Handbrake update .. handy DVD conversion tool

[mikeb]

Handbrake has been updated to 0.9.2
http://handbrake.fr/
One change is the log output is now on stdout rather than stderr though other messages remain on stdterr.

Also it now runs as one process so renice can easily be used to make handbrake less processor dominant.

Finally the binary is 500k less whilst incorporating various improvements.
Oh and it doesn't seem to require glibc 2.4 any more.

I've updated my simple gui which also now uses gtklogfileviewer.

mike

edit... revisited this as soooo useful for backing up a huge pile of friends dvds and discovered the default codec is twice as fast as x264! Still using the olde binary as it has many more options and DVDs have not really changed. I merged the improved gui from mencoder to make something nicer I hope. Should work on anything
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ha4tn3dn8jwy ... 2.pet?dl=1

[HairyWill]

What is handbrake?

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

http://handbrake.fr/

[mikeb]

What is handbrake?

Knew I'd forgotton something

mike

[hillside]

I'm a loser.

Why don't I ever read before I type?

[mikeb]

Why do I miss bits when posting?


I originally mentioned handbrake on another thread so I thought it needed its own to bring up the update...thus I forgot that the subject was, as far as thee rest of the world was concerned, new.

By the way its a really neat application and can do all sorts of tricks and deserves a better gui to make the most of it.

Now where is my spade to get this hole dug really deep.........

mike

edit
I've sneakly updated the title of this doomed thread

[mikeb]

Ok revisited as this tool proved much more useful than I thought.
Gave it a nicer GUI too as a pressie.

See first post

mike

[nic007]

Can it convert individual TS (it's a group of TS something files, isn't it) files to MP4? I sometimes download those TS files which have been ripped from the DVD already.

[mikeb]

Never tried it but well should do but would have to be done from the command line. you can also use avidemux... it opens the first and chains the rest.
mike

[nic007]

These files seem to work as a group. I normally "play" these TS files (select one and it runs the whole video) with VLC and simultaneously copy/convert to mp4...but you have to run the video to get a satisfactory, continuous output.

[mikeb]

handbrake basic command is

Handbrake -t 1 -i /path/to/input/file.vob -o /path/to result.mp4 and that uses defaults...could try that and use the same file you play with vlc.
-t 1 is the title....

mike