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fivepoint said:
Excellent idea. I bet that makes an amazing difference... depending on a few things, you might be able to make it even faster. When you're by your mac, use mactheripper to pull DVD contents onto your computer... when you have quite a few or you're ready to leave your computer, get the ones from the PC, and the ones from mactheripper, and put them all into your Handbrake Queue.
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I have mactheripper on the MBP, but haven't used it yet since I don't have a lot of free space to store multiple DVD images. 250 GB hard drive and I think right now I have 10.2 GB free. :p

DoFoT9 said:
or maybe you could just directly rip them off your PC using handbrake?? (there is a PC version).

or you could rip all of the dvd's onto the PC hard drive, then locate the files via network and rip using handbrake using some sort of batch conversion??
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I had no idea! This would save tons of time between transferring from PC to external and then having to keep my mac connected to the external and not able to move it around at will. I'll look into it tonight! The network thing just isn't plausible due to increased processing time across the network, especially cross platform between Leopard and Vista. Bleh. But I love the handbrake for PC idea. Thanks for this.
 
newappleboy said:
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I had no idea! This would save tons of time between transferring from PC to external and then having to keep my mac connected to the external and not able to move it around at will. I'll look into it tonight! The network thing just isn't plausible due to increased processing time across the network, especially cross platform between Leopard and Vista. Bleh. But I love the handbrake for PC idea. Thanks for this.
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thats ok, it comes in really handy for all types of converting. at the moment i am converting all of my crappy .avi files into .mp4 (lossless conversion hopefully). i am using my home network which is connected via gigabit ethernet which i notice no slow down in processing times, its actually faster because i can convert on a much faster computer than my laptop.

how are you connecting each computer?? if you have 802.11g wireless then my method would be a tad to slow, but if you have 802.11n or 100/1000 ethernet then it would be perfect!!

handbrake on PC is a little bit wierder, but its not too bad it still converts well. have fun!

p.s. do you have the newest universal binary MacTheRipper?? its a lot faster than the old PPC version
 
I just downloaded MTR a couple days ago, so I have the most recent version (I think). I tried using the windows version but it's SO ugly and I couldn't seem to get it to do .mp4 format; it kept putting it in .m4v and that's not what I want. I tried manually changing the extension and it processed 3 movies about 5 seconds and there was no output, so I know it didn't do it right. For now it looks like I'm stuck ripping on the PC and then transferring to the mac for conversion. I did 5 last night and have 8 working right now while I'm at work. Maybe I'll play with it more this weekend.
 
newappleboy said:
I just downloaded MTR a couple days ago, so I have the most recent version (I think). I tried using the windows version but it's SO ugly and I couldn't seem to get it to do .mp4 format; it kept putting it in .m4v and that's not what I want. I tried manually changing the extension and it processed 3 movies about 5 seconds and there was no output, so I know it didn't do it right. For now it looks like I'm stuck ripping on the PC and then transferring to the mac for conversion. I did 5 last night and have 8 working right now while I'm at work. Maybe I'll play with it more this weekend.
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thats quite wierd. .m4v is a container file of .mp4, you should simply be able to chance the extension back to .mp4 and it would work, i have done this on many a mac. it could possible be some winblows problem.
 
Just crossed 1K!!

Well, it's been a lot of hard work, but all my DVD ripping is finally done. Just over 1000 movies in just under 2tb's of data. Here's what i've learned:

1) rip comedies at 1500 2-pass (turbo fist pass) don't worry about ac3 5.1 passthrough

2) dramas and thrillers 1500 2-pass and make the call on the audio

3) big budget 1750-2000 2-pass and don't forget the ac3 5.1

4) don't forget the subtitles. certain movies like kill bill will require you select the "autoselect", "forced subtitles only" in handbrake. this ensures that the few foreign dialogue scenes are subtitled correctly.

5) back everything up!! you want 2tb's worth of movies, you need 4tb's.

6) you want perfect playback everytime with no skips, pauses or glitches? start your movie and quickly pause it. make some popcorn and wait about 15-25 minutes and resume. the entire movie will be sent to apple tv and you'll never have a problem. higher bitrate movies 2500+ seem to have more of a problem than lower bitrates.

7) tag everything correctly. it's not fun, but it's worth it. someday you'll want the year the movie was released, the name of the director, etc.

8) get poster artwork from impawards.com. looks way better than the stupid dvd artwork. can be very nostalgic.
 

