HandBrake is great, but RipIt comes in handy in two situations where HandBrake comes up short. First, since HB uses VLC to decrypt DVDs, it can only handle CSS encrypted discs and can fail on discs with more advanced copy protection. RipIt will handle these discs, then you can feed the unprotected VIDEO_TS folder to HB for encoding. The second case is if you want to make a copy of a DVD to another DVD. HB does not have the option to rip a DVD in its original format. With RipIt, you can feed the output into an application like DTOX or Toast for compression and reburning without any additional encoding. With HB, you'd have to encode then re-encode to get a DVD copy. HandBrake and Ripit are both good apps and are most useful to me when used together. If you have no need for RipIt's perks, then by all means don't buy it, but giving it a one-star review is ridiculous, since you obviously don't understand what it does.
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HandBrake is great, but RipIt comes in handy in two situations where HandBrake comes up short. First, since HB uses VLC to decrypt DVDs, it can only handle CSS encrypted discs and can fail on discs with more advanced copy protection. RipIt will handle these discs, then you can feed the unprotected VIDEO_TS folder to HB for encoding. The second case is if you want to make a copy of a DVD to another DVD. HB does not have the option to rip a DVD in its original format. With RipIt, you can feed the output into an application like DTOX or Toast for compression and reburning without any additional encoding. With HB, you'd have to encode then re-encode to get a DVD copy. HandBrake and Ripit are both good apps and are most useful to me when used together. If you have no need for RipIt's perks, then by all means don't buy it, but giving it a one-star review is ridiculous, since you obviously don't understand what it does.Reply to This | Parent
Wednesday, May 27 2009 @ 04:18 AM PDT