Every now and then you’d like to see if the movie of video file that you have is the one with a particular resolution, or the one with subtitles embedded, or not. Specially when you’ve ripped your DVD collection in the past and now you’re doing the same with your Blu-Ray collection. For this purpose I threw together a simple front-end for, a tool from the, which rather quickly scans a movie file for it’s details. MovieScanner is completely free, and available for Windows and MacOS X.

Under Linux however I ran into some impracticalities so no Linux version. Keep in mind that it was written for personal use and to try a few things with Lazarus Pascal, so don’t expect any super miracles. Quick Overview of Movie File Details MovieScanner was not designed with cataloging you movies in mind – there are plenty of great programs out there that will do the trick. It’s also not a program that identifies your movies and/or find additional clipart or information from places like the or (MacOS X users: I highly recommend ). The only purpose this program has is to quickly analyze your video file or files and determine things like resolution, if it’s widescreen or not, audio tracks, embedded subtitles, etc. This way you can compare the different versions you have without going into a media player and identify the differences between the two files you’re looking at. This program however does not compare the two, it just lists the specifications of each video file.

Another reason for me to create this program was to do some tests and experiments with Lazarus Pascal. Things like, how to work with external programs and how to create my own DBGrid from scratch. History. v1.4 – January 2016 – Added Drag and Drop support, fixed Linux SQLite issue. v1.3 – November 2013 – Newer FFProbe version, improved and faster file analysis, beter database location handling for Windows, Linux version. v1.2 – November 2013 – Minor bug fixes, improved resolution indication, search as you type, new database location. v1.1 – November 2013 – Added functionality (Sorting, Copy Clipboard, Export List) and date/time bug fix.

v1.0 – October 2013 – Initial Release. Credits This application was developed with, and depends on the following applications: FFProbe FFProbe is one of the very handy and powerful command-line tools by the FFMpeg organization. The included version of FFProbe is an unmodified, pre-compiled version. Credit to the magnificent developers there for some very cool tools. SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, server-less, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.

SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain. MacOS X already has SQLite onboard, and the Windows version is an unmodifed DLL downloaded from the SQLite homepage. Respect to the developers of the SQLite team for such a great and powerful database engine Getting started with MovieScanner First of all you’d need to download and install the application Note: MoveScanner can also be found at. MacOS X This version should work on most MacOS X version, but has only been tested on 10.8. The binary is INTEL ONLY and it is a 32 bit application (at this time Lazarus Pascal does not compile 64 bit binaries for the Mac) but the application will work just fine on a 64 bit OS X version.

Since the application is not digitally signed per Apple rules, you might have to go into the “ System preferences” “ Security & Privacy” and check the option “ Allow applications downloaded from” “ Anywhere“. This application will not need Internet Access, unless you click one of the links in the About window (which will open a browser). /Users //Library /Preferences /MovieScanner.db Note: Version 1.1 and older store the database file as “ /Users / /.config /MovieScanner /moviescanner.db “, move the old “ moviescanner.db ” file to the new location and rename it to “ MovieScanner.db ” if you’re upgrading to v1.3 or newer. Uninstall If you wish to remove MovieScanner, all you need to do is delete MovieScanner from your Applications folder and delete the folder /Users //.config /MovieScanner.

Note: this would also be the file to copy if you’d like to move the database to a different computer. Windows The Windows version has been tested under Windows XP (SP3, 32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit) and Windows 8 (64 bit). The application is 32 bit and does not require any Internet access, unless you click the links on the About window, which will open a browser. Since Windows does not come with SQLite, a SQLite DLL is included (sqlite3.dll). A compiled FFProbe version is also included (ffprobe.exe). DOWNLOAD - MovieScanner (Windows) Platform: Windows Filename: MovieScannerWindows.zip Version: 1.4 Size: 10.9 MiB Date: January 31, 2013 Install Download MovieScanner and unzip the file. The ZIP file has a MovieScanner folder inside to hold the individual files together.

