I tried to download DVD-WMV and what a hassle! First you have to
register to get an account, and you have to come up with a 7 character
long password that has to have 1 non-alphanumeric character in it.

After you log in, you go to the download section and you have to have an
"Invitation Key" in order to download your "free" software. This is the
sort of thing you expect for a commercial program, but for something
that is supposed to be free, I don't expect to have to jump through so
many hoops. For now, I'll stick to DVD-Decrypter, DVD Shrink and RatDVD
- none of which ask you to jump through so many hoops you feel like a
tiger in a circus.

Matt

Brian Wagner wrote:
> They are just jealous that you beat them to the punch. Personally the
> DVD-WMV is a much nore stable environment than MoviePro. DVD has worked
> 100% of the time for me as opposed to MP which was 35% of the time. Mike
> has been straight forward with his development and always ask for input
> for ways to improve the program. I mean he has went as far to setup
> forums to discuss the development and answer questions. That was great
> since the majority of the Yahoo MP group emails have become about "Penis
> Enhancement" or "Meet Hot Ladies".
>
> I personally want to thank Mike for his development of DVD-WMV. He has
> updated many functions and software that it uses.
>
> So "THANK YOU" and yes I have donated to a chartiy after asking where I
> could send a donation for DVD-WMV.
>
>
>
> */damndamnbitch1 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>/* wrote:
>
> So I have not released DVD-wmv's source because I put ~$300.00 for a
> license for the Xceed Smart UI control. If you dont like it dont use
> it. I have been in contact with the origional Movie Pro dev and told
> them that this application is free and will always be free. I
> support Fair Use more then most people.
>
> I even posted on my site (dvd-wmv.com) that donations are not
> accepted rather directed to a non-profit. I make enough $$ at may
> job I dont need to charge for this application.
>
> So again for all of you that have a problem with how dvd-wmv is going
> then dont use it. I would rather spend my time working on updates
> not responding to stupid posts like this.
>
> ~m
> --- In MoviePro@yahoogroups.com, "salomon maya" <salomonmaya@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have been using Moviepro for a long time but to be quite honest I
> don't
> > see a big advantage to dvd-wmv. If you can encode in 5.1 thats
> great but it
> > take 5 hrs and doubles the size of your movie right? And then how
> do you
> > select the movie with 5.1 from the mymovies plugin? Make a second
> copy?
> >
> > I think moviepro might be the better choice...
> >
> > On 4/3/06, zaphod_beeble77 <zaphod_beeble77@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't see a link to the new source code on www.dvd-wmv..com. I
> > > will be posting my code changes later as soon as I can parse out
> > > which files I altered - hopefully there will be others like me
> that
> > > can work on this together and get all the bugs worked out.
> > >
> > > I don't like closed software development for programs like this -
> > > this is definitely one program that should be open source.
> > >
> > > Brent
> > >
> > > --- In MoviePro@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Green" <rg807@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > What scam? What are you talking about? The original dev took the
> > > source code
> > > > and posted it up for anyone to use. This is the basis of DVD-
> WMV.
> > > It doesn't
> > > > cost anything.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >From: "zaphod_beeble77" <zaphod_beeble77@>
> > > > >Reply-To: MoviePro@yahoogroups.com
> > > > >To: MoviePro@yahoogroups.com
> > > > >Subject: [MoviePro] Re: Problems with Movie Pro?
> > > > >Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:16:08 -0000
> > > > >
> > > > >Sorry - no way - it is going to be a retail product, and I will
> > > not
> > > > >participate in such a scam. If anyone wants anything in the
> > > current
> > > > >MoviePro project, please let me know. I will see if I can add
> a
> > > > >field to adjust for PAL framerates so that we can get rid of
> the
> > > > >jumpiness for PAL movies.
> > > > >
> > > > >Brent
> > > > >
> > > > >--- In MoviePro@yahoogroups.com, "Rob Green" <rg807@> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Dude, check out www.dvd-wmv.com beta key is DVDWMVBETA
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >From: "zaphod_beeble77" <zaphod_beeble77@>
> > > > > > >Reply-To: MoviePro@yahoogroups.com
> > > > > > >To: MoviePro@yahoogroups.com
> > > > > > >Subject: [MoviePro] Problems with Movie Pro?
> > > > > > >Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:43:57 -0000
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >It looks like I will be supporting this program from here
> on
> > > > >out. If
> > > > > > >anyone has errors when using MoviePro, I can post a debug
> > > version
> > > > >of
> > > > > > >MoviePro here so that it will give line numbers where the
> > > error
> > > > >is. I
> > > > > > >discovered a lot of places in the code where there were no
> > > checks
> > > > >for
> > > > > > >integers before using them to do substrings.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >By the way, I worked at Microsoft for six years and I love
> > > coding
> > > > > > >(just wish the code was in C# - but perhaps I can do this
> > > > >someday).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >Drop me a line if you need some help - this is an awesome
> > > program
> > > > >and
> > > > > > >I currently have around 355 movies (not all with MoviePro -
> > > but
> > > > >most)
> > > > > > >available on demand on my Media Center PC.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >Thanks,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >Brent Green
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
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