All of a sudden Handbrake just stalls...

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I was using Handbrake to rip DVDs (that I had purchased) to my mac. It goes well, until it gets to one chapter, it gets to about 95% and then stops. I left it for two hours and it hadn't moved a bit, this was on an 8 minute piece. So I cancelled and tried again, it just said "Encoding" and showed no progress for hours. I decided to try another chapter, same thing happened. Tried another DVD, same thing once again. Basically it won't do anything. The program doesn't crash, it responds normally, it just won't carry out any processes.

I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.3, up to date. Thanks for any help.
 
Thanks for the suggestion; sadly it didn't work. I even tried ripping the contents from the DVD to the hard disk (using MacTheRipper) and then using that source, and the same thing happened.
 
Might be version specific. Go to handbrake's forum to find newer alpha/beta versions. I remember I had this exact problem and couldn't solve it until I installed a newer beta of 0.7.
 
I'm having the same problem today with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It gets all the way to 100% (yes, 100!) but never finishes. I try to cancel it, but even that doesn't work. I have to force-quit it, and that leaves me with an unplayable mp4.

I'm going to try using MPEG4 video instead of H.264. If that doesn't work, I'll rip it with MacTheRipper and use ffmpegX to convert it, although I'm reluctant to do that because ffmpegX frequently returns dead mp4s for me. I don't like to use it for anything but AVIs, which aren't an option with H.264 video.

This actually happened to me once before with another DVD (Miracles), but the second time I tried it it Just Worked, so I thought it was just a fluke. But I've already converted CTHD twice now, and the same problem happened both times. I have no idea what I might have done to fix it before...
 
It's annoying, isn't it?

I might have to try a new account on my mac. If that works, how can I transfer the files to my current account? Shared folder?
 
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