The new benchmark! This time - DVD ripping.
Hello there guys 'n' gals,
Now as we all know we love our DVDs, however, getting your DVD off your shelf every time you want to watch a film is a hassle, so we turn to ripping the DVDs of their content to our HDs. My favourite DVD ripper app is with no doubt HandBrake which allows a variety of video formats and sound formats and is very easy to use.
Personally I go for a target size of 1200MB, with 160kbps AAC. This quality is great and perfect for my HD size, which is a LaCie 320GB Big Disk Extreme. Anyway, it takes me upon the average film (lasting two hours and ten minutes or so) 3.3 hours to rip a DVD at these settings. I'm using a Powerbook 1.33Ghz, 1GB DDR RAM, 80GB 5400rpm HD.
So, does anyone else use this app? And if so, how long does it take you to rip a DVD? I bet the G5s are hella fast.
Now as we all know we love our DVDs, however, getting your DVD off your shelf every time you want to watch a film is a hassle, so we turn to ripping the DVDs of their content to our HDs. My favourite DVD ripper app is with no doubt HandBrake which allows a variety of video formats and sound formats and is very easy to use.
Personally I go for a target size of 1200MB, with 160kbps AAC. This quality is great and perfect for my HD size, which is a LaCie 320GB Big Disk Extreme. Anyway, it takes me upon the average film (lasting two hours and ten minutes or so) 3.3 hours to rip a DVD at these settings. I'm using a Powerbook 1.33Ghz, 1GB DDR RAM, 80GB 5400rpm HD.
So, does anyone else use this app? And if so, how long does it take you to rip a DVD? I bet the G5s are hella fast.
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dont steal movies. or music.
edit: ok i know youre not stealing, but youre still violating copyright laws.
<legal>Like I said copying something that you have no purchased is illegal and I know everyone knows that. Don't steal from people if you expect someone to buy something you make.</legal>
Thanks for tryin thugh O4BlackWRX
Could you possibly try the H264 option in video encoding? I've tried but it said it would take hundreds of hours!
Originally posted by mattyj
sorry about the legal stuff guys, but how can this software be made and be advertised as a DVD ripper if it is illegal in any shape of form?
i've often wondered that too. i guess its like the whole VCR thing.
Could you possibly try the H264 option in video encoding? I've tried but it said it would take hundreds of hours!
What would you like for me to encode and I'll try it for you.
Originally posted by O4BlackWRX
What would you like for me to encode and I'll try it for you.
Any DVD would be great, one best for comparison would be one that's 2 hours long, and encode with a bitrate of 1024. For me a film on those settings would take me at least 80 hours apparently... I guess it could be because it's a relatively new format and not greatly optimised for. If you can encode it, could you provide a pic of a still frame, as I'd be interested in the quality of the encoding.
Cheers O4BlackWRX (btw, is your name the car you have or something?)
Originally posted by ipodandimac
while we're at let's find out who uses illegal drugs!
dont steal movies. or music.
edit: ok i know youre not stealing, but youre still violating copyright laws.
No, he's not. It's called Fair Use. Backups are included in that. Check the actual laws before swallowing what the RIAA and MPAA would have you believe.
Originally posted by Kickaha
No, he's not. It's called Fair Use. Backups are included in that. Check the actual laws before swallowing what the RIAA and MPAA would have you believe.
hmm... thanks for the tip. i'll reconsider my stance
Originally posted by ipodandimac
hmm... thanks for the tip. i'll reconsider my stance
Cool beans. Spread the word!
Now, it may be that you violate a *license* by making a backup for personal use, but such limitations in a license have been repeatedly shot down in court. If enough people make the same mistake you did though, public opinion may no longer hold that those rights are correct, and we'll lose them.
Stick up for Fair Use anytime you can.
Originally posted by Kickaha
No, he's not. It's called Fair Use. Backups are included in that. Check the actual laws before swallowing what the RIAA and MPAA would have you believe.
Sweet! I thought it was something along those lines, afterall with games (most of them anyway) you're allowed to store a backup copy on your HD, and I thought that DVDs might be treated the same way... Anyway thanks for the official say on it Kickaha.
Originally posted by Kickaha
No, he's not. It's called Fair Use. Backups are included in that. Check the actual laws before swallowing what the RIAA and MPAA would have you believe.
There's also the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright ACt), which forbids circumvention of copy protection (e.g. DeCSS is illegal in the US). Curiously, though, the DMCA also has a section stating explicitly that defense to infringement, including fair use, are not affected by the Act. So that means that you can still legally make a backup, etc., for your personal use, but a strict reading of the DMCA would hold that the tools you'd use to do it are illegal. I don't think any court has ruled on how that collision is resolved. Though I noticed that those SIMA boxes that let you circumvent MacroVision are still for sale at Best Buy.
mactheripper --> dvd2oneX --> toast
any progs. avail to split a 8gig dvd onto 2 single layer discs w/ minimal hassle? (entire content)
bah, dvd is boring... gonna have to buy all over again on hd-dvd.
This is on a Dual 2.5 G5 with 512MBs ram.
Originally posted by ipodandimac
while we're at let's find out who uses illegal drugs!
dont steal movies. or music.
edit: ok i know youre not stealing, but youre still violating copyright laws.
uhg. go somewhere else if you're gonna be the internet police
Many people use these pieces of software for legal reasons.
Personally, I make copies of some DVDs and reduce them to fit on a CD so they can play in other computers or so that I can bring copies with me to school or on the road. It works well and for watching movies on a laptop, MPEG 4 compression is pretty good and similar to DVD quality.
I have a PB12, 1.33GHz, 512MB RAM, and it says 8hours for a 1:55 film. Its on 700MB file 128kbps AAC audio - how do these compression options effect speed?
I am using it to chat and surf also, dunno if you were doing anything else whilst doing it?
Hope this helps...
Can someone confirm that deinterlacing is a good thing? Is it where they have split the frame into lines and put them back together and doubled half of the rows to make the frame rate right for the different standards (PAL NTSC for example)?