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the dark knight won't rip? [merged]

Cheffy Dave said:
Any DVD rips it just fine on XP, Can't get these people to make a Mac version, so I keep my tower for DVD's, btw I dislike handbrake , way to convoluted for me, Any DVD is one click simple, why can't this be made for a Mac
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AnyDVD and Handbrake don't even do the same things. You are comparing apples to oranges. Or wordprocessors to spreadsheets. Or in this case DVD rippers (AnyDVD) to transcoders (Handbrake).

AnyDVD makes a copy of a DVD and removes copy protection. Handbrake takes DVD (VOB) files and transcodes (converts) them into various formats suitable for playing on various devices, such as iPod or AppleTV. Handbrake will utilize an installed copy of VLC to attempt rip (copy) the DVD, but it has no native code to do that itself.
 
dynaflash said:
Its not that tough. Just pick the VIDEO_TS folder (or its parent folder if you wish, but NOT the vob) and choose title 1.

Yes, HB can take a vob as input, but as you noted you will only get what that vob contains.

Don't overcomplicate it. Pick the dvd or VIDEO_TS folder as always, except using title specific so hb will only scan title 1 (whatever vobs that is comprised of). Done.
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Choosing the parent folder locks up HB and I have to force quit to get out of it.. all of my software is the latest version, VLC and HB. Nothing complicated here, just doesnt work and freezes HB.
 
themoonisdown09 said:
That works too. I selected the vob file and then title 1 and it worked for me. Those are the instructions that were on the Handbrake forums.
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I am trying to do this with Handbrake, and I am able to choose the VOB file and then hit open and my computer says it is opening but it never seems to progress. Did yours take a long time to open? And I can't seem to have the option to choose a Title until it is opened, is that correct?

Any help is greatly appreciated. :)
 
Hey guys!
I just ripped The Dark Knight (yay!) but forgot to add Chapter Titles. Does anyone know what they are (tried google) and if I am still able to add tehm after i already ripped?
Thanks!
 
xanderbear and ferd

I have it on good authority that the following works for exporting your purchased copy of Dark Night to your portable handheld:
1) start fairmount and let it work on the DVD. It might take awhile. If you get impatient, just go to bed and get up early and it will be done doing its magic.
2) Copy the contents of the folder to a location on your harddrive and dismount the image.
3) open Handbrake. Using the file menu, select the "Open Source (Title Specific) option.
4)find the Video_TS folder you copied to the harddrive and select it
5) when it prompts you for a title, enter "1"

If you try letting handbrake scan the disc, it locks up. But it will load and process the title ok if you've alread decoded with fairplay AND use the Open Source command. If you try opening the Video-TS folder, even after it is decoded, handbrake will hang on you.
 
deep thought said:
I have it on good authority that the following works for exporting your purchased copy of Dark Night to your portable handheld:
1) start fairmount and let it work on the DVD. It might take awhile. If you get impatient, just go to bed and get up early and it will be done doing its magic.
2) Copy the contents of the folder to a location on your harddrive and dismount the image.
3) open Handbrake. Using the file menu, select the "Open Source (Title Specific) option.
4)find the Video_TS folder you copied to the harddrive and select it
5) when it prompts you for a title, enter "1"

If you try letting handbrake scan the disc, it locks up. But it will load and process the title ok if you've alread decoded with fairplay AND use the Open Source command. If you try opening the Video-TS folder, even after it is decoded, handbrake will hang on you.
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Forgive all of the questions, I am trying despretely to figure this out. I have Fairmount running right now, but since I've never used it before, how will I know when it's done? Right now it reads: 32 MB and Bad sect 34

Also, since I have yet to get 10.5 yet, is there any reason why when I get this done my version of Handbrake (0.9.1) won't be able to finish up the job?
 
Ferd said:
I am trying to do this with Handbrake, and I am able to choose the VOB file and then hit open and my computer says it is opening but it never seems to progress. Did yours take a long time to open? And I can't seem to have the option to choose a Title until it is opened, is that correct?

