jsquare
21st August 2004, 17:29
I wanted to fit 3 movies in one DVD-R for portability purpose like notebook or portable DVD player in my car, specially now with DVD-R prices down to $0.20. In the past I used DVD2SVCD with very good results but that meant using 2-CDs per movie and that doesn't count as portable when you have as many DVDs as I do.
The only way I found to work the best is using Shrink 3.2 with MaxSharp for 1st pass, then DVD2ONE v1.5 with Selective Ratio in Low for 2nd pass.
The movies in question were Kill Bill 1&2 and KungPow, all in WideScreen, one audio track and all subs, almost 6 hours of full resolution and AC3 5.1 audio. They came out pretty good for such a big compression, some macroblocks in KungPow but this sure beats DVD2SVCD 2CDs encodes per movie.
Don't know if I should credit the final results to Shrink or D2O, but one thing I'm still looking for is tweak or hack to allow Shrink to go bellow that minimum threshold, that could make things easier in deciding which transcoder is doing the best job.
The only way I found to work the best is using Shrink 3.2 with MaxSharp for 1st pass, then DVD2ONE v1.5 with Selective Ratio in Low for 2nd pass.
The movies in question were Kill Bill 1&2 and KungPow, all in WideScreen, one audio track and all subs, almost 6 hours of full resolution and AC3 5.1 audio. They came out pretty good for such a big compression, some macroblocks in KungPow but this sure beats DVD2SVCD 2CDs encodes per movie.
Don't know if I should credit the final results to Shrink or D2O, but one thing I'm still looking for is tweak or hack to allow Shrink to go bellow that minimum threshold, that could make things easier in deciding which transcoder is doing the best job.