The Last DVD and Blu-Ray Ripping Guide You'll Ever Need
Posted 04/02/09 at 12:30:00 PM by Will Smith
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We’ve become so accustomed to the ease and convenience of iTunes and blink-and-you-miss-’em CD rips that we forget how in the mid-1990s, ripping a CD was a time-consuming process fraught with peril. Shoot, ripping a single disc to a 128Kbps MP3 could take eight hours on a 200MHz Pentium! Fast forward a decade and faster hardware and better software have made CD ripping so mainstream your mom does it.
Now, ripping DVDs is our great challenge. Copying and transcoding the disc’s video into more efficient formats involves math an order of magnitude scarier than what’s required to rip audio CDs. A machine that will rip the latest Miley Cyrus CD in mere moments could take hours to extract and convert your copy of Alien vs. Predator to an iPod-friendly format. But with the right software, a quad-core-equipped PC, and a little know-how, you can cut your disc-rip time from hours to 30 minutes. Plenty of tricks and traps still await first-time rippers, but we’ll show you the basics and then walk you through some of the most valuable power-user ripping secrets.
Your first decision is simple: What player are you ripping your discs for? Are you ripping for a portable player, like the PSP or iPhone? Would you rather stream to a device in your living room, like the Xbox 360, PS3, or Popcorn Hour? Or are you simply interested in making archival-quality DVD rips in case you lose your collection? More likely, you’re looking for a combination of all three of these things. We’ll show you how to rip your DVD to a file suitable for streaming that consumes a fraction of the disk space of a DVD but maintains full video and audio quality. Then you can take that file and convert it for whatever other devices you might have, like a PSP or an iPod.
With the preliminaries out of the way, let’s get started.
Ripping Your DVDs
With the right software, hardware, and understanding of the issues, you can free video from a movie disc to be used any way you choose.
What You Need
- Modern PC w/DVD-ROM drive
- AnyDVD ($53, www.Slysoft.com) or DVD43 (free, www.dvd43.com)
- Handbrake (free, http://handbrake.fr/)
Compatibility Issues
Several different factors determine the compatibility of your ripped video files. The resolution of the video, the video and audio codecs, the container format used, and even more esoteric things like frame rate can affect whether your video will work on your device of choice. If you just rip discs as you need the content and then delete files afterward, simply rip to the target of choice. However, if you want to build an archive of ripped movies, we recommend that you use open, widely supported codecs and containers at the native resolution of the DVD and then transcode the files to lower resolutions and bitrates as you need them. Naturally, we’ll show you how to do this.
Your player selection also impacts your choices when it comes to audio tracks and subtitle support. While the most common container formats, MP4 and MKV, support multiple track and subtitle streams in one file, few players will work with multiple audio tracks, and an even smaller subset will work with subtitles. That means you need to rip a single audio track—typically the main movie’s English soundtrack—and burn the subtitles into the video, rather than leave them as separate streams inside the container.
We recommend ripping to the MP4 container; it’s widely supported on both streaming devices and portables. Furthermore, the tools for manipulating the streams within the file are established and easy to use, which makes it easy to transcode your video to a less-supported format for a specific player.
A Word about Subtitles
English-language movies and TV shows sometimes contain subtitles to translate the speech of non-English-speaking characters.
Typically, DVDs include multiple subtitle streams that serve different purposes. Nearly every DVD has some English subtitles, even non-foreign-language movies. Most also include closed captions, which are distinct from straight subtitles. Subtitles are simply the dialogue from the movie written across the bottom of the screen. Closed captions include subtitles, but they also include audio cues that help people with impaired hearing enjoy the movie fully.
Often, English-language movies use forced subtitles to show what a character speaking a foreign language is saying. On some discs, these subtitles will be hidden in a separate stream, while in others, they’ll be mixed in with the subtitles but marked so that the DVD player only shows the proper captions. Regardless, it’s crucial that you get the proper subtitles for all the films you rip. Otherwise, you’ll never know what Jabba or Greedo are saying in Star Wars, and watching a long expository scene in another language without the benefit of subtitles sucks.
