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Is My Problem Handbrake or New MBP? (or me?)

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pgyanke

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I'm going admit from the outset that I am a computer user... not a computer guru...

I used Handbrake for 2.5 years on my old Macbook without any problems. I ripped my favorite parts of LOTR and made a 2+ hr movie for my iPhone. When I got my early 2011 MBP, I migrated my old computer settings and programs to the new computer. When I ripped "The Sound of Music" for my ATV2 on the new computer, it skipped in places and echoed in others. I tried to rip "Finding Nemo" and Handbrake gave me a drop down list of chapters to choose from... couldn't do the whole movie at once as I had done before. Same thing happened with another movie.

Is it my new MBP or has something happened to Handbrake? There was an update recently for Handbrake... did that screw something up or am I suddenly doing something wrong?
 
Looks like you already are. I am using the same version with no problems. You could try reinstalling it.
 
iVeBeenDrinkin' said:
Looks like you already are. I am using the same version with no problems. You could try reinstalling it.
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This is also happening to me. Just got this computer and I've been using Handbreak for the past 5 almost 6 years. from what I can see, there seems to be a problem when ripping discs. It might be the new processors idk but this doesn't happen when you're reformatting a video you already have. I've tried 4 discs so far (one of them being a disc I had no trouble with when I had the previous gen. MBP). So yeah. I hope they fix this. And if anyone else found a fix for this please help me out :confused:
 
Same problem on old MB

Hi,

I noticed the same problem using HB on my old MB.

After using HB for years, I've been experimenting with Ripit which is a little pricey at $25, but it does the job very well. Trial version has 10 free rips, so it is worth trying.

No affiliation with manufacturer of Ripit, just like the product.
 
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Well.... It's something with the Sandy Bridge processors. The first generation i5 and i7 processors work fine since my moms early 2010 iMac converts the DVD's I was trying to rip just fine.
 
tried ripping with mac the ripper first? I use MTR to rip a bunch of dvds, then batch them at night. I've always found Handbrake's ripping to be a little wonky.
 
appleman53210 said:
Well.... It's something with the Sandy Bridge processors. The first generation i5 and i7 processors work fine since my moms early 2010 iMac converts the DVD's I was trying to rip just fine.
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No. That's not it. You can't migrate handbrake and have it work. You need to install 64 bit vlc. Delete handbrake. Then reinstall. If that doesnt work install both handbrake and vlc in a new user account. Handbrake is amazing on all the new mbp.
 
VTMac said:
No. That's not it. You can't migrate handbrake and have it work. You need to install 64 bit vlc. Delete handbrake. Then reinstall. If that doesnt work install both handbrake and vlc in a new user account. Handbrake is amazing on all the new mbp.
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That's the thing. I have both the 64 bit versions of vlc and handbreak running. But I'll try deleting and reinstalling both and see if that helps. This might have something to do with the time machine migration i did with my new MBP :confused:
 
appleman53210 said:
That's the thing. I have both the 64 bit versions of vlc and handbreak running. But I'll try deleting and reinstalling both and see if that helps. This might have something to do with the time machine migration i did with my new MBP :confused:
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I've just went through this. VLC doesn't install using the os x conventions. So parts of it don't get migrated. Handbrake finds VLC on it's first launch and caches locations of certain files. Since the "first launch" of handbrake was on your old machine, it's likely looking for non-existant files.

On one machine I had, the delete / reinstall procedure (installing VLC fresh in between) solved the problem. On the other, I had to use a new user account. I never figure out what it was, but the migrated user account was just too bunged up to work.

Regardless it's a software installation problem. Once you're got that straightened out you will be very happy with the speed. It flies.
 
VTMac said:
I've just went through this. VLC doesn't install using the os x conventions. So parts of it don't get migrated. Handbrake finds VLC on it's first launch and caches locations of certain files. Since the "first launch" of handbrake was on your old machine, it's likely looking for non-existant files.

On one machine I had, the delete / reinstall procedure (installing VLC fresh in between) solved the problem. On the other, I had to use a new user account. I never figure out what it was, but the migrated user account was just too bunged up to work.

Regardless it's a software installation problem. Once you're got that straightened out you will be very happy with the speed. It flies.
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Thank you for a concrete suggestion. I will give this a try.
 
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