so i tried to convert some videos using handbrake. I used the iphone preset with the dimensions at 480 by 320. I made it 29.97 framerate. with 960kpbs i also made it an mpeg4, and i cant get them to go into itunes. someone help me. I need to know the settings to make it so i can put it on itunes. once again i need help!
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iPod touch Video on Touch: Thoughts on Handbrake
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I am having a problem installing handbrake,
When I click on the installer it open and give the following error, "Handbrake cannot be installed on systems with .NET Framework version smaller then 2.0"
I dont know what that is, is that a Windows only problem?
How do I fix it?
I was hopeing to have some TV for watching while sitting at the DMV tomorrow but Its not looking like it.
Help anyone?
When I click on the installer it open and give the following error, "Handbrake cannot be installed on systems with .NET Framework version smaller then 2.0"
I dont know what that is, is that a Windows only problem?
How do I fix it?
I was hopeing to have some TV for watching while sitting at the DMV tomorrow but Its not looking like it.
Help anyone?
Ok, I'll make sure anamorphic isn't checked but now I'm having another problem. I've tried ripping cinderella man twice now and both times even though it says (2h 35m 53sec) in the drop down menu for what part you want to rip, I'm coming up with a movie that is about an hour and a half. I can watch it but it just ends half way through. Any thoughts on what that may be?
just rip it for the larger screen size, and the touch will downsize it automatically. will be larger files, but will work on both.
No, I still have 130GB free. I really can't figure out what the problem is. I'm thinking maybe the dvd is just scratched or something.
Any thoughts on optimising the speed? On my mini I'm getting about 3fps, which is a bit on the slow side... 15 hours to encode a movie.
Yeah it's a slow machine (previously relegated to occasional browsing until I realized it was the only machine I had compatible with the touch) but it shouldn't be *that* slow surely.. my work laptop can encode h264 in near real-time.
Yeah it's a slow machine (previously relegated to occasional browsing until I realized it was the only machine I had compatible with the touch) but it shouldn't be *that* slow surely.. my work laptop can encode h264 in near real-time.
I'm not sure, on my macbook it takes about 45 mins to encode a movie. I have a 2.0ghz.
It shouldn't be that slow then.. the mini is 1.25ghz according to the profiler - so maybe half as fast would be reasonable not 20 times slower.
Maybe the thing is busted - it is getting on a bit. When it's cooled down (its fan is going nuts at the moment trying to cope with encoding a movie) I'll see if I can find a benchmark.
Maybe the thing is busted - it is getting on a bit. When it's cooled down (its fan is going nuts at the moment trying to cope with encoding a movie) I'll see if I can find a benchmark.
I bought myself one of these last week and it's well worth the ca$h... saves a lot of time and you can queue files up and they'll all be done by the time you finish work (or overnight) if you set it to go before bed...
http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_turbo264
15-20 times faster than an older PPC machine... 4-5 times faster than a C2D machine...
a week 38 w/ negative black?
i just used handbrake lite to rip spiderman 2 and i dont know if it's handbrake or the screen but i'm definitely getting negative blacks. but when i check the screen w/ jay z's black album in cover flow it looks perfect..should i stop trying to take the easy way out w/ lite and use handbrake?
i just used handbrake lite to rip spiderman 2 and i dont know if it's handbrake or the screen but i'm definitely getting negative blacks. but when i check the screen w/ jay z's black album in cover flow it looks perfect..should i stop trying to take the easy way out w/ lite and use handbrake?
Originally Posted by madmaxmedia View Post
Another thing you can do is rip a bunch of DVD's via MacTheRipper to your HD, and then cue up multiple encodes in HandBrake. Let it run overnight, and when you wake up you'll have 5 or 6 movies all done for you (even with 2-pass encoding).
Is there anything like MacTheRipper for windows? I absolutly hate windows but none the less i am stuck with it. I have already tried one dvd decoder but that didn't work. any suggestions to rip dvd's then set them on a queue?
Another thing you can do is rip a bunch of DVD's via MacTheRipper to your HD, and then cue up multiple encodes in HandBrake. Let it run overnight, and when you wake up you'll have 5 or 6 movies all done for you (even with 2-pass encoding).
Is there anything like MacTheRipper for windows? I absolutly hate windows but none the less i am stuck with it. I have already tried one dvd decoder but that didn't work. any suggestions to rip dvd's then set them on a queue?
