[AmericanAl]

Wait, 3.4GB? How big was the disc before you ripped it? Handbrake is re-encoding by default to 720p, so if you have a 8.5gig dvd, after stripping out the menus and special features and encoding to 720p 3.4gb doesn't sound too far off really. Does it say 720p in the file name after the rip? It will only create that name if Handbrake is working.

Try setting Handbrake to no, and rip the disc and see what size and quality you get. I think Handbrake is probably doing the encode.

The other way to trouble shoot this as well is tab out to windows and open a command prompt (window Key + R, type cmd and hit enter), and then run the AutoRipDVD.bat file from there and you can see all the output in the window. See if there is any error being given.

Some Blu Ray / DVDs don't compress all that well. I tweaked the settings for the re-encoding a bit, and I can get 7-8 GB DVDs to 1-2 GB .MKV files with little to no difference in quality, and then 20-30GB Blu Rays to 7-8GB, but sometimes you get the odd movie that comes out being 4-5GB / 10-12GB.

But yeah, if you get at least 50% file size reduction, I consider it a good job for a fully automated process.