

MakeMKV may do the the same, I've decided to not look into it
#Handbrake rip dvd software#
So buying software that actively breaks copy protection (anyDVD) is not legal. (Legislation is a bit silly, personal copies are allowed (and paid for by a special fee on recordable media) but breaking copy protection to achieve this is not.) As far as I understand, for non copy protected disks and my usage this is legal in my country. This may or may not be legal depending on the disk, and where you live. My simple solution is to only give them copies, keep the original ones in the shelves, and if they knacker it I burn them a new copy. This means they destroy their favorite disk in 2~6 weeks by scratching it heavily. My kids are at an age where they handle the disks themselves, but not old enough to do so carefully.
#Handbrake rip dvd free#
I used makeMKV as it is fast and free (and should work for blurays).ĪnyDVD would probably do the same, but needs to be bought (please see comment below).īut yes, in general I'd like to make a backup of the DVD to play in the DVD player. MKV containers with MPEG-2 content (DVD), an I'd like to "remux" it back to a format that can be burnt to DVD to be read in a DVD-Player. I also encode at H.264 funnily enough and use MKV container as its more flexible although consoles especially older ones or older TVs cont support it.Ĭlick to expand.I've now got. Subtitles - there are a couple of ways of doing this so it worth researching but it involves subtitle edit.

Im talking nearly doubling it !Īudio - i always use pass through on the best audio on the blu-ray. Basically made the Blu-ray look like a DVD.ĭont use denoise otherwise as it adds a considerable amount to encoding time. I didnt go any higher as medium looked way too blurry for me. This effective removes the grain but at a slight cost to sharpness. For this i use NLMeans using a light preset. FYI handbrake is clever enough to crop black bars so leave it on automatic (dont want to increase the file size just for black bars)ĭenoise is usually off unless you are encoding some old upscaled content like star trek next generation.
#Handbrake rip dvd plus#
I use a I5 4670K and it takes about 2hrs or so to encode a typical 2hr blu-ray film using these settings plus the below general ones.Īlways use "Strict" Anamorphic as that will preserve the original aspect ratio as well as the resolution. I use slower which gives me a good balance of smaller file sizes but it doesnt take an age to encode. Which to use depends on your CPU/patience or how anal you are around encoding. oooo almost forgot avoid placebo it takes forever and gives only fractional improvement on file size.

Medium, slow and slower produce smaller file sizes while maintaining the CQ and under testing i could see no differences between the videos when playing side by side while sat within about 10 cm of my screen. Very fast if i remember has an odd output and actually produces a really small file size, the consensus was avoid it at all cost as it much sacrifice a lot of quality to achieve it.

don't use them unless speed is a priority (not sure why it would be though) I found that Ultra, super, very fast, faster and fast are pants, they skip many checks required to preserve quality and produce larger files sizes on output. Turns out when you use CQ the encode speed only makes small difference to file size (using better detection to optimise quality at the cost of speed) The general advise is set it as low as you can stand but that is a bit vague. The pre-sets have really improved over the years and i did some playing around with this and some more research in to the best setting. It did however make a big impact on file size 20-30%. I've tried higher settings on the blu-ray at 23 but i visually noticed a difference on my 21" monitor. Personally i use 20 CQ for blu-ray and they play very well on my 42" TV. Use avg bit-rate if specifics file sizes are required. Handbrake settings ive researched and played around with testing:Ĭonstant quality vs avg bitrate = short story use CQ if you value quality over file size.
