New blanking features!

[edeus]

Hello,

Great news on the blanking features. I was curious how does RB calculate what is a extra and what is part of the movie. Is it based on the 50MB (or x mb) size of file and above (leaving VTS_01 in case it could be a menu?)

I only mention it because I used to have Shrink often think things like "Dolby Digital" intro clips being severely compressed.

When they are replaced, if going to the clips on a dvd, since they are blanked, does it try and play a "short clip" and bring you back to the menu?

Thanks. (I would just experiment but its often easier to ask!)

[NobbyNobbs]

Originally posted by edeus

Thanks. (I would just experiment but its often easier to ask!)

But it is so much more fun to experiment :D :D

[pg55555]

I was curious how does RB calculate what is a extra and what is part of the movie
RB assumes the largest VTS is the main movie and all other VTS are extras (VTS_0 is Menu).

So you have to be very carefull about it, as this assumption is not always right, for example in episodic discs in which each episode has its own VTS, or in DVDs that include the Fullscreen and Widescreen versions, each with its opwn VTS. Other case is the DVD that have some or all the extras in the the same VTS.

I'm sure the above comments applies up to version 0.80. I do not know if they still apply to version 0.81 as I have not tested it yet.

[edeus]

Well Shrink gets it right "most" of the time: like you said Episodic DVD's seem like you have to check manually.

Feature films though I must admit Shrink always is able to seperate out. Is this because Shrink has the chance to analyse the entire source because it is transcoding as opposed to encoding?

[pg55555]

I think the difference is because Shrink looks at the content of the IFO files, so it understands the structure of the DVD.

[jdobbs]

DVD-RB makes the determination based on the IFO files as well. I can't think of a better way to determine the main movie other than the largest titleset.