afterdawn.com — Would you like to be able to compress an entire 9GB DVD to 1 single file about 1GB-3GB (depending on the DVD and your settings) in size, keeping menus, bonus features, multiple audio and subtitle tracks as well as video Angles? Well students from the university of Aarhus..
Jun 1, 2005 View in Crawl 4
iceburnJun 2, 2005
It doesn't appear to be a standard ripping program. Just a compression program that lets you shrink down a normal dvd to a much smaller file size (1-3GB). It puts it's own file extension on it and lets you go from there. You can then uncompress the file and burn it back out to a DVD.At least that's what I got out of it. Maybe I'm wrong...
seanbperiodJun 2, 2005
i wish there was a way to email the author... im surprised the FAQ doesnt mention how long it takes to encode/decode an average dvd. if anyone tests this, please let us know
Closed AccountJun 2, 2005
Great, another DVD Compression app for Windows. Where is the app for Mac???
Closed AccountJun 3, 2005
Decided to take it for a test spin myself...Test case: The GodfatherEncoding time: 5 hours or soOriginal filesize: 7.74 gigsratDVD filesize: 1.91 gigsQuality's not bad (bearing in mind the level of compression here) at default settings. By contrast, DVD Shrink wouldn't let me drop the output filesize below 3.59 gigs. I was pretty skeptical at first, but looks like this really could be a nice format for its size-to-features ratio. I haven't converted back to DVD from ratDVD yet, I'm curious if it does any additional quality-restoring "unpacking" that it's not doing when you just play back the ratDVD file directly. The official site indicates that he'll probably release it open source once he cleans up the code a little bit... awesome.
harrijsJun 4, 2005
SoyFeo408 --> It would have been nice if you could have posted the system specs that you tested with. The information you posted does no good without the specs. 5 hours sounds like way too long for me.
Closed AccountJun 5, 2005
Was posting the above comment more of a comparison between DVDShrink and ratDVD than a comment on encoding speed, but since ya asked: * athlon xp 2500+* nForce2 chipset* 512 MB DDR333* run-o'-the-mill 7200rpm ata/133 drive, no RAID-lovin' or anything.