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ratDVD takes a full featured DVD movie and puts it into a highly compressed video format file - while preserving all the features of the original DVD. You can directly play back the compressed file - with all the options the original DVD. You can also simply convert it back to the original DVD format without losing any features(but you will lose video quality). Development stopped.
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Latest version: 0.78.1444 (December 06, 2005) Download sites: Download (direct link) More download options: Supported operating systems: Windows
More information and other downloads: Download RATattack here, it is a set of tools for making it easier to create and maintain ratDVDs: RATdecrypt, RATcheck, RATbatch. Sections/Browse similar tools: Decrypters (DVD Rippers), DVD to AVI/DivX/XviD |
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Release Notes ratDVD v0.78.1444 Hide changelog ------------------------------- Features: MediaPlayer now supports ratDVD files in the video media library MediaPlayer now supports direct convert and burn of ratDVD files Added convert/burn option in navigation menu of standard direct show players Added "/burn" command line option Added support for ShowCommand in StartupInfo when started from another process Added movie name recognition into ISO import plug-in Added translation support for playback navigation menu Updated danish translation Updated codecs for higher performance Bugfixes: Fix for Media Player seeking issue Fix for starting playback quickly after ending playback issue Fix for stop/restart problem in Media Player Fix for some Subtitle/Audio display/selection issues in navigation menu during playback Fix for a problem that a DVD to ratDVD profile could have consequences when converting ratDVD to DVD Fix for access violation during repeated starting and stopping of preview in converter Fix for some playback errors Release Notes ratDVD v0.77.1509 ------------------------------- Language Updates: Added Japanese translation Updated Ukaranian translation Updated Polish translation Release Notes ratDVD v0.77.xxxx ------------------------------- Features: Profiles with prioritized rules to be applied during conversion fron DVD to ratDVD or ratDVD to DVD - Default quality and bitrate levels seperate for main movie, extras and menus - Keep, remove and convert of audio tracks based on audio format and lanuage presets, seperate for main movie, extras and menus - Keep and remove of subtitles based on language presets, seperate for main movie, extras and menus Default menu language for ratDVD playback can now be set or defaults to system lanaguage instead of defaulting to english Playback now also works though the ratDVD Plug-In interfaces New profile command line parameter Bugfixes: Fix for italian language Fix for dutch language Fix for IDvdInfo2->GetCurrentLocation() Fix for install sometimes not registering filters making playback impossible Fix for seeking problems during playback Fix for strange DVDs with resetted timestamps during playback Fix for some DVDs with Mastering errors Release Notes ratDVD v0.76.1408 ------------------------------- Features: Playback filter set with improved compatibility to the MS DVD Navigator: -Making it possible to integrate ratDVD playback into media players with support for MS DVD Navigator in just a few lines of code Extension of Import/Export Plug-In interfaces New import plug-in to directly support ISO images as input Bugfixes: Fix for playback of ratDVD files with asian characters in file name Fix for correct creation of ratDVD files when filename was specified manually and ratdvd extension was missing Release Notes ratDVD v0.75.1333 (minor update) ------------------------------ Bugfix: Fix for error message after Constant Quality conversion process (ratDVD was OK) Release Notes ratDVD v0.75.1331 ------------------------------ Features: Detailed analyze of DVD stream data with preview and graph on video and other content streams: -Enables the display of all streams with exact size data -Enables automatic destination size estimation when stream selection is changed -Bitrate graph for video and other(audio, subpicture, navigation) streams DVD to ratDVD output size estimation/rate control: -Needed to fit ratDVD files on physical media like CD/DVD for standalone players with direct ratDVD support -Constant average bitrate implementation -Tuned to full DVD content Web Service for optional sharing of analyze results with others: -Simple http request to http://data.ratdvd.dk New command line options useful for batch operations: -Transcoding method to use -Quality level -Bitrate -Use of ratDVD naming scheme -Forbid retrival of analyse data from ratDVD server Added Hebrew translation Added Icelandic translation New Options dialog Bugfixes: Fix for Shellextension that caused Windows Explorer not to display some DVD Covers from tagged ratDVDs in thumbnail mode Fix to enable creating double layer DVDs from ratDVD -In case of a very long ratDVD or a ratDVD with many very big included streams it is now possible to recreate the original DVD to a double layer media which can lead to significantly better quality Fix for a