You can move this folder to any location you’d like. For Portable use: I have not tested this in a portable environment. With the exception of the database location (see below), this application should work as a portable app. Like with the MacOS X version: if the database does not exist, MovieScanner will create one in the directory where the executable is stored, in the interest of portability. For Version 1.3, MovieScanner tries to store it’s database in the application directory (great for portability), but if access rights do not allow this, the database will be stored in the Local AppData directory instead (as we did with v1.1 and older).

If you decide to move MovieScanner at a later point to C: Program Files, please be aware that you will need to right click the moviescanner.db file and set the access rights for the “Users” group to “Full Control”, otherwise the database will remain readonly. Version 1.1 and older had the database stored in “ C: Documents and Settings Local Settings Application Data MovieScanner moviescanner.db ” (Windows XP) or “ C: Users AppData Local MovieScanner moviescanner.db ” (Windows 7/8). You can move the database file to the application folder if you’d like to keep the data. Uninstall Simply delete the MovieScanner folder and remove the database from the location indicated above.

If you like to move the database to another computer, then this would be the file to move as well. Linux With version 1.3, I have done an attempt to create a Linux version as well. This version however is for 64 bit systems only (I could not get my hands on a pre-compiled static version of ffprobe for a 32 bit system). SQLite and FFProbe are included in the zip file.

DOWNLOAD - MovieScanner (Linux) Platform: Linux, 64 bits Filename: MovieScannerLinux64bit.zip Version: 1.4 Size: 10.2 MiB Date: January 31, 2016 Installation Unzip the file in a directory. This will also be the location where the database will be stored. Uninstall Simply delete the directory.

Using MovieScanner The use of MovieScanner is very straight forward, simply start the application and if a database already exists, then it will be loaded right away. To add a single video file click “ Add Movie” and select your video file, to add a complete directory (sub-directories included) click “ Add Folder“. You can refresh the view with the “ Refresh List” button, although I doubt you’ll need it. The “ Empty Database” button will simply remove ALL DATA from the database, the actual video files will of course not be touched. The “ Search Title” field allows you to enter part of the movie name or filename you’re looking for in the database. The list will be filtered as you type.

If you’d like to see all files in the database again: click the X button or blank this field and press ENTER again. The “ Sort by” dropdown list allows you to sort:. By Filename.

By File Extension. By File Size. By File Path The sorting order can be toggled between A-Z or Z-A with the button next to the dropdown list. Right clicking a Movie reveals some additional functions:.

Remove the clicked item from the database. Copy the text of the clicked item to the clipboard (TAB separated). Export the entire list to a text file (TAB separated). Copy Folder Path of the clicked movie location to the clipboard. Open the Folder (Explorer) location of the clicked movie Note: TAB separated fields allows easy pasting in Spreadsheet applications like Excel and Numbers.

MovieScanner – Right Click Options Scrolling through the list can be done with the scrollbar on the far right. Using a wheel mouse works as well, but with limitations. The mouse cannot be hovering over a movie or video entry box (the darker gray box). Only the narrow and light gray areas left and right from the movie or video entry boxes, works. I know it’s a pain, I was not able to find a work around for that. Note: I tested the database speed and the display of entries with 5,000 dummy files and that worked amazingly fast.

Keep in mind though that scanning such a large amount of files might take a bit. After all, each video file needs to be opened and analyzed. Displayed Information The following information will be shown for each movie or video file you’d have MovieScanner analyze.

Note: – This is a screenshot of the MacOS X version. The Windows and Linux versions looks nearly identical. – This screenshot shows only one movie, but MovieScanner can display multiple movies. MovieScanner – Details Please note that the information provided depends on a lot of factors, not the least how the video file was encoded.

