VSO DivXToDVD v1.99.19

Test Results

Now here comes the tricky bit, the testing of the converting. Experience has taught me that a reasonable test to apply is timing the conversion. This is where the problem lies; it’s a resource intensive program that depends on the system you have to encode. You may find that your times may be slightly faster or slower than the ones achieved during testing in this review.

Something very worthy of noting to our readers at this stage is the fact the registered version seemed to have a slightly faster conversion speed than the trial version when tested on the same files. So if the speed of the software seems to you whilst trying it out before buying, don't let that put you off. Use the trial to gage the quality and ease of use of this software and not the speed.

As you can see some movie types are faster to (re-)encode then others. The total encoding time is very much down to the system specifications of the PC you use and the compression on the original file to be converted but you can expect to get an hour long movie encoded in about in 60 minutes if your system specifications are similar to the ones used in this review.

Tip:

If you have two hard drives in your PC, use one for the source and one for the destination to help get those few extra frames per second and save on your encoding time.

Let’s see if these movies are compatible with some standard DVD-Players. For this test we used one standalone DVD player, one PC DVD playback device and the X-Box games console. This should give us a good idea of the compatibility of the recordings. Of course we have used a media that is known to be of good quality and checked it for any potential errors to rule out any media problems. Any issues in my opinion should be down to the softwares recording engine. When played back on the tested playback devices no issues where noted and playback was smooth.