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Softonic Rating:
Good:7/10
License:
Free (GPL)
Added:
December 1, 2006
Updated:
February 25, 2008
Publisher:
Website
File size:
6.9 MB
Downloads:
7,116
Francesca Migliorini

“Powerful DVD authoring tool”

by Francesca Migliorini

You probably have lots of different videos and films on your computer you would like to play on your home DVD player. Unfortunately, many DVD players can only read the standard DVD format and it's therefore a waste of resources to burn DVDs with avi, mpeg or wmv files.

DVD Flick comes in handy because it converts PC video files to a proper DVD format, readable by all standard devices. The final file size is much bigger than the original, for example: a 600mb requires a whole DVD. The conversion process is also very slow, but you can leave the program working while you use other applications, as you can select the priority your system gives to the conversion software. The final result will be an audio_ts and a video_ts folder, which is the standard for all DVDs and you can also chose to create an iso file which can be burned again at a later date. It would have been good to have the possibility to add subtitles but unfortunately this feature is missing.

If you are patient enough, DVD Flick is the perfect solution for burning your holiday movie to DVD, meaning that whatever DVD player your friends or family have, they’ll have no escape from your not-quite-Oscar-winning production.

This is a reliable program that does what it's meant to but at the end of the day, DVD Flick is really only going to be useful to people without a multi-format DVD player.

Languages:

English, Catalan

DVD Flick supports the following formats:

AVI, MPEG, MP2, MP3, MPEG-4, MP4, MKV, MKA, OGM, Ogg Vorbis and any other format as long as the appropriate DirectShow filters are installed for it.

Recent changes in DVD Flick:

  • Commandline switches to specify data path and temp path. -datapath and -temppath respectively.
  • New option to add borders to the video to correct for TV overscan.
  • Half-D1 resolution support.
  • Force nospanscan option for widescreen videos in dvdauthor.
  • Updated ImgBurn to 2.2.0.0.
  • Added fool-proofing to user input.
  • Tweaked video encoding settings and bitrate constraints. B-frames are now also generated, as well as more sensitive scene change detection.
  • TCMPlex is now used to multiplex instead of mplex.
  • Updated to dvdauthor-0.6.14.
  • Destination folder only has it's containing files deleted, not the entire folder anymore.
  • Several bugs fixed

OS requirements for DVD Flick:

  • OS: Win2000/XP/Vista

Minimum requirements:

Pros
  • Convert multiple video formats to DVD
Cons
  • Very slow conversion rate
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From the publisher of DVD Flick

DVD Flick is a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take several video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set.

DVD Flick is Open Source, meaning that anyone can download and view or modify the program's source code. It also means that it is absolutely free of charge. Several external programs are used by DVD Flick to do the dirty work like encoding and combining of video material. All of these programs are free, some are Open Source too.

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