In practice, the first English subtitle track is typically the one that includes subtitles, forced or otherwise, while the second subtitle track is the one that includes closed captions.
Bypassing Copy Protection
The first thing you’ll need to do when ripping a movie DVD is remove the copy protection. Most discs use a variant of the Content Scrambling System (CSS), but many also use other techniques to make it more difficult to extract the video from the disc. Although DVD-ripping apps like HandBrake and AutoMKV can bypass copy protection, they aren’t updated as frequently and aren’t as successful at defeating new copy protection schemes as utilities that are dedicated to stripping copy protection, such as AnyDVD and DVD43.
Both of these utilities do a fine job, although AnyDVD justifies its high price by bypassing new forms of encryption almost immediately after they appear. Both of these apps serve as on-the-fly disc decrypters, stripping copy protection before your ripping utility or playback software even knows the disc is present. Want to rip an encrypted disc’s contents to your hard drive? It’s as easy as copying the contents of the disc’s VIDEO_TS file to your hard drive once you’ve installed AnyDVD or DVD43. Regardless, before we continue, you should install one of these apps. AnyDVD is free to try for 30 days, while DVD43 is always free.
AnyDVD automatically removes encryption from a movie disc, so you can copy the contents.
Blu-ray as a new disc format
Submitted by greentea09 on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 7:10pm
Blu-ray as a new disc format has greater storage capacity, faster reading ad writing speed, and more safe data storage function. It becomes more and more popular in nowadays. However, there are so many Blu-ray products, then how to choose the right Blu-ray Ripper? In order to solve this problem,Through making efforts to search, study, test, and analyze on numerous Blu-ray rippers, finally, according to my test results and customers'comments, I've summarized 4 of them which seem powerful and useful by comparison on its price, main functions and additional functions, and I hope it will facilitate everyone to get a more thorough understanding about Blu-ray Ripper.
Do you need rip Blu-ray? With the Prosperity of Blu-ray market, many software development companies have seized this opportunity and developed Blu-ray Ripper. With Blu-ray Ripper, you can rip Blu-ray to almost all the formats you need,such as AVI, DivX, XviD, DVD, WMV, MPEG4 MOV, MKV, FLV on more portable players, like iPod, iPhone, Gphone, Apple TV, PSP/PS3, Xbox, Mobile Phone, Mp3 Player.You can find many products of this kind by searching on the net. However, do these Blu-ray Rippers have the same quality and function? It is hard for ordinary consumers to distinguish the true from the false. For this reason, I write this article to instruct you how to rip Blu-ray reasonably.
From the table above, we can see there is no much difference among the four soft wares in price. But the comparison to the main functions made an obvious gap among them. We can see BestHD Blu-ray Ripper has the most direct operating procedures. We can install and run it directly after purchasing. However, Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper and AVCWare Blu-ray Ripper cannot do this. You have to buy third-party software (Any DVD) before installing and running your Blu-ray. We can see it in the screen shots below. By comparison, Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper lacks some functions that BestHD Blu-ray Ripper has, namely, it does not support Button visualization explanation,Automatic shut down.And in the four software, BestHD Blu-ray Ripper with powerful, small footprint, easy to operate, occupy large Blu-ray market.
( Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper)
( AVCWare Blu-ray Ripper)
The price for Any DVD is from $100 to $150(it depends on the using time you choose). That is to say, except BestHD Blu-ray Ripper, Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper and AVCWare Blu-ray Ripper cannot rip Blu-ray dependently, that is the most fundamental reason why their operating cost is much higher than BestHD Blu-ray Ripper.
Moreover, take movie “Water Horse” for example; the reading speed of BestHD Blu-ray Ripper for this movie is less than one second. But Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper,AVCWare Blu-ray Ripper and Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper will take users more than 2 minutes to read, much slower than BestHD Blu-ray Ripper.
( BestHD Blu-ray Ripper can read the file in one second)
( xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper can only read single m2ts file, it will take users at least 2minutes in finishing reading)
(AVCWare Blu-ray Ripper can only read single m2ts file, it will take users at least 2minutes in finishing reading)
The third point is users can select one kind of output audio tracks and output subtitles as the original movies had, as you like with BestHD Blu-ray Ripper. However, Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper and AVCWare Blu-ray Ripper do not have these two functions.
