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HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by sp332 »

Fnoord wrote: post #166
sp332 wrote: post #148

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But you have to delete the copy when you give the original back so what's the advantage?

> But you have to delete the copy when you give the original back so what's the advantage? You do in the USA? Why? AFAIK, not in The Netherlands. The copy was made from a legal source and in a legal way, and is therefore legal regardless if you do or do not possess the original copy.

Yes, in the USA you also have to destroy copies when you sell a movie or CD to someone. This is the whole point of copyright - to limit distribution. Otherwise running a rental service wouldn't be any different from hosting a download site.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by germinalphrase »

nemof wrote: post #155
germinalphrase wrote: post #86

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I once knew of a group like this. eventually, thy disappeared - but it was the most wonderful way to access otherwise unavailable arthouse and experimental cinema. I miss it.

sc? i used to knew a few groups like this that concentrated on obscure arthouse films, but i've long since forgotten their names about from sc. there was another one that had something to do with a crow i think. hmm.

I actually can't remember. I was a teenager then and budding cinephile. I stumbled on an invitation to the group through an online acquaintance in a completely unrelated message board.

It was an adventure to be able to pull down obscure work from people I'd never heard of previously. As it goes, a lot of the stuff was above my head - but occasionally I'd stumble on something amazing and go deep on that creator. Later, my university had a very good cinema library. You had to request films my name, necessitating research and sapping some of the adventure of chance.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by michaelmrose »

ldjb wrote: post #80
walterbell wrote: post #65

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What's the best software for lossless archival ripping?

I have used DVD Decrypter [0] (unfortunately Windows-only) to make ISOs from DVDs. All the menus are retained, so I can still access special features (image galleries, character profiles, etc.). I also hear good things about MakeMKV [1], which apparently allows some sort of lossless ripping of video files (I haven't used it, so I cannot confirm this), although the MKV format does not support menus. [0] https://en.wik…

Works via wine although some disks stopped working in recent years with the software at all that is not with wine

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by FabHK »

gigatexal wrote: post #87

I've so much respect for the team behind handbrake. What a quality piece of software. Kudos to them to making it to 1.0 -- I hope to be using it for many years to come. It's cool to see H265 support too. That's something I look forward to trying out.

Previous releases (0.10.something, maybe even 0.9?) already had H265 support, IIRC, two years back or so.

And yes, great team.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by pmarreck »

snvzz wrote: post #92
LeonM wrote: post #45

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Most hardware video players (like Raspberry pi etc) can't decode H.265 using hardware acceleration, a RPi 2 (haven't testen RPi3) does not have enough computational power to play a FHD H.265 at 24FPS. Until hardware H.265 decoding is introduced to the popular media center hardware, H.264 will remain the codec of choice for most people.

> Until hardware H.265 decoding is introduced to the popular media center hardware, H.264 will remain the codec of choice for most people. Might never happen, thanks to netvc.

link to the netvc issue?

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by UnoriginalGuy »

ZenoArrow wrote: post #133
UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #52

I hope this fixes the issue I, but seemingly few others have, which is that the sound drifts behind the video getting progressively worse as the video continues. By 60 minutes in the sound is a full five second behind the video.

Does this only happen when using variable bit rate audio, or does this happen with fixed bit rate audio as well?

Unfortunately both.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

throwaway4891a wrote: post #151
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #98

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> I'm a little surprised they aren't signing their MacOS releases. Do any small developers actually do this? It seems entirely useless from a security prospective. You go through an expensive process so that at the end it can "verify" that the binary was signed by an individual the user has never met who may not even live in the same country and for all anyone knows is perfectly willing to sign ransomware, or who has…

Apple's codesign ensures end-to-end chain-of-custody integrity with nonrepudiation, tied to a specific, named signer and likely also a credit-card. GPG signing and releasing fingerprints of all released artifacts on an https://-served release notice would accomplish nearly the same thing, but requires more steps and causes a confusing `“HandBrake” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.` dialog.…

Universalizing GPG would be an improvement.

The "end-to-end chain-of-custody" is actually the problem, because it does two bad things.

First it encourages people to give it more faith than is due. Having an ironclad guarantee that something is approved by a specific untrustworthy person can do more harm than good when people see the guarantee and not the guarantor.

Second, when the process has barriers (e.g. for poor students or foreign nationals), you get a lot of legitimate software that isn't signed, which means you're harmfully desensitizing users to security warnings. Or locking out legitimate software.

Suppose you replace that with automatic GPG signatures, where the software has to be signed by the author but the author doesn't have to be signed by anybody else. You still have something useful -- you can verify that two pieces of software are from the same author. And that updates are from the same author as the original. And the author can publish their public key to their website, allowing security-conscious users to link the software to the trusted website.

Meanwhile signing becomes only a checkbox with no gatekeeper deciding who can and can't sign, no one is excluded, so everything can be signed there are no spurious security warnings for legitimate software.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by FullyFunctional »

pmarreck wrote: post #176
snvzz wrote: post #92

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> Until hardware H.265 decoding is introduced to the popular media center hardware, H.264 will remain the codec of choice for most people. Might never happen, thanks to netvc.

link to the netvc issue?

Not an "issue", but an effort, backed by many high profile players, not least Google, Mozilla, and Cisco, to create an open, free, alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETVC
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