why is it that all of ur movies have about 1gb, but when i'm downloading mine from mactheripper it's telling me that they are like 7gb? Am i missing something? Does it compress it when u put it into the iphone version with handbrake?
If I'm not mistaken MacTheRipper is a DVD ripper. All it does is rip the files from the DVD and removes the copy protection so that Handbrake can do it's magic. Handbrake is the app the compresses it down to the size appropriate for the iPhone.
In the process of getting all mine redone with chapters. The Batch processing in the Handbrake GUI for Windows frankly sucks ass as the interface is not reliable at all. What I did was get the complete command line for converting an episode of Firefly, then put them all in a batch file and use the commandline version instead. Much more reliable and hassle free. Even a bit easier to change the options for doing each episode/movie. I still have to manually create a csv file for each video file I'm going to create, but IMO it's worth it if I can use the chapters on the iPhone. An example of the csv file for chapters is below:
Code:
1,U Day
2,Main Titles
3,Nightmare
4,Job Offer
5,The Train
6,The Merchandise
7,Confab
8,Interrogation
9,Rescue Plan
10,Good Samaritans
11,No Thanks
12,End Titles
("The Train Job" is the episode this is for, for those wondering)
Chapter number on the left, Chapter name on the right. Make sure you're Chapter name doesn't have any commas in it as it will throw off the file, since it's a
Comma
Separated
Value file.
You have to create one for each file and make sure you have the correct path to it for the batch file. But other than that easy as cake.
For my Firefly files at a bitrate of 750 (seems to look decent in Quicktime)...my episodes are coming to a size of about 285MB. Those are about 42-45 minute episodes.
edit: to be extra helpful...here's a command line for the Handbrake Command Line Interface:
Code:
HandBrakeCLI.exe -i "I:\VIDEO_TS" -t 1 -c 1-12 -o "D:\DVDs\Uncompressed DVDs\Firefly\Firefly - 2x01 Shindig.m4v" -e x264 -E faac -w 480 -b 750 -2 -I -x level=30:cabac=0:ref=1:analyse=all:me=umh:subme=6:no-fast-pskip=1:trellis=1 -B 128 -R 48 -D 1 -a 1 -6 dpl2 --markers="D:\DVDs\Uncompressed DVDs\Firefly\2x01.csv" -v
"I:\VIDEO_TS" - The location of the DVD files, If you're using something like DVD43 or AnyDVD (which is working perfectly for me for now), this can be pointed to the directory ON the DVD, otherwise point it to wherever you ripped your DVD files to.
"-t 1" - This is the tilte number...it selects which title on the disc you want to use. An easy way to figure this out is to open the DVD files up in the Handbrake GUI...and look under Title up top.
"-c 1-12" - The chapters you want to use within that title. Again you can check this within the Handbrake GUI.
"D:\DVDs\Uncompressed DVDs\Firefly\Firefly - 2x01 Shindig.m4v" - name and location of the file you want to create.
"-b 750" - The bitrate you want to create your file with, default for iPhone is 960 I think...I found a little lower allows for just as good a quality (though it has not been test on an iPhone) without sacrificing too much space.
"D:\DVDs\Uncompressed DVDs\Firefly\2x01.csv" - The location of the Chapter file you created.
This command line set it up to use the 1st audio track, which may be wrong on some DVD's. It uses Dolby Pro Logic II, which is supposed to be ideal for the iPhone and still allow play in Quicktime. If you have issues you can always open up the Handbrake GUI and do it the slower non-batch way. This kind of batch file needs to be put into the same directory where Handbrake is installed, then just run it and let it do it's work. This is really helpful for TV episode DVD's where most of the episodes are in the same format on each disc so it's easy to setup a batch file to grab them all.
