Handbrake woes

Phage · 14 Mar 2013 at 07:06

I'm keen on format shifting my old VHS and DVDs onto MP4. So, with the help of Handbrake and VLC I managed to move....two.

Handbrake seems to be finnicky as hell about scanning the discs, mostly not working at all and then suddenly deciding it's OK. At 30 mins a time my evening is going up in smoke.

I'm getting timeout errors disc and/or that the scan was unable to find any files on the disc. WTH ?

(also AMD Catalyst no longer has an encoding ability ? When did they take that away ? The driver is still there, but no options in the CCC ?)

What am I doing wrong ?

darael · 14 Mar 2013 at 08:50

Sounds like it could be your DVD drive causing the problem. Use a program to rip the DVDs to the harddrive, then work on the files from the harddrive.

bledd · 14 Mar 2013 at 10:06

Yup, get them onto the hard drive first, then use handbrake, it's not designed for scanning discs. They just leave that feature in for people who are mounting protection free ISO files to their drives.

Phage · 14 Mar 2013 at 11:30

Any recommendations for such a tool ?

bledd · 14 Mar 2013 at 11:48

I use AnyDVDHD ripper tool

this_is_gav · 14 Mar 2013 at 13:26

Phage said:
Any recommendations for such a tool ?

DVD Shrink is still freely available and I'm yet to come across a DVD it won't decode.

Phage · 14 Mar 2013 at 13:42

Excellent. Thanks for that. I'll have another go.

Phage · 15 Mar 2013 at 09:02

Quick Update. That worked, I managed to successful shift 3 out of four DVDs. Don't know what happened to the other one, looks like it just stopped 2/3 of the way through. It was a long movie, but the resulting part file is still smaller than the three which did manage to complete.

bledd · 15 Mar 2013 at 09:10

Probably has some silly protection on it, anydvdhd will remove that.

Phage · 15 Mar 2013 at 13:21

I suspected something like that. I'll have another go tonight.
Now all I need is a small home server !