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Introducing ratDVD: A new way to compress your DVDs
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article published on 31 May, 2005
Would you like to be able to compress an entire 9GB DVD to 1 single file about 1GB-3GB (depending on the DVD and your settings) in size, keeping menus, bonus features, multiple audio and subtitle tracks as well as video Angles? Well students from the university of Aarhus, Danmark and St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI", Russia yesterday released a new Compression format ... [ read the full article ]
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Kevinhhh
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31. May 2005 @ 16:36 |
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this is g-unit great!!!!!!!!!!
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Auslander
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31. May 2005 @ 16:45 |
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oh, hell yeah! pirating on dial-up again! wootass!
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31. May 2005 @ 17:12 |
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You mean backing up DVDs with dial-up 8-). I second that!
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31. May 2005 @ 18:15 |
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If it lives up to what it claims, that will be sweet.
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Auslander
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31. May 2005 @ 18:25 |
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downloaded and installed...i'll test it tomorrow.
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31. May 2005 @ 18:37 |
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Wonder how this is compared to ReBuilder ;)
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31. May 2005 @ 18:39 |
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Sounds great will also give this a test tomorrow
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fishbulb
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31. May 2005 @ 18:53 |
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I hope a guide is posted soon. I downloaded it and thought I'd check it out. Tried using an ISO image file of a movie on my HD and got "Invalid Archive Footer" error. Does this mean you can only use movies that are ripped in File Mode?
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Auslander
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31. May 2005 @ 18:57 |
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that sure is the way it works, but i'm willing to bet more versions of this proggy will be coming out soon.
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dbldown11
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31. May 2005 @ 20:21 |
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do you think that this program could somehow be converted to work with game iso's? or maybe thats totally stupid
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31. May 2005 @ 20:32 |
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this sounds promising. please post findings when you've tested it out.
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31. May 2005 @ 20:44 |
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absolutely BITCHIN! I salute you Russians with a shot of vodka!
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31. May 2005 @ 20:50 |
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gozilla
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31. May 2005 @ 21:32 |
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this is tops.
wonder how long before the MPAA focuses on this....
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31. May 2005 @ 21:43 |
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Results Of My First Run
The DVD I chose was my copy of 25th Hour, since there are multiple audio tracks on it, a lot of menu's and a lot of extra features/subtitles.
I kept all audio tracks but allowed the program to re-encode 5.1 audio to AC-3 VS to save more space without compromising too much audio quality.
The entire process took hours, about 5 or so altogether. My output .ratDVD file is 2.32GB (original is 7.78GB).
I played back the file in Windows Media Player 10, it plays pretty much like any DVD would play. The quality of the motion menus was pretty low but then again you have to remember the quality of the motion menu on the original DVD is quite poor anyway.
The video quality of the main movie was good, not blocky or anything. The audio quality was excellent (AC-3 VS). The extra's quality was pretty much the same.
Overall I'm pretty impressed with it. The program gives you some quality options, for example ou can use a simple slider to indicate whether you want lower quality and a much smaller file or higher quality for a bigger file (0-150). You can remove titles, audio tracks and subtitle streams too.
What's even more impressive is this is only the first release of ratDVD and it already does a superb job.
I'm going to mess around with it a little more now. :-)
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A_Klingon
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31. May 2005 @ 22:17 |
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Oh POO..... I don't use Windows XP.
What we need NOW, is a set-top, standalone ratDVD player!
***LOOK OUT, DIVX!*** :-)
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31. May 2005 @ 22:25 |
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Not too sure about that yet, ratDVD is just new to us now lol WEhile it can make some pretty nice quality, you can make XviD rips with higher quality (altho you wouldnt haver your menus extras or multiple audio streams!)
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arisia
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31. May 2005 @ 23:07 |
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I wouldn't be too sure that XVID can be higher quality (at least not from DVD input source). From what is written on the site ratDVD competes with AVC for quality/compression. However, it's hard to compares since you don't know how mach of the ratDVD file is actually used for video... but in any way it's damn good quality.
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cd-rw.org
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31. May 2005 @ 23:11 |
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I really can't see this as an competitor to DVD Rebuilder, or DVD backups in general.
But perhaps it could be an alternative to Divx, unless the compression ratio is too low. It doesn't seem too rational to compress movies to ~3gb, while you could go to much higher compression ratios with sufficient quality for PC use.
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A_Klingon
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31. May 2005 @ 23:37 |
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Good heavens! Dela & Lasse ! :)
(What are you guys doing up this hour of the morning ?)
Well guys, this is all *very* earth-shattering news, bolsted early on by your preliminary findings, Dela. The Russian gentleman may have to "lay low" a bit though, because - at least on the surface - I guess Hollywood will absolutely try to KILL him!
Even though I don't have WinXP, (well, I *do, but you know....), I got the installation file anyway just to make sure I don't blink and find it gone in the morning!
I printed out all the author's webpages and am reading them now.
I assume that on a single-layer DVD we can get (say) a couple of full dvds archived (according to your final file size, Dela). That means 4 movies on a dual layer - (how many with blu-ray?) = all with menus intact!
What do you guys wanna bet ratDVD files don't start showing up on the 'Net *real soon* ??
GawD! Hollywood's gonna have a friggin' bird over this one !! (Doncha just LUVVIT?) :-)
Nite, gentlemen. Thank you for the first _most_ promising findings, Dela. -- Mike --
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mikey_ray
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31. May 2005 @ 23:44 |
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the thing i like about this is cause you can take DVD-9- to like 2 1/2 gigs
which if you have a big hard drive can save upwards of 2-300 backups on a hard drive
so imagine a home made computer that hooks up to big screen in home kinda like tive---with atleast 4 300gig hard drives pre loaded with back-ups
your own personnel dvd store in your living room
remember cd players that had 100 disk in em--
endless possibilitys
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1. June 2005 @ 00:20 |
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hmmmmm, these russians i think they know a whole lot more than we think they do. I mean using a pencil in space instead of a ink pen, and now this. What will they come up with next? A full song @ 1kb in size :-p
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1. June 2005 @ 01:06 |
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I think the ratDVD's main focus is not to compete against DVD Shrink nor against XviD. How I see it:
-XviD/H.264/etc plain movie -- if you simply want the goddamn movie in small size, say on one CD, use it.
-DVD Shrink/Rebuilder/CloneDVD/etc -- you want your DVD-9 to get into single layer DVDR
-ratDVD -- you want to get full DVD sent via FTP, P2P, whatever. As in normal use, where your only aim is really to copy the movie from the original disc to a DVDR, the saved space of appx 1-2GB per movie wouldn't make any difference and therefor it makes much more sense to use DVD Shrink or ReBu. But if you have Joe Average's 1M DSL line, saving of 2GB per movie when sending it online, makes a difference of 1-2 days. Even with 10M conns the saved time is quite decent.
So, I'd say that the ratDVD competes against DVD Shrink'd ISO files and 2-CD XviD movies in online transfers and/or massive HDD storage systems (I can imagine a HTPC system supporting these files -- when you have 300 movies stored on your HTPC's HDD, 2GB per movie saved space vs ISO files, makes quite a difference..).
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jas6969
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1. June 2005 @ 01:27 |
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i'm a bit confused, can you use ratdvd to shrink a 9GB DVD to a 4.7GB DVD and then burn that to a blank DVD-R ???
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1. June 2005 @ 01:30 |
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jas6969: No. For that purpose you use DVD Shrink, DVD-Rebuilder, CloneDVD or any of the other gazillion transcoding tools.
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