The fourth difference, which is rather important to users, is Best HD Blu-ray Ripper has the function of acquire titles; you can surely get complete and sequential movies after conversion. However, Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper and AVCWare Blu-ray Ripper cannot acquire all the titles, and they can only convert single m2ts video file, the converted movies maybe not complete with these two soft wares.
The fifth point, which is the last difference for these four soft wares, is the operating interface when you converting your movies.BestHD Blu-ray Rippercan show users a clearer converting information in preview window such as file name, file size, file path, used time and rest time while the other two can’t show rest time for converting and can only show the other information in the bottom of their operating interface, not so clear as BestHD Blu-ray Ripper.
(BestHD Blu-ray Ripper)
(Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper)
( AVCWare Blu-ray Ripper)
Finally, they all have fast converting speed and can run background.
I tested these four soft wares for many times, so to sum up, I think BestHD Blu-ray Ripper has the highest cost performance. It will be the best choice for users. As for Xilisoft Blu-ray Ripper, AVCWare Blu-ray Ripper and Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, they are less satisfactory than BestHD Blu-ray Ripper.
I really hope this passage could do you a favor on buying Blu-ray Ripper.
All right, since this comparison is only done by myself, I’m sure there must be flaws and imperfections. Thus any feedback is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Submitted by greentea09 on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 6:57pm
Bluray Ripper is totally free Blu-ray DVD converter and free Blu-ray disc rip software with amazing sound and picture quality. This free Blu ray converter helps you rip Blu-ray to AVI, DVD, MP4, FLV, H.264, MOV, MPEG, RM, SWF, VCD, SVCD, VOB, WMV, 3GP, MP3, WMA, M4A, RA and so forth. You can play the output video on iPod, Zune, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Archos, iRiver, Creative Zen, PMP, MP4/MP3 Player, Smart Phone, Pocket PC, PDA, Mobile Phone, etc
Blu Ray to ipod convert, Blu Ray to avi converter,blu ray to mpeg converter
Submitted by greentea09 on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 6:57pm
Bluray Ripper is totally free Blu-ray DVD converter and free Blu-ray disc rip software with amazing sound and picture quality. This free Blu ray converter helps you rip Blu-ray to AVI, DVD, MP4, FLV, H.264, MOV, MPEG, RM, SWF, VCD, SVCD, VOB, WMV, 3GP, MP3, WMA, M4A, RA and so forth. You can play the output video on iPod, Zune, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Archos, iRiver, Creative Zen, PMP, MP4/MP3 Player, Smart Phone, Pocket PC, PDA, Mobile Phone, etc
Blu Ray to ipod convert, Blu Ray to avi converter,blu ray to mpeg converter
Submitted by scooter_seh on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 4:32pm
When I get episodes of 30 min. shows online they are about 180mb but when I use HandBrake they are about 350mb. Can anyone tell me some good settings that will make them smaller and still look good. Thanks
Low Volume When Putting Movies on iPhone
Submitted by jodydfw on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 8:40am
Does anyone happen to have a problem with low volume when the movies are put on an iPhone? My Die Hard 4 is ok but every other movie i put on it the sound is really low. And this is with all of the volume options turned all the way up on the iPhone.
Submitted by PJACOBE on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 12:38pm
Is there a better way for ripping blu-rays yet? Ripbot works good but it doesn't work for every blu-ray out there. I can't get Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to rip. Thanks.
Blu-Ray & DVD Decrypter
Submitted by alexagnet on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 12:45am
Last time I use Blu-Ray & DVD Decrypter
The program has simple exploitation - everything works quickly, without any headache ))) easy base which helps in such processes like ripping or burning. I have some problems wiht the keys but it is nothing comparably working in this program!
Blu-Ray & DVD Decrypter - the real thing and everybody must have ityou can download free version here - http://bluraydvddecrypter.com/
Submitted by comicus59 on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 12:47pm
Does anybody know of a simple to setup and use program that can rip DVD's to a Hard drive in it's native resolution so it can later be viewed on a large HD TV without bad pixelation?
