New DVD compression

Sgtshaft

Features:

ratDVD takes a full featured DVD movie and puts it into a highly compressed .ratDVD container format file - while preserving all the features of the original DVD such as:

* Full anamorphic picture, seamless branching, multiple video angles, multiple audio channels, subpictures, etc.
* Keep movie versions (Directors Cut, Theatrical version, etc.), Alternate story endings, making of, video commentary , cut scenes, etc..
* Keep complete menus, navigation and features
* Reliable high quality, valid check-summed container.

You can directly play back the .ratDVD file - with all the options the original DVD movie would give you. Just by double clicking without the hassle of having to handle different files or the need to use special programs. You like the DVD? Well, you can simply convert it back to the original DVD format, burn it and watch it on any DVD player - again without loosing any features!

This looks very promising, have a look here ratDVD

Chalk

the site is fairly vague.

what does it do, make an xvid with menus?

Sgtshaft

No, it's not like any other DVD-Ripping software available out there. This piece of software does DVD shrinking and at the same time preserves the original movie format. I haven't seen so far DivX/XviD mofies featuring menus, extras, multiple soundtracks and so on, all in all at a (hopefully) good quality

Gilgamesh

OGM does menus, multi language and all that stuff and has a better compression ratio with DVD quality imho

Sgtshaft

Just found this guide

formatman

the guide says it take 5 hrs ? !!! , ur dvd drive will last appox 2 months with this use !

What is the final output file size ?

dvd Shrink takes 45 mins tops , ok you can't reconvert it back to original But DVD shrink does a good quality job using 4.7 GB on a DVD

Chalk

still no explantion of what it shrinks them to.
if you can double click on the file and need to install a rpgram to use it,
its not likely to be a dvd is it?
dvd shrink has been copying menus and shrinking dvds for years,

theres not much chance that it can compress a dvd and keep the quality.

Sgtshaft

formatman wrote:

the guide says it take 5 hrs ? !!! , ur dvd drive will last appox 2 months with this use !

What is the final output file size ?

dvd Shrink takes 45 mins tops , ok you can't reconvert it back to original But DVD shrink does a good quality job using 4.7 GB on a DVD

I dont think it aimed at people backing up DVDs only packing them for d/loading purporses.

I just finished Chronicles Of Riddick (dvdshrink backup) it dropped in size from 4470 MB to 1816,2 MB with little or no degradation of image quality, and I did not compress audio stream, it took approx 4 hours.

And if you want your burner to last a bit longer buy yourself a cheapass dvd-rom reader for €20

Mutant_Fruit

formatman wrote:

the guide says it take 5 hrs ? !!! , ur dvd drive will last appox 2 months with this use !

Or maybe you could rip the DVD to your harddrive first... wouldn't that make sense?

formatman

reading the site now I understand it

if you put it back to DVD format it is only as good as the quality you rip to ..not the original

Can one not just zip the VIDEO TS folder from a DVD shrink and then the person downloading it just unzip and burn with nero

Handy to have one container file format but if the ISPs start scanning for this format then its easier to trace the sites involved ,

you have to use DVD decrypter anyway before rat will process the DVD so seems a bit pointless afterall

IF the DVD shrink guy haven't gone to work for Nero then we might have something worthy of a nobel prize by now

Mutant_Fruit

formatman wrote:

Can one not just zip the VIDEO TS folder from a DVD shrink and then the person downloading it just unzip and burn with nero

Because using this method, you get a size reduction of a few GB. Using your method, you get a size reduction of a few KB (at most).

Chalk

its going to take a few hours to reconvert it to dvd , no?

plus you lose the 5.1 sound.

Capt'n Midnight

Out of curiousity how do you shrink a DVD to fit on a PDA screen (320x240)
I've no idea what players work on PocketPC so any ideas on the best format ?

secret_squirrel

This or this will do the trick. You can do it using DVD-shrink and a few other bits and pieces - theres a step-by-step somewhere - I will try to find it.

Its much less hassle to use the linked progs though - even though you have to pay for them.

Sgtshaft

Chalk wrote:

plus you lose the 5.1 sound.

You dont lose 5.1 you have an option of keeping Dolby Digital 5.1 or convert it to 2 channel.