HandBrake

Ed, mFramePerPacket has nothing to do with ffmpeg, it's a field in the sound description in the m4v/mp4/mov file. If you switch to using a version 2 sound descriptor, since it makes the AC3 a bit more useful, I was just saying that make sure the mFramePerPacket is 0. If it's not 0, passthrough does ...

A quick tip for anyone playing with it, setting mFramePerPacket to anything breaks the AC3 passthrough. Makes no sense if you ask me, but it should remain 0.
http://trac.perian.org/changeset/905

van,
You are right in the spec. I just didn't look it up. Although, it does allow 24 bit audio, so there is a reason for setting that field at least. Although it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the spec, there is nothing limiting DVDs from using 24KHz sampling

First, I'd suggest setting the sample rate correctly. Admittedly, most DVDs are 48KHz, but this isn't a requirement in the DVD spec IIRC. Second, I'd suggest changing it to a sound description version 2 atom. Then, you can use a channel count greater than 2, set the channel layout, etc... This is us...

Looks like there are issues with anything that doesn't use a 384kb/s bitrate like Apple's sample. Been trying to decipher the AC3 atom data... In an effort to reduce some of the hackiness of this, I thought I'd share my discoveries yesterday. The AC3 atom isn't special . It is just a version 0 soun...

Would AC-3 passthrough keep the sub track? AC3 passthrough (and I am sure the same is true of DTS as well), preserves all channels because it just copies the compressed audio bit for bit. It doesn't do any decoding, any processing, anything other than copy. If you wish to preserve the sound quality...

Just to provide a data point: Several months ago (March or so?), I used HB to rip the entire B5 series. I did one episode per file, and didn't have a single issue. I used MTR on each disk and then encoded the ripped version in HB. I did this out of speed rather than out of necessity b/c I could be e...

Welll, I just don't want to hack my Atv just like I don't want to hack my iPhone. I'd rather use a method that doesn't require hacking Honestly, you are doing something that Apple never intended for you to ever do. Hacking is pretty much an necessity, in such situations. If you are unwilling to hac...

Anamonde wrote: What do I have to do do move it out the way?

sudo mkdir "/Library/Quicktime (disabled)"
sudo mv /Library/Quicktime/AppleH264... or whatever it is called "/Library/Quicktime (disabled)"

So if an unhacked ATV cannot play "high profile H.264" what is this and what am I missing by it not being high profile? H.264 has several profiles, most notably baseline, main, and high. With each successive profile, more quality can be achieved in the same number of bits, but it requires...

GB: One of the major reasons why I have not attempted to hack my Apple TV, is my perception, after reading some of the hack websites, that even once you install Perian, etc., it is still difficult to get iTunes to recognize a "non-standard" content file and send it over to the ATV HD. Has...

It's out of the box. I'm on Windows so I don't know if any hacks (yet) exist there for Apple TV. Since that this topic is titled "Best Setting for HACKED appleTV" you should have know that hacks do exist. The best way I found to hack it is to find a friend with an intel mac (since you ask...

LSTbran wrote:It seems that a majority of these "support" chat rooms are a waste. I guess I got what I paid for.

Exactly, you paid nothing, so you are entitled to nothing. You aren't even entitled to have the program in the first place. So, stop complaining and be grateful for what you do have.

Yep, same here. I used to run SVN, and it worked there a few days ago, but now it fails.

My question was really geared at how to preserve the dolby digital using handbrake and an MP4, and that's not possible due to the limitation in MP4, is what you guys are saying. MP4 has a specific list of codecs allowed within the container (sometimes I hate MPEG standard bodies), and unlike the mp...

I would argue that this is not sufficient. I have some DVDs with interlaced content, and in some cases, the 10 preview frames do not show any sign of interlacing. Add on to examining the frame preceding and the frame following each of these 10 frames, and I think you have a robust detection mechani...

Since we're already looking at 10 frames spaced evenly throughout the title, during the initial scan, I'm hoping it will be possible to do something like what eddyg has going on with his subtitle scan. If, say, 6 out of 10 of the preview frames register as progressive, then mark the whole title as ...

If it helps, here is some LGPL code that perian uses:

http://trac.perian.org/browser/trunk/bitstream_info.c

Most likely the MKV info is wrong because HB doesn't set it correctly. I posted a related topic on this:
http://handbrake.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2415

saintdev wrote:@Yuvi, can you confirm that HandBrake's current output will work in the svn builds of Perian?

I (another Perian dev), can confirm it works in SVN ([653] and above) but doesn't in 1.0.

Hi gbooker, how can we verify that chapters are being added to the MKV files? I've tried playing the files encoded with SVN 774 in mplayer but I don't see how chapters are accessed. Are you examining the file in a hex viewer? I was using Quicktime apps with Perian. Perian uses the standard for chap...

Yep, that was it (was using macgui). Worked in 774.

Here is the fix. [NSTableView selectedRow] returns -1 when none is selected, not 0, because 0 is the index of the first element: Index: macosx/Controller.mm =================================================================== --- macosx/Controller.mm (revision 776) +++ macosx/Controller.mm (working c...

For me, in the mac gui, updating from [761] to [776] broke the progress bar too. Exception in the Console: 2007-08-01 07:53:27.934 HandBrake[23370] *** NSTimer discarding exception '*** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (-1) beyond bounds (4)' that raised during firing of timer with target 1842000 ...

I would suggest that you do the x264 within the MP4 track rather than the AVI track (just use AVI to give you the AC3 data). AVI was not designed to handle frames which display in a different order than decode, and so there are several hacks in place to make this work (such as multiple frames of dat...