Am i alone in saying NeroRecode is VERY good ?

[draven1968]

been using the lastest update on TAKEN... (Main movie 54% therefore..... 46% compression ratio).... and it's damm good... tried it with dvdshrink and was still good...but it had slight interlace lines on some scenes.

I like dvdshrink and will always keep it, but NeroRecode is in my opinion better.

P.S. and NO i dont work for AHEAD haha

Phil

[yoda313]

Hello,

Maybe. I'm glad you seem to like it. I just don't see why I would switch to a pay product when I'm happy with the freeware.

Thanks for passing along the personal experience so others may find an alternative application

Kevin

[wwjd]

I have used Recode but have not done a careful evaluation. It does seem to do a very good job. I still pretty much use Shrink and Decrypter.

The reason I have Recode is not because I intentionally purchased it, it came bundled with Nero Ultra 6.0 and I suspect that could be one reason why some people have it and since they have it they use it.

[RickTheRed]

Me too I have recode (free with the burner)
TBH, I have tried it for the first time recently.
I did the same movie twice, with Recode (2-pass)and DVDshrink(deep analysis and AEC-sharp). It was much faster with Recode.
I have not verified the results but I will post my findings if I see something.

[midnightsun]

I may be mistaken but I seem to remember that Recode and Shrink use the same transcoding engine, so no surprise there.

Anyway, the new Ateme AVC codec used by Nero Recode (to encode to mp4 evidently) won this year's doom9's codec shootout.

[logixrat.01]

I have Recode as well. Upon reading this post, I tried it out and wasn't really pleased with the quality. My particular test was the XXX movie. I used the deep analysis mode where it scans it twice, but I didn't do the "high quality" mode which says it burns slow.

I am re-doing the project using the high quality option to compare the differences. Also, I will run a copy with Shrink. Just FYI, movie is only about 60% of the original quality. I'm sure the 40% compression has an effect, but others I've burned with Shrink at the same compression didn't seem as bad. We'll see though.

[kirky99]

I may be mistaken but I seem to remember that Recode and Shrink use the same transcoding engine, so no surprise there.

I thnk it's because they are written by the same person. If memory serves me correctly, didn't Ahead give the author of DVDShrink a job and shortly after they had Recode and Shrink stopped updates?

I think it's just been bugfixes and whatnot on Shrink since then. Correct me if I'm wrong, but be gentle...

[mats.hogberg]

Well, does Recode do decryption of CSS encrypted DVDs, like shrink does, hmm... ?

Mats

[djelimon]

who needs that when you have decrypter (which also does macrovision) and anydvd (ditto)?

If you don't like to pay for stuff, okay, but some people think money is worth the extra little bit. Why discourage them?