HandBrake

I should add that while adding a PGS encoder is certainly feasible, there's already enough on our respective TO-DO lists that I don't care to add one, so it's at the very least very low-priority. All hardware players I've tested are perfectly capable of scaling the subtitles after decoding, BTW. Un...

Given a 1080p MPEG-TS stream with PGS subtitles as the source, if the target is smaller than 1080p (lets say 720p) and subtitle tracks are added without the burn-in option, PGS subtitles are passed through as-is instead of being scaled. The result is that when playing in VLC for example, the subtitl...

Ah, thanks for the explanation. In that case I think I'll just throw on copy of VLC portable to the drive and transcoding to MKVs...

Now that this is committed, let me know if I should move this discussion to a separate thread. I tested this last night and detection of the PGS subtitle tracks as well as burned-in subtitles worked perfectly, but I wasn't able to get a non-burned subtitle track to work. I don't know if HB or VLC/Qu...

This is awesome, thanks to everyone involved in making it happen.

I'm rebuilding HB from SVN since I want to try this out asap

There are two attached patches above, it would probably be a good place to start in terms of looking at which files they modify and then seeing what's left to do.

According to the iPhone tech specs page, up to 160kbps audio is supported.

Note: I didn't actually run this to verify it functions correctly, but this should get you started: #!/bin/bash # Setup some variables for use later hbcli="/Applications/HandBrake/HandBrakeCLI" thisdir="$(pwd)" convertdir="$thisdir/convert" # mkdir -p creates the direct...

Which iPod model are you trying to target? The settings required for each vary. For example, newer iPod Touches and iPhones support anamorphic 720p HD media very well, but older models will not. For older iPods you're better off targeting a resolution of something like 320x240. Fwiw, if you're looki...

A good trick if it doesn't work is to load up VLC and then check which subtitle track is playing from the Playback (or is it Video?) menu. It will usually say something like "Track 6 - English". Then simply choose the 6th subtitle track in HB as burned-in.

For what it's worth, I would recommend an i5-2500k if you're looking for a cost-effective transcoding CPU. I recently purchased one and it over clocked very easily to 4.0GHz on air cooling (used a cheap $20 Cooler Master Hyper 212+ aftermarket cooler) and it rips through transcodes. I'll post more d...

From the GUI? I'm using the latest svn build for Windows and I could not find it in the Options window.

It would be awesome if HandBrake had a configurable minimum title length for the scan. Some BD discs have 200+ titles so scanning can take anywhere from a few seconds to 1m at times (especially if you're already encoding). I think the default at the moment is 30s, so HandBrake ends up spending time ...

John, do you think this will be finished within a few months? I'm debating if I should wait a few months for transcoding Lost or if I should go ahead for now without subtitles and re-transcode later when support is added.

BTW thanks for the great job on BD support, that has been a huge help!

Machine Type: PC CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 630 (Propus) CPU Speed: 2.8GHz Number of CPUs: 4 Rip Format: MP4 RAM: Mushkin Enhanced Silverline 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H I loaded the latest HandBrake Nightly (svn r3510 with initial blu-ray support) onto a box running Fedora 13 (...

I'll give it another try once a new Windows GUI nightly has been built, and if it still doesn't work I'll PM you the details. Thanks again for your work on this!

Just downloaded the latest Windows GUI nightly (r3510) and tested it on a few of the blu-rays I have (no encryption). In most cases, HB scanned detected the titles and begun scanning through them but then stopped midway and saying "No title(s) found". In one case HandBrakeCLI.exe crashed. ...

Awesome work! I'm going to test this as soon as I get home.

I would agree, removing the restriction in the GUI would be great. I have no problems using the CLI but I think the message should be a warning (such as "There is another HB instance running already. Continue?") and not an error that prevents you from starting another encode.

Oh, sorry - I had only tested with a few built-in presets and I assumed it would work with a custom one as well. I've edited my post to reflect that...

I just came across this thread while searching on Google, and I just wanted to mention that although it isn't possible from the GUI, batch encoding videos in folders is very easy to do thanks to the flexible HandBrake command line interface. The CLIGuide has some more information, but essentially yo...