Had some difficulty finding/getting the key for this GOTD – I’ve become so well trained to look for the cursor changing its shape when over a link, that I had to force myself, out of frustration [& some exasperation], to just click everywhere in the sorta box with the offer. Clicking the words: Get free license worked but leaves Dimo with a black mark against it in my memory.
Using the downloaded setup file, rather then the GOTD, which *seemed* older, I got the program’s folder, with 1,073 files taking up 243 MB, plus an empty C:\ProgramData\fltk.org folder, with Dimo & ytdownloader folders in C:\Users\[UserName]\, and doraamon-video-cvt-ult, fltk.org, & ivscat.com folders in C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\. An older copy of the Microsoft C/C++ runtimes was also installed [check Windows Update], which was the cause of almost all new registry entries.
Like all of these converters out of China, it relies on [open source] ffmpeg code libraries – it uses an older version of those libraries, so you *might* get newer versions to work if you swapped them out. It includes CUDA hardware acceleration for Nvidia GPUs, but it seems like the older configuration – many [most?] of these converters now offer Nvidia & AMD hardware encoding, that while still older code, gives faster encoding times than ffmpeg’s built-in x264 encoder, because it allows almost no GPU assist. That newer converter app model doesn’t use the same encoder settings as with the x264 encoder, plus you lose a bit of quality with any hardware based video encoding, so some people might consider the Dimo app’s older model a plus. [Users with Intel or AMD GPUs might check out A’s Video Converter at videohelp[.]com.]
For the first several minutes when the Dimo MP4 Converter is started, it opens up 6 network connections, 2 of them active connections to Alibaba Ads, 4 just showing the base IP address for Windows. I didn’t test out the server aspects of the app, since from what I’ve found online, this less secure method doesn’t really seem popular enough to worry about, and I didn’t record the installation or running of the app to do anything regarding Windows networking setup. When starting there seems to be several windows opening & closing rapidly but did not see any extra apps or processes running.