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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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tamhunter
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10. June 2005 @ 04:25 |
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SIMON tried again with no success(COPYTODVD).
I THINK IWILL HAVE TO LET THE TRIAL VERSION EXPIRE AND TRY AGAIN, it will not give me version number ok.
Thanks ok.
p.s any info on Daemon Tools. i have downloaded it but pretty vague about mounting an image and running it ?
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tamhunter
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11. June 2005 @ 13:08 |
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any help ? my mate loaned me a karaoke disc,but when i put it into my dvd player,it comes up as a CD-G.how do i convert this onto disc ? as i would like to copy it for myself.
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ptwenty
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13. June 2005 @ 09:35 |
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Tried ratDVD
Very disappointed. Yeah it shrunk Matrix 3 from 7 gig to 1.7 gig (slider at 100)
I consider myself a quality buff, and the resulting quality was pretty grim.
Lots of pixellation, and the picture was a lot darker than the original. So dark in fact that some backgrounds were invisible.
playback was very jerky too - which really ruined the viewing pleasure.
I won't be changing from Xvid. Or at 20p (in UK) per blank DVD-R, I think I can afford one disc per film.
Hopefully when new versions of ratDVD come out, I'll happily stand corrected.
Ptwenty
Good riddance to that avatar.
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robtwilk
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14. June 2005 @ 06:59 |
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I think it's becoming clear that they have a way to go before ratDVD produces acceptable quality. I hope they do!
It is forums like this that provide them with the feedback they need to improve their product. Hopefully they welcome our comments. I know we certainly appreciate FREE software!!!
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B1ffster
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14. June 2005 @ 14:38 |
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It takes *ages* to uncompress a DVD. I'm still waiting to see what the quality is like (OK so I got a cr@ppy Athlon 2100XP)
You people who post to usenet...
Stop flooding alt.binaries groups with your rat's. Get your own group!!!!!!!
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arisia
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14. June 2005 @ 21:59 |
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Ages? What do you compare it to? It is faster than any MPEG-2 encoder I have seen. To convert an Xvid with TmgEnc (high qiality settings), etc. takes a lot longer...
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korina922
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22. July 2005 @ 09:48 |
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My question is, when you convert it back to dvd5/9 is it identical to the original?
If it was this would be similar to zipping or rarring a file, but with a greater amount of compression
The reason I need this answered is because my goal to use ratDVD would be to compress DVD9 images and store them on cheap media, then when dual layer discs are affordable and reliable to uncompress and burn.
The concept of watching the ratDVD seams to be the main goal with this project, but over here I watch my movies 99% of the time on a standalone. If my question is to be answered with a yes, then this is a miraculous product worthy of a donation/registration (yea I've been doing that with freeware recently :) )
so if anyone can ansewer my question, you are an angel.
the question again is: When you convert a ratDVD back to original DVD5/9 is it the same as the original?
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ptwenty
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25. July 2005 @ 01:15 |
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Korina922
I'm afraid the answer is no.
When you convert a film from one format to another - some quality is lost.
To quote an example I heard from someone else : Imagine the book Lord of the Rings (1000 or so pages)
Someone could write a 100 page summary of it and cover the main story and make it readable. While the 100 page version will tell the main story, there's nothing you can do to the 100 page shortened version to convert it to the original book.
What you will get when you do ratDVD to DVD-R is an expanded (padded out for mpeg2) version that is slightly less quality than the backup you made. Because everytime you convert it, you lose tiny amounts of quality like I said.
So you lose quality when you make a ratDVD file, and then you lose a tiny bit more when you make that into a DVD.
It depends on how fussy you are with your video quality.
Ptwenty
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loopymofo
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27. July 2005 @ 01:06 |
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so......how would i convert ratDVD to DVD so i can watch it on my home stereo system? Anyone help with this?
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robtwilk
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28. July 2005 @ 12:57 |
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skyguy
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28. July 2005 @ 19:22 |
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Although this software is a bit slow it beats DivX out in feature very easy. Plus all you need it one click and it does it all. Check it out at http://ratdvd.ca
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gcovatl
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8. September 2005 @ 06:32 |
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It doesn't take as long to film the live content as ratDVD does to process the resulting video into a .ratDVD archive. I gave it a third chance earlier today (others during past 6 months) and after 4 minutes it was still in the opening credits at 1% (3.0 Ghz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 800 Ghz FSB HT). Since I saw this program championed here, I have to speak out. If there's a punchline, I didn't pick up on it.
There are other stellar options out there (Divx Creator, Dr DivX, DVDShrink), programs like this one only serves to better each of the value of those freebies to the collectors who use them.
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Ress
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26. January 2007 @ 22:16 |
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My question is do we really need this??? All this is gonna do is confuse tech noobs. And also how many of you actually have a DivX dvd player? I do and its great to just burn a disc of DivX episodes of a tv series to a single disc .insert and watch. I personally like that alot better than 7 or 8 dvds for a tv season quality looks fine to me..heck with menus and bells and whistles.....DivX IS the mp3 for video. And hey their is alot better audio codecs then mp3 out their. Are they used??? nope.. aint the "popular" choice. Hey laserdisc was a good thing and besides disc flipping was actually a great thing..I was watching star wars on it years ago...Why didn't it takeoff??? what really gets me is why mini-discs didn't take off. I mean here you have a disc that is rerecordable like a cassette and digital like a cd...and the most important thing was the disc was inside a square plastic case thus protecting it from scratches....I will always believe it was money involved why that wasn't big(also lookup GM and the electric car.......but in the end the RIAA got their's and have absolutely no control of the mp3 revolution.... As a fellow artist I have been both blessed and burn by digital technology on the internet
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leestrada
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25. November 2009 @ 21:21 |
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I still use the format for archiving entire dvd to an mp3-like file. It has saved me a few times already as I have loaned out the original to not-so-reliable friends who claim they lost it, and was able to recover the ratdvd to dvd fully with all menus and audio tracks etc. Now I have about 5.2 Terrabytes full of rat movies on about 1900 dvd blanks
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