DVDSHRINK 2.0 is out

[MackemX]

new GUI

http://www.dvdshrink.org

[Baldrick]

The new gui looks very good

[KYUSS]

just downloaded it...........

gonna try a "re-author" dvd.

just want main movie (no encoding) and all deleted scenes and dolby digital intro (level 7 encoding)

it says just drag and drop em into window....how will i choose between the titles when its finished?

Using the "title" button?

will let u know in 26 mins lol

thanks
KYUSS

[FoolishBrett]

VERY EXCITING NEWS!

I can't find 2.0 on the site (which is vvverrrrryyy slow)

Where did you download it?

[Baldrick]

http://www.dvdr-digest.com/software/software.php?file=dvdshrink
some download links at the bottom.

[FoolishBrett]

Thanks.

Found another

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_shrink.cfm
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[vric]

just did a backup with it.. Reauthor mode with reencode of level 1.. 18%

quality is great (i think it's better than before.. not sure, but the quality is awersome)

work in my dvd player.. good quality.. dts audio can't ask for more

if at least it could came with a manual compression selector insted of those damn level

[mysterio1]

Do the menu's work now when you reencode the movie now?

[vric]

Do the menu's work now when you reencode the movie now?

it always worked ?!?

[Evil Twin]

The link posted by FoolishBrett worked for me, the others I had a problem with.

I still have to give the program a try.

[joepic]

You will find the new DVDShrink 2.0 GUIDE here:

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvdshrink2-main.htm

Can someone tell me what software he uses to REENCODE with or the quality expected?

[mysterio1]

Do the menu's work now when you reencode the movie now?

it always worked ?!?

Oh, I ment to say re-author mode, I just tried it no menu's.

[FoolishBrett]

Can't use menus in reauthor mode. If you want the menus why not compress the crap out of the extras and keep the whole thing in movie mode?

[Bob W]

Anyone have a link to download this that works? All the links here don't allow hotlinking and thus re-direct you.

Update: I got it now, seems Norton Personal Firewall needs to be disabled.

[Tommyknocker]

Move over, Sweetheart! (nudges wife out of the way, and heads for the web site)!

[joepic]

From the author of DVDShrink in a forum at DOOM9 web site:

"Version 2.0 is slower, and the output slightly better, but more importantly the output is a lot smaller than 1.03 at the same encode level (the quality will either be the same, or better, depending on the level).

Macrovision protection is removed from the VOB files.

RCE region protection is NOT removed (yet).

Various issues about jerky playback and video corruption have been fixed."

[wulf109]

The upside,video quality seems significantly better compared to Ver 1.03 probably the result of the encodeing time doubling.
On the downside,it no longer corrects the ifo file to reflect the actual streams selected. This forces you to select audio stream #1 even if you don't want it.
If the author could correct the lack output file size control it would be a pretty good program. The fixed encode levels just don't allow you to get to 4.37Gb's. I know some will say tweak the options but I find that simply doesn't work.

[mkelley]

You will find the new DVDShrink 2.0 GUIDE here:

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvdshrink2-main.htm

Can someone tell me what software he uses to REENCODE with or the quality expected?

I think you can safely infer from the own URL you referenced that the author of DVDShrink wrote his own transcoder (note that it's not strictly a reencoder -- once again, read the guide you reference for details).

I can't speak for the newest version, but I've always found DVDShrink to deliver very high quality as long as you kept the level below 5 or so. IOW, it works great to shrink a movie 10 to 20% -- any higher and I would not use *any* sort of shrinking program but just use DVDXCopy and split it to two DVDs.

[jcuervo811]

Does anyone know if this version fixed the problem with video twitching at the bottom of the screen every now and then? I would get this problem with version 1.03 whenever I did any movie that need to be compressed. If I did not need to compress the video at all, it would come out fine. I do know that the author was aware of this problem, hopefully that was fixed with this version.

Jcuervo811

[mkelley]

It did say on the DVDShrink forum they fixed a well known "jitter" problem, so that's probably what you're talking about.

I used DVDShrink 2.0 tonight to backup five DVDs (mostly series stuff) and it works very well. It's a *little* bit slower, but I really like the new interface (for series work it's truly terrific, since you can now preview which episodes you're not going to keep).

[red lion]

any sign of a tutorial yet

[txpharoah]

I won't complain too much since it's free, but I think the money I spent on DVD2one was well placed. The better quality was okay, but slowing down? It was already slower than DVD2one.

[Baldrick]

any sign of a tutorial yet

reread this ENTIRE topic.......if you still can't find it i can repost the link http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvdshrink2-main.htm

[red lion]

thanks Baldrick could not see it for looking if you know what i mean..

