The Badaboom team is pleased to announce that a beta version of Badaboom has gone live today August 12th. This version will function until August 29th. To download the demo and get the latest NVIDIA driver go to www.nvidia.com/forcewithin
Though we are still working on the software for the eventual release of the product the last week of August we encourage you to take a look give us your feedback. We are updating the forums with the questions and answers that we think are most common so if you have any questions please feel free to take a look there first.
Good luck Badabooming
Mike
Audio Quality in Beta Version
Hi! I downloaded the beta from the nvidia website yesterday. First of all, let me say 'omg', the encoding speed is fantastic. However what let me down was the audio quality. No matter what setting I put it on '320kbit', 'Auto/Stereo Downmix', each time the output was very 'tinny' and generally sounded very low quality... which was a pity considering the quality of the picture. Can I attribute this to the beta? Also do you have plans to include an option to just attach the AC3 stream from a dvd to the video, instead of downmixing it to stereo? Also, do you think you'll be including a bit rate calculator in the full version, as I would find this very useful when converting all my TV show DVD's for nearline storage, and would like to keep all the file sizes around the same. Thanks! Luke