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malikk

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Hello,
I was curious what everyone gets for taking a DVD (Out Cold for example) which is a standard I think 1 hour and 30 minute DVD and putting it on your computer.

I am using handbrake... Normal settings preset on a 2010 macbook with 4gb ram. It is about half done (a little less) and it still says their is an hour left. I know this won't be a 5 minute and you are done deal. I am just trying to get some Nice quality but I do not want it to take forever... As I want to put my entire library on my hard drive (about 30-60 DVDs... I may get rid of some as they were "impulse" buys, I will probably never watch again).

So I guess I am just wondering, if there is anything I can do to speed up the process... while not destroying my video quality too much (I am not the type of person who NEEDS the best HD etc. etc. etc. quality. Still working off composite video with a .. oh man.. 10+ year old tv?). Although eventually I will be getting a nice LCD tv and possibly Apple TV 2 depending if internet media stream becomes a possibility (with jailbreaking or not).

If you need any other information, please ask! I think I gave you everything you would need to give me a "estimate". I do understand though you may just be speculating compared to your own observations.

Thanks!
Qua Sar
 
wheezy

wheezy

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I used a 2Ghz Macbook a few years ago and handbraking was about real time; 2 hours for a 2 hour movie. I think most dual core setups run around this time.

I rip everything on the Apple > Universal preset they offer.

More cores will speed up the process a lot, my 2.8x8 MacPro can do a 2 hour movie in 15-20 minutes.
 
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malikk

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What is better than h.264? And how much bigger are we talking about for filesize? Roughly.
 
Cave Man

Cave Man

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Not much is better than h.264. It's a compression algorithm - and compresses multiple frames into one, if possible. But that requires a lot of processor effort to encode/decode, which is why it's slower. File size can be half or a quarter as much, but a 2 hour encode in h.264 may only take 30 min as a conventional MPEG-4 file.
 
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malikk

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Jul 16, 2008
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Ah ok.

And will a mpeg4 audio/video (whatever audio the natural handbrake does ... i think it's 5.1 dolby) work on an apple tv. I do not want to have to re-encode all of the movies IF i end up getting a apple tv.
 
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aelalfy

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malikk said:
Hello,
I was curious what everyone gets for taking a DVD (Out Cold for example) which is a standard I think 1 hour and 30 minute DVD and putting it on your computer.

I am using handbrake... Normal settings preset on a 2010 macbook with 4gb ram. It is about half done (a little less) and it still says their is an hour left. I know this won't be a 5 minute and you are done deal. I am just trying to get some Nice quality but I do not want it to take forever... As I want to put my entire library on my hard drive (about 30-60 DVDs... I may get rid of some as they were "impulse" buys, I will probably never watch again).

So I guess I am just wondering, if there is anything I can do to speed up the process... while not destroying my video quality too much (I am not the type of person who NEEDS the best HD etc. etc. etc. quality. Still working off composite video with a .. oh man.. 10+ year old tv?). Although eventually I will be getting a nice LCD tv and possibly Apple TV 2 depending if internet media stream becomes a possibility (with jailbreaking or not).

If you need any other information, please ask! I think I gave you everything you would need to give me a "estimate". I do understand though you may just be speculating compared to your own observations.

Thanks!
Qua Sar
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Hi,

If I recall correctly, the "normal" preset, using h264 as video codec. try changing that to the other option MPEG-4. I noticed that when I switched that, my encoding time drop dramatically.

EDIT: Ops noticed someone already told you about the MPEG. and It works on my AppleTV 2nd generation. Also try iFlicks, it does metatagging and encoding. when I download .avi i used to encode them with handbrake (MPEG) for speed but now I use iFlicks to do the job. First its amazing at metatagging and when I use the "HD 720p" Preset, it converts the files to a .mov which are smaller than the original by 1/3 and work great on the new appletv, and no signs of video loss.

Thanks
AE
 
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gunthermic

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Sep 15, 2010
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On avg I get around 35-50 minutes using High Profile which uses H.264. I liek this one becuase i get the AAC/AC-3 audio into my file which of course takes longer. But then the movie is capable of playign on Apple TV 1/2 with dobly digital sound(5.1) but also has sound in stero to play on computer and iPad...

i7 Core with 8 Gig mem.
 
