Best picture quality

[loopyloops]

How do I get the best picture quality with DVD shrink? I think the pictures I'm getting are a bit grainy, and I don't know why.

[UncasMS]

in most cases your sources will be to blame for being grainy/noisy

shrink cannot change this

more sophisticated tools like dvd rebuilder, however, can:

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=54372

[loopyloops]

in most cases your sources will be too blame for being grainy/noisy

shrink cannot change this

more sophisticated tools like dvd rebuilder, however, can:
http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=54372

Is the free version good enough?

[2COOL]

I'm still using it with HC Encoder and I can personally say I have little or no problems with it.

[UncasMS]

the freeware edition has the same ability to use filters as the pro version

so YES, the freeware version together with a freeware encoder like HC ENC should be able to solve your problem if your source is grainy

you could open a single vob file into virtualdubMOD and use *=> video => save source to png* if you like to attach a screenshot of some dark scene if you like telling us which title you're dealing with

[2COOL]

so YES, the freeware version together with a freeware encoder like HC ENC should be able to solve your problem if your source is grainy

I have worked with grainy sources before and technically, HC Encoder is not doing the fixing but AVISynth's filters, which I had inputted in DVD Rebuilder's option.

[loopyloops]

Thanks folks for all you replys. Let me catch up a bit and I'll come back at ya

[loopyloops]

Thanks folks for all you replys. Let me catch up a bit and I'll come back at ya

Btw, I meant to make my user name "loopyloops" not "looploops" - is it possible to change it?

[blutach]

Yes - send an email to admin. Just click contact us at the bottom of the screen.

Regards

[loopyloops]

Is there a step by step on using it? I tried the steps from the link, but it didn't work - by step 2, it said "unspecified path" or something like that....Maybe I need something else installed?

[UncasMS]

I have worked with grainy sources before and technically, HC Encoder is not doing the fixing but AVISynth's filters, which I had inputted in DVD Rebuilder's option.

i never said that hc filters the picture - of course the encoders is not responsible for this part but the avisynth filters
otherwise i would not have linked to the *rb + filtering* thread

i mentioned hc as it it freeware just as the rebuilder version that was already mentioned

Is there a step by step on using it?

you'll find guides in our rebuilder subforum

[blutach]

Is there a step by step on using it? I tried the steps from the link, but it didn't work - by step 2, it said "unspecified path" or something like that....Maybe I need something else installed?

Read the quickstart guide on DVD Rebuilder here. In the first instance, work with HC Enc, on best mode. Remember, encoding takes overnight.

I trust you got the install done OK.

Regards

[loopyloops]

My install is not like the guide. First off, I find only ver. .96 - which I trust is ok. But install wise, the unzip takes a milisecond, and then you click on a yellow DVD-RB icon and the program starts - no real install. HC Encoder is not part of this ver., btw. I was able to find HC Encoder seperatedly - but don't know how to combine the two....

[UncasMS]

you did NOT download the INSTALLERversion

[loopyloops]

you did NOT download the INSTALLERversion

Good call - thanks!!!