Anyone try elbys CloneDVD 2?

[Renesis]

just wondering if its any good. thanks

[jzaman]

One movie (full movie, english subtitles, english director cuts) that I've cloned with IC8, DVD2One, CCE (via DVD2DVD-R), Recode 2, CloneDVD and DVD95Copy is "Road To Perdition". Yah...I know I'm nuts for purchasing all these transcoders and encoders over the last 18 months. I just finished up "Road to Perdition" with CloneDVD2 v2.0.4.1 in 26 minutes 32 seconds including burn time at a disk size of 4.34 gb. The quality, transcode time and ease of use is top notch. I can not differentiate it from my IC8 transcode but it is still under the encoder quality standard. However, it is acceptable and quick. Using Bitrate Viewer (Commercial version) and comparing a main movie second vob from the original disk with the same vob from the CloneDVD2 transcoded version I found the following:

DCT Precision AVG Bitrate Peak Bitrate

original 10 6227 9221
cloneDVD2 10 4782 7562

My impression so far is positive.