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Overview
Diko is a video converter: it converts many kind of video to fit a DVD-R as DVD-Video or a CD as SVCD. But how DIKO is different from the other video converters around?

For each step of this conversion, there's an optimal way to do it and a optimal software (generally freeware) to use. But using all softwares and learning each step to do an optimal conversion is a time consuming task in two aspects: you have to spend a lot of time learning to use the tools and you have to be around to run each tool. Since video encoding processes takes a while, sometimes this means that you would have to stay all day long around  the computer to command one step after the other, besides setting the right options and doing manual calculations.

DIKO is an automation tool: it command many other software to get the best result in this conversion. It's like a super speciallized robot that does the all the calculations, decides what is best qualitywise and gives the right orders to all tools, aiming to get excellent video quality.

DIKO is available in two versions: DIKO Free and DIKO GOLD. DIKO Free is a 100% Freeware and functional, while DIKO GOLD costs USD 24.95 and offers more features for those willing to support DIKO. Below there's a chart with the features of both versions:

Features	DIKO Free	DIKO GOLD
AVI Support	x	x
D2V Support	x	x
DirectShow Support (RMVB, WMV, etc)		x
Support for many video encoders (HC, QuEnc, CCE SP, Tmpgenc, etc)	x	x
Automatic Bitrate calculations	x	x
Automatic Standard conversion (PAL/NTSC)	x	x
Join 2 CD movies on the fly	x	x
Conversion from progressive PAL to NTSC without blending with DGPulldown	x	x
AC3 encoding via Aften or MP2 encoding via BeSweet	x	x
Full Avisynth support with a bundled script library to digitally filter compression artifacts.	x	x
Output 4:3 or 16:9 video	x	x
Automated 1 Pass Quality mode for faster encodes	x	x
Multicore support (can double encode speed in dual core processors)	x	x
Crash Recovery	x	x
Better DVD Support with title selection		x
Support for non-standard framerates		x
Customize subtitle formatting for each movie separatelly		x
Digital filtering preview		x
Support for interlaced AVI and DVD sources		x
Remove steps from the conversion if needed		x
Support for IDX/Sub subtitles		x
Support for AVI with Dual Audio		x
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What's next?

• Find out DIKO Guides, Tools & Misc
• Discuss DIKO in our forum
• Find out what's comming for the next DIKO release in DIKO to-do list
• If you like DIKO and want to support it, you can Buy DIKO GOLD.
  

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[Should DIKO drop support for SVCD, BBMPEG, SoftEncode, AVI2WAV, FreeEnc and BeSweet MP2]

Should DIKO drop support for SVCD, BBMPEG, SoftEncode, AVI2WAV, FreeEnc and BeSweet MP2
Yes	21 (35%)
No	29 (48%)
Just some (please specify)	10 (16%)
Total Voters: 60