Fengtao software is the first in the world to release an all-in-one Blu ray ripping, compression, and burn to BD25, BD9, and BD5 application, DVDFab 6.1.0.2 beta.
It has been possible for a while to backup a BD movie to a blank BD media, providing the resulting backup could fit on the appropriate blank BD media (BD50 or BD25). It has even been possible with the use of some tools, to be able to compress a BD50 movie to fit on a blank DVD R media. This was quite a longwinded and time consuming task, but not anymore.
Fengtao software has just released a beta version of its very well known and respected DVDFab, which supports, as a world’s first all-in-one, Blu ray rip, compress and burn to BD25, BD9, or BD5.
With just few simple mouse clicks, and around 2 hours of your time, you could have a full HD movie that will fit comfortably on a DVD DL or SL media. The resulting disc will still only playback on a Blu ray player or your PC, it won’t play on a standard DVD player, because the content is still in HD.
We decided to try this for ourselves, for test purposes only, and here is what happened.
First we ripped our BD50 original (Casino Royal). Ripping and compressing an HD stream is a very CPU intensive task. Our test PC had an Intel quad core CPU (Q9550) clocked at 3.4GHz and has 8GB of DDR2 memory.
1 hour and 41 minutes is very impressive for a full rip and compress. From then on, it was only a matter of creating an ISO and then burning the disc to a DVD+R DL media.
As we can see from the above screenshot, the picture quality is extremely impressive considering the original HD stream had been compressed from over 36GB down to around 8GB.
The resulting disc was checked for compatibility on a Sony PS3 and a Panasonic DMP-BD60 stand alone Blu ray player and the movie played flawlessly from start to finish. Picture and sound quality was extremely good, and better than uncompressed DVD. It isn’t quite 1080P quality, but it is very good none the less.
Now, at last we have an inexpensive way to backup BD movies, and no doubt if this feature proves to be popular, it can only help the sales of Blu ray players and HD TV’s.
There are still some bugs to be sorted, but we must keep in mind that this is a beta. If you would like to try out DVDFab 6.1.0.2 beta, then feel free to download or discuss the new beta in our DVDFab forum thread.