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swimfan said:
Well, it's been a lot of hard work, but all my DVD ripping is finally done. Just over 1000 movies in just under 2tb's of data. Here's what i've learned:

1) rip comedies at 1500 2-pass (turbo fist pass) don't worry about ac3 5.1 passthrough

2) dramas and thrillers 1500 2-pass and make the call on the audio

3) big budget 1750-2000 2-pass and don't forget the ac3 5.1

4) don't forget the subtitles. certain movies like kill bill will require you select the "autoselect", "forced subtitles only" in handbrake. this ensures that the few foreign dialogue scenes are subtitled correctly.

5) back everything up!! you want 2tb's worth of movies, you need 4tb's.

6) you want perfect playback everytime with no skips, pauses or glitches? start your movie and quickly pause it. make some popcorn and wait about 15-25 minutes and resume. the entire movie will be sent to apple tv and you'll never have a problem. higher bitrate movies 2500+ seem to have more of a problem than lower bitrates.

7) tag everything correctly. it's not fun, but it's worth it. someday you'll want the year the movie was released, the name of the director, etc.

8) get poster artwork from impawards.com. looks way better than the stupid dvd artwork. can be very nostalgic.
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wow... thats amazing

just a quick Q, what tagging program did you use?? MetaX SUCKS for tv shows, when i do it it gives all episodes the same description hmph.

nice effort very impressive
 
DoFoT9 said:
wow... thats amazing

just a quick Q, what tagging program did you use?? MetaX SUCKS for tv shows, when i do it it gives all episodes the same description hmph.

nice effort very impressive
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yeah, i use metax, but it's still a large chore. making a preset for each season seems to help. the preset will include artwork, year, network, season, etc. then i manually fill in the titled of the program, program ID, etc.

i know we are a few years ahead of the itunes curve, but at some point, itunes will include auto-fill-in for movies and tv shows, just like they slowly rolled out artwork for music. i think that's a ways off considering there's only a few of us out there with collections that are big enough to really use that feature.
 
swimfan said:
yeah, i use metax, but it's still a large chore. making a preset for each season seems to help. the preset will include artwork, year, network, season, etc. then i manually fill in the titled of the program, program ID, etc.

i know we are a few years ahead of the itunes curve, but at some point, itunes will include auto-fill-in for movies and tv shows, just like they slowly rolled out artwork for music. i think that's a ways off considering there's only a few of us out there with collections that are big enough to really use that feature.
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Here's hoping!
 
swimfan said:
yeah, i use metax, but it's still a large chore. making a preset for each season seems to help. the preset will include artwork, year, network, season, etc. then i manually fill in the titled of the program, program ID, etc.

i know we are a few years ahead of the itunes curve, but at some point, itunes will include auto-fill-in for movies and tv shows, just like they slowly rolled out artwork for music. i think that's a ways off considering there's only a few of us out there with collections that are big enough to really use that feature.
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aaah i didnt know that you could make presets!! thats a very good feature. i will start using that, thankyou
 
I'm still trying to find out how to use visual hub to convert my HD mpk files into itunes
 
swimfan said:
4) don't forget the subtitles. certain movies like kill bill will require you select the "autoselect", "forced subtitles only" in handbrake. this ensures that the few foreign dialogue scenes are subtitled correctly.
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I'm having a problem with Kill Bill Volume 1... I did what you said but when I play the movie the sub's arent there. They are there in the black/ dead part of the screen while watching the DVD in dvdplayer but when I rip it handbvrake doesnt include that black part so I dont see the subs.

In Kill Bill Volume 2 the subs show up on the main screen so it isnt a problem.

any suggestions?
 
When you crop away a region in a movie, Handbrake should reposition the subtitles for you. The subtitles in Kill Bill Volume 1 may not be listed as forced subtitles, but something different. :(
 
Krevnik said:
When you crop away a region in a movie, Handbrake should reposition the subtitles for you. The subtitles in Kill Bill Volume 1 may not be listed as forced subtitles, but something different. :(
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How can I not crop it? Im using the AppleTV preset modified with the forced sub's and autoselect subs.
 
swimfan said:
Well, it's been a lot of hard work, but all my DVD ripping is finally done. Just over 1000 movies in just under 2tb's of data. Here's what i've learned:

1) rip comedies at 1500 2-pass (turbo fist pass) don't worry about ac3 5.1 passthrough

2) dramas and thrillers 1500 2-pass and make the call on the audio

3) big budget 1750-2000 2-pass and don't forget the ac3 5.1

4) don't forget the subtitles. certain movies like kill bill will require you select the "autoselect", "forced subtitles only" in handbrake. this ensures that the few foreign dialogue scenes are subtitled correctly.

