For OLLI:

First of all, thank you for fixing the AnyDVD problems with DVD2ONE and CloneDVD, now i am a happy man (if only clonedvd was able to copy that damned Japanese Region 1 diskss....aaaauuurrrghh!!)

Anyway, a small report: (Clone dvd 1.1.7.1)

When i, you and all the people, choose the option CLONEDVD (into cloneDVD) in a next menu the program request preferences about audio Straming...

Fine...but...i suppose, we choose CLONE DVD..we mean CLONE-THE-DVD-AS-IT-IS.., the program should not ask for more options about it...or at least...the default option for audio streaming should be set ON FOR ALL OF THEM, and optionally the user can cut off some streams if requested...


This and a check on region 1 japanese dvd titles, reauthored with comples structure..is all i ask, for now.


Regards!

Jined


p.s.

Dietologist recently find out that popcorn is not so dietetic..so the Sheep should be careful eating too much or she can end up into some Moroccan festival...

Olli

Could you also add a visual for the ripspeed of the DVD then we can see which drives are performing best,

(also sent as suggestion via email as requested)

In DVDx, one has the option of buffering substantial parts of a VOB (depending on how much memory you have) to avoid too many drive accesses that could shorten the life of your optical drive.

Using AnyDVD one is tempted to skip a separate ripping on hard disk - so I thought a similar option could be useful for CloneDVD as well.

what do you think ?

Edo

AnyDVD already caches the IFOs.
Caching VOBs is IMHO pretty useless, as you read them from beginning to end (most of the time).

Well, the DVDx help says:

"Save your DVD drive:
Create a temporary buffer to avoid the drive to be switched on/off too much.
If you use a RAM buffer you may disable virtual memory to get more speed.
The file will be write in your Windows temporary directory (TMP environement variable).
Default is : 10Meg in RAM"

but the dialog that comes up on DVDx says just "caching the VOB"

even if you access them sequentially,
would not such an option help at all with the drive wearing

thanks
Edo

Once again: already requested, but will post here as it is the specific thread for suggestions to Olli for Clonedvd improvements:

Would be nice:


1) Choosing the option CLONE-DVD ---> no questions asked, DVD cloned as-is, withoout interacting with audio streaming options.
Or - at least - all audio streams selected by default.

2) A tag to stop the sheep eating and give her some rest...

3) Bug fixes for multimovie authored DVDS (example: Ring Trilogy, Region 1: Animatrix, Region 2)




Jined

Just wanted to ask if there´ll be a new version of CloneDVD in the near future?
Maybe with some new "killer-functions" () like, mhmmm, removal of layer-break, even better picture-quality, different compression-rates for extras, menu and main-movie (maybe even to choose by myself?) ???
No complaining here, the soft ist great, but there´s nothing that can´t be improved, right?

Spike

I would like to see implemented a way to change the Destination size. I really don't like writing to the very edge of the media... I have had some problem with skipping at the very end.

One thing that impresses me about the prog "SpyBot-Search & Destroy" is that it can have "2" GUI's, one for begginers & one for people who know what they are doing and can alter all sorts of settings. You just select the interface you want from the prog.

How about employing that with CloneDVD?

That way you still make it dead easy for novices to use and yet provide all the features that the more advanced user demands from such software.

Problem sorted I reckon that way.

I think CloneDVD is great! The only thing I think it's missing is that it didn't show the size of the streams (audio for example) so we can decide to keep it or not, and/or and option that tell us if we remove an extra or something, how much space is freed or % of how much compression is going to be applied. Like IC7 does (with registry hack).
George.

CloneDVD was designed as a simple button solution. You can discover the size of the audio streams in DVD Shrink.

DTS is a quarter size of the original soundtrack
AC3 Dolby is a twelfth
PCM Stereo is miniscule by comparison

DVD Shrink can also give you an idea of the compression required.

Surely just the main movie will do?

The Compress-O-Meter doesn't appear on the Audio and Subtitle Settings Frame, how can we tell what effect removing or keeping various Audio will have, IMO it shoud even show up on the Output Method and Final Burn/Files/Iso pages too.

I would still like to see Ripping / Burning Speeds shown as well as a final Total time Log, I think a Log is vital to helping people figure out what is going on in CloneDVD especially when Trouble Shooting.

and can someone tell me why the window on CloneDVD is expandable? seems a bit pointless.

Olli is there any chance you could look into this to see if its a cloneDVD problem and maybe comment on it?

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread....801#post456801

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread....threadid=73052

Here's just a couple of suggestions that I would like to see in an upcoming CloneDVD release:

1. Join Mode (DVD2One just announced this feature)

2. The Compress-O-Meter expanded to every frame including a summary before we click Go!

Now if only Oli could release a stripped down legal version of CloneCD along with AnyCD from the ever so excellent company SlySoft

Keep up the great work Oli!!

Hi, I found this thread very interesting, and I noticed that the great Olli is also very present, which is a very nice thing!
I also have to suggest a quite common option in similar programs: a 'shutdown computer when finished' feature... sorry if I missed it out in the previous replies.
Thanks Olly for another great piece of software (after CloneCD and the late DVDRegionKiller!)

