I'm going through the process of digitizing my DVD library by ripping with ripit, then converting using the ATV2 preset in Handbrake. I'm ripping the DVDs by day, converting by night using my 2012 MBA i7 ultimate. It's currently taking about an hour per 90 minute movie to convert in handbrake. I know the Air isn't a processing powerhouse and this certainly isn't the kind of work I had in mind when I bought it, but can anyone else confirm whether this is on par? If so, are there any modifications I could make to the presets to speed up conversion without noticeably sacrificing quality? I realize that sounds like a dumb question, but maybe the preset is including extra audio tracks or other data I don't need or don't know about.
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Handbrake With MBA - Any Tips?
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When ripping DVDs i use Handbrake to rip and convert to mp4 in one session. takes about 30min for a 90min movie on my MBA i5
See, I felt like I must be doing something wrong. Do you use a preset? What's your magic?
How fast is the latest-gen MBA at ripping DVDs using Handbrake? My iMac rips DVDs just a little bit faster than the video's time. It's much better than the C2D MacBook Pro I owned.
Unfortunately, there are no DVD's using the aTV required h.264 codec, only MPEG2. Only Blu-ray uses the h.264 codec (and not 100% of those). As mentioned, just remuxing can result in a very high bitrate file which stream fine over ethernet but may choke on using wifi. So remuxing, although an option for BR's, will not be the best choice in all situation.
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Herp da derp... I'm being dumb and apparently replied to this post while exceptionally tired. Long story short, don't listen to me because my way wont work. =]
Cumon dude!!! Get some sleep!!
I was just trying to make sure the OP had complete info before going that route.
Thanks for the tips. Remuxing is definitely out mostly for file size reasons. I don't mind the quality of what the ATV2 preset puts out in handbrake when the file size is usually only 1 - 1.5 gb.
I'm going to try ripping and encoding in one step with handbrake tonight and see if that saves any time. After encoding several DVDs last night it does seem like the longer conversions are resulting from rips from dual layer disks with 8gb video_ts files, which, because, derp. I did see a few full conversions in about 30 minutes.
I was excited to read about the tagging software in the Macworld tutorial, but I can't seem to get it to work. In iTunes 11 in ML, it claims to write the tags, but they don't show up on Import to iTunes. If I try to import to iTunes to automagically, the software just stops responding.
Any suggestions for batch tagging software?
UPDATE: Okay, so I actually did some reading on my own and found metaz, which pretty much seems to pickup where metax left off. I'm still open to suggestions if there's anything better out there, but this is way better than the manual editing I was doing.
I'm going to try ripping and encoding in one step with handbrake tonight and see if that saves any time. After encoding several DVDs last night it does seem like the longer conversions are resulting from rips from dual layer disks with 8gb video_ts files, which, because, derp. I did see a few full conversions in about 30 minutes.
I was excited to read about the tagging software in the Macworld tutorial, but I can't seem to get it to work. In iTunes 11 in ML, it claims to write the tags, but they don't show up on Import to iTunes. If I try to import to iTunes to automagically, the software just stops responding.
Any suggestions for batch tagging software?
UPDATE: Okay, so I actually did some reading on my own and found metaz, which pretty much seems to pickup where metax left off. I'm still open to suggestions if there's anything better out there, but this is way better than the manual editing I was doing.
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MetX/Z, iFlicks, and Subler are the popular ones. Personally I use Subler, which is updated semi-consitently and always works very well for adding metadata. It does take an extra step or two than some others but it allows the full range of tagging and metadata options to be used. Plus, its free, so thats always nice too.