Bad quality - Pixel, pixel, pixel. need help

[valda70]

I'm trying to get the best quality out of the dvd-9 to dvdr-5 process.

I've downloaded all software that prentend to be the best. DVD Shrink, Instant copy, cloneDVD2, DVD cloner II, 1 Click DVD, Intervideo etc.

My test is Friends Season 1 Disk 1, it's about 5.5 gig original space.

So it's not much compression.

My computer a P3 866 Mhz, 256 Mb Ram, Hard drive 256 Gb. , LG 4081b DVD writer, Windows Xp.

What should I do to get good quality on my backups ?

Upgrade Cpu, memory ?

Thanks for your help in advance

[Treebeard]

Computer hardware will not affect the quality of backups, its the software that you use. Tv shows are more likely to pixelate than movies due to the lowere res/bitrate than a hollywood movie. I use dvd shrink & enable the deep analysis function when backing up a TV show dvd.

[spiderman2k1]

Try this it's slow then a transcode but its a encoder. It will give best picture

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