DVD2DVDR CCE pass

[wizzy]

what is the recomanded VBR pass for CCE?
I know that higher is better but is there a difrent between 3pass and 7pass?
5pass and 10pass?

[Faustus]

I only use 2 pass unless I'm shrinking a movie longer then 2 and half hours in CCE. If its longer then that I use 3 pass. Remember each pass add ALOT more encode time.

[wizzy]

I wanna backup LOTR TT that is more than 2hr...do you think 3 pass will be enough? how about 5?

[Faustus]

3 should be ok, 5 should be more then enough. If you just want to ensure its as good as possible set it at 5 and just let it run, just remember its gonna take a while.

[wizzy]

great, so there is some difrents between 3 and 5 ? so if it is why not puting 7pass?
time?
if it is just time so its ok for me....
I have a dual CPU AMD MP2000+ with 2GB DDRam...
it will be faster...

[Haku]

Ive always used 4 or 5 pass' when i used CCE for Svcds, but i aways use 5 pass' for dvds.Some people will say 5 + pass' is just overkill.But ive always had really good picture reasults with 5 pass' so i stick to that.

[Mr Walker]

Has there been any comparision between cce and dvd2one or dvdshrink. How do these programs re-encode? and how many passes do i need to run to get better quality than one of the allinone sollutions. Because lets face it, if you back up a movie and keeping menues and some audio-track some subtitles. and then encode with cce, it takes a while and you need to get it back in "one piece".

[Faustus]

DVDShrink and DVD2One Transcode, they are fast and the quality varies depending much on how much its shrank and the source itself, they tend to be very fast.

CCE is used to reEncode, its much slower but give much better results.

[Mr Walker]

So what's the different?

[Marco33]

According to the CCE 2.5 manual.

3~4 passes is max. Anything beyond this will yield very minor improvments. I use 3 myself.