HandBrake

I can't seem to rip anything anamorphic when using the x264 (h.264 iPod) baseline profile. Even with anamorphic checked, the rips seem to come out something like 720x354 instead of 853x354. When I switch to main profile it's solved. Does baseline profile not support PAR?

This got me wondering about the actual playback capabilities of the iPhone. Now, it was just a quick preliminary test, but I created a little 3m clip through a single-pass with ABR 2500Kbps, and it works just fine.

Telecining has nothing to do with interlacing, and a great number of television shows on DVD are interlaced but not telecined. Rodney I was under the impression that telecine is a common form, possibly the most common, of taking something that is progressive and making it interlaced so it can be NT...

I'd think that most stuff would actually be telecined rather than interlaced, albeit I guess telecining is a form of interlacing. If something isn't telecined, but still interlaced, I'd think it would have to be stuff shot with a personal camcorder that records at 60i.

vbv buffering does indeed only work with single pass. That's up to x264, not HandBrake, and unlikely to change as apparently the guy who wrote it has no interest in making it work for two passes. I think the argument for leaving it in is that it works on the first pass, and therefore may partially ...

hawkman wrote:Yeah, but that'll mean a reencoding of the video, right?

Aye. You could just leave yourself a little headroom. You'd only have to re-encode the video track, as you can just set the audio track to "pass through".

How peculiar. How could it make it look worse if there are no B-Frames anyway? Does direct prediction serve any other function for other kinds of frames?

The iPod doesn't support b-frames, so setting direct prediction to none shouldn't make a difference—right? I just noticed that in the presets for the iPod/iPhone it's set as Default (Spatial), but I guess that doesn't even apply if B-Frames are set to zero?

You can actually letterbox using the export function in QuickTime. At least for MPEG-4.

Has anyone else noticed their chapter markers slightly off? Whenever I skip to the next chapter in QT/iTunes/iPhone the marker seems to come about 1 or 2 frames before the actual scene change. Anyone know why?

I noticed something strange while ripping from the ATHF:MFFT DVDs. The feature was completely un-watchable if not de-interlaced, and So I tried the detelecine filter which seemed to work fabulous, albeit this strange banding issue with solid colors. http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4985/hmmzc9.png...

While I have some devs attention I'm going to ask one super last question. What are the implications of not setting keyint? Does it have some kind of default value? I noticed that iPods are the only presets that carry these values. When you say "Apple's Own Settings", do you mean QuickTime...

How odd. Last question(s), I super promise! So then, if you are doing 2-pass those values are just ignored? What kind of implications does that have? My guess would be they aren't important for 2-pass encoding, as 2-pass encoding should produce output close enough to the target average bitrate that...

Quite right - because the guy who wrote the support in x264 doesn't do 2-pass, so it doesn't work in 2-pass. He has no interest in 2-pass, thus it's unlikely to change. How odd. Last question(s), I super promise! So then, if you are doing 2-pass those values are just ignored? What kind of implicati...

Hmm. Thanks! So then, optimally you want keyint and keyint-min to match the frame rate? So for 30FPS video, those are the appropriate values, but to be entirely accurate for 24FPS video you'd want them to be 240 and 24 respectively? My guess is these values don't really matter too much, but I'm just...

I know it just got released, but I can't seem to figure out what vbv-bufsize and keyint-min do for the iPod presets. For reference, the iPod High-Rez preset contains the following flags: keyint=300:keyint-min=30:bframes=0:cabac=0:ref=1:vbv-maxrate=1500:vbv-bufsize=2000:analyse=all:me=umh:subq=6:no-f...

Version 0.8.5b1 (2007042001) When queue is enabled, and you select the 160Kbps bitrate, after adding that item to the queue and selecting a different title/chapter, the bitrate then defaults to 128kbps. All other settings appear to remain. The result of this is that if you want to add several titles...

WHY: Ability to create a collection of digital masters which can be used to recreate DVDs at near 1:1 quality, yet in an easy format for conversion to other formats and playback on the computer. PRIORITIES: Quality SETTINGS: Title: main feature Chapters: select/no extras Framerate (fps): Same as Sou...

So it actually discards the second half-frame? I thought that it just doubled that as well and that no frames were actually lost.

Hello. I am new here. Not quite as new to HandBrake, as I've known about it for some time but never really used it. Anyway, I'll get right into it. I think I understand most of the problems surrounding the deinterlacer in HandBrake (and deinterlacing in general), but I have a question that I can't s...