Anyone tried DVD2ONE?

For a detailed report on DVD2One (sorry German only so far), see:

http://www.dvd-svcd-hilfe.de/forum/mb1/dvd2one/dvd2one.htm

[ShibaInu]

Ok, here's my 2 cents worth on this program.... Its the F@$*ing BOMB! I tried the demo and was very impressed with the results... Next I ripped Brotherhood of the Wolf, approximately 2hrs 23 min long, and reencoded using TMPGEnc at 2 Pass Variable with Highest Quality setting... Then I did the same with DVD2one... I kept the English audio and English subtitles... in most cases I was hard pressed to tell the differences between the two encodes...
Overall, the TMPGEnc movie was SLIGHTLY sharper and handled extreme dark sequences SLIGHTLY better. There is only one scene where TMPGEnc, which took 12 hours to encode, clearly won out over over DVD2one and it was only a 5 second segment during a very dark scene.... I did my viewing on a Sony Wega 32" in 16:9 mode... I would be very interested to hear how it looks on a big screen...
DVD2one is now my main encoding tool... Its very fast and very good... Well worth the $44 for it....

[mikef07]

I may be going over some people's head here but the one thing that is great about this software is that it allows you to do Single PGC movies as well as Multiple PGC movies. Multi PGC movies can be a pain in the butt. Signs for example is a multi PGC movie.

1 improvement that can be made, and I am definitlely reaching here, is if you could take a disc like Band of Brothers and still put both episodes on 1 DVD-R. Because you only get 1 video selection this is not possible.

[wizzy]

herbapou :

mY pc IS FINE

yes i used filemode

now i am tryying another movie.

and yes, i have to noticed some strange pulsating/shifting of pixels,

the question is how its look on the "big screen" i am waiting to see the results on my 40" wideScreen TV.....btw, i have a "shity display card"
ATI old one and i am seeing in good quality and i am using 16bit color cuz of my 21" screen, so quality must to be good on TV



Hey! now its working fine! i have 16min to go on 1:56min movie
i am waiting to see the results.

[NightWing]

This sounds intersting...

I am wondering the following. Does anyone with this program have a std DVD player that has a bitrate display? Be intersting to compare the orginal to a "backup". Be intersting to see if there is a big difference.

[dun4cheap]

This has already been compared in earlier posts in this forumn under the same topic. I would say the 1st or second page.

[Zozark]

Anyone got a quick help guide for the trial version.....obviously, I'm like really new to this. I've downloaded the trial version and I'm ready to give it a shot. Thanks in advance.....be kind!!!

ZOZARK

[rhegedus]

Hey Wizzy,

Just had a thought - ever tried to move large amounts of data between drives, especially when one is pretty full or fragmented? Windows will say it will take hundreds or thousands of minutes when obviously it will not. Are you sure your drives aren't fragmented or full?

Regards,

Rob

[gobama]

I used this program to put the Matrix onto 1 dvd-r. All I can say is that the program is the best thing out right now. But I used File Mode inside DVD Decryptor, so it just got the main movie with English Subs which is all I care about personally when making my movies. My hats off to the developer of this software 8)

[wizzy]

rhegedus,

I have 2 HD 80MB on RAID the HD is fragmented and not full, any way
its look that i got it finaly

[herbapou]

I just did Cast Away.

The shifting of the background is unbearable. The entire vegetation background is shifting left and right by about 5 pixels every 2 secs or so.

This is too bad because if it wasnt for the pulsating/shifting, I would be happy with the quality of the output.

I am going to do other animation movies to confirm the problem doesnt occurs with animation... I will post results later

[Heywould3]

I am very surprised i just did a test since all i have is the demo version BUT it surprising that anyone would not get good to great results from the program.. I just tested it with SW I and that is a movie 2 hours 18 min and i kept the DD sound and nothing else.. no subs only one angle and the quality is outstanding.. I am all about quality not quantity so i was thinking that i would not really like it. I was very happy with this.. I do everything video as high as i can get it and still fit on few CDRs I tested this because im on my way to get the burner and wanted to test this first.. i will now be doing all my backups with this with few exceptions. It only took a few min to do the 30 min conversion and that is amazing.. i use DVD2SVCD with CCE and 3 pass and it takes 6 hours or so. i would HIGHLY recommend you all give this a try before you take anyone’s word for it.. you will be happy.. You cant please everyone but 99% will love it.. that’s just my 2 cents.

