[mac4theblind] Re: My issue with Handbrake

  • From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:53:12 -0800

It will be changed in the dropdown box.. I think. I did a podcast on it in 
2010. It's down but I can upload it someware if you want it.
On Jan 14, 2012, at 5:36 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:

> OK, will mp4 be any smaller, and where do I go to change that?
> 
> Chris.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Alawami" <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 12:51 PM
> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: My issue with Handbrake
> 
> 
> Actually I choose mp4 or at least I think I do. but it will take about 5 
> hours to encoce a 2 hour movie. I let it do that when I'm asleep.
> 
> Take care.
> On Jan 14, 2012, at 7:23 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> 
>> 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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