Luca

Hallo,

i am very happy with Any DVD and CloneDVD and did not had any problems with it. Okay a language choice of the interface should be nice, then i don't have to rename the language file that it appears back in English .
But is it possible to add a little sound = wav to the finished screen / popup when it is ready with cloning or writing?
I really miss it in CloneDVD

I too would like to configure the eject tray to "not" open at the end of a burn.. sometimes Ill put a dvd on to burn and want to go to bed only to have the eject tray open all night.....
My system has 8 fans.. some pushing .. some sucking.... I don't want any hair, dust, or lint to suck into the tray door "all night long" and cloud up the lazar lens!!! and get it dirty...

I also would like to know "why" I had an error as much as possible.. to obviously avoid the same problem again!

I also had one cd fail at 99% saying it could not open the 1st bup file?.. I suppose that act would have happened at the beginning of the burn?.. I don't really know....
But if we are going to have an error, it would be nice to not have to go through the whole burn just to find out it failed a long time ago?..Thankfully that particular dvd played perfectly anyway... I suppose it was a bug?

And lastestly... I one picks the tab to "preserve menus".. I have found that the movie will not play past the intro selections..unless you skip forrward.. almost like if you pick that tab, and don't have everything else selected it wants.. it stops dead!!! Please remove that option or make it work...

Otherwise dvdclone is an awesome program.... I appreciate that its simple.. but I would like some advanced tab options so I can see what its doing.. even if you don't want us tweaking with it!.. Many other programs are so complicated that it takes alot of failures to figure them out and even then.. you still don't know if your doing it the "best" way.. especially with divx tools.... but this program is pleasantly simple...
but unfortunately if we have any problems at all there are no clues as to what is going on.... kinda like driving a car with no guages!!!
I believe we can have it both ways... just like nero or many other programs.. you can use the wizard or go manual!!!

thanks for all the good work Elby!!!

You can start CloneDVD from the commandline with the option -l en to get it in english. You can add this to your shortcut as well. The exact option is mentioned in the online help.

"Sound at the end" is planned for a future release. (Not 1.3.x.x, which is already in QA)

Olli,

Can you incorporate something like this in CloneDVD

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...555#post291701

I'm not affiliated with clone.. but as for now the answer is quite obviously no!!!
We should be thankful clonedvd is still up as it is as easy as it is... this make the dvd industry very nervous.. why do you think you can't go to clonecd site now... its been shut down in litigation.

If things get any easier were done.....

right now clonedvd or any other company puts out disclaimers not claiming any intention to copy protected cd's... We have to do it ourselves by combining non=afilliated programs together. The big companies like clonecd or dvd "big because they have a good product and are therefore successful",... become targets by the industry.... the industry realizes it takes big lawyer bucks to go after anyone.. so only the targets with big bucks really get attacked!!!
Fortunatly the little companies that offer their product as shareware are often the most cutting edge.... and because thier funds are limited, the most confusing to operate. A Programmer is the worst person to decide how the interface will present.... their job is to make it happen. They think way too technical and assume the public knows things they don't. So it takes alot of money to develope a "team" that can see all the angles.
As far as the public is concerned clone dvd is to be used for illegal actions.... just like a gun is not.... But if someone uses it that way they are not responsible.
Look at Napster as an example? The big industry cannot attack them all, their are too many and they crop up too fast because the bottom line is the "cats out of the bag" and the public knows too much!.. the public itself can write programs to undo what they do.... because they "are made up of the public".. Its not like they have some big secret or something.
Until a company can figure out how to mass produce a protected product and not use people.. the secrets will always leak out, OR the public will figure it out anyway with reverse engineering and other techniques...
Sorry to be so long winded..but we must not become forget the boundaries they are being forced to operate in.... they may stray a little this way or that.. but if it became obvious a company was endorsing illegal copying, when they go to court.. thats when they loose!!!! As long as the intent is for other purposes, its the publics fault its getting used wrong......
I know you know all this... and I too would like a program that would link together and do it all....
Imagine if the code was open source and you knew how to write it so it would do as you say.... "thats exactly what people do for themselves".. then they realize they have such a cool product they try to sell it on the internet....
How many cool products can you think of that only sell on the internet on some vague warez page..... if it ever makes it to market, they have to change it around so much its not near as much use to someone trying to copy dvd's... so they have to use other third party programs..... Its not that no one has thought of this need.. "its obvious"... but they would be cutting thier own throat to do such a thing!

But it is fun to talk about our fantasies!!!! But some people get actually get angry they are no so!

hey olli,

seems like i'm about to jump ship from dvd2one to clonedvd as we speak. nice to see you talk in this public forum. i don't really have a recommendation to make as i am really happy with what your program does for me. here's just a tiny question: could you give us a short rundown on what you are working on at the moment? there are rumours that you're reworking the transcoding engine of clonedvd completely. is that true?
cheers,

uargh.

True, but it is not me rewriting the transcoder.
The transcoder is written by someone who is better in mathematics than I am.

So. Should we delete CloneDVD from your user title?! Armin already has his own

*he he*

OLLI
could you please fix the finalizing problem in 1398
no problem in 1284
this new version will not finalize - have to reboot - and the dvd film is ok - is finish - but clonedvd will not finalize and come with the nagscreen that tells you, that it all succed.

using nd1300a - no problems before