HandBrake

hokie17 wrote:DO NOT use MetaX for this... it screws up the chapter timing by a second or two if you edit them. Use SimpleMovieX, it does the job without changing the timestamps.

Too late. I have already done it with many titles and it seemed to work great.

TedJ? Do you have a comment on this?

TedJ, SWEET!

That looks great. Thanks a lot. Does MetaX work with Sapphire?

Push E.

Hi guys,

Is there a way to change chapter names (titles?) after the fact in an .m4v?

Cheers,
Push E.

Does this lend any light? http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic. ... &sk=t&sd=a

So I'm a loser. After running for months with awesome h.264+ac3 in Front Row, I went ahead and clicked "Update" when today's FrontRow (2.1.3), iTunes (7.6.2) and Quicktime (7.4.5) new releases came out. Now audio plays back the undecoded ac3 stream (a loud fluttering digital sound). Checke...

I can open them in Quicktime, but I have to select the AC3 track and deselect the AAC track. When I do this, my Mini passthroughs the AC3 file and I get DD 5.1... I've not tried it yet with Front Row. Zigzag, I was able to make it work in Front Row by NOT including the AAC track and only encoding t...

I am running on a mac mini and normally rip to avi as the only way to get discrete DD over optical. Bit of a pain converting to .movs though so they are recognised by itunes / FR. Raps, I think I just went through what you're describing, no? I now have fully function m4v's with ac3 5.1 via optical ...

Thank you, guys, for the replies. Tonight I am happy to report my Mini is passing beautiful ac3 via Front Row! I basically went back through every setting and reset every option. I also uninstalled Flip4Mac and reinstalled Perian 1.1. The big thing seemed to be the AudioMidiSetup had not stuck (outp...

...AC3 pass-through over optical out works perfectly fine on any Mac with Perian 1.1. All you have to do is follow gbooker's directions to enable it. It takes five seconds. Hi jbrjake, It definitely does *not* work on my system. Wish it did. Any advice is much appreciated. As stated earlier, I have...

Hi guys, thanks for the replies. I do indeed have QT Pro. I cannot imagine living without it. So regardless of what I select in Quicktime (or iTunes) a valid ac3 stream is not spit out to my receiver via my Mini's optical port. DVDs played in Front Row produce beautiful ac3. ARG. According to gbooke...

Hi guys, I have read all the 0.9.2 ac3 threads and have yet to see a clear answer about Front Row. I have my movie collection encoded as m4v files on a Mini and accesses the collection with Front Row. The Mini's sole purpose is as a media server. but ac3 seems unhappy with Front Row. For a test I ri...

Apparently so. I haven't really compared, myself, but that's what's reported and it makes sense from a technical point of view. Thank you guys for the help (and you developers for a great program). Perian fixed the gamma issue perfectly and I recommend it to anyone who thinks HB is at fault. I play...

hawkman wrote:Perian is a component for QuickTime, which - amongst other benefits - does not suffer from the darkening effect you're noticing.

Thanks, hawkman. So simply installing Perian will adjust QuickTime playback in Front Row?

BTW, just manually adjusted gamma in display preferences and it seems a gamma of 1.4 looks like the dvd the file was ripped from. Sound like others' experience too?

Cheers.

Just perused Perian.org and I don't see anything about it adjusting your monitor gamma. Am I missing something?

Thanks for the fast feedback!

hawkman wrote:Perian's not quick and easy enough for you? :/

What's Perian?

Just found DarkAdapted... any one try that?

Great information in this thread... I am right in the middle of this issue. A week ago I decided to rip all our dvds to a mini connected hdmi to a sharp aquos and boy is the gamma problem evident when playing back in Front Row. So who knows of a good/fast gamma switching app? I could make display pr...