Best / most efficient way to handbrake for iPad ???

[redgtxdi]

I used to do a lot of movies for iPod touch using DVD decrypter and then handbrake. I can't recall exactly what I did, but haven't had to do much with my iPad2 until today. I'm going in a trip and put a couple movies on it to watch.

My wife already had Tron and I think she did it herself using defaults. Im currently doing Napoleon dynamite and it says it's gonna take 5 hours!!! Granted I'm only using a 5 year old centurion laptop but is there any tip or trick to shorten that time?

Ditch mp4 container?
Ditch h.264 codec?
Change the constant quality slider?

I don't want to lose too much video quality but will take suggestions.

TIA

 

[ViRGE]

Reducing the quality should improve the encode time, although it won't work miracles.

 

[Sm0kes]

You may also want to look into an app called GoodPlayer. I no longer encode/re-encode anything for my iPad2, as it will play almost everything I throw at it including most 720p x264 .mkvs. Depending on what your source is -- you can just rip into a .mkv or .avi container and be done.

 

[redgtxdi]

Very cool. Will check into that. Cuz, ya, the ripping ain't long at all, it's the recoding that kills for time! ugh!

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

AVPlayer works too.