EDIT to add more info.. as i don’t have my burner yet i used my computer to view.. i have the ATI all in wonder 8500 vid card the vid with power dvd looked great i didn’t notice any shifting of pixels or macro blocks.. i watched the whole 30 mins. i then used my card and sent the movie to my 36in Sony Wega via SVid cable and looked great again. also no artifacts or pixels.. i then zoomed in and it looked pretty good then also. so i don’t know what the other people are having trouble for.. or y they are not getting the same results.. but it must be something not related to DVD2one.

[NYPlayer]

herbapou

I am going to try Castaway too will post my findings.

[dun4cheap]

Well my Widescreen Cast Away looks great. I didn't notice any shifting watching it on my 36 Panasonic TV with my Apex 5131 dvd player. DTS Kicks but. I am going to do top gun wide screen right now.

[koreylaw]

Ok, I did the whole 3 hour Lord of the Rings and it took about 7 minutes to rip on my Liteon 16x and less than 1/2 hour to transcode. it fit on 1 disk and played fine. This is cool.

[herbapou]

Guys, just concentrate on the background.

Its very visible on scenes where nothing is moving. You wont notice it if the camera is moving or on action scenes...

[jollyrodger]

When I run the program, I do not get any staus indicator. It looks like nothing is happening. After about 4 minutes, it says it is finished. I get 5 files: 2-bup, 2-ifo and 1-VOB which has zero bytes.
What am I doing wrong?
The DVD2ONE is letting me pick the audio and sub-title tracks so it must be seeing the movie files.
Please help.
Thanks.
rodger
(used Smart Ripper)

[NYPlayer]

jollyrodger

Make sure you rip the whole dvd not just the main movie.

[Heywould3]

Guys, just concentrate on the background.

Its very visible on scenes where nothing is moving. You wont notice it if the camera is moving or on action scenes...

I just did as you said.. and i used the SW EP1 as the test.. and im sure youve seen it.. the opening scene is as dark as you can get black space with a little text and i dont see any of what you are refering to.. you know my TV from last post.. but i also have a 21in monitor so i know i would see it.. im telling you i dont see that.. BUT i have seen it before on other rips with tmpg or what ever..CCE also if i try to fit on to few cdrs.. sorry dude.. maybe its just differnt for different people

[bugande]

How do you get a copy to try? It seems the site is down?

[sammie]

Hmmm, any help folks? Two different computers, two different movies. All 4 combinations give a final vob size of 0 mb after about 2 seconds of processing.

Plus, the site has been down for several hours so no way to find any help there? Looks like everything is set up right. Picked a chapter set, which led to sound track, subtitle, angle menu. Tried a DVDdecryptor just to make sure 'puter was ok. No problems. Files are all there Ifo, BUP and VOB, Just the VOB is 0?

[Heywould3]

Hmmm, any help folks? Two different computers, two different movies. All 4 combinations give a final vob size of 0 mb after about 2 seconds of processing.

Plus, the site has been down for several hours so no way to find any help there? Looks like everything is set up right. Picked a chapter set, which led to sound track, subtitle, angle menu. Tried a DVDdecryptor just to make sure 'puter was ok. No problems. Files are all there Ifo, BUP and VOB, Just the VOB is 0?

I know you sid that you ripped the movie.. BUt that did the same thing to me when i selected teh DVD drive.. just rip to a desktop folder then when the first box opens make sure you have the FOLDER selected not the dvd drive..

[Heywould3]

How do you get a copy to try? It seems the site is down?

I can email it to some of you if you email me.. ill send it in 30 min (930 PM EST) to as many emails as i get in that time..

You can also hit refresh a few times.. thats what i had to do.

Email is (Sorry offer is over for now)


BTW i did notice that the time stamp displayed by power dvd is different in the dvd2one than it is using the dvd vob files.. of the same scene.. BUT i can live with that..

[dun4cheap]

Sammie this programs keeps all the new vob files in use until its complete. I have watched the directory pressing the refresh and seeing 2-3 vobs at zero. Then when its complete it will show.

[susie]

So with DVD2One, any DVD movie can be fitted on a single 4.7GB DVD-R ? Is the output identical to the original DVD disc ?

[HeeD]

question...

