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10th September 2009, 22:24 | #1 | Link |
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HandBrake - the "perfect" choice for Linux?
Greetings to you, folks!
Many people have recommended HandBrake as a very good choice for Linux systems. I´m using OpenSuse (because it abolutely rocks!) and have been recommended to use HandBrake for ripping and encoding as well. Of course I did try several other good console based tools like h264enc to achive an excellent quality rip, but I somehow got addicted to HandBrake (hopefully developers will include a feature to directly back up VOBs to hard disc)... To find my PERSONAL "perfect solution" I´m looking for other applications to try: Which other rippers/encoders are around that are cnsidered/proven to be further ahaed ("better") in quality and maintanance than HandBrake? |
10th September 2009, 23:55 | #2 | Link |
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Quality depends on the encoder options you use. Since HB uses libavcodec which comes from ffmpeg and libx264, it can't really outperform other encoders that use it too. If you use *exactly* the same options, once in HB and once in ffmpeg or mencoder, you'll get *very* similar result (if virtually the same)
you will find your "perfect solution" and quality after you do tests on your own and determine what looks good to *you*. There's no magical setting that will give a quality that looks "perfect" to all |
11th September 2009, 00:07 | #3 | Link |
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Thanks for pointing this out. I´m still looking forward for HB to support Blu-Ray and HD-TV encoding one day.
If you are the owner of the repository in your signature, you´re the allmighty microchip8 of OpenSuse. Other opinions are welcome. |
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Yes, I'm microchip8 on openSUSE forum
Bluray support will come to MPlayer soon. There's currently a guy implementing it and asking a lot of questions, both on the mailing list and on #mplayerdev IRC channel. I'm not sure how it'll get implemented (built-in for MPlayer only or if he'll move some important stuff to a library one can use for other players/encoders) |
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Interesting point. Sadly HandBrake only uses the x264 it brings with it and not the external one. This might be due to the developers so they know that the internal x264 works with HandBrake. They couldn´t provide support for any extern verion. Which one of those two would you expect to be the more advanced tool in the future? As for me, it certainly seems like HandBrake is more ahaed in its development than MEncoder...
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MEncoder has many video and audio filters that HandBrake still lacks, and it's somewhat more tweakable through the command line. MPlayer/MEncoder has gained a lot of functionality during a decade of development and many talented people have worked on it, along with FFmpeg. However, MEncoder is built for AVI output and it would probably need to be redesigned to fully support modern containers. I expect MEncoder to be replaced by ffmpeg and other libav* frontends as soon as libavfilter gets committed to mainline FFmpeg and some useful MEncoder or AviSynth filters are ported to it. HandBrake(CLI) has lots of potential too, and it's delightfully easy to use.
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ffmpeg still lacks direct reading from DVD and decryption of them which is the biggest issue I have with it. And don't get me started on the stupid way one passes options to it... -option -value +option2 -value2 +option3 +value1+value2+value3 ...
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Anyhow, which tool do you recommend for Linux to back up those VOBs in the first place? See, I prefer to back up the VOBs completely, merge them and then encode as HandBrake doesn´t have to access the DVD drive all the time and scratch around on the DVDs. Hey, a simple command to accomplish this task via console would do. |
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If a copy protection scheme prevents this, you'll need to run some Windows-based DVD ripping tool with Wine. |
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