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Free Studio 5.6.3
on 24 July 2012 , reviewed by: Ben

Norton 360 promptly deleted it.

( 5 people like it)

VLC Media Player 2.0.0 final
on 10 March 2012 , reviewed by: Ben

Without these problems, it would have been almost perfect for me:

1. Volume normalization is very bad. As it tries to constantly adjust volume up and down, sound is uneven and right down nasty. At best, it's annoying. At worst, it's headache inducing.

2. Video playback is choppy when I play videos that have been converted from PAL to NTSC, and vice versa.

1. Try disabling the time stretch audio option. Or put the dolby surround option on. Maybe that can be help.

2. for converted videos, I use yadif deinterlacing and it gives very good results. Maybe toggle GPU acceleration on - it works for me. VLC is my go to media player for all videos I get from internet.

For my movies, I use Mediaplayer CLassic HomeCinema coz I use ffdshow and haali- gives me best quality

on 14 Mar 2012 , by Lisa

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( 6 people like it)

DVDx 4.0.0.7
on 26 August 2011 , reviewed by: Ben

# 3

Norton 360 found threat in the download file and removed it.

( 1 person likes it)

DVDStyler 1.8.3 final
on 04 April 2011 , reviewed by: Ben

# 2

I'v been using DVDS for a while and it works very well. It's easy to use because there are no bells and whistles.

There are two problems that needs to be fixed in order for DVDS to be truly a good product.
1) It can create 16:9 videos but output is not HD even if source file is.
2) It has problems burning directly to DVD depending on hardware. I solved this problem buy burning to ISO first and use a different tool to burn the ISO file to disc. It never failed this way.

RealPlayer SP 1.1 Gold 12.0.0.591
on 20 February 2010 , reviewed by: Ben

# 1

All they can say is "excellent", "very good", "best". Sheesh!!! It's so obvious they are trying to promote their spyware crap. RP is not just a spyware, it's a nasty spyware. It screwed up my system and was hard to get rid.