To save space, If I just pick DTS and not AC3 5.1 stream, will a stand-alone player down-convert from DTS to stereo and get sound?

I think that DVD players just need AC3 and they can downconvert to stereo or pro-logic - or am I incorrect on this too? I remember some older DVD that revert to just stereo and you have to force DD 5.1 in the audio menu.

[aaron10]

Okay...not being the brightest cat scratching around in the litter box I do have a question...

I haven't done a boatload with my DVD burner. Mostly I've used
the jigger in conjunction with a DVD Ram disk, which Roxio Direct
CD has made rather easy. Well, I'm trying out DVD2ONE and have
no idea how to burn the IFO's, VOB's etc. to a DVD-R. I'm going
to download RecordNow Max and would someone/Done4Cheap please tell me what the mechanics are for transferring the files to the DVD-R disk. That is, what menu items would I choose from Record Now to create the finshed DVD?

I would eally appreciate your help...!

Aaron

[SyCo]

susie

If the size of the orginal movie is Below 4.36 Gb then it is the same !!

However if the original movie is bigger then, Dvd2one will compress the original movie to fit. That is not an -Exact- copy but it will do great for most people. (difference are not really noticeable)

Also bonus and menus are gone...

hope this help

[dun4cheap]

Suzie yes for the most part.

Well I figured I would post the howto here since the DVD2ONE page seems to be getting hit hard. Not that its hard to use.


HOWTO

How to use
Step 1 - Copy the movie to your harddisk
Most DVD's are encrypted and need to be decrypted before you can process them with DVD2one. Since decrypting DVD's can be against the law in your country, this part is not included in DVD2one. You will have to search the internet to find a program that can do this job.

Although DVD2one should also work with files that are preprocessed (ifo mode), it is strongly recommended to use file mode.
Make sure all options are disabled, so for instance do not enable Multi Angle Processing!
Do not merge the vob files to one big file, keep them seperate.
Step 2 - Process the movie
On the first screen, select the source and destination directories.

How to use
Step 1 - Copy the movie to your harddisk
Most DVD's are encrypted and need to be decrypted before you can process them with DVD2one. Since decrypting DVD's can be against the law in your country, this part is not included in DVD2one. You will have to search the internet to find a program that can do this job.

Although DVD2one should also work with files that are preprocessed (ifo mode), it is strongly recommended to use file mode.
Make sure all options are disabled, so for instance do not enable Multi Angle Processing!
Do not merge the vob files to one big file, keep them seperate.
Step 2 - Process the movie
On the first screen, select the source and destination directories.

[img]How to use
Step 1 - Copy the movie to your harddisk
Most DVD's are encrypted and need to be decrypted before you can process them with DVD2one. Since decrypting DVD's can be against the law in your country, this part is not included in DVD2one. You will have to search the internet to find a program that can do this job.

Although DVD2one should also work with files that are preprocessed (ifo mode), it is strongly recommended to use file mode.
Make sure all options are disabled, so for instance do not enable Multi Angle Processing!
Do not merge the vob files to one big file, keep them seperate.
Step 2 - Process the movie
On the first screen, select the source and destination directories.

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On the second screen, select the title that contains the main feature.


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On the third screen, select the audio tracks and subtitles you want to include in your copy. It is recommended to include only those audio tracks you really need. This saves additional space for the video stream.
Also select the angle you want to keep. Usually the first one is the one you want. This feature is mostly used by studio's to display texts and credits in different languages according to match the audio language you have chosen. For instance on Star Wars it is used for the 3D scrolling intro text.

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Then click the Start button and processing begins.

Step 3 - Burn the movie
DVD2one does not deliver an image for a specific recording software, but dvd compliant files instead. This means that you can burn the movie with any dvd recording software.

Make sure that the files are in a VIDEO_TS directory.
Make sure that the disk name, directory name and file names are in CAPITALS.
It is NOT recommended to use Nero. Tests have revealed that Nero does not make 100% compliant DVD-video disks, and numerous DVD players will not play disks made with Nero. We have had good results with RecordNow by Veritas and PrimoDVD by Prassi.

[Scarpad]

I'm DVD Decrypting my Copy of XXX right now I figure it's a good test because it's 124 min, has lots of at night and Fast action stuff within the first 30 min. I'll compare the original to the DVD2One copy and see how they compare on my Mits 65" Widescreen. I'll post back my impressions.