Maybe it has to do with the drive then. I know I have a superdrive in the macbook. Perhaps your dvd drive is slower. I'm not sure but that could have something to do with it.
Does that take off the security features though like handbrake does?I bought myself one of these last week and it's well worth the ca$h... saves a lot of time and you can queue files up and they'll all be done by the time you finish work (or overnight) if you set it to go before bed...
http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_turbo264
15-20 times faster than an older PPC machine... 4-5 times faster than a C2D machine...
A 1.25GHz G4 is not half as fast as a 2.0GHz MacBook - it's about 10x slower. You have to remember the MacBook is a dual-core processor and Handbrake is multi-threaded.
My 1.2GHz iBook does about 3fps at the high-res iPod preset. A 2.16GHz C2D MacBook runs about 23fps and a 2.4GHz C2D iMac sees around 30-40fps.
This is one of the most processor intensive things you can do and it is one of the tasks that instantly highlights the massive speed increase of the Intel Macs.
I just ripped a bunch of Family Guy eps at 480x368 in H.264 (450kbps because you really don't need super-high bitrates on animated shows like that, they don't have the minute colour graduations of something like a Pixar movie) and it was getting around 60fps. A 20 minute show in less than 10 minutes. This was on the work 20" iMac - it's so hard now to go home to my iBook although the Turbo.264 made things SOOOO much better.
So, I converted two movies using Handbrake, and then used Videora to convert to Itunes.
I converted Harry Potter first, and the movie looks awesome on the touch.
I used these settings, H.264, 600kpbs, 480x320, 2 pass.
I then converted Finding Nemo using the same settings. This movie is not good, and the colors have colored blocks of shading all through out the large color areas, and its just not sharp at all. ?? I expected this movie to look quite good on the touch.
Should I use different settings for this movie?
I converted Harry Potter first, and the movie looks awesome on the touch.
I used these settings, H.264, 600kpbs, 480x320, 2 pass.
I then converted Finding Nemo using the same settings. This movie is not good, and the colors have colored blocks of shading all through out the large color areas, and its just not sharp at all. ?? I expected this movie to look quite good on the touch.
Should I use different settings for this movie?
wish I had an intel mac
Took my powerbook g4 1.67ghz/2gb ram 12 hours to encode a 1 hr 25 min film in handbrake using the default iphone preset. My XP box (p4 3ghz/1gb ram) only took about an hour and a half using handbrake and the iphone preset but the movie turns to a multicolored mess about a quarter of the way in. Super for windows works great though. There's no iPhone preset on super so you have to wing it.
Took my powerbook g4 1.67ghz/2gb ram 12 hours to encode a 1 hr 25 min film in handbrake using the default iphone preset. My XP box (p4 3ghz/1gb ram) only took about an hour and a half using handbrake and the iphone preset but the movie turns to a multicolored mess about a quarter of the way in. Super for windows works great though. There's no iPhone preset on super so you have to wing it.
Videora?? Handbrake should give you an .mp4 files that's perfectly usable by iTunes. Just drag-and-drop into iTunes. You shouldn't need another step, and maybe that's causing problems.
If that doesn't fix your "color blocks" issue, try increasing the bitrate to 900 or 1000kbps. Annoyingly, encoding seems to be as much art as science, and one setting that makes one thing look great may not be enough for another.
Make sure you choose mpeg4 and NOT H.264, which is the default. H.264 just doesn't work well with PPC macs. Mpeg4 works very well and you will get "normal" speeds and perfectly good quality as well.
The current version of Handbrake appears to have no option for mpeg4, unfortunately.
??? What version? 0.9.0? It's there for me (PPC).
Are you familiar with "previous" versions to know where it should be? It's up-right from the box that gives 2 H.264 options ("iPod" or "main") Should say "encoder."
Yes but there's only those two x264 options not an mpeg4 option. Clearly you select the ipod option as it's an ipod, not that it seems to make any difference (I know that h264 is mpeg4, but since posts here seem to treat them as different I assume there's a difference in the software).
Hmm, maybe you misunderstand - you aren't looking at the box with the 2 x264 options; you're looking up and to the right of that. It should "codecs."
Here's screenshots, look for the "codecs" option.
http://www.phoppe.com/HB/movie/movie.html