Serious Quality Problems - DVD2One & Clone DVD

[tygrus2000]

Ok, I have listened for a few months about people raving about DVD2One how it makes flawless copies even under some transcoding compression and I have yet to see it.

I made a backup of Any Given Sunday, which was originally 5.7 GB and in the final product I could see macroblocking quite easily especially in certain types of scenes. This is not what I was expected but maybe the compression was just too much.

I then tried to do a 1:1 copy of a DVD using Clone DVD and again the end result is not good. I can see tiny pixelations and some macro bloacking as well. The program should not have transcoded this since it was only 3.2 GB to start with. I dont know what these programs are doing behind the scenes, but is there none that get original DVD quaility. I am not a nit picker but I can tell when the original is clearly better. I havent tried DVD Shrink yet but I am wondering what the point really would be.

Any experiences?

Tygrus

[g_shocker182]

Yeah i got that pixel-look too when i used tmpgenc to lower the file size.. try increasing the bit rate somehow... this usually happens when the action in the video is very fast...u also might want to try using dvd-shrink, thats what i use and it was flawless with a matrix dvd backup

[Donny661]

1:1 copy from the original looks the same as the original. Look at your original video. Does that have the quality problems you see in your copys? If it doesn't and you really want more quality, learn to do the transcoding manually using tmpg or cce. There are good guides here and at http:\\www.doom9.net.