Elby's CloneDVD update

[nomax]

Version 1.2.8.4 is up at Elby's site:
http://www.elby.ch/en/products/clone_dvd/download.html
No changelog or history file as far as I can see...

Nomax

[Gil T Pleasure]

Besides several bug fixes this new version adds a 'Quality Bar,' which should give users an idea of how much the compression of the data affects movie quality

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7814

[JuanC]

There is a change log (Revision History): http://www.elby.ch/en/products/clone_dvd/revision.html

[JFerguson]

Doesn't look like there's any change to the transcoding engine...

[yamyam]

It doesnt look like it, i was hopeing there would be improvement to the quality but it looks like its just a bug fix release.

[lambo]

what about the encodig quality of this clonedvd?

is it better than dvdshrink 3.0b5 or IC8 ?

thanx

[DVDRFreak]

It is worse then DVDshrink 3b5 Nero Recode and IC7/8.

I read on the CDfreak forum that Elby is working on a new version of the transcoder engine but it is not ready for release yet.

This version just has bug fixes and cosmetic changes. No big deal.

[yamyam]

As far as these one click backup solutions go, most people would welcome more passes to encode, which could improve the quality.

[t1955feb]

Originally posted by DVDRFreak
It is worse then DVDshrink 3b5 Nero Recode and IC7/8.

I read on the CDfreak forum that Elby is working on a new version of the transcoder engine but it is not ready for release yet.

This version just has bug fixes and cosmetic changes. No big deal.

i did LOTR 2 towers full backup clone dvd and it came out perfect....

[spiderman2k1]

CloneDVD is very good these are transcoder's one movie might be transcode better with one program and the next movie you transcode might come out better with another program. DVD2ONE DVDSHRINK and CLONEDVD and DVDXCOPY XPRESS do not encode. This is why some people will say one program is better then other. I did a capture of Star Wars from Laser Disc and authored the MPEG 2 file i captured and transcoded it with DVD2ONE came out like crap then tried CLONEDVD came out good. The DVD file's was nine gig's. I have capture from satellite dish and use DVD2ONE to transcode and was very happy. On both capture's I used my Dazzle 2 capture card. What ever reason The Dazzle 2 encode's the same but satellite dish is 500 line laser disc 400 line's. I'm not making this in to a capture post but just saying these are transcoder's. So one test is not far to say what program is better. DVD's are encode different some are interlaced and what not or Progressive. So I would say test one one program with five different movie's to see what one you like better. One movie test is not going to really tell you that much

[henry_nettles]

I also use a Dazzle DVC II for capturing from satellite (DirecTV), and sometimes need to recode to get the size down. As football season is just starting up, I wish to caputure some college football games and recode to fit 3 hours on one DVD. My one attempt so far used DVD2ONE and actually looked better than I expected. My next attempt will probably be with DVDShrink and deep analysis. I doubt I will try InstantCopy -- I get too dam*ed mad when it produces an output of 3.25 gigs!