Are you the same Sounds Good over at the NotebookReview Sony forum a few years back? I use to post there, but rarely now that I switched to a Mac.
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Recommendations for DVD ripper with Lion
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Are you the same Sounds Good over at the NotebookReview Sony forum a few years back? I use to post there, but rarely now that I switched to a Mac.
(1) If you're talking about commercial, copyright-protected DVDs, you should be aware
that it is illegal in many counties, possibly including yours.
(2) If you're talking about commercial, copy-protected DVDs, you should be aware that
providing advice on breaking copy protection schemes is illegal in the US, where this forum
is based; posting such advice would break the forum's ToU, and hosting such advice would
make Apple liable to prosecution.
that it is illegal in many counties, possibly including yours.
(2) If you're talking about commercial, copy-protected DVDs, you should be aware that
providing advice on breaking copy protection schemes is illegal in the US, where this forum
is based; posting such advice would break the forum's ToU, and hosting such advice would
make Apple liable to prosecution.
Hi Mr. William. you're very knowledgable and I'm in need of some advice. There's a file I have thats 1.6 GB, with an extension of AC3.5.1.xvid in .avi. I used Handbrake, with AT3 settings to convert to mp4. It converts the file to m4v (its choice I guess) but then the file shrinks to 726 MB and the picture isn't as clear. Any tweaks I need to put in in order to sustain the quality of the avi file?
Related question: Anyone ever had different file sizes based on the computer? Meaning, I have a Mac Mini with newest Handbrake, and MBA. On the MBA, I can take an AVI around 700mb and it rips in little time to a similar file around 700Mb size, with the compatibility set to iPad. When I have (what appears to me) the same setting of "iPad" for compatibility on the Mini, it takes 2-3 times longer and the file output for the mp4 is 1.3Gb. I just rip it on the MBA now, but it doesn't make sense.
I use Handbrake all the time with Mountain Lion.. I rip DVDs to use with Plex. I just rip them using the Universal setting. Movies come out around 1.7gb but at least the quality is there. Crashes occasionally, but I think it's because I'm ripping them on a 2008 aluminum MacBook 2.0 (not Pro) with 8gb ram shoved in it. I don't really think 8gb is truly supported, but I'm too lazy to go back to 4gb right now.
I am having this problem as well. I tried deleting the preferences; however, that didn't fix it.
I have set up a workflow in automator to extract a video from an archival DVD. However, the program is only ripping ONE file when there should be 4-5 files on there. Any ideas? I am running this process on Mountain Lion.
I have set up a workflow in automator to extract a video from an archival DVD. However, the program is only ripping ONE file when there should be 4-5 files on there. Any ideas? I am running this process on Mountain Lion.
Only use DVDs you produced yourself and you have legal rights to. The best ripper depend on what you plan to do with the content. Handbrake suffers from the limitations of being only H.264 based and therefore it can't convert to higher quality codecs. If you only want to transfer a DVD you made on to an iDVD, Handbrake is okay for that. However, if you want to import your DVD into iMovie, Final Cut Pro, consider a ripper that support the Apple Intermediate Codec or ProRes.