5) back everything up!! you want 2tb's worth of movies, you need 4tb's.

6) you want perfect playback everytime with no skips, pauses or glitches? start your movie and quickly pause it. make some popcorn and wait about 15-25 minutes and resume. the entire movie will be sent to apple tv and you'll never have a problem. higher bitrate movies 2500+ seem to have more of a problem than lower bitrates.

7) tag everything correctly. it's not fun, but it's worth it. someday you'll want the year the movie was released, the name of the director, etc.

8) get poster artwork from impawards.com. looks way better than the stupid dvd artwork. can be very nostalgic.
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Excellent list, Swimfan. I do everything almost the same as you, except I do every movie, every time, with the AppleTV preset. It just simplifies things for me, and then I know... KNOW FOR SURE that all of my movies are ripped exactly the same. If there are any compatibility problems, etc. in the future I will at least know what I am dealing with.

I am curious about your philosophy on ripping TV shows. If you would, I'd love to see your collection and hear your '123' approach to ripping those as well.
 
I pretty much use the Apple TV preset as well. But I just use 2500 bitrate for everything I've found thats the sweet spot for acceptable quality, 2000 or below would be too little for me I see artifacting there, but to each their own. I've tweaked the H264 command line options a little bit thou.

When I did TV shows I stuck to around 1500-1800 bitrate making Hours shows between 550 and 650 mb and 30 min shows 300-350mb.

I say that in the past tense since I've started using my PS3 to stream TV Shows in Divx/xvid format. I've gone to an archos 605 and with the higher screen res I find it looks best with 720x544 Xvid encodes. The PS3 can stream these as well. My Apple TV is primarily doing Movies, Music and Podcasts now.
 
DeuceDeuce said:
I'm having a problem with Kill Bill Volume 1... I did what you said but when I play the movie the sub's arent there. They are there in the black/ dead part of the screen while watching the DVD in dvdplayer but when I rip it handbvrake doesnt include that black part so I dont see the subs.

In Kill Bill Volume 2 the subs show up on the main screen so it isnt a problem.

any suggestions?
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This is the single most annoying thing with ripping movies and it burns me all the time.

If you notice, certain movies like Kill Bill include two English subtitle tracks. You need to find the correct one, one english track is in fact normal english subtitles for everything. The other English track includes only subititles for languages other than english.

So find the right one by doing a test encode of the chapters you know have subtitles and find which track. You then rip it with that subtitle track selected and make sure to turn off "forced subtitles only".

Annoying as hell!
 
Couple Questions.

Alright I was having trouble uploading a screenshot so I will just explain. I have ripped 5 movies so far, and I am a little bit confused. In the "Description" column, on some movies I can actually ready at least the first ten words or so of the description before the column ends. But for other movies I don't see any text, just an "i" with a circle around it, which when I click the description shows up. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Also, have any of you been able to successfully rip Casino Royale? I've tried many times and just cannot do it.
 
ddan2022 said:
In the "Description" column, on some movies I can actually ready at least the first ten words or so of the description before the column ends. But for other movies I don't see any text, just an "i" with a circle around it, which when I click the description shows up. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
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Download Description script from Doug's iTunes Script.
 
Help a Movie Newbie?

So I'm just starting to get my movies/tv shows imported into iTunes. My Music collection is anally organized and I've briefly read through this thread and have a few questions.

My setup: I am running Windows Vista, Quad Core with 3 GB of RAM. I have plenty of HDD space but would need to upgrade in that area once I get everything into iTunes.

Questions:
1 - What Windows program should I be using to convert my DVD collection? I've used Handbreak before but I've seen some mention of people using some other program to extract the DVD contents and then using Handbreak to convert. What is the reason for this? Can't I just use Handbreak for the whole process?

2 - What Windows program should I be using to tag my collection once converted and before importing into iTunes? The only program I've seen for Windows is a Java based one called "Tagger". Is this the best one to use for Windows?

3 - Handbreak only converts DVDs correct? If I have a .avi file already, handbreak will not convert that file to .mp4 or .m4v will it? In this case what Windows program is best?

4 - What preset in Handbreak should I be using? I want to be prepared if I ever end up getting :apple:TV but I am also getting an iPhone soon so I would like the file to be able to play on both devices without having to use the :apple:TV preset in Handbreak and end up not being able to play that file on the iPhone (wow that was a run on sentence).

5 - Generic question re: :apple:TV. Can it be used with a Windows machine? :eek: (Sorry, I haven't done to much investigation with :apple:TV)
 
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