Handbrake:
After more than 13 years of development, the HandBrake Team is delighted to present HandBrake 1.0.0. Thank you to all of our many contributors over the years for making HandBrake what it is today.
Back in the day, Handbrake was an indispensable tool for ripping DVDs. Now, I use it regularly to re-encode videos for the Apple TV.
Clearly you need to use AirVideo HD! Does the transcoding on the fly! Works to all your iOS devices from your Mac. (And I think they have a PC client too.)
Though I am using Handbrake to reencode a few very large video files right now. I downloaded it again because I had trouble wondering why they were still developing it with the death of DVD. But apparently it works well as a transcoder, which is nice 🙂
Ripping CDs with Handbrake?
My bad. Late night posting. I meant DVDs. Fixed now. Thanks!
Just blame the beer Shawn!
LOL No – I’ve been sipping on a $1000 bottle of whisky I got for Christmas! 🙂
Oh nice, what is it? I got a bottle of single malt Scotch whisky for my b-day. No, it is not a $1000 bottle! ; )
Okanagan Spirits Laird of Fintry. https://twitter.com/ShawnKing/status/813210014118658048/photo/1
the death of DVD has been greatly exaggerated. It can be far cheaper to buy used disks and rip them than to buy the movie on Itunes… and you can get movies on DVD that have never been made available on any digital platform.
Will be interesting to see how effective blu-ray decoding is. Paired with MKVToolNix, it could be a boon for streamlining the process of digitizing discs to MKV files for use in Plex, VLC, etc.
HB works great on 1080 (HD) bluray. I’m sure it will work well on UHD (2160) bluray.
I still have a 1068 machine running FrontRow – that works well for TV shows and movies, yet about half the iTunes movies fail to play in FrontRow (audio, no video) – so when I have the correct copy – that fixes Apple’s lack of attention to detail.
HB is good for transcoding BR discs, though AFAIK, it no longer removes the pesky Digital wRong Manglement. It seems HB can use up to 11 cores on most any computer – maybe more.
That’s a long time in development. I’ve been using it since shortly after I got my first iMac.
Most people are lazy though. Also, that means you have to store it instead of letting apple store the movie for you.
Cf the bit about availability. Once you begin to amass titles that aren’t available anywhere else, it just starts to make sense to say screw it and get all sorts of things that are available in other formats for that way. Especially when it saves you money.
Once you make the decision to convert your library of disks into a library of rips, then it’s just a matter of getting a spare computer to serve as a media library and pack it with enough hard disk space to accommodate your entire collection.
Yes, it’s a huge investment of time, but you get there through a series of small steps… and in the end being able to call up any title you own by tapping on a remote app on your ipad makes it well worth the effort.
Actually I am using MacX DVD ripper, it is a free software to rip DVD on Mac. This one https://www.macxdvd.com/dvd-ripper-mac-free/. I haven’t used HandBrake before and have no idea of its performance, but I will definitely try it.