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This is a very good decrypter. As a DVD copier/transcoder it's kind of useless.
Problem is, it doesn't have a 2 pass mode for reencoding or transcoding DVDs. You cannot get high quality results without 2 pass.
Fortunately there's a good solution which does make DVDFab useful. It does involve an extra step, and an extra up to 8 and a half gigs spare drive space, but it's not slower.
First use DVDFab as a decrypter (the free part). Send the output to a folder in DVD9 mode. It'll just do a bit copy and strip out the copy protection.
Then use that as input to DVD Shrink. This is free but doesn't always decrypt newer DVDs like Disney since it's notn supported anymore. But in every other way it's far superior. It does 2 pass (they call it deep analysis mode) and will also apply sharpen or soften effects. The latter is very useful if you want to compress a movie that is 2 1/2 hour or more.
This sounds like it'd be slower but it isn't, though there's an extra step. Just taking out the copy protection is pretty fast, and then the optical drive isn't used until you want to burn the new DVD. Doing the encoding from the HD speeds up the process a lot.
So yes, I use DVDFab, and I'd recommend it, but only the decrypter part. Fortunately that's the free part. |