I've purchased a Popcorn Hour media player to use to connect between the NAS and the TV, but I haven't found a ripping program yet that will reproduce the quality of watching movies directly from the DVD. They all reduce the resolution far too low to be viewed on a large HDTV. Thanks for any help
Submitted by PJACOBE on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 12:37pm
Ya Handbrake. I can't tell a difference in an upcoversion from the disc or when watching the file created on my PS3. I have 56" HDTV so I'm sure you don't have one where there will be a too low resolution.
BD burning/back up?
Submitted by FenixSS on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 1:27am
Can Ripbot be used if I already have the BD content on my Hard Drive thanks to AnyDVD HD? I'd like to encode for use on my PS3 (for install, not stream as I do not have my computer on all the time) as well as back up to BDRW to protect my library. I have an LG BD/DVD RW (from the best of the best review), Handbrake, AnyDVD HD, DVDFab 5, as well as Nero 7 Ultra.
Side note, my BDRW is Sony brand, but only has 25GB, will that be a big problem as I've noticed that after being installed on my Hard Drive, some movies are even larger than 50GB.
Submitted by Amillennialist on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 1:32am
I. To rip DVDs simply (especially for KookieMonster -- God bless you, and thank you for your service):
1. Use DVDFab 5 to rip the Main Movie to your hard drive.
2. Use VobMerge to merge all the .vob files in the resulting VIDEO_TS folder.
3. Change the new .vob file's extension to .mpg.
This allows me to watch my DVDs using Windows Media Player 11 or VLC, and they stream beautifully to the PS3.
II. For viewing MP4 files in Windows Media Player 11 (and streaming to the PS3) install:
MP4 Registry patch*
ffdshow
Haali MatroskaSplitterHope that helps,
Amillennialist
http://amillennialist.blogspot.com
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*Here are the contents of that registry patch:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp4]
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/mp4"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.m4v]
"PerceivedType"="video"
"Content Type"="video/mp4"[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.m4a]
"PerceivedType"="audio"
"Content Type"="audio/mp4"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\MIME Types\video/mp4]
@="mp4file"
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Extensions.SpaceSep"=".mp4 .m4v"
"Extensions.CommaSep"="mp4,m4v"
"Extension.Key"=".mp4"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\MIME Types\audio/mp4]
@="mp4file"
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Extensions.SpaceSep"=".m4a"
"Extensions.CommaSep"="m4a"
"Extension.Key"=".m4a"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Groups\Video\mp4]
@="mp4file"
"Description"="Includes files with .mp4 and .m4v extensions."
"Extensions"=".mp4 .m4v"
"FriendlyTypeName"="MPEG-4 Media File"
"MIME Types"="video/mp4"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Groups\Audio\m4a]
@="mp4file"
"Description"="Includes files with an .m4a extension."
"Extensions"=".m4a"
"FriendlyTypeName"="MPEG-4 Media File"
"MIME Types"="audio/mp4"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.mp4]
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"PerceivedType"="video"
"MediaType.Description"="MPEG-4 Media File"
"Extension.Handler"="mp4file"
"Extension.MIME"="video/mp4"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.m4v]
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"PerceivedType"="video"
"MediaType.Description"="MPEG-4 Media File"
"Extension.Handler"="mp4file"
"Extension.MIME"="video/mp4"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Multimedia\WMPlayer\Extensions\.m4a]
"Permissions"=dword:0000000f
"UserApprovedOwning"="yes"
"Runtime"=dword:00000007
"PerceivedType"="audio"
"MediaType.Description"="MPEG-4 Media File"
"Extension.Handler"="mp4file"
"Extension.MIME"="audio/mp4"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Extensions\Descriptions]
"737"="MPEG-4 Media File (*.mp4;*.m4v;*.m4a)"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Extensions\MUIDescriptions]
"737"="MPEG-4 Media File"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Extensions\Types]
"737"="*.mp4;*.m4v;*.m4a"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\MLS\Extensions]
"mp4"="video"
"m4v"="video"
"m4a"="audio"
Submitted by MayCai368 on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 6:25pm
there many dvd ripper tool work well on removing encryption.
