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Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by Tempest1981 »

bluejekyll wrote: post #38
adim86 wrote: post #3

It is amazing to see software that is about 10 years old just hitting 1.0. Never really quite understood that. Is the developer just not confident in it that it is in beta for a while? or is it just a style of versioning? Anyways glad to see development on handbreak.Great software!

Versioning is generally arbitrary. I actually don't know why people pay so much attention to it. 1.0 for some people, is 0.1 for others. 1.0 might mean it's stable, or it could meant that it's feature complete. As you say it could also be used to convey the confidence the developers have in the software. The thing I find most important myself is conveying compatibility, i.e. semver. To me that tells me it will be eas…

Then there was Java, where 1.5 meant 5.0. And Win 7, which is 6.1 internally.

(When engineering and marketing aren't on the same page?)

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by dperfect »

HandBrake offers a really nice GUI for many one-off transcoding tasks. If you're looking to automate transcoding tasks with some scripting, handbrake-cli (or ffmpeg directly) are very powerful, albeit overwhelming at times.

For something in the middle - offering both convenience and scriptability - I recommend video_transcoding[1] (uses handbrake-cli and ffmpeg under the covers). It's a really handy set of command-line tools that eliminate a lot of the guesswork and frustration.

[1] https://github.com/donmelton/video_transcoding

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by witty_username »

eximius wrote: post #66
brownbat wrote: post #54

I often wonder if archivists are out there somewhere, armed with HandBrake, ripping every DVD they can find into a digital format for preservation beyond the life of the disc. I've been fascinated with some projects that have tried to recreate the original theater experience of the original Star Wars,[0] or groups trying to capture classics that influenced Chinese cinema but haven't been widely reproduced, like Red H…

Streaming doesn't stop it, you just record your screen. It's not perfect, but it works. DRM is dumb.

Yes, but it stops easy copying. Don't let good be the enemy of perfect.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by yardie »

noobermin wrote: post #9

I ask as someone who uses ffmpeg regularly, what does Handbrake offer over ffmpeg?

I learned the ffmpeg cli commands by reading the handbrake logs. Rather than read tons of man pages I used HB to dial in my settings than used those settings in a pipe and tuned it further. It cut development time down by days.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by ZenoArrow »

walterbell wrote: post #65
aw3c2 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rest assured that there are archivists ripping their discs losslessly somewhere in the dark corners of the internet. Hidden because the copyright mafia will otherwise ruin their lives.

What's the best software for lossless archival ripping?

This is an interesting one, in that most data on DVDs is already stored in lossy formats (such as MPEG-2 for video https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video ). The best form of preservation is to rip the contents as a DVD ISO, which will use the same video and audio formats, as well as preserving extra features like the DVD menus. Any DVD ripper that can rip to a DVD ISO format and perform checksums on the ripped contents will suffice.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by slhck »

kennell wrote: post #17
junto wrote: post #5

I love Handbrake. It's my goto for video transcoding. I often download stuff for my children from YouTube using a YouTube downloader, and then transcode them to the ideal iPad format, so the children can watch stuff in the car on the iPad without an internet connection. Great for long trips.

An iPad can't play regular MP4/H264 videos by default?

Not all of them, at least. There are some restrictions with regard to profiles and levels that are supported (i.e. bells and whistles that the codec can use).

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by web007 »

walterbell wrote: post #65
aw3c2 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rest assured that there are archivists ripping their discs losslessly somewhere in the dark corners of the internet. Hidden because the copyright mafia will otherwise ruin their lives.

What's the best software for lossless archival ripping?

I've generally used MakeMKV to get from protected-source to open-copy, but still as MPEG-2 streams without any loss / transcoding. That's not what you'd use as an archivist - you would want something that does structure-level copying instead, so you get menus and chapters and whatnot. Unless you're talking about archiving just the feature, then it's about perfect and lets you preserve everything you care about in a single file.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by jlgaddis »

Great timing! I just built a new workstation over the last few days, put a BluRay/DVD/CD writer in it, and am looking at the ~15 or so new movies we just got over Christmas that I'm planning to rip. Gonna set up a "media PC" hooked up to the TV to play our movies over the network.

Re: HandBrake 1.0.0 Released

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Post by ldjb »

walterbell wrote: post #65
aw3c2 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rest assured that there are archivists ripping their discs losslessly somewhere in the dark corners of the internet. Hidden because the copyright mafia will otherwise ruin their lives.

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.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Decrypter

[1] http://www.makemkv.com/

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