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Hi all,
I love dvdshrink. It?s an amazing tool. But I?ve run across a problem with it on a few occasions. Here?s a given example:
I initially received a dvd of V For Vendetta (from a friend) in which the movie had been shrunk to about 2 gigs in size ? taking up roughly half of a single-layer disk. I don?t know what had been used to shrink it, but I was surprisingly impressed with the quality; There were few compression artifacts visible during the viewing. Even so, I decided to use dvdshrink to simply copy the movie from a purchased dvd to a new movie-only dvd, expecting for an improvement in quality over the original 2 gig version that I?d seen before.
Even though, in this circumstance, the movie was *definitely* not actually shrunk by dvdshrink, there were definitely more visible compression artifacts ( <<I hope that this is the proper term) than on the original purchased dvd that the copy was derived from -- or even the 2 gig version of the movie that I had initially seen. This just doesn?t make sense. Why would the quality of this video degrade if the video is (seemingly) only being copied?.not shrunk. Nonetheless, this problem has occurred with more than just this one dvd.
So?..I?m curious?..If I (am able to) use the ?backup quality settings? while using dvdshrink ? even when I am not actually shrinking a movie, might this improve the quality of the resulting dvd? How would I go about making those settings available to me when a movie is not in need of being shrunk (such options are by default greyed out in this circumstance)?
Do you otherwise have any suggestions as to how to remedy this problem?
Money?s tight, so buying some app is not an option at this point, but all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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