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Post by Alan on Dec 4, 2008 22:56:07 GMT
The latest version of Handbrake (0.93) now does far more than just ripping DVD files. It now converts loads of video file formats. I wonder f they picked up some code from the defunct Visual Hub? Whatever, it's a great free utility: handbrake.fr/Alan.
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Post by Forum Cat on Dec 5, 2008 12:02:14 GMT
One day I really will have to get round to ripping my DVD collection. Till then it is wall to wall shelving.
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Post by Ian Moffatt on Dec 5, 2008 20:07:50 GMT
One day I really will have to get round to ripping my DVD collection. Till then it is wall to wall shelving. Yes but you won't bin the DVDs will you? You'll still have all the original ones Ian
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Post by Forum Cat on Dec 5, 2008 22:01:20 GMT
One day I really will have to get round to ripping my DVD collection. Till then it is wall to wall shelving. Yes but you won't bin the DVDs will you? You'll still have all the original ones Ian I will keep them, just not display them. Or if I do I might just keep the "cool" ones on display and keep Dirty Dancing and Miss Congeniality under my bed.
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Post by davidmn on Dec 6, 2008 21:39:18 GMT
Sweet. I have tried other apps in the past and they havent worked with proper DVDs they were designed for home made ones i think.
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Post by davidmn on Dec 19, 2008 17:25:08 GMT
UPDATE
Its brilliant, ripped my DVDs so they can be streamed to my Xbox. It even ripped some DVDs that I had had trouble with in the past.
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Post by Alex Coplan on Dec 29, 2008 19:26:15 GMT
Yeah I love Handbrake - AWESOME quality, but be careful if you want to sync them to your iPod/iPhone/any other iThing that you might have, you need to select the ripped movie in iTunes then select Advanced > Create iPod or iPhone version, then go bungee jumping to pass the time, it takes a long time and is VERY cpu intensive. It's not quite so bad when you've got 2.66 Ghz under the hood, and 2 GB RAM but if you get the error "This Video Could Not be Synced" or such like, try that
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Post by Alex Coplan on Dec 29, 2008 19:29:11 GMT
I have had a problem where I inserted a DVD, it scanned it and on the last title, it instantly crashed and that happened every single time, but it was only on that DVD. (I have tried everything, reboot, update, etc) It works fine in the DVD player, was it a bad sector designed deliberately to crash that kind of application? Help Please!
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Post by gavin on Jan 1, 2009 21:26:22 GMT
What's the best way to rip DVDs for max quality without regard to size? I know you can just copy the entire contents of the DVD to the hard drive, but can that folder then be used by Frontrow or an XBox for example?
What if you wanted to rip the main feature at full quality but store it as a single MPEG4 file for example, rather than a Video_TS folder?
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 1, 2009 22:52:58 GMT
Handbrake does do pretty good quality, on my 24' iMac it looks fine full screen
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Post by gavin on Jan 2, 2009 9:03:00 GMT
I'm sure Handbrake's quality is great - but what settings to use, that is the question?
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 4, 2009 18:05:24 GMT
I used to fiddle around with the setting, but seriously, normal is fine
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Post by Jinja on Jan 4, 2009 19:59:45 GMT
Down loading this now - will give it a whirl...
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Post by Alex Coplan on Jan 4, 2009 20:18:09 GMT
jinja, you are doing the right thing, and may the force be with you
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