Has anyone switched from dvd shrink to nero recode

[ultraman36]

Hey for quality purposes has anyone switched from using Shrink to Nero? Ive been using nothing but shrink the past couple of years but a buddy of mines said he is now using nero recode for backup

[CobraPilot]

According to others' posts, Nero Recode was created by the same person who created DVDShrink. Recode, however, won't decode copy-protected DVDs.

I've used both and it seems to me that DVDShrink sometimes gives a little more flexibility in adjusting the compression ratios of different parts of a DVD.

Recode will do an excellent job of compressing a movie to fit a standard CD (up to about 2hr 30 min in length), but in its own MP4/AAC format, which isn't playable on many DVD players (see www.avayon.com for the only model sold in the US, plays DivX, Xvid, VCD, DVD; excellent unit!). Recode will preserve a subtitle track automatically.

There have also been very rare occasions where either Shrink or Recode choke on the recoding and the other will work.

Visually, I usually can't tell the difference between the final output of the two to a DVD5.

For a movie compressed to fit on a CD, it seems at worst to be visually about 85-90% of the original, depending on the length of the movie, well within my personal viewing tolerance even on a big-screen TV. To my eye, a 90-minute movie is almost indistinguishable from the original.

[guns1inger]

If you are just doing DVD transcoding then this is nothing to be gained by switching from Shrink to Recode. Recode is bigger and costs money. Shrink is smaller and free. For some users I believe the fact that they had to pay for it makes them believe that the output from Recode is better than that of Shrink, however I suspect that any real objective appraisal will find they are pretty much the same. And if quality was top of the list of requirements then DVD Rebuilder wins hands down.

[69mako]

If you are just doing DVD transcoding then this is nothing to be gained by switching from Shrink to Recode. Recode is bigger and costs money. Shrink is smaller and free. For some users I believe the fact that they had to pay for it makes them believe that the output from Recode is better than that of Shrink, however I suspect that any real objective appraisal will find they are pretty much the same. And if quality was top of the list of requirements then DVD Rebuilder wins hands down.

Well Said!!!!