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Handbrake tells me I'm done after two minutes

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 8:11 pm
by Roger in Charleston
I've been using Handbrake 0.7 for about a year with no problems. Today I started to rip two DVDs after about two minutes it tells me I'm done. I check the file and of course its only got about 20-30 seconds in it. I thought maybe it was some new copy protection and tried another. Same thing, so I uninstalled 0.7 and downloaded and installed 0.8.5. Same result.

Any ideas what is going on? The only thing I can think is different in any way is last night I came in and my daughter had put in a DVD my mother had asked her to rip which was a copy of a sermon from her church. The beachball was spinning and had been for over an hour. I had to forcequit and ultimately do a hard shut down to get it to stop. I don't know if that damaged the optical drive. If i stick these DVDs in to watch they play fine.

Roger

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 12:43 am
by Roger in Charleston
For some reason I find I can rip the CD with no problem if I start with Chapter 2. Of course, it means I miss the start. Any suggestions?

Roger

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 2:31 am
by baggss
What is the movie in question? Home made movies have lots of issues with HB.

Did you read the sticky thread about Zero Cell movies? Maybe you should.

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:21 am
by deckeda
Yeah, if the DVD came straight from a camcorder or was transferred to DVD privately from the church's videographer, all bets are off. Something like that might not conform quite to spec even though it plays fine in a DVD player. Software rippers and DVD players approach things from a different perspective.

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 8:14 am
by Roger in Charleston
The movies I am having problems with are Talledaga Nights and Casino Royale. Both are newly released commercial. Also tried to rip on my son's brand new Macbook with same results, so it's not my optical drive. May be a new copy protection?

Roger

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 1:54 pm
by baggss
Both are on the Zero Cell list for known copy protection. Both have issues with HB.

Read the sticky at the top of this forum.

Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 2:07 am
by Roger in Charleston
baggss wrote:Both are on the Zero Cell list for known copy protection. Both have issues with HB.

Read the sticky at the top of this forum.
Yes. After reading the thread on zero cell issues, I have concluded the church video misfire was a coincidence or red herring. I will have to check out MTR.

Thanks for the assistance.

Roger

Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 8:54 pm
by robbiebushe
Roger in Charleston wrote:The movies I am having problems with are Talledaga Nights and Casino Royale. Both are newly released commercial. Also tried to rip on my son's brand new Macbook with same results, so it's not my optical drive. May be a new copy protection?

Roger
Yes i have just tried Casino Royal and the same thing happened to me. This after mac the ripper failed as well - must be new encoding...