Clone DVD compression questions

[CanadianZ]

I am backing up a few of my DVD's with Decrypter and Clone DVD. I am trying to preserve the menus and clone DVD has this ability over DVD Shrink.

Here's the problem/question, when loading my ripped file into Clone DVD I get a compression of 50% without menu's and 46% with menu's preserved. Then I go to the next screen and remove a bunch of hte adio streams I don't want. The compression doesn't change when I go back to the previous screen even though a lot of audio is removed.

DVD Shrink was able to compress up to about 60% when I removed all the extra audio and subtitles.

I don't want to lose much quality but I feel that 46% is going to be quite noticable. What is the highest compression without much video quality loss I should go for?? Is there any way I can get a lower compression and still maintain menu's??

Any suggestions are very much appreciated. Thanks very much.

CanadianZ

[kenshin himura]

you wont see the difference in takin the audio out by going to the previous screen, but it will give better quality. that should be fixed soon.

[CanadianZ]

Does it have similar compression to DVD Shrink??

At what compression does video quality become noticable??

CanadianZ

[kenshin himura]

its almost the same as shrink. as for video, depends on the bitrate on the original movie. higher bitrate=more it can be compressed and look good.

[CanadianZ]

How can I fdind out the bit rate and what would be considered Low, average and high??

Thanks, CanadianZ

[noki]

How can I fdind out the bit rate and what would be considered Low, average and high??

with PowerDVD or similar player right-click on the movie as it plays and select properties. should show the bitrate as movie plays...changes quickly as you might imagine.

[kenshin himura]

my dvd player actually gives me the option to see the bitrate, so i could check it like that as well.