DVDstripper and other programs

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gmartin

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Having done 4 movies using stripper, with success, I am very well pleased with the results. So far the movies I have backed up were small enough to fit on the dvd, less than 4.36G. In your opinion what program is better to use when you do a large one. I own DVD95 and DVDshrink and IC 7 & 8.
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thanks gmartin
 
MackemX

MackemX

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Hi

nice collection of tools and I agree with Poacher as DVDShrink would also be my suggestion using Deep Analysis :)

have you not got Menuedit as it's also a great tool to have in you collection judging by other recommendations ;)

now for those of you who think IC's quality is better than the others but struggle to get 4.37Gb therefore affecting quality then I have a suggestion for you if you don't mind putting a little work into it

quoted below an old post from somewhere but I've modified it a little to bring it up to date. Bear in mind this is months old and talks about IC7's earlier versions ;)

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[font=verdana, arial, helvetica]ever wondered why DVD95Copy/DVDShrink is almost the same quality as InstantCopy?

this is because IC may not determine true title sizes of some DVD's and also because it sometimes doesn't reduce extras as much as it says it will. At really low setting IC's quality drops badly

I had a DVD that kept an extra 400MB wasted by IC that isnt being compressed

now DVD95copy/DVDShrink would have probably reduced that down to 150MB saving 250MB, then add all the other stuff IC doesn't compress as well and you may just end up with 400MB of space

cos DVD95Copy/DVDShrink compresses the extras properly and does all of them it can gain this extra 400MB that goes towards the main movie title

say the main movie was 4.5GB and IC squashed it it 3.1Gb which is around 68%. Now add that extra 250Mb to 3.1Gb and it makes 3.3Gb or what could have been a new setting of 73%!

there's a 5% quality increase now that can't be bad can it cos 73% from IC will look a lot better than 68% from IC no matter what anyone says[/font]
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so basically all you do is process the main movie with IC at this 73% (60mins or so) and process the extras/menus with DVD95Copy/DVDShrink (8-10mins) and merge the two together using Ifo update

the bigger the main movie the more you will benefit

ok some work is involved and I haven't explained it step by step but it works as I've done it for my last 3 and the latest resulted in an increase from 62% upto 75% for the 4 main movie titles when keeping all extras

but if you don't mind a few minutes sorting it out and a little extra encoding time and would like a better quality movie and are fussy about movie quality then this is for you. In fact the encoding will probably take less time than if you done the whole thing on IC

obviously you need the programs but you can get the best of both worlds and use them both to your advantage until one tool does it all and I know some of you have both programs

the choice is yours but I thought it was worth a mention for all you quality fusspots out there like me
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this old method suggests you use Ifoupdate which may not be for beginners

Nowadays, I would suggest you mount the PDI image IC creates and run DVD95Copy/DVDShrink on that afterwards instead ;)

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