Season 1 Sopranos [Archive]

Tracys13

16th January 2005, 01:24

I'll been looking around for a couple of days for info on the sopranos or any other box sets and I can't find it. I backed up Sopranos and I was wondering why the video quailty is so poor after I burn it. I am using dvd decrypter and shrink dvd. The compression rate was no lower than I usually have it. Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Tracys13

Guest

16th January 2005, 01:47

It's film, did you IVTC it?

killingspree

16th January 2005, 11:06

Originally posted by neuron2
It's film, did you IVTC it?

he's using DVDshrink - i'd don't think he needs to do that there ;)

@Tracys13: from my experience with this kind of series: as neuron2 pointed out your material here, unlike most standard hollywood DVD material, is film. this means that it cannot be compressed as well as these others and might just need some extra space on the DVD...

therefore you might want to try splitting the DVD up into two DVD-R, which should leave you with a way better quality. alternatively you could of course also try software like DVD-RB, in other words, software that doesn't trans- but reencode the video! this should also yield better results, but also takes quite a bit more time and effort!

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bassgoonist

18th January 2005, 07:12

I prefer just moving extras to a seperate disc (if I even want them) then I set the menu at highest compression or still pictures, turn off all but one audio track, and then all the rest of the space goes to main video. This is almost always enough to make good quality.

Guest

18th January 2005, 07:31

Originally posted by killingspree
he's using DVDshrink - i'd don't think he needs to do that there ;)
How did you know that?

bassgoonist

18th January 2005, 07:54

dvdshink is very clean, no thingys like IVTC or any of that baloney. It rips dvds on a different level, still encrypted.(I think)

killingspree

18th January 2005, 08:34

Originally posted by Tracys13
I am using dvd decrypter and shrink dvd.

Originally posted by neuron2
How did you know that?

gg

-s.

killingspree

18th January 2005, 10:36

Originally posted by bassgoonist
dvdshink is very clean, no thingys like IVTC or any of that baloney. It rips dvds on a different level, still encrypted.(I think)

you think totally wrong... you simply cannot transcode a still encrypted DVD. i wouldn't call dvdshrink clean either, it's fast yes, and output is ok, but you sacrifice quite a bit of quality when using it compared to the more sophisticated methods envolving reencoding and reauthoring using professional programs.

bassgoonist

18th January 2005, 17:06

:-p sorry, I tried.