So my solution has always been some sort of half-fast (wondershare) dvd coping software + handbrake. So I was so happy when DVDFab came to Mac. I immediately bought DVDFab's DVD Copy for Mac and haven't looked back. It's great. DVDFab is great. You guys stay on top of it. Awesome.
So I then decided I wanted to support DVDFab and buy the All-In-One for Mac (lifetime subscription). Figured it would just make my life easier because all the tools are right there in one software package and i wont need handbrake anymore. Plus gives me an excuse to buy an external blue-ray burner and that little android pc for the tv looks neat (haven't heard anything about receiving that yet but its only been a week or so and the holidays are here). I also recall reading that DVDFab uses ffmpeg on the back end for transcoding now which is what handbrake uses so it should be awesome.
To my surprise though, that isn't the case. Most of the video conversions fail for me. I don't mean fail as in it doesn't proceed but I mean fail as in some sort of issue. For example:
I downloaded one of the blender open movie projects "big buck bunny" just to play around with the new software, from here actually if you want to try, converted it to an mkv with aac audio and each time i converted it it gets all pixely starting when the rabbit first walks off the screen and then in spots for the rest of the movie. After a few tries on my work's mac book pro i decided to go home and give it a shot on mine. Same exact issues starting in the same exact spot. So at this point I'm thinking its gotta be the downloaded file. I run the same conversion with handbrake on both and they are perfect. How come?
Anything I need to do that includes trancoding wether it is video file to video file or dvd to video file is very hit or miss and usually has to be done a few times before i get a good result. This is probably the biggest issue for me.
I would probably say my only other big issue, is that there are a lot of times DVDFab hangs and there is no progress indicator or time remaining count down. I tried to convert a DVD to a mkv and it showed progress for the first few step and on the last one just hung. A few hours later it said it was done but my movie file was 0 bytes. Ugh.
But I still think DVDFab is great and will continue using it (but use handbrake for the conversion until DVDFabs gets a bit more reliable) because I know it will only get better. If anyone has had similar issues or has any tricks to get it to be a bit better i'd love to hear them.
I have done a few things I've read on forum posts such as resetting the DMA already.
Oh one more thing, for the Mac version, and this is just a personal thing, please change "setting" to "settings" on the drop down menu.
I don't know why but it bothers me but I just figured I'd throw in the request.
Thank you,
Nate
So I then decided I wanted to support DVDFab and buy the All-In-One for Mac (lifetime subscription). Figured it would just make my life easier because all the tools are right there in one software package and i wont need handbrake anymore. Plus gives me an excuse to buy an external blue-ray burner and that little android pc for the tv looks neat (haven't heard anything about receiving that yet but its only been a week or so and the holidays are here). I also recall reading that DVDFab uses ffmpeg on the back end for transcoding now which is what handbrake uses so it should be awesome.
To my surprise though, that isn't the case. Most of the video conversions fail for me. I don't mean fail as in it doesn't proceed but I mean fail as in some sort of issue. For example:
I downloaded one of the blender open movie projects "big buck bunny" just to play around with the new software, from here actually if you want to try, converted it to an mkv with aac audio and each time i converted it it gets all pixely starting when the rabbit first walks off the screen and then in spots for the rest of the movie. After a few tries on my work's mac book pro i decided to go home and give it a shot on mine. Same exact issues starting in the same exact spot. So at this point I'm thinking its gotta be the downloaded file. I run the same conversion with handbrake on both and they are perfect. How come?
Anything I need to do that includes trancoding wether it is video file to video file or dvd to video file is very hit or miss and usually has to be done a few times before i get a good result. This is probably the biggest issue for me.
I would probably say my only other big issue, is that there are a lot of times DVDFab hangs and there is no progress indicator or time remaining count down. I tried to convert a DVD to a mkv and it showed progress for the first few step and on the last one just hung. A few hours later it said it was done but my movie file was 0 bytes. Ugh.
But I still think DVDFab is great and will continue using it (but use handbrake for the conversion until DVDFabs gets a bit more reliable) because I know it will only get better. If anyone has had similar issues or has any tricks to get it to be a bit better i'd love to hear them.
I have done a few things I've read on forum posts such as resetting the DMA already.
Oh one more thing, for the Mac version, and this is just a personal thing, please change "setting" to "settings" on the drop down menu.
I don't know why but it bothers me but I just figured I'd throw in the request. Thank you,
Nate
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