Review: Video Vault 3
Version: 3.0.0.0156
Reviewers: Dee-27 & Womble
Provided By: DVDXSoftware
Review Date: July 2005



Introduction:
Video Vault is an all in one program allowing you to convert DVD’s, VCD’s, Tapes and downloaded movies to virtually any deice that will allow playback. The simplicity of the program is that you don’t need to know anything about bitrates, codec’s frame rates or anything else connected with normal conversion programs. Here all you need to do is to simply select a device form the list and Video Vault will do the rest. That is the theory of the program at least. Let’s see how it performs.


Company Information:
X Software is a leading provider of DVD and Video software and offers a broad suite of advanced digital video and audio multimedia software products that enable users to store, edit, distribute and play digital multimedia content on PCs, consumer electronics and other devices.

X Software has international sales and support and our customers and partners include retailers, distributors, manufacturers, OEMs and end users from around the world.


Program Overview:
Below are the main features of the program.

• Copy DVD movies to any blank DVD disc
• Import your video from DVD's, VCD's, Tapes, Camcorders, and even Downloaded files
• Organize your videos - including custom and preset thumbnails, genres and categories
• Export your videos to DVD's, PDA's, Phones, Wireless Media Servers, and Personal Video Players (PVPs/PMPs)
• Store your videos on an external hard drive and take them all with you
• Transfer dozens of super-compressed videos to a laptop and watch them in the airport or hotel
• Create custom DVD's for your In-Car DVD player with no annoying coming attractions or Menus - and store multiple DVD movies on one DVD disc!

Supported Devices:

• Personal Video Players (PVP) - Apex, Archos, Creative, Epson, iRiver, Mobinote, MpAvio, RCA, Samsung, Zvue and many more!
• Media Servers - D-Link, Hauppage, Microsoft Media Centre Edition
• PDA's: Pocket PC & Palm Phones - Microsoft SmartPhone and Palm (Treo)
• DVD's: All Single and Dual Layer DVD's supported

Supported Video and Audio Formats:

• Video Formats - DIVX, WMV, ASF, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DVD, SVCD, VCD, VOB, AVI, MS-DVR
• Audio Formats - WMA, MP3, MPEG1 Layer II, WAV, PCM, LPCM, AC3

In XXX Own Words:
Video Vault is a "Rosetta Stone" for the digital video age, enabling you to convert DVD's, VCD's, Tapes and Downloaded videos to virtually any device including any blank DVD disc, Mobile Phones, PDA's, Wireless Media Servers, and even the latest technology - Personal Video Players. The amazing part is you don't need to know anything about codecs, formats, bit rates, frame rates, or any other technical information, simply select your device from a list and Video Vault does the rest! In one simple interface you can move your videos off a myriad of consumer electronic devices, store them to view on your computer, organize them, categorize them, then with one-click, transfer them to almost any device with a viewscreen!





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