Why are my results with DVD2ONE different than most??

[mikef07]

I have now done anywhere from 50-60 movies with DVD2One and have no pixellation in any of them. Why is this? Why do some people get poorer quality? I watch on a 61" screen most of the time and actually view on a 120" projector other times.

Comp: P2 2.7Ghz, 512MB RAM, 360GB Hard Drive. Could faster processors do a better job??

[NYPlayer]

I have excellent results too. The main reason why people have bad results is that they try to squeeze every audio track along with the main movie on a dvdr, some even try and squeeze the menu and extras.

For every additional audio track you choose to keep you will obviously lose quality. Therefore i keep just the main audio track and all the subs, this allows more space for the video.

[ghoster]

well the bigger screen you have more chance you will notice pixellation..

[mikef07]

How much bigger can you get than 120" or 61"??

[rhuala2]

Out of curiousity, how far back are u sitting? How's your vision?

Personally I get fine results with it too. Someone posted actual still pics of Saving Private Ryan, where there was heavy action and contrast and I could see sligth loss of detail, but no pixelation. It also is more or less visible depending on your TV brighness level.

I'm sure if you take a 180min movie, condense it down to 1 DVD-R, put it on your 61" TV, sit 5' away and crank the brightness, u too will see some pixelation. But really who cares, as long as it looks good on your current and possibly your future system be happy with it.

rhuala

[drewson99]

i agree. i think some people are sort of insulted/taken aback by the ease of dvd2one, as many of us have been doing it the "hard way" for years and it is hard to change one's perspective.

those of us who have slaved, tweaked, strove, bled, cried etc over the settings for years have come to believe that speed is the enemy of quality. bottom line. this produces a quandry when considering dvd2one.

[dc91gt]

I only use DVDOne for movies that are over the dvd-r limit by a gig or so at most.

stuff like private ryan, I encode with CCE 3 pass.

-d

[Faustus]

My first full attempt at a movie with DVD2ONE looked horrible even on my computer screen, it was a single 2 hour movie with 1 AC3 sound track. Haven't touched it since, I'd rather wait on CCE to finish up then watch pixels.

[neonflx]

I had great results, SONY 40XBR800, and HITACHI 57SWX, i just keep the eesentials and the picture looks great!!

[mikef07]

Maybe people's computers are messing it up. I just hit the 85 movie mark and have no problems in any so far.

[Scarpad]

I Agree I read theses horror story about the video output of DVD2One and I shake my head because I don't see it on My 65: Mits Widescreen. But you guys Have a point people think they can squeeze everything on these disks, hey the quality loss hass to come from somewhere. I Choose one audio stream and Subs. I also don't become irrational thinking I can squeeze a 3 hour epic onto 1 disk and get great results. but for a 90min-120min movie I love the results. The jury still out on instant copy . On a Copy of a movie that was only 4.28 it all worked well, but when i tried to resize XXX it said it would all come to 4.32gb and 4hours later it was 4.68 and I had to blow away 4hours of Encoding.

[gobama]

I personally love DVD2one. I have used it for everything. Because my Pentium II will not run CCE, I'm out of luck until I upgrade hehe. But I have no problems doing episode discs either, but I use no menus with mine (a matter of personal preference) either. So each chapter is an episode. It all boils down to what quality you are satisfied with. Me, if it plays good and looks good, I'm happy And the speed of dvd2one? It can't be beat!

[igalan]

I have used DVD2One in a movie a little over 2 hours, keeping AC3 5.1 English + subs + MPEG Spanish + Subs, and the quality is just fine in my TV (28" Loewe), you can hardly see the difference between the original and the copy. For movies below 2 hours is the same, no problems. I haven't tried movies longer that this.
I'm happy with DVD2One . I may find problems with some movie in the future; but if I do, I can go back to the long way for this single movie (rip & demux, recompress & reauthor, burn). For the rest DVD2One works fine.

[axlish]

I have noticed that the more audio tracks you leave, the worse it looks everytime for sure. This is a cool tool and gives a great back up, sacrifices a little quality but sometimes, it isn't even noticeable. I have a sharp eye for detail and I notice the little things, but sometimes, I don't notice any loss of detail when using dvd2one.

[mikef07]

One thing about how I do it. I keep 1 audio track and never have subtitles.

[baker]

well the bigger screen you have more chance you will notice pixellation

Projecotrs are an mpeg enthouist best friend as they are extremely good at hiding mpeg blocks and "dumb" blocks.

As for you, ALMOST everybody I know thinks sky digital looks great, but trust me, I have made better 1 cd vcds. Sky digital is a digi sat companie and the qucilty is shite but they get away with it as the ordinary joe (unlike me) can't spot the difference.

Baker

[Scarpad]

Subtitles are so small don't worry about saving at least the exglish ones. I usually save those and the 5.1. Ditch the rest. Last night I even tried The Patriot and Green Mile, Green mile had the worst artifacting of the bunch but even it was'nt truly horrible and whatch expect for a Plus 3 hour movie on a single layer disk.