Johnston Posted June 4, 2005 Share Posted June 4, 2005 can ya not just do this with something like clonedvd and anydvd, and then make a single iso with everything on it, or just the files you want? or is this the same only it compresses it so its much smaller filesize Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586014048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mothium Posted June 4, 2005 Share Posted June 4, 2005 So er... how does it plan to give such good compression rates? Even XVID isn't dvd quality when using 2 CD rips (1.4gb) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586016570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted June 4, 2005 Share Posted June 4, 2005 (edited) I don't think its DVDshrink. Cuz with ratDVD you can compress movies without removing anything... :D You can't do that in dvdshrink 586013793[/snapback] You can do that in DVD Shrink :unsure: Although this is a little different since it seems to compress to a different format than MPEG-2? Edited June 4, 2005 by kjordan2001 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586016585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckerfan Posted June 4, 2005 Share Posted June 4, 2005 I guess this will be good for transfering large DVDs over the net :ninja: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586016601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigl523 Posted June 4, 2005 Share Posted June 4, 2005 enough chit chat, anyone actually use this thing???? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586016609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeSoul Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 ok I cant believe you guys arent interested. It lets you have a complete COPY of the dvd except for the fact that instead of being 4.7 b it compresses to 1 Gb. Meaning you have all the menus, the special features, interviews, director voice over and movie in 1 gb. you DONT get that in Xvid and you need to remove alot of stuff to get that with dvdshrink Edit: Here is qoute from AfterDawn forums I just finished transcoding a DVD to ratDVD and back to DVD again, and all I can say is cool. The .ratDVD file plays back great on the PC's, just right click and there you have access to all your original menu's. And the DVD created from the .ratDVD file is great, picture quality is really good! And the compression is good too. The original DVD was 4.12 GB, the ratDVD file was only 805 MB. This was with all default settings. Yeah, the DVD > ratDVD conversion was slow, but I don't think it was any slower than any mpeg-4 codec I've tried this with. And this is a whole lot easier to use. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586018104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopper Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 i think ill stick to dvd shrink, im lazy and only want to use ONE app. on rat dvd, according to the website, doesnt decrypt movies. ratDVD does not support encrypted DVDs. They need to be decrypted before they can be used with ratDVD. For decrypting the regular DVD movies, download DVD Decrypter. (N) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586018292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckerfan Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 If it does what it says it does while retaining good quality then I don't mind having a seperate ripper. DVDD is a good program anyways. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586018296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmatik Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Well, one reason solutions like Shrink and DVD2One are great is because they are quick. Reading about ratDVD, someone said it took him 5 hours to do a movie (which would be like doing a movie @3-5 passes with DVDRB and CCE; but ratDVD is free, which is great). I guess if menus and extras are really important, this would be a great program. We'll see, I'm giving this a test right now with Monsters, Inc. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586018349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckerfan Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Keeping in mind this program is still young.... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586018500 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted June 5, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 5, 2005 wow 1GB, thats good compression :| Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586018518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkv Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 this some cool stuff. maybe we'll have .ratDVD players like we did for divx :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586018569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emel Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 I will convert one dvd today and see how it goes.. I read on doom9.org that the picture quality is really goo dcomparing the size.. But they also did some tests and found out its not a different codec or something.. ITs mpeg2 in zip with mp3 audio. and it uses a hacked version of windows media 10 video menu system.. Thats why it only runs fine on WMP10. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586019171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolslacker Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 It's about time someone came up with something better than divx or xvid. I would love to see this in work. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586019269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Express Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 It don't say what compression mechanism is used. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586019933 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 I will convert one dvd today and see how it goes.. I read on doom9.org that the picture quality is really goo dcomparing the size.. But they also did some tests and found out its not a different codec or something.. ITs mpeg2 in zip with mp3 audio. and it uses a hacked version of windows media 10 video menu system.. Thats why it only runs fine on WMP10. 586019171[/snapback] Hmm, I'm disappointed then. Does it use 5.1 mp3? Otherwise that really sucks for the audio if you're converting it back and forth from a ratDVD to a DVD again. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586019940 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLegendOfMart Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 It's about time someone came up with something better than divx or xvid. I would love to see this in work. 586019269[/snapback] Its called H264. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586019954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmatik Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 (edited) Well, I woke up today and ratDVD was finished with my Monster's Inc. DVD. Now, I did remove the full screen format, as well as director commentary. The movie compressed to 940MB. The full DVD ripped to my HDD is 7.81GB. Again, though, I did remove one aspect version and an audio track. The resulting ratDVD video is nice quality, much like a top notch XviD rip. There was some obvious blocking and I didn't find the audio all that hot. Because the title of the thread is geared toward DVD swapping, ratDVD can definately be a great addition. When I uncompressed the movie, it was alot more of what I was expecting. But, for personal backups, I'll stick with using DVDShrink and just keeping the main movie. If a movie has great extras I want to keep, I just put those to a 2nd DVD anyway; but that is rare. Anyway, good luck to the creators of ratDVD. They are definately on to something. Look forward to new versions (Y) Edited June 5, 2005 by soloredd Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/327851-new-wrinkle-in-dvd-swapping/page/2/#findComment-586019997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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