FluxDVD
- Extensions: .fluxdvd
- FOURCCs: ?
- Company: http://www.fluxdvd.com
- Originally developed by: Danish Aarhus University as RatDVD
- Information: http://www.fluxdvd.com/info.html
- Samples: (in /incoming/)
FluxDVD is a is a highly compressed file type, containing all the contents of a DVD-Video movie, the format is commercial, patented, closed source and proprietary. Orginally a fork from the RatDVD project, FluxDVD is currently available only for the Microsoft Windows operating-system. The ratDVD program (transcoder and GUI) works by compressing a full DVD-Video into a .ratDVD file and then playing its contents by decompressing the file and using a DirectShow-compatible DVD-Video player, (including DVD-Video all features like like navigation, multiple audio and subtitle tracks, video angles, seamless branching, etc.). The .fluxdvd movie files compressed by ratDVD are usually one to two GigaByte in size. If the DRM (Recordable CSS) license permits, you can uncompress/burn a FluxDVD to DVD-R to get a 100% compatible DVD-Video that plays in every hardware or software DVD-Video player.
FluxDVD was previously available for free under the name ratDVD, (also closed source and proprietary), ratDVD developed by the Danish Aarhus University was kind of a preview version of the now commercially sold FluxDVD. While ratDVD contained the features that allowed the home user to create their own archived DVDs, this function has been removed from FluxDVD, allowing only content owners to make and sell FluxDVD archives. Unlike RatDVD which acording to their authors used a closed source proprietary video codec, FluxDVD uses a video codec variant based on the H.264 standard.
Video codec
Video codec variant based on the H.264 standard.
Audio Codec
Standard Dolby Digital AC-3 audio format.
Container
ratDVD uses a ZIP based container format, containing all the contents of a DVD-Video movie. The .fluxdvdDVD files are usually one to two gigabytes in size. Additionally a fluxDVD can contain tagging, cover and label data to enable you to create a cover for the DVD-Video movie.
> unzip -l example.fluxdvd
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
94 09-23-05 13:59 Version.xml
4497 09-24-05 01:12 AV_TS\StreamData.xml
10240 09-24-05 01:12 AV_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO
106496 09-24-05 01:12 AV_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
14336 09-24-05 01:12 AV_TS\VTS_02_0.IFO
14336 09-24-05 01:12 AV_TS\VTS_03_0.IFO
14336 09-24-05 01:12 AV_TS\VTS_04_0.IFO
243 09-23-05 14:07 AV_TS\VTS_01_0.VSI
16723 09-24-05 00:59 AV_TS\VTS_01_1.VSI
159 09-24-05 01:04 AV_TS\VTS_02_1.VSI
63 09-24-05 01:05 AV_TS\VTS_03_1.VSI
191 09-24-05 01:12 AV_TS\VTS_04_1.VSI
11692032 09-23-05 14:07 AV_TS\VTS_01_0.XVO
1073739776 09-23-05 14:17 AV_TS\VTS_01_1.XVO
321810432 09-23-05 23:06 AV_TS\VTS_01_2.XVO
9205760 09-24-05 01:04 AV_TS\VTS_02_1.XVO
1929216 09-24-05 01:05 AV_TS\VTS_03_1.XVO
13617152 09-24-05 01:12 AV_TS\VTS_04_1.XVO