I use Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum, it also work well, and I found there more powerful than before.
DVD43 vs AnyDVD
Submitted by alan1476 on Sat, 04/11/2009 - 4:48pm
Software Editor and Moderator @ cdfreaks.com If you use a 64bit Operating System , DVD43 free will be of no use to you, the only option for decrypting Bluray or HD-DVD is AnyDVDHD, its worth every dime, keep your originals safe and make quality backups.
Submitted by shawn Harris on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 12:47pm
First off i am new to this stuff. From what i have just read, it seems to be that it comes down to a combination of just how powerful your systemis, how much expierence you have and just what your are trying to accomplish. What i need to know is,what is the best at ripping dvd's, blueray with least amount of trouble and is consistently good?.
highly dissapointed
Submitted by KookieMonster on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 6:28am
First, I'm getting ready to deploy and instead of taking my extensive DVD collection with me I bought a 500GB external drive to rip my movies too. I plan to just watch movies on my laptop. I followed this how to guide and started using handbrake. After spending all yesterday and this morning trying to coppy a DVD successfully I'm about to give up. The closest I got is video started playing, though extremly pixilated. I've tried about 6 DVD's, 2 of them handbrake will not recognize track info and the others when done will give me 11 seconds of black screen silence, if anything at all. What is going on with this and why am I not getting any results? Ripping movies is outside my normal use of computers, so I'm new to this (duh). This is nothing like when I converted my CD collection to MP3... and this guide doesn't seem to help me in getting the results I'm looking for.
Submitted by vondur on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 11:29am
I believe from reading on the Handbrake forums that the next version of Handbrake will have built in support for Blu Ray disks. So, if that is the case, you could use ANYDVDHD to rip/unencrypt, and then have Handbrake transcode it to something you like. I believe if you download the source code for the nightly builds and build it yourself, the native Blu Ray support is available.
Submitted by frazzled on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 10:40am
Personally, the difficulty was in maintaining dvd video quality and multi-channel audio when streaming to my xbox. handbrake didn't cut it, so i had to find an alternative. I have tried SEVERAL different methods and finally settled on the best one for my tastes, which includes using Transcode360 and My Movies, but for anyone out there that wants a 1 step process to ripping a dvd movie to .wmv format with 5.1 audio, the easiest method is located here, http://www.skibit.org/.
it's great that more and more people are interested in this type of technology. We've been in the early adopter phase for what seems like a few years now, and i look forward to that breakthrough that makes ripping DVDs as simple as ripping CDs.
We can all remember how painful that was in the early stages.
Submitted by RTTECH82 on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 3:14am
Holy Smokes dude, excellent resources! Well done!
RT
www.anon-tools.cz.tc
Submitted by roninnder on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 2:43am
I can accept this as the last DVD ripping guide I would ever need, as the title states, but I am holding out hope that I will one day need another better Blu-ray ripping guide. I mean come on, this is barely even an acceptable blu ray ripping solution, let alone the last one I'll ever need.
Submitted by FenixSS on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 10:55pm
I've finally got a way to back up my BD collection at reduced cost !!!! THANK YOU MAXIMUM PC!!!!
Submitted by TricBox on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 5:01pm
I've been using the free DVD Shrink with Handbrake without any problems. A very few new DVD's won't decrypt and none of the new Disney movies will decrypt. I'm definately going to try the 30day trial of Slysoft's AnyDVD and see if that cures decrypting some of the movies. Handbrake works great for what I'm using. AppleTV and my iPod touch work great! You can not notice that it is streamed from my computer and not a DVD on our 52" DLP. And no it is not loaded into the AppleTV.
Choices, choices, choices...
Submitted by nsk chaos on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 3:15pm
Which to do you prefer?
