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That did it! Thanks very much.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried encoding the same movie with Pyramidal B-Frames set to Off...no change. Windows Media Player blows up as before. The latest activity log is below. Any other thoughts? # Windows GUI 0.9.5 2011010300 # Running: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7600.0 # CPU: Intel(R) Cor...

With 0.9.5 I'm no longer able to view DVDs encoded with the High Profile preset in Windows Media Player. This has been working flawlessly with hundreds of movies in 0.9.4, but my first encode in 0.9.5 crashes Windows Media Player immediately. To be clear, I'm using the High Profile preset with 2 cha...

I got around this issue pretty easily by using a combination of encoding batch scripts and Windows 7's new 'powercfg' command. The basic goal is to have HandBrake create a batch script for your encoding tasks, and then augment that script to tell windows to switch its power scheme to some 'always on...