Holiday Roundup: Silverlight and iPhone, Handbrake, Black Friday Success and Cyber Monday

[mkrishnan]

I swear a movie used to take ~2 hours to encode to H.264 with the Apple universal preset.

Now it takes about an hour with HB 0.94. It's like I bought an i7 iMac or something.

I hope quality is the same. I haven't tested that much.

Out of curiosity, what kind of Mac is this? Is it running HB in 64-bit mode, and what kind of memory footprint is HB using? That's pretty neat.

My fave holiday computer-related break was AT&T's refurb Black Friday sale on iPhones... mine (32GB white 3GS is due in shortly.

 

[vstephenson]

I just downloaded the newest HandBrake and now it won't work.
I pop up says," VLC is not 64 bit. try anyway-download 64 bit VLC- cancel"
VLC 1.0.3 is not 64 bit- and try anyway doesn't work. what am I doing wrong here.

Same for me. I went to DL 64bit VLC and the website says it isnt available yet

So I am at a loss for how people are getting the 64bit version of Handbrake to work

*edit* just found a link to 64bit VLC...
http://videolan.cdn.cacheboy.net/vlc/1.0.2/macosx/vlc-1.0.2-intel64.dmg

havent tried it yet

*edit2* They lie, its still the 32bit version, so back to the original problem (
vin

 

[trip1ex]

Out of curiosity, what kind of Mac is this? Is it running HB in 64-bit mode, and what kind of memory footprint is HB using? That's pretty neat.

2.66ghz C2D imac early 2k9model. Handbrake is running in 64-bit mode. I only have 2gigs of ram not sure what HB is using.

I'm seeing much better performance for whatever reason. Maybe it's the way they define the presets now compared to then. I'm using the same Apple Universal preset, but they could have changed it.

I still haven't watched any video to make sure HB isn't taking any shortcuts.

 

[mkrishnan]

2.66ghz C2D imac early 2k9model. Handbrake is running in 64-bit mode. I only have 2gigs of ram not sure what HB is using.

Thanks -- it sounds to me like the big benefit here is not so much the 64-bit code but must be that it is using multiple cores and threads more effectively than it was before.