[xuy_98]

I used dvdshrink1.3 until recently i noticed the posting about 'jitter' problem. Though I didn't see any problem with playback on my DVD, I still concern it may cause problem on other/future players. So I used dvdshrink1.3fix to fix vob.

Yesterday I downloaded shrink2.0 and I applied shrink1.3fix on vobs created by shrink2.0. No fix was needed. So the author did fix the *notorious* bug. Thanks. The new UI is good but I still think the old one is simple.

One thing I noticed is shrink2.0 removes stream but does not update ifo, like shrink1.3. Maybe it's a feature of shrink2.0. At least it does not hurt any.

My approach to backup DVD is use shrink to remove unwanted audio stream and make extra to still image, and keep the rest uncompressed. Then use IC7 to compress. The result is consistantly good.

Recently I found the used DVDs on amazon/ebay are much cheaper than before. In fact, it's cheaper than making backup/copy. Most DVDs I looked at are $4.99-6.99 plus S&H ($2 ecah). Some of them are newly released. So if you have a bad one, you can always get a new one at cheaper price. But you don't have spent time/money on backup any more.

I think one of the main reasons for people backing up DVD is to have fun especially watching how productive they can be, or searching around all kinds of tools to find out how to make a perfect backup, challeging themselves.

Anyway I am a little tired of backing up DVDs but I really had fun to search for tools and work with them. The money I spent so far costs me more than 100 used DVDs, needless to say the time.

[FoolishBrett]

xuy_98 Probably not going to convice many people on this site to buy DVDs on ebay rather that making their own.

To me it is fun to be able to do this. I don't invest that much time anymore. Just set them up, let them process, and go about your business.

[oldfart13]

Well, DVD Shrink 2.0 is no good for me. I've been looking for a solution to backing up extra long DVDs, ones that are as much as 4 hours in length. DVD Shrink definitely ISN'T the answer. My latest attempt involved stripping the main movie out using DVD Toolbox and then using the result with DVD Shrink. This results in out of sync audio and video and block noise problems with all action scenes. I think I'll be going back to using IC7 after this as this simply doesn't happen when using that program. For long videos, you have to set the compression at #3 (33%) or more which will result in an unsatisfactory encode. I think MRBASS touched on this with his guide. I just wanted to find out if there was any way around this with the newest version of DVD Shrink. Apparently NOT...

[macleod]

oldfart, why are you using dvdtoolbox to extract the video from the DVD, dvdshrink does this for you?

I have used dvdshrink (both 1.3 and 2.0) and have never experienced a audio sync issue. have you tried to use DVD shrink from start to finish and see if that works?

As far as dvdshrink itself. I was VERY impressed with the original release and love the latest one. It is AN AWESOME program. Coupling this great app and my 2X hacked 1.30 firmware A05 dvd burner, I can start to finish back up my DVD's in under an hour (it only takes 8 minutes to rip a dvd now and about 25 minutes to encode and 25 minutes to burn).

I wanted to ask everyone about the compressions. I have compressed up to 3-4 at times (gladiator and saving private ryan,etc.) and have never noticed poor quality. I have a 32" brand new toshiba and it looks like the original. Are my eyes just bad or am I missing something?

[lagerlout]

I wanted to ask everyone about the compressions. I have compressed up to 3-4 at times (gladiator and saving private ryan,etc.) and have never noticed poor quality. I have a 32" brand new toshiba and it looks like the original. Are my eyes just bad or am I missing something?

I think a lot depends on the source. I backed up Armageddon at L8 at noticed hardly any difference to the original, yet backed up some films at L3 and did! I suppose the picture makeup of some films makes them easier to compress with no loss, I guess a lot of armageddon was black

[oldfart13]

I use DVD Toolbox (a great piece of software by the way) to rip out the movie only and leave out anything I don't want, then reset the VOBs so everything works okay. I have used this for a ton of single layer DVDs. HOWEVER, not to rain on your parade, but doing that on the latest disc I have which is over 7 GIG with extras and 6.06 Gig without results in an unwatchable picture on my 27" Sony TV after using DVD Shrink to get the size down to 4.2 Gig. I guess you just can't reduce the size by 30% and expect adequate quality. Most of the posts I see are from people using compression 1 or 2 (under 20%), so maybe if my source was 5 Gig, that would work okay. Unfortunately, I have a 4 disc set in which all the movie files themselves are slightly under 4 hours per disc! That means my only option is a multipass reencode with IC7 for simple solutions if I want to fit it all onto 1 DVD-R. In THIS instance then, DVD Shrink, DVD2One, etc. simple won't work...