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[garyi]

I must be very unlucky but practically any commercial DVD I put in to handbrake comes back with main title found but then only the opening credit comes up before the movie ends.
No doubt the encryption. But a massive stumbling block non the less, making handbrake for me totally pointless.

[Jason Snell]

I've ripped dozens of DVDs using HandBrake and haven't seen this issue. Are you using the latest version?

[Grapho]

It works fine on older DVD editions of movies. Anything new needs to be decrypted by some other application.

[solipsism]

I wish they had a way to auto convert video files with preset settings from a particular folder when they are added. It would surely make getting torrents converted, put into iTunes and synced to AppleTV much easier. But I suppose that isn't really needed now that the new AppleTV hack just came out.

[Chris Breen]

Grapho said:

It works fine on older DVD editions of movies. Anything new needs to be decrypted by some other application.

Give the new developer version a try with VLC installed. You may have better luck.

[garyi]

Yes thanks Chris, I see that it needs vlc now and seems to have happily started on Matrix Revolutions which it would not touch before.

Happy days.

[Schneb]

This is GREAT news. I like the way Handbrake works a LOT and have always wanted to use it on individual files!

[byronkim]

Not that it hasn't already been said...but Handbrake rocks!!
My only real complaint is that it has issues converting to large files. It's really been an issue with two pass encoding with longer running time material. Doesn't seem to be an issue with in single pass mode.

[sg9]

is this a typo?
"Beginning with version 0.9.2 of HandBrake.."
did they mean beginning with 0.9.3?

[Grapho]

So does this in effect make the use of Mac The Ripper obsolete?

[dynaflash]

Well, yes and no. Its not obsolete since you still may need it for more advanced copy protection of dvd's.

[dynaflash]

yes, 0.9.2 still had built in libdvdcss. All snapshots since require a copy of vlc installed in your /Applications directory as HB now uses their copy to read commercial dvd's. HB all by itself can no longer read copy protected dvd's.

[MorrisTheCat]

I wonder if this will convert .wmv files into another format. I have a small collection of WMVs that I would like to convert to QT or .avi, etc. I know the non-free versions of Flip4Mac do this, but I've been avoiding buying it just to convert my files. I wouldn't have any use for it on a regular basis.