FFMPEGX vs Handbrake - the race is on

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JStrike said:
Bah, both blow in comparison to iSquint
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You're kidding right? I'm looking to encrypt all my dvd's so the little one doesnt mangle them - iSquint looks positively featureless compared to the other two.
 
iSquint has all the features, but in a much better interface
Handbrake is also a dead project. The lead developer dropped off the face of the planet a couple of months ago. So they dont support h.264 640x480, etc
Nice thing about handbrake is that it supports ripping straight from DVD to iPod. iSquint will require MacTheRipper
 
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JStrike said:
iSquint has all the features, but in a much better interface
Handbrake is also a dead project. The lead developer dropped of the face of the planet a couple of months ago. So they dont support h.264 640x480, etc
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Well I'll run it and see how it compares.
 
JStrike said:
Handbrake is also a dead project. The lead developer dropped off the face of the planet a couple of months ago. So they dont support h.264 640x480, etc
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Sounds like ur using Instant Handbrake, I quite happily rip to 640x480 h.264 using Handbrake.
 
Instant Handbrake and Handbrake are created by the same person (titer iirc)
One or two people have tried patching it to add new features, but they are pretty badly broken builds. There is even a new website dedicated to trying to patch it until titer resurfaces
The last official build for Handbrake was in Feb 2006
 
JStrike said:
Instant Handbrake and Handbrake are created by the same person (titer iirc)
One or two people have tried patching it to add new features, but they are pretty badly broken builds. There is even a new website dedicated to trying to patch it until titer resurfaces
The last official build for Handbrake was in Feb 2006
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Handbrake (the full version) seems to have a lot more features compared to iSquint - neither seem to hold a candle though to ffmpegx.
 
bwana v.21 said:
Handbrake (the full version) seems to have a lot more features compared to iSquint - neither seem to hold a candle though to ffmpegx.
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I haven't used ffmpegx yet, but as far as I can see you can't rip directly from a DVD. Is this right? That's a deal-breaker for me right there.
 
BobJones said:
I haven't used ffmpegx yet, but as far as I can see you can't rip directly from a DVD. Is this right? That's a deal-breaker for me right there.
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The only stumbling block is copy protection and even handbrake seems to trip over that.
 
bwana v.21 said:
The only stumbling block is copy protection and even handbrake seems to trip over that.
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I haven't come across a dvd handbrake couldn't rip yet... care to name a couple of titles?

So you can rip direct from DVD using ffmpegx?
 
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BobJones said:
I haven't come across a dvd handbrake couldn't rip yet... care to name a couple of titles?

So you can rip direct from DVD using ffmpegx?
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First one I tried it crashed so regardless of what app it needed to be ripped first.

EDIT - found one that handbrake likes so am giving it a shot now. Encoding to h264 is intensive! Is it worth it?
 
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I haven't had any issues with handbrake crashing... pop in DVD select settings, rip.... wait... wait... done!

The h264 works fine, they scale well. I use front row with 640x480 rips on the 40" LCD 1366x768 and the quality is fine, not the same as component dvd, but passable.

Since disk space is relatively cheap, I don't mind the size... at 640x480, 2hrs rips to about a gig with frame rate about 1000.
 
BobJones said:
I haven't had any issues with handbrake crashing... pop in DVD select settings, rip.... wait... wait... done!

The h264 works fine, they scale well. I use front row with 640x480 rips on the 40" LCD 1366x768 and the quality is fine, not the same as component dvd, but passable.

Since disk space is relatively cheap, I don't mind the size... at 640x480, 2hrs rips to about a gig with frame rate about 1000.
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Really didnt like that one as much as I had hoped. Went back to VLC sharpish ;)

I've got a lot of dvds to encode so will probably stick to xvid for now - they frame rate while encoding is twice as fast as the h264.
 
OK - so I've got a bunch of my Band of Brother dvds queued up in Handbrake and by the looks of it the first four of the collection might be done sometime tomorrow :eek:

Couple Handbrake qns then for the experts. I'm encoding to H264 and AAC audio so . .

Firstly, Bitrate - 1500 - excessive?
Secondly, 2 pass - necessary?

I'm looking for quality here as I'm storing the physical media away from the grubby fingers. :)
 
I haven't had any problem with one pass encoding at a bit rate of 1000 to 640x480. No artifacts etc.

One thing I have noticed is that handbrake sometimes locks memory which then extends encoding time.

The higher the bit rate the longer encoding will take, sometimes taking way longer than the actual length of the material encoded esp on ppc.
Good quality rips on the g4mini can easily take 3x the duration!
 
BobJones said:
I haven't had any problem with one pass encoding at a bit rate of 1000 to 640x480. No artifacts etc.

One thing I have noticed is that handbrake sometimes locks memory which then extends encoding time.

The higher the bit rate the longer encoding will take, sometimes taking way longer than the actual length of the material encoded esp on ppc.
Good quality rips on the g4mini can easily take 3x the duration!
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Two pass obviously doubles the encoding time which would explain why I'm still on the fourth episode. :o Using h264 is also sloooowwww - half the speed that I get encoding to xvid so it had better be worth it!

Too late to change the encoding specs now so I'll experiment later - perhaps with the size too.
 
I suppose you copied to HDD and are encoding from file? Why not just let it run overnight?

At least with h.264 you can load it onto the ipod.
 
BobJones said:
I suppose you copied to HDD and are encoding from file? Why not just let it run overnight?

At least with h.264 you can load it onto the ipod.
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It has been running since last night. Band of brothers - my current project - is 6 dvd's with 2 episodes on each. With 2-pass on that means 4 tasks per dvd.

Right now I'm task 9 :o
 
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