File: Readme_DVD2AVI2.txt

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Okay, on to business. 

This is a snapshot of the DVD2AVI program from the SourceForge save-oe project. 

Just copy the DVD2AVI2.exe program to a folder and execute it from there.

That is a modified version of DVD2AVI with some optimizations (many for P4 SSE2)
and the addition of support for HDTV in ATSC transport streams. For HDTV you have to 
edit the DVD2AVI.ini file and specify the proper video and audio PID numbers, like:

    MPEG2_Transport_PID=11,14

Since most HDTV files will be using one of the three PID pairs <11,14>, <21,24>, 
or <31,34> it is easiest to just have 3 (or more) folders with 3 copies of the
DVD2AVI2.exe and DVD2AVI.ini files. Each ini file can have one of the common 
pid pairs. Open the correct one as needed.

If DVD2AVI immediately crashes on startup you should check that you have not aquired
a copy of someones DVD2AVI.ini file specifying a P4, that is iDCT=5. Set iDCT=2 if
not on a P4.

It is unclear how well this version supports the VFAPI interface. No attempt
has been made to test it.

Beware there is some dead code and unused modules included.

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Change Log: (dates approximate and versions invented later)


2003/03/30  V 1.83.5 Fix audio delay bug and confusion with multiple streams
                     Improve file name handling, accept .trp, .ts, .tp files
                     Add version info
					 
2002/04/??  V 1.83.4 More P4 optimizations (thankx Dr. Frankenstein)
	                 Various other optimizations and bugs
					 
2002/03/29  V 1.83.3 ATSC/HDTV file support from PCDVDGUY

2001/12/18  V 1.83.2 First P4 SSE2 optimizations from DmitryR 

2001/12/??  V 1.83.1 Started from beta version of OGO's changes 
					 This was a modification of the program from Jackei
					 Changes unclear


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