Xilisoft DVD To PSP Suite Review

This offering by Xilisoft is a prime example of the consumer unwittingly paying for the name, rather than product. I open the program to find a spiritless, generic interface only changeable in terms of blue to grey.

'Okay, maybe the majority of the budget went into performance,' I thought. I open a file and come to find that my only output selections are mp3 and mpeg4. And though this was generous enough, Xilisoft even gave ONLY the default three mpeg4 quality settings.

'Well, I haven't used the whole program, maybe there's more than meet's the eye'. I turn my attention to the preview window and click the play button. A disclaimer warns that the output video will differ from the preview. I click 'okay', and am assaulted with buzzing, distorted audio imitating in operation the choppy video that uncontrollably speeds and slows at the mere press of the pause button.

'Perhaps, um, maybe..no.' Enough of the polite. Video statistics in the main window are the only positive thing that can be said about this overpriced, ill-constructed pile. You can't encode directly to your PSP, you can't set or even see the file size of the video, and the video manager doesn't allow the changing of file names and is of a completely different style and color scheme than the converter window.

With PSP updates encompassing more and more file formats, geniuses should have offered more output options. No time for ideas like that when they're busy converting the HELP section to a preview of their other products. I've seen more features on freeware, which is what I will continue to use until developers who expect me to pay for their handiwork wise up to the simple idea of providing me with software worth EVER even trying.