I'll bite

[elizerrojas]

just did "Black Snake Moan" with dvd2one V. 2.1.3, i did the whole disc, left the movie soundtrack only and english subs. the actual compression was 43%, i see no difference between the original and the copy in my 36 inch TV. maybe with a larger TV i would, don't know. it took dvd2one about 25 minutes. 43% compression is very high in my view, dvd2one handle it just fine.

[photo_angel2004]

I posted a link to the comparisons here Carla...please disregard the encoding quality pics....the link shows both encoders and transcoders as a comparison and I know they are in two separate classes, but the results of the different transcoders can still be seen there side by side. That was my original intent of posting the link, but no one seemed to catch it.

Looks like I may have to play with this one a bit.
and thanks for the link to the link LOL.

@evdberg,
Thanks for the info

[locoeng]

You are very welcome Carla

[NightTran]

is dvd2one is really that good less then one hour and creat good quality?

Thanks

[elizerrojas]

is dvd2one is really that good less then one hour and creat good quality?

Thanks

What?

[Chewy]

a translation,
is dvd2one really that good that it can do a heavy compression is less than an hour without losing quality?

to test and use the trial version simply chose a video of less than 2 hours and then set your target
size to custom, say you have 5 gigs of video and 300 megs of audio

target size of 4.3 would be 80%

3.3 would be ~60%

2.8 would be ~50%

I reduced a 4.2 gig set of files to 3 gigs this morning in a similar test, only took 5 1/2 minutes with my
lame OC'd xp mobile(@2200)

[Chewy]

I pushed it a little further with a higher quality set of files
1hr 35 min at 4.2 gigs

3.9gigs video x .6

after adding back the audio I set size to 2700 MB
using a system that 50% faster it took a little over 7 minutes

other programs would take an hour

I really could not tell any difference in this ~60% compression, maybe a slight fuzziness on faster motion video

[elizerrojas]

So, it seems that we finally have a program that achieves both, speed while producing quality output as that of (or near to)shrink and recode2.

[Chewy]

my next test will be to lower ouptut size to 2200MB
that should be equivalent to 54% compression from my original test of the whole video which was 3 hrs long

I expect to see a dramatic increase in time with some video degradation
My original test with the other program took over 2 hours for high quality
output

[locoeng]

I batch encoded season two of Deadwood...the first disc was only 29% compression, full disc only removed foreign audio and subs and kept menus etc. Didn't check the other discs, but they each had more content (extra episode each disc). It took and hour to do all four discs...I will burn the results onto discs tonight and check the quality.

[Chewy]

well test 2 is complete, dvd2one only took 7 and 1/2 minutes to compress the 4.2 gig original to 2.3 gigs and the output showed very little degradation in quality, I then tested the other program with the same output size and no extra quality settings, it took 8 1/2 minutes and the output was unacceptable.

I hate to be a doubting thomas here but seeing is believing, loco's link didn't really show me enough detail to see any significant differences.

[photo_angel2004]

well test 2 is complete, dvd2one only took 7 and 1/2 minutes to compress the 4.2 gig original to 2.3 gigs and the output showed very little degradation in quality, I then tested the other program with the same output size and no extra quality settings, it took 8 1/2 minutes and the output was unacceptable.

I hate to be a doubting thomas here but seeing is believing, loco's link didn't really show me enough detail to see any significant differences.

Good morning chewy,

Have you tested this with a larger file size yet?

I may have to give this a try with a 4 hour flick and see how it does with time and quality.

[locoeng]

Maybe we could get our own screen capture comparison thread going here..

[Chewy]

it's not going to make any difference what size file set you start with, the trial is limited to 2 hours of video tho

all I was trying to do a perform a test anyone could duplicate before buying the registered version

4 hours is overdoing it tho, even a full encoder would drop the ball

3 hours is pushing the programs limits

loco, I wouldn't suggest that

[photo_angel2004]

it's not going to make any difference what size file set you start with, the trial is limited to 2 hours of video thoall I was trying to do a perform a test anyone could duplicate before buying the registered version

4 hours is overdoing it tho, even a full encoder would drop the ball

3 hours is pushing the programs limits

loco, I wouldn't suggest that

Thanks for that info chewy,

Looks like I wont be trying that anytime soon, If I cant try it with what I want it for then the FREE trial is 100% useless. good to know now I wont bother downloading the free trial after all.
I will stick with what I have for the time being.