HandBrake

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I've read the documentation, and that's a lot of info to process, so i'm a bit fuzzy, so sorry if this has been covered a billion times, but if a person keeps the "decomb" and "delelicene" options on all the time, does it cause a loss of quality in videos that don't need either o...

Well, i tried it and it worked. i experimented a little and found that for my "family guy" dvds, the desired effect was achieved by checking detelicene, while my "reno 911" dvds looked good while checking "decomb".

I've been experiencing this same problem. Exactly. I've set detelecine to 'on' and decomb to "default". I'll report back!

works with mac the ripper

no luck. this is weird. I'm trying to do seasons 1 and 2 now. They don't work. Though, I did season 4 several days ago and it worked fine. I'll try with mac the ripper and report back again.

I'm actually having this issue right now. I've used RipIt to rip my "The Office" DVDs and am using handbrake to try to get them into my itunes. not luck, the encodes hand at 100%. Up to this point, I've had no problem encoding videos ripped with RipIt. The version of Rip It i was using was...

Thanks for the confirmation! It's nice when I surprise myself and actually figure out something on my own! hahahaha

I think I figured it out. I think I can kinda tell which portions of the Title are the actual episodes based on their length. I go into the "title" in HB, select which one I want, add it to the queue. Is that the best way?

Basically, that's my question. I want to handbrake all the episodes from my television show DVD collection (The Office, Family Guy, 30 Rock, Arrested Development). I have ripped them to the hard drive on my mac pro and want to encode them to watch on my macbook. but, I can't figure out how to do all...

thanks a ton for the help. I appreciate it a lot. I think my optical drive is working fine. I have been doing rips this afternoon and they've been from 16 minutes for single layer DVDs to about 24 minutes for full 7+GB dual layer DVDs.

that would be awesome. thank you. I don't have MTR 3. I believe mine is like 2.6.6 or something. It's the free one. I looked into getting 3.0, but what a headache with all the hoops you have to jump through! I wonder if 3.0 rips faster than the older version. Anyhow, ripping a 7.4GB video with Ripit...

PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-112D internal drive. shipped with my 2006 mac pro. it has a transfer rate of ~3.3 M/s at the beginning of the disc, slowly getting faster as it reaches ~6.5 M/s at the outer areas of the DVD. edit: the disc drive doesn't really ramp up during the rip. I would think that it should,...

I don't think it will. I can do an encode in about 30-40 minutes, depending on the length of the movie. I did buy ripit, and it takes 40-50 minutes to rip a whole dual layer dvd. so, I guess I wasted that money... unless there's a way to rip JUST the feature, and none of the extra stuff.

OK. I see. with those settings, it uses around 30% on the first pass, which shows up as ~275% in the processes window. Kicks up to around 350% in second pass. 800% would be total processes

edit: uses processors better (~600%) when I set it to constant bitrate of 62%

thanks rodeo. I like that i can get pretty decent quality at about 1.5GB as opposed 4 or 8 on a straight rip. I think I'll stick to handbrake-ing them. But I would imagine I could cut lots of daytime work by getting ripit, which takes a lot less time than handbrake encoding, then setting up a handbr...

@jbrjake: I'm basing that off of... activity monitor.

thanks, I'll check it out. edit: looks like one can use ripit and watch the dvd's on their computer just like if they were watching off the dvd. is the advantage of using handbrake only to make a smaller and/or ipod compatible video? because I don't watch videos on my ipod. I want to put my movies o...

no worries. I had the same question a while back.

OK. With a program like Mac The Ripper?

Have you downloaded and opened the newest version of VLC player? That should do the trick.

I have an 8 core 2006 Mac Pro, and encodes are only using around 30% of my total processes. Is there a way to max them out? It seems like before I updated to the newest version of the software, it used more of my processing power. Thanks. And I don't know much about how the software works, so I appr...

I'm on a Mac, and I have the newest version of VLC (0.9.8) and I still get the garbled picture and sound that the OP describes. I guess I'm dense, but is there a way to actually view the movies (my own, that I've legally purchased) after encoding them with handbrake? I mean, if handbrake doesn't mak...