Handbrake is Extremely Slow....?

[eRondeau]

It use to take about 24 hours to do what today's average system can do in 2 hours.

Man, just think about all the math Handbrake needs to do in order to do its thing. Today people throw around Gigabytes like the Pentagon throws around Gigabucks. A single DVD can contain up to 9GB of data, that is 9,000,000,000 one's and zero's, and in just a few hours your Mac can read and intelligently reprocess all of them. NINE BILLION!!! Nine billion seconds = 285 years! The moon is around nine billion inches away from the earth! Three fully-loaded aircraft carriers weigh nine billion ounces! Think about exactly what Handbrake is doing in a couple of hours next time you're stoned, it boggles the mind.

 

[TheStu]

Man, just think about all the math Handbrake needs to do in order to do its thing. Today people throw around Gigabytes like the Pentagon throws around Gigabucks. A single DVD can contain up to 9GB of data, that is 9,000,000,000 one's and zero's, and in just a few hours your Mac can read and intelligently reprocess all of them. NINE BILLION!!! Nine billion seconds = 285 years! The moon is around nine billion inches away from the earth! Three fully-loaded aircraft carriers weigh nine billion ounces! Think about exactly what Handbrake is doing in a couple of hours next time you're stoned, it boggles the mind.

Right, but my processor is capable of doing two things 1,833,333,333 times a second. So... that 9 billion number no longer impresses me. And why shouldn't I throw around gigabytes? My ipod has 30 of them, my desktop 750, my laptop 100, my external drives have 40 each, I have a 50 stack of DVD-Rs, so that is another 230 or so... really, gigabytes are cheap. Heck, 1TB desktop drives are less than $.50 USD right now, some as low as $.30 USD. 750GB drives can be had for as cheap as $150, which is $.20 USD! 20 cents a gigabyte... you can't even get a coke for that cheap, and it is made here!

 

[Cdmphoenix]

I can't wait to see how long it will take me...

I only have 768 mb of ram and a 1 ghz processor so using handbrake will be amazing. I just got a 500 gb external hard drive and have a lot of dvd's, like 90% tv shows and I want to be able to watch them with ease on my mac. I've always wanted a lifetime hobby Can't wait to see how long it takes. By the way any recommendations on what size files for a 15 in screen and a decent quality.

 

[cenetti]

get a mac PRO...I just got one....

it takes about 35min to rip and encode to mp4 Ipod format.....
i've been rippin and encoding all my dvds....

and thats with 2gb (stock) ram....8 cores baby....vrOom VroOm....

 

[chazz889]

Handbrake for Apple TV

The latest version of Handbrake v 0.9.2 which they have claimed will enhance the quality for Apple TV. So I want to know, in order for me to get the best quality, what do I need to do to get it encoded to .m4v quicker. I'm ripping it with Mac the Ripper as it does it in a snap.

I just wanted thoughts about how to get this job faster. Theres Handbrake Lite which does do it super quick. But I want to back up my entire library(When you have little kids, they have little hands) as a backup.

Any help please??

 

[tomster2300]

Unlikely. It is more likely because Handbrake has its roots in Unix / Linux environments.

Also because Vista lives in the world of DRM and won't let you do squat if the file is flagged.