New version of DVD2one introduces a new compression engine

ReneB used our news submit to tell us that a new version of DVD2one is available. DVD2one is a transcoding application that is able to squeeze a commercial movie DVD on a DVD recordable. This is needed as most commercial movie DVDs contain more than the 4.7 GB of data that can be put on a DVD recordable. The software does this by using a more advanced compression algorithm and the latest version of DVD2One introduces a totally new approach. DVD2one has always been revolutionary, as it was the first transcoding application that was commercially available.

DVD2one 1.5 is the version number of the latest release of the developers and introduces a selective ratio engine. In short, the engine allows you to pick from three pre-defined compression levels and the application then determines the balance in distincting the important screen parts from the less important ones. A more in depth explanation has been posted on the DVD2One website:

Things that are not in focus in the current frame, like backgrounds, are low in detail or as we define it, of low importance to the screen and can be aproached differenty than the important ones.With this new compression method, setting the slider to low will lead into a scheme where the important parts of the screen are a bit more compressed than the less important ones. Compressing oflow important parts can result into macroblock because the original encoderin a good encoder setup already achieved the best possible compression without loss of detail. In medium the important parts are even more compressed than the non important parts, and in high the compression is almost done only on the important parts.However in all three mode"s the less important parts are still being compressed, because that is still mandatory to get the desired endsize.By using this new method, the macroblocking (over compressed parts) will be less visible than with the conventional aproach.If they occur they will be more eye friendly shaped, meaning they are not 100% square but a bit more dithered shape.The human eye will notice them less in this non square shape and thus resulting in a more pleasantly viewable version of the picture.

It's a surprising move of the developers of DVD2one, as the market of transcoding engines is expected to shrink in the coming months, due to the introduction of dual layer drives, media and the decrease in prices of this equipment. Although, it is expected that many will still continue to use transcoding engines to backup their commercial DVD movies, we didn't expect to see more advances in this kind of software. More information can be found on the DVD2one website. Discuss this release in our DVD2one Forum.

Movies that are transcoded with DVD2one can be burned to a DVD Recordable using CopyToDVD .

Source: DVD2One