DVDshrink major prob

[theninjagecko]

ive used shrink3beta5 on my /g/fs pc for a while now, very plsed with the results,

ive recently put it on my own machine and well, even on a 5.5GB movie the picture is blanketed with blocks all over the place! could it be the dvd codec/decoder thats installed? or something else?

[Kedirekin]

I believe DVDShrink uses its own decoding implementation for the preview window. As for transcoding, it never has to fully decode the video stream to process it, so processing doesn't use a codec at all (so to speak).

It's hard to say what might be causing the problem. It might be that your DVD-ROM drive is messing up the rip. It might be that deCSS in Shrink is interacting badly with your drive. It might be that you system is suffering from some strange form of instability (memory corruption). It might even be bad media (you didn't mention if you saw the corruption on your PC or on your stand-alone player).

Try ripping your DVD using DVDDecrypter. I recommend ripping in ISO mode then mounting the ISO image with daemon tools, but ripping in file mode will probably work too. Then test the rip to make sure it is not corrupt. If that passes, run DVDShrink on the mounted ISO (or the files) and test the output on your PC to see if it is corrupted. Let us know how that goes and we can continue from there.

[theninjagecko]

Originally posted by Kedirekin
I believe DVDShrink uses its own decoding implementation for the preview window. As for transcoding, it never has to fully decode the video stream to process it, so processing doesn't use a codec at all (so to speak).

It's hard to say what might be causing the problem. It might be that your DVD-ROM drive is messing up the rip. It might be that deCSS in Shrink is interacting badly with your drive. It might be that you system is suffering from some strange form of instability (memory corruption). It might even be bad media (you didn't mention if you saw the corruption on your PC or on your stand-alone player).

Try ripping your DVD using DVDDecrypter. I recommend ripping in ISO mode then mounting the ISO image with daemon tools, but ripping in file mode will probably work too. Then test the rip to make sure it is not corrupt. If that passes, run DVDShrink on the mounted ISO (or the files) and test the output on your PC to see if it is corrupted. Let us know how that goes and we can continue from there.

I think its just this dvd it doesnt like, IC8 has done it fine, also tryed some other movies on shrink and now its fine again! WEIRD

[oddwunn]

Try ripping with SmartRipper, remove PUOs and region coding with IfoEdit, and then transcoding with Shrink. Should look pretty good after that. :)