Xilisoft DVD to Video Ultimate Review and Alternative

Xilisoft DVD to Video Ultimate helps to convert home DVD to various video/audio formats to watch it on any devices. Main functions and bonus features of Xilisoft DVD to Video Ultimate:

Main functions

- Convert Home DVD to more than 160 video and audio formats.
– Convert Home DVD to multimedia devices like iPhone/iPad/iPod, Galaxy.
– Convert Home DVD to HD videos like H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, HD WMV.

Bonus features

- Choose subtitle and audio track from original DVD movie source in different languages to meet your demands.
– Join several DVD titles or chapters into one to create a new video
– Trim a DVD title/chapter to extract the desired segments by defining the time.
– Edit DVD movies by cropping, adding external subtitle, soundtrack, watermark and apply special effects, etc.
– Auto retrieve Home DVD information from the Internet and display the information such as artist name, Home DVD cover, Home DVD chapters and titles and more.
– Directly transfer converted files to iPhone, iPad, iPod and PSP after converting DVD.
– 5X Speed Promotion with NVIDIA CUDA & ATI APP technology.

Drawbacks of Xilisoft DVD to Video Ultimate

For home DVD collectors, Xilisoft DVD to Video Ultimate can be the best choice for you. However, most store purchased DVD movies all are encrypted with complicated copy protection and region code. Xilisoft DVD to Video Ultimate can only deal with home-made ones without copyright. What’s more, when compared with other powerful DVD copy software on the market, you may find that Xilisoft DVD to Video Ultimate is still lacking in the following areas:
– Not offer the DVD copy mode to backup DVD movies with no quality loss
– The inability to adjust output profile parameters to better control the output video/audio quality
– Not providing the “Enabling forced subtitle” option to disable the traditional subtitles while still preserving the subtitles that translate foreign language speaking parts periodically throughout the film to help you understand what they are saying.
– Not support for Nvidia GPU acceleration for fast H.265 codec encoding

Best alternative to Xilisoft Video to DVD Ultimate

If you are looking for a powerful DVD to Video Converter program with powerful disc protection removing function, rich output video customization function, beneficial subtitle setting function and also fast video encoding speed, we highly recommend Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (review) to you. The program can powerfully bypass up to 14 types of DVD copy protection and region codec including Region code, RCE, key2Audio, UOP, CSS, Macrovision, FluxDVD, Protect, ARccOS, AACS, BD+, ROM Mark, BD-Live, etc. It also keeps constant upgrade with perfect support for the copy protection used on the recently released DVD movies. Besides converting DVD to popular SD/HD and even 2K/4K file formats and devices preset profile formats, it also enables you to make a full disc copy of original DVD structure with all the subtitle information, audio tracks and chapter information well preserved or a main movie copy without unwanted trailers, ads, comments, etc for safe backup.

To better control of the output file quality, you can flexibly adjust profile parameters including video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like. If in the DVD movies, there are actors are speaking a language that are different from the subtitles that you have specified before. You can enable “Forced subtitles” option to disable the traditional subtitles while still preserving the subtitles that translate foreign language speaking parts periodically throughout the film to help you understand what they are saying.

When referring fast conversion speed, the program supports up to 6x faster H.264 codec encoding acceleration on a computer with Nvidia Graphic cards that supports Nvidia CUDA (H.264 encoding) and up to 30x faster H.265 codec encoding acceleration on a computer with Nvidia Graphic cards that supports Nvidia NVENC technology.

Side by side comparison of Video to DVD Ultimate and Video Converter Ultimate

Software	Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate	Xilisoft DVD to Video Ultimate
Price	$65	$59.95
Remove Copy Protection and Region Code	√	-
Input File Formats
DVD Disc/Folder/IFO/ISO	√	√
2D/3D Blu-ray Disc/Folder/ISO	√	-
SD/HD/2K/4K	√	–
Output File Formats
SD HD	√	√
HD Video	√	√
4K Video	√	-
3D Video	√	-
Device Preset Profile Formats	√	√
DVD Copy Mode
Full Dis Copy	√	–
Main Movie Copy	√	-
Custome Copy Mode	√	-
Advanced Features
Preview Video	√	√
Adjust Output Profile Parameters	√	-
Trim/Merge/Crop/Watermark	√	√
Adjust Output Aspect Ratio	√	-
Split Video	√	√
Flip & Rotate	√	-
Appy Special Effect	√	√
Deinterlacing	√	-
Add external Subtitle	√	√
Remove/Replace Audio in Video	√	–
Fast Conversion Speed
Nvidia CUDA or GPU Acceleration Transcoding	√	Not Support NVIDIA CUDA technology

To better distinguish Xilisoft Video to DVD Ultimate from Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate, a side by side comparison chart with detailed comparison parameters is provided for you:

Conclusion:

From above comparison charts, we can see that Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate can be the best commercial DVD to video converter program thanks to its powerful disc breaking function. In addition, it also ensure you a good output video quality with built-in video customization function. What’s more, the beneficial subtitle function can assist you to better follow the DVD movies. The built-in GPU acceleration also guarantee you a fast conversion speed.

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