[X4U] handbrake and ripping dvds

[alexandre]

pete, that sounds great… itunes still has a few suprises up its sleeve!

my "high-quality" rip is at 2000 bitrate, two-pass and h-264.

i have 2 versions of "the good german" ripped in handbrake on my  
desktop, one with the above settings (1.54gb) and one with the iphone  
presents (816mb). i'll "convert for iphone" the hi-res one in itunes  
and compare.

many thanks,

alexandre

On Aug 2, 2008, at 22:26 , Pete Zimowski wrote:

>> i make copies of dvds that i own so that i can watch them on the  
>> road on my macbook pro, without taking the dvds themselves,  
>> obviously. i use handbrake to do this, with my custom settings so  
>> as to have a relatively high quality copy (1.5gb for an average  
>> movie, in mp4 format)
>>
>> now that i have an iphone, i'd also like to have "lighter" versions  
>> of these movies. how can i go about this without re-ripping at a  
>> lower bitrate (which is what i'm doing now)?
>
> I'm doing something similar for archiving and viewing on Apple TV -  
> ripping with Handbrake (2500 bit rate, two-pass, h-264) and putting  
> them into iTunes to place onto Apple TV .  When I want to put the  
> ripped movies on my iPhone or iPod, I select the movie in iTunes,  
> then choose "Convert Selection for iPod/iPhone" from the "Advanced"  
> menu.
>
> It does take several minutes to do the conversion (definitely less  
> than doing a second convert with Handbrake), and I do have the same  
> movie (albeit in different resolutions) stored twice, but it does  
> the trick.
>
> I'm interested if there's any other way to do it myself.
>
> Pete
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