Sophocles, I remember those discussions as well. And likewise, I have no desire to go back nearly a year in looking for old threads. It would be like hunting a needle in a hay stack. If we need further corroboration, I believe we can dig up some of the others who were present.
The new DVDrb features would eliminate my use of Shrink if I were encoding on the fly but I do rip before the encode so I still desire the flexability in the ripper. DVDshrink has the softening affect when doing compressed encodes but I see no such softening on a ripped file with no encode or compression.
64026402 I don't work on the fly either, I just choose to eliminate everything during the encode. In fact lately I've been using movie only mode with menu so that I can keep both AC3 6ch and DTS 5:1 while still saving space on the extras. My point was that whatever filtering Shrink does it doesn't seem to be limited to the encode process and that there really is no true rip with shrink. In a sense using no compression with Shrink is just the lowest compression setting.
It works great. I just did pitch black with movie only and the menu worked perfectly. I could access both AC3 6 ch, DTS 5:1, and the subtitles just as though I was using the original disc. I could have removed the dead menu buttons with remake but I didn't see any point since it affects nothing. Took 84 minutes for prepre/encode/rebuild.
brobear I could be wrong but episodic discs don't usually come with extras so HKT would have no reason to select that setting.
Whatever... It was deleting some of the files he wanted to keep on the encode; obviously just looking for a single video and menu. So, I think all he was getting was the largest file of the episode and the menu.