Any help is greatly appreciated. :)
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It only took about 5 seconds to open for me. Make sure the you went to File -> Open (Title Specific). If you click on the Source icon and select it, it will still give you problems.
 
themoonisdown09 said:
It only took about 5 seconds to open for me. Make sure the you went to File -> Open (Title Specific). If you click on the Source icon and select it, it will still give you problems.
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Thank you for your help. Do I have this option if I don't have the latest version of handbrake? I don't have 10.5 yet so my version of handbrake is 0.9.1
 
I decided to get AnyDVD with HD Option (for future Blu-Ray) and it handled The Dark Knight without any problems.

In the past I was using "DVD Decrypter" to decrypt and copy the VIDEO_TS Folder to my main competer disk drive. Then I would use Handbrake to encode it for AppleTV. I have converted 95 DVD's and this is only the second DVD that DVD Decrypter could not handle. However, since DVD Decrypter is no longer supported I decided to give AnyDVD a try since I have seen it recommended a number of times. I have to say it works quite nice. I have Windows and it runs as a DVD Driver so that it will decrypt on the fly. However, for me I just used the "Rip Video DVD to my Harddisk" option which decrypts and copy's the VIDEO_TS Folder to my main computer disk drive.

However, it is a little expensive. DVD Decrypter is FREE but unsupported. AnyDVD is fully supported and cost EUR 63.20 (approx. $81.69 USD). I am not sure but about 1/2 the cost is for the HD Option. Also, if you buy before 1/2009 the web site says no future upgrade charges.

In case you are wondering, I have no connections whatsoever with the AnyDVD Company SkySoft.
 
Using fairmount and handbrake on the dark K-nigit

Ferd said:
Forgive all of the questions, I am trying despretely to figure this out. I have Fairmount running right now, but since I've never used it before, how will I know when it's done? Right now it reads: 32 MB and Bad sect 34

Also, since I have yet to get 10.5 yet, is there any reason why when I get this done my version of Handbrake (0.9.1) won't be able to finish up the job?
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I have 0.9.3 so cannot attest to 0.9.1 functioning. Sounds like you've already started the decoding process with fairmount (the disk said "successfully mounted") . The disk appears to have several bad sectors that take time to process. Let it work....like I said, go to bed, sleep while it works, and it should be done navigating through the bad sectors and creating a decoded VIDEO_TS folder by morn.

Copy that to your hard drive, then dismount the fairmount disk image, then open handbrake. Cancel out handbrake's initial attempt to find a file to open. This is important. Use the "Open source (selected title)" command that is located under the file menu. If you try using the stand open, Handbrake will attempt to process the entire VIDEO_TS folder and will freeze up - it has been decoded; but still has malicious stuff in some of the titles. You must use the Open Source (selected title) command, locate the Video_ts folder and when Handbrake presents you with a drop down menu to pick the title, pick "1".
 
I decided to get AnyDVD with HD Option (for future Blu-Ray) and it handled The Dark Knight without any problems.

In the past I was using "DVD Decrypter" to decrypt and copy the VIDEO_TS Folder to my main competer disk drive. Then I would use Handbrake to encode it for AppleTV. I have converted 95 DVD's and this is only the second DVD that DVD Decrypter could not handle. However, since DVD Decrypter is no longer supported I decided to give AnyDVD a try since I have seen it recommended a number of times. I have to say it works quite nice. I have Windows and it runs as a DVD Driver so that it will decrypt on the fly. However, for me I just used the "Rip Video DVD to my Harddisk" option which decrypts and copy's the VIDEO_TS Folder to my main computer disk drive.

However, it is a little expensive. DVD Decrypter is FREE but unsupported. AnyDVD is fully supported and cost EUR 63.20 (approx. $81.69 USD). I am not sure but about 1/2 the cost is for the HD Option. Also, if you buy before 1/2009 the web site says no future upgrade charges.

In case you are wondering, I have no connections whatsoever with the AnyDVD Company SkySoft.
 
Thought I'd share a little story...

I've got a ton of movies, prior to owning a macbook I did them all on a windows gaming PC. Rip time 10 minutes for just the main movie. Burn time 15 minutes using 4x speed. Total time usually 20-30 minutes max.

I used DVDFab, never ever ever had a disk that I couldn't burn using that software. Wanted to move away from windows so tried using Mac The Ripper and Popcorn, I had over a 50% fail rate, with it either not being able to work, or artifacts in the actual rip or compression.