If at the time of encoding incorrect or incomplete information was entered, unexpected results might be shown. MovieScanner (or better said: ffprobe) does look at subtitles, but only at subtitles embedded in the video file. External subtitles like SUB or SRT files will not be detected and will not be included in the list. As you can see below: plenty information is recovered from the files. When you hover your mouse over one of these items, additional information will be made visible (right column). Note: As of version v1.3, audio channels will be displayed as “Stereo”, “Mono”, “5.1” and “7.1” where possible.

MovieScanner Video Details Item Info Hover mouse over A Filename / Movie title Full path B Standard or Widescreen Screen type in words C Resolution Type n/a D Resolution Pixels (WxH) Bitrate E Filesize Filesize in bytes F File extension Full extension name G Video Codec (Short) Full Video Codec H Audio Codec (Short) Full Audio Codec I Audio Channel count and Audio language Audio bitrate J Subtitle Codec (Short) Full Subtitle Codec K Subtitle language n/a L Playback time (hours:minutes:seconds) n/a. Thank you for this:) Allow me to suggest some bugs, changes and new features; 1. A rip in 1920×800 is not 720p and 12:5 format as you report. It is Full HD/1080p in 2.40:1 format. Option to display foldername instead of movie name.

Should sort on this too. Reason is that I rip my movies to folders like this ‘ ’ but the file names often are weird with metadata in the name. Playback time is 00:00 for all my movies.

Search functionality could work better as a filter instead. I would do the filtering upon every key stroke instead of having to press enter to see the effect. Filtering on different aspects than only title could be helpful. For example; all 720p movies, all movies with soundtrack with specific language, all movies with HD sound, etc. I add a nfo file to every rip I make containing the imdb url to the movie.

This makes XBMC use this info when scraping the movie to it’s database. You could do the same. Look for a nfo file, containing a imdb url (regex can be found in XBMC source) and look up the movie either on IMDB, TMDB or something better like the MyMovies API (commerical but cheap). This would allow for independant title, even localized and stuff like posters, plots, actors etc. Again search and filtering for this new info would be useful. Features for editing the movies. I rip to MKV using MakeMKV.

I use MKVMerge to add or remove stuff from the MKV containers. For example if I have ripped too many audio streams or subtitles, I go in there to fix it.

The interface is not that usable, but if you make integration it could be very nice to just delete the stuff in the GUI and have it work on the files in the background. There is a lot of space to be saved using MKV over ISO and only having the actually needed audio tracks. Why write DCA instead of just DTS? From wiki; “On the consumer level, DTS is the oft-used shorthand for the DTS Coherent Acoustics codec”. Instead of 6 channels, 8 channels. I’d like to see it has 5.1 and 7.1 etc. Search and filtering support also.

My 7.1 rips are listed as 6 channel. I understand that this is probably reported by ffmpeg, but it is incorrect. Software as MediaInfo can display this correctly and I thought newer ffmpeg could too.

Something to look into. I think that’s it for now:) I’m a developer myself and have been thinking about doing an application like this myself. So keep up the good work and please consider my suggestions bleze. Hi Frank, I’ve looked at sorting by language for the subtitles, if that is what you mean, but that comes with a tiny problem What if you have subtitles in multiple languages? As for looking for the missing languages; I’m currently experimenting with a tool to find subtitles. While doing that, I’ve already build a check for duplicate videos and missing subtitles, depending on what languages one would like. It might take a bit before I finish that tool since I’m traveling a lot the next few weeks, but I’ll post it here when it’s done.

PingBack: MovieScanner is a tool that completely works with Windows and Mac OS X as an application to collect all details from the device having Good and rip file copies to bring into one place. To make this function just download the MovieScanner for your Windows or Mac OS X to process, and select the file folder or a movie file. In few second the list of metadata files will display as movie clips, aspect ratio, pixel, audio files and file running time. This simple tool will allow to search preferred title on your storage via Search box. Just type the title and give up ” Enter” that’s it.

Everything MovieScanner will search for you. ( Via: Lifehacker / Addictivetips ).

