i can't find anywhere in the manual whether the video is re-compressed when the slider is set at quality=100%

is the video always transcoded, OR only when it doesn't fit on one dvd? i would like to be able to only pick the main movie file and maybe the menu and not have it transcoded if it fits.

if clonedvd does 'always' transcode, does anyone know of any other program that removes the warning and lets u keep menus...etc - just like what clonedvd does, but with an option not to transcode?

thanks for any replies!

Welcome to the forum!

There is no compression of video when the slider is at 100%
The audio is never compressed.

It's a good indication that compression did not occur with any of the DVD's files if the total of all output is less than 4.36Gb (use Windows Explorer to check).

Currently, no other transcoder deals with the deletion of titles as effectively as CloneDVD.

-Pete

Cool thanks for that. But, one more thing.

When a dvd i have on my HD fits and the quality slider is at 100%, why does it still take 10 minutes to write things on my HD? It seems as though it is still transcoding it...

Or is it copying the whole DVD to its temp dir and generating the menus? If it is doing this, is it possible to burn direct from the files I have? Or perhaps only copy the new menu files to the temp dir and reuse the files already on the HD. As at the moment I have to have double the space of the dvd I am copying.

Thanks.

To be sure, you may take a look into the Performance tab of the Windows Task Manager, transcoding requires heavy 'CPU usage'.

The next version of CloneDVD will indicate if it is transcoding or remuxing.

Using CloneDVD, it is not possible to separate the processing of menu and video data. Use 'Write Existing Data' to copy directly from DVD video files.

dolenkoe:

I was just about to answer your last query when I was pre-empted by a real expert!

You mention 10 minutes... Just try using Explorer to copy a DVD's files from one folder to another and see how long it takes. About the same, eh?

What you are seeing is the irreducible minimum amount of time it takes simply to copy the files with no other processing taking place.

If you take Armin's advice and have the Task Manager's performance chart open, you'll see that the only CPU usage by CloneDVD when no transcoding is taking place is that damn munchin' sheep. If you minimize the application, then even this usage disappears - along with the sheep.

-Pete

Armin, if you're reading this, my request for the next release is that the sheep be replaced by Michelle Pfeiffer doing a striptease, the striptease to end when encoding is complete (then watch everybody scramble for the longest movie they can find! )

ah ok. thanks for the replies.