Handbrake: I LOVE THIS MACHINE!

[eXan]

Ice Age (for my daughters) just ripped in 4 minutes 50 seconds.

Seriously, Get DVD Shrink. Install it. Use it.

You keep talking about how much faster it is to rip in Windows, but what about the time it takes to transfer the file back to Mac? I'm asking because I've never used virtualization app to run Windows on my Mac, just BootCamp.

Also, why would anyone spend hundreds on a copy of Windows and VMWare just to get a better ripping performance when the UB version of MactheRipper should be out soon?

 

[iBlue]

iBlue (or anyone else who knows): What is the iPhoto icon at the bottom of the picture with the little files around it?

I'm sorry, I only just noticed this post. That is iPhoto Library Manager We use it to organize multiple iphoto libraries from multiple machines when compiling all our data onto the mac pro (which is now the only machine we routinely backup, the others are all mostly browsing machines)

 

[hotshotharry]

I'd love to see a screen shot of an octo core turning out a .264 encode (handbrake) showing cpu usage and a screen shot of handbrake with all the numbers!!!

I bet all the cores aren't even over half loaded!?

I am looking for a reason for why i might need one of these haha!

 

[GotPro]

You keep talking about how much faster it is to rip in Windows, but what about the time it takes to transfer the file back to Mac? I'm asking because I've never used virtualization app to run Windows on my Mac, just BootCamp.

Also, why would anyone spend hundreds on a copy of Windows and VMWare just to get a better ripping performance when the UB version of MactheRipper should be out soon?

Actually, it doesn't take any time at all to transfer the file back to the Mac.

All you do is set up a shared folder on the Mac... and have the VMWARE Windows install use that as a mapped drive... in my case, it's z:\

Z:\ is mapped to my /Volumes/Media/To Be Encoded folder on my Mac.

This way... the file is written to the Mac Partition, IMMEDIATELY ready for encoding in OS X!

Also, many of us (especially in IT, or coming from the Windows world) already have a copy of Windows XP... the OEM version of XP Home can be found on pricewatch.com for ~$85, the OEM version of XP PRO can be found for ~$130.

Not a bad price for a tool, in my opinion, of course, if you've already laid out several thousand dollars for the machine.

Those that don't want to use it, of course, are free not to

 

[utekineir]

I'd love to see a screen shot of an octo core turning out a .264 encode (handbrake) showing cpu usage and a screen shot of handbrake with all the numbers!!!

I bet all the cores aren't even over half loaded!?

I am looking for a reason for why i might need one of these haha!

Took me 5 simultaneous apple tv ish quality encodes to load things all up, the numbers still looked pretty solid too.

 

[jjahshik32]

Hey guys I'm new to the dvd rip scene and want to know if you can encode the dvd to an h264 (hd)??

Also I dont know why, everytime I load a dvd handbrake tells me no source found...??

 

[Mackilroy]

Hey guys I'm new to the dvd rip scene and want to know if you can encode the dvd to an h264 (hd)??

Also I dont know why, everytime I load a dvd handbrake tells me no source found...??

HD as in reencode a DVD to HD quality? No. You can easily rip a DVD with HandBrake into .h264, but it will not magically become HD.

As for ripping, are you selecting the source DVD in HB? When you put one in the drive, you have to go to 'Source' in the top left corner, and then just go to the desktop, select the DVD, and click 'Open.' You'll be good to go then.