DVDShrink 1.02 released
 

"...DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD disks. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disk..."

It"s like DVD2one but it"s free! :)


http://www.dvdr-digest.com/software/...file=dvdshrink

After running this program, all I have to say is: WWWWWOOOOOOOWWWWW 8O 8O 8O 8O
I'm encoding something now. We'll see what kind of quality it spits :!:

-kwag

Did you have to do anything special to get it to work. I am only able to get it to work from the DVD. I am unable get it to do anything from files on the hard drive.

If I choose Re-encode, I get "File Doesn't Exist" when I open the .ifo file.

If I choose Re-author, and click Add I get a DVDShrink has had a Fatal Error.

Any suggestions.

You probably had those files ripped in "IFO" mode instead of "File" mode.
I'm currently processing a movie from the DVD drive. The speed is excelent :mrgreen: Doing "The Green Mile", a 3 hour movie, and recompressing time is ~1 hour 10 minutes.

-kwag

This thing ROCKS :mrgreen:

Hi there,
Anyone has any comment on quality of the final output produced by DVD Shrink?

Last night I did "The Bourne Identity". To me, it looks as good as DVD2ONE, but it's much faster in transcoding. I'll probably do the same movie today with DVD2ONE, and then compare some scenes :wink:

-kwag

And the winner is ...
 

DVD2ONE Screenshot:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/archives/i.../2003/01/4.png

DVD Shrink Screenshot:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/archives/i.../2003/04/1.png

I can see who the clear winner is 8)
If you can't, use vhelp's "PicSwitch", and you will see the obvious :wink:

Both screenshots were taken from the same frame of the movie "The Bourne Identity". Right at the beginning of the movie, on the first lightning flash. This scene can't be more complex :!: Water, small particles (rain), etc. It was encoded with DVD2ONE as "Movie only", and also with DVD Shrink, also in movie only (Encode Level 3) .

-kwag

@Kwag,

I tried DVDShrink and ditto to WWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!
CCE is the real picture quality test against DVDShrink. If it equals or
comes close, with that speed and is free, then what a wounderful life
this is :D The Author even wants suggestions for upgrades, like
refinement of encoding compression, etc. I still use KVCD with Tok
and woundered when the audio (.ac3 file) will be automated from Tok.
For my laptop which only has a CD rom to play movies, KVCD is
great :D

-black prince

Kwag,

Bloody Hell! This looks great! Does anyone know, could these transcoding programs benefit from the KVCD matrix to provide even better compression? Or are they limited to the matrix that was used when the movie was encoded? Could they take out the overscan etc? Oh - sooo many questions and no one to ask?!?!?!?! :D

Jim

I guess telling him to shrink a DVD to 800 MBwon't work (or maybe 1600MB?), or???

Of course, me too :D
And there's just no way (yet) to put ~6 hours full D-1 on a DVD with great quality, except with KDVD :mrgreen:

-kwag

Unless they make ShrinkToKVCD :mrgreen:

And it has it"S own webpage:

http://www.dvdshrink.org/ :)

sounds good!
 

8) :P Why not?? ..It could´t harm nobody, and boost quality a lot :D

Hi Kwag..

:arrow: Shall you or I tell everyone which good clip is the winner, AND, what
was (via picSwitch) revealing, that led you to it ?? http://www.digitalfaq.com/archives/error.gif http://www.digitalfaq.com/archives/error.gif

..so, someone is actually using my app afterall he he... finally, it
is being used for some good - great :idea:

-vhelp

You can see the winner just by looking at it, but PicSwitch highlights it even more :mrgreen:Of course I use it 8)

-kwag

@All,

Here's a nice movie-only Guide for DVDShrink:

http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/

-black prince

DVDShrink
 

:!: Nice guide.

:?: Can one rip with SmartRipper and remove Macrovision?

Re: DVDShrink
 

Yes, you can :)
But make sure you rip in "File" mode. Not in "IFO" mode.
Use DVD Decrypter if possible :wink:

-kwag

Re: DVDShrink
 

Will do. I usually DVD Decrypter.

Thanks

I've written to the author of DVD Shrink asking him about that :wink:

-kwag

DVD Shrink version 1.03
 

Updated today. Read news and update link on main page www.kvcd.net

When a transcoder Compresses I, P and B frames, does anyone know how it actually does this? Does it actually compress the frame as a JPEG with higher compression or does it do something else internally? If it compresses the image somehow, could a Transcoder use Avisynth somehow to compress Frames (SpacialSmoothing, Merge Chorma and DCTFilter). That would bring the Filesizes down even further!

Jim

@All,

Updated movie-only Guide for DVDShrink v 1.0.3

http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/

-black prince

DVD file player
 

Trying out DVDShrink. My WINDVD SE doesn't allow viewing folder DVD files without upgrading.

:?: What is a good freebee program for playing DVDShrink produced files prior to burning? Ifoedit is a bit complicated for just preplaying the film.

