HandBrake 0.7.0 has been released. HandBrake is a multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter for MacOS X. Older versions of HandBrakes are available for Linux and BeOS.
Supported sources:
• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (even encrypted)
• PAL or NTSC
• AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks
Outputs:
• File format: MP4, AVI or OGM
• Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer encoding)
• Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
• Misc features
• Chapter selection
• Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
• Integrated bitrate calculator
• Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
• Grayscale encoding
New in version 0.7.0:
• Multithreaded H.264 encoding with x264
• Added option for H.264 Baseline (suitable for iPods)
• (Very) experimental queue support
• Fixes for some DVD titles HandBrake would not recognize
• Fixes audio gliches when encoding from LPCM tracks
More info and download link here.
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Reality Check
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MW: freedom, ironic, isn’t it?
And why is this even being discussed on MacDailyNews?
anyone know how long it takes to rip a 2 hour movie?
@Question: No, Handbrake does not ‘phone home’ with any info about your computer. It’s a little program made by one guy and released for free, just because he’s a good guy and evidently has lots of free time. He doesn’t care about any info Handbrake might phone home with.
@Hayden: the beta-3 version of Handbrake could not create H.264 movies compatible with the ipod. (MPEG-4’s were fine, it was just H.264 that was broken.) Download the new 0.7.0 and re-rip those five movies if you want to play them on an iPod… (Sucks, but it’s not Handbrake’s fault, that version was out before the video iPod.)
FightClub:
time depends on your cpu and your settings.
On my G4 800 iBook it can take 20 hours. On the dual G5 2 GHz it is a little closer to realtime, or maybe time and a half. This is for some h.264 encoding at 700kbits/s (which always ends up higher when it is done) with 2 Passes.
oh hell no! Man that took me ages to rip thoes DVD’s! crap!
Just rename ‘movie.mp4’ to something else BEFORE you add it to the queue.
I just bought a Ibook G4 14in and installed handbrake, I follow all the instructions but everytime I hit rip the programs stops working for no reason and a screens appears saying the program stoped for a unknown reason, could this be because of the DVD am I doing something wrong?
I used HandBrake to rip a project I’m working on, the DVD’s done, but I need a meny and chapters – I ripped it from VOB to an AVI destination, with an MPEG-$ VIDEO / MP3 Audio codex. Now I have a movie.avi file on my desktop, (only rund ~ 10 sec, project is 58 min), I have handbrake stating that it’s been ripped, I have a dvdrip32573.exe file on my desktop that I can’t open ’cause it’s unreadable.
If anyone knows how I can get the durned information into editing, so I can do the chapters and ship it off, I’d be most grateful…
Cheers – bolt
here is a free dvd ripper.