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Cannot be done. You can do HDR to SDR (not necessarily with HandBrake), but you cannot add color information that isn't there in the first place (SDR -> HDR), with any software.

Wasn't he trying to get a minimum bitrate of 1,000 (with no limitation on the maximum)? I must admit I didn't follow this thread very closely, only saw the request for a minimum bitrate.

Looks like I used it for Aliens and Jurassic Park (1080p, H.264 High Profile, level 4.0 -> VBV 31250/25000), RF 20 with a crf-max of 25.5… My BD discs of Aliens (and to a slightly lesser extent, the first JP movie) have a lot of very fine grain, I noticed in a previous encode that VBV was very activ...

Auto Passthru is just a multi-codec passthru with checkboxes; provided the DTS-HD checkbox is ticked and the source track is DTS-HD, then Auto Passthru and DTS-HD Passthru will behave exactly the same.

I’m not sure that would even work, it’s description says “It prevents x264 from reducing the ratefactor (aka "quality") below the given value even when doing so would violate VBV constraints.” If I set my CRF to 27 and my CRF-max to 20 wouldn’t that just give me a CRF 20 encode? Any vbv s...

Woodstock wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 4:35 pm

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Skipping subtitle scan.  No suitable subtitle tracks.

Foreign audio can only works if there are multiple subtitle tracks.

There are multiple subtitle tracks in his input. The issue here is, HandBrake's Foreign Audio Search only works on DVD and Blu-ray format subtitles.

To elaborate, here are the output audio tracks: [23:50:22] mux: track 1, 126377 frames, 288577256 bytes, 1712.55 kbps, fifo 4096 [23:50:22] mux: track 2, 63189 frames, 26985878 bytes, 160.15 kbps, fifo 2048 [01:38:58] mux: track 1, 126377 frames, 288577256 bytes, 1712.55 kbps, fifo 4096 [01:38:58] m...

For bash shell on a Unix or Linux-based system:
Make sure to have enough disk space available…

Per-track bitrate is custom metadata created by mkvmerge. HandBrake doesn't create it, but you can always remux its output with mkvmerge (via e.g. MKVToolnix GUI) to get them.

Only in the first 20 minutes or so, IIRC.

Silent_Strider wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 1:59 pm The source file has the extension 265 which makes me think, that it's only the x265 video part.

Correct, it's an HEVC elementary stream (as per the scan log). The audio must be another file elsewhere.

Nothing useful as far as upscaling goes. HandBrake does have a good, but slow, nlmeans denoise filter which may help a bit on this type of source, if used at a low setting.

Well, padding it is, until you get a new TV, that's really the better solution

Still, we didn't answer all of his questions.

He should use the DTS-HD MA source track and forget about the second track (regular DTS).

The language can also be edited post-encode.

It is possible with HandBrakeCLI. Use --help and look for the --pad filter section for syntax.

musicvid wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:05 pm I suspect your tv is a 4:3 CRT?

In this case, the only real solution is a new TV…

I don't know all the details, but I'm pretty sure it's "low power" as in power == electricity…

I assume this is related to viewtopic.php?f=5&t=41068 ? Let's continue there if you don't mind.

HandBrake sometimes has trouble navigating some DVD structures, even after they've been decrypted. Applications like MakeMKV can convert DVD folder structures to MKV files and are better at dealing with problem discs. You can then re-encode MakeMKV's output with HandBrake to reduce the output file s...

Are the files inside a VIDEO_TS folder?

HandBrake is not ffmpeg. The advanced options are only for the video encoder (libx264, etc.).

There is a padding filter in HandBrake, but it may only be available in the nightly builds, I cannot remember for sure.

FWIW, you could have used HandBrake to convert the MKV to MP4 too

VLC has somewhat similar transcoding capabilities, but its interface for it is rather limited, IIRC.

Maybe try MakeMKV?