Windows Explorer supports adding columns for attributes like “duration”, “resolution”, “bitrate”, description etc. (suppose Explorer retrieves these informations from “alternate streams” included in the file nodes with NTFS formated drive.) Unfortunately these prepared attributes are usually left empty and need to be defined by some smart application.

Can you make movie scanner to fill those attributes on the fly while analyzing? (attributes not fitting one of the prepared columns might be concatenated to appear under “description” or “comment” entries ) So you can allways list attributes in Explorer after running movie scanner once! I’m quite sure Explorer does not extract Media Information from the File itself but simply lists custom attributes stored in the file node (along with filename & size, date stamps, access rights etc.). Windows NTFS (rather than good old FAT) supports this feature called “Alternate Data Streams”. On MAcOS HFS they call it Resource fork / Extended Attributes.

See: – View/Copy/Delete NTFS Alternate Data Streams – How To Use NTFS Alternate Data Streams Windows Media Player e.g. Implements filling those Alternate Data Streams on importing media files, so you can list those attributes in Explorer. Future concept might include scanning ID3 Tags from Audio Files (MP3 etc.) and maybe EXIF from JPEG (as far as FFProbe engine supports these), turning Movie Scanner into an all Media Scanner.

UPDATE NOTES 1.2 – Improved (Bleze) and added support additional UHDTV resolutions (480p, 720p, 1080p, 2000p, 2160p, 2540p, 4000p, 4320p) – Corrected 12:5 notation to 2.4:1 (Bleze) – Popup menu corrected to show “Explorer” for Windows and “Finder” for MacOS X – Search changed to “Filter as you type” (instant change when typing characters) (Bleze) – Audio: DCA is now displayed as DTS (Bleze) – MacOS X: Fixed error when trying to create the database – Windows: Fixed potential database issue, new location makes app more portable as well hans. Thank you for the upgrade:) Here are my findings and continued suggestions. Add a settings page where user can add and remove folders to be monitored. Removed folders should be deleted from database. I still have runtimes of 0:00. Might be related to me using UNC paths when scanning?

I can send you sample output where duration is only available under the format section. The rest are listed as ‘N/A’. I have not looked in sqlapi database, but I guess you store a hash for each movie file? I think combination of folder and file details would be good. So that a file which size, name or datetime changes, is re-read. Looking forward to more upgrades with more of my previous suggestions too:) bleze.

Seems the problem still exists. When I choose to “open folder” it gives me the same error saying that the data could get corrupted. I tried using it outside the Program Files folder & it works like a charm. I’ve been able to copy other s/w into my program files folder (though I’ve copied the others to x86 since those were 32 bit s/w).

I tried copying to x86 with this too, and I think it’s to do with Windows giving the software rights to do certain things. I couldn’t empty the database. Running it from another folder from now.

Another issue I had was that the subtitles it picks up as of now only seem to be.srt files. I have a few movies where the subs are.idx/.sub files & it didn’t show subrip/language for those. Also, TV shows with srts dont show subs at all. I’m using your software mainly to see which movies still need subs & this seems to work super so far now that I’ve got it to work (thankfully I don’t use too many.sub/idx files). Thanks for this!

Hi Jay, The application is 32 bits, to remain as compatible as possible for all Windows platforms (XP/7/8). Do you encounter the same problems in the “Program Files (x86)” directory? I’ll take a look and see if Microsoft has some kind of limitations when it comes to storing data in the application directory (when located in Program Files). Currently MovieScanner only looks at sub titles that are embedded in the video file. External subs (SRT/SUB/ASS/etc) are being ignored – I am meaning to add these in a future release but the lack of good filenames makes it difficult to identify what language those external subs are. But I agree that it could be great to identify which ones do not have certain subs yet.

