DVD9 to DVD5 comparison table by Dvd rankers

[jined]

DVD Rankers did a comparison test between
DVD transcoding utilities.

http://www.geocities.com/metaphonic/dvdrank.jpg

Win the best!


JiNeD

[jined]

here a direct link:


http://www.geocities.com/metaphonic/dvdrank.htm




JiNeD

[Gil T Pleasure]

Broken jpeg link. :(

[valnar]

I agree with their video quality column. It's even important to note that they didn't rate on a bell curve. ie. IC didn't receive a 10 because it was the best of the bunch. 8 does seem fitting as compared to CCE (or perhaps the original DVD).

I disagree with some of the other columns, but they are close.

-Robert

[mpucoder]

Originally posted by Gil T Pleasure
Broken jpeg link. :(

Not broken, just anti-leech protected. To view it, after you click on it, highlight your location bar and press enter. But the link in the second post takes you to a page containing the image - beware of the popups.

[jined]

So here, reassumed, the table:


BEST FOR SPEED:

1st DVD2ONE, seems fast as the light...almost realtime! wow!!
2nd DVD95Copy and CloneDVD running at the same speed for second place...
3rd DVDShrink and DVDXPress almost same (slow) speed
4th InstantCopy the slowest bastard..

BEST FOR VIDEO QUALITY:

1st InstantCopy, will give almost same quality as original! wow!!
2nd DVD95Copy, this underestimated little junky proggie rocks!
3rd DVDShrink probably can do better...
4th while CloneDVD, DvdXcopy and DVD2One are sucking at the same level

BEST FOR COMPATIBILITY WITH MOST DVD TITLES

1st InstantCopy, will manage to copy lots of stuff!
2nd DVDShrink and CloneDVD will bother the same (yet)
3rd DVD2One, DVD95 and DVDXcopy will keep crashing your computer at the same level...

BEST FOR FEATURES

1st DVDShrink, supposed the best for selective compression features
2nd CloneDVD, dont know why..but the say so...:) maybe because of the fame got by CloneCD (well DIFFERENT program)
3rd all the rest...not the best...

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, EASE OF USE

1st place seems shared between DVD2ONE and DVDXCopy
that probably are both idiot-proof

A little little more complicated, if we can say so,
for evolved idiots are
DVDShrink, CloneDVD and DVD95copy...i suppose,
for his features of interaction with CopyToDVD! (WOW!)

As the say...Instantcopy is at the last place,
so, you have to be a damned genius to deal with
his messy advanced menus!!! :)

So, our guys will give DVDShrink the virtual gold
medal for features, quality and first of all FREEdom ;)

Second in line, to InstantCopy, that seems the most
stable in reauthoring without any problem and does
the better job in keeping the original quality
of the movie (very important factor)

CloneDVD will have to wait for many more releases
till fighting again for the podium !!!!!







JiNeD

[The_Flash]

I'm not sure that I understand how DVD2One and DVD95Copy got the same score for "features." There are quite a number of things DVD95Copy can do that DVD2One is not yet able to perform, percentage tweaking, titleset removal, no compression options, etc.

[jined]

And i didnt understand even why DVD2ONE should be the best in speed comparison as long as speed increases with compression level (as in DVDShrink) thats why i had fun commenting this guys benchmark, that i think is came close but is quite unreliable.



JiNeD

[Gil T Pleasure]

Originally posted by mpucoder
Not broken, just anti-leech protected...

You learn new things everyday. Thanks mpucoder!!

[DVD Maniac]

Interesting results but they should have added another test criteria which indicates the ability of the tool to produce compliant structures. Many now offer Title/stream stripping features but most don't do it properly and result in structures that will work in some (but not all) players.

I also do not understand the fixation with speed of operation. For IC you are looking at 90 - 120 minutes processing time, the faster ones 30 minutes or so. The difference is hardly worth worrying about when compared to the quality differences you end up with. I don't believe that the majority of us are fixed on having an end result in 30 minutes but which has poor quality results. We appear to be having the McDonalds mindset encroaching here where FAST = BETTER!

A better ranking would weight the categories first, here is my view -

1st Output Quality
2nd Compatability
3rd Output Structural Integrity (the missing criteria)
4th Features
5th Ease of Use
6th Speed

By my reckoning that makes IC a winner with DVD Shrink a very close second. The first to nail output integrity properly will be a clear winner.