Settings page in CCE SP2 Trial?

[The_Nightrider]

Hi!

I have a question regarding the settings in CCE SP2 Trial version(1.00.00.4)
I`ve been trying make a DVD9 backup and thought i would use CCE for the encoding part so i use CCE SP2 together with DVD Rebuilder Pro v.1.10.00.7 but when i try to open the "settings" in CCE nothing happens??
How should i load the "video_ts" folder with my dvd files in to CCE main window, that`s what i would like to know?
With the older versions of CCE, like for ex. the SP versions i only had to put the disc in the drive and load it in Rebuilder and then i could go into the settings page but in SP2 it seems impossible...
Maybe i`m doing something wrong here but i can`t find out what it is?

Anyone have some idea?

[jdobbs]

If you're doing it with DVD Rebuilder -- you should never have to open CCE. DVD Rebuilder does it for you. Any changes you make to the CCE settings will have no effect in DVD Rebuilder (whether you are using SP or SP2) -- because DVD Rebuilder automatically sets everything for you to best reencode the source.

You also asked "how do I load my dvd files into the CCE main window" -- the answer is "You can't". CCE only accepts video files for input. In order to feed a DVD into CCE there is a lot of work that first has to be done to make the original video presentable to CCE. DVD Rebuilder does all of that for you automatically during the PREPARE phase.

If you are talking about the CCE settings that are within DVD Rebuilder, they work the same way with SP2 that they do with SP. All you have to do to use SP2 is to select it under the SETTINGS menu of DVD Rebuilder.

[lilhobo]

funny that i dont see much difference in quality bw CCE and just DVD2one2's engine (does anyone know what it is??)

this is on quick testing, and standard DVD RB settings;

Anyone wanna roll out some settings for DVD9 to DVD5 recode??

[Trahald]

dvd2one (from what i see) is a compressed domain engine. like dvdshrink.. it uses attributes that are part of mpeg that allow the bitrate to be lowered w/out having to reencode(oversimplification). very quick. like dvdshrink im assuming over time it has been tweaked to improve quality at the sacrifice of some speed. however the nuts and bolts are the same.

dvd2one seems an interesting option for people who value speed and simplicity over quality. I'm in contact with the author and if you want to hear it with his own words:
Quote:
Pro's of my program:
- fast
- cheap

Pro's of cce:
- better quality.
Imho dvd2one allows for one more category of DVD backups: movie-only speed over quality. Ain't nothing wrong with people who fall into this category but it's also of no use to try and convert people from other categories to yours, or the other way round. The movie only quality over speed category will eventually have their own simple tool which doesn't take them more than a few clicks...

since there have been improvements the gap is less in some cases. depending on the quality of the source and how much compression is needed. there have been occasions on some material (like some animated dvds that are barely dvd9 and are only 85 mins long) i use dvdshrink on. for most titles i see a vast improvement with cce. some people cannot see the difference, which is fine.. as ultimately its there own backups and i wont have to watch them.

[jdobbs]

A lot of times you'll find that equipment or connections can mask digital errors... so people don't know they have problems until they upgrade either their equipment or connection type. Then suddenly their picture gets crisper than they ever saw before -- but the poor encodes really show up also.

I personally gave up on within-the-compressed-domain transcoders completely a long time ago. But, I guess that's just me. To each his/her own.