Which Transcoding Tools Produce The Best Picture Quality.

Hi bigorange.

Sorry to hear about the stroke in your family.
I hope he/she is gonna be ok.

The Shrink/CCE comparison tests have been dropped.
I think we have all agreed to disagree.

I made another suggestion/request though.
Comparison tests of DVD Shrink AEC options could be quite useful for its users.
So feel free to participate if you have the time.

"[bold]The please test my moniter post was so see through...[/bold]

Thanks, 64026402, this kind of remarks are always appreciated.

P.S: converting 4:3 widescreen movies to anamorphic using DVDRB/CCE is definately something I'm gonna try.
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Sorry DD,
I'm just a little under the weather. I get snippy.

 

It happens.

 

big orange...Thanks. Yeah, I know I'll make a coaster sooner or later but I'm happy with dvdcopy2/anydvd and my wife thinks I'm a 'wonder'...and I can live with that.

A friend popped in to back up one of his movies to dvd and I did it over a cup of coffee; he went home with his copy...rapt! But, I KNOW I'll later be moving over to (or is that up to <g>) CCE if only because of the sheer weight of [informed] discussion betwen you guys here.

I'm shortly going to have a little play with DVD Shrink so I can learn about its particular strengths.

If I get DVD X Rescue I'll let you know how it performs.

Sorry also to hear of health problems in your family, hope it goes well.

 

Enjoy DVDcopy2 for a while before getting too confused.
DVDshrink can help you learn more about backing up DVDs and does a good job.
The use of Rebuilder is rewarding when you want to go to the next level.
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64026402...Exactly, the way I'll be going. I'm still at the one-click, default settings stage with dvdcopy2, next have to learn to drive it with the stick-shift <g>).

I can already see a couple of things I'll have to ask about despite reading the help manual (or maybe because of reading it), but that's for another day.

 

Hey all.

@terrytj
Nice to see someone else likes some of my favorite toys. It's hard to use the stick with DVDCopy2 when there is so much automatic up front. You have the multiple format choices and movie only or full disc backup. The only editing would be if you didn't want everything on the original disc, but wanted to keep just part of the extras. It does happen that way on occasion. In a case like that, the editing function of Copy2 works. It's not just a one button wonder.

BTW, I don't ever remember posting on DVD X Rescue. I have had the program for a long time, but never have had occasion to use it. It came bundled with XCopy Platinum. Unless you just plan on working with some damaged media, I wouldn't worry about purchasing an app of this sort. After all, the reason we backup movies is to prevent that scenario.

Oh yes, the terms movie and video are not technical terms. Also, I like many use them interchangably. It is usually obvious from the context of the usage. On occasion you even have someone say, "record or backup the DVD". In which case you have DVD replacing movie or video. You even hear some say DVD video or DVD movie. They are all saying the same thing if used in context to mean the same. So, instead of keying on a word or phrase; just try to keep track of what is being said overall.

You'll find after a bit, that there is some jargon (used by those involved in DVD recording) that can mean more than one thing. Take Rip for instance. Rip to the hard drive; as in decrypt and copy to. Then there is rip the file, as in decrypt the movie. As I said, sometimes its the context in which a term is used. Just check out the glossary here at AD.
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Bigo

It didn't appear to effect the time it took to encode.

True, but that was before Shrink 3.2 hit the market. Considering that Shrink is free and IC costs (a little) I now think Shrink is the clear winner on the transcoding front.

ps Hope the stroke victim in the family makes a steady recovery. I know from personal experience the battles ahead.

 

lol, brian100

I think you have got a point there as I've lost interest in the quality thing now as you are hard pushed now to find differences worth comparing

I did do some bitrate comparisions between DVDShrink and Recode yesterday if anyone is interested. Nice pics to look at and I suppose it just shows that Max Smooth in DVDShrink keeps the original bit rate distribution more like the original than the rest

http://www.deano.dsl.pipex.com/dvdshrink/quality.htm
http://www.deano.dsl.pipex.com/dvdshrink/quality2.htm
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http://www.Deano.dsl.pipex.com/dvdremake/dvdremake.htm
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http://www.Deano.dsl.pipex.com/dvdremake/dvdremake.htm
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Mackemx

Very intresting link. Many thanks for providing that information. Looks like you may have saved a lot of time for a lot of members!! Looks like it's case closed to me.

 

That was something I added because I used to do it all the time when I did manual CCE backups. There is nothing I hate more than putting a movie in on my 16:9 monitor only to have it show as a tiny letterbox with black all around it. It really does a good job -- but the credit for the quality goes to AVISYNTH's LanczosResize() filter... it's incredible. DVD-RB just dots the i's and crosses the t's to make sure it works right.

 

As my dear old dad used to say... call me anything as long as it isn't "late for dinner" ;-)

 

jdobbs, methinks thou doest not taketh credit where credit is dueth.

Tried the screen conversion,worked great, everytime I find out something about this app, it just gets better and better.

CUDOS!

To the rest, thanks for the concern, he is doing OK. It is highly appreciated.

 

My thanks be unto you.

 

@ brobear...thanks for explaining about the terms and the tip to look at the context rather than the word itself. And, it is that editing you were talking about that I would like to do but I'll come back about that when I start to do it.

Re 'dvd x rescue', you didn't post about it as such. I recalled seeing somewhere in another thread or forum that you had 'dvd x platinum' thus you had 'dvd x rescue'. I was interested in your opinion of it.

One of my reasons for considering the program was for those occasions when the o.e.m. movie you want to backup is the disc with slight scratches etc on it e.g. a favourite or hard-to-get movie bought cheap at a flea-market.


@bigorange...that is good to hear.

 

Hey i have a question, on Remake, is there any sort of guide out there about it? I want to use it but, RB/CCE was a big learning curve and i don't really want to go over that again.

Thanks,
Pop Smith

P.S. i have already done multiple backups with RB/CCE so i know how that part works.

 

Here ya go pop, there are several, the last one is probably what you're looking for, but I would look at them all.

http://www.videohelp.com/guides.php...tall=1&archive=0&search=Search+or+List+Guides

 

terrytj
A good buffing tool to take out the scratches is the best way of dealing with most scratched discs. You can check out the type I'm talking about at this link. http://www.digitalinnovations.com/index.html I use the Skip DR and it has given good service and has more than paid for itself.

 

OK guys, don't let this senior crap go to your heads, now you'll really have to nice.