andario, in options make sure it is set to be able to use all available CPU cores/threads to have a chance of being able to max out the threads available... Even then if it cannot divide the encoding/decoding out efficiently it won't use more threads than it can simultaneously fill with data to be processed.

The hard subs will always be less sharp than playback time rendered soft subs since their sharp edges are softened/blurred by the lossy compression method used to encode the videos and hard subs. You canny change the laws of mathematics... As far as I know there is yet to be a selective codec that can apply better quantasization resolution to the hard subs and lower quantasization to the remaining video frames data so either you have sharper hard subs and larger video files in general or normal video file size and fuzzy hard subs.

TK, The option is to max out cores is obviously activated. My point was there are other softwares that do max out my CPU, while using the same hardware.

And I´m afraid it´s not about the "laws of mathematics", it´s about this program does NOT create soft subs as I tried to explain, which is precisely what I want. Why on earth doesn´t? I dunno. I know Handbrake does it, and with great quality, so I´ll have to keep using that one.

Thanks.

andario, apologies about waking this comment thread back up again.. was seeing if there were any comments about this giveaway reverting to a trial as it has for me and I re-read your comments and an idea occoured to me... Is it possible that part of the process might have been offloaded to your GPU so there is less for the CPU to do and the GPU was the bottleneck so the CPU never needed to be maxed out to keep the GPU active? Xmedia Recode lets you carry over embeded subtitile streams or import srt files. I suspect Handbrake and Xmedia Recode are similar in capabilities. If this was using GPU to encode and the other software was only using the CPU then that would explain why the other software maxed out the CPU as that is all it had to work with.

I am Morgan Pierce,. I downloaded and installed. Easy. Product looks very good. Will be useful to me as I now have to use 4 other products to do what this does. Great! Thanks GAOTD peeps.

Hadrianus, I am not sure. I thought the name of the company was Win-X.

Sparrow, It won't download BBC iPlayer based videos BUT if you can find some stand alone video clips that do not rely on the BBC iPlayer engine it has a chance of downloading those.

Sparrow, example BBC site video download paste the URL text https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/embed/p06nd72s/46582025 into the URL downloader NOT the link.giveawayoftheday.com mangled link. Press Analyse button and wait for it to be analysed and various resolutions are offered to download and select what you want and the conversion options you want (if any) and start the download and conversion if selected.

Josef Šaněk, Re "Why should AVG be disabled?!"

AVG does not like the Themidawrapper that Giveawayoftheday uses to ensure we can only install today.

It is not necessary to disable AVG completely. It is sufficient to prevent AVG keeping an eye on the folder the Giveaway-zip is unzipped into. But that takes more time than stopping AVG alltogether for a few minutes. The choice is yours.

Josef Šaněk,

I installed and registered this program. You may try to close your antivirus software.

Josef Šaněk,
If you read post #2 from Digiarty Support Team (highlighted in Yellow color) you could choose to download the installer directly from their webite. A quote from post #2....
Note: If failed to unzip and install the file from GOTD, you can click here to re-download the setup file of Deluxe.
This way you don't have to use GOTD's wrapper that is giving you problems.

Josef Šaněk, if you cannot get your system to handle the setup.exe/setup.gcd wrapper system you can try downloading a slightly earlier build that does accept the giveaway license just fine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180429060632/https://www.winxdvd.com/download/winx-hd-converter-deluxe.exe
It may require some hand editing to overcome the link interceptor used by giveawayoftheday.com but the installer is the last version of this product archived, more recent coppies of the file served are not this product but VideoProc.exe installer renamed to this products installer to push users over to their new product.

dadams,........ nag screen that opens every time the program is opened......Digiarty has always done that because it is a giveaway!

dadams, This program has its qualities, but the conversion rate is not part of that. There are other programs that take less than 5 minutes to do what this program takes almost an hour to do, all with the same output quality.

dadams, check your config.ini file in %AppsData% and change the line about autocheckupdate to

autocheckupdate=0

gergn, thanks for this info; however it does not work; I changed it to 0; clicked on save; opened the program and noticed that little check mark is still there. returned to the ini file and what was there? the 1 again; tried it again and it keeps returning to 1 after opening the program.

gergn,
I went into Program Files & Program Files (86) then to "Digiarty" opened WinX. but when I clicked on "config.ini" all I got was "friend= ". I am unable to find the %AppsData% file you are referring too! How do I get to it?
Thanks!

mardel, try making the INI change then saving and marking the file as read only... if that fails add deny modify or equivilent to your user group in permissions to the file to prevent the setting being changed back to enabled. Tis very naughty for WinX to force update checks on a giveaway whose terms and conditions prohibit updating to newer versions... I would tend to sniff the domain used for the update check request and redirect it in my systems hosts file to prevent future mistakes that will likely invalidate the giveaway license. I'd not use a firewall to block its access to the web in general as this is supposed to include video downloader functionality and that would block that functionality.

TK, I have since tried it on my older 5.12.1 giveaway of this and the read only trick and deny write trick fails as the program then throws an error on launch attempt and fails to launch.
The active config.ini is in the %APPDATA%\Digiarty\ program specific folder.

I do note that in this older version when I force it to check for an update the program reports it finds none but the URL used http://WWW.WINXDVD.COM/hd-video-converter-deluxe/upgradeini/upgrade.plist
reports 5.15 is the latest version... It apears the check may be being used to do promotional offers for giveaways and not checking for "free" updates we are not entitiled to. So the update check may not be so much of a concern.

mardel, Open File Explorer..
C:\Users\"-Your Username Here-"\AppData\Roaming\Digiarty\

Example...
C:\Users\Quickfix\AppData\Roaming\Digiarty\

mardel, sometimes an edited file in %AppData% will be stored elsewhere, because you will need admin rights.
You can try and store the edited file on the desktop and then move the file to its correct location.

Ron Dunn,

config.ini is located in

C:\Users\your _username\AppData\Roaming\Digiarty\WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe\config.ini

Yo ucan use the search function of Windows 10 to find %AppData%.
The % ..% symbolise a relative address.

gergn, close but %APPDATA% variable is the one that does NOT require admin rights... the reason those who did cursory look in the users %APPDATA% folder is that Digiarty programs are almost all stored in a %APPDATA%\Digiarty\ subfolder so if the instead look for a WinX.... named folder they don't se it in the %APPDATA% because they are looking for the wrong iniitial folder name.

Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\ or ProgramData or Windows file system virtualisation is I beleive what you are talking about redirecting non-admin writes attempts to Admin only writeable folders to protect the systems configuration from being globally affected by non-admin users actions whiles still allowing non-admin users to use badly designed programs who put their settings files or other writable files in locations that require admin rights to write to... previously requiring XP users to login as full administrators just to run these poorly designed programs that reduce the resiliance of systems to malicious software by giving the current logged in user always elevated rights.

Ivanovich, like what.. for free??

TK, Thank you for the info.

Ron Dunn, see

https://www.askvg.com/list-of-environment-variables-in-windows-xp-vista-and-7/

for the location of %AppData% and other environmental variables. The url also covers Windows 10.