Posted At : May 16, 2008 3:21 PM 4 Comments
It does exactly what is says on the tin and makes it very easy to copy dvd's. Initially I used it from my Mac and it worked flawlessly.
I also tried the Linux version on Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) which has no GUI but it is pretty simple when you get the hang of it.
Here's a typical command line:
This reads from /dev/cdrom and uses the handy "iPod Low-Rez" preset which fixes it all up nicely for the iPod.
And here's one that takes the second title:
The wiki has more information on command line usage.
Happy iPodding.
Cheers, Mark
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Handbrake is great! I use it on my MacBook Pro all the time, as I bring my DVD library into iTunes.
I have been using MacTheRipper to rip my DVD's to my MBP and using VisualHub to convert them. VisualHub is great. Not free but great! Super simple GUI, presets for every type of device you could want as well.
I can rip a DVD, then use Visual Hub to convert that into Ipod, Iphone, or AppleTV format. Or PSP, DV, DVD, AVI, MP4, MPEG or even Flash! Probably the most powerful yet simplest converter I have found.
HandBrake worked beautifully for me to convert a dvd movie into mp4, and view it on my HTC touch smart phone, which runs under WinMobile6.
I ran it under Ubuntu 8,04
After a few tries, the options that worked (best) were
HanbBreakCLI \
-i /media/cdrom0/VIDEO_TS \
-o /home/carlos/Public/movie5.mp4 \
--maxHeight 240 --maxWidth 320
The last two are just to make the conversion best fit into my device screen, hoping to get the best quality for my phone while keeping file size as small as possible.
As a side effect, I got a relatively small (1GB) file with fair image quality and great sound when played with vlc.
Handbrake is very good software, I also had success with DVD decrypter which is a free software for windows.