Lowest acceptable percent for InstantCpy8?

[valnar]

What's the lowest percent sizing you would go with InstantCopy 8 and deem it still watchable?

It seems there are many DVD's these days close to the 8GB mark, and its hard to get it above 55% compression if you want to keep everything.

Would that still be watchable, or should I just DivX it?

And there's another question! What would be better. A DVD at 55% compression with IC8, or a DivX 5.x at 640 x XXX resolution with full quality and no macroblocks?

-Robert

[Dre]

This is something that is subjective.

What I find acceptable may not be acceptable for you. Also, 60% compression on one DVD may look worse then 50% on a different DVD. Some DVD's compress better then others.

Once I get IC8 though, I will let you know what I find acceptable on average. My copy should be here next week.

[bulmer]

Well it depends on how high the bitrate is on the movie. If the movie is up to 2hours long and file size about 7-8GB you should be able to compresss is to about 55%. But then again if you think that the quality is poor when you look at the result you should go for a lager %.

To be 100% certain that you like the result you should run some teste.


regards Michal