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Does anyone have a lot of Handbrake experience they can share? I'd like to know if I'm making the best quality rips. I looked at the wiki guide, but it isn't updated with the new presets. I use AnyDVDHD for stripping encription.

From what I remember I use the Normal High Profile preset, then use the .mkv container. I didn't mess with any of the other video settings. For Audio I try to find the English 5.1, that's the best on a DVD right? For Subtitles I choose 1 English, Forced Only. And video codec is set on H.264

Any response either here or via PM would be appreciated. Thank you.

Try this for starters.
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/featur ... _handbrake

Sigh,

Thank you, but the MPC website locks up my browser. Just like the ripping article did. I get to read the forums with pages loading in 1-2 minutes. Makes reading multiple posts a headache.

Most powerful nuclear navy in the world and we can't even browse the normal internet.

Oops! Did you try the pdf to e-mail?

Hmm, I tried and failed. I entered the URL and clicked "convert", but nothing happed. The computer just looks at me like I'm stupid. I'm sure it's the restrictions on our government LAN.

I am using Handbrake and AnyDVD HD. When I look into the STREAM directory, I dont' see just one file that has the whole movie on it. It seems like all of the bigger files are just parts of the movie. How do I get it compressed or encoded or whatever into just one .mp4?

What I want to do is just rip my BluRays into whatever file format is best for streaming? I have a new LCD TV, and a Blu Ray player with WIFI. In the past I used to have no problems (this was a few handbrake updates ago). I would just pop the disc in, open the video TS file, and select PS3 preset, then presto. I don't even see Video_TS files anymore. It's just a bunch of AVCHD files, and there doesn't seem to be just one that is the complete movie.

I have tried to burn the disc a couple times, and I THOUGHT I had a good file, but every time I run it, it says that Quicktime (or any other program) can't play it because it's an unrecognized file format? But the file is .m4v which I thought was correct. Also, it takes about 2 hours to encode. I am running it on an overclocked 3.5ghz core i7 860.



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