From A Buick 8

From A Buick 8

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I have been using the High profile setting also and most of my encodes have been 30 to 40 min and the file size was around 2 gig on average. I have done about 300 DVD's so far.

However I just did "Saving Private Ryan" and that one took almost 2 hours and the file size was 3.91 GB, by far the biggest file and longest encode time i have had yet.
 
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Rkelac

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Nov 14, 2010
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From A Buick 8 said:
I have been using the High profile setting also and most of my encodes have been 30 to 40 min and the file size was around 2 gig on average. I have done about 300 DVD's so far.

However I just did "Saving Private Ryan" and that one took almost 2 hours and the file size was 3.91 GB, by far the biggest file and longest encode time i have had yet.
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You should try BluRays. Some of them take between 4 and 5 hours on a quad processor machine.
 
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malikk

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Jul 16, 2008
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Wow wish i had an i7 8gigs, haha. Or rather a Macbook Air that'd be awesome even if it would probably then take longer to encode, haha.

I am starting to encode at mpeg4 with AC3 5.1 ch audio codec AAC.

Seems to be going pretty fast (faster than most things i encode)... hopefully it will work on an apple tv 2 whenever I get one (down the rode, haha).

One day, I will learn to just buy things by digital download. I still get DVDs though. Seems safer than putting all I own on a hard-drive. I guess if I do itunes or amazon video download though, you are able to redownload if you lose the video.

Thanks for your input so far guys!
 
tbayrgs

tbayrgs

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Rkelac said:
You should try BluRays. Some of them take between 4 and 5 hours on a quad processor machine.
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That's nothing. Try encoding blu-rays at 720p on a 2.0 C2D Mac Mini---8-10 hours while 1080p is a good 16-18 hours.
 
chrono1081

chrono1081

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FYI for everyone talking about RAM encoding uses the processor way more then the ram.

I get awesome times on the macbook pro in my sig. Using the Apple TV present I can do a DVD in 15 - 25 minutes (some as low as 8 minutes!!!) and Blu-Rays between 45 minutes (if using MakeMKV) to 4 hours if using Aunsoft (although I prefer Aunsoft)
 
slipper

slipper

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Whats the difference in quality using a MP4 container with a H.264 codec versus a FFmpeg codec?
 
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Ritsuka

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H.264 has a much higher quality/bit ratio than mpeg-4. So with h.264 you file will be smaller but with the same or better quality.
 
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thetruth1985

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It takes me about 45 minutes to encode a movie on my 2009 2.66 GHZ, 4gb ram, macbook pro and around 30 minutes on my i5 imac. What I do is first rip the movie using DVDFAB through parallels. It only takes 10 to 15 minutes to rip the movie and then I archive the original dvd file to another hard drive after converting it. I think it's better this way plus you are not using your dvd drive as much.
 
From A Buick 8

From A Buick 8

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thetruth1985 said:
It takes me about 45 minutes to encode a movie on my 2009 2.66 GHZ, 4gb ram, macbook pro and around 30 minutes on my i5 imac. What I do is first rip the movie using DVDFAB through parallels. It only takes 10 to 15 minutes to rip the movie and then I archive the original dvd file to another hard drive after converting it. I think it's better this way plus you are not using your dvd drive as much.
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What settings do you use in HB
 
Pressure

Pressure

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Using High Profile (and the much superior H.264 encoding) on my Mac Pro (early 2008) it usually takes between 1.5 hour to 3 hours depending on the source.

As an added bonus it also means smaller files. 5GB-8GB mkv's usually compress to around 2GB for 720p, which is perfect for streaming.
 
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Stoutman11

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Aug 17, 2010
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intersting info guys! thanks! takes me a little under 2 hours for a 2 hour movie with my c2d 2.0 processor 4gb of ram. I have been doing quite a bit of dvd ripping as of late i just run it with the normal preset. What am i missing by doing that?
 
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