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Two years ago dotTech reviewed WinX DVD Author and last year we ran an exclusive promotion giving away WinX DVD Author v5.5 for free. Now, similar to what they did with WinX DVD Ripper, Digiarty Software has made WinX DVD Author a freeware program. Click up the link below to grab it. Enjoy!
WinX DVD Author homepage [direct download]
Dear Ash :D
Thanks for the info.
Hope all is well. We miss you!!
Peace
A few days ago WinX DVD Author was featured on softbuy, for $0.99 instead of the normal price of $49.95. 103 bought it, so that’s just over $100.
So just before making it free, they wanted to get some extra money. I don’t like this…
@Bas: I don’t see anything to not like? I wasn’t aware of the developer’s offer but unless it said something along the lines of ‘buy now, it’ll never be cheaper’ then no harm done. And a nominal “loss” of, er, less than a dollar isn’t astronomic (whereas those who “lost” $49 might have something to grumble about.)
Software isn’t any different to anything else. A house is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it. Ditto, software. Migrating an app from payware to freeware can be fraught with difficulties though as the risk of alienating an existing user base can have a knock-on effect on sales of other payware in a developer’s portfolio: people lose faith in one product, so that lack of faith spreads to other products. I don’t know what WinX’s situation is here but presumably it’s decided the DVD authoring market is so over-subscribed it might as well forget trying to sell its app and instead build a freeware customer base that can be tapped into for sales of payware.
@MikeR: I agree, people who bought it wanted to pay for it, so no problem there. My problem is the idea behind it: ‘we are going to make it free, but before that, let’s give them the idea of a very unique sale (98% is quite unique) so that we still can get some money of it’. It just doesn’t feel right.
Not that I don’t like their products, especially DVD Ripper Platinum is a great product, and I will continue to use their products.
Hey guys–they could have decided to give it out for free AFTER they saw they did not get enough response from the 99 cent deal…..We have absolutely no grounds whatsoever for assuming that: “just before making it free, they wanted to get some extra money.”!!!! Why assume the worst….:-)….?
@janet: I know, it is possible, although I don’t think so. You don’t decide to give away a product worth $50 for free, in just 5 days. But maybe they did, and as we just don’t know, I’m not very negative to them. I am not like ‘these are really bad guys’ or so, it’s just ‘if it is true, then I don’t like that move’. And I forget it and continue to use their products happily…
this software doesn’t work, it freezes at the splash screen. I’ve installed and uninstalled two times and both does the same thing. Splash screen….freeze….nothing else. Useless software.
@freezing cold:
Check the system requirements for the software against the system you are trying to run it on. Alaso check supporting software and/or drivers that need to be updated. Just because it doesn’t work on your system does not make it useless software.
Does anyone know the version number for this version of the software?
Whooo! what a sale! 100 USD total sale do not pay the cost of the programmer to prepare the web page. So if they did not make gain on it, better giving it, and they have no responsibility if the program has a bug. No problem with it, price are changing every day as the offer and demand change.
@Bas:
Once you have already decided to give it away for 99 cents, it’s not much of a jump to give it for free….:-)….Also, I assume the original decision was made for planned reasons = to bring in a certain number of new users. If that goal was not being reached, the move to ‘for free’ would still be in keeping with the original goal. I think this scenario is much more likely than the suggestion of deliberately screwing a bunch of new users for a few ‘pennies’…:-)….
@ASHRAF: Did they ever fix the bugs you mentioned in your review?
@Mike: @Mike: version is 5.9
The version given away here is 5.9. I noticed it now recognizes my SATA DVD recorder which it did not before so that is an improvement over 5.5.
Many thanks for the version info.!
Thanks a lot for the info. Nice little tool.
By the way: WinX DVD Ripper Platinum can still be downloaded, the serial still works.
Great news, thanks ashraf.
It adds the winx dvd author watermark to the DVD menu
Can’t load .mts (AVCHD) file, which is a common HD video camera file format. Causes error and WinX DVD Author crashs.
Will try DVD Flick.
Update:
DVD Flick worked with .mts (AVCHD) files. When you go to open a file they won’t come up as a suppoerted file, but select “all file types” and then you can load your .MTS file and everything works after that.
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te ishte
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vertet me gjithe qejf do e perqafoja une mbaj ne kujtime winxat kame deshire qe nje dite ta botoje nje liber te titulluar ”winx”shpresoj qe ate do e lexojne te gjithe une ju dua shume dhe ju pershendes dhe ju them qe ne librin e ardhshem qe do e beni ma vini ju lutem kete mesazh ju dua shume
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kete mesazh qe tani do e shkruaj ju lutem qe ne librin e ardhshem te ma vini edhe mua une e dua shume bloomen dhe jam duke u munduar shume qe ajo gjithnje te jete e forte ndaj te keqinjeve une e percjell ate c do dit dhe kur te rritem do e kujtoj perher ju dua shuuuuuuume shpresoj se edhe ju mua
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ti me rolin qe e ke une jam shum e lumtur mesa e di une ti bloomen e ke shoqe me te ngusht edhe une janinen e cila mban rolin e bloomit shpresoj qe ky mesazh te vi ne librin e juaj te ri une te dua shum une po mundohem qe ti gjej rrobat e juaja por askund nuk i gjej nese dini me tregoni ne librin e juaj te ri.
une ju dua shum juve sidomos ty stela une jam njera nder adhurueset e juaja.
une kam shum libra te juaja dhe patjeter edhe librin tuaj te ri do ta blej une kam edh gjera te tjera me winxat.
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Une quhem ARJANA SYLA jam 13 vjeqare une jam adhuruese e winx club.
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