Which One ??

[Haku]

OK im a CCE user, as i love the quality it gives when i have to do a re-encode of a movie.I do movie only back ups,movie,5.1 audio and chapter skip,maybe a sub track if needed.
Now the odd dvd9 i will do a full backup of ,ie.. if its only say 5.30gb or under,still using cce.Aslong as i can get a good bitrate.
But theres the odd dvds here or there that are about 4.5gb, only a little over the dvd5 size.Now these ones im think of using a one click program for as the compression will be minimale.

My question to you is which is the best one to use,speed dont bother me,Quality does.So im looking at quality.

DVD2One
DVDShrink
IC7


Please dont turn this into a big agruement.Just a simply reply will do.

[thayne]

I have used DVD2One and DVDShrink and like DVD2One better.

[Vejita-sama]

If the main movie is less than 4.3/4.7GB there's no need to use transcode/re-encode it. See the guides to the left. Personally I use IFOEdit (freeware) for this.

[psx_pirate]

if the movie is not much over the dvd5 limit simply use ifoedit to remove unwanted soundtracks and subtittles the movie will probably then fit on a dvdr without needing to reecode and therefore it will be of the same quality as the original

[SARK]

I started to test with DVD2One and had no reason to test anything else

[Vejita-sama]

R&S - it's great that DVD2One works for you, but if you really didn't test anything else how can you speak/recommend one program over another

Instant Copy is generally considered to give the best quaility, but it's the slowest of all the transcoders. Re-encoding gives the best quaility but that's very slow (even with CCE). Time vs. speed vs. quaility vs. cost, pick which two are important and we can tell you more...

[Haku]

The only thing i bothered about is quality.Never thought of stripping out unwanted audio/subs if the dvd is alittle over 4.37.But saying its 4.7gb,not much over, but i want to keep everything as the dvd consists of the movie,1 audio track, 1 sub track(needed) and the menu, or a episode discs thats only 4.7gb.

[SARK]

@V-s
I'm not recommending anything ... I'm just saying that I'm very pleased with the quality of DVD2One and want to share my opinion, you're right that I have nothing to compare the quality with (except the original) but when you're happy with a product .....

[Vejita-sama]

If quaility is main goal you should re-encode with TMPGenc/CCE/etc then re-author or replace the m2v file with IFOEdit. That gives the best quaility. However, it also takes the most time.

There's a guide to replacing the m2v file with IFOEdit:

http://ifoedit.wh.fr0zen.com/remux.html

Basically this will allow you to keep your menu and extras. There are several ways to work this. You can do something like teh big 3 (see current tread or look at http://www.doom9.org/mpg/ra-guide.htm)

What a some people do is run the DVD9 disc through DVDShrink and choose no compression for the main movie then compress the extras a bit. You then re-encode the main movie with TMPGenc/CCE. Because you compressed the extras some you have more space/bitrate to give to the main movie (without having to do the big3's re-encoding of each extra) then re-mux it into the VOB series, and burn.

Edit - BTW this is only 'easy' if the VOB file contains one PGC (like most movies) if there are multiple PGC it turns into a mess really fast Also after you re-mux the m2v file, you'll have to replace your source VOB files with the newly generated ones and run IFOUpdate. Here's a guide (that really gives to much info, just read the bottom part as we're not re-authoring, we're using IFOEdit to re-mux) on how to do that:

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/maestro2.htm

[AarontheRipper]

when it comes to shrinking a movie that is just slightly too large for the DVD-R, it really doesn't matter what you use. Even on a 50" HDTV, I would be very surprised if you could tell the difference between DVD2One, IC7, CCE, and the original. I have read several studies that confirm this. The program you use becomes important however, as the size of the file you want to shrink increases. For the one click programs, IC7 does the best job on larger files, but in your case, you'd probably use CCE which would be the best option. However, on files less than about 5.5 gb, you won't notice a difference between the programs.

[vric]

Quality wise: IC7 > DVDShrink 2.3 > DVD2one
Speed wise: DVD2one > DVDShrink 2.3 > IC7

[Gurm]

If the movie is only SLIGHTLY larger than the limit of a DVD-R, I recommend either IC7 or CloneDVD.

In my experience, CloneDVD excels at minimal-compression transcodes, but on the other hand some people SWEAR by IC7 for that purpose.

- Gurm

[ddlooping]

Hi all.

Haku, here is a test I made you might find interesting.

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21620

IMHO, DVD Shrink and DVD2One will get you fairly similar results, with a better quality for one or the other depending on the movie, but DVD Shrink has an edge because of its added flexibility.