which are the best universal compression settings

[neo*2]

Can you guys tell me what might be the most common compression settings used in DVD Shrink? Maybe break it down into three sections if you could.

Menus:

Main Movie

Extras

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again.....

[glockjs]

there really is no universal settings. it's all preferance. if you dont wanna mess with it just use what originally comes up in shrink. me personally i do everything i can to get the best quality out of the actual movie, cause thats the whole point of the dvd in the first place right?

[jimmalenko]

Nothing like an open-ended question, eh boys ?

My preference is to reauthor and do Movie-only unless it's a music DVD. I only watch the extras once, possibly twice, so I don't mind pulling out the original just for that.

I generally just keep AC3 5.1 audio if available. I let everything else be set automatically.

[neo*2]

What would be the lowest compression ratio one would use untill it began to look fairly poor on menus and extras?

[jimmalenko]

What would be the lowest compression ratio one would use untill it began to look fairly poor on menus and extras?

Try it yourself and find out !

It all depends on what you're viewing it on IMO. I watch my DVDs on a 27" TV, and I just leave DVDShrink at its automatic settings without any hassles.

[guns1inger]

Quality for a transcoder depends not only on how much compression you are applying, but also how well the original was compressed, and how much headroom might be hiding in the original file. I have been able to use shrink to get acceptable (for a particular bastard like me) results from 70% on some films, and completely unacceptable (again, to me) results from 94% on others.

You will often find that menus and extras are already pretty well compressed, so it doesn't take much to push them over the edge.

[RickTheRed]

I have been able to use shrink to get acceptable (for a particular bastard like me) results from 70% on some films, and completely unacceptable (again, to me) results from 94% on others.

I agree with this.
I can even change your numbers to: 56% is the lowest I went and I have tested rough scenes on the computer and I was not able to see the difference.
The other number can also be changed to 100%. Some DVDs are scrap to start with. Any compression will be badddddd.

[ddlooping]

Hi all.

guns1inger, just out of curiosity, could you let us know what DVDs produced unacceptable results at 94%?

[guns1inger]

I cant remember the title. It was with a previous version of Shrink (before AEC), and the disk was already pretty heavily compressed budget release. I remember wondering why it was dual layer when there was so much head room on the disk.

[ddlooping]

Ok, thanks.