I'm just curious how other people handle their DVD "back catalog" ripping. Obviously after you get all the old movies imported keeping up should be pretty easy, since it's unlikely you're getting more than a movie a day, or a TV show box set a week. Here's how I've been working my 250-300 DVD collection the last few days:
1) use smcFanControl to double the minimum speed of all my fans. I'm running my computer in high heat generating task nearly continuously right now, and while the default profile seems to be keeping things within spec, I figure safe is better than sorry int his case. It's barely any louder and keeps all the temp sensors down to nearly idle temps (idle with fans at default speeds).
2) Insert disc, mount with FairMount.
3) Copy disc contents to a temp folder on my internal HDD. This takes 30-60 minutes, or 15-25 for single layer discs without copy protection, which don't need FairMount. This lets me quickly get a lot of movies in my queue without having to be there to switch the disc, and not using up significant resources while I am actively using my computer.
4) Repeat steps 2 and 3 7 to 10 times.
5) Open Handbrake (using 0.9.2 right now, going to tryout the current snapshot 2 sometime) and load the 7 to 10 discs I've ripped into a queue using my presets*, double check the movie to make sure the presets are appropriate (right res picked, interlacing needed, etc).
6) Encode all night and day while I'm gone at work to my internal HDD. If I encode to my USB media drive I get lots of random crashes, and they are bad crashes. Machine rebooting type stuff. No problems if I rip to the internal drive, though.
7) Start the queue, go to bed, go to work, come home.
8) When I get home the movies are usually done, and I then move the files to my external media drive (movies are in the 1.5gb each range with my settings, including the 5.1 track. They look like DVD on my HDTV from normal viewing distances, but you can see some degradation on the computer screen). I then delete the source DVD rips.
9) The files are moved to MetaX, where I match up all the metadata and artwork, and MetaX then adds the information to the file, and imports it into my iTunes library.
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I've been getting through 6 to 10 movies a day this way, so not to bad. I should be done with my back catalog in a couple weeks (there's probably a handful of moves out of the 250 that we won't copy). After that I'll be just doing them one a day or less as we get them... Anyways, I've spent a lot of hours working this out and now doing it the last week or so and just curious if anyone else is going about it the same way, or if there's things I could be doing better.
*I am using a constant quality h264 at 64% with some advance flags set, non-anamorphic and max resolution, with slow deinterlacing where needed, variable frame rates off - it causes some movies to have serious framerate issues and I've not had any movies come out wrong without it on yet, so I dont' use it, weak noise reduction, autoselect forced subs, aac stereo @ 160kbits, AAC 5.1 passed through
1) use smcFanControl to double the minimum speed of all my fans. I'm running my computer in high heat generating task nearly continuously right now, and while the default profile seems to be keeping things within spec, I figure safe is better than sorry int his case. It's barely any louder and keeps all the temp sensors down to nearly idle temps (idle with fans at default speeds).
2) Insert disc, mount with FairMount.
3) Copy disc contents to a temp folder on my internal HDD. This takes 30-60 minutes, or 15-25 for single layer discs without copy protection, which don't need FairMount. This lets me quickly get a lot of movies in my queue without having to be there to switch the disc, and not using up significant resources while I am actively using my computer.
4) Repeat steps 2 and 3 7 to 10 times.
5) Open Handbrake (using 0.9.2 right now, going to tryout the current snapshot 2 sometime) and load the 7 to 10 discs I've ripped into a queue using my presets*, double check the movie to make sure the presets are appropriate (right res picked, interlacing needed, etc).
6) Encode all night and day while I'm gone at work to my internal HDD. If I encode to my USB media drive I get lots of random crashes, and they are bad crashes. Machine rebooting type stuff. No problems if I rip to the internal drive, though.
7) Start the queue, go to bed, go to work, come home.
8) When I get home the movies are usually done, and I then move the files to my external media drive (movies are in the 1.5gb each range with my settings, including the 5.1 track. They look like DVD on my HDTV from normal viewing distances, but you can see some degradation on the computer screen). I then delete the source DVD rips.
9) The files are moved to MetaX, where I match up all the metadata and artwork, and MetaX then adds the information to the file, and imports it into my iTunes library.
END.
I've been getting through 6 to 10 movies a day this way, so not to bad. I should be done with my back catalog in a couple weeks (there's probably a handful of moves out of the 250 that we won't copy). After that I'll be just doing them one a day or less as we get them... Anyways, I've spent a lot of hours working this out and now doing it the last week or so and just curious if anyone else is going about it the same way, or if there's things I could be doing better.
*I am using a constant quality h264 at 64% with some advance flags set, non-anamorphic and max resolution, with slow deinterlacing where needed, variable frame rates off - it causes some movies to have serious framerate issues and I've not had any movies come out wrong without it on yet, so I dont' use it, weak noise reduction, autoselect forced subs, aac stereo @ 160kbits, AAC 5.1 passed through
TV (only exception is extras off the movie 300). They end up being about 2GB for a 2 hour movie. Looks great on my small HDTVs, one 32 and one 27inch. I take my time as to not burn myself out. So far I've done about 400 movies/a few entire TV shows. I'm lucky if I do 2 movies a week or an entire season a week. I have Metax but have not used it.
