Nero Recode better than DVDShrink?

[cynthia]

What CPU do you have?

[ravensheild exp]

intel 3.6j unclocked to 4100mhz,

just ran another and it does it fact push my pc to 100% cpu use.

[cynthia]

[Medved]

I prefer recode 2 simply for its support for dual burners. I can encode a 9GB movie in under 30mins with recode compared to 47mins with dvd shrink.

Apart from the speed difference they both work well.

[jaaay]

weellll....

So... some of you claim that the lastest Recode produces better quality than DVD Shrink 3.2 (DA+AEC:Sharp)? Which would mean, that dvdshrink (the author) has improved his transcoding alorithm in the last Recode versions. I can't recall reading something like that in Recode's changelogs though...

I would be very nice to see some comparisons or screenshots for proof (both tools of course with absolut identical settings). Because at this point I just can't believe it, sorry...

Maybe someone close could drop dvdshrink an email and ask him if he has improved Recode's output quality recently. If that's true, that really would be something...

jaaay

[DNS809904]

Optimization question

Hello All,
I'm new to this forum but definitely not new to the technology. Anyways, I'm a happy DVD Shrink user and have recently begun using the adaptive error compensation feature. From what I have gathered, using the sharp option sharpens up the images but makes more of a choppiness between frames and the smooth option creates a smooth frame transition but lessens the sharpness. So how are we to decide which option to choose? I would think that for fast paced movies such as actions you would want the smooth option selected as the camera and the subjects in the camera often move very fast which would require smooth frame transition. But on the same hand, you would also want sharp images to view everything as well. In my eyes so far, I just choose the Sharp(default) option for everything, assuming that maximumsharpness would make everything overly choppy and the smooth option would make everything to dull looking. I guess I just need to run more tests to see what works best but I would really appreciate anybody's opinions if they have tested these options themselves.
Thanks a lot!
DS

[raymondtrudeau]

?n is this true? i never heard that before

[blutach]

The preamble to this sticky is interesting, although it is just one person's view.

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=50806

Regards

[cynthia]

The log file from Nero Recode 2 is also showing you how it did the compression. Amount of I, B.. frames.

[blutach]

Gee, you wouldn't want it to touch the Is. They ought to be sacrosanct.

Regards

[cynthia]

It's just that the log speces that - here is an example from RE2:

[blutach]

You know what he/Nero ought to do? Be a real killer thing for the app.

And that is integrate MenuShrink with Recode. The still pix function often turns out lame and jerky and as we know, still image doesn't work. But if he integrated MS, that would be fantastic.

I'm sure jeanl would sell the code to Nero for a small price. After all, he's giving the app away now to the community.

Since chetwood seems to be able to contact dvdshrink, maybe he should suggest it?

Regards

[cynthia]

The latest big change in Nero Recode is in the functions 'recode to Nero Digital'. The old shrinking part - no big changes the last year.

But a built in MenuShrink - would be very nice.

[blutach]

It's not a big hassle to do it manually before shrinking, but if it were actually distributed with recode, the whole DVD backing up community and not just us and the doom9 folks would know about it.

Regards

[cynthia]

There is also this thread - that started the new posts in this forum about the AEC option in Nero Recode 2.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/1/206315