A POLL - DVDSHRINK or DVD2ONE

[busipaln]

From those experienced users, what would you say is the better one and what are the pros and cons. I have used dvd2one, with a very good result, but personally i would never compress anything above 6gb, as i dont like to loose too much quality so i would rather split. But there are alot of movies which are around or less than 5.5gb which are worth compressing, as you can hardly notice the difference.

Which software would you use.

[Bob W]

Lately I have been using DVDX Xpress which does a fine job even if the file size is 6.5GB.

[homey]

From those experienced users, what would you say is the better one and what are the pros and cons. I have used dvd2one, with a very good result, but personally i would never compress anything above 6gb, as i dont like to loose too much quality so i would rather split. But there are alot of movies which are around or less than 5.5gb which are worth compressing, as you can hardly notice the difference.

Which software would you use.

I purchased DVD2One and like it a lot. That said, I also use DVD Shrink. I use DVD2one more simply because, to me, the quality is better. Also, DVD2One gets the size right everytime.

YMMV,

HDC

[Gurm]

They're different. You'll get lots of opinions, but here's the QUICK rundown (although why people don't SEARCH for this information is beyond me):

DVD2One is the fastest.

DVD Shrink is comparable in quality most of the time, but a bit slower - however it has FAR more options and also decrypts.

IC7 will produce superior results, especially at high compression rates, but it takes MUCH longer (an hour or more instead of 15-20 minutes) than the others.

CloneDVD does things no other transcoder will do, such as letting you selectively clip out special features and other menu options while keeping the menu structure intact... and it excels at low-compression scenarios... in other words if you only need to go from 4.8GB to 4.3GB, CloneDVD has higher quality than the other transcoders.

So basically, I break it down like this:

- If the movie itself is LARGE (6+ GB for just the movie), I either use IC7 and let it run, OR I re-encode using the Big3 or TMPGEnc.

- If the movie is small enough that it'll fit (or almost fit) if you just clip the extras out, or if I just want the movie itself and it's only like 4.75 GB, I use CloneDVD.

- If the movie is between 4.75GB and 5.75GB, I'll probably use DVD Shrink, although in rare cases I might fire up DVD2One, since as was already pointed out it's better at hitting the target size.

So, your mileage may vary. Affecting your decision might be such things as... the fact that only DVD Shrink is freeware.

- Gurm

[MythSpell]

Gurm,

Good overview. This seems to jive with what I have gathered as well. Although, I'd probably add that the consensus seems to be that IC7 does a poor job on animated movies. And lastly, as far as CloneDVD doing the best job at transcoding low compression scenarios, I doubt that most people would notice the difference between any of the apps when compressing less than 10%. So I don't know that anyone would want to buy CloneDVD just for that, but they certainly should if they can use some of its unique features.

[digitalmaster]

I like to put 2 DVD movies on one DVD+R due to the cost of DVD+Rs still being around 2.00US. I recently tried DVD2one 2.3 and set Daredevil to be encoded at 2.15MB. I was amazed at how good it looked even at that small size. No pixellation. Looked as good as the original DVD. DVD2One has made giant leaps since it was first introduced!!!

[brush]

I think the subject of the forum is the difference between shrink and one

we do not care about the other transcoders, guys thanks

[jthompson99]

I think the subject of the forum is the difference between shrink and one

we do not care about the other transcoders, guys thanks

You don't, but either people do.....besides, this topic has been brought up a 100 times.......just do a search.

[mdubnik]

I must agree with a lot of what has been said here, DVD2one and Shrink both have their flaws, and their upsides. For me, what it boiled down to was this (and I think this was the point with tons of people):

DVDShrink =free
DVD2One =not free

That's about it for my choice.

[brush]

DVDShrink =free
DVD2one =not free
That's about it for my choice.

You forgot INSTANT COPY 7=NOT FREE TOO ( that sucks like other pinnacle proggies )

[brush]

You don't, but either people do.....besides, this topic has been brought up a 100 times.......just do a search.

I am not searching for anything
Just saying that DVDSHRINK ROCKS and it blows away other ALL IN ONE proggies , thats all mate

[lordsmurf]

DVD2one for me.

DVD Shrink often had blocky quality no matter the original size, would not take advantage of full 4.36GB available, and would crash. DVD2ONE would not.

Free means nothing when it performs poorly. That's no argument, at least not to me, especially considering DVD2one is not that expensive.

Though SHRINK is decent when compressing episode discs, as it allows you to make some episodes stills and leaves others alone. That is the one redeeming quality of SHRINK.

I only see DVD2one blockiness when the original content was a full DVD9.

I don't have money or patience for other methods (IC7, Big3, CloneDVD, etc). If I need it to be that perfect, I'll just go buy another one.

I see SHRINK vs 2ONE as the Nero vs RecordNow and TMPGEnc vs Womble MPEG2VCR arguments. If one fails, just use the other one.

[brush]

DVD Shrink often had blocky quality no matter the original size, would not take advantage of full 4.36GB available, and would crash. DVD2one would not..

My dvdshrink never crashed, I own nearly 50 films made by this proggie
Truy changing your O.S or just format your C

Free means nothing when it performs poorly. That's no argument, at least not to me, especially considering DVD2one is not that expensive.

Then You should IC7, not free and specialized in artefacts and macroblocks

[JasonK]

DVD Shrink often had blocky quality no matter the original size, would not take advantage of full 4.36GB available, and would crash. DVD2one would not.

I haven't had these problems with DVD Shrink. I've done careful comparison against CCE encoding on ~7 gig movies, and I see quality loss with BOTH CCE and DVDshrink output on my high-end equipment and HDTV. I'm pretty picky about quality, and I see some quality loss with DVDshrink, but I see as much quality loss with CCE, and sometimes it's even worse. (by the way, smoothing out or filtering the video isn't my idea of better quality.) DVD Shrink is great.

I was one of the early ones who complained about DVD2one quality compared to CCE.

[red lion]

busipaln why did you not make it a right poll (ie vote one or the other)then everyone wont post other programms or argue there programms are better than others
I prefer DVD2one but i already have it when dvdshrink came out if i did not i would probebly cone for shrink as its free
dvd2one is easer to use and a bit faster

[vance43211]

shrink does a horrible job ripping scratched disc

(which defeats the purpose of backing up movies)

and encoding dark movies and movies over 6.5 gig

it does a good job beside that

DVD2one well.....

a poor man's neoDVD

the little 3 rules

SmartRipper, IfoEdit, ic7

[spaceman]

When DVD2one came out i was blown away by it but to me it's quality has not improved at all since its first release although they have added a few new features.

On the other hand when DVDSHRINK came out i tried it and thought the quality sucked big time so stuck with DVD2ONE & IC7,however when the latest version came out i thought i would give it a go and i can't get over how much it had improved and to think it is shareware.It's also very easy to ese with an easy to follow menu.

Im not saying DVD2ONE is now sh*t just that it's quality hasn't moved on since it's ariginal release for me.

So for me at the moment anyway its DVDSHRINK all the way

[MackemX]