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OMG... madness! In a good way. That's simply awesome! Nice to know 1TB drives are super cheap nowadays.
almost all of my movies are 2500kbps which includes all the classics like star wars, indiana jones, matrix, LOTR, etc. anything new i do, i do at 1500kbps. i've been so spoiled by blu ray that it just doesn't bother me at 1500kbps. a really nice DVD encode of say, lord of the rings looks so bad up against blu ray, i just don't care anymore.
i'm watching everything on either a 50" Panasonic 720p plasma or a 16' Hitachi 720p Projector. Blu Ray looks absolutely fantastic on the projector.
I was just wondering if their was a special setting in handbrake so it would rip each episode individually? I have 4 volumes of Family Guy and would love to rip them to my
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I was just wondering if their was a special setting in handbrake so it would rip each episode individually? I have 4 volumes of Family Guy and would love to rip them to my
Use MacTheRipper and rip via chapter mode. Then use HandBrake to encode over night.
Is it possible to rip it straight from handbrake? That's what I do with all my standard DVD's. Takes about 2 hours to rip a dvd using a 2500 bit rate.
No, no. There's no reason to do it this way.
Use MacTheRipper to rip the entire disk to the HDD, then use Handbrake to encode the individual episodes.
Pull down the "Title" menu, in the Handbrake window, choose the Title, choose the pre-set that is desired, add the title the queue. Repeat as many times as necessary. Then click the Start Queue button and wait.
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Michael
Mine are ripped from DVDs I own, some I rent from the iTunes store, and se video I have bought from the iTunes store.
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Michael
How do you have 133 movies and its only taking up 120gb? I've only got 70 right now but it's already at 160+gb. What format do you rip in?
I limit the size/quality of the movies when I rip with Handbrake. I usually keep them around 900 MB each instead of the usual 1.5-2 GB they'd normally be. I do this because I have WAY more TV show episodes than movies, and I watch the TV shows more and keep them in higher quality. If I can find a moderately priced TB drive I'll increase the quality from now on.
First, I have yet to buy an TV but have been looking at a 160GB on ebay for some time. I've seen them at $270 plus S/H. I have another week of cable before my contract is done. I have a huge DVD collection which I am slowly ripping (completed about 10 disney, 60 Sci-Fi, several TV shows, and a few music videos) and have filled about 250GB on one of my 4 x 500GB drives on my MacPro. It's a labor of love. I rip a 2hr movie to about 2GB and most 1hr shows under 1GB.
TV but have been looking at a 160GB on ebay for some time. I've seen them at $270 plus S/H. I have another week of cable before my contract is done. I have a huge DVD collection which I am slowly ripping (completed about 10 disney, 60 Sci-Fi, several TV shows, and a few music videos) and have filled about 250GB on one of my 4 x 500GB drives on my MacPro. It's a labor of love. I rip a 2hr movie to about 2GB and most 1hr shows under 1GB.Attachments
First, I have yet to buy an
I think I love you... *drool*
First, I have yet to buy an
Very nice shelving. You'll like the ATV, encoded properly the movies can look the same as the disk and it's very nice to have the ability to scrool thru Movies and TV Shows On Demand, so much so that I think it even overshadows My love of Blu Ray and HD, sure they look better, but I find I'd rather have the disk available to my ATV. But it can be a love -Hate relationship when it comes to storage, I have a 1TB drive on the way to add to my system, it can be a never ending battle. And now I'm pretty much full up on my Mini on what I can plug in, I have about 6 drives. So I'd have to go networked storage of some type and then still worry about backups.
What I think I will do is my this 6th drive my last and rotate off the media, that way I always have fresh content. Probably backing up the encodes onto DVD.
I've stabilized my encoding values to the following Movies I use HB's Apple TV Preset utilizing pretty much the Defaults. For TV Shows I do the same but I drop the Bitrate to 1500 and drop the AC3 and just use AAC audio. Makes my movies about 2 to 2.5 gb and my TV shows around 550mb for an 1hr Program.
Yeah I'm concerned about it, and it can be daunting because if I have 4tb of data I probably need 4tb of backup space, the other altenative is backing up to DVD and hope the disk doesnt go belly up
I worry about it every time I look at my external HDDs.
I have to force myself to buy a 2TB
backup drive. Soon.When I first started ripping I was making a 2hr movie at about 1GB, enough to fit 3 movies on one DVD (for backup). It was fine for my iphone or even my Sonic Impact which is 7 or 8 inch screen. I would put my movies on my 80GB ipod and carry around 30 movies with me plus my music. I also have a ipod DLO base station that hooks up to my 32" HDTV, my TV work around till I get one. But the resolution wasn't the best for the big TV so I have been uping the size to 2GB (movie only, english only). I do have a Blu-ray player and a HD player but even though the picture is beautiful, sometimes, I just like the simplicity of my ripped movies. Even while I have a HDTV I still tend to watch movies on my Macbook or my MacPro monitor (26" HDTV) or my old 20" iMac, go figure.
TV work around till I get one. But the resolution wasn't the best for the big TV so I have been uping the size to 2GB (movie only, english only). I do have a Blu-ray player and a HD player but even though the picture is beautiful, sometimes, I just like the simplicity of my ripped movies. Even while I have a HDTV I still tend to watch movies on my Macbook or my MacPro monitor (26" HDTV) or my old 20" iMac, go figure.Besides having the DVD I have a WD passport 250GB filled with my movies, and 1TB drive using Time Machine directed at my Movie Drive on my MacPro.
I have them stored in my RAID-enabled Readynas NV+. If something happens to them there, I have my purchases backed up to another local drive and online (Mozy), and I guess I'll have to live with re-encoding the rest from my DVDs.
Doesn't matter to me much... I usually end up re-encoding them anyways as Handbrake continues to add new features.
Well, HDD backups are actually more economical, and effective than optical media right now. The idea of the backup is that if one /or/ the other goes bad, you can replace the bad one before the second one fails.
In my case, I take it to a new level.
I have a firewire RAID-5 which has 4 drives in the RAID, and a hot spare. This drive is 2TB of storage which is used for my media library, boot drive backups, general purpose data storage, etc. If a drive fails, the 5th drive takes over and I can swap out the bad one (which becomes the new hot spare). Hopefully that won't lose data on me.
In case that isn't enough (which it isn't... filesystem corruption can still bite you), I have an 800GB Firewire drive that mirrors my iTunes library off the RAID which I take to work and store it in a locked cabinet or whatever. This way, short of a nuclear bomb drop, I have a very low chance of losing my data. Lower than if I trusted optical disc backups.
