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Thread ID: 95737 2008-12-15 21:06:00 Encoding DVD movies into x264 with Handbrake nofam (9009) Press F1
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729406 2008-12-15 23:17:00 There probably is, however if it's for your own personal use noones going to care. I do it all the time! My DVD collection is on my PC. :thumbs:

It can take some time, but 4 hours is perhaps a little extreme? No doubt someone will know for sure, I'd expect it to be quicker on such a grunty lappy, maybe x264 takes a bit longer than mpeg?

I rip DVD as I own the disc and worry the kids will stuff the original one, so do a backup copy!

Anyway that does sound slow, but then again you are dual core with a laptop hard drive?....cant expect much with that! 		SolMiester (139)
729407 2008-12-15 23:54:00 Its possible using something like DVD Region + CSS Free, just do encoding directly off the DVD .. however after a few hours of spinning your disc will quite probably be uber-hot!

Ive setup a bash script in linux to rip to HDD then encode .. Im sure you could probably do something like that with windows too :)
On a 2Ghz Athlon x64 it takes me around 3 hours per-disc to rip & encode? I do a 2-pass encode too.

Not sure if this will help, but here's my script (Cheers to Erayd who initially help and I just modified it to suit my needs), you should be able to pluck the relevant bits out of it for use in Windows:


cat ripdvd2
#! /bin/bash
DEVICE=/dev/dvd
OUTDIR=$HOME/movies
#hcmd="HandBrakeCLI -i $1/$1/ -o "$OUTDIR/$1.mp4" -N eng -E faac -B 96 -S 700 -2 -e x264b30 -f mp4"
hcmd="HandBrakeCLI -i $1/$1/ -o "$OUTDIR/$1.mp4" -N eng -E faac -B 128 -b 1100 -2 -e x264b30 -f mp4"
dcmd="dvdbackup -i $DEVICE -F -o $1 -n $1"
echo Making directories
mkdir $1;
echo Beginning DVD rip now
$dcmd;
echo DVD rip completed. Now grabbing the extra files needed to keep HandBrake happy
mount /media/cdrom/
cp /media/cdrom/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO* ~/$1/$1/VIDEO_TS/
umount /media/cdrom
echo Ejecting your DVD now
eject $DEVICE;
echo Beginning HandBrake encode
if [ "$2" != "" ]; then
hcmd="$hcmd -t $2";
else
hcmd="$hcmd -L";
fi
hcmd="$hcmd -T"; #turbo rip on first pass
$hcmd;
echo Deleting temp directory
rm -rf $1;
echo Rip completed
exit; 		Chilling_Silence (9)
729408 2008-12-15 23:58:00 Does VLC use h.264 for encoding or ffmpeg ? Chilling_Silence (9)
729409 2008-12-16 05:34:00 Does VLC use h.264 for encoding or ffmpeg ?

You get the option in the new version (0.9.2 i think?) you can choose under video settings (File>Advance Open File>More>Convert>Video) 		mabix (10146)
729410 2008-12-16 06:30:00 The version I have is 0.9.4 gary67 (56)
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