Hi Jay, thanks for the feedback – I guess I’ll have to do some experimenting with the database location. Could you try changing the access rights of the moviescanner.db file and see if it’s still a problem? As for the SRT’s I use ffprobe and it really doesn’t pickup SRT’s in my test environment. I tried movie.srt, subs/movie.srt, movie.english.srt, it didn’t pick up any of them. Could you try a movie after you temporary removed the SRT files? I am considering revamping the whole thing and making it a more advanced media scanner – including support for all kinds of subtitles (I’m actually surprised how inconsistent subtitles are!).

You might consider a change for displaying the size of Media Files: I prefer displaying their size uniformly in MiB (ie. 4568,12 MB) rather than switching to GB (at least for file size. OK, I’ll implement MiB (noted as MB) – I totally agree with the storage device scam When it comes to playback time, I agree that adding the seconds could be good.

I too bumped into the. I just released v1.3 which should have some nice updates; – Attempt to fix bugs related to conversion errors – Improved and much faster data analysis – New FFProbe – Audio Channels displayed as Stereo, Mono, 5.1.

Or 7.1 where possible – Time now also displays seconds This will might possibly one of the last updates for MovieScanner. Based on the enthusiasm and feedback (thanks!) I am currently working on a more advanced successor for MovieScanner.

I’ll keep everybody posted here, and as always: feel free to send feedback, suggestion, ideas, etc. Thank you for notifying me, as I had not noticed this issue.

I’ve uploaded a new copy of MovieScanner – in case the download fails again; clear your browser cache or use a different browser to try downloading it again. Just a side note: I had created the original ZIP with the buildin Windows ZIP utility. Extracting with that same utility however gave me an error as well. WinRAR on the other hand, unzipped it just fine. So after a few failures, I just created a new ZIP file with WinRAR, which both the Windows buildin unzip, and WinRAR, seem to unzip just fine.

Please let me know if you run into issues again. Thanks again hans. Awesome tool. Very nicely done. And so easy to use!

There is nothing out there (at least for MacOS) that comes even close for what I need. There’s just one “but” it doesn’t show newer audio formats like DTS-HD MA, Atmos and DTS:X. Suspecting this might be the ffprobe version that is bundled with it. I found this on Sourceforge net: “ffprobe is ancient and unmaintained, rely on the ffprobe tool integrated in the current FFmpeg instead, which you can get at the link: “. Is there any chance this could be updated to include the current FFmpeg instead? Hi Ruedi, I’m in the middle of a move from the US to Europe, so in the next few weeks I may not have time to implement this. However, I’d like to include the latest ffMPEG, so your formats will be included as well.

Since it has been a while that I wrote this program, you could simply replace the ffMPEG included in the application. Probably redundant info, but right click the application and select “show content”, in the macos folder you should see ffmpeg. MovieScanner might actually pick this up just fine.

I have not tested it though. I’m adding it to the “to-do” list though – I’m not overly happy with the scrolling, so I may make a new design anyway in the near future. Similar to a previous poster I get this error when scrolling down the list of films. “” is an invalid integer.

Osx 10.13.3 MovieScanner 1.5 I understand you are unable to replicate this issue. Some things to try could be: – My selected film directory is on a NAS connected with CIFS – I am running a large list of films – over 250 The error doesn’t happen immediately but only when I scroll down the list of detected films.

The first time it happened I was able to use the app by just clicking OK everytime the error appeared. However, having emptied the db using the UI button and re-detected, I am unable to click OK. Effectively the UI freezes. I tried quitting deleting the db and re-starting but get the same thing.

Good luck in your move! Arrived in Europe, but still have to wait a month before my stuff gets here – thanks for the best wishes! As for the error message; Somehow a value was stored/returned not qualifying as an integer. I have tested this with several thousand files (takes a lot of time though) on a SMB share on a NAS – which worked great. So for some reason the database has become corrupted.

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Since you already have your files; 1) Click the “Empty Database” button, which should truncate the database and hopefully remove the corrupted record. 2) if that doesn’t work: delete the database file, it’s stored here: /Users//Library/Preferences/MovieScanner.db Hope this helps fixing the issue. Link QR Code. Donate Donations are highly appreciated.

