DVD95Copy Compress for Extra very good

[xmenxmen]

Just had the time to give DVD95Copy a test and notice that it can compress extremely the extra and menu. But the nice thing is that quality is still superior when compare to both DVD2One and IC. I am not talking about 50% or higher compression. Like taking a 900MB and turning it into 70MB and still looking at good as VCD. With both DVD2One and IC, you will need at least 300MB or so to get the same quality.

What's this good for, Extras like interview that you don't really care much for, but you want to keep, while retain the space for the movie.

Good example of such a movie is You Got Mail, which contain 2 extra about 2.7 G and main movie about 5 G. With both DVD2One and IC, the extra takes up too much space and leaving the main movie looking a bit sad. DVD95Copy took the menu and Extra from cost to 3G down to less then 600 MB.

Guess this would be good for those that want the menu, but really care more about the movie.

[mmorris]

Has anyone had a problem with the DVD95copy not playing? In PowerDVD it just loads and sits there with black screen. I've tried loading all IFO's (there are about 7) and none of them play. This is with Lord of the Rings special edition extras disks. DVD95 copy ran fine and created all the files. I haven't tried burning them since they wouldn't play on the HD.

I also loaded the IFO's in IFOedit and tried DVD play and it gave illegal navigation errors and wouldn't play them either. Tried Get VTS but they didn't need updating.

Any ideas? This is on XP Pro, 2.2 P4, Intel MB, 512MB RAM, AIW radeon, 240GB striped WD drives.

[CyberMM]

I tried a comparison between DVD2one and Dvd95Copy using the movie "All the Right Moves". It`s approximately 6.4 GB with about 700 MB of extras. Dvd95Copy did a fine job of reducing the extras down to about 200 MB and the quality of the movie was visually equal to the copy made with DVD2one. After all, the difference between the two was only 200 MB so you wouldn`t really expect much if any difference. But, when I went to play the extras in the menu, I clicked on the film flix section and PowerDVD froze.

Dvd95Copy is a good start but until they get all the bugs out, I`ll continue to use DVD2one. BTW, the processing took 75 minutes.

[abatis]

I liked DVD95Copy enough to have bought it. Thanks to the folks on this board for all the insight to the various programs. I have no trouble playing the results on my computer using WinDVD4.

I liked this about DVD95Copy

If you aren't satisfied with Dvd95Copy within 10 days, send an email to info@dvd95copy.com with some short description about your complaints, and you'll get a full refund.



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[mmorris]

I tried the backup again but no go. I burned it to an RW and the menu's don't come up. It could be this LOTR extras disc. It may be too much for this program to handle. I used InstantCopy and it works fine. I guess I've gotten too used to CCE's compression quality though. The quality from about 7GB down to 4GB with InstantCopy isn't as good as if I use CCE and get it down to under 2GB. The speed isn't as fast either on my 2.2. But, for what these programs are (easy) I suppose they do the job. When they work some of the bugs and get more features, they'll probably be decent programs. Until then, I'll stick with my old CCE/Maestro backups.

[shoarthing]

mmorris - Hi - using DVD95Copy with the straightforward 2-disk Fellowship of the Ring, also noticed problems with the menus.

Image quality IMHO best of the DVD2One/IC7/DVD95Copy trio - impressive for 95 minutes' work.

[Richk50]

Have to admit DVD95Copy appears to have the best image quality and so far seems to fill out a full DVD. What I don't like is there is virtually no control. I would like to determine how much I compress the Menus etc.
I can't understand how Pinnacle could release IC with the size problem glitch. When image quality is so dependent on file size, using their default settings, how do you give away up to half a gig on nothing?

[mmorris]

The IC worked good on those extras LOTR but I used a registry fix for InstantCopy that allows you do get rid of prohibitions and reset the compression on each title. The prohibitions might have messed it up since I deleted some and I couldn't jump back to the menu without it just showing black. I had to let it play through and go back to menus on its own. I guess this is a problem with the menus on these discs with these programs.

I'll have to test DVD95Copy on an actual movie and check the quality. Maybe DVD2One will have better quality than IC. I rarely keep menus anyway.

95 minutes isn't bad but when I use CCE, a 2 hour movie only takes about 90 minutes and I get much better quality. DVD2AVI is pretty quick and Maestro doesn't take that long to build the movie. That's assuming it's a movie only and you don't have to do menu work.