Lightning Shrink

Brief: What is DVDFab Lightning-Shrink?

Targeted at Blu-ray ripping and converting, Lightning-Shrink is newest decoding and recoding technology DVDFab Team has developed. It helps Blu-ray lovers to rip their Blu-ray collections with Blu-ray Copy for personal backup, or convert them with Blu-ray Ripper for playback on all kinds of portable devices, smart phones, and tablets, etc, in a very fast manner. It is not the world's first decoding and recoding technology you have ever met, but it is absolutely the best kind you've never seen before.

What Does DVDFab Lightning-Shrink Do?

Just as its name implies, DVDFab Lightning-Shrink takes the advantages of nVIDIA's CUDA hardware acceleration and NVENC technology, or Intel Quick Sync, to significantly cut down the time you spend on ripping or converting Blu-ray movies, shockingly to within an hour. That's to say, with DVDFab Lightning-Shrink technology, your nightmares of 5+ hours on ripping or converting Blu-rays are gone, forever!

In What Circumstances Can I Benefit from DVDFab Lightning-Shrink?

Whenever Blu-ray compression gets involved, such as, rip a feature-length Blu-ray movie off onto computer HDD as an ISO in BD25 size, or compress a BD50 size ISO on HDD into BD25 size;

Whenever converting Blu-ray movies into on-demand videos, like MP4, MKV, AVI, M2TS, etc, to play on all sorts of devices capable of video displaying;

Are There Any Special System Requirements?

IQS-based Lightning-Shrink: 2nd generation, or higher level Intel® Core™ processor is required;
CUDA-based Lightning-Shrink: nVIADIA’s CUDA capable Graphics Card is required;
NVENC-based Lightning-Shrink: nVIADIA’s CUDA 5.0 rated Graphics Card, like GTX 750/GTX 750 Ti (driver version: WHQL 334.89 or higher) which employs the NVENC technology, is required.

How Do I Apply DVDFab Lightning-Shrink?

It's easy: Open Common Settings panel via the gear icon at the top right corner of DVDFab 9 newest version, navigate to General>A/V Codec, and then mark the option of "Enable Lightning-Shrink when applicable". Next, click the "OK" button on that window and restart DVDFab 9 so that the settings shall take effect.

Comparison between IQS and IQS-based Lightning-Shrink:

			Time Consumption Comparison
Hardware & System	Copy Mode	Source	DVDFab 9063 (with IQS only)	DVDFab 9070 (with Lightning-Shrink)
Win8 64-bit, i7-3770	Main Movie	2012.iso	50mins 41s	23mins 15s
	BD Ripper: mp4.h264.aac		48mins 12s	21mins 33s
Win7 64-bit, i7-2600	Main Movie		58mins 37s	36mins 25s
Win7 64-bit, i5-2400	Main Movie		72mins 40s	37mins 59s

"Within One Hour"-- Lightning-Shrink Test on other popular movies:

Hardware & System	Copy Mode	DVDFab Version	Source	Time Consumption
Win7 64-bit, i5-2400	Full Disc	DVDFab 9070 (with Lightning-Shrink)	The Karate Kid	48mins
			The Hunger Games	53mins
			Manhattan_AC (Thor)	61mins
			Source Code	36mins
			Fifth Element	42mins

Comparison Table between Software and NVENC-based Lightning-Shrink:

Hardware & System	Source	Copy Mode	AV Codec	Time Consumption
Win 7 64-bit; CPU: i5-2400; RAM: 4G; NVIDIA GeForce GTX-750; Driver: 335.23 WHQI	Hunger Games.iso	BD Ripper to MP4	Software	142mins 5s
			NVENC-based Lightning-Shrink	18mins 15s
		BD Ripper to MKV	Software	105mins 41s
			NVENC-based Lightning-Shrink	12mins 15s
		BD Ripper to AVI	Software	146mins 28s
			NVENC-based Lightning-Shrink	13mins 41s
		Main Movie BD25	Software	73mins 40s
			NVENC-based Lightning-Shrink	17mins 25s

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