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- Sat Aug 09, 2014 4:14 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: handbrake encoding quality
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1842
Re: handbrake encoding quality
I always noticed the quality loss with DVDShrink on movies that were large enough to fill a dual layer DVD. Keep in mind DVDShink doesn't always compress if the movie can already fit on a single layer DVD. I use this for my DVDs: RF: 20 (I like a little more compression, 19 would be better for quali...
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:12 am
- Forum: Bugs
- Topic: [svn5838]Crash on opening a file
- Replies: 1
- Views: 490
[svn5838]Crash on opening a file
Been a while since I have used HB. The official release works fine, but lacks the advanced options I like. The latest svn crashes as soon as I add a file or folder. The folder was created with DVDFab and the file was an MKV from MakeMKV.
Any ideas? Currently running Windows 8.
Any ideas? Currently running Windows 8.
- Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:02 pm
- Forum: Devices and Presets
- Topic: What are the best audio settings for surround sound
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1155
Re: What are the best audio settings for surround sound
What is your source and current conversion settings?
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:08 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: Mkv settings to keep video+audio as close or same as source?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1698
Re: Mkv settings to keep video+audio as close or same as sou
If you have a Mac then try MP4Tools.
I unfortunately don't know of a Windows based program other than the one you listed.
I unfortunately don't know of a Windows based program other than the one you listed.
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:01 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: HELP! How to convert without quality loss for Apple TV
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2264
Re: HELP! How to convert without quality loss for Apple TV
I'll let more knowledgeable folks chime on why you're getting freezes. But to answer your main question, keep it simple and just select the Apple TV3 preset on the latest Handbrake build. iTunes won't import .mkv's, nor will ATV 3 play them, so the default format is mp4 (.m4v file). I'm not 100% su...
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:49 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: BluRay, Ripping, and bears... oh my
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5507
Re: BluRay, Ripping, and bears... oh my
Season 1 of BSG is 1080P VC-1, where as Season 2 is AVC MPEG-4. That is probably what is tripping up Freemake (I have never used Freemake before). HB should have no issue with either though. Lots of things can cause stuttering. You PC could even be choking on a high bitrate. Need some more info (set...
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:56 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: VC-1 Interlaced Video - Lesser of all evils
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1078
Re: VC-1 Interlaced Video - Lesser of all evils
Why use RipBot at all? You can point HB at the AnyDVD rip and pick your title from there. You are encoding twice for no reason.
Also skip the decomb and detelecine for a BR source. If HB has trouble deinterlacing then turn the deinterlace setting to fast and try it again.
Also skip the decomb and detelecine for a BR source. If HB has trouble deinterlacing then turn the deinterlace setting to fast and try it again.
- Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:55 pm
- Forum: Bugs
- Topic: Crashing on some MKVs made from BRs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 868
Re: Crashing on some MKVs made from BRs
I use MakeMKV to do my backups. I like it the best since it only grabs the video and puts into an easily playable file if I don't feel like re-encoding right away. Much easier for the wife to deal with than an ISO or folder style backup. At any rate a remux fixed it. The files played fine before the...
- Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:39 pm
- Forum: Bugs
- Topic: Crashing on some MKVs made from BRs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 868
Crashing on some MKVs made from BRs
I have had this happen with Cloverfield and The Muppets right around 24% done. Both were made with MakeMKV 1.7.4. HandBrake svn4895 2012080901 OS: Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G630 @ 2.70GHz Ram: 4069 MB, Screen: 1600x1200 Temp Dir: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppD...
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:34 pm
- Forum: Devices and Presets
- Topic: What should i downmix DTS to?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1946
Re: What should i downmix DTS to?
FYI AC3 @ 640kbps (the highest HB supports for AC3 using 6-channel) is pretty much DVD quality sound. It is about a quarter the bitrate of a DTS-HD lossless track. Just something to keep in mind (I convert all my lossless audio to that to save space).
- Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:12 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Question about audio settings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1146
Re: Question about audio settings
AAC is a newer format than AC3. But the encoder in HB for AAC isn't the best, so at the same bitrate AC3 sounds slightly better (that is why AAC has an extra bitrate option that is higher than the max for AC3). Also because AC3 is a little older, it tends to have more support in devices. I used AAC ...
- Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Max Optimal Bluray Settings without going overboard
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2611
Re: Max Optimal Bluray Settings without going overboard
Also using maxrate and bufsize on an encode with a constant bitrate seems useless unless you need a large buffer for some reason. I assume you mean average bitrate. And no, it's not useless - if you want to limit the bitrate peaks, you have to use VBV, regardless of the chosen rate control method. ...
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:12 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: Limiting Max Bitrate for High Profile, Constant Quality
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2433
Re: Limiting Max Bitrate for High Profile, Constant Quality
The ATV3 is technically only L4.0 compliant. Though I have heard reports of it being able to handle higher. To keep your video in ATV3 spec, you would have to use 25000 as your limit. Now if you are using BRs as your source you should at least have a limit of 40000 because that is the max bitrate of...
- Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:32 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Max Optimal Bluray Settings without going overboard
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2611
Re: Max Optimal Bluray Settings without going overboard
Why not use CQ? Also using maxrate and bufsize on an encode with a constant bitrate seems useless unless you need a large buffer for some reason. Those settings are going to yield very long encode times. I use something like this (CQ 21): b-adapt=2:rc-lookahead=60:ref=4:bframes=6:me=umh:vbv-bufsize=...
- Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:59 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Good settings for Blu Rays?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3768
Re: Good settings for Blu Rays?
What kind of encode times are you usually experiencing? What's an average FPS for film and animation? -IP I have a old C2D E6300 @ 2.4ghz overclocked, so my encode times are not very good. They are somewhere in the range of 14-22 hours. A buddy of mine had a first gen i7 and he encoded The Fifth El...
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:26 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Optimal PC Hardware for Handbrake conversions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3176
Re: Optimal PC Hardware for Handbrake conversions
I have played around with encoding using a VM on VMware ESXi 5.0. It was nowhere near as fast as a comparable physical box. The way ESXi handles the CPU scheduling just does not play well with encoding. Stick to a physical box with no more than 8 threads (unless you want to run multiple instances on...
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:08 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Good settings for Blu Rays?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3768
Re: Good settings for Blu Rays?
My settings for BR: Resolution: source with anamorphic strict, cropping on auto (movies with changing aspect ratios like Tron 2, The Dark Knight, and Transformers you need to turn cropping off or the IMAX scenes will get cropped) Filters: all off (greyscale on if B&W movie) CQ: 21 Audio: AC3 6 c...
- Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:14 pm
- Forum: Devices and Presets
- Topic: Perfect settings for owners of Sony SMP-N*** Streamers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2194
Re: Perfect settings for owners of Sony SMP-N*** Streamers
Wow!!! I have been looking all over for these presets. Thank you for posting! I haven't had a chance to test them out yet but i was curious about 2 things 1) you mention that "stream from a USB hard drive" is that a direct connection thru usb or are you streaming from a computer over wire...
- Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:48 pm
- Forum: Devices and Presets
- Topic: *** AppleTV 3 and the New iPad (Presets) ***
- Replies: 171
- Views: 122522
Re: *** AppleTV 3 and the New iPad (Presets) ***
I made some test encodings with the blu-ray movie "300" and the 3 presets Normal, High Profile and AppleTV 2. Settings: 1920x800, Cropping 0,0,140,140, Anamorphic Strict, Large File Size enabled, Decomb&Detelecine Off. Here are the results: Constant Quality RF:19 - Normal: 12,2 GB (En...
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:31 pm
- Forum: Devices and Presets
- Topic: *** AppleTV 3 and the New iPad (Presets) ***
- Replies: 171
- Views: 122522
Re: *** AppleTV 3 and the New iPad (Presets) ***
What video size settings are people using for Blurays? I've always set anamorphic to "none" and manually set all cropping to 0 and the resolution to 1920x1080 (keep aspect ratio ticked). It usually tries to make it 1920x1088 but I simply change that to 1080. Is this the ideal setting for ...
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:58 pm
- Forum: Benchmarks
- Topic: Speed - Brute Force, Hardware, GPU?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4739
Re: Speed - Brute Force, Hardware, GPU?
$500 for such a limited piece of hardware is not worth it. If you can get a i7-3930K (would need a new motherboard as well) I think you would be very pleased with the speed
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:31 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: DolbyTrueHD in a mkv container?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4324
Re: DolbyTrueHD in a mkv container?
Then Flac would not work for me. I want to play movies using my Aios media player connected to my tv. You may be ok. It looks like that media center does support FLAC audio. Weather it does inside of the MKV container though, I am not sure. You could always do a short encode (set the chapter marker...
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:12 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: DolbyTrueHD in a mkv container?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4324
Re: DolbyTrueHD in a mkv container?
Rodeo, The release notes for 0.9.6 state that TrueHD can be decoded or passedthrough. Blu-ray: make TrueHD, DTS-HD and E-AC3 Secondary Audio streams available for decoding and/or passthrough Is this incorrect? Also I would think if it could be encoded as FLAC it should be able to be passedthrough. I...
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 3:08 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: How do I see how long encode will take?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 629
Re: How do I see how long encode will take?
It should be at the bottom left of the HB window. HB does minimize to the tray so you may need to click the little HB icon to bring the window up.
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:53 pm
- Forum: Devices and Presets
- Topic: *** AppleTV 3 and the New iPad (Presets) ***
- Replies: 171
- Views: 122522
Re: *** AppleTV 3 and the New iPad (Presets) ***
So, I encoded a couple of files using "High" today. The results look beautiful, but the files are HUGE! I was fooling with "dodgeball", starting with a BD rip. "High" left alone made a 9.88 gb file "High" with "large file size" unchecked made a 8.55...