HandBrake

I've just run across the sound drop issue while using 0.8.5.b1 for the first time (previously had been using 0.7.1b) Movie - Signs Destination - desktop file, SATA drive Source - from DVD DVD drive - external La Cie firewire: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3520AW: Firmware Revision: 3.04 Interconnect: FireWire Burn...

Funny. A user asks "can this be more like Apple" -- meaning -- it just works and the user is relieved of unnecessary technical details. In response, he gets a link with footnotes to "Zawinsky's Law" and discussion of polyvalency. Talk about barking up the wrong tree.

After reading a number of your core group's "support" posts, it seems you really are a petulant and condescending bunch. If the end-user community is such a bother to you why don't you find something with less commercial appeal to work on? It usually takes a lot to annoy me, but I must say...

Any hope of handbrake itself actually dealing with these DVDs directly? Telling people "go pay for a beta release of X, and then run Y, and THEN you can finally use OUR program...." ... Rather exasperating.