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Thanks guys, this is awesome as always. One question. I have recently moved my encoding to Windows from Mac, my PC just has so much more grunt, but I've been unable to rip straight from DVD like I could on a Mac with VLC installed. How do most people approach this in Wndows? I'm on Win 7 64-bit and ...

Well it still depends on the original source in terms of what you can do with it. So if this is a live source, then you should be able to reduce to 29.97 fps without it being juddery. Having said that, with more frames, then you can make more use of b-frames theoretically, and so follow the advice o...

Core i7's apparently rip a 90 mins DVD in about 20 mins... Hopefully Apple will get around to releasing Macs with i7's sometime soon.

What are you encoding? TV shows or films or your own home movies? I am not sure why you need 60fps. A higher frame rate is not going to make up for other deficiences, in fact I would think it could make things worse. I would halve the frame rate, and increase the quality slightly. I find 63% good en...

Now I know why it's so tough to choose the right encoding method - it's almost as though you have to encode the whole thing first (or at least a chapter), to see what happens, just to pick the right encoding method. The problem with Ben Hur (as with a lot of old movies) is that often a chapter can b...

12 Angry Men has a significantly higher resolution, for one (over 80,000 more pixels) -- and would have been even larger if you'd done it anamorphically like you did Ben Hur. This affects other things as well....you're taking an old, grainy source and applying a lot of scaling, which can accentuate...

It is provided as an option to prevent chroma 'rainbowing', but is largely unnecessary these days. However, although it may seem counterintuitive, grayscale encoding frequently requires a higher bitrate than color content. Rodney Yeah, I have found that also. I posted something in tech support abou...

Sorry, I do know better. 12 Angry Men HandBrake Activity Log for /Volumes/1TB iTunes/Rips/12_ANGRY_MEN.m4v: 2009-02-21 02:08:21 -0500 Handbrake Version: 0.9.3 (2008112300) [02:08:21] macgui: Rip: Pending queue count is 0 [02:08:21] macgui: Rip: No pending jobs, so sending this one to doAddToQueue [0...

Hi. I've been ripping a bunch of my classic movies to watch on my Apple TV recently and have really started to like the Constant Quality setting. I use 63%, H.264 and everything else at default. I'll adjust the anamorphic setting as necessary. I've noticed a massive variation in bit rate where I wou...

The faster encode speed is due to you using ffmpeg. I'm guessing you were using x264 previously. You'll end up with a far poorer quality result using mpeg4 Thanks, I realised that when it finished. The Constant Quality doesn't really work with MP4 does it? This produced a 266MB file (for a 2 and a ...

Using a CQ of between 59% and 62%, I usually get encode speeds of around 8 - 12 fps on my Core Duo 2ghz MacBook (1st generation). It has 2GBs of RAM. I am encoding 2001 - A Space Oddyssey - right now, and it averaging 67fps (25% complete) using CQ 61%. Is this anything to do with the source and targ...

I've been using Handbrake for a few years, but this is my first post. I think the CQ is far too sensitive, with the only realistic range being between 55% and 65%, and there being quite a significant difference between, say, 60% and 63%. I encoded the first season of Arrested Development at 59%, giv...