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No wonder you think hb is slow, with 10.4 the only hb rev you can use is 0.9.1 which is much slower than 0.9.3.
might be time to upgrade OS's as you can tell, more and more projects are 10.5 only.
until my birthday in august,when i get my mac mini*hopefully*,i wont have a machine capable of running leopard
So you have a machine that has less then a 867Mhz G4, and you expect to be able to encode video quickly? That's not gonna happen no matter what software you use.
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Unfortunately, in your case, you are going to have to pick one of the following: quality or speed. HandBrake will do a fast job for you if you are willing to wipe out all the advanced x264 settings or move to FFMpeg encoding.
Remember, HandBrake is using x264 for encoding, probably the most efficient encoder out there. All the advanced settings that go with it are to improve the quality of the encode, but at a trade off with speed. So, it's not HandBrake itself that is causing you to go slow, its the encoding options (and your hardware).
Clear all the options and you will get a speedy encode, at the expense of an awful looking encode.
i cant get handbrake.the version the is supported on tiger only does dvds. visual hub has been discontinued can someone pm me a link for it?
just found visual hub.one word.wow!. its going faster the videora on my 1.1 ghz pc!!! thank you guys so much!!!
I 2nd isquint, at least for multiple files. I know handbrake has a queue but it is not as quick and easy as dropping stuff into isquint and letting it go.
personally,if you dont like handbrake,and you dont mind paying for it, i personally like Roxio's Toast Titanium HD...i have quicktime pro and i think it's WAY too slow to convert stuff in my opinion.
in my experience visual hub pwns the crap outta hand brake.
That's the great thing about personal opinions and incredulity. Anyone can have them, no matter how wrong they might be.
That's the great thing about personal opinions and incredulity. Anyone can have them, no matter how wrong they might be.
haha.maybe visual hub is just better for slow machines,i dont know
no, it just does a lower quality encode which is faster.
For example, compare VH's speed to HandBrakes "Classic" preset. You will find even on your machine HB's Classic preset is very fast. Quality ? Thats for you to decide.
There is no doubt that given the same settings HB is faster than VH. Period.
Visual Quality . Encoding Speed. Pick one.