I won't download today's giveaway because of the MASSIVE problems I had with my pcs (my server still is messed up) because of Extra software's browser hijacker that takes over the settings so that there's no way to change your homepage/starting page back to your choice instead of their site.

I immediately uninstalled Extra's last giveaway as soon as I saw it had hijacked my homepage. I tried rolling back the system with system restore, but that didn't enable me to change my homepage back.

I run Kaspersky antivirus & Spybot S&D with realtime protection, yet neither caught Extra software's previous Giveaway's sneaky hijacking of my homepage while I was installing the Giveaway. I ran several malware detection scans, etc, and spent hours searching the web looking for a solution to change my homepage back to what I wanted.

In the end, I had to reinstall Windows and IE from scratch, just to be able to once again have the homepage I WANT, with the option to change it when I WANT once again enabled. I lost a bunch of Giveaways because of this.

Needless to say, I will NEVER EVER install anything from Extra again. Their last Giveaway was more devastating to my system and software than any malware I've ever had to contend with!

Spiritwolf  –  14 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+51)

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I guess as a Zune owner I need to step up to the plate (as opposed to my usual visit of just clicking Thumbs up for Fubar and Ashraf).

First, to alleviate worries some surmised might happen with this product: I experienced no Home Page hijacking.

I presume the rationale for this offering is to supplement/correct the previous giveaway from the same company, "Extra DVD to All MP4 Ripper 6.66". That program offered Zune presets in addition to lots of others, but those Zune presets didn't work (not uncommon--WinX DVD Ripper Platinum also had Zune output presets that didn't work). Today's giveaway only gives Zune presets, and it works.

I tested on a Zune 80. I don't have a Zune HD, but all the presets are 4:3 aspect ratio, which matches all Zunes except the 16:9 Zune HD.
Output formats are combinations of:
- WMV or MP4 (MPEG-4) or MP4 (H.264)
- QVGA (320x240) or VGA (640x480)
- 512 or 768 or 1024kbps stereo/128kbps

My first test was a DVD-RW of a 2 hour recorded TV show, output format set to: WMV, QVGA, 768kbps stereo/128kbps. Ripping took 48 minutes on a Vista system. Quality appears excellent for the 10 minutes or so that I watched.

My second test was a 16:9 commercial DVD, "The Sound of Music," and it converted fine at each of H.264/VGA/1024, and MPEG-4 and WMV, (though of course it came out letterbox on the 4:3 Zune 80). However, it records text captions at the bottom. I don't see any control to stop it, and am not sure if this is typical for commercial DVDs and DVD ripping software (this is my first ripping of a commercial DVD), or if it's my mistake somehow.

There was also a drop-down under "Settings" with these entries:
To AVI
To MPEG
To iPod
To iPhone
To Apple iTV
To FLV
To Sony PSP
To Sony PS3
To WMV
To RM/RMVB
To Pocket PC
To 3GP
Copy to DVD

When you click on one of those, it just opens up a web page to their other program Extra DVD Ripper Express.

Help is online only, and the Step-by-Step Guide is for the different program Extra DVD Ripper Express, and is just screenshots/text descriptions for a typical conversion.

Conclusion: Tailored for Zune as advertised. Not 16:9, so not sure how well (would you see "double letterbox" of a 16:9 DVD?), or if, it works on Zune HD. Works fine on Zune 80 (assuming captioning is not this program's fault). Especially good to add to your arsenal if you already have any previous DVD Ripper that doesn't properly produce Zune output (Wondershare's DVD Ripper *does* produce proper Zune output, the other two I mentioned above don't).

Joe T.  –  14 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+26)

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Will not download today's giveaway (as I don't own a Zune).
Freeware Options (for those who are interested)

Handbrake
MediaCoder
SUPER

Happy Person  –  14 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+21)

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Sorry, here's the correct link for the open-source freeware program MediaCoder.

Happy Person  –  14 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+15)

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can any one tell the solution to problem which was encountered by #9 changing of homepage without the need of reinstallation of the operating system

raj  –  14 years ago  –  War dieser Kommentar hilfreich? Ja | Nein (+14)

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