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tstorch
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_ 		30. December 2003 @ 06:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What's the lowest compression you use with DVD Shrink? 50%? 60%? 75%? 90%? Is the difference in quality noticable? If not on a monitor or mid sized TV, would it be noticable on a large plasma or something?? Thanks in advance and have a great new year!!
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malum
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_ 		30. December 2003 @ 08:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Any compression would be most noticeable on a computer monitor as the resolution is much higher than a TV.

Some people seem to notice no difference after compressing the hell out of a film, but these same people probably think the picture from digital satellite or cable is perfect, when in fact it is usually badly artefacted (check out the blue sky in any TV series containing a shot of said sky)

Anything I care about that needs compressing gets the CCE treatment, and if it's really long and full of complex scenes it gets split to two discs.
Anthing that I'm not that fussed about or is just over the 4.37GB gets the DVD2One treatment

It's all about personal preference though
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tstorch
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_ 		30. December 2003 @ 08:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thank you Malum. What's the CCE treatment? Is DVD2One comparable to DVD Shrink??
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malum
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_ 		30. December 2003 @ 08:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
CCE will re-encode the whole film from scratch, the results are much much better than Shrink or DVD2One but then it costs $1,500 so they should be.
It also takes much longer (it is doing a different job than Shrink or DVD2one) Three passes take 8-9 hours on my 2Ghz P4 with 512MB Ram

DVD Shrink and DVD2One transcode the film (I think this is a fancy way of saying it takes each frame and compresses it slightly more, much like you would compress a jpeg)

I have no idea which of those two produces better results I imagine there isn't much in it.

I have the time (I leave it overnight) and I don't do that many films so it seems to me that I may as well have the best quality I can.

I also learned to do it (it's more complex than either of the other two) before DVD2One or Shrink were available.

Re-mpeg is a free re-encoder that will also produce better results than Shrink or DVD2One (again slow and complex though)
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