iMacG5 and Handbreak and VLC

Hello:

My third Mac is an iMac PowerPC. I haven't used Handbreak on it. I download the Handbreak for PowerPC. Get the dialogue box: "This is a 32 bit version of Handbreak, VLC isn't32 bit, download here." I go to the page, but don't know which VLC I should download, and once it's downloaded and I put it in my applications, then what? Launch Handbreak and see if it will copy? To make life easier, can't I just download a version of Handbreak that works with a 6 year old iMac G5? If not Handbreak, is there another free software out there I can download that would be compatible with a G5?
Thank you very much for the help

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Leopard OS

Posted on Mar 12, 2010 9:48 PM

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Mar 13, 2010 8:32 PM in response to Peter Reznikoff

You can use the latest version of Handbrake with Leopard and PPC.

You need to:

a) Get the PPC version of Handbrake (that should be fairly obvious!)

b) Download the UNIVERSAL binary of VLC.

c) Copy VLC to your Applications folder, and open and close VLC.

d) Start Handbrake.

EDIT: If you are encoding for your iPod, I recommend using FFmpeg encoder, constant quality set to 3. x264 will take an age to encode on your machine.

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