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HandBrake - output format mangles your data integrity
Authored by: ejtttje on Sep 16, '07 05:49:22AM

Oh come now, I think you're the one being a little arrogant to berate this tool for "throwing away data". That's exactly what it's *supposed* to do. You want to shrink a 4.7+ GB DVD down to ~700MB? Guess what, this is a lossy process! And you can lose less of the data you care about by completely dropping the data you *don't* care about.

I really don't see this argument of yours. Handbrake doesn't choose the which data to extract from the dvd... YOU DO. If you want the french track instead of the english track, then take the french track. What's the problem? If you want to retain every feature of a DVD, make a frigg'n disk image, because guess what, the only format that retains every obscure feature of a DVD is... a DVD! (I've never even *seen* a DVD that used the "camera angle" feature.) The HandBrake devs are right to concentrate on getting the "important" features first, and worry about fancy stuff like multiple sound tracks later.

And "later" is apparently "now" -- in case you haven't noticed, 0.90 supports selecting two sound tracks, and "basic" subtitle support (burned into image). So what were you complaining about again?



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