Great news for y'all out there trying to get your flicks onto your iPod. Open Source Handbrake now accepts just about any type of file for input. That means DIVX AVI's, WMF's and ASF files are all fair game for iPod users. Ironically, for legal reasons, you can no longer natively encode DVD's (the previous main reason for Handbrake). You'll need the assistance of VLC, which any self respecting Mac video user already has on their machine.
See it in action below. Note that it is a speed burner on the new Unibody MacBooks operating at about the same speed as Quicktime Pro - which it largely renders irrelevant. It also has some great batch conversion functionality which can convert "whole seasons" of AVI's into iPod compatible MP4's in just minutes.
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This must be some new definition of "awesome"
Err, isn't the *whole point* of Handbrake the DVD stuff? How can it get "way more awesome" if the bit it's most useful for goes away, or gets shunted off to needing to keep a copy of VLC laying around?
I can see that it's "better", in that it can now convert dodgy xvid videos from bittorrent for Mr iPod/iPhone, but it's "worse" in that it sounds like it will no longer be able to put legally purchased DVDs on the same iPod/iPhone, at least by itself.
Which, come on, had been the whole point of Handbrake. Who cares about converting xvid/wmv to mpeg/h.264, really? No one, that's who.
Handbrake had been "easy" as in "I was able to explain using it to my mom, and she understood and was able to use it to put her DVDs on her iPhone". I have little doubt that it won't meet that simplicity threshold now, unless I go over to her house and help set it up to work with VLC.
I can see the whole "protecting ourselves from DMCA litigation" angle, but they hardly seemed concerned about that before, and shunting it off to VLC doesn't really evade the issue in a serious way
If you think about it, it's the kind of move that would make Handbrake more useful for pirated material rather than legitimately purchased DVDs. This isn't what I'd usually think of as "awesome".
take it easy
As clearly stated in the announcement and in the article, DVD ripping capability is not gone, it's just shared with VLC now. Honestly, I'm quite glad to see avi-2-mpeg functionality in Handbrake as this makes the conversion of TV series for my iPhone so much easier.
Straight from Handbrake's
Straight from Handbrake's page:
No more internal DVD decryption
Yeah, we know, no one reading this is going "Oh wow, no more DVD decryption--what a great new feature!" but...deal.
HandBrake will dynamically load VLC's copy of libdvdcss if you have it in your Applications folder in Mac OS X, and if you're on Linux, and you want to live on the wild side, you can install libdvdcss on your system and get the same effect.
Translation of the last paragraph from nerdese:
We're not about to stop you from choosing to decrypt DVDs. If you're on a Mac, and you have VLC 0.9.x installed, you won't even notice the internal capability's gone. If you're on Linux, all you have to do is install a library.
Wait, I'm confused. Does
Wait, I'm confused. Does this mean that I can't rip directly from DVDs anymore? And if so, is there an easy way of doing this? I'm only asking cause I won't update Handbrake if that's the case...
You can but you just have to
You can but you just have to install VLC. No that big of a deal.
Just to say that vlc and
Just to say that vlc and ffmpeg are great french softwares
http://bellard.org/
http://wiki.videolan.org/History
And they stay crunchy in
And they stay crunchy in milk!
Anything for PC users
No wonder I haven't been able to rip my dvds for a few months now. But is there a substitute program for VLC for people using PCs.
The Windows version never
The Windows version never supported decryption, so no changes there. You need to run a different program for decryption, unfortunately as a Mac guy I can't tell you what available.
Rip it first using Mac The
Rip it first using Mac The ripper then use Handbreak
Performance
I'm ripping something now for iPod with the same settings I had before and it's reporting that it will take 8 times as long to rip. I restarted just prior to ripping. What is going on here?
Handbrake is a superb piece
Handbrake is a superb piece of software that every Mac owner shouldn't be without. However, this version does not work on OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=7807&p=43600
I'm now keeping my fingers crossed for a quad-core iMac in January, so that I can finally upgrade from PPC.
I hate VLC for its
I hate VLC for its Linuxiness. There.
If your on a PC (frowning
If your on a PC (frowning face) then you can use DVD shrink to decrypt it to an .iso and the mount that as a dvd with daemon tools lite. Then select the "DVD" with Handbrake and your good-to-go! Yah, I know it seems pretty painful, but it's worked for me for quite a while and it's really not too bad... I need to buy one of the new Macbooks.
The old version works along side the new
I have both versions on my Mac, and just labeled the old one as Old HandBrake. It still rips DVD's just fine. I did have an issue when loading it to my iphone, so I am converting it to a *.m4v file for the iPhone with the new software. Where do I get this other software VLC?
-James
Video Converter
Though Handbrake can convert videos. I think Visualhub and iSkysoft are better.
VisualHub, the popular video converter on Mac OS X have now gone open source.
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Open-Source-to-Build-Isquint-and-Visualhub