InterVideo Ulead at CeBIT Show 2006

Want to know what will InterVideo and Ulead demostrate in CeBIT Show 2006? You can check the press release on Ulead website and the CeBIT Show Information on InterVideo website.

If you want to know some updated details, check the following Ulead employee blogs:

Peter Lin's Blog - General Manager of Ulead Japan/Euro (in Japanese, but you can see some photos)

Kai-Hu@Euro

Cheers! :)

New Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5 announced

Today Ulead announced the new Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5, an new release of the consumer DVD authoring package offering easy disc authoring, an expanded range of creative options and the first disc authoring package to provide future-ready support for both HD DVD and Blu-ray disc formats. If anyone is interested in detail information, check the news release.

It will be available in late March in US.

I remember when we were trying to do the MTBF process for DVDMF 5 in just 2 days before the Chinese New Year Eve, we stayed in office over-night and wait for the Quality Assurance engineers as real end-users to use DVDMF 5 to author meaningful DVD/HD/BD disks and test all the functions of DVDMF. An usual MTBF process time in Ulead for a software package like DVDMF will be 6 hours, that means the program cannot fail the function or crash and should work properly as we defined for at least 6 hours. But if any step in the process takes longer than 10 minutes then the step will be counted as 10 minutes only (for example, the transcoding step might take 30 minutes but we will only count it as 10 minutes). If any QA engineer see any major function failed or crashed then RD engineers must find out and fix the problem ASAP and the counting time might be restarted, so we might finish the MTBF process in about 8 to 12 hours in the end (that's why we stayed over-night). The longest MTBF time record in Ulead in my memories (for the past 5 years) is made when we were testing DVDMF 3.5 Suite 2 years ago. I think the record is 15 hours?

Finally we finish the MTBF process for DVDMF 5 before the Chinese New Year so we can have a very good vacation during the Chinese New Year period. Well-done, the whole DVDMF team! :)

I do not know the software developing process in other companies, but I think in Ulead the process is good, which makes Ulead products to be more stable. But that does not mean they will not have problems in some cases. Just as I say in many forums: "Nothing is perfect but we can try our best to find the solution for the problem." Wish you guys would like this new DVDMF version. :D

Sorry if you see my blog is not in correct form on Internet Explorer

Just found my blog will not be shown correctly with Internet Explorer. After some research, I found it's the problem of TrueFresco Site Referrer. When some visitors come with a very long URL, the site referrer will cause the blog not to be shown correctly. Just removed the site referrer code in my blog template and check again on IE, this time it's still not right because the original blog template made by Douglas Bowman will only be viewed correctly on FireFox.

I think I should be responsible for this because I only use FireFox now. I only use IE when I want to read some articles on Microsoft websites and do Windows Updates.

Maybe I should try to modify the blog CSS code to have my own blog template that will work on both FireFox and IE. :)

Want a free copy of Ulead DVD MovieFactory 4?

Do you want a free copy of Ulead DVD MovieFactory?? Joshua Walter at DigiCamReview.com now is holding a March 2006 Competition to give 4 free copies of DVDMF 4.0 and a SD memory card away. If you want to get them, go to his website and check it out. :)