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Tips for slower Macs
Authored by: Colin Jensen on Sep 11, '07 03:22:12PM

My G5 takes it's sweet time to rip a video. If I rip directly from DVD, it thrashes the DVD player for hours.

So don't do that. Instead create a new folder and use the Finder to copy everything from the DVD into the folder (takes half an hour to copy on my G5). Then point Handbrake at the folder instead of the DVD player -- no more thrashing.

Also Handbrake has a "queue" mode. So you can copy a DVD to hard disk, get Handbrake started, copy another DVD to hard disk, then queue that into Handbrake too. Overnight, Handbrake can process a half-dozen movies on my G5.



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