I have begun using DVD Decrypter with (and seperate from) DVD Shrink to backup some DVDs. I am trying to get away from using my stand alone/console burner. My problem is when ripping with Decrypter and Shrink I am seeing alot of pixelization around areas of fast movement or fast motion. For instance if someone is beating on a door, their hand gets all pixely until they stop or slow down their hand movement considerably. Is this a ripping or writing issue? Or, is it just a common issue with PC ripping/burning? As I said, I do not have this problem with backups from my stand alone and of course, the pixelization is not on the original either. Please help if you can.
Pixellation is usually caused by burning too fast. Most users here burn at about 4x and for the really good setup they burn at 8x max for dvds. What speed are you burning at/ what type of media?
Quote: My problem is when ripping with Decrypter and Shrink I am seeing alot of pixelization around areas of fast movement or fast motion.
This seems like a writing issue as I stated above try keeping your burn speed to 4x and media choices. Verbatim, Fuji (Made in Japan), Taiyo Yuden, Sony are probably some of the best media around. If you would like to read more on the quality of media please see the second link in my signature. Post back if you have questions, comments or need clarification. Oh forgot to say welcome to AD and enjoy your stay here.
Forgot to mention using decrypter you should get an exact copy when ripping (quality-wise). When using shrink for compression depending on how much is needed quality may be sacrificed. Also when burning try not to use any other applications as sometimes other programs can cause your hard drive to to swap.
Matt,
Thanks for the reply. I am using sony DVD-R blanks, burning at 4x. It's weird, the quality of the copies are great...until I have a scene with quick/fast movement, then it's the pixelation problem. It's strange, I can make a copy thru composite cables with my stand alone burner and the quality will be a little worse, but there is no pixelation problems. Arrrggghh! There has to be a way to fix this. I wonder if it would help to burn at 2x? Man, that's awful slow tho.
Your thoughts on all this?
Sorry just got around to following up here on AD. What type of burner do you have (firmware up to date)? I would suggest trying another brand such as verbatims. Just to emphasize which you might already be doing is to rip the movie to your hard drive first then run through DVD Decrypter. Open the ripped files and see if the pixellation is still there. DVD Decrypter can be used in IFO so you get the movie only and therefore no need to run thru DVD Shrink. You can try burning at 2x but I suggest getting a few dvdrw so not to waste dvdrs.
I thought I would update my situation in case anyone else runs across the problem I had. After reviewing my replies from here and videohelp, I was still no closer to solving the problem. I had been using one of the online guides to adjust decrypter.
I had double checked all settings to make sure nothing was changed by mistake. Still no good, everything was EXACTLY as suggested in the guide.
A friend of mine suggested the most basic of solutions, reset everything to default. I had initially scoffed at his idea. But after nothing else worked and no great insight from anyone else I figured what the hell. After reinstalling and starting from scratch with all default settings, everything looks great. It turns out no changes needed to be made at all to get a perfect backup.
One big difference I noticed was that I am now using ? file? mode to read the disc getting several VOB files, instead of using the suggested ?ISO? read mode to get one big ISO file(and MDS file). It seems this simple change made all the difference in my case. I should have remembered simplicity first.
