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Thread ID: 91487 2008-07-09 01:58:00 Is there anything better than DVD Shrink? mark1978 (13845) Press F1
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686672 2008-07-09 03:15:00 No compression = no encoding, it's just a direct copy. The encoding load comes when you're trying to shrink it, and it has to re-encode the entire video stream.

Yes 4 minutes difference no compression/shrunk.

I can see why it takes mark's so long with a P4, 1.5 Ram and an 80Gb IDE drive, I am surprised it does not take longer.

mark1978 What P4 is it? 3.2 or less?
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686673 2008-07-09 03:19:00 It is a Pentium 4 with 2.4 ghz, why do you think it takes so long? mark1978 (13845)
686674 2008-07-09 03:27:00 Shrink has the choice to do "Deep Analysis" before re-encoding which takes much longer. The amount of movement in a scene affects how much compression that you can get away with without obvious effects. Shrink tries to vary the bit rate to the scene being compressed. PaulD (232)
686675 2008-07-09 04:34:00 It is a Pentium 4 with 2.4 ghz, why do you think it takes so long?

That CPU isn't exactly fast - an hour to re-encode an entire DVD in MPEG2 isn't bad.
Erayd (23)
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