HANDBRAKE H.264 PROBLEM SOLVED!! DOWNLOAD HERE!!!

yeah Glor, I think that's a good if you're going to sometimes view them on a tv.

Hey, with handrake I just noticed that on the lower right side, you can change the language from English 5ch to English 2ch. Since the ipod is just going to be in stereo would it make sense to choose 2ch? I mean, when watching a movie that's only in dolby surround on a regular tv, then the dialog and stuff gets really quiet because there's no center channel, so I'm wondering if this would make for a better listening experience on the ipod. Anybody think that sounds right?

You may not want to do that. I found that on one dvd, when I switched it to 2 ch aac, I got one of the alternate audio tracks.

Glor

Hey Dude!!!

I Just ripped a dvd using the now infamous 'Handbrake' onto my desktop, but when it was finished I found that .mp4 was written after the title.

But I set the codec for "H.264", why in **** did this happen????

Anybody know why????

Anybody know ???

.......the last thread !!!

Anyone ???

brandon - try renaming the file from .mp4 to .m4v - then drag the file to your iTunes library.... then it should update to your iPod

I didn't receive my iPod yet.............but when I play the movie on my iMac,
seen as I was under the impression I ripped it in H.264 codec, I expected it to play fullsceen !!!!

ha, glor is right, that audio 2ch thing was the directors commentary. so don't try that idea.

Just got my first rip with the new version finished and all is good in my world. Ran quickly, video looks and sounds awesome, and copied to the 5G iPod perfectly.

thanks again for the tip.

Here you go: http://www.newtenlightment.de/iPodHandbrake.dmg

thanks for the handbrake link, that version works great ripping my home video from dvd, to ipod ready - however if I try to rip from a video_ts file it seems to hang forever, like 5+ hours, although it indicates 100%, I force quite and it doesn't play. any ideas ?
thanks.

Sure, no problem.

HandBrake is just amazing. I really nearly have tried them all:

Mac-Software:
- FourtyTwo (which by the way does not generate h.264, not for me anyway). I am not able to crop. Can handle VIDEO_TS folder. First generate an avi (?!? why ?!?) then starts coding. Slow.

- Compress from Final Cut: the h.264 video will not load onto the 5G iPod and is very slow. The MPEG-4 video coding is extremely fast, but if you compare it to h.264 you see the difference. Great functionality. Can not handle a VIDEO_TS folder.

- Toast 7: does the h.264 coding pretty fast (you have to choose baseline, by the way), but the result is really bad compare to the others. Can handle VIDEO_TS folder.

- Quicktime Pro 7: sloooooow, but good results. Can not handle VIDEO_TS folder.

- HandBrake: In my opinion the Best coder there is. It is fast, can handle VIDEO_TS folder. Very good results (I cannot tell the difference in quality between 1-pass and 2-pass coding, except the 2-pass coding takes very long.) h.264 coding, crop-function, and its free.

Windows-Software:
- Nero Recoder: Fast, NO h.264.

- PQDVD: Which I bought. afterwards I realized it has a problem with the audio (there are glitches, crackling noises throughout the video). You need a DVD-Player installed. Very fast. NO h.264!

FourtyTwo (which by the way does not generate h.264, not for me anyway).

Are you using the AVC (H.264) encoder setting?

First generate an avi (?!? why ?!?) then starts coding.

Transcoding requires VOB files be stripped to Audio and video component streams which are then integrated as an intermediate file with one video and one or more audio tracks. This intermediate file is then converted to final format using QuickTime routines (which is probably why it is slower than HandBrake which uses non-QT routines). An .avi intermediate file is just one of the possibilities that offers a reasonable balance of quality-to-file size and compatibility.