Which Transcoding Tools Produce The Best Picture Quality.

@ bigorange ... ProCoder is actually an external USB device. Your wife could get you an academic discount on ebay for $259 plus S&H. But then you couldn't hide it from her.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51345&item=3682064241&rd=1&ssPageName=WD1V

Our 'puters are comparable, so we should get about the same time results with the same Shrink settings. This is more of a curiosity to me now, though. After I got Batch figured out, I went through a perspecetive shift. The time factor has become irrelevant. It's now more time-efficient to use RB-CCE on everything but DVD-5's. Even the kid's trash is Batched.

@64026402 ... you and vurbal may have to bring the rest of us along on RB Farm. The batch feature is great, but the increased speed must be a lot of fun also. How much do you have hooked up so far, and what kind of times are you getting?

 

Hey doc, thanx for the info on procoder, I had seen where ya'll had talked about it when I got back and didn't realize it was an external device. The 1st I'd even heard about it was when I read about here day before yesterday.

BTW, what-da-ya mean I couldn't keep it from the wife? You don't think I need her permission do ya?
(I hope she didn't hear that)

We'll start our little test when I get back this evening.

 

I think the USB port is for a dongle. I hate dongles.

I have heard from some sources, though, the ProCoder really shines on interlaced encoding.

 

It looks like I'm mistaken. I saw the USB, and the box, and presumed it was external. It looks more like a S/W app now. I can't figure out what the dongle is for? DV input or something?

 

It's just a hardware key, to make sure you can't copy it.

 

Alright, you guys are killin' me. Software or external device? Sophocles- HELP!!!

 

It's a software program. It ONLY works if you have the dongle inserted in one of your USB ports. If you somehow obtained a copy of the software but you don't have the dongle, you would not be able to use the software.

 

siber, you just pop up here and there, don't ya? You little lurker you! lol

I've never used a "dongle".

 

Bigo

Its software just as "siber (the lurker} stated.

Siber have you been following our experiences using DVD-RB batch processing? I just did 5 movies all at once with out a problem. DVD-RB/CCE Basic might be slow but it’s convenience more than makes up for that.

 

bigo

I've already gotten over Procoder its mainconcept that's keeping me awake.




http://www.mainconcept.com/index_flash.shtml

 

soph, you're killin' me......

I hate you.......

Leave me alone......

Wonder when it will be out, the pics looked pretty good.

I wish DVD9 media would come down......

 

bigo

It has a following that is not unlike that of CCE and there are claims that it might even be better. It should be considering its price. I almost bought it, but after a cup of coffee and walk around my garden I came to my senses.

 

bigo

Just follow the link and check these specs and imagine the possibilities.


http://www.mainconcept.com/products.shtml

 

RBfarm just did a 7.3 gig movie with a 25 minute encode time. It is nice because the computers used for clients can be just minimal slave units with few resources. It just uses the CPU time and some network bandwidth.
I used 3 dual AMD computers. I might add another if I can come up with better power distribution for my office.

I'll try LOTR2 next to test it out.

 

soph, we must admit we have a problem. You have shown restraint, gasp, so coffee and a walk is the key, huh?

There is a demo version coming out, albeit with a watermark, might be prudent to check it out.

You're kinda like my own personal google, I don't need to look, just wait for you to find it, which, I'm confident you will. heh heh

 

Hi, Sophocles, bigo,... Yes, I've been following the RB/CCE threads faithfully. I really am extremely happy with what the basic program does for me.

Even though I may one day need all these other features (batch, etc), I haven't played with them. I don't really have any use for them now.

Very interesting stuff, though. Thanks for all the efforts. I'll keep popping up here and there.

 

bigo

[bold]soph, we must admit we have a problem.[/bold]

Hmm! Yes! Finding more software to spend our money on is getting harder to find. With a hurricane coming who needs restraint.
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i've been testing differents kinds of soft and i reach the conclussion that dvdshrink 3.2 is very good in quality matters. It's a pitty that dvdcopy from intervideo in version 2 has a bug on the vobtrans.dll that make in some movies appear white blocks, besides that is very good. I personaly use elby clone dvd2, is one of the best to preview what you really want and the quality is more the less as good as dvdshrink 3.2, not the older that pixelate a lot the movies.
Is my opinion, what guys think?

 

While everyone here has an eye out for future programs, the quality issue has been proven in favor of CCE encoding based programs like DVDrebuilder.

DVD clone is pretty far down the list for video quality but DVDshrink 3.2 has done pretty well for competing for second or third place.
IC8,IV dvdcopy2, and DVD2one are also high quality transcoders fighting for 2nd place.

Try DVDrebuilder. You can't beat the quality and the setup doesn't cost that much.

 

marshallp, all who have tried RB/CCE (well, 99%) proclaim it no. 1 period. The argument starts after that. Shrink 3.2 is vastly improved and price is untouchable (I was a beta tester for the new shrink, and have tested it at compressions from 90% to 50% quite extensively).

It is a shame about DVDCopy 2's pixelation problem altho if you use it on newer movies it doesn't seem to have them, only on the older ones. It's speed is fantastic, considering the quality, 30-45 minutes! Unreal!

I still think IC 8 is right behind RB/CCE except it's editing capabilities are severly lacking, I get around that using DVDRemake, the best editing program I've seen and it works extremely well with rebuilder which has no editing.

This argument will never be settled as proved by this very thread, way too subjective in nature, but these are my top 3.
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