First off, I wrote earlier stating that I was getting some weird compatibility errors in Handbrake. Those have been fixed. Turns out, I was indeed runn ing VLC 64 bit, and Handbrake 32 bit. So, yeah, no wonder. Anyway, I dono why I didn't catch that before hand, but anyway, that part's working fine at this point. Here, however, is the only problem now that I'm seeing.
I'm noticing that it's taking escrutiatingly! long to encode one DVD title. I mean, if the title has say 20 chapters, and the whole title is about 2 hours long, as most movies are, it takes about 5 to 5 and a half hours! just to rip the dern thing. I'm not so much in objection to that, although it is quite a long time to rip one dvd, I will admit, as much as the really big problem is when I go to my desktop and hit command+i on the m4v file it creates, if I vo over to where it lists the size of the file, the file is about 3 to 4 gigs! no? I didn't say MB, I said gigs! in size. Shouldn't it be compressed more to say like, 6 or 700 MB? I'd like it to use the Div X codek and do like AVI files would be whereby it maintains good quality both for audio and picture, but yet compresses it to less than a gig. I've not changed even one single setting in the entire app from the time of installation. In fact, I don't think I even have looked at the settings, I just put it in, select my title/chapter range, and hit command+S to start encoding, and letter rip. So, is there anything we might wanna look at to make those files smaller, as I'm sorry, I only have a 250GB drive, so that's gonna fill up real fast at 3 or 4GB per movie.
My goal is to get my movies all ripped so I can import 'em into ITunes, and watch them on my Apple TV.
Thanks.Chris.
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