HandBrake

I'm also finding this. Crash after crash after crash. It's making handbrake unusable for me. Such as shame, because after trying various methods of importing DVD's over the last few years I had settled on Handbrake as being the best.

for aac + ac3, just use track one, and the AC3 5.1 source (hb cannot pass thru dts). HandBrake will automatically create two tracks for aac and ac3 respectively. Thanks. Would producing the AAC track from AC3 2.0 sound any different to an AAC track produced from AC3 5.1 if played in stereo (is the ...

0.9.2 has been perfect for me too. It's sorted all of the problems I'd been having with 0.9.1: crashes when queued, crashes when certain de-interlace options were selected, problems with anamorphic output in iTunes. Even better - it also seems to have eliminated my need to use Mac The Ripper. It's w...

I cannot find anywhere in the wiki that explains about audio tracks, sorry if this is covered somewhere. I don't have surround sound, but have just decided that I might as well encode using AAC + AC3 so that I don't need to re-encode if I get a receiver in future. Therefore I cannot test my output p...

Thanks. So for most things I can safely use same as source. It sounds as though the detelecine filter shouldn't be required very often (especially as most of my DVD's are PAL). Just out of interest, why is it that movies on PAL DVD's don't play at the framerate of the source (which is presumably alw...

I think perhaps I should expand my question. I had read previously that 'same as source' didn't work, I think it was acknowledged by the moderators. However, I've just found an explanation in the online manual about how it detects framerate and why for properly mastered DVD's it should get it right....

I'm still manually setting the framerate because when I first started using Handbrake the 'same as source' option got it wrong and made the video jerky. Has this been fixed, can I just leave it set to same as source now?

Excellent. I'd been waiting to get my new Mac Pro before I started working through my DVD collection. It seems that the timing is perfect, with the arrival of Handbrake 0.9.2!

Thanks - it makes sense, I've just never seen anyone point this out before. Does anyone know what the highest bit rate the Apple TV can handle? All of my stuff is encoded using 2500, can I go higher? Most of my content is streamed over 5GHz 802.11n.

Does the same thing affect encodes for the Apple TV? If an average bit rate of 2500 is used, will anamorphic reduce picture quality on the Apple TV too?

I've encoded the Pixar Cars DVD using Handbrake 0.9.1, and on the Apple TV and in Quicktime it displays correctly, but in iTunes it's stretched far too wide. If I re-encode using Handbrake 0.9.2 will this display correctly on all 3? I don't understand why iTunes and Quicktime display it differently!

Correct - deinterlace is not multi-threaded AFAIK - turn it on and you have a bottleneck. Cheers, Ed. Excellent. So hopefully I should get significantly better results for stuff that doesn't need deinterlacing, given that it will remove this bottleneck, and not deinterlacing is much faster anyway. ...

I'm using Handbrake 0.9.1 with an 8 core 2.8 Ghz Harpertown Penryn, 4GB RAM. For the Apple TV setting, with Slowest deinterlace, I'm getting about 5.6fps encode and Handbrake is using around 130% in Activity Monitor with very little else running. Any ideas why the huge discrepancy - I was really exp...

That's really strange. I've got Handbrake running at the moment (0.9.1) and in activity monitor, with a few trivial other apps running, Handbrake is using 138% of CPU capacity. It's encoding using AVC/H.264 x264 encoder, average bit rate 2500. The encode is running at aroudn 5.6fps, with deinterlace...

Just installed handbrake 0.9.1 on my new 2.8GHz 8-core Mac Pro. I was a little surprised at how slow it seemed, and went into activity monitor and discovered that only 1 core is running at full capacity, the other 7 cores are pretty much idle.

Very useful information from rhester, thanks. Now that you've pointed out that the Apple TV still works the 'old way' I'm actually less bothered by this problem as I mostly encode the video for viewing on the Apple TV. Should Apple update the Apple TV to break the way it displays anamorphic video, t...

Thanks for replying.

Will that be any better than what I'm doing (other than being easier?)? ie. should I wait for the new version before I start ripping my DVD's?

I'm new to video encoding, so it's taken a bit of reading and trial and error to find the right settings. I have come to the conclusion that retaining maximum pixel information is actually much simpler than it would initially seem. If I describe my understanding of the situation, please could others...