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How quickly can your Mac rip a film?
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That is about right. Although I am now pretty much just using handbrake to do a good majority of my rips. So about 15 minutes depending on the length of the movie. My files once it is all said and done are usually 3-6gigs.
Generally my Mac Pro can rip a movie in MTR within 10 or so minutes, then handbrake (Apple TV setting), it does the movie in about 50 minutes to an hour. If I want a turbo rip aka somebody just came to house with DVD, I set my settings for Mpeg4 and I get a feature film ripped with 10-15 minutes.
In laymans terms, my pops can come home with a DVD, 10-15 minutes later (think about it, who comes home with a DVD, and immediately pops it in DVD player), it's in iTunes library and playing on Apple TV.
I'm so Anti-DVD I refuse to play DVD's at this house, as long as this Mac Pro is here, I'm just not going to use the DVD player.
In laymans terms, my pops can come home with a DVD, 10-15 minutes later (think about it, who comes home with a DVD, and immediately pops it in DVD player), it's in iTunes library and playing on Apple TV.
I'm so Anti-DVD I refuse to play DVD's at this house, as long as this Mac Pro is here, I'm just not going to use the DVD player.
I have three Macs and a AMD Sempron Linux box. Most of my ripping is done on the Linux machine using HandBrakeCLI 0.9.3 which I compiled from source.
For DVD rips, I generally use straight MP4 rather than H.264 because it is so much quicker. A two pass 2500 max 640 wide MP4 rip on the single core 2.0 Sempron gets about 70 fps so will encode a 2 hour movie in a little under two hours total (remember two passes). File size is probably a little larger than many would like at about 1.8GB. I also make sure I include an AC3 sound track if available. My 2.0 CD MacBook Pro using both cores will rip at about 60 fps so is a little slower than the Sempron despite having two cores. I'm tempted to buy a dual core Athlon 64 to boost the speed at very little cost. I encode all my movies at 640 pixels width so they are compatible with my 5.5G iPod as well as the Apple TV. I know the encodes would look slightly better if I encoded them using the ATV preset but the time it would take to do the encode, plus the loss of ability to sync them to my iPod makes it not worth it.
I also use MetaX to finish the encodes so they look nice and professional. The only problem with that is that it stuffs up the chapters if I let it touch them so I make sure I encode the chapters with HandBrake first.
The only time I use H.264 is for HD files where I've recorded a TV show with my EyeTV from Freeview HD. The conversion of a 42 min episode of Boston Legal takes about 5 hours dropping 1080i to 720p on my MBP. I did record Star Wars Episode III at 1080i on my Mac mini G4, edited out the adverts and then re-encoded to H.264 720p. It took 3 days. I won't be doing that again.
For DVD rips, I generally use straight MP4 rather than H.264 because it is so much quicker. A two pass 2500 max 640 wide MP4 rip on the single core 2.0 Sempron gets about 70 fps so will encode a 2 hour movie in a little under two hours total (remember two passes). File size is probably a little larger than many would like at about 1.8GB. I also make sure I include an AC3 sound track if available. My 2.0 CD MacBook Pro using both cores will rip at about 60 fps so is a little slower than the Sempron despite having two cores. I'm tempted to buy a dual core Athlon 64 to boost the speed at very little cost. I encode all my movies at 640 pixels width so they are compatible with my 5.5G iPod as well as the Apple TV. I know the encodes would look slightly better if I encoded them using the ATV preset but the time it would take to do the encode, plus the loss of ability to sync them to my iPod makes it not worth it.
I also use MetaX to finish the encodes so they look nice and professional. The only problem with that is that it stuffs up the chapters if I let it touch them so I make sure I encode the chapters with HandBrake first.
The only time I use H.264 is for HD files where I've recorded a TV show with my EyeTV from Freeview HD. The conversion of a 42 min episode of Boston Legal takes about 5 hours dropping 1080i to 720p on my MBP. I did record Star Wars Episode III at 1080i on my Mac mini G4, edited out the adverts and then re-encoded to H.264 720p. It took 3 days. I won't be doing that again.
I have a Dell Q6600 box and it converts a regular DVD (using standard AppleTV setting with 62% quality) in about 35 minutes but for a BD (using standard AppleTV with 5000 datarate setting and 1280 video) takes about 2.5 hours. This is for H.264 m4v files.
I'm on a late 2008 MBP with 2.53Ghz.
I do AppleTV presets and it usually takes about the length of a film.
This is the first I'm hearing of riplock, though. Would getting an externam DVD drive help me out in getting quicker rip/encode times?
I do AppleTV presets and it usually takes about the length of a film.
This is the first I'm hearing of riplock, though. Would getting an externam DVD drive help me out in getting quicker rip/encode times?
Huh?
Why is it taking me so long (about 2 hours for a movie) with a Macbook 2.4, with 4GB RAM? I'm using ATV preset in Handbrake .93 with H.264 as the codec. No deinterlacing. Anamorphic.
Why is it taking me so long (about 2 hours for a movie) with a Macbook 2.4, with 4GB RAM? I'm using ATV preset in Handbrake .93 with H.264 as the codec. No deinterlacing. Anamorphic.
Mac the ripper usually takes half an hour but once thats done I use handbrake. I have a mac pro and it usually takes half an hour to forty-five minutes on a two hour movie, any tv show just takes around fifteen minutes. The settings I use are: video: 3,500 kpbs, audio: 160 kbps at 48 khz. I have it set to 2 pass with turbo first pass enabled.
P.S. The specs are in my sig
P.S. The specs are in my sig
I have the same MB as you and that's about what mine is depending on the source. Nothing to worry about.
Thanks
Thanks for the replies. I was just seeing the responses talking about 25 and 30 minutes, and got alarmed that I was missing a setting or something.
Thanks for the replies. I was just seeing the responses talking about 25 and 30 minutes, and got alarmed that I was missing a setting or something.
8X2.8 mac pro, 10 GB ram, RAID 1+0 drive (4X1 TB)
MTR takes 25 minutes
Handbrakes takes 15-20 with at 2500 kb/s
MTR takes 25 minutes
Handbrakes takes 15-20 with at 2500 kb/s
My MacBook Pro (see sig) takes about 40-60 mins to rip an average length film on the normal settings. I also have it on 2-pass encoding, with turbo first pass turned on.