DVDDecryptor VS DVD43
Pros and cons (if possible) i dunno which one to use. =)
Submitted by peter antzoulakos on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 1:32pm
I have used DVD43 and Handbrake to copy my entire DVD collection (200+ ) into xvid format. You can encode 24 FPS (option is found in Video tab) I found that most of the presets suck for TV viewing. I use a Linksys DMA 2200 media center extender that upconverts to 1080i. Each movie is preset to 1.5GB each and they look great on Sharp Aquos 46" LCD. Never had a problem with de-crypting discs with DVD43. I have not tried to Blu-ray yet though. You need a fast rig to get a good encode. Q6600 OC to 3GHz, 4GB DDR3 XP pro and a AMD X2 5200+ with 4gb DDR2 800 with Vista Home Premium. About 20 mins with the quad and 30-40 mins with the AMD.
Thats my two cents.
Submitted by AlBSure on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 1:24pm
I use DVD Decrypter then Handbrake then I use TVersity to stream to my XBOX360 and my videos are crisp!!! No chopping of video or audio. i've been using dvd decryptor for a few years now and hasn't done me wrong yet. Handbrake is doing well to this point. I just decrypted and ripped 20 dvd's over the last two days while at work...:)
And as far as my Stagging PC the setup is:
Pentium D 920 2.80ghz
2GB DDR2 800MHz PC2-6400
eXperience Tiny XP sp3
The last article MPC wrote was a good guide
Submitted by AlBSure on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 1:59pm
I forgot to ask which is better to stream videos in everyones opinion:
TVersity or TwonkyMedia
TVersity wasn't that hard to setup to read my NAS so i can't imagin how easy TwonkyMedia is
Submitted by Kaldor on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 7:42am
I personally think Handbrake sucks even though it looks like a great program. Ive spent at least 12 hours trying to get some good settings so that I can turn my 5yo sons DVD collection into streamable media that he can play on the 360 as well as being able to watch it on a laptop with WMP 11 while we are on the road.
This is what I posted on Handbrakes website and I was insta banned because I mentioned Bittorent:
http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10016
God forbid you mention Bitorrent on a website that supports removing DRM and ripping. Pot meet kettle?
But anyway, if any do have some good suggestions, Id appreciate a push in the right direction.
Handbrake doesn't remove DRM
Submitted by brainwins on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 9:04am
Handbrake doesn't remove DRM nor it's a DVD ripper. It's a transcoder.
http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/SupportFAQ
We need more information on your setup, and what you mean by good settings. If you select the X360 or PS3 defaults on Handbrake you should get something good enough.
I see you mention dropped frames. I wonder if it's not a problem with your streaming method or your network.
You could also try Tversity. It does the transcoding on the fly. Saving you the pre-transcoding step.
Anyways, it may be a better idea to move this discussion to the MaximumPc forums
Submitted by Kaldor on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 9:31am
I know Handbrake doesnt remove DRM, but in order to rip/transcode a DVD, you have to remove the DRM/encryption. Different words, same basic meaning. Like I said, pot meet kettle...
As far as system goes, I am running a either 4 (OC) or 3ghz Q9650, 8 gigs of RAM and Vista 64. Plenty fast and well maintained. Home network is all gigabit, Cat5e cable, running on a 16 port Linksys switch. Streaming method to 360 is a simple media share in WMP11 which works great for the few videos I did download with Bittorent.
All the DVDs are on the HD after running them thru DVD Fab5 to strip them down to the just the main movie and remove DRM. Ive tried almost all the default settings in Handbrake. I either get a file that looks great on the PC, and will not play on the Xbox360. Or I get a file that has choppy video/audio on the PC, dont even bother trying to test/play those on the 360. Ive tried about 10 different rips, all are fail.
Tversity probably isnt an option. I want stand alone files on the HD that I can what I want with.
Submitted by brainwins on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 10:38am
If you got a file that looks great on the PC but doesn't play on the 360, then Tversity could be great for that, since it would transcode it for the X360. It doesn't create any files. It would use the stand alone file you have on your PC and stream it (while transcoding it) to your 360.
I still don't understand what's wrong with the X360 preset on Handbrake. Is it not giving you the quality you need?
Did you see this guide?
