[gotzaiPhone]

Ok, this is going SLOW!!!! I tried to convert Back to the Future and first I get a message saying that the movie is encrypted and I needed ad VLC player to decode the movie. So I downloaded that and it had to scan the whole disk which took an hour and now it's encoding which is almost 2 hours in total encode time.

What's the deal? Is it because this is a protected disk? And I still don't know if this will even work! I apologize for any spelling errors as I'm on my iPhone since the program is taking up 100% of my resources on my new MacBook 2.4ghz with 4 gig of ram....

Edit:
Wow, hour and a half later and its still got 3 hours and 42 minutes left on the part 2 of 2 encoding. Either I'm doing something wrong or I don't know...

Edit to my edit:
Ok, the walk through says to keep the default settings, but the walk trough was also written almost 2 years ago and the default settings on the newer version on HandBrake are different.

(all my changes refer to the screen shot on page one)
I first turned OFF, 2 pass encoding.
next, I change the codec to MPEG 4 (ffmpeg)
then, I knocked the "constant quality" down to 50.
now, the average bitrate to 1000
I also went into preferences and turned on the "itunes friendly" file extension (m4v)

with all this, my encoding time estimate was at 35 minutes and is counting down at a proper minute to minute rate. I'll edit this again to let y'all know if it worked.

Final edit:

I give up. I tried different encodings, different settings, including screen resolution and still the "this video was not transfered because it cannot play on your iPhone". They all played in iTunes, but would not go onto the phone. Unless someone can give me their EXACT specs for movies that actually work, I'm not going to bother any more.

I lied, more edit:

Ok, the handbrake forums said to use the "Apple Universal" presets to get the video on the phone, but you have to "upgrade presets" in the program as they are not pre-upgraded in the 0.9.3 software. I am going to give this the college try after I get home and wake up today. I sure hope this will finally work....