Comments on: DVD Remaster Pro: Quickly Re-compress your DVD Collection

By: John

John — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:26:30 +0000

For the longest time, I could not understand how people experienced no issues with Handbrake! I use it often, but it fails at least 50% of the time, which I believe is due to encryption problems. I just wanted to let everyone out there know that Handbrake, when used in conjuction with a decryption program, (as in, Freemount), is a seemingly painless process. Install Freemount. Run it. It will auto-mount your DVD as a disk image on the desktop. Go into the disk image, find the VIDEO_TS folder, then drag it to your desktop to copy it. Once copied, run Handbrake on the entire VIDEO_TS folder you just copied (that’s now both decrypted and NOT on a DVD, thus speeding up the process) and voila–you should have your Handbrake-created movie in no time!

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By: Baron Von Cruzer

Baron Von Cruzer — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:31:32 +0000

I have downloaded this software, but I trashed DVD Remaster Pro. I already have Cinematize. It’s interesting that FairMount is mentioned only in passing. You do realize that once a DVD is mounted as a disk image, it’s decrypted right? You can then drag that VIDEO_TS folder to a hard drive. FairMount is now my preferred DVD decrypter.

By: Greg Healy

Greg Healy — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:49:22 +0000

No problem Dale, glad you understand now.

By: Dale

Dale — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:47:19 +0000

ah ok, that makes sense now. I have noticed that on the cds with those 2 folders already in place, converting the dvd works flawlessly.

Thanks for the clarification.

By: Greg Healy

Greg Healy — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:55:47 +0000

@Dale: MacTheRipper doesn’t convert the ripped information, it saves it as the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders. You can then use Handbrake to convert the folders into the format of your choice. MacTheRipper excels at the ripping process, and Handbrake is better used to encode your files.

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:35:33 +0000

Handbrake has shutdown on a few occassions, however, when this happens i just restart the process and it usually converts the dvd. In fact there has only been one dvd that i haven’t been able to convert and that is a recently purchased copy of “Bee Movie”.

Maybe i will try this mactheripper program and see if it can convert it.

Other than that, there isn’t anything that i have thrown at handbrake that it can’t handle.

By: CaptSaltyJack

CaptSaltyJack — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:20:50 +0000

MacTheRipper might tackle certain DVDs that Handbrake may not. But that’s just speculation. Handbrake does warn that it only supports certain encryption methods. I think MacTheRipper recognizes more.

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:10:34 +0000

I have just recently started using handbrake. I purchased a 160G ipod classic and wanted to put all our dvd’s (kids and mine) onto my ipod to be able to play back via a portable dvd/ipod player or play on my tv via a homedock. I have been able to convert all my dvd’s without the use of any other software whatsoever through handbrake.

Not that i suggest this but i was also interested to see if this would work with a rented dvd and it did. Again this is illegal, however i really just wanted to see if it would work and it does.

So i don’t see the point of paying for a piece of software that another software will do for free. The original poster said it was faster. I generally just put in a dvd and forget about it until its done so speed is of no importance whatsoever.

Unless i am missing something what would be the point of using this “mactheripper” software since handbrake will do it all?

By: Greg Healy

Greg Healy — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:02:18 +0000

That is correct, many people suggest using MacTheRipper to get the DVD onto your HD, and then use Handbrake to encode it to the format of your choice.

DVDRemaster Pro is sort of like “one-stop shopping.”

By: CaptSaltyJack

CaptSaltyJack — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:00:04 +0000

Ahh I stand corrected, didn’t know it could decrypt. But it sounds like it’s limited, and a 3rd party app such as MacTheRipper (free) might be needed.

By: Greg Healy

Greg Healy — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:45:57 +0000

@CaptSaltyJack: from Handbrake’s website: “Supported Sources: Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files”

Unless I am not understanding what you mean correctly, Handbrake does rip directly off of DVDs in your optical drive.

By: CaptSaltyJack

CaptSaltyJack — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:40:28 +0000

Handbrake only takes existing DVD video data (on your HD) and encodes it to something else. It does NOT rip/decrypt off the DVD which is a necessity. DVD Remaster Pro sounds fine and dandy, but so many movies you can buy now (such as Vantage Point or 21) will not rip. At $50, it’s a bit of a risk.

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