Handbrake settings?

[slipper]

I want to rip a few DVDs to take along on my upcoming trip. What would you folks recommend for the settings? I would prefer the files be around 1gb or lower and i would like to it be playable on my girlfriends Windows netbook.

Right now i am thinking:

Format: MP4
Video Codec: H.264
Framerate: same
2 pass turbo/first pass
Average Bitrate: 1000

 

[oculus42]

H.264 may not run well on a netbook. You might try MPEG-4 (ffmpeg) rather than H.264. It will encode much more slowly, though.

 

[huntercr]

I want to rip a few DVDs to take along on my upcoming trip. What would you folks recommend for the settings? I would prefer the files be around 1gb or lower and i would like to it be playable on my girlfriends Windows netbook.

Right now i am thinking:

Format: MP4
Video Codec: H.264
Framerate: same
2 pass turbo/first pass
Average Bitrate: 1000

How big is the harddrive?

You might consider simply ripping the DVDs directly ( by that I mean leaving them in VOB format ) and play them with VLC.
That's what I do. Yes, the files are big, but its also lower work on the CPU to decode MPEG2 than MPEG4+ ( on mine anyway it is ) so you get less battery usage.

 

[slipper]

Maybe i'm not doing something right. Its taking forever to rip, approx 150% longer than the length of the DVD. My settings are:

file: .mp4
codec: H.264
bitrate: 1000
single pass

What are your recommended settings that produce good quality but dont take so long to rip.