Video Converter 'Handbrake 1.0' Released for Mac After 13 Years in Beta

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Whatever the term is I wish someone here could assist with a simple guide on the best settings for bringing a dvd movie you own to your ipod classic and possibly an Iphone or Ipad in the future, one movie I tried had good quality, another had blips of small grey line streaks but I used the same settings, the Hollywood industry is lost, if there was a simple and quick way to play the movies I buy on multiple devices I would be buying more movies.

There's no such thing as a best setting for multiple devices. But as long as you adhere to Apples requirements for movie playback on various devices, you are fine.

Or you could consider setting up a proper media center that can transcode, so you don't have to think about formats.

 

[MacGekko]

There's no such thing as a best setting for multiple devices. But as long as you adhere to Apples requirements for movie playback on various devices, you are fine.

Or you could consider setting up a proper media center that can transcode, so you don't have to think about formats.

Do you know what is the best setting for the last generation Ipod Classic and Ipod Nano? What would a proper media center consist of?

 

[flyinmac]

Do you know what is the best setting for the last generation Ipod Classic and Ipod Nano? What would a proper media center consist of?

They have presets for iPods. Those are more than adequate for such small screens. And actually the best if you want your iPod to play them.

The quality on those small screens with those presets are great.

But, I transitioned to caring more about quality on televisions. So I go overboard for that with preset of high profile, quality of 14 and tune for film.

My choice results in huge files. And it's not playable on the iPods. But I want best possible quality on my television. And only use my iPods for music now.

But realistically, using my choices and a quality setting of 18 instead of 14 is actually practically perfect quality and results in much smaller files.

But, I have the CPU time (8 cores does a movie in about 15 minutes at my settings), and hard drive capacity to go overboard. And I just insert 6 DVDs at a time and come back later anyway.

I use iFlicks to add the metadata and add to iTunes automatically. You can set iFlicks to watch a folder and automatically process files.

The combination of Handbrake and iFlicks makes the process very smooth and fast.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Do you know what is the best setting for the last generation Ipod Classic and Ipod Nano?

https://support.apple.com/kb/sp572?locale=en_US
https://support.apple.com/kb/sp656?locale=da_DK

What would a proper media center consist of?

Dedicated server with the media center software of your choice. I personally use Plex.