Posted by Fishb8 on 10/25/05 17:15

But after all that, did you understand what the film was about, really?
"Serial # 19781010" <none@none.net> wrote in message
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> Earlier I said I would try out DVD Rebuilder.
>
> Well I have been messing about with it.
>
> I took a 150 min film (Mullholland DR.) and ran it through these
> modes:
>
> 1. HC encoder mode
> 2. Qu Enc
> 3. Re Jig
>
> Quick and dirty conclusions:
>
> HC mode- after 7 hrs I just turned it off the time factor is just too
> impractical for my use. FAIL
>
> Qu Enc- took a little under five hours. Normally looked fine but when
> motion was moderate or fast very jumpy and unnatural. FAIL
>
> Re Jig- took 41 min. Overall quality was fine. Motion was fluid and
> natural. PASSED
> Did I have a winner? I compared it to a previous rip using DVD Shrink
> with deep analysis and AEC (smooth).
> Yup. The Re Jig still looked better. Not a stunning difference but
> there was a vividness in the Re Jig compression that the DVD Shrink
> one seemed to lack.
> Also they warn against authoring files before running through DVD
> Rebuilder and they were right. I did a little simple authoring using
> Shrink and HC and Qu Enc choked on it but Re Jig did not.
>
> Perhaps I have an answer to those times when DVD Shrinks says 60
> percent or less. Maybe in these situations I'll author and decrypt
> using DVD Shrink save to file using no compression then compress using
> Re Jig and finally burn with NERO.
>
> Time will tell...

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