Pausing Handbrake

[Bonesone4]

Can I pause Handbrake during a rip, take that DVD out and insert a blank DVD to burn a project I have on my desktop, and then re-insert the DVD I am ripping, and then resume the rip?

[sammich]

Copy the DVD video_ts folder to your computer first? Then use that copy on the computer instead of the physical DVD.

[smurfjammer]

I don't think so because when you re-insert the disc it would try and rescan the DVD.

[Bonesone4]

Copy the DVD video_ts folder to your computer first? Then use that copy on the computer instead of the physical DVD.

Interesting...so if I wanted, I could copy over as many of those folders over from my DVDs as I wanted and set Handbrake up to just keep ripping them one after another?

PS - I'm already 90 percent done with this rip but I need to burn a quick DVD for tomorrow morning and there's still like 3 hours left to finish ripping, (which would put me somewhere around the 1am range) that's my whole reasoning of wanting to pause

[smurfjammer]

Interesting...so if I wanted, I could copy over as many of those folders over from my DVDs as I wanted and set Handbrake up to just keep ripping them one after another?

PS - I'm already 90 percent done with this rip but I need to burn a quick DVD for tomorrow morning and there's still like 3 hours left to finish ripping, (which would put me somewhere around the 1am range) that's my whole reasoning of wanting to pause

You would have to use Fairmount or Mac the Ripper to copy them to your hard drive.
What I do is rip 4-5 Dvd's to my hard drive then setup Handbrake to encode them one after another.

[Ivan P]

I don't think so because when you re-insert the disc it would try and rescan the DVD.

Handbrake only tries to automatically find a disc when you first open it - every other time you have to manually open the Source menu and locate the disc.

@OP: I've paused and ejected discs halfway through rips and reinserted them and it picks up where it left off perfectly, never had a problem with it.

[Bonesone4]

You would have to use Fairmount or Mac the Ripper to copy them to your hard drive.
What I do is rip 4-5 Dvd's to my hard drive then setup Handbrake to encode them one after another.


Cool...how long does it normally take to rip to your hard drive? I usually just insert the DVD, choose it as the source in Handbrake, and away it goes. Usually takes about a full day to rip and have it ready to watch via AppleTV.

[bobbleheadbob]

I don't think so. I've had to restart under similar circumstances.

[smurfjammer]

Cool...how long does it normally take to rip to your hard drive? I usually just insert the DVD, choose it as the source in Handbrake, and away it goes. Usually takes about a full day to rip and have it ready to watch via AppleTV.

With Mac the Ripper 15-20 minutes to the hard drive then encoding with Handbrake (G5 iMac - 12 hours per disc / MacBook 1 hour per disc)