Anyone campare DVDshrink to newer versions of dvd2One lately?

[Denvers Dawgs]

I remember reading back when I first joined the site about people running comparison tests of DVDSHRINK vs DVDSHRINK w/DEEP ANALYSIS vs DVD2ONE compresson (video quality). I'm just curious if anyone has done any of these comparisons with a newer version of dvd2One?

[yoda313]

Wouldn't that be unfair though since dvdshrink hasn't been updated at all???? I don't see what the value would be on testing on unupdated piece of software.....

[redwudz]

The best comparison is:

DVD Shrink, RipIt4Me, DVDFab Decrypter, ImgBurn = Free, work well together and work on any DVD out there.

DVD2One = Not free

How they compare, don't know. Shrink works for me, even with Vista.

If you want better quality, try DVD Rebuilder. Also free.

Someone out there has probably done a comparison for quality, but I doubt there would be much difference. DVD2One may be a little easier to use.

[Noahtuck]

DVD2One may be a little easier to use.

Never at any time have i ever considered DVD Shrink to be hard or complicated, let alone wonder if there was anything easier to use

& who wrote the description for DVD2one

With this tool you can make movie-only and full disk copies for personal use on a single DVD-Recordable. You can also copy double sided or several DVD-Videos two one DVDr.

:P

[Denvers Dawgs]

I know shrink is no longer updated, and that DVD2one is not free. I was just curious if perhaps dvd2one had changed the process which it uses to compress, from one of their earlier versions. Thanks for the replies guys

[Noahtuck]

Yeah i never really bothored to mess with anything else, shrink alway's worked great and looked fine.
Used to use nreo recode years ago but it never seemed as good as shrink so shrink it alway's was....

If it's not broke, don't fix it :P

[lc]

I understand the author of dvdshrink was hired by Nero and is responsible for the recent versions of Nero Recode.

I haven't seen any comparisons of the current version of recode with DVD Shrink and other similar programs.

It seems faster than DVD Shrink. I wonder what any else thinks.

[classfour]

I have occasionally used DVD2One version 2 on DVDs Shrink rejects.

The quality is okay. Better than earlier versions.

It's tons faster than Shrink.

[bevills1]

If the author of dvdshrink was hired by Nero, that may also explain why dvdshrink now burns using Nero with most recent Nero 6 update where as it did not for quite a while.

[jimmalenko]

If the author of dvdshrink was hired by Nero, that may also explain why dvdshrink now burns using Nero with most recent Nero 6 update where as it did not for quite a while.

I doubt it. Most likely it was just a bug introduced by a particular update that took a while to get fixed.

[hech54]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[fritzi93]

Someone out there has probably done a comparison for quality, but I doubt there would be much difference.

Ditto. Transcoders requantize, i.e. reduce DCT data, essentially error correction. (Instant Copy is the exception). They all, AFAIK, are biased towards reducing "B" frame data, as errors do not accumulate thereby. You can play around with tweaking how the reduction is "allocated", with SolveigMPEG2Requant. I have no proof, but my impression is that small tweaks (from defaults) make no discernable difference, large tweaks are changes for the worse.

I'll post the page below once again. Pretty good explanation of how DVDShrink works. BTW, the purpose of Deep Analysis is to more accurately allocate the requantization. If a transcoder is very much faster than Shrink, I would suspect it comes at the cost of accurate allocation.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?&threadid=63587