On Thursday 05 January 2006 11:58, Marc Leeman wrote: > > [cut] > > I forgot the ITP number: 320045 > > I have been testing k9copy on a number of my DVDs; but it rarely manages > to shrink a DVD properly (1-1). > > I might be missing something, but what seems to be a problem is: > > 1. you cannot adjust the shrink ratio: on analysing a DVD, it does > some guess of the ratio (the result is a bit smaller wrt the > original). > After requantising it, I end up with a disk of e.g. 4.9 Gigs > instead of 6.2 Gigs. Not really useful :-/ This is a problem of every program like this that I've tested... qVamps does that like k9copy... It could be a feedback for the upstream author, in order to have a mor competitive and featured program... > 2. The bottom slider is also a bit confusing: with the DVDs tested; > the slider jumps to the left in the red (I would have expected to > the right). Red is bad (I assume, confirmed by the result). I undestood that this line represent the compression ratio... red means hight, green good... I suppose a 100% in red position and a 0% in green (% respect the size of DVD) > However, there is (AFAIK) no indication of _how_ bad it is: how > much the DVD is oversized. > Combined with this; when removing tracks in an attempt to get the > DVD within the 4.4 boundary, the slider moves to the right (in the > inverse logic); but there is no message if the DVD will fit or not; > the only thing one can do is to run the re-quantising process and > hope for the best. This could be another feedback... I never use this process (normally I made a backup of film, without menu and something else...)! > From what I've read from vamps; the ratio should be adjustable though so > the front-end could be improved a lot (maybe time to fire up glade-2 in > some idle evening). Yes, the ratio factor is an arbitrary value :-) I'm writing an email to upstream author with these feedback and notes... for the next release! > I think you're going to have a lot of remarks on this once it hits > Debian. This could be a great way to add new features and help the author to make k9copy better, imho! > This being said, I think it's a great package and reading the noise on > e.g. the transcoding lists; this is what a lot of ppl are looking for on > GNU/Linux. I agree! Cheers and thank you for your feedback!! -- ~~>MaXeR <~~ Home: http://www.knio.it Community http://www.debianizzati.org - http://guide.debianizzati.org GnuPG Key: 0x34337C08
Attachment:
pgpmYhSaXUEHL.pgp
Description: PGP signature