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[The Faceless Master]

A group of anonymous programmers has released a new software tool online that threatens to raise the stakes for Hollywood studios fighting Internet movie-swapping.

Dubbed RatDVD, the new software crunches video from movies into small packages, while creating a single file that keeps intact DVD "extras"--alternate endings, outtakes, director's commentary and the like.

Because it retains all these extra features, allowing them to be burned back onto a DVD or browsed on a computer, the software is already being discussed in video-focused Net circles as a potential successor to the most popular formats used for trading movies online today.

Source: C|Net' s News.Com

Website: http://www.ratdvd.dk/

 

[deadhorse32]

I'm testing it right now. The first impression i got from the web is that it's pretty good.
The transconding time can be quiet long and there is a slight quality decrease.
But if you can backup (and then share) full DVD9 movies to 2GB files then ...

MPAA AM CRYING

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Cool, that's a concept I've been hoping to come to life. Given plenty of disc space it seemed like in the near future it would make sense to just rip movies onto the computer and network them elsewhere in the house for the most convenience, but unlike with music CDs you'd be missing out on a lot of content that way. I hoped it was only a matter of time before a method was created for keeping the "programming" of the disc, but further compressing the audio and video itself.