DVD Shrink 3.1.2 now available

[dvdshrink]

DVD Shrink 3.1.2 is now available, it fixes an important bug which could cause video corruption at low compression.

The bug only affected some DVDs. If you did not have any problem with previous versions, then there is no need to do all your backups again.

You can get it:
http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/
http://www.dvdshrink.info/downloads.php
http://www.doom9.org/

It will also be available soon at http://www.dvdshrink.org, but currently having some server problems.

[mrbass]

I said this video corruption issue was most likely a bad source or bad media. I'm glad you guys didn't listen to me as I was WRONG and there was a geniuine bug.

[djan]

Can't you use the ReJig Transcode engine ? It would be great. Your very ease and professional program with his great transcode engine that gives much better quality. Just my hope !

[fileman]

Great work @dvdshrink :)

Works perfect now! Thank you very much for your great software, and your quick replies to my bug report, including a fix the next day!

Regards, fileman.

[dvdshrink]

I should be thanking you, fileman, for the use of your dining room server. Fixing a bug is easy, once it can be reproduced.

[Doom9]

Can't you use the ReJig Transcode engine ? It would be great. Your very ease and professional program with his great transcode engine that gives much better quality. Just my hope !It's actually not rejig's engine, it is even another company that wrote the engine (metakine I believe, I don't know the name of the engine by heart), Nic just wrote the stuff around it. And the thing is, the engine and Rejig is GPL, DVD Shrink is closed source. You can't just take a GPL engine and put it in a closed source program, in fact your suggestion would mean that DVD Shrink would become open source, and considering that it shares the engine and many features with the commercial Nero Recode, I don't see that happening.

[Pfc Joker]

and considering that it shares the engine and many features with the commercial Nero Recode

Ok, so my next question is what are the differences between Recode 2 and Shrink, anything? I've been using Recode 2 almost always, give me a reason to switch.;)

[thop]

the one is free, the other isn't, that's about it. the one can do all the "dirty" tricks that ahead doesn't want to have in recode for legal reasons.

[Deichgraf]

Just keep Shrink the way it is and make some slight improvements whenever your time allows - Shrink is by far my favourite program to back up DVDs!!!

[m99]

...and don't compress it with UPX, or whatever. I need to decompress, but I can't :-)

[thop]

http://upx.sourceforge.net/download/upx124w.zip for your upx decompression needs.

[Pfc Joker]

Ok, so my next question is what are the differences between Recode 2 and Shrink, anything? I've been using Recode 2 almost always, give me a reason to switch.

I was hoping for a little more techy type info on the differences between the two, not just random opinions on which one is best.

[thop]

there are very little to no techy differences. the main differenceis like i said the one costs money and comes with official support, the other doesn't.

[m99]

re: thop
I have tried it, but for some reasons? it can't decompress it.

[Navaleye]

It said it was unable to read the disk because of copy protection on a sector.

[onesoul]

I had done a (very) little test to compare recode and rejig (both early versions, 0.97 and 0.4a respectively) sometime ago, and I am showing it because of djan suggestion of integrate rjig's M2VRequantiser engine.

These are frames of gladiator taken by powerdvd at same position of the film, recode was at 69% and rejig at 70% compression:
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/onesoul/orig001.jpg
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/onesoul/recode001.jpg
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/onesoul/rejig001.jpg

I think recode and rejig produces almost the same quality output which would make irrelevant to switch transcoding engine. Funny thing is that both engines apparently seem to remove some noise (or maybe it's just smoothing) but I'm not expert anyway.

Cheers

[djan]

If you watch well to the sky, you can see that ReJig is more detailled but if I know why ReJig has a better transcode engine is because I encountered to a terrible quality difference in Hurricane movie between the two engines. The movie transcoded with DVDShrink was too poor and sometimes a lot blocky but the same movie was great with ReJig. It's why I prefer ReJig Engine but it's sure that DVDShrink is much better concerning the Full Backup Option keeping menus and all and its GUI is much better too. Keep Running DVDShrink.

Just my advise.

[jawzforlife]

Originally posted by Navaleye
It said it was unable to read the disk because of copy protection on a sector.

I got the same thing with freddy vs. jason.
I then tried it with the 3.0 beta and it worked fine.
I havent treid any other movies with 3.1.2 yet though.

Whats the deal?

[samtroy]

I've noticed that when doing re-author/movie-only DVD Shrink leaves a tiny unnecessary chapter on the end of some movies. It's not even one second long... :confused:

Other transcoders I've tried on that movie don't keep this chapter. Is there a reason why DVD Shrink 3.1.2 (and probably earlier) is doing this? Couldn't it be deleted?

S.

[dvdshrink]

The chapter must have been there in the original title. DVD Shrink doesn't delete any chapters. However you could do that yourself with the "Start/End" control.

