Dav88 was kind enough to start a thread on our
forum to announce that DVDShrink 3.00 beta is available. DVDShrink is able to
rip DVDs and compress them in such a way that the contents fit on a DVD
recordable. Many movie DVDs sold nowadays are too large to put on a DVD
recordable. DVDShrink is able to bring down its size while the quality of the
movie remains the same. The 3.00 version introduces a lot of new features, here
is a part of the changelog:
 DVDShrink v3.00 beta partly changelog:
No
more compression levels. Instead we have four new settings:
- No compression -
original video.
- Automatic - DVD
Shrink will choose the best compression ratio.
- Custom - you can
select desired ratio (with a slider)
- Still Pictures - as
before.
Better quick analysis.
The sample points for initial quick analysis are carefully
chosen, and sparse analysis results are interpolated between samples.
New "Analysis" button.
This performs a deep
analysis, which (a) guarantees that the predicted target size is met and
(b) significantly improves video quality.
New "Analysis
Results" file format
The new format is more flexible, used to
save results of the initial quick analysis, also deep analysis results or
partial analysis results (if you cancel analysis, partial results
are saved). Also better checking in case of conflict of CRC values
between two DVDs.
One-pass encoding.
Output files are written to
HD in one pass, so no longer necessary to make a second pass to fix
navigation ptrs. This reduces total encode time by about 5 mins.
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The rest of this very long changelog can be found in
this
thread. More information and downloads can be found here.
Source: Club CDFreaks.com
