However, plenty of our DVDs do have brief sections in foreign languages, for example, that you’d expect to be subtitled. For plenty of films or TV shows there aren’t any points at which you’d expect a subtitle to be shown, so you don’t need to worry about them. One slightly vexing issue that sometimes comes up when doing this is what to do about the subtitle tracks on the DVD. There’s inevitably a loss of quality doing this transcoding, of course, but in most cases I don’t mind. With some DVDs that are already quite poor quality I’ll just image the disk and copy the ISO to the NAS, but in most cases I use Handbrake to transcode just the titles I want from the DVD using a codec with rather better compression than MPEG-2. ![]() I’ve been on a long-running project to rip some of our DVDs to network attached storage, so that playing them is a much more pleasant experience: we can then easily play any of our DVDs around the flat without suffering cute-but-unusable DVD menus, condescending anti-piracy warnings or trashy trailers. This version of free is far better than Freemake Video Converter (opens in new tab)'s version of 'free', which constantly pesters you with ads and upgrade messages.I know very little about Handbrake this is just some notes on what I personally do to reduce my confusion about why subtitles aren’t being ripped properly and manually fixing that, but I almost certainly can’t answer any questions about issues you might be having! This is just here in the hope that it might be useful to someone… ![]() If you don’t like it, uninstall and find something else - you’ve lost nothing. It also means there’s no downside to downloading the program and trying it out, look on it as a free trial that never ends. And free doesn’t have to mean unsupported either - Handbrake has a wealth of documentation available on its website, from the straightforward to the highly technical. One of the great benefits of open-source software such as OpenOffice, GIMP, and Handbrake is the remarkable value proposition they represent. You absolutely cannot beat ‘free’ as a price point. Beginners can pop on a preset, get it in the queue, and move on to something else, but experts will want to comb through the many, many output options and tailor the file precisely for their playback device and their tastes. Master the presets, and Handbrake will provide a perfectly acceptable ripping workflow as long as you keep a web browser window open with something to read in it until the time comes to switch disks. So while other apps may offer greater speed, remember you’re not paying for this. If you’re using presets to process a lot of disks, then you can speed through the setup procedure, slowed only by the need to input a filename for your output file. That said, it scales nicely, and is noticeably faster on a 16-core Threadripper than it is on a dual-core i7 low-power laptop chip. With no GPU-acceleration it’s limited by the speed of your CPU. (Image credit: Handbrake) Handbrake review: Speed It’s not exactly a poor experience, as long as you know what you’re doing - and pop-up hints try to explain things as you hover the mouse pointer over them - but in comparison to programs such as Win X DVD Ripper Platinum (opens in new tab) and Wondershare Uniconverter (opens in new tab), it seems a bit out of date. If you want, you can work your way through every option on the seven tabs that cross the middle of the app window, tweaking parameters such as video resolution, framerate, compression, audio, and subtitles. ![]() Prefer Windows Phone 8? That’s there too, along with Vimeo and YouTube for those who like to share their home movies online. The same goes for Apple TVs, Roku, Xbox, and most other consoles and TV boxes/sticks. If your output device is a Chromecast Ultra, you’ll find a 4K, h265, surround sound preset waiting for you. From there, you’re on your own, able to tinker with almost every aspect of the conversion. The program then analyses the file, before dropping its info into the relevant video or audio boxes. Having been around in the occasionally-clunky world of open-source software for a long time, the app has made improvements in the last few years, now opening with a screen that asks you to select your input file - a DVD or single video file, or a folder of files for batch processing. It’s a shame we decided to put Ease of Use at the top of our DVD ripping software reviews, because in Handbrake’s case it’s the program’s weakest area.
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