I am hoping someone on here will be able to help me with HB because everytime I try to rip a movie all I get is a file that is not playable so if you could please shed some light on this for me PLEASE!!!!!!

you say it is not playable.....in what program? knowing what program you are using to test these rips will be most helpful :)

I have tried quicktime and VLC and no luck but I also don't know if I am ripping the right file so Maz if you could let me know what file I have to rip cause as you know I am a rookie to all of this stuff so any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!!

is the file full size when ripping? what output format do you have set? are you using default settings?

i would suggest starting here

the settings of handbrake are fine, it's just the output of your file you are ripping to.

if you are setting it to .avi and you don't have a program that plays .avi or what ever format you are ripping to, then it won't play.

on another note, your movie has more than one title you have to make sure you are ripping the main title. to make sure it is, you click on the picture button after it scans the source and you are able to select the title you want. you will see some screen stills of the title. if it's not the right one, then you pick another.

I had that problem with Heavy Metal... I ripped the special features 4 times before I figured it out.

hope this helps you out.

First some questions:

-- What version of HandBrake are you using? The newest version as of now is 0.9.3 If you don't have the newest version, I'd suggest getting it.
-- When you select the source of the input file, what are you selecting?
-- Are you ripping the DVD to the hard drive first using something like MacTheRipper?
-- Are you attempting to re-encode from another format?
-- Are you using the presets from the menu?

I've been ripping DVD's and encoding on the Mac for years

I've found that while most of the time, if you have VLC installed you don't really need any sort of DVD decrypting type software when using HandBrake. I've even used HandBrake and ripped using Fairmount. However, it works faster and is more dependable copying the DVD and removing protection using something like MacTheRipper 3.0r14m then ripping from the hard drive source.

Ever since Macs went Intel, it's gotten a whole lot easier.

I've used Handbrake to even rip other region coded DVDs so I don't think you need any decoding program for this, and use Visual Hub to encode it back to DVD format... these are your best programs for the Mac.... and surprising enough I have the most up-to-date Visual Hub in my release list... just go there and you're golden (not the shower... more like midas)

ok man, hope that helped.