Now-a-days everyone can rip or copy a DVD with just a few clicks once you know how!, you needed all kinds of complex tools and the process was not just challenging, but also very time consuming on those old computers. I used to have my computer run overnight to get a single DVD it done. With my current computers we’re talking about mere minutes. Why rip a DVD? Maybe you’d like to use it with, play the movie on your tablet computer or smartphone, or you’d like to have a copy for your kids to handle, and smear their little pizza fingers on. In this article I’ll show you how to use the free and awesome on a Mac. Verify your local laws!

This article is not intended to promote pirating Copyrighted Materials! Laws, when it comes to copying Copyrighted materials, differ from country to country. It is your responsibility to be aware of these laws and comply to them. See also our! The movie industry in general does not want you to copy a DVD for any reason. Fair use proponents however claim that the law leaves room for making a private backup (in the US: DMCA or ). But it’s all a matter of interpretation – so think for yourself before you act!

Other countries, like The Netherlands, are more liberal when it comes to this – Consumers pay a few cents extra for empty media, and for personal use you are allowed to make a copy (see ). Why DVD to MP4 or MKV? So you might wonder what MP4 (or M4V) and MKV stand for? Both are file types; in this case they are so called containers that can contain multiple parts which can be video, audio, subtitles, etc. These particular file types can hold multiple video, audio, and subtitle parts or so called streams. For example videos in different angles, audio in different languages and qualities (Dolby Surround, Dolby AC3, regular stereo, etc), or subtitles in different languages or types (Closed Caption versus regular subtitles). The purpose of the files we are about to make will be mainly playback on your computer or other device capable of playback of these kind of files.

For example: box, Tablet PC, iPod/iPad, smartphone, media player in your car, or other media playback capable device. Here MP4 is the most commonly used format (together with AVI).

MKV on the other hand, although seemingly superior, is not (yet) as popular, but supports MKV as well. Transcoding Other Video sources HandBrake also accepts other video sources than just a DVD – including other video files! It can convert most common video files to MP4 or MKV with ease. Note: Copying a DVD is commonly referred to as “ripping” a DVD. For the impatient: the short version For those that are impatient and more experienced, you can follow the following steps quickly. For beginners I recommend to continue reading the following paragraphs which explain a little bit more about what’s happening. Start HandBrake.

Insert DVD. Open the “ Source” in HandBrake (the DVD). Select “ Title“. Click preferred “ Preset” – possibly. Click “ Start“. Drink a cup of coffee and eat a cookie – a.k.a.

Wait and pretend to be patient. Tools we need to Rip a DVD When using, we have all we need in one application, with one tiny exception. The creators of HandBrake were smart enough to not try to reinvent the wheel when it comes to decrypting (removing ) of the DVD and they use a library called.

It’s a tiny download and installs in seconds. Downloads As usual, we offer the needed files for download but we highly recommend that you visit the listed sites below to make sure you get the latest version:. – install by opening the.DMG file and dragging “ HandBrake” into the “ Applications” folder. – install by double clicking the.PKG file and follow the instructions. Note: libdvdcss versions can be found, but it can be that newer versions do not have a compiled version for MacOS X available yet.

Check the folders with the highest version numbers and work your way down until you find a version that has a “macosx” subfolder with the “libdvdcss.pkg” file in it – this would be the file needed to install libdvdcss. At the time of writing this article, is the most recent version. Region Code Before proceeding, make sure the DVD can be played on your computer with your regular DVD playback program or the “ DVDPlayer” application in the “ Applications” folder – just to make sure that the is set correctly. Step 1: Start HandBrake Step 2: Select your video source (the DVD) Normally HandBrake starts right away with a file dialog asking what to rip or convert.

If that didn’t happen: Click the “ Source” button ( 1) to have the file dialog appear. In the file dialog, select your DVD on the left hand side ( 2) and click “ Open” ( 3). HandBrake – Select the movie to rip Step 4: DVD Conversion settings – Video First we can set the destination of the result file. Typically HandBrake will take a default location, like your desktop, and name the file based on what it found on the DVD (which can be a random guess). You can change the location and filename as you see fit.

