InterVideo 2.0 Platium help

[anitafagina]

InterVideo 2.0 sure is speedy, but the quality is questionable. InterVideo's picture is brigter than DVDShrink, but does anyone notice the artifacts InterVideo generates? 4 of 5 movies have some form of artifacts (blocks) showed up here and there. If I remember correctly, the least artifacts were three in 1 movie, and one go as many as eight. Size of the artifacts are small compared to the size of the screen. Sometimes, it has just a few blocks and other time it has a few more. DVD Shrink never gives me any artifacts. So, what's all the "quality" people are talking about? Anyone experience such quality issues? or the workaround? Thanks, Anita

[4smiley20]

I have a copy of intervideo copy 2 platinum and don't think that its as great as some articles suggest. I got ok results using it but I noticed some pixelation and artifacting too. If you are using it to do a full movie backup, keeping the menu and extras, I would recommend running it through shrink first to strip out audio streams and captions that you don't want. Since the custom mode in intervideo only allows one audio and one caption stream it pretty much just sucks. So what I have done it ran the movie through shrink with no compression keeping only what I wanted. Then I used intervideo to shrink it down to fit on a dvdr. This might help you out a little for some of the quality issues.