[cfgeeks] HandBrake Returns

[Dave Hudson]

Great suggestion - i used to do that with all my software and have gotten
out of the habit.......

Its funny you say that though.....  it seems like i'm building a "legacy"
machine with a bunch of older apps that "just work"....  dont need the new
bloated crap that crashes and/or doesnt work.

Gilbert Young wrote:
> Keep that installer in case they "change" something and it breaks in a
> later rev.
>
> :)
>
>
> On Dec 21, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Dave Hudson wrote:
>
>> well... to my system at least....
>>
>> I recently re-formatted (ok, actually just ghosted it back to when I
>> first
>> bought it) my main desktop that I do all my video encoding on.
>>
>> I think I posted on this before, but i'm keeping my machine very
>> clean this
>> time around and building VMs with all my apps with the exception of
>> my media
>> apps.
>>
>> I bought Forest Gump a long time ago and finally got around to
>> ripping to my
>> media server.... or at least trying.  Using all the ripping software
>> i have,
>> it kept stopping at 2hrs and 2 minutes.  The movie is 2 hours and 20
>> minutes
>> long.....
>>
>> Long story short (too late), i decided to dload the latest version of
>> HandBrake.  (Since I had to re-ghost my machine back to a usable
>> state, i'm
>> obviously talking about Windows and not Linux).  It worked like a
>> charm - i
>> never could get it to work before.  It is working beautifully now!
>>
>> I am even using the h.264 codec instead of DivX or XVid.  I hate to
>> admit
>> it, but someone posted before that DivX was crap and I defended it.
>> Mainly
>> because i was stupid enough to spend $75 on the POS.  Well, its
>> toast... I'm
>> ditching DivX.
>>
>>
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