HandBrake

HB ain't real good with partially de-protected disks, rip to a video file with MakeMKV. That's not the issue. HandBrake doesn't support 4K Blu-ray discs yet (off the top of my head, I can't remember if support is partial or altogether absent for now). Assuming MakeMKV added support for 4K already, ...

HandBrake cannot mux TrueHD/TrueHD+Atmos to the MP4 container (no publicly-available software can, as far as I know). Not really an issue since nothing would be able to play it back anyway…

HandBrake 1.0.1? That's not the latest :P Your output has two audio tracks, #2 is multichannel. [11:31:57] * audio track 1 [11:31:57] + decoder: English (DTS) (5.1 ch) (track 1, id 0x1) [11:31:57] + bitrate: 1536 kbps, samplerate: 48000 Hz [11:31:57] + mixdown: Dolby Pro Logic II [11:31:57] + encode...

This can also happen if your subtitle file is actually Unicode (e.g. UTF-8) with a Byte Order Mark and you select a non-Unicode charset in the drop-down…

Well he must be using an outdated version then.

It's possible the source audio track doesn't contain any DRC hints.

Like, almost 10 years ago?

x265 has a different threading model than x264.

Titles correspond to the scanned MPLS files, but IIRC start at 1 for the first playlist (regardless of whether it's actually called 00001.mpls or not) and increments for each MPLS, not accounting for absent playlist files, etc.

That's it. I don't remember the Windows interface off the top of my head, hence the vague suggestion earlier.

There should be an "advanced" option to set the RF slider's granularity in settings somewhere.

You maybe be thinking of H.264 vs. H.265, rather than specific encoder implementations?

Also, where do you see people benchmarking x265 on DVD-sized sources? It's 2019…

You want to choose the non-batch open folder for BD structures. Note that any playlist shorter than the "minimum title length" (configurable in settings) will be skipped, which saves a good amount of time (but still slower than playlist-specific scan). You might want to adjust that on a source by so...

They won't add anything if you've already got a burn in track in the list AND the additional subtitles from the source would require burn-in. That's gotta be a bit confusing, because it does make it look like HandBrake doesn't see the additional tracks. Historically, the MacGUI used to let you sele...

You should have the following button (highlighted in red).

You cannot have Blu-ray subtitles in MP4, they must be burned in. Only one track may be burned in.

If you want all subtitles from the source, your output container format must be MKV.

Well if you feed 16-bit audio to the encoder, then the maximum actual bit depth of any sample will be 16 bits, of course.

HandBrake feeds 32-bit float to audio encoders, which allows for a maximum of up to 24 bits (integer equivalent) per sample.

Basically each sample has a different bit depth. This applies to all lossy audio encoding techniques.

There is no such thing as 24-bit AAC. MediaInfo will report a 16-bit depth for all AAC audio, but that number is meaningless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_bit_depth wrote:
Bit depth is only meaningful in reference to a PCM digital signal. Non-PCM formats, such as lossy compression formats, do not have associated bit depths.

There are indeed actually 5 English PGS subtitle tracks in the source. Sounds like possibly a selection behavior bug?

HB doesn't support the rotation flags in the MOV container, but you can use the rotate filter to rotate it the way it should be. Actually rotation flags should be supported now, but it seems like the rotation flag is incorrect in this source (or incorrectly parsed?) -- manually configuring the rota...

FDK-AAC only does AAC-HE at very low bitrates. s/FDK-AAC/all AAC encoders. HE-AAC is mostly useful at bitrates where AAC-LC reaches the limit of its efficiency. tl;dr if you want good audio quality, use AAC and give it enough bandwidth to perform (128+ Kbps for Stereo, 192-256+ Kbps for 5.1, or qua...

MakeMKV would only merge files if there is a play list that has them merged, otherwise it will treat them as separate files. Were you meaning mkvmerge? musicvid ain’t too bright, he probably meant iTunes or MS Excel. That's a bit rude, to say the least. We get it, neither of you like each other… al...

jbrjake would be pleased, I hope.

Known issue, but there's no easy fix. Better to use plain stereo or true multichannel audio.