I really wanted to move away from windows, I really tried, but in this aspect I just can't find a viable and reliable alternative. To put the sting out of it I loaded windows on bootcamp, but the rip times went from 10 minutes to 40 minutes. I'm assuming that's due to going from a machine with a dedicated nvidia 260 to the macbooks integrated card. That said however, handbreak vs the one in DVDFab is much better at least in so far as speed. It will re-encode to different formats much faster than DVDFab. The end results are the same, just a time difference.

So my 2 cents, if you want reliable go DVDFab, you won't be disappointed. Their updates are VERY fast, and new movie encryption and protocols are broken very fast. Downside of course is the $50 price tag.
 
DVDFab with Handbrake

Just so you know, you don't have to use DVDFab to do the conversion. I rip my movies with their Free decryptor and then convert with Handbrake.

Greg
 
Ferd said:
I am trying to do this with Handbrake, and I am able to choose the VOB file and then hit open and my computer says it is opening but it never seems to progress. Did yours take a long time to open? And I can't seem to have the option to choose a Title until it is opened, is that correct?

Any help is greatly appreciated. :)
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Okay, you *can* choose the individual VOB file, HandBrake will take vob's as input in most cases. However, I strongly suggest picking just the VIDEO_TS folder and title 1 since that will tell HB to read the IFO file and include whatever VOB's are comprised in Title 1 (or whichever title you are trying to get). Many new protection schemes will spread a given title out over many VOB's.

For specific info on the "Open Source (Title Specific)" feature it's explained here and can be used in many instances where a full scan will crash HB (like Wall-E and Dark Knight, etc.).

http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/SupportFAQ#titlespecificscan

Note: The HB FAQ has many other useful tips and can answer many questions.
 
Apologies, I got mixed up with the poster that tried vobset 1 and did not get all of the chapters. My bad.
 
Michael CM1 said:
The problem I'm having is HB won't start when I click the "start" button. I have no clue why it does it on certain titles but doesn't on others. I get having glitches while encoding, but it's weird that it doesn't start at all.
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About 1 of every 6 discs I try with the new Handbrake does this, same thing if I try to add to queue. No idea why, so I just added HB 9.2 to another folder and use this older version whenever HB9.3 does this to me. Guess I should stop being lazy and check the forums, just know you're not the only one.
 
Robbadore64 said:
About 1 of every 6 discs I try with the new Handbrake does this, same thing if I try to add to queue. No idea why, so I just added HB 9.2 to another folder and use this older version whenever HB9.3 does this to me. Guess I should stop being lazy and check the forums, just know you're not the only one.
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I've had this problem as well, although it seems to be related to my personal presets as opposed to the Handbrake presets. If I click to start an encode with the 'fivepoint' preset, it won't do anything (just sits there), but if I do it with the AppleTV preset, it starts up and works just fine.

Strange.
 
FairMount + Roxio Popcorn

Hi all (1st post here), I read through this thread as I am trying to make a copy of the Dark Knight as well and found the combo of FairMount & Roxio Popcorn to be working. I briefly popped the copy I just made into my DVD player here at work (and it seems to look and play fine) but I won't be able to fully test it until tonight.

I am using a Power Mac G5: OSX 10.4.11
I mounted and copied the VideoTS using "FairMount: V 1.0.2"
(w/VLC player: V 0.9.2 installed already)
and then burned the VideoTS (main movie only, not sure if this matters or not) to dvd w/"Roxio Popcorn: V 1.0.3"

if when I watch the copy I see any errors I will let you guys know, I verified the disc after it copied and everything seemed to go as it normally should.
 
fivepoint said:
I've had this problem as well, although it seems to be related to my personal presets as opposed to the Handbrake presets. If I click to start an encode with the 'fivepoint' preset, it won't do anything (just sits there), but if I do it with the AppleTV preset, it starts up and works just fine.

Strange.
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Yes Strange, thanks though, I'll give that a whirl next time. Just weird that I use the same custom preset that I've been using for over a year now which is based off that AppleTV preset and the older versions never cared. But I'll definitely try changing it next time.
 
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