Sunday, July 30, 2017

Handbrake fix for broken up and garbled video



I wanted to backup some of my movies that I have on DVD, so I installed Handbrake, available from http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

Most of my DVDs copied with no problem, but not all of them.  

A few created videos that were pixelated and unwatchable, like this:



After some searching on Google, I discovered that the fix was simple.


There is a missing library for Handbrake called 'libdvdcss-2.dll'

It's available for download from here:  
http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.11/win64/libdvdcss-2.dll

Simply copy it into your Handbrake folder (usually C:\Program Files\HandBrake) and re-start Handbrake.


Problem solved... almost


I now had an issue with incomplete copying of DVDs.  Handbrake would stop after about half of the DVD had been copied without any indication of failure. The only thing I did to resolve this was to install the latest version of VLC (available here: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html)

Now it all worked correctly! Finally!

NOTE: You should only copy DVDs that are your own and only for the purpose of creating backup copies.  I do not endorse ripping DVDs for any other reason.

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