decoding problem that sometimes could happen in case of different quality settings for different cellsets Fix for problems with registering filters during installation that caused playback problems Fix for a problem converting ratDVDs with multiple dots in file name Release Notes ratDVD v0.7.1239: ------------------------------ Language fixes and additions (Chinese Simplified, Finnish) Fixed some bugs in Content Based Filename Creation Set Content Based Filename Creation to default Better search pre-selection for tagging Removed log file from .ratDVD files (log is only written to temp folder) Release Notes ratDVD v0.7.1235: ------------------------------ New Features: Added Direct burning capability *1 Added ISO creation engine *1 Added MCE (Windows Media Center Edition 2005) support *ratDVD files are listed as video files *full control with mouse and remote control Codec quality/speed optimizations Added advanced codec options *Ignore scaler *Use alternate quantization model *MV Search Path *P Bonus Multi-Language support *ar - Arabic *ca - Catalan *cz - Czech *de - German *dk - Danish *en - English *es - Spanish *fr - French *gr - Greek *hu - Hungarian *it - Italian *nl - Dutch *pl - Polish *pt - Portuguese *pt_BR - Portuguese (Brazil) *ro - Romanian *ru - Russian *sr - Serbian *sk - Slovak *th - Thai *tr - Turkish *uk - Ukranian ratDVD naming scheme *Automatic content based naming extension Tag editing while adding tagging Shut down after convert Setting for conversion task priority Custom sounds *For successful completions *For failed completions Remote Control Support with WM_Input interface *Allows usage of WM_Input compatible remote controls (like the Microsoft Media center remote control) to control ratDVD playback. New default quality set to 105 New maximum quality to 120 Source import plug-in architecture *Allows extensions for different source material (e.g. ISO Images, all kind of optical media, etc.) Destination export plug-in architecture *Allows extensions for all kind of different output targets (e.g. ISO Images, or transcoding to other formats, etc.) Custom action at end of successful conversion process *Allows a higher degree of automation (e.g. automatic batch conversions, transfers in ratDVD archives, etc.) Bug fixes: Playback fixes: *Chapter change after seek was sometime not correct *Wrong time display in Media Player *Acceptance of only known video render filters solves problems with some codec packs/ffdshow *Fix for illegal NAV pack positions that sometimes happens in DVD Shrink created discs *Fix for wrong subtitle display on some movies *Wrapping of navigation component as COM module – can now be used from all programs system wide *Fix for wrong audio/subtitle switching at next chapter after seek *Fix for changing aspect ratio change with VMR9 (Video Mixing Renderer) *Fix for graph stopping in certain situations Support for >4GB images Fix for “list index out of bounds” conversion issue for some movies Known Issues: Seek bar in Media Player *No reset at new title start *Does not reflect complete length with some movies Resume ratDVD function in MCE2005 starts movie from the beginning *1 – Nero needs to be installed for ISO creation / DVD burning functionality Release Notes ratDVD v0.6.1122: ------------------------------ Minor bugfix regarding playback for issue introduced in v0.6.1119 concerning players other than Media Player Release Notes ratDVD 0.6.1119: ------------------------------ Repackaging for license compliance Release Notes ratDVD 0.6.1117: ------------------------------ New Features: Tagging with IMDB support Shellextension to display ratDVDs with DVD cover in Windows Explorer Windows 2000 support AC-3 SP/DIF support (see settings tool) Implemented warning for corrupted input material from DVD Some optimizations regarding speed Bug Fixes: Delete only created destination folder when canceling conversion to DVD Convert to DVD creates separate folder in which the VIDEO_TS is stored. VIDEO_TS title search pointers corrected Fix for DVDs created with DVDlab(Pro) Fix for “list index out of bounds” when removing specific titles on some DVDs Fix for pink blocks occurring on specific chapter changes on some discs when reconverting to DVD Fix for displaying three/five black/white images during playback on some computers Fix for subtitle handling in .ratDVD playback (subtitles were disyplayed too often) Flickering in progress dialog when converting stills or very short titles Known issues: To enable the tagging function in explorer on Windows 2000 you need to install the GDI+ library from Microsoft prior installing ratDVD Time display of the seek bar in Media Player is not set to the correct movie length. Seeking works correct. Preview in RGB mode not always correct with certain movies and graphics cards Playback of ratDVD files does not work in MS Media Center because user input is not hooked
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From what I understand this latest version still doesn't support Mpeg audio layer 2, so if you want to convert DVD's from a set top recorder that records audio in that format you're out of luck. Also, still veeery slow. And forget about getting any replies on either RATDVD forum (CDFreaks or Doom9).
