Slow scanning with bedlam preset

[sycomonkey]

I encoded a movie with the Bedlam setting, looks perfect, but if I skip to a point in the middle of the movie, or select a chapter, it takes about 4-5 minutes to start playing again. This happens in both mPlayer and VLC. My cpu is only at about 30% during this...

I am going to try to encode something with the Dues preset and see if that helps, but has anyone else noticed this issue?

[s55]

Handbrake doesn't add cue markers to MKV files so the player has to seek to the point in the video. (Cue markers are not required by the mkv specification)

[sycomonkey]

So if I remux these with mencoder to mp4 or something that should fix the issue?

[benjamintm]

You can add cue points with the following command (stolen from the SageTV Media Extender FAQ):

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mkvmerge --engage keep_bitstream_ar_info -o <output filename.mkv> <original filename.mkv>

No re-encoding necessary.

It would be nice if Handbrake added a cue point option.

Ben

[Harris]

Just tried your solution--works perfectly! Thanks, Ben, I've been looking for something like that.