For some reason it has stopped re-assessing the total data amount when I deselected extra audio channels in movie-only mode. Has anyone else had this problem? When I select fewer subtitles the data total goes down, but when I select fewer audio channels the total data size stays the same. This is problematic because it makes it more difficult to assess whether I want to shrink the title. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this.
Are you using DVDFab Platinum or Express? I used DVDFab Platinum if I want the exact movie, without compression onto a DVD-5 (if it will fit!) I use DVDFab Express to compress the movie onto a DVD-5 (movie only and I just use the audio for English and no subtitles). If the quality of the movie is below 80% then I use DVDRebuilder Pro with CCE for the best quality video compression you can get! Others are happy to use DVDFab Express at 60% or even lower! I just have a higher standard cause I use other programs, too, and know that I can get great quality with them. You won't see a significant change with deselecting audio channels (unless it's DTS and even then it may not change the amount total significantly). What quality total are you trying to get? what are your priorities?
Actually digital audio channels take up HUGE amounts of space -- half a gigabyte or more is not uncommon. I know this from deselecting them in DVD Shrink, and from deselecting them in DVDFab before this problem arose. I own DVDFab Platinum, which means I have a choice between DVDFab *Gold* (not Platinum -- that's not an actual program, it's the name of the package that includes Gold and Express) and DVDFab Express. The problem I described above concerns the DVDFab Gold application. I don't normally use Express very often (probably should have bought Gold instead of Platinum, but that's another story).
Oh, to answer your quality question, what I'm generally shooting for is what I call "90% or split". If I can compress the movie onto one disc at 90% or better, I'll do that, otherwise I'll split it. I blow up an image from a PJ to well over 100", and I'm a PQ nerd, so I can often see artifacts at compression levels greater than that (yes, I have compressed many movies more than that without a problem, but you asked what my goal was, and that's it). But the point of this thread is to find out whether anyone else has had this problem with DVDFab. I haven't been able to get an answer from DVDIdle.
that's funny...... every time I uncheck an audio channel..... it hadly moves for total space!!!! and since you have DVDFab Gold..... that's what I use all the time..... and I stopped using DVDFab Express becuase I am loving DVDRebuilder Pro with CCE! can't get any better than that!
Well at any rate it sounds like it's changing *some* for you, and for me at the moment it's not changing *at all*, which sure sounds to me like a bug.
on my next backups.... I'll check out how big the files are when I uncheck them! I never seen an audio channel to be that's a lot! maybe I'm wrong! I just never noticed it to be that large of a change. And besides I like DTS!
House of Flying Daggers' DTS tracks was 1.3GB, bloody ridiculous. now i've never heard DTS myself but am more than happy with AC3, but anyway, i don't mean to take the thread off course, just wanted to say you can get ginormous DTS tracks the size of small panthers
If you have the right setup DTS, can be phenomenal. We have people come over and they are bowled over. Most say: "I GOT TO GET ME ONE OF THESE!" Our teenagers tell US to turn down the volume. Hehe!
@mackdl..... I have a great system too and DTS is vantastic! I blow all my friends away with my system and they tell me it's better than the movies or a concert! LOL @creaky..... i'll have to take better notice on what size those audio channels are! I dont' remember seeing anything that large!
That's one of the things I'm looking forward to in high-definition DVD -- higher-bitrate audio. Kinda curious what a 3-5gb DTS audio stack sounds like on a high-end system. This is also one of the reasons I favor Blu-Ray over HD-DVD. But I digress. I still haven't heard back from DVDIdle. A complete reinstall of the program did not solve the problem.
