Encoding DVDs to iPod

[Benjamindaines]

I'm using HandBreak right now to put DVD movies on my video iPod and it takes forever, about 2 hours. Are there anyother faster apps to do it?

 

[iBookG4user]

What are the specs of your computer? And think about it this way, a DVD holds 4.7GB of space for a single layer and 8.4GB for a DL, and your computer is encoding that much data. My intel iMac can do it in about 40 Minutes and my iBook takes well over 3 hours. But no, I don't know of any faster apps and your computer is doing it really fast compared to my iBook.

 

[Benjamindaines]

What are the specs of your computer? And think about it this way, a DVD holds 4.7GB of space for a single layer and 8.4GB for a DL, and your computer is encoding that much data. My intel iMac can do it in about 40 Minutes and my iBook takes well over 3 hours. But no, I don't know of any faster apps and your computer is doing it really fast compared to my iBook.

I am using a 1.9 GHz iMac G5 and doing other things at the same time, sometimes I run the DVDs at night so I don't know exactly how long it takes when its only encoding the DVD.

 

[26139]

Dude...

I am using a 1.9 GHz iMac G5 and doing other things at the same time, sometimes I run the DVDs at night so I don't know exactly how long it takes when its only encoding the DVD.

It takes two hours to rip and encode a full dvd movie? That's actually not bad.

Other alternatives are to use Mac the Ripper to rip the entire DVD and then set up a queue to encode the movies overnight.

Oh, and handbrake DEFINITELY isn't that fast on any G5. I suspect it may be optimized for Velocity Engine, but I am not sure. It also seems to perform better with faster processors, for example my 1.5ghz 5200go equipped powerbook is faster than my buddy's 733 G4 tower with a kick-ass video card AND faster than a 1.6ghz iMac G5.

So...MTR to rip four or so movies, handbrake overnight to encode them all. Works good for me.

 

[26139]

Oh and...

Oh, my buddy's Macbook pro (1.83, gig ram) is about five times faster at encoding anything.