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Overall, this is a pretty good program for what it is...a rather early version of a program to compress dvd's....it has some stuff that has been simply lacking with other programs, such as tagging and full dvd archiving within a single file...on the downside though, the video codec that is used needs a bit more work before I personally would consider it to be a GREAT alternitive to some other programs around...compression time isnt THAT bad, at least in my opionion....try and compress a movie to divx at the highest settings and you will see what i mean. The only other drawback is playback.....the playback requirements are a bit steep for a lot of people...it plays semi choppy on a 2ghz amd athlon 2400 xp with 768mb of ram and a 128mb video card....THAT needs improvement BIGTIME........but like i said earlier, its still in a rather early stage of development, so once they get the kinks worked out of it, im sure it will end up competing with the best of the best.
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Tried it on vobs of total 7.x Gig to see how well it could compress it to fit all in a dvd-r. Took 6 hours to convert to rat file, and another 3 hour to convert rat file to vobs for authoring. The resulted DVD: -appears to be much "washed out", lost a lot of details. -macro blocks quite noticeable, pretty bad inter block noises. -doesn't look like it has been converted to 1/2D from full D, but the perception to me with all those macroblock noises, over smoothing of neighbouring pixels (lost details) is worse than a 1/2D conversion done by for eg QuEnc, Rejig, or Tsunami. I was looking for an alternative to DVD-rebuilder but so far have not found one that performs better than the QuEnc, or at least equal to Tsunami. Not recommended if all you want is to shrink a DVD.
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There is a big improvement in performance with the latest version. The recovered DVD quality is v good at higher compressions even on high action scenes. My trials were with quality slider at 60.RatDVD files were about 30 % of original and recovered DVD about 80% of original. At 60 setting with earlier version-quality was not at all good.
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Just done ,,Metallica,,DVD with 50%compression .I love this programm allready.DVD Rebuilder hasn't done the same job that nice.I think of using ratDVD from now on...10 of 10
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Good idea, but right now, needs to develop further. Things I'd like to see in the future: 1) Faster encoding - Currently it takes a very long time to make a ratDVD (but it is understandable). 2) File size preview - It'd be nice if you could know what the file size is going to be. 3) Automatic shutdown - Because the compression process takes so long, an automatic shutdown would be nice so that you don't have to worry about keeping your computer on longer than necessary. 4) Simplified GUI - I don't want to manually adjust my settings. I'd much rather have a simple slider where it has 3 preset options: Smallest Size, Medium, and Highest Quality. I don't want to have to slide the bar around to decide whether 125 is going to be better than 110.
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It does not seem to work with any DVD that was authored by DVDLAB Pro. But I like the idea, it would be nice if one can predict the size of the video file.
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I noticed in task manager that the default priority is set at low, which would explain why it is very slow. I just increased the priority in task manager to normal and noticed an immediate speed increase. will have to wait for encode to finish to see if it makes a big difference in time.
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slow encoding - good results on image quality --- can not predict file size .. some bugs reported with some users (as in does not work at all) good idea and unique product
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