Despite my undying love for Heroes and amused fondness for Blood Ties, there’s not much currently on TV that I want to watch regularly. Instead, I’ve turned to DVDs of favorite television shows; some hit the end of their seven-year contract and said, “no more.” Others, however, are still with us, even though I’m fairly convinced that the quality peaked around season nine (1997-8). Thanks to my video iPod (nicknamed “Ignatius III”) and the reborn HandBrake, I can take my cherised DVDs of Buffy, The Simpsons, etc. and shove them onto Iggy for the morning train commute.
Except that copying 30-60 minute TV episodes from a multiple-disc set is kind of annoying. Thankfully, Playlist’s Christopher Breen has some tips for how to make the most of your HandBrake-and-TV-show activities. After enabling the “enable queue” option, and giving each episode a unique file name (very important so HandBrake doesn’t overwrite each ripping session), you should be left with a handful of cherished, funny, incisive TV episodes from shows gone by.
Would that someone could now find an easier way to batch-edit the newly-ripped episodes.
