dvdfab quality... im getting horrible results

[ted demen]

i just downloaded the latest version of dvdfab 6.0.1.0. and tried to rip a movie, however the quality that came out of it is unwatchable. (anytime there is motion u can see alot of lines)

what am i doing wrong? am i supposed to use another decoder instead of the dvdfab one?

[guns1inger]

Did you just rip, or rip and convert ?

If you just ripped, then you have an interlaced source, and you need aplayer that better handles interlaced playback on the PC. You will not notice these problems when watching on a television.

If you have converted to another format then I suspect you need a better tool. I have never seen a good encode out of DVDFab. I use it only for ripping because it's encoding, especially of interlaced source, is horrible.

[ted demen]

i guess i just ripped and compressed in one move... I chose the "FULLDISK" option on dvdfab.

should i be using the "CLONE" option instead? (and compressing with shrink?)

[John-Paul]

In the settings it may have defaulted to DVD 5 rather than DVD 9, in which case the ripped files may be shrunk to fit on a DVD5 disc. If your original is closer to 9gb could produce an inferior result.

[guns1inger]

Reducing to DVD5 from DVD9 should not cause interlacing artifacts, as the image should not be resized (note : should not, not saying it won't). Again, I only ever use DVDFab for direct ripping, and use other, trusted and proven tools for conversions and size reductions.

[ted demen]

yea the default was set to dvd5

i changed it to dvd9, and will try to compress with shrink instead

[jason]

I always choose the main movie option, which usually makes the DVD5 quota. Never had a problem with quality using DVDfab. I have never used the convert option, so I have no idea about the quality there.