Pixels are pissing me off!

[A.I.]

Is there a DVD ripping program out there that can give you a perfect picture? I use DVD Shrink 3.2 and I get pixilization which fades on and off, even when I burn at 4X speed with all the quality settings enabled. Has copyright protection got something to do with this because I have noticed that older DVD's don't seem to be affected and have better picture quality.

 

[ScottJC]

Pixilization is due to DVD Shrink, Compressing the data a lot more than it was to begin with to get it on the disc, consider you have a two hour movie, you go to Re-author and then you put the movie on your new disc - but the problem is to get it on the disc the movie would have to be reduced by about 2gb. Pixelation ensues... Best way to rip a movie without losing quality is to convert it to XVid or DivX; But it only plays on your pc if you do that though.

Edit: Or you can turn the compression off but you'd need DVD9 discs to burn your ripped dvd. See the most common disc of the average day user is dvd5's, 4.38gb, the discs that the movie industry use are 8.5gb, see the problem in ripping?

 

[A.I.]

Oh yeah, I forgot about re-authoring. And 8.5GB dual layer discs are so expensive here. Hopefully dual layer will get cheaper when blue ray takes over.

 

[M[u]ddy]

I whould recommend Nero Recode from the Nero 6 or 7 Pack.
Even when the quality is reduced to 60% you hardly see any differences.
It doesn't work on copyprotected disks though and using AnyDvd is illegal in this case.

 

[Doomulation]

Re-authoring is not a bad thing if you do it properly. IF you just want a good rip with quality, get RealAnime (uses H264 or MPEG4 AVC) and bump up the bitrate some and you'll get a good quality movie. Unless you're looking for perfect quality.

 

[Toasty]

But it only plays on your pc if you do that though.

Or certain standalone DVD players that can decode MPEG-4 ASP content.

 

[BlueFalcon7]

I use DVD x Copy platinum, it does everything in like 10 - 15 minutes. Im not sure if it works with PAL DVDs though.