standard film takes about 20 minutes on my i5, 3hours on my atom using handbrake (i did it once just for the sake of seeing how slow it is). for those with nvidia gpu mediacoder nt cuda may be worth a look, can't control it quite as much as handbrake, but outputs a good quality file in less time, which is great when you are doing a lot of films. it also has a 'watch' folder to just dump your files into and automatically ques them to be transcoded. it is also freeware.
DVD Fab is free for rips ONLY rip to HDD then using handbrake to convert there is NO NEED to rip + convert then convert again !!!
MakeMKV does the lot, all my library is ripped using this. Occasionally you'll get a protected disc that'll not play ball, in which case use DVD Decrypter first to extract, then MakeMKV to encode. Quality is great, especially played back via WDTV Live on a 50" Panasonic telly.
I think were all getting confused here. I was using DVDFab to rip the DVD to a video file. But the quality was poor and as I now realize it was because i had the settings to go to .avi files instead of H264 which was why the quality was poor. But now the trial DVD Rip feature on DVDFab i have no way of ripping but to copy to a unprotected VOB folder and then use handbreak. Which does produce a good quality but takes dam forever. I am now contemplating paying for DVDFab because im going to need convert all my DVD's to files before September when i go to uni.
my point is WHY. There is no need to do that at all. I use DVDfab 8 to rip a DVD to HDD. It rips in RAW format so they are all .vob I then use handbrake to convert it to what ever i want. in my case is convert to .mkv (H.264 codec with CQ of 17) Its the best way to do it although does take time my i7 920@4Ghz takes about 10-15mins to convert a 2hr film. if you want quality and control over it thats the way to do it.
That is what im doing now but originally i was using a trial of DVDFab DVD Ripper and it was a single operation from DVD to a watchable .avi file (as i didnt change the settings to H.264)
What are you using to play the file? If you have something like the WD TV Live you could just use MakeMKV to get an MKV file that is perfectly playable and all in one easy step. You would only need to use Handbrake then if you wanted to shrink the file size while maintaining quality.
I used to use DVDshrink without compression, quality over size cheesecake...for dvd's those 5 GB are worth it. Been a few years though. I've switched to only watching Blurays so no more ripping (no drive)
quality and size Cheesecake DVD rip then handbrake to .mkv in H.264 codec with CQ @ 17 with a few other settings makes 2hr film around the 2GB mark and look indistinguishable from DVDs
no but you could use MP4 as the container and use H.264 still i just prefer .mkv as its more flexible.
^ MKV allows chapters, MP4 does not. So if you are using .264 and mp4 with a wdtv media player you have to fast forward etc. That's why I use mkv. Or at least that's been the case for me so far.
I use dvd decrypter and dvdx. I'm not bothered by chapters or anything like that, so avi is just the ticket.
Compression is interesting for blurays or handheld devices, otherwise...the TB is so cheap, why bother?
i compress because it means the difference between 6GB uncompressed DVD = ~160 or so films on a 1TB HDD 2GB compressed film = ~500 or so on a 1TB with no noticeable loss in quality you cramming an extra 340 films in the same space now ive got around 300 films that im slowly converting so i either pay £80 for a 2x 1TB (RAID1) or pay £160 for 4x 1TB thats why - saves me money, space and power
What Handbrake settings are people using for playback on PS3? Do you usually keep the original screen resolution?
well i use this: note ive only listed settings ive changed from default container: mkv but for PS3 just use MP4 Anamorphic: Loose Video codec: H.264 constant Quality: CF@17 subtitles: forced ONLY reference frames: 3 B-frames: 3 Adaptive B-frames: Optimal subpixel motion estimation: 7 thats it
Ah, well in raid everything doubles I guess... Then again, the time spent converting these 500 movies should have a certain value as well. for me, having ten days of uninterrupted 100% encoding or spending 50€ on a 2TB drive...different choice than yours But you're right, for a collector, it makes sense
handbrake does batch encoding so i can put it on when i go to work when i get back it should have blitz'd through up to 30 DVDs. i never do that many at once but if i needed to i could without it interfering with gaming or PC use.
