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Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Dekka — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:09:51 -0000

What is wrong with the person who posted this reply?

Answer: He is a spurious full on douche (!).

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Mr. Grammar And Punctuation — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:39:22 -0000

(Pirating DVDs is wrong. Don’t do it kiddos. However, you are allowed
by law to make a copy of any DVD, Music CD, software, etc. that you own,
as a backup. Aren’t disclaimers fun?).

What is wrong with the punctuation in this sentence?

Answer: a spurious full-stop, the correct ending is fun?)

The question mark also functions as a full-stop!

Just as the exclamation mark did in that one.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Chris Edwards — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:24:36 -0000

The courts ruled years ago that if I buy an album (or CD), I am free to record it onto a cassette. If we carried your logic through, since the record companies provide me a vinyl album (or CD) AND a cassette, I should either choose my format or buy both!

But that clearly was not the ruling by the courts.

The fact is, record companies didn't mind transferring albums or CD's to a cassette because it was a lossless process. And distributing them en masse was a pain-in-the-ass. So they let it go. Didn't make a big deal and we all made copied of our albums onto high end metal cassettes with no issues. Yea, I could make a mix tape for my girlfriend, but any copies of that continued to degrade. Record companies were caught with their pants down on digital copies. Now, I could make near perfect copies and email them to 100 people at a time. Record Comp. got scared and started to freak out. But the writing was on the wall and history (and the courts) said it was OK.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Greg Smith — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:27:58 -0000

I still don't see a reply to this question:

"when you talk about the quality slider, where is that? the only thing i find close is the constant quality slider that is a scale from 0 to 51"

Where is the quality slider everyone keeps mentioning? If I choose the "Apple TV 2" preset, I get a pretty good output, at only about 1.25GB per film. But I'd like to be able to tweak the quality up slightly, in exchange for some file size. 1.25(ish) GB is pretty small these days, relative to the cost of a 1TB drive. Thanks!

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

$25540930 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:57:51 -0000

Here are some settings I like to use to get my dvds under 1Gb with pretty darn good quality:

a ton of what makes your encode amazing are the ADVANCED SETTINGS! I have read dozens of articles and head swirling techniques, but what I found most amazing and great compression to encode time was these settings pictured below.

If you put your cursur over each of the options in the advanced settings, it will explain the benefits and suggested rates for each item. I also drop the audio bitrate from generic 160 to 128kbps. And I definitely always put decomb on default.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

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Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Kuni — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:53:00 -0000

Okay..what can Handbrake do for or down load best quality to take advantage of the new iPad version 3. What setting can we use. The movie file rip is equal to the original DVD. What is the latest version of Handbrake. I understand for $99 I can buy the Toast 11 which may do it?

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Shaun — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:04:34 -0000

But the main concern isn't even the people downloading terabytes of infringed material. It's the hosts who allow petabytes of information to be shared.

I'll be honest. I pirate the crap out of copyright material. Mainly because it is quicker to download a copy of a movie as a backup than to transcode it. Movies I care a lot about I will rip, otherwise I pirate.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Matt — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:26:54 -0000

These days with digital download media providers like iTunes that allow you to purchase your content online and re-download it without the need to re-purchase it, surely one can argue that ripping a DVD IS an illegal act because you have chosen to purchase your media on a DISC that has the potential to spoil/break. If you want *true* guilt free media storage, then I would recommend purchasing your media from a digital provider not on a physical medium. The copyright warning at the start of a disc is written for a reason.
If Paramount, Universal and the other big (now) Big 4 studios really wanted to see remuneration for the content they create they would provide ALL their content on digital media providers, AND globally release all their content. (Seriously, why do they continue to think they make any headway by releasing a show to one country and then waiting a year to distribute it elsewhere?)Until that day, it is up to the individual to make the right choice based on the available options - regardless of whether the content creators have got their butts into gear.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Dave — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:53:04 -0000

Great replies Chris. Just stumbled upon your thread as I'm switching to my new quad core iMac to back up my DVD library because it rips the DVDs in half the time than my old dual core HP does.
Until the movie companies offer a free exchange program for a ruined DVD, then I will *legally* back them up.
While others may choose to interpret the laws as what I'm doing as illegal, it is clearly an act of a reasonable person that is worried about the fragile nature of DVDs. Verbiage of a law that conflicts with another matters not. That's what judges are for. To protect us from the absurdity of powerful lobbies that would prefer you repeatedly buy the same DVD title over and over.
Once upon a time, after watching Monsters Inc. once, my son promptly sunk his teeth into it. Since that wasted $20, I've been a guilt free ripper.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Vegas Bets — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:18:31 -0000

Let us finish this! I have never heard about this, but sure thing you must know better!

