Hardbrake

Testing Resource: Garfield the Movie
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Capacity: 5.93GB

HARRY PORTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETES
Duration: 2 hours 40 minutes
Capacity: 7.41GB

Ⅱ. Data Reading:Data reading is also fast but it takes a little bit of longer (2munutes23seconds) time since it reads the entire DVD and loads all the titles and chapters.

Ⅲ. Ripping Speed : This program converts a movie section of 2 minutes 12 seconds long to XVID AVI movie, and it costs 4 minute 10 seconds.

Ⅳ. Output file size and quality: The output file size is 26.9MB. Input file size: 27.8MB.


Evaluation

Interface:

Traditional, but a little of bit of over scattered and over complicated;

 

 

DVD Videos Importing:

Loading with this application is a little bit of complicated. Users need to browse and locate the DVD folder firstly to import. And it cannot load DVDs with CSS protection.

 

 

DVD Preview and Snap-shooting:

Neither preview nor snap shooting is available.

Profile Selection:

Animation, Apple TV, Bedlam, PSP, Broke, Blind, DSQ, QuickTime, Television, iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch, Constant Quality Rate, Classic;

D-1 Audio Setting:
Bitrate, Sample rate and Track.

 

D-2 Video Setting:
Encoding method, frame rate, average bitrate, and constant rate factor.

 

Customize Editing/Output Setting:

No editing options.

 

Batch Ripping

Not available.

F-1 Convert by Chapter/Title: Only convert main title.

F-2 Convert all Episodes : Convert main movie only.

 

Merge and Splitting

Neither merging nor splitting is available.

 

Output Folder Locating

Allow users to locate output folder.

 

CSS/CPPM Decrypting

Does not support CSS Decrypting.

Preference settings

Detelecine, Deblock, denoise, Anamorphaic PAR and Chapter markers.

 

Performance Comparison: Profile setting:pavtube

Output video capture:

pavtube

Handbrake

Vertical Comparison:

Freeware, but it still has the most popular features. Also the same defects, no plenty of profiles, no video editing, no preference etc, failed to be considerate.