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Alternatives for Handbrake

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vidyadhar1972

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Hi,

Has anyone found any alternative to Handbrake for Windows ?

What I have found is that Handbrake on Apple runs very fast, and the movie gets converted in 90 minutes or so.

But the same movie takes hours for Handbrake, when running on windows.

One reason might be cos the system takes time to first remove the content protection and then encode.

Is there a faster way of doing this?
 
If you're using Handbrake converting a DVD from the actual DVD medium in your DVD drive, the read speed of the DVD drive slows down the whole process.

It would be better to first rip the DVD to your hard drive and then use Handbrake to convert the DVD (stored on your HDD) to whatever format you want.

When I used Windows years ago, I found DVD Decrypter to be a good DVD ripping software, it was free and could break almost all DVD decryptions.

There is also MPEG Streamclip, which can convert MPEG-2 DVD .vobs into almost any format you like, but you should always copy/rip the DVD content to your internal or external HDD.
 
On Windows... AnyDVD (HD for HD Rips) and meGUI, go to Doom9 and have a look around and learn about it :)
 
vidyadhar1972 said:
Hi,
What I have found is that Handbrake on Apple runs very fast, and the movie gets converted in 90 minutes or so.

But the same movie takes hours for Handbrake, when running on windows.
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Well the first thing to look at is the difference between the Apple and Windows hardware your using. If the Apples cpu is more powerful then of course it`s going to convert quicker!
 
There is no detectable difference in speed between hb on windows or hb on mac. As stated before you are running on different hardware which can make all of the difference.
 
Thanks. I am copying right now. Let's see.

But I still found HB on Mac faster than on PC
 
the best DVD converter I have ever used is Cucusoft for windows. Converts a regular DL dvd in about 20-30 minutes at appletv resolutions on my MBP 2.4 with 4gb. It's $39 but worth it. I will buy it again when they release it for Mac.
 
vidyadhar1972 said:
Hi,

Has anyone found any alternative to Handbrake for Windows ?

What I have found is that Handbrake on Apple runs very fast, and the movie gets converted in 90 minutes or so.

But the same movie takes hours for Handbrake, when running on windows.

One reason might be cos the system takes time to first remove the content protection and then encode.

Is there a faster way of doing this?
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I sometimes use badaboom for my windows desktop. If you have a CUDA ready graphics card than this might be a way to go if you desire speed. I only use the program for iphone/touch encodes. It is fast, real fast but it does suffer from quality issues on bigger screens. The blocking on dark black pictures is horrible. The technology is just not there yet to use CUDA. I still use slow, old reliable handbrake for all my 1080 and 720 encodes for my TV.
 
You guys do realize that the settings in HB can be nerfed to get the same speed as badaboom and that mess from cucusoft ?

There is a good review somewhere of badaboom where they put it up against HB 0.9.3 iirc.

HB's presets are designed with quality in mind for the most part. Speed is considered as well but the feeling is that the user wants an encode close to the source.
 
dynaflash said:
HB's presets are designed with quality in mind for the most part. Speed is considered as well but the feeling is that the user wants an encode close to the source.
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Indeed, I never quite understood the "encode fast" mentality. I'd rather use H.264 and need 4 hours of encoding to get quality results than MPEG-4 and 30 minutes to get a crappy result as fast as possible.
 
dlegend said:
so .h264 is better than mpeg4? speaking in terms of quality not file size.
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Similar quality (if not slightly better) but can pack in more detail at a lower bit rate so you ultimately end up with a smaller file size.
 
Shiner said:
I still use slow, old reliable handbrake for all my 1080 and 720 encodes for my TV.
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How rude! Quality encodes take a long time. Crappy encodes don't. Be grateful that the best transcoder on the market is free! Some people...
 
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