Handbrake woes

[Phage]

You might remember that I'm keen on format shifting my old VHS and DVDs onto MP4. So, with the help of Handbrake and VLC I managed to move....two.

Handbrake seems to be finnicky as hell about scanning the discs, mostly not working at all and then suddenly deciding it's OK. At 30 mins a time my evening is going up in smoke.

I'm getting timeout errors disc and/or that the scan was unable to find any files on the disc. WTH ?

(also AMD Catalyst no longer has an encoding ability ? When did they take that away ? The driver is still there, but no options in the CCC ?)

What am I doing wrong ?

[ty2010]

Straight from disc is never good as it has to constantly re-seek, it gets too warm and starts getting errors or stops reading entirely. Copy the image or files to your hard drive and work with those.

[GoNz0]

i have found the best way is to rip to mkv with makemkv (free while in beta) then let handbrake compress and convert to mp4 if need be.

make MKV is very fast so the whole process time is cut in half or more even though you are ripping then converting.

[ty2010]

i have found the best way is to rip to mkv with makemkv (free while in beta) then let handbrake compress and convert to mp4 if need be.

make MKV is very fast so the whole process time is cut in half or more even though you are ripping then converting.

Also a good option unless there really are read errors, then you're back to image and file recovery/rippers.