How to rip a DVD with HandBrake

#1 Macworld

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 05:01 AM

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 05:43 AM

This is also handy for when you rent a DVD or check one out from the Public Library to watch at a later time, such as on a trip. Just be fair and delete it afterwards if you don't buy it.

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 06:02 AM

iPlaid, on 02 February 2011 - 05:43 AM, said:

This is also handy for when you rent a DVD...

You mean you still have video rental stores in your area? All of those stores have gone belly up where I live.

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 06:09 AM

Macworld, on 02 February 2011 - 05:01 AM, said:

Step Five: Tag your movie with metadata

Now that's useful. I've added album art to most of the music CDs that I've ripped to iTunes, thanks in large part to various automation tools for finding that bit of metadata -- but I had no idea that there were such tools available to give ripped movies the same type of treatment! I'll certainly have to try that out later. Thanks, Jonathan!

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 06:22 AM

Forced Subtitles

Although most movies in whatever your native language is don't need subtitles some parts are in foreign languages. In Subtitles I always set English and check Forced Only which records subtitles for non-native language parts of the movie.

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 06:29 AM

To rip a Blu-Ray disc, buy a portable Blu-Ray drive from FastMac and the $19.95 app BluRay Ripper Pro by Blumac. This might be interesting for the millions of people living outside the US who don't get the full AppleTV experience (no original soundtrack, no Netflix).

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 06:31 AM

i just ripped my entire dvd collection, over 50......on a Imac g-4.
including Monk tv episodes borrowed from the library.
is there a way not to use VCL, from mactheripper?

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 06:42 AM

Question. I have various Apple products for viewing movies, iPad, iPhone and recently Apple TV for my plasma TV. When I use Handbrake I want it to work on all my devices but what I care most about is the format and quality on my Plasma TV, I don’t care as much if it isn’t perfect on my iPad. I have been using the preset "normal" setting on Handbrake. Is that correct or should I be using Apple TV or other?

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 07:03 AM

I used to create two copies: one for AppleTV (don't have one, but it's big enough to watch on my Mac) and another for my iPhone 3G (quite small in size, watchable). The new preset for iPhone 4 creates files almost as big as the AppleTV preset, so now I use only the Universal preset to create a single file, instead of two different versions.

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 08:02 AM

zarmanto, on 02 February 2011 - 06:02 AM, said:

iPlaid, on 02 February 2011 - 05:43 AM, said:

This is also handy for when you rent a DVD...

You mean you still have video rental stores in your area? All of those stores have gone belly up where I live.

There are still plenty of DVD kiosks around.

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 08:09 AM

iPlaid, on 02 February 2011 - 05:43 AM, said:

This is also handy for when you rent a DVD or check one out from the Public Library to watch at a later time, such as on a trip. Just be fair and delete it afterwards if you don't buy it.

Of course you know that what you are doing is illegal and just let the whole world(well, Macworld community, anyway) that you just broke the law. ;-)

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 08:11 AM

traveller09, on 02 February 2011 - 06:42 AM, said:

I have iPhone4 and AppleTV and use AppleTV setting. I did find out that the setting will not work for my daughter's iPhone3G, though.

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 08:14 AM

Just remember handbrake is an encoder not a 1:1 copy of a DVD. I use Mac DVDRipper Pro to backup my DVDs.

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Posted 02 February 2011 - 09:10 AM

Josesk, on 02 February 2011 - 07:03 AM, said:

Just so you're aware, the Universal Apple setting in Handbrake creates a file that is viewable on all Apple devices (including old iPod Videos), but is not the best quality file. For the best quality, go with the AppleTV2 setting, which is playable on all A4 devices (ie: iPad, iPhone 4, Apple TV 2nd generation) and has the highest quality without being enormous.

Of course, if you have an iPhone 3G, as you say, Universal is the right way to go. If you have upgraded to an iPhone 4, though, ATV2 is the way to go.