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J_K_M_A_N:

Actually, I don't know ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---!

I hate the whole bit-byte crap. I always miss that. I will try that Qwix though and see if I can get better speed.

J_K_M_A_N

boykster:


--- Quote from: richms on October 06, 2006, 05:56:28 am ---I find that dvd shrink always leaves visable artifacts <rest of post removed because I totally agree with it>

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I find that DVDShrink does a good job when compressing no more that 10-15% or so.  If you're trying to compress to 50% then use a better codec.  When using DVDShrink in no compression mode, it doesn't introduce any artifacts.



richms:


--- Quote from: boykster on October 06, 2006, 01:26:34 pm ---I find that DVDShrink does a good job when compressing no more that 10-15% or so.  If you're trying to compress to 50% then use a better codec.  When using DVDShrink in no compression mode, it doesn't introduce any artifacts.

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For things like cartoons it does great, but my donnie darko that was shrunk to fit 4.5 gigs with just 2 channel audio as well has major blocking in dark scenes that was noway near as bad on the original disc (which wasnt too hot on its own) - an xvid of the same pretty much looks the same as the orig dvd did.

boykster:

The main advantage of DVDShrink is that it's brain dead easy to use, and it's an all in one solution (for dvd's it works on).

I agree that Xvid is a better encoder if compression is needed.  I just solve that problem by not compressing anything

shmokes:


--- Quote from: J_K_M_A_N on October 06, 2006, 01:13:28 pm ---
I will try that Qwix though and see if I can get better speed.


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Quix is a fantasitc program.  Really really easy to use.  You've gotta be using Avalaunch as the dashboard to take advantage of the speed, though.  I use Xbox Media Center as my dash, but keep Avalaunch on the Xbox solely for transferring games.  Also, it's not a full-fledged FTP client.  You can't browse through directories and transfer individual files back and forth.  It's made specifically for locating an ISO on your PC and transferring (and expanding) it to a folder of your choice on your Xbox.  There is no faster or easier way to get games on your Xbox's hard drive aside from putting a disc in the Xbox drive and ripping it directly.

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