DVD2One Compression...

[rvl123]

Hmm...

I have noticed something weird with DVD2One.

I always set the size to 4300MB and do full movie.

Some movies come out soo well that I can't tell the difference from the original. Some movies (like Shanghai Knights) come out not so good (discoloration, weird water, some graininess) but still very much watchable. I don't see this in other 8Gig movies.

Just kinda weird and I'd like an explanation.

Also, I was wondering, any Mitsubishi Big Screen HDTV users out there? I am thinking of upgrading the old tube to one of those and I was wondering how your backups look.

Thanks!

[Timoleon]

Just did a two-disk SVCD of Shanghai Knights with EasyVCD just for the hell of it. I'm amazed at how nicely it came out. One nice thing about audio in an SVCD is that it tends to be "normalized" in the conversion process, and actually sounds better than many DVDs themselves (because of their wacked-out dynamic range --- high highs and low lows).

[rvl123]

Just did a two-disk SVCD of Shanghai Knights with EasyVCD just for the hell of it. I'm amazed at how nicely it came out. One nice thing about audio in an SVCD is that it tends to be "normalized" in the conversion process, and actually sounds better than many DVDs themselves (because of their wacked-out dynamic range --- high highs and low lows).

It all depends on your system man. :P

[bartman]

It can depend on a couple of things.

Firstly, the length of the movie. In my experience anything much longer than 2 1/2 hours will start getting artifacts...mostly in high motion scenes...with re-compression (CCE, TMPGEnc etc.) you can get better quality.

Secondly, it depends on how it was encoded. Some movies are encoded to take up most of the disc and have bandwidth to spare...these compress quite well in my experience (note that studios are now doing this to some DVD's and are marketing them as "Superbit" DVD's)....other dvd's already use most of their bandwidth for various reasons...again, length of the movie plays a part but it may also be a high motion/action movie.

If it looks crap with DVD2One or DVD Shrink, try IC7...if it really looks bad you might be better off re-encodeing with CCE or TMPGEnc.

[DoubleShadowIce]

I always set the size to 4300MB and do full movie.

Why do you use a lower size when doing a full copy? Isn't the default or normal size at 4472MB? At 4300MB, you're definitely losing some quality.

But for me, I've always set it at 4464, which is the same size I use with DVD95Copy. I never had any problems with this size.

[txpharoah]

I always set the size to 4300MB and do full movie.

Why do you use a lower size when doing a full copy? Isn't the default or normal size at 4472MB? At 4300MB, you're definitely losing some quality.

But for me, I've always set it at 4464, which is the same size I use with DVD95Copy. I never had any problems with this size.

Sometimes DVD2one will run over. This is a workaround, though I myself wonder why do it all the time?

[Gurm]

Also... are you copying EXTRAS and whatnot, too? Of COURSE it's gonna look terrible, you're compressing 6GB (probably) of movie and 3GB of extras down to a TOTAL of 4.5GB. Yikes!

- Gurm

[FT Shark]

If I want the full movie I usually take out the languages that I can't understand anyways. DVD2One has the option to take out soundtracks on a full dvd copy. Each 5.1 soundtrack is about 0.55 gigs and each dolby prologic soundtrack should save you an additional 0.25 gigs.

[rvl123]

If I want the full movie I usually take out the languages that I can't understand anyways. DVD2One has the option to take out soundtracks on a full dvd copy. Each 5.1 soundtrack is about 0.55 gigs and each dolby prologic soundtrack should save you an additional 0.25 gigs.

Which version of DVD2One are you using? Mine (ver. 1.1.1) doesn't let me remove any languages.

Also, on some DVD-Rs going over 4300 will make the movie stutter towards the end. Also, will 172 extra megs really make that much of a difference in the final product?

Thanks for all the replies.

[FT Shark]

I'm using the DVD2One v1.1.3 however the latest is v1.2.3

Reguarding the stuttering at the end of the disk, that is a media problem. Cheap dvd's have major end of the disk burns. I used to have the same problems with Princo Brand. I switched to Ritek and haven't had a problem in over 500 burns.

[DoubleShadowIce]

Which version of DVD2One are you using? Mine (ver. 1.1.1) doesn't let me remove any languages.

You should really upgrade your DVD2One to current version. There's been significant changes since v1.1.1.