Which is better quality? DVDShrinkage or DVDRebuilder+CCE?

[chroniX]

I apologize if this has been asked before, I would use search but my internet is terribly slow today.

Normally, I DVDshrink and remove audio's and compress if i have to and the quality turns out just fine.

Now, I just read the tutorial on DVDRebuilder+CCE Basic Encoder, would this give me better quality than DVDshrink, or would it be the same?

Could someone enlighten me and skim through this tutorial, http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd_rebuilder_tutorial.cfm , and tell me if this would provide better quality for DVD9-to-DVD5 backups, or are there some missing steps that this guide is missing?

Thanks!

[Faustus]

Better quality on high compression stuff. But much slower.

[pippocalo]

DvdShrink is usefull for low compression level: until 90% may be also better than CCE (that is a really encoder and not a simple transcoder like DVDShrink).

In the range between 90% and 70% the choice depends on the quality that you need.

Under 70 % CCE is always better and the difference is easy to notice.

Under 50% CCE is the only solution because DvdShrink (but also the other transcoders) give a bad...bad quality.

CCE requires long times for encoding: approx (depends from CPU) four times respect to DVDshrink.

Bye

[archaeo]

And the easiest way to incorporate CCE in a one-click program is with DVDRebuilder, in my opinion... Some effort is required to set up, but once you do, it's very simple with excellent results. I have now added it to my 'tool box' for those higher compression backups. For the lower compression ones, I still use DVDShrink.