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Duvie
08-13-2003, 09:02 PM
<<<The compression levels have been abandoned and replaced by percentage accurate resizing for all assets and an auto-mode where those ratios are automatically filled in for you as to make optimal use of the space on your DVD±R/W disc, the analysis function has been improved and there's a new deep analysis mode which significantly improves video quality and guarantees that the target size is kept, only one encoding pass is required, RCE region protection removal has been added, P-UOP removal has been added along with a shutdown after completion option and there are a lot of minor fixes and improvements. >>>

(as reported by doom9.net)

A lot of ppl will be happy with the compression fix and the fact we don't have to get stuck taking 5-10% drops when we may need like 6 or 11%. The extra few % can make a difference especially if you are at +20% level already with most transcoders.

Looks good...I will download it and review it a bit...
eva2000
08-13-2003, 10:38 PM
awesome.. me needs a new hdd though running out of space now that i daily schedule capturing of my tv shows to pc LOL
eva2000
08-13-2003, 10:40 PM
aparently beta4 is out http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59488
SubZero
08-14-2003, 01:51 AM
Thx, I'll go check it out once my NEC ND-1300a arrives (hopefully next week).
Hawk
08-14-2003, 03:12 AM
Pretty kewl. . . . :cool: I'll drop this over to the video guys I deal with and see what they think. . . . ;)
SubZero
08-16-2003, 12:07 PM
It works great although I have to take a pretty high compression level for my main movie if I want the extra's included too. Still good enough quality though.

I like it! ;)
eva2000
08-24-2003, 06:43 PM
Originally posted by Hawk
Pretty kewl. . . . :cool: I'll drop this over to the video guys I deal with and see what they think. . . . ;) any word on their thoughts ? :)

dvdshrink 3 beta 5 is out using it right now
SubZero
08-24-2003, 11:53 PM
Yep, it's great but has some bugs in it. I'm trying to backup the 2nd discs from the Lord of the Rings extended edition. Whatever I do, change compression ratios or anything else, I cannot back it up because it is too bug.

I guess that is normal for a beta release, just hope it is fixed in the final version because this is one great application! ;)
Duvie
08-25-2003, 06:30 PM
Originally posted by SubZero
Yep, it's great but has some bugs in it. I'm trying to backup the 2nd discs from the Lord of the Rings extended edition. Whatever I do, change compression ratios or anything else, I cannot back it up because it is too bug.

I guess that is normal for a beta release, just hope it is fixed in the final version because this is one great application! ;)

Good point...I haven't tried it myself yet...:wave:
SubZero
08-26-2003, 08:17 AM
I meant "it is too big" instead of "it is too bug" LOL ... Might be a bug though! :D
DAPUNISHER
09-02-2003, 10:51 AM
Originally posted by SubZero
Yep, it's great but has some bugs in it. I'm trying to backup the 2nd discs from the Lord of the Rings extended edition. Whatever I do, change compression ratios or anything else, I cannot back it up because it is too bug.

I guess that is normal for a beta release, just hope it is fixed in the final version because this is one great application! ;) I tried with the same results, but even more strange it wouldn't back-up using DVD2SVCD either :confused:
SubZero
09-03-2003, 11:33 AM
CloneDVD seems to do a much better job. I had zero problems with this program. It created a perfect copy of that CD!! ;)
DAPUNISHER
09-04-2003, 09:21 AM
Originally posted by SubZero
CloneDVD seems to do a much better job. I had zero problems with this program. It created a perfect copy of that CD!! ;) I'll have to try that, thanks for the info :) I ended up using DVD2SVCD to make 1 BBMPEG file once I figured out why it wasn't working before *MY P4 overclock wasn't 100% stable* :eek:

BTW, my barton@2.31ghz was faster than the P42.4B@3ghz at converting the vid! I presume that's because the proggie is SSE, MMX optomized but doesn't appear to have SSE2 optimizations. Still, that's the first ever vid encoding test I've done where a AMD out performed my P4 *even once I got it 100% stable* and with almost a 700mhz disadvantage. It took approx. 5hrs 11min with the P4 and 4hrs 36min with the Barton. *EDIT: The times reflect the start to finish time once CCE began converting the project*

The other X-factor could have been the fact that the Barton has an 8mb cache Hitachi and the P4 was using a 2mb cache Maxtor.