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Same DVD title? Try it.

And do you know if your MacBook's optical drive is made my Matsu[Censored]a?

It's a pun. "Rocky Balboa" is a fighter ... fighters go down when knocked out etc. ... sheckylovejoy, I too was able to successfully rip Casino Royale with MTR 3.0d r14. Has Ripguard+ARccOS but as I recall the coupé de grace is the inclusion of fake .vobs or fake .ifo files. MTR's Main Fea...

And don't you also get about 20% more maximum bitrate if using DPLII? (384/6=64 vs. 160/2=80)?

Pimpbot, after you browse, what happens when you select a valid VIDEO_TS folder or DVD? Does HB then scan it?

I wasn't aware Handbrake could set any tags.

You forgot Step 9, Return intentionally crippled DVD to store due to breach of contract. (not that I'd want to go toe-to-toe with Sony's lawyers, but there it is.) Really, the only message that will filter back to Sony is the one that hits them in the pocketbook directly. And I'm not advocating anyo...

Can't recommend enough for you to cast your gaze a few inches above this thread, up in the Land of Stickies™, for an entertaining and heartwarming tale of love and loss, deception and intrigue, hope and despair on this very question.

... But as with music transferred to iPod, there's no way to transfer the movie back from the iPod to my Mac. Or is there a program that will enable this? Your movies are still in iTunes, right? Somehow, I have the feeling the answer is "no." Senuti and other apps can move music back to a...

Update: they will replace the disks with modified versions. No word yet on whether they rolled back to an older version of ARccOS or patched the current. http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6434584.html

Sounds like you're taking the long road to making a Mac mini, particularly since the opposite can also be done --- load the AppleTV interface onto a normal Mac ... however I recognize the component and HDMI outputs advantages of ATV. Good luck. [Edit]: Keep in mind that talk of how-to-hack-an-ATV is...

re: Sony Tech: We know about this problem. Its our new copy protection that’s making these discs unplayable in some players including our own, we do not intend to change the copy protection. Oh come now. Sony'll ditch it in a heartbeat once enough people take the only action that really matters: ret...

Since the encode isn't the problem, adjust your TV or monitor. Many TVs have custom user presets and of course OS X can use different custom profiles to switch in a jiffy. And then in 5 years when Apple fixes it you can forget all that and still watch your old encodes as-is.

Ouch, I didn't realize it was the total bitrate, not per channel being used. Hell yeah, crank that sucker up. Having said this, and perhaps I am being too critical, but I still think the sound quality is not as “rich” as the original AC3 track from the DVD Probably just means you have a good ear. Co...

On p. 5 we were lucky to have been paid a visit by the A52Codec developer. If that support winds up allowing Quicktime to handle AC-3 in an intelligent way for use in the types of files HB is designed to make, don't you greatly prefer that to what you're proposing?

I've not been able to test on a movie with it's own soundtrack because I don't know how to extract a usuable DTS or DD file and use it on QuickTime. Well, that is what this thread is all about, AppleTV, which unfortunately makes your opening statement, I've succefully played a movie with DTS audio ...

Any takers? Take copious notes and let us know them. Jot down exactly how you ripped the disk, or parts of it --- and what version of HB worked or didn't. At the very least it'll prod you to perhaps try it a different way. Just saying it doesn't work isn't going to crack this particular nut --- the...

Firstly, I agree petvas shouldn't have posted a direct question about an SVN build. But since he did, now what? One option is to find a way to perhaps lessen the chance of occurance in the future, for everyone's benefit. I made an observation to that end. The trac is linked on the Development page o...

Its all listed on the website ;) There's a reason petvas didn't know the URL. URLs for the trac and everything within are Easter Eggs. There are two primary pages most of us are aware of, the forums page and the main Handbrake page. Links to the trac and everything within aren't linked at either. E...

sasha there are some things I want to highlight in your post: ... I have done following: - purchased a Griffing Firewave and connected it to my surround receiver with 6 discrete inputs ... The sound quality of both AAC files is kind “empty” especially when compared with the orginal surround track (i...

Last night, when reading jbrjake's quote and summation about how the wrong frame rate is often reported by FFMpegX I didn't see where he reached his conclusion. And then it hit me --- it would have been better if they'd written that (in that example) the DVD player performs NTSC frame rate conversio...

... is there any software that will give the correct framerate though? I've never seen anyone mention an OS X app that will do this, if that's what you mean. When using an OS X binary of MPlayer and watching the Console (or log) output, it doesn't report frame rate or other clues mentioned in the M...

Important info in this thread about a commonly-asked topic. Would like to see it stickied, or better yet, the relevant posts copied and added to sr55's FAQ sticky in Support?

But DO pay attention to what baggss mentioned about your MacBook's [Censored] optical drive. Some drives rip better than others (i.e. it's not all up to the ripping software) and the ripdifferent.com forums have scads of ugly news about these drives. YMMV, but if you rip a lot of movies don't be sur...

I like SuperDuper too, and it'll also optionally create a sparse disk image.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/ ... ption.html

Leo, you seem to be asking if the TV should be taken into consideration when deciding whether or not to de-interlace interlaced content. I've been told that it isn't a concern. This is my understanding. Corrections/clarifications from the group are always welcomed: Old TVs that need an interlaced si...