DVD RB vs DVD Shrinker

[SuLyMaN]

I just encoded "The English Patient" DVD (About 8Gigs) with DVD Shrink and 3 pass CCE Encoder with DVD-RB so that they fit on a 4.7GB disc...

The problem is that I CANNOT notice any difference in quality between them...Both seem quite good...Is it because its not a fast paced movie??
Or are there any reasons for that?

[linx05]

Maybe you're not adjusted to it. I know my girlfriend cannot see the different between a DVD done by both programs though I can.

Try another movie if you want to be sure.

[Fishman0919]

This issue has been drapped thru the mud, beatin' and battered so many times. The short of it is that re-encoding with an encoder is going to look better then transcoding all the time.
This is a test I did sometime back... it's with the last ver of DVD Shrink but since then DVD-RB and CCE Basic has gotten better.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=624299#post624299

[laserfan]

This issue has been drapped thru the mud, beatin' and battered so many times. The short of it is that re-encoding with an encoder is going to look better then transcoding all the time.I had been using Shrink too and was an RB skeptic, but the first time I noticed the improvement of RB (and it was radical) I now use RB Pro for virtually all conversions. It is sometimes difficult to see the less the "shrinkage" i.e. above 80% or so, but it's there...

[archaeo]

This issue has been drapped thru the mud, beatin' and battered so many times. The short of it is that re-encoding with an encoder is going to look better then transcoding all the time.


I agree, this is similar to the CCE 'the more passes the better' debate that seems to continually come up. I think a few quick forum searches before these threads are posted would help in preventing this.

[SuLyMaN]

Im sorry. Should have used the search function but after much scrutinising the 2 DVDs, I was too perplexed to even think! :)

[archaeo]

Im sorry. Should have used the search function but after much scrutinising the 2 DVDs, I was too perplexed to even think! :)

That's OK. Really though, your result will always better off using an encoder versus a transcoder. They process very differently, and even though you may not see a clear difference on some sources, an encoder will produce a better result.

I sometimes have used DVDShrink when the compression is 90-95% or better, but never below that. The time difference is just not important to me compared to the final result.

[SuLyMaN]

Thanks for your inputs guys :) Now im off encoding another movie "final destination 2" :) and test the results!