Welcome to HandBrake

• Start HandBrake.
  In Welcome window select your DVD volume (generally only one)...

• ... or browse to your folder with VIDEO_TS exctracted from DVD.

• Click Open button and HandBrake will start DVD scan for some seconds.

General

• In General panel select the DVD title, the longest is the first of the list.

• Select Output format among:

• AVI file / MPEG-4 video/ MP3 audio (Lame) - the used DivX players .AVI file
• MP4 file / MPEG-4 video / AAC audio (MPEG)- the Apple audio video format (not DivX)
• OGM file / MPEG-4 video / Vorbis audio (OGG)- the open, patended free audio/video format (*)
  
• AVI file / H264 video / MP3 audio (Lame) - Advanced Video Coding (AVC) for the next-generation High Definition (HD) DVD (*)
  

• Browse your hard disk to select file destination folder.

Video

• In Video panel chose MPEG-4 encoder; we suggest FFmpeg instead of XviD, as both are MPEG-4 compliant encoders, FFmpeg is pretty faster on OS X.

• Choose your Custom Bitrate for less than 90 min video...

• ... or your CD Target size for full video.

• Select 2-pass encoding, it performs a slower but better compression - basically it makes sure you'll get a constant quality so you won't see blocks in fast motion scenes. Though it's disabled by default, is strongly recommend to use it except if you really care about time.

• Clik on Crop & Scale button to open edit window:

Click Image To Enlarge

• You can select pictures width, browse previous and next scenes and crop image to remove little black outline borders (we suggest use Autocrop button).
  
  • Deinterlaced picture - only to use if movie has visible scanlines.
  • Useles OpenGL effects - play with the previous/next buttons after checking it, you'll see.

Audio

• In Audio panel select first (and second language) and audio Bitrate (default 128).

• Click on Rip button to start encoding, a progress bar show encoding perc, fps speed and time remaining.

• Encoding can be paused, resumed or cancelled.