Hale Razor

How to Rip a DVD for a Netbook using Handbrake

After doing  a lot of research, including posts on here here and here (including TV series), here's what I found to be the best ripping settings for netbooks.  Because the atom processors are not very powerful, we're staying away from H264.

Netbook:
Format: AVI
Crop: automatic
Width/Height: 720x480
Video code: mpeg-4-xvid
video avg bitrate 900
Audio: Automatic, mp3, stereo 44.1 khz and 128 bitrate

Fitting on a CD (that means we're going for 700 mb, not necessarily for a netbook)
Format: AVI
Crop: automatic
Width: 480
Video: codec mpeg-4 ffmpeg
Quality: target size 700
2-pass encoding
Audio: Automatic, mp3, stereo 44.1 khz and 128 bitrate

Do you have a good set of settings for either of these? If so, let's hear it!

Building a Religion

Obama Gift Giving

Thoughtful gift from the leader of the United Kingtom for Obama.  Slave-liberation context, meaning, chosen with care.  And in return, the gift our president gets Brown...

Scary Thought

Obama is Overwhelmed.

Dissent: Then and Now

Dissent:

Before:  Highest Form of Patriotism
Now:  Traitorous

Examples here.

Majority of Democrats Wanted Bush to Fail

Gateway Pundit finds a poll from 2006 that says that most Democrats wanted the former president to fail.

Tired

They're.  So.    TIRED.

Erkel Economy

Barack Saves the Stock Market

Barack Obama has saved or created 6,765 points of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

h/t daleyrocks on Patterico

The Lonely Man

Jim Treacher makes a good point.