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Keep in mind that the resulting file size for a normal movie is in the 1 -2 Gb size – make sure the destination drive has enough space available! When ripping a DVD we basically convert (transcode) the DVD movie to a different file format and for this we will need to do a few settings. For your first DVD, you’d want to try the default settings as they are already pretty good, but you can fine tune the settings if you’d like. In you’ll find more details on how to fine-tune/tweak the settings.

First, since we want to create an MP4 or MKV: Select the desired “ Format“. For most purposes choose “ MP4 file“. One of the nice things of HandBrake is the ability to work with presets, you will see them on the right. If you do not see the presets, click the “ Toggle Presets” button. HandBrake – Presets for particular target devices If you have a particular target device in mind, try to pick the one that closest matches one of the presets. If you’re unsure or you have multiple devices in mind, then pick “ Universal” – a preset I usually start out with. Note: All settings after this point are optional!

HandBrake example Audio settings Step 6: DVD Conversion settings – Subtitles (optional) Now that we have covered Audio and Video: Subtitles. Of course subtitles is fully optional and you can leave them out if you’d like. I usually add at least one subtitle: English Closed Caption. You can however enable as many as you’d like. You will have to pay attention here though! Some subtitles HandBrake wants to have “Burned In” – which is a bad idea all together. It means that subtitles will always be visible and cannot be turned off!

So we really want to make sure that “ Burned In” is NOT CHECKED! More details about subtitles variations can be found on the.

HandBrake Subtitles example Step 7: Start Ripping! This would be the time to click the “ Start” button to start the ripping/copying/converting process. Ripping will take a little bit and it mostly depends on the speed of your computer and the encoder settings you used. Additional Tips Advanced Tweaking of the Encoder I wrote an additional article for those interested in. I can highly recommend, even for beginners, to read thought this article.

It’s not just about “better” settings but also about some of the basic principles of encoding video. Using a Queue for sequential ripping of multiple DVD’s or video conversions You do have the option – if you have multiple DVD Rom players connected to your computer, or want to convert multiple video files – to add everything you just did to the Queue (click “Add to queue”) and start the entire process you just went through again to then add that one to the queue as well.

You can however NOT remove the DVD form the drive it’s in right now! Once you filled the Queue, click “Start” and HandBrake will process the entire Queue in sequence. Put the computer to sleep when done One of the features I really appreciate is that you can have HandBrake put the computer to bed when done converting. Specially with conversion job that take a while, this proves very handy.

If you’d like to enable this option, because you’re going to walk away from the computer and let HandBrake do it’s thing: Click the menu (top of your screen) “ HandBrake” “ Preferences” “ General” “ When Done” and choose “ Put Computer To Sleep“. You can even do this while HandBrake is in the middle of converting your DVD!

You can of course also choose for one of the other options. Thanks RediscoverGreen – excellent find! For those interested, this article shows how to compile a Windows version of libvdcss on a Linux box. For future reference (in case the article disappears, the short version – please visit the original source: Install the necessary tools to build the dvd access library for Windows 64 bit.

Sudo apt-get install gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64 g-mingw-w64-x86-64 mingw-w64-tools Download the lbvdcss source code from the VLC website. At the moment the latest version is 1.4.0, check to see if there is a newer version (1.4.0 seems to be 2 years old, and I’m not sure if we can expect any newer version any time soon). Wget download.videolan.org/libdvdcss/1.4.0/libdvdcss-1.4.0.tar.bz2 tar -xf libdvdcss-1.4.0.tar.bz2 cd libdvdcss-1.4.0/ Compile Source for Windows. The compiled result should be available in the.libs directory which then can be copied to a Windows machine:./configure -host=x8664-w64-mingw32 make cd.libs hans. Link QR Code.

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