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/streaming
Submitted by Kaldor on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 12:08pm
Yeah, Ive read that article. Point being is I dont want to deal with having yet another program I have to set up and deal with.
The Xbox 360 preset always has choppy audio and video for me. Ive tried several variations of that setup with the same results.
Id like to keep the filesize around 1gig per hour which is plenty for decent quality. I have plenty of storage space but no need to be wastefull and I dont feel like dealing with too big files when I do need to move them around.
Windows Media Player 11
Submitted by willsmith on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 11:19pm
Windows Media Player 11 doesn't stream MP4 containers right (actually, at all, unless you have a really specific set of tweaks to your codecs and some registry settings). It's a nightmare to get setup right, and if you have the slightest problem wtih audio or video codecs, you get the choppiness you're describing.. You need to use a third-party streamer, either Twonky, TVersity set to not transcode, or the Zune software will do the job too.
Submitted by xRadeon on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 4:38pm
I've found that yes Twonky does infact stream better but for me I still see choppy video, the audio is fine. Streaming to an Xbox 360.The odd thing is that I threw the video on an external HD and it was still a bit choppy, just a little though. Which leads me to maybe my Handbrake settings are not what I want....hmmm...I'm going to play around with this tonight and see what I find.
Also, DVDfab works pretty well for people with 64 bit system, but just for DVDs I don't know about Blu-ray.
Submitted by brainwins on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 2:17pm
I have a 5 year old Dell with a first generation dual core processor and 3 Gigs of RAM that plays X360 encoded videos ok.
It's probably an issue with your codecs, since your computer should be able to play that kind of videos easily.
Submitted by jeff.petersen on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 5:30am
DVDfab HD Decrypter is better than DVD43 or DVD Decrypter (neither are updated to keep up with current copy protections). It's uncrippled for ripping the DVD to your hard drive, but if you want the transcoding features then you have to pay.
But why pay when Handbrake is so awesome? I use this pair to rip movies for my WD TV. Just select the Apple TV preset, enable the "decomb" option, crank up the constant quality slider to 70-80% and you get a beautiful .M4V after the transcode.
Submitted by deadlift1 on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 2:45pm
I agree. DVDfab is a much better program. It also works on 64 bit vista which cannot be said for DVD43. Handbrake is a great program but it crashes quite a bit for me. Not sure why.
Submitted by AndyYankee17 on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 3:43am
would DVDDecryptor work instead of anyDVD?
Submitted by mlee19 on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 8:47am
I know it works well with standard DVD(I still use it) and even burning ISOs!
Ditto- I too am still using
Submitted by yogurt80 on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 8:59am
Ditto- I too am still using decrypter. I know it's not updated, bnut anyDVD is, and as long as you usethat, there's no problem. In fact, I still use DVDshrink, which hasn't been updated in years, to make iso backups, and then burn them with decrypter. I'm experimenting with handbrake right now, trying to encode a high quality rip at 24fps, and it's taking aprox 4 hours- not exactally worth my time.
Submitted by gordonb on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 1:48pm
For those using Decrypter to burn ISO's, I'd recommend you switch to ImgBurn. Its by the same author, and unlike Decrypter, is being actively updated. There is even a version of Shrink floating around the Net which has the option to automatically call ImgBurn after creating the ISO.
Submitted by yogurt80 on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 9:07am
On that note- does anyone know a quick and easy way to rip a DVD to your HD while encoding it at 24FPS, and stillbe able to back it up to another DVD.
Submitted by doktorgizemli on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 5:30am
My Zune çizgi film izle slept sikiş through the mess. sohbet Battery had zayıflama - diyet - diyet - zayıflama - sağlık already run down, Madencilik so when I recharged it yesterday, sohbet siteleri the clock reset as the gelinlik modelleri Zune folks said it would. örgü modelleri özlu sözler - müzikler - yemek tarifleri - iftar vakitleri - ramazan - kürtçe müzikler - video izle - yaprak dökümü - arka sıradakiler - yuda - orjinal lida - orjinal lida - sevgi sözleri sohbet - diyet No drama.
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