I've used handbrake to rip and/or convert some movies for the tab. It worked well except for one movie which had an AAC 5.1 audio track. The "Normal" profile worked fine for me as far as the video settings go. I've read online that the "High" profile has worked for other people but I haven't tried it out.
For the movie with the AAC 5.1 audio track, I selected the Stereo mixdown option using the AAC (CoreAudio) codec (available on the Mac version of Handbrake only IIRC). The resulting movie played fine on my Mac but resulted in screeching digital noise on the tab. There is another option available, AAC (faac), but I haven't tried it because I switched to using a couple of other tools.
As far as I can tell, there is no way to have handbrake copy the video stream (no transcoding) and convert the audio track only. Since the tab handles H.264 video so well, I want to avoid transcoding the video stream in order to save time. AviDemux (free software) allows you to do this. Also, AviDemux successfully mixed down the AAC 5.1 audio track into a video that worked on my tab.
On my 3 year old white plastic macbook, video and audio transcoding easily takes over two hours, while audio transcoding only takes about half an hour. This works great if your original video file is reasonably sized. You'll probably want to transcode your 10gig 1080p bluray rip at a lower resolution and bitrate.
I've also started using MKVtools (Mac-only nagware) which seems to be pretty good so far. It doesn't have as many options, but the interface is much more intuitive than AviDemux's interface. I think it only accepts MKV and OGM files as source files though.
I grabbed RockPlayer on my Tab, but when I try to play any movies and use Hardware Decode it really doesn't work. Software Decode seems to work, but at 5-8 fps.
I grabbed RockPlayer on my Tab, but when I try to play any movies and use Hardware Decode it really doesn't work. Software Decode seems to work, but at 5-8 fps.
