Handbrake

The Black Oil

I've not used this is in a few months and was trying to use it last night with quite mixed results. I updated it and thought it would be fine. The first thing I noticed was that it seems to want to interact with VLC which sounded OK as I already had that installed, but I don't recall it looking for it in the past. Ended up having to hit 'attempt scan anyway'. After scanning the film from one of its .vob files I then set Handbrake going to let it do its thing. It eventually spat out a .m4v which is normal (I think, around 3GB), but it seemed quite garbled and the picture mostly looked like snow or interference on a TV signal. I'm not sure why this happened as other DVDs I've ripped (1 film and about 5 x 45 min episodes) have been fine. I didn't bother putting it onto my iPod.

I've removed and installed it a few times, incl. the 64 bit version, but no joy..it looks for a 64 bit version of VLC which doesn't exist. I don't get why it's looking for VLC's input.

OK, it's just tried to scan the same disc again and hasn't found the film, just something that's 2 minutes which is probably the DVD menu loop.

Could this be due to the copyright protection?

Thomas_S_Hunterson

The Black Oil wrote: »

I don't get why it's looking for VLC's input.

VLC circumvents disc copy protection features for it.

The Black Oil

Ah right, thanks.

Just tried a different film, only came out at 900 MB, virtually unwatchable.

electro-shocks

Try installing vlc 64bit version and making sure you running the 64bit version by going to vlc and about vlc media player.
I'm running both vlc and handbrake 64bit without any problems

Anyway here is a link for the 64bit intel version.
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.0.2/macosx/vlc-1.0.2-intel64.dmg

The Black Oil

Thanks, that seems to have ironed things out and it's working now.