Note that leaving the chapter is probably a good idea. It means that you can forward-skip with your remote control to the end of the movie by using the 'Next' button. I have received requests for DVD Shrink to add a tiny chapter to the end of a re-authored title, for exactly this purpose!

[Ishan]

You can't just take a GPL engine and put it in a closed source program, in fact your suggestion would mean that DVD Shrink would become open source, and considering that it shares the engine and many features with the commercial Nero Recode, I don't see that happening.

It can be done via a plugin system, some people have to write a plugin with whatever engine and shrink can give the option tu use internal or plugin engine. Plugins can be distributed with source code!

:)

[djan]

Yes that's right. ReJig is Open Source I think so DVD Shrink can easely use it as an external transcoder.

[2COOL]

Originally posted by djan
Yes that's right. ReJig is Open Source I think so DVD Shrink can easely use it as an external transcoder. Even if it was possible, that would be a new version. But alas, the author has issued out a final notice so there will NEVER be new versions again. :( If you didn't know, here's that thread (http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30700).

[djan]

Oh ya, that's very sad new. But it's anyway a great program, I have nothing to say about. Now I hope ReJig will still upgrading. :)

[Pfc Joker]

Since Shrink will be no longer, I wonder what will happen as Recode 2 gets updated over time. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the author of both programs the same person in the first place? :confused:

[djan]

Yes it is !

[samtroy]

Originally posted by dvdshrink
The chapter must have been there in the original title. DVD Shrink doesn't delete any chapters. However you could do that yourself with the "Start/End" control.

Note that leaving the chapter is probably a good idea. It means that you can forward-skip with your remote control to the end of the movie by using the 'Next' button. I have received requests for DVD Shrink to add a tiny chapter to the end of a re-authored title, for exactly this purpose!

I see. Thanks 4 the clearification. And yes, the chapter was there on the original too.

S.

[samtroy]

Another thing I've noticed with 3.1.2:

While the new "set audio/subtitle as default-feature" is really great, I found out that now *always* some AUDIO-stream (usually the first one) is defined as the default one.

With the subtitles "No default subtitle" can be selected, but with the audio the "No default audio"-setting is missing somehow...

This leads to problems with some DVD-Players set to a certain default-audio-language (let's say German). This setting seems to be overridden with the setting DVD Shrink has made in the IFO -> The movie will not start in German but in English. I'd like to have the possibility to set "NO audio as default", if needed.

Now, is it possible that an additional "No Default Audio"-setting will be added to a future 3.1.3 version of DVD Shrink?

S.

[mila76]

Is possible in a dvdsrink update, user can set burning speed ?

[djan]

Welcome to the forum mila76. ;)

[dvdnew]

Originally posted by djan
Welcome to the forum mila76. ;) Little late! ;)mila76
Junior Member
Registered: Apr 2003 And to answer mila76, no new features for DVDshrink ever, just follow the link 2cool posted above.

[mila76]

i think this is a fix not a new feature :D

[alhall]

Is there anyway to change the default type of burning software. I find using Veritas RecordNow Max v4.6 to be consistent and reliable. This software will not allow you to burn unless the file meets the minimum DVD standard. Can you make the file user slectable?

[writersblock29]

@alhall

Unless you're a programer, there's really no way to use any other burning software as part of a "one-click-operation" with DVD Shrink. You'll have to disable Nero in the options, then burn your processed files later on with RecordNow. Kinda convienient if you could use DVD Shrink to automatically set this up for you (I don't blame you for asking!) -- but I'm getting the feeling that using Nero as his default was the developer's way of keeping peace with Nero for essentially giving the public Recode for free.

@mila76

Since DVD Shrink is only doing basic functionality toward Nero, I'd say we'll not see this function. It'd complicate the program a bit too much, since everyone out there has burners that burn at different speeds (you might get a joker with a 2.4x burner selecting the option for 4x, messing up, and blaming DVD Shrink -- the only way around that is to have DVD Shrink "sense" what kind of burner you're using, and adjust the options accordingly... which Nero already does). I haven't messed with burning speeds on my Nero 6, but there may be a way to reset the default THERE so that it'll be functional for your DVD Shrink burns. That's where I'd start, anyway; DVD Shrink would have to bulk up in order to communicate with Nero (rather than merely ACTIVATE it) -- and with developement stopped, that ain't happenin'. Besides, Recode's out and works within the Nero package deal... If you have it, then you'll *probably* find an option to select burning speeds from there. Otherwise, you can simply put your project into a file on the hard drive, THEN fire up Nero, and dicker with the burning speeds.

Hope this helps!

[mila76]

DVD Shrink 3.1.3 allows you to specify the burning speed

:devil:

[writersblock29]

@mila76

Yep. No sooner do I post that, then the new version of DVD Shrink comes out. Good thing I never told you I was much good at predicting the future! :rolleyes:

But as far as goodies go, the additions are quite useful ones, aren't they? :D

[dvdnew]

Originally posted by mila76
i think this is a fix not a new feature :D It was a fix then :D