supanatral
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I'm wanting to rip all my DVD's so that I can watch them on my AppleTV but I'm wondering what the best settings are for Handbrake in which to do this?
Best Handbrake Settings for AppleTV
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supanatral
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Ah ha! that works great! Very clear, and about 2gb per movie. I'm using that from now on.
What's the resolution of that preset? And do such movies still play on iPods? (I *REALLY* don't want to rip my movies twice...) Oh, I just got an AppleTV, btw., after saying that I would never get one for so long... Such is life. I admit I was wrong. It's a nice little device. 
I found a sweet spot for appletv, ipod and iphone video rips by using the Appletv setting and changing it to 2-pass.
It takes twice as long, but the image is much brighter and the resulting file works on all 3 medium (as well as on my mac via itunes or quick time
The newest version has a better Queue that i can set to rip a TV show disk and do it overnight
sweet
cheers
It takes twice as long, but the image is much brighter and the resulting file works on all 3 medium (as well as on my mac via itunes or quick time
The newest version has a better Queue that i can set to rip a TV show disk and do it overnight
sweet
cheers
icemanjc
I'm cool, I have a mac.
yah, so I have I, but I was wondering if its nicer with the Apple TV Preset.
I have run into some glitches lately, when I updated to the recent version of handbrake, my settings stopped making ipod friendly files... but I think I am back on track
I use the appletv setting in handbrake 0.8.5
change it to 2-pass and change the codec from h.264 to .mp4
the resulting files look good on my appletv (50" samsung DLP) and play on my ipod and iphone
I use the appletv setting in handbrake 0.8.5
change it to 2-pass and change the codec from h.264 to .mp4
the resulting files look good on my appletv (50" samsung DLP) and play on my ipod and iphone
rubaiyat
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I strongly recommend against locking yourself into current limitations. Apple will rapidly make them obsolete and you will regret the time and effort wasted on an inferior conversion.
I have a huge library of DVDs, CDs etc which I am converting to store on an external half terrabyte USB hard drive. Ultimately this will be moved onto a larger, better drive with redundant RAID and used as a central server for all media in the house.
To this end I am RIPing material for higher quality use, using settings that are appropriate for the content, which are, after considerable testing:
AVC/ H.264 Video/ AAC Audio
Codec: AVC h.264 main using ffmpeg
Resolution: Original ie as high as possible
Frame rate: 25 fps (PAL, NTSC is crap)
Set for 2 pass with turbo first scan.
Data rate: 900 for TV or older material, 1200-1500 for near original quality
or target size of 175 mb for half hour of TV, 700 mb for 90 min film to 1200 mb for better quality 120 min film. Obviously need to increase it if the material is larger screen resolution or runs longer.
If the original material is black & white, set the grey scale encode on.
Audio: AAC 48khz / 128 kbs for speech, AAC 48khz / 160 kbs for music
Subtitles: I prefer to use the original voice rather than often poorly dubbed English, so set the RIP to English subtitles unless they used proper actors to dub.
If you have any problems RIPing a DVD, clean it very carefully with optical wipes and or use MactheRipper to extract it first, though this adds to the time to convert it.
To convert from other formats to h.264 I use ffmpegX.
Sizing: 700 mb is acceptable for most 90min or less movies, because 1 fits on a CD and 6 fit on a DVD. However a high resolution or longer movie really won't fit this, so just extrapolate up.
h.264 is absolutely clearly superior in quality/size. The only reason to use DivX or XviD is if you have a recorder that plays or creates them, but I have 2 and neither reliably plays them. I figure that now BluRay and HD-DVD and so many other technologies are supporting h.264 that this year will see regular DVD player/recorders switch to the better standard. Sony already has a few.
I have a huge library of DVDs, CDs etc which I am converting to store on an external half terrabyte USB hard drive. Ultimately this will be moved onto a larger, better drive with redundant RAID and used as a central server for all media in the house.
To this end I am RIPing material for higher quality use, using settings that are appropriate for the content, which are, after considerable testing:
AVC/ H.264 Video/ AAC Audio
Codec: AVC h.264 main using ffmpeg
Resolution: Original ie as high as possible
Frame rate: 25 fps (PAL, NTSC is crap)
Set for 2 pass with turbo first scan.
Data rate: 900 for TV or older material, 1200-1500 for near original quality
or target size of 175 mb for half hour of TV, 700 mb for 90 min film to 1200 mb for better quality 120 min film. Obviously need to increase it if the material is larger screen resolution or runs longer.
If the original material is black & white, set the grey scale encode on.
Audio: AAC 48khz / 128 kbs for speech, AAC 48khz / 160 kbs for music
Subtitles: I prefer to use the original voice rather than often poorly dubbed English, so set the RIP to English subtitles unless they used proper actors to dub.
If you have any problems RIPing a DVD, clean it very carefully with optical wipes and or use MactheRipper to extract it first, though this adds to the time to convert it.
To convert from other formats to h.264 I use ffmpegX.
Sizing: 700 mb is acceptable for most 90min or less movies, because 1 fits on a CD and 6 fit on a DVD. However a high resolution or longer movie really won't fit this, so just extrapolate up.
h.264 is absolutely clearly superior in quality/size. The only reason to use DivX or XviD is if you have a recorder that plays or creates them, but I have 2 and neither reliably plays them. I figure that now BluRay and HD-DVD and so many other technologies are supporting h.264 that this year will see regular DVD player/recorders switch to the better standard. Sony already has a few.
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