I tried forty-two yesterday. After a few hours of encoding, it had 63 minutes of video done, taking up over 2 GB. Even though I had told it to encode it so it only takes up as much space as a single CD. How do I get it to actually reduce the size rather than just copying to my hard drive as a huge AVI file?
Iv been using DVD2One, DVD Backup and Toast Titanium to rip, compress, and burn rentals for a while now but the only thing is i always wondered how DVD2One could shrink that 8 gig DVD to fit on a 4.5gb DVD-R? Well i went searching and it appears that it actually compresses the video (But not the audio). Which is bad if you want a high quality transfer sometimes because you of course want the best picture quality. I have not really noticed the difference too much but im afraid when i get a HD TV or Plasma that i will be able to see the diff so therefor have to just go buy a copy after all. I am just really wary of programs that "Compress" the video. But oh well for most movies so far it looks great so i guess im just b****'n for no real reason here...
Yeah true it does have the option for filtering certain things but im talkin about if there is nothing to filter and you have to get the raw main video files down to dvd-r size then it must compress the video medium to heavily and iv noticed this happening with the movies with two versions of the movie and such...
Iv been using DVD2One, DVD Backup and Toast Titanium to rip, compress, and burn rentals for a while now but the only thing is i always wondered how DVD2One could shrink that 8 gig DVD to fit on a 4.5gb DVD-R? Well i went searching and it appears that it actually compresses the video (But not the audio). Which is bad if you want a high quality transfer sometimes because you of course want the best picture quality. I have not really noticed the difference too much but im afraid when i get a HD TV or Plasma....
My friend has an amazing setup at home. With a huge Thompson flat, retro illuminated LCD and the quality of a DVD2one DVD and normal DVD is not even perceptible. And this guy is a total freak about quality. He refuses to download DivX movies and rather buys DVDs (or rent them) than watch lower grade video.
DVDBackup and DVD2One make anything else antiquated. DVD2One is far more powerful than FFmpeg, and hella quicker. Forty Two takes literally 24 hrs on a G4, that is poor programming. DVD2One has 99% quality, I'm a freak about that. I noticed that in smoky situations though, like where Obiwon Kenobi is being held by Dooku in Episode II, it looks a bit blocky like a DivX would, and when the credits fade in and out they look a bit blocky but if you're watching the movie you won't notice. Geez I finally found a place where DVD2One isn't perfect! I'll bet an update will fix it.
As for burning DVDs with Toast... WTF.
Every DVD I burn I get a HARDWARE SENSE ERROR 0x003 then DISC FAILED! Or BAD MEDIA ERROR 0x005 or 03 and DISC FAILED! The credits for Starwars Ep II crash the DVD Player and also my set top Sanyo DVD player. Oh well it plays to the part saying Directed By George Lucas at least! But is anyone else seeing this? I will try my next DVD with Disc Copy. It's just that Toast is so much faster and doesn't need that extra space to burn DVDs, I wish it would correctly burn on a PBG4 12" SuperDrive. Does it need an update or something, I have 5.2.1.
DVD2One is amazing, its speed and quality is unbelievable! Nothing matches for copying. I am not a moral man normally when it comes software, but programs like DVD2One are worth you supporting the developer. It is important for me to support small and talented developers like this and I would hope others do the same.
Exactly. I'll say it again, they bought a Dual G4 PowerMac just to write this app! Can't wait for DVD2One 2. It'll eventually do everything maybe even ripping (maybe not since it's illegal.)
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Originally posted by Apple Fan For Life
Iv been using DVD2One, DVD Backup and Toast Titanium to rip, compress, and burn rentals for a while now but the only thing is i always wondered how DVD2One could shrink that 8 gig DVD to fit on a 4.5gb DVD-R? Well i went searching and it appears that it actually compresses the video (But not the audio). Which is bad if you want a high quality transfer sometimes because you of course want the best picture quality. I have not really noticed the difference too much but im afraid when i get a HD TV or Plasma....
My friend has an amazing setup at home. With a huge Thompson flat, retro illuminated LCD and the quality of a DVD2one DVD and normal DVD is not even perceptible. And this guy is a total freak about quality. He refuses to download DivX movies and rather buys DVDs (or rent them) than watch lower grade video.
DVD2one is DA BOMB
As for burning DVDs with Toast... WTF.
Every DVD I burn I get a HARDWARE SENSE ERROR 0x003 then DISC FAILED! Or BAD MEDIA ERROR 0x005 or 03 and DISC FAILED! The credits for Starwars Ep II crash the DVD Player and also my set top Sanyo DVD player. Oh well it plays to the part saying Directed By George Lucas at least! But is anyone else seeing this? I will try my next DVD with Disc Copy. It's just that Toast is so much faster and doesn't need that extra space to burn DVDs, I wish it would correctly burn on a PBG4 12" SuperDrive. Does it need an update or something, I have 5.2.1.
DVD2One is amazing, its speed and quality is unbelievable! Nothing matches for copying. I am not a moral man normally when it comes software, but programs like DVD2One are worth you supporting the developer. It is important for me to support small and talented developers like this and I would hope others do the same.