RosevilleHT Wrote:I'm not sure why it's taking some of you 10+ hours to do the same.
Mate, your encoding BR's with the Apple TV profile in Handbrake, which uses very conservative settings, in short it puts processing speed ahead of image quality, the ATV profile also resizes the videos to 960x544 (960x400 for a 2.35:1 aspect film), in short the ATV profile will encode blurays in an hour or 2 depending on PC specs.
The profiles I'm using put quality ahead of speed and as a result it takes a long time, I'm also encoding at the original resolution of the BD (1080p or more accurately 1920x800 cropped) where the ATV profile is approx half 1080p res.
In fact I've just kicked off an encode of my Terminator Salvation BD using the ATV profile and it's humming along at 45+fps and will be done in about 1hr and 8 minutes, the profiles and resolution I'm using encode at 3fps... do the maths.
edit:
Check this link for the official x264 profiles formatted for use in Handbrake...
http://bytebin.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/...handbrake/
I bet $10 bucks if you pick the slow profile and don't resize your video to half it's original size that your BD will take 10 or more hours, and I don't mean a BD rip you've downloaded, I mean a full size BD rip.