coodbe, I seen those posts you reference. A couple of the folks were real turds with their response to you. That's why I will do the reviews here where the members treat each other with respect.
I took note of Sam's (the author) comments regarding compression levels and have used his formula and its pretty much rite-on. I am doing the full and movie only mode reviews at this time and also some reviews on his ripper. I am coming up with some interesting findings on how the different write programs (1click, Clone, Recode) will process the same files in full disc mode and come up with different compression levels. Oh well, you will see as I post the reviews.
I am finding that the few that have posted with problems with these two programs have probably not taken the time to delve into them. I am impressed with them both so far but not through with my testing yet.