich) toyed with a prop machete used in Dawn Of The Dead, Savini got the idea of having the machete blade plowed into Jason's head, followed by the hilt hitting the floor and the villain sliding headfirst down the blade.

A scene after Rob finds his shotgun broken to pieces in which he sets up a motion sensor in the woods.

An extra scene at the very beginning in the moving ambulance: the two paramedics converse, the female medic says "I could've had the night off" and the male responds "Well, this was an emergency, like every damn thing." We then cut to the ambulance arriving at the scene and being directed to Jason's body, which is all we see in the wide release.

It should be noted that an actual full workprint of this film also exists. For a detailed list of the differences between the theatrical cut and the workprint, and plenty of screenshots, check out http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=535605