DVDFab version: v8.0.3.2
OS: Vista 32bit SP2 + all updates
DVD: Various. Example: Brothers R2
Pathplayer: on OR off, doesn't matter
Log files don't contain anything interesting (only _internal.log applies).
I'm backing up DVDs to ISOs to free up some shelf space, save the discs (some are starting to crack around the center hole), etc.. the usual arguments.
But to save a little more space still, I thought I'd use the Custom function to weed out languages I don't understand and titles that can go back to where the sun don't shine with whoever put them on the disc in the first place (e.g. unrelated trailers).
But some of these DVDs exhibit something that puzzles me. There will be two titles of the exact same duration and vitals (language, subpicture, etc.) and - as far as I can determine via a preview.. are indeed the same. That in itself might not be all that peculiar (glitch or they really did put the movie on there twice for who knows what reason).
The thing that's peculiar is this.. if I select ONE of them, the projected size is (for this DVD) 4703MB. Doesn't matter which one I select, either will give 4703MB. But if I select -both-, the projected size is 4376MB. Now I wouldn't have been surprised if the projected size stayed the same if DVDFab realized they were really the same stream anyway. But I can't fathom what piece of code would determine the result to be smaller if I select both / larger if I select just one.
Any thoughts?
The DVD Copy feature seems to be working just fine in general (needed to use the old Nero DriveSpeed to copy some iffy quality DVDs and the UI is something else.. but fine in general) so I'll probably reg a copy, but I'm curious as to what's going on with the above before I commit to this (selecting both) as a standard process and then later find out I shouldn't have been doing that.
OS: Vista 32bit SP2 + all updates
DVD: Various. Example: Brothers R2
Pathplayer: on OR off, doesn't matter
Log files don't contain anything interesting (only _internal.log applies).
I'm backing up DVDs to ISOs to free up some shelf space, save the discs (some are starting to crack around the center hole), etc.. the usual arguments.
But to save a little more space still, I thought I'd use the Custom function to weed out languages I don't understand and titles that can go back to where the sun don't shine with whoever put them on the disc in the first place (e.g. unrelated trailers).
But some of these DVDs exhibit something that puzzles me. There will be two titles of the exact same duration and vitals (language, subpicture, etc.) and - as far as I can determine via a preview.. are indeed the same. That in itself might not be all that peculiar (glitch or they really did put the movie on there twice for who knows what reason).
The thing that's peculiar is this.. if I select ONE of them, the projected size is (for this DVD) 4703MB. Doesn't matter which one I select, either will give 4703MB. But if I select -both-, the projected size is 4376MB. Now I wouldn't have been surprised if the projected size stayed the same if DVDFab realized they were really the same stream anyway. But I can't fathom what piece of code would determine the result to be smaller if I select both / larger if I select just one.
Any thoughts?
The DVD Copy feature seems to be working just fine in general (needed to use the old Nero DriveSpeed to copy some iffy quality DVDs and the UI is something else.. but fine in general) so I'll probably reg a copy, but I'm curious as to what's going on with the above before I commit to this (selecting both) as a standard process and then later find out I shouldn't have been doing that.
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