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aldaco12
7th April 2006, 11:26
Hi. I was wondering which would be the best application to make a DVD9 --> DVD5 transcoding.
I have heard of Clond DVD, Clone DVD 2, DVD Shrink, DVD95Copy, DVD2One, DVD Rebuilder and many others and I was wondering: which would be the highest quality transcoder?
So far I'm usiing DVD Shrink a lot, but I'm wondering if I'm wasting too much DVD quality, even by choosing its 'highest quality' settings ("Deep scan" and so on).
Please note: my problem does not lie in DVD ripping or in the time expense (until about a night, that is about 10-12 hours, is for me a decent time, if needed to make a very high DVD9 (on my hard disk) --> DVD5 (on another folder of my HD)) conversion.
I'm not concerned about a few tenths dollars' expense, and about the usage difficulty (I'm a rather expert user and, luckily, there are lots of tutorials).
I own CCE, so even DVD Rebuilder could be an interesting application.
By my questions are:
1) which are the best transcoding application(s)?
2) which are the best settings, to obtain a high quality's DVD5?
3) how much time will I need, to convert from a DVD9 set to a DVD5 set, for an average 2h movie, using a decent (not older than 1 year from now) computer?
4) can all ripped DVD be transcoded by the application you suggest?
5) which are the drawbacks of the suggested application(s)?

Thanks in advance.

manono
7th April 2006, 11:50
As you'd know if you had bothered to read the rules, we don't ask what's best around here:

http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm

And don't mention DVD-Rebuilder in the same breath with the transcoders, as it uses real encoders.

Read, test, and compare, and your questions will be answered.

Maybe you'll have better luck with your thread at videohelp.com, since they don't have rules against asking what's best, but a lot of them over there are also sick of such questions.

aldaco12
7th April 2006, 12:43
Shame on me!
Sorry....