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HandBrake does an excellent job - and is still in development
I find your post very mis-informed.
Cinematise 2 Pro is a US$129.95 product, Handbrake costs nothing. Handbrake is a encoding application with very flexible options offerered in a fairly easy to use manner. Cinematise is intended to extract DVD content into seperated components for use in other authoring programs. Can you show me where the Cinematise web site states I can use their product to produce a convenient "container" of my DVD movie encoded in a newer high compression / high quality format like h.264? As far as I am aware, neither progam rips copy protected DVD's (I was surprised to read claims on this hint that Handbrake does - in earlier versions it claimed not to - and Cinematise certainly does NOT as is stated on their site). You need a program like MacTheRipper to extract the entire DVD content first, then you can process it with app like these. Handbrake offers many encoding options. Limiting those options for basic users would the app less useful to a more knowlegable users. The presets are there for convenience and also the assistance of basic users. Contrary to your reasoning, the support of third party encoding hardware (such as Turbo 264) is intentionally ommited form Handbrake, and will not be supported. This is because by their very design, hardware based encoders have fixed presents are not flexible - they are fast, sure - but fast at encoding files with a very limited range of parameters. The purpose the Handbrake application is to be flexible with an emphasis to high quality. Most of the limitations you are harping on about boil down to one of two things: 1. the container output formats do NOT support them 2. the feature is intentially ommited as it's not the intended purpose of the program Regarding reason 1, the open container format "Matroska" will be incredibly useful when it's adopted broadly. As stated on the project's homepage (www.matroska.org) it is not a video or audio compression format (video codec) rather it is an envelope for which there can be many audio, video and subtitles streams, allowing the user to store a complete movie or CD in a single file. From memory the handbrake developers do intend to include full sopport of the Matroska container format, it takes time to develop and should appear in a future release. In the meantime, other free tools can be used to save subtitles.. but when faced with a foreign language file I generally just use handbrake to output english titles as permanent into the mp4 output file. Often known as "burning" the subtitles into the movie. I would rather use a container format, and I'm patiently waiting.. in the meantime "DVD" is the container format I am using for any precious DVD title rips. When support is available for a better container I will encode them then. Maki |
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