Clonedvd versus DVD Shrink for ripping only question

[golfnut]

Can anyone please tell me if the video quality is better between either of these two. When I say this I mean for ripping the "movie only", not the menu or extras. The reason I ask is because if there is no difference in video quality between the two then I would like to stay with one program that can do both, rip and burn which Clone can do but obviously Shrink can only rip. I realize you have more options with Shrink but remember I am only ripping the movie and am interested in getting the best video and audio quality while ripping. Thank you for your help and advice.

[NYPlayer]

CloneDVD does not rip....

[golfnut]

Beg to differ with you NYplayer, maybe I am using wrong termninology but I have copied over 20 movies to my hard drive in the last 3 days. Clonedvd stores the movie in a temporary folder on your hard drive and after you burn it the tempoary folder is automatically deleted.

[LanEvo7]

Clone DVD doesn't rip original commerical DVDs that have CSS encryption. So maybe you are copying unencrypted DVDs or something of the like. Shrink can rip and transcode the files. The quality aspect is usually to the user's eye. So if you don't see a difference then its no difference.

[Gurm]

CloneDVD by itself has no ability to "rip" (aka deprotect and copy to hard disc) a commercial movie. You need AnyDVD with it to do that.

In my opinion, the combination of AnyDVD and CloneDVD is a good one, but DVD Shrink has far more options. I love CloneDVD, I really do. But this time around Olli has to face the fact that this whole "minimalist" style is not the way people want things in this arena.

- Gurm

[ddlooping]

Hi all.

golfnut, I apologize if you have already read the following thread, but it shows a DVD Shrink feature (undocumented till very recently) that, in my opinion, makes it superior to CloneDVD for movie-only backups.

Being able to compress different parts of the movie using different ratios (and/or "Still Pictures").
Not done by using the "Multiple instances" trick, hence a seamless playback.
Add to that the well documented "Deep Analysis", and you're laughing.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=179431