Got a DVD that is just plain ornery? Won’t submit to the power of Handbrake?
You’ve found an oddity, for sure. Handbrake is known for being able to chew through just about anything.
Sure enough, though, I came across one such SOB yesterday. It would kill Handbrake every time I asked it to even look at it. Forget actually converting it — Handbrake would barf up a hairball and quit just scanning this DVD.
So, I turned the job over to Mac The Ripper, to convert the DVD to files on my hard drive. Then I asked Toast 9 Titanium to convert it to an iPhone friendly format (Toast 9 Titanium can actually do a ton of different formats; I just favor iPhone friendly stuff). Yep, that worked.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
The few times that handbrake hasn’t worked converting it directly from a dvd, I’ve used Mac The Ripper to rip the dvd to my hd then used Handbrake to convert. It’s always worked.
I should check out Toast 9 though.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Yeah, even after I had throw it at mac the ripper, it still killed handbrake, even from the hard drive. That’s one mean DVD. But Toast has no problem. Churned right through it, like butter.