What in the world is happening on Handbrake on my Mac? I have used handbrake once successfully, to rip my first season of Boardwalk Empire to my Mac. But now any time after that first successful try, it gives me images like this:  where it is all pixelated and the fading between scenes is very jagged-y. What is happening now?
Did you remove the VLC player ?

Because HandBrake no longer includes the libraries needed to decrypt commercial DVDs, you’ll also need to install the VLC media player. 

To get the 64-bit benefits from HandBrake, you’ll need to have a 64-bit version of VLC as well. 

The standard download is a Universal Binary and contains both 32- and 64-bit code for Intel Macs—if you want to save some disk space, you can download the VLC specific version here.