1. yay....a post that doesnt invole hacking an iphone

Posted at 2:03PM on Oct 9th 2007 by raymie

2. Yay ... a whining commenter again.

Posted at 2:11PM on Oct 9th 2007 by TMM

3. I noticed a nasty bug with chapters being incorrectly read. I was ripping videos from my New Order Collected DVD for my iPod Touch, and many of the videos are preceded by a countdown that had its own chapter. Sometimes the app would crash, sometimes it would record the incorrect part of the video, etc. Very frustrating, and I gave up after Blue Monday '88, which is pretty early on the disc. Any clue on whether or not something like this might be fixed? I won't be home until late this evening to test.

Posted at 2:19PM on Oct 9th 2007 by Tucker

4. I would love this program, but I can't get it to rip anymore than 1 chapter from any DVD. I'm probably just doing something wrong, so feel free to point that out with a fix.

Posted at 2:30PM on Oct 9th 2007 by Martin

5. Are you ripping from the DVD directly or from a VIDEO_TS folder? I find Handbrake works better if I use MacTheRipper to get the disc onto my HD, then convert it to the chosen format.

Posted at 2:40PM on Oct 9th 2007 by DaiMac79

6. A fantastic peice of software just got more fanasticar....

Love it for ripping my DVD's to play on the PS3.

Posted at 2:54PM on Oct 9th 2007 by Brian

7. Hopefully the issue with changes to target size/quality not being set is addressed.

Posted at 2:54PM on Oct 9th 2007 by 5cents

8. Would certainly luv a 'dump into iTunes and subsequently my tv' option.

Posted at 3:14PM on Oct 9th 2007 by David Chartier

9. YES! First time a tip from me was used :)

BTW. The HandBrake Dev themself tell you to use MacTheRipper since HandBrakes own rippers is, well, limited. The Windows Version doesn't void any copyright laws since it doesn't handle CSS, in a future Version for Mac OS X CSS support is also going to be dropped.

Posted at 3:16PM on Oct 9th 2007 by pentumforever

10. "I would love this program, but I can't get it to rip anymore than 1 chapter from any DVD."

That's a recent thing cause by some new DRM, from what I understand.

"Are you ripping from the DVD directly or from a VIDEO_TS folder?"

Absolutely have to do it this way!

"It's not often that an application update is announced by the developers with chagrin instead of excitement"

I think they're upset that 1) their program is getting less and less useful (see 1 chapter ripping problem) and 2), well sheesh - it's been in beta forever! Time to get to the ol' 1.0, dudes!

Seriously, though, I kid. You only hurt the ones you love. Handbrake is a great program, and it's cheap as free. Can't ask for more than that.

Posted at 3:26PM on Oct 9th 2007 by Billy K

11. I love this program and am glad to see the patch. Obviously you have to use a second program to get around copy protection so that you can actually back up your movies, but that's just life. I'm glad this software is available as it has made life much easier for backing up my DVDs. In a sense it's almost directly responsible for my recent surge in DVD purchases because I bought them with the intention of converting them to watch on my iPod touch. =)

Posted at 4:05PM on Oct 9th 2007 by yacoub

12. Was it just pulled off their servers?

Posted at 4:51PM on Oct 9th 2007 by Harbinger

13. Gosh darnit, would you quit wasting my time with non-iPhone-hacking related posts?!?!?!?!

;-)

Posted at 5:22PM on Oct 9th 2007 by Distorted Loop

14. "Changing dimensions in Picture Settings no longer causes a crash (Mac)"

I got that one alot, because I "skew" movies and force them to 16:9, so they fill up the whole screen on my AppleTV. Glad to know it wasn't just me and that it's fixed :)

Posted at 5:28PM on Oct 9th 2007 by h8rain

15. Another advantage of pre-ripping with MacTheRipper is that Handbrake isn't spinning your DVD for hours at a time. I rip to an external drive, then rip with Handbrake to another physical drive. That way there's no competition between reading and writing. As my G5 takes about 18 hours to rip a movie at high-quality settings, I wouldn't want my DVD to spin for that long. I'm worried about warping it. It's also noisy.

Posted at 9:44PM on Oct 9th 2007 by Japester

16. @6: I totally agree. I get much better (and much faster) results when using Handbrake with a VIDEO_TS folder on my HD.

Posted at 9:40AM on Oct 10th 2007 by Matt Abney

17. Hmmm, interesting about ripping & Handbraking to different physical drives. Hadn't thought about that.

My Quad-Core G5 takes a little less than real time to Handbrake a DVD at AppleTV quality. (just under 2 hours for a 2 hour movie)

And yes, ripping them first and Handbraking in a batch is the way to go - gives me around 6 or 8 converted movies over-night that way.

I've got over 100 movies on my AppleTV and love it!

Of course, the HOLY GRAIL is to be able to use a single high-quality/small-sized video file on every device - home theatre, laptop, iPod, iPhone, etc. and have it be able to play in whatever resolution the device needs without having to re-encode it.

Someday...

Posted at 3:01PM on Oct 10th 2007 by Bill Mac