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Handbrake crashing on encoding in Leopard
- Thread starter adsl3g
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I dont think his dvd player supports it.
broken1
Expert Member
Handbrake crashed once, the first time I used it - and has been fine since!
No, I haven't but I read on the Handbrake forum this is a know issue with Divx on intel macs- does not work. Will downgrade to 0.9.1 tonight and see if that will solve my problem.
@limnos - H.264 is not supported by my DVD player else I would have used it.
Works fine - converting DVD's to DivX - must just get the best quality to size ratio now.
Moonglum
Well-Known Member
I use Visualhub on 10.5 and it works like a charm.Very fast and it converts from basically anything to anything
Does it convert directly from the DVD or do you have to use mactheripper?
Visualhub is excellent! It does it all, and it's only 10MB.
bwana, here's a couple of its features:
Features:
* Fast conversion from nearly every video format to iPod, PSP, DV, DVD, Tivo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG and Flash.
* Convert any file in three steps. Click, drag, click.
* Fit up to 18 hours of video on one DVD. Play it in any standalone DVD player.
* Xgrid support. Use the power of every Mac on your network for batch encoding.
* QuickTime Pro or special plugins not required.
* DivX/XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime struggles with are supported.
* Batch Processing of multiple files. Save in-place, or to a different folder.
* Very comprehensive Advanced panel to modify every aspect of encoding.
* Dynamic Preview - See results before beginning a long encode.
* Stitch multiple files together to combine videos.
* Highly detailed, informative Users Guide.
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel Macs.
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
@bwana - You can convert directly from a .VOB (currently doing it now with the iPhone optimization) with an unencrypted DVD. You will need to use MacTheRipper for DVD's that are encrypted. Honestly is amazing software! Offers H.264 encoding as well.
*Edit - Forgot to thank Moonglum for the recommendation
bwana, here's a couple of its features:
Features:
* Fast conversion from nearly every video format to iPod, PSP, DV, DVD, Tivo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG and Flash.
* Convert any file in three steps. Click, drag, click.
* Fit up to 18 hours of video on one DVD. Play it in any standalone DVD player.
* Xgrid support. Use the power of every Mac on your network for batch encoding.
* QuickTime Pro or special plugins not required.
* DivX/XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime struggles with are supported.
* Batch Processing of multiple files. Save in-place, or to a different folder.
* Very comprehensive Advanced panel to modify every aspect of encoding.
* Dynamic Preview - See results before beginning a long encode.
* Stitch multiple files together to combine videos.
* Highly detailed, informative Users Guide.
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel Macs.
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
@bwana - You can convert directly from a .VOB (currently doing it now with the iPhone optimization) with an unencrypted DVD. You will need to use MacTheRipper for DVD's that are encrypted. Honestly is amazing software! Offers H.264 encoding as well.
*Edit - Forgot to thank Moonglum for the recommendation
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I'll stick with Handbrake then for my DVD to H264 encodes - It is all I ever do anyway.@bwana - You can convert directly from a .VOB (currently doing it now with the iPhone optimization) with an unencrypted DVD. You will need to use MacTheRipper for DVD's that are encrypted. Honestly is amazing software! Offers H.264 encoding as well.
*Edit - Forgot to thank Moonglum for the recommendation
ffmpegX is also an awesome app . . . and its free . . . . so when need to do something a little different I can always use that.
Thanks for the recommendation though.
Can it convert MKV files with soft subtitles to MP4/AVI H246 BP/divx/xvid?
Ok I found: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MoKgVm2DVD
and it's been rewritten for Leopard.
There is an alternative called MPEG Streamclip and it's FREE.
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What does the quality look like after encoding... I am not entirely satisfied with Handbrake's dIVx encoding..
give ffmpegX a whirl - it's got a whole set of pre-sets that should yield suitable results. Like visualhub you'll need MTR, unlike visualhub it is free. If free doesnt work then give the pay ones a shot.
btw - whats wrong with the job handbrake is doing? You're doing dual pass right?
give ffmpegX a whirl - it's got a whole set of pre-sets that should yield suitable results. Like visualhub you'll need MTR, unlike visualhub it is free. If free doesnt work then give the pay ones a shot.
btw - whats wrong with the job handbrake is doing? You're doing dual pass right?
No, - that takes too long (I lie cause I haven't tried it). Will give it a whirl this weekend.. I also don't like too many settings. makes things too confusing.
It has a turbo first pass setting iirc so it's not too painful and 2-pass makes a world of difference both in handbrake and ffmpegX.
Moonglum
Well-Known Member
My pleasure
Thanks, I did see that on their site but it would appear that version 0.9.1 does not have that setting and it takes twice as long. Will d/load ffmpegX to see what that is like.