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The fine folks who brought us iSquint, now give us Handbrake Lite. You may remember Handbrake as that super cool app that rips DVD's into tons of
different formats. Handbrake Lite is just like that, only it rips your DVD's into an iPod ready format (320x* MPEG-4
SP, ffmpeg, 1000kbps avg, 48000KHz 128kbps audio) and that's all it does.Use Spotlight as a reference tool. Type any word in the Spotlight box and one of the top entries will be a definition. Click on it, and it will bring up the dictionary application to check the word in either the dictionary, thesaurus, Apple database, or Wikipedia.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
M@ said 8:34PM on 12-27-2005
Kind of ironic that I'm reading this now since I'm about 3 hours into a 4 hour rip of a video for a friend of mine that wants to put Princess Mononoke on his new video iPod. Well, may check this out for the next time I have to do this.
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lgc90 said 8:37PM on 12-27-2005
1000kbps avg? I thought the max was 700, and I always use 400, with no visible loss of quality except when playing in full screen on my computer.
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Brian said 9:00PM on 12-27-2005
If you use h264 the limit is 768kbps, but if you use mpeg4 the max is 2500kbps.
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Maxim Blinder said 9:01PM on 12-27-2005
lgc90, the 768kbps limit is for h.264 encoded video. Handbrake Lite encodes in mpeg4, which as a 2500kbps limit on the iPod.
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Chateau said 9:51PM on 12-27-2005
Does anyone know of a resource of the different ways to encode videos to? I have never known the best format, and codecs to use depending on if I need .mov, .mp4, .avi, .mpg; and if I need high or low file size; and high or low video quality. Anything would be helpful.
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John said 12:06AM on 12-28-2005
I'm totally loving the sippy cup icon.
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macfanboy said 2:03AM on 12-28-2005
Sounds cool, but what I really have been looking for is just the opposite. How to convert avi and mpg to DVD easily on a Mac. I've tried ffmpg and Toast 7 but didn't really like the results. Any suggestions?
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sixhoursago said 7:10AM on 12-28-2005
macfanboy - you can use DivxDoctor II to convert .avi to .mov. Once it is .mov you can import it easily to iMovie and iDVD to get it on disc. Mpgs are very similar and they may even work with iMovie as they are, though I'm not sure because I almost always work with .dv or .mov files. QuickTime Pro is very convenient for converting videos, and at only $30 it is well worth it, imo.
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Cyberwhore said 8:07AM on 12-28-2005
While we are on the subject of video and before the year is over does anyone know what happened to the "Year of HD"?
Did I miss something? Was I asleep?
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randy king said 6:07PM on 1-26-2006
How do I get rid of the english subtititles when using handbrake?
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