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leopardone
17th November 2004, 19:59
or... well... not what is it... I can imagine what is it... ;)
But... how is it?
Is a fake program with orrible quality or...
(I know about the rules, but I'd like to understand if it can be comparate with DVDShrink or ICx)

http://www.a4video.com/A4DVDShrinker/

Thx in advance! :)

Leo
castellanos
17th November 2004, 21:25
Well... I doesn't look that bad, I am also interested if somebody know about this program!
Greetings! :D
Fluffbutt
20th November 2004, 03:51
As far as I can see it's a no brain one-click shrinker.

It has no controls other than the output size wanted, no changes to disc layout (or movie only). It does do decss, and region free (I think).

Probably another one of these tools that you pay for that are only freeware stuff renamed...

Don't bother with it.
castellanos
20th November 2004, 10:42
Well... I colud say that too... but is better to test the program before say somerthing!
May be I could do it my self!
Greetings! :)
Fluffbutt
20th November 2004, 11:12
Originally posted by castellanos
Well... I colud say that too... but is better to test the program before say somerthing!
May be I could do it my self!
Greetings! :)

I *did* try it - it shrinks a dvd down to a specified size (it starts with 4400 odd MB, but you can set it to anything).

I can't see that it does anything DvdShrink doesn't, and DvdShrink does a whole lot more.

It's basically a waste of time - it's for the sort of people who are afraid of moving an icon on the desktop in case it stops the program working.
castellanos
20th November 2004, 13:17
I see, thanks for that one Fluffbutt...
Greetings! :D
leopardone
20th November 2004, 14:15
thx a lot for the hint.
better a donation to dvdshrink than wasting money with s**t :)
Fluffbutt
20th November 2004, 15:24
When you consider that there's SO much freeware stuff for dvd conversions and transcoding, ripping and decrypting (even just plain dvd4free type stuff), I wonder why people actually buy the 'for sale' programs.

I'd so much rather send the $$ to the dev's of shrink and dvd decryptor, dvd4free, etc than to people who make programs that do less than the free ones, but want $29.95 odd for them...
theReal
21st November 2004, 14:40
Wait, the prog can do miracles:Perfect 100% DVD backup. Just like your original DVD movies without any quality or feature (Menus, Audio, Subtitles and Languages) lost LOL :D :rolleyes: