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DVD Squeeze Review
- DVD Squeeze is available as an instant download for $29.95
- DVD copying and compression software
- Compress a DVD onto one single CD
- Works with any CD recorder
- Save movies to your laptop
- Compress up to 6 full DVDs onto 1 DVD
- Backup your old VHS tapes to DVD
- Merge multiple clips into the same scene
- Remove unwanted materials or languages from the DVD
- Remove region coding from your backups
- Playback on any standard DVD player
- Claims to give no image quality loss
- Convert any video file to DVD format and burn it
- Instructions on how to copy PS2 games
- Included 'evidence elimination' software
- Windows based PCs only
DVD Squeeze is a pretty average DVD compression and copying tool. It isn't quite as easy to use as some of its counterparts, but it produces a reasonably good quality compressed copy of a DVD movie. Some of the claims made on its website are massively exaggerated, but if you get past that the software provided isn't too bad.
Before we get started with DVD Squeeze we should really point out some of the huge exaggerations - verging on untruths - that their website makes. Firstly it claims that any DVD can be compressed down to fit on a CD with no loss of quality. This is false. It does not matter which compression method you use or how you do it, it is simply not possible to compress video further without losing quality. Secondly it claims that you can back up your old VHS tapes to DVD and they will somehow be the same quality as a DVD you buy from the store. Again, false. There is absolutely no way that video that has been recorded onto a VHS tape can be of the same quality as a professionally produced DVD movie; it isn't physically possible. The fact that the web site makes these claims should weigh into your decision on which DVD copying software to buy.
What DVD Squeeze can do is compress DVD movies into either VCD or DivX format so that they can be stored on your hard drive or burned to any kind of media with enough space. It is possible to compress a DVD movie down enough so that it will fit onto a CD in most cases, but you will lose some of the quality and it won't always be playable on a standalone DVD player. The software can handle most types of copy protection and removes them, but some of the DVDs we tried would not work properly. Since you are ripping to a format other than the standard DVD format it will automatically remove region coding from the movies. You can choose which chapters and titles to include in the final video file, but you won't be able to keep any of the menus.
Also included in the bundle with DVD Squeeze is a set of instructions on how to copy PS2 game DVDs. The software itself doesn't actually do this, but the instructions point you in the direction of a number of tools which can. You also get some 'evidence elimination' software, but we aren't sure what this is because it wouldn't work and the website for it is no longer in existence. As a matter of fact there is not much in the way of technical support for DVD Squeeze either.
DVD Squeeze is actually an OK DVD ripping tool. It can't make direct 1 to 1 copies of your DVDs, but it will rip out the movie part and compress it into a useful format. The interface is not the most simple we have come across, but most reasonably experienced computer users should manage to work it out. If you want to make perfect copies of your DVD movie collection then DVD Squeeze is not for you, but if you want to make compressed backups then it is a possible consideration.
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