Re: DVD file player
 

ifoedit :idea:

Kwag, DVDShrink
 

I've been working with "StarWars II", which is 2 hours 20 minutes. I seem to be limited to level 5 compression due to file size. How did you handle "The Green Mile"? It seems compression beyond 1 or 2 is discouraged due to quality issues.

Re: Kwag, DVDShrink
 

I encoded as movie only, stripping all menus, and left only one audio channel. The result, looks like crap :lol:, because it's a very long movie. But then, it also looks like crap with DVD2ONE and IC 8)

-kwag

Really shows my ignorance, but
 

How do I burn a DVD from HD files created by DVDShrink? I have latest version of NERO and Swim Fan, which doesn't require compression according to DVDShrink.

Download ImgTool here: http://www.coujo.de :D

-kwag

How do I get rid of this? Please HELP
 

I am using DVD Shrink 1.03 and followed the instructions from the Movie Only Guide posted on these forms. I used the movie only Guide and burned the movie on Pioneer A04 with Parrsi's burning software. The movie burned ok and when I installed it in my stand alone DVD player, this is what I got - a graphic that resembales file folder with the following - Menu and the box with type: ROOT (on the left side) and all the movie files names on the right side - VTS_01_1,VTS_01_2, VTS_01_3,VTS_01_5, VTS_01_5 with each file name a RED icon before the file name. You can nevigate through these files with your remote. Also there is a box at the bottom that says Play Mode.

My problem:

1. How do get rid of this from the DVD - I just want the movie to start?

2. When you skip chapters, I loose the Audio and have to go back to the above menu and start all over again to have the audio.

What am I doing wrong? Please HELP

Thanks.

Jeff

Welcome Jeff,

Try burning it with ImgTool from the link above. Works for me every time :)

-kwag

KWAG,

Try burning it with ImgTool from the link above. Works for me every time.


Any guidence.

I am totally confused which version of ImgTool to have? I have NERO, but am not sure which version. Which version of NERO should I get? Does ImgTool work with NERO? Any Dummies Guide sitting anywhere?

Thanks.

Jeff

ImgTool works with Nero's API. You just need to install a demo version of Nero, and that will work fine :D
Just download Nero from www.ahead.de and install it, then download ImgTool version 1.00.4 and install that. Now after you finish encoding your movie with DVD Shrink to any temporary directory, select that directory with ImgTool and burn :D

-kwag

HI KWAG,

Thanks a million. Will try it out tonite. Thanks.

Jeff

:D Used ImgTool for a DVD Decrypter rip of a 84 minute film. As the film required no compression, everything worked perfectly through DVDShrink into NERO.

8O I'm looking forward to improvements in DVDShrink that allow effective compression of longer films.

:D There must be a potential DVDShrink/KWAG linkage in there somewhere.

Thanks.

@All,

Just tried DVDShrink (v1.03) + DVD2one (v1.1.2) on HP_SC.
Results are FANTASTIC!!!!!

DVDShrink: (movie-only files 7.48GB)

1) Removed audio except English.
2) Removed ending credits.
3) Copy files with changes to HD

DVD2one:

1) Source files (source from DVDShrink 6.78GB)
2) Target file size 4.38GB
3) Encode movie

Burn with ImgTool on 1 DVD-R. Picture quality excellent :D

-black prince

Burning w/ dvdshrink
 

Hello all:

I just joined today, and as you can perhaps detect, I am a new user of DVD burning tools and or programs.
1) I have properly loaded Amadeus into my har drive, have compressed and was getting ready to burn it, and run into problems. Please note that I am following mrbass guide to the letter, ahowever, when sending the files to the HP 200e, via firewire, I receive the following message: "DVDshrink encountered an error and can not continue, ioctlAgid failed.fatal. Reason unknown". PLease note that the same message has appeared with 3 +RW discs. 2 of them were erased (full mode) and the other one was brand new. The size of the files is 4.08 Giga, after compression.

2) Then I tried burning it w/ Nero, and it appeared to have worked. Except that neither my dvd-rom, nor my dvd players recognized this disc as DEVD. I loaded the dvdshrink compressed files, with no modifications into Nero's UDF/ISO mode. Perhaps I need to do one more step porior to burning the files with Nero.

My setup is: IBM laptop, PIII, 800 MHxz, 512 Ram, a total of 140 G (two drives, using the external drive to load the files from DVD, and the laptop's drive for the compressed files.

Please help me.

Tx

Hi totonho03 and welcome :)

Have you tried burning with ImgTool ?
That's what I use, and I'm having a ball with my new ( 2 day old ) Sony DRX-500UL External USB/FireWire DVD+RW(2.4X) DVD-RW(2X) DVD+R(2.4X) DVD-R(4X) DVD-ROM(8X) CD-RW(10X) CD-R(24X) CD-ROM(32X) burner.
I'm burning at 2x, DVD-R cheapie DVDs brands without a single failure :!:
Get it here: www.coujo.de

-kwag