Insert your DVD and quit DVD player.
Welcome to HandBrake
- Start HandBrake.
Select your DVD volume (generally only one)…
- … or browse to your folder with VIDEO_TS exctracted from DVD.
- Click Open button and HandBrake will start DVD scan for some seconds.
Source
- In Source panel select the DVD title, the longest is the first of the list and all (default) or one/some chapter/s.
Destination
- In Destination panel select File format (file container) and video Codecs:
MP4 file format
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- MP4 file – MPEG-4 video / AAC audio (MPEG)- the Apple audio video format (not DivX)
- MP4 file – AVC H264 video / AAC audio (MPEG)- the Apple audio video format QuickTime 7 – Advanced Video Coding (AVC) for the next-generation High Definition (HD) DVD (*)
AVI file format
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- AVI file – MPEG-4 video/ MP3 audio (Lame) – the used DivX players .AVI file
- AVI file – MPEG-4 video/ AC-3 audio -
- AVI file – AVC H264 video / MP3 audio (Lame) -
- AVI file /- AVC H.264 video / AC-3 audio -
OGM file format
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- OGM file – MPEG-4 video / Vorbis audio (OGG)- the open, patended free audio/video format (*)
- OGM file – MPEG-4 video / MP3 audio (Lame) –
(*) We invite you use and spread these free and open formats, they are best quality than other ones.
- Then Browse your hard disk to select file destination folder.
Video
- In Video panel chose encoder; we suggest FFmpeg instead of XviD, as both are MPEG-4 compliant encoders, FFmpeg is pretty faster on OS X.
- Set Framerate to Default as is the frame rate of your original clip, and it should stay like that.
- Choose your Custom Bitrate for less than 90 min video…
- … or your CD Target size for full video.
- Select 2-pass encoding, it performs a slower but better compression – basically it makes sure you’ll get a constant quality so you won’t see blocks in fast motion scenes. Though it’s disabled by default, is strongly recommend to use it except if you really care about time.
Subtitles
- Select Language subtitle (or None)
Picture Settings…
- Clik on Picture Settings… button to open edit window:
- You can re-size Width and Height keeping (or not) aspect ratio
You can scale down to width=512 x height=whatever handbrake says to improve H264 encoding speed and the quality is pretty well unaffected.
- Crop image to remove little black outline borders (we suggest use Auomatic button)
- Deinterlaced picture – only to use if movie has visible scanlines.
- You can Browse previous and next scene
- Useles OpenGL effects - play with the previous/next buttons after checking it, you’ll see
Audio
- In Audio panel select first (and second language) and audio Sample rate (default 44100) and Bitrate (default 128).
- Click on Rip button to start encoding, a progress bar show encoding perc, fps speed and time remaining.
- Encoding can be paused, resumed or cancelled.
iPod Video settings
Use Instant HandBrake (OS X, UB, 2.8 MB), iPod/PSP-dedicated version of HandBrake. (screenshot)
In Destination panel select:
- File format: MP4 file
- Codecs: AVC/H.264 Video / AAC Audio
In Video panel select:
- Encoder: x264 (Baseline profile)
- Quality: Average bitrate (kbps): 400
Note: enter also a value between 400 and 600; higer bitrate = higer quality = higer disk space.
- Select 2-pass encoding, it performs a slower but better compression.
In Audio panel select (as default):
- Sample rate (Hz): 44100
- Bitrate (kbps): 128
Clik on Picture Settings… button to open edit window and set size to:
- Width: 320
- Height: 240 (or less if aspect ratio is not 3:2)
Note: Keep aspect ratio checked.
Calculate maximum video size using Podsize
iPod can play the following video formats:
- H.264 video
File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
Video: Up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio - MPEG-4 video
File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
Video: Up to 2.5 Mbps, 480 x 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio
Queue tasks
- Click on Enable queue check button.
- Click on Add to queue button to queue tasks.
- Click on Show queue to list queued tasks.
- Click on Remove button to remove task/s.
- Click on Start button to start rip tasks on queue.
How do I play files created by HandBrake
| VLC | MPlayer | QuickTime 6 | QuickTime 7 | ||
| MP4 | MPEG-4 / AAC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| H.264 / AAC | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| AVI | MPEG-4 / MP3 | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| MPEG-4 / AC-3 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| H.264 / MP3 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| H.264 / AC-3 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| OGM | MPEG-4 / Vorbis | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| MPEG-4 / MP3 | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| Two language support | Yes | No (only 1st) | No (overlapped) | ||