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

ST32000641AS — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:58:14 -0000

hmm good answer, keep it up dude.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

itunes to dvd — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:05:08 -0000

I did find out that handbrake setting will not work for my iPhone3G, though.

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dvd to ipad — Mon, 30 May 2011 09:35:14 -0000

I feel lucky can read this useful news. Now I find something what i want to know.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Roger — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:56:37 -0000

What if I'm not concerned about filesize, but I just want a single file (instead of VOB) that I can drop on my new media player device to stream to my PS3 with 99% quality of the original DVD?

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

dvd ripper — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:59:35 -0000

great post! the only problem with handbrake is that it cant convert copy-protected DVDs , you have to use some other tool first to decrypt the protection. DVD Decrypter and DVD 43 are free tools for doing that.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

pmshah — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:57:45 -0000

You are right but playing them on I might say 95 % of standalone media players is rather difficult if not impossible. I also find - perhaps due to my hearing loss with age - AC3 volumes are low and I have to re-encode the audio portin with anywhere from 3 to 5 db gain on Avidemux. Unfortunately the h264 video produced by handbrake is not recognized by even the latest version of Avidemux.

So there you have it. It all depends on your needs.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Matt "Producer Matt" Auckland — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:22:10 -0000

In the latest version of Handbrake (0.9.5 at this time) I've been using the Apple Universal preset as my base settings, then using either an RF of 18 (DVD only) or ABR 3200kbps (Blu-ray), but adding the following to the string in the Advance section ":qcomp=0.8:aq-strength=1.2"

This setting has reduced the blocky effect in low detail and dark areas. I came accross it on this thread:

https://forum.handbrake.fr/...

I previously used AVS Video Converter, but it takes a lot longer to run, even when you have 2 x Quad Core Extreme processors under the hood like I do.

I have had some audio sync issues, but I work them out by adjusting the bitrate or RF setting.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Chris Pratt — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:39:52 -0000

This post is a little old, notably older than the AppleTV 2. The AppleTV 2 preset in Handbrake now should be your best bet, though. The quality slider can still be bumped up a little if you're seeing fragments in the picture, but at that point it becomes a disproportionate trade-off between picture quality and file size: file size goes up dramatically for only slightly better quality.

As far as ripping a DVD goes, the ripping process itself does not degrade the quality of the source. However, the VOB files that DVDs are natively composed of are themselves compressed MPEG2 streams, so you are inevitably ending up with a final MP4 file that is lesser quality than the DVD source and especially the original film reel. It's all about acceptable compromises. Just as an MP3 is never CD quality, most people cannot hear any difference. It's the same here. The goal is to get a picture that 99% of people would say is indistinguishable from the DVD with far less hard drive bloat.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

M1k3h0nch0 — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:15:09 -0000

when you talk about the quality slider, where is that? the only thing i find close is the constant quality slider that is a scale from 0 to 51

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Rabah Rahil — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:48:39 -0000

So I have been using the AppleTV 2 preset for HTPC, is this the highest quality I can get when backing up my dvds? Also if I am using mac the ripper to get a VOB file and then converting to a mp4 with Handbreak's AppleTV 2 preset am I lossing quality that I could be saving some how using a different workflow?

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Chris Pratt — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:37:48 -0000

By itself, no. For direct encoding from DVD, HandBrake depends on VLC. VLC decrypts the DVD stream as it would if you were to simply watch the DVD in you computer.

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

Chris Pratt — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:01:25 -0000

Yes and no. I still start with the Apple TV preset, but Handbrake has made a few changes. The quality slider works differently now, so I actually bump it up to 62.5%. I believe it's actually set this way by default in the Apple TV preset, but I also set two audio tracks: AAC Dolby Pro Logic II at 160kbps and AC3 Passthrough. Those settings will give you surround sound on virtually an device that supports 2.1 or more channels. For picture settings, I make sure it's set to Anamorphic Loose with Auto Cropping. That gets rid of any hardcoded black bars, and allows the video to stretch whichever way it can to fill the maximum amount of the screen. Also, if you make your own preset from this, be careful of the Picture Settings option. You need to choose "Current" for Picture Settings when adding the preset, or it will try to force fit every movie into the box set by the movie you had in the encoder when you created the preset. (Counter-intuitive, I know)

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

parisian.goldfish — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:34:45 -0000

thanks for writing this! might be really useful for me. However before I start compressing, I just wanted to know if you'd found anything better, as this was written last year!

Re: High Quality DVD Copies with HandBrake

GSP — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:59:31 -0000

Using these settings with the latest version of Handbrake I'm getting a bit over 100 fps average. I can get around 120 with the normal preset. This is encoding on my main rig, i7 920 processor (overclocked to 4.1 GHz, Hyper Threading enabled) and 6GB of DDR3 1600 RAM.

I had previously just tried this preset on 1 chapter and it looked great, This is my new custom preset :P