[Dan Frakes]

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Do we know if this Handbrake version can work with the Elgato Turbo .264 to speed up H.264 encoding?

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No, because apparently the Turbo 264 uses QuickTime and HandBrake uses open-source technologies.

[rogerr]

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I just want to play a VIDEO_TS folder on my Apple TV with 5.1 and DVD features intact. I can do it in Front Row with DVD Assist, so I can't believe it's a technical issue.
Am I the only person who want to replace a bookshelf full of DVDs with a hard drive? Why is this so freakin' difficult?

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Hear, hear. Who has time to rip and reencode all their DVDs? I used to dub all my LPs to tape, to prevent wear on the records. But that was before I had a life.

[Jason Snell]

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Am I the only person who want to replace a bookshelf full of DVDs with a hard drive? Why is this so freakin' difficult?

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It's not difficult at all. It's just illegal to create the tools to let you do it, under the DMCA.
Yet another example of DMCA stifling innovation and consumer convenience in a lame (and fruitless) attempt to stop piracy.

[ccurtisny]

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My issue with these programs is it won't allow me to rip to a format that I can then take into Final Cut and edit. MP4 and H.264 files are not recognized by FCP. There are things I'd like to edit out and sometimes Cinematize doesn't work. Good program though.
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Actually check out visualhub. it lets you convert to DV format (and there is even a "ready for Final Cut" button, but I don't have FCP, so I'm not exactly sure what that does

[Dan Frakes]

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Actually check out visualhub. it lets you convert to DV format (and there is even a "ready for Final Cut" button, but I don't have FCP, so I'm not exactly sure what that does

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That's a good point. You'll still need to use something like MacTheRipper to get your DVD onto your hard drive as a VIDEO_TS folder, but VisualHub can then convert that content to NTSC or PAL DV.
(As for the Ready For Final Cut option, the VisualHub manual says When this is selected, VisualHub will create DV-in-MOV files that Final Cut Pro/Express can use without the need to re-render either the audio or video track.)

[vinylwarrior]

One thing that isn't mentioned in the review is which setting was used in VisualHub. Was it just the iTunes/Apple TV profile at 'standard,' or what was the quality setting set to.
The file size difference seems pretty incredible if it's impossible to distinguish between the two in terms of quality.

[Dan Frakes]

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One thing that isn't mentioned in the review is which setting was used in VisualHub. Was it just the iTunes/Apple TV profile at 'standard,' or what was the quality setting set to.
The file size difference seems pretty incredible if it's impossible to distinguish between the two in terms of quality.

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I used Visual Hub's default Apple TV setting, which is indeed Standard. And, yes, I was surprised by how close in visible quality the two files were given the difference in file sizes.

[bigpics]

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HandBrake lets both beginners and experts get their own DVDs onto all their digital devices. [more]

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Whoa!
What a meaty forum discussion with great contributions by both MW editors and other posters.
Alas that the net result is the melange of things one has to do, the docs to wade thru, the multiplicity of overlapping programs and number of choices of specific re-purposed final outputs to be considered convinces me that as a person who loves PC's as power tools for the mind, but not the intricacies of computing to enable those tools, I'm in no rush to do anything with my DVD's but stick 'em in a DVD player and play 'em on my TV until the situation sorts itself out quite a bit further. Nor do I wish to go through and end up with maybe three-five versions of each video (e.g., one original rip with complete surround sound -- assuming I can get it out of the computer; one suitable for further editing -- with a format depending on my editing tool(s); one without the original sound track ready for iPod and AppleTV, etc).
Ergo, unless I'm overcomplicating matters, an enterprise not ready for the busy, the non-technical and/or faint of heart unless one simply wants to do the same thing to every DVD and (copy-protection permitting) and have it happen in a small number of repeatable semi-intuitive steps.
And I can only imagine more layers of complication once folk routinely start ripping and re-encoding HD-DVD and Blu-Ray....

[Dan Frakes]

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Ergo, unless I'm overcomplicating matters, an enterprise not ready for the busy, the non-technical and/or faint of heart unless one simply wants to do the same thing to every DVD and (copy-protection permitting) and have it happen in a small number of repeatable semi-intuitive steps.

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Perhaps, although if all you want to do is get your DVDs onto your Apple TV, or onto your iPod, the process is quite simple for most DVDs: Insert disc, click on Apple TV (or iPod) preset, click on Start. It doesn't get much easier than that /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[jonhutton]

Loads of video solutions and I use handbrake/isquint depending on what I'm needing to rip/convert ...
Although what I would really like is an easy to use piece of software that allows me a one-click way to extract audio tracks from my concert dvd's to put into iTunes ...
I used some IMTOO software on a PC at my old work but can't use their mac-version as I've still got my DP-G5 PowerMac ...
Any ideas or developers listening that want to add audio extraction to their products ?
Thanks
Jon

[Charles_Martel]

h1. HandBrake 0.9.0
by Dan Frakes

timestamp(1166691600000,'longDateTime')Dec 21, 2006 4:00 am

23 Comments

If this article is dated in December, how do we get all the comments before this dated one in August and September?

[kmix93]

blackfrog, on 21 August 2007 - 02:04 PM, said:

The longer the movie industry avoids getting their movies onto the ITMS, the more movies will be illegally ripped with the Netflix + Handbarke combo.
Stupid movie industry.

I like the handbreak+ redbox also :-)