HandBrake

milo47 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:17 pm Before we close this issue, obvious question: why not leave LibDVDNav permanently disabled?

Because the alternative (ibdvdread) can't handle angles.

DrX

The first thing I would do is install a much more modern version of HandBrake.

When this sort of thing happens to me, the first thing I try is to disable LibDVDNav. If that doesn't work, I extract the title with MakeMKV, and transcode that.

What I do on Windows is, if I'm calling the cli from a script, I call shutdown when it's done. If I'm calling it programmatically (background process), I call InitiateSystemShutdownEx when it's done.

Why would you completely retranscode a file with HandBrake just to remux it?

There are several ways of dealing with this that I've found useful: 1. Rip the disc with AnyDVD. The correct mpls will often be in the disc.inf file the tool creates. 2. Load up the original disc in MakeMKV and it will often tell you the correct mpls. 3. Play the disc with PowerDVD, VLC, etc. and lo...

Completely understand.

I only find it a minor annoyance, nothing like the OP feels. As to dismissing "source selection" with ESC: sure you can do that, but it's irrelevant as everything will still be grayed out.

Thanks

Woodstock wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 12:48 pm You know it can be cleared by hitting the ESC key, correct?

Sorry, Woodstock, I don't know if you're talking to me or the OP.

Wow, I said it was a little annoying. I don't feel that level of rage over it.

I hate this, too. I liked the way it was before this behavior was introduced. Sometimes I just want to tweak one of my presets, or peruse what options a setting has. It's a little annoy to have to wait until a needless file scans just to access the interface.

I use it for two things:

1. In a command-line tool I wrote to parse discs and generate queue files of jobs.
2. As a backend transcoder in a GUI tool I wrote that loads the above queue files.

Ok. I'm sorry for your troubles, but I don't know what any of that has to do with what I said.

Too late! HandBrake already looks and operates like a Swiss Army knife. I don't believe that's true. It certainly doesn't have all the knobs that something like ffmpeg has, nor does it take the place of muxer/demuxers like mkvtoolnix, or audio/video editors like avidemux or Audacity. It especially ...

markfilipak wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:05 pmThat stuff could be used to create a single, Swiss Army knife preset in HandBrake...

I've heard the develops say multiple times they're not interested in Handbrake becoming a "swiss army knife," just a solid video transcoder.

I've always thought "Placebo" was a perfect name and a nice hint that you're wasting your time uses it.

It's a commercial one. The underside, with an inscription of a media company on the innermost ring, seems to indicate it, even though I forgot what a burned one looks like. (just to indicate I wasn't sold a fake, which could have been a possibility) Interestingly, I've found that inscriptions on th...

JamesWilkinson wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 1:18 amThe idea of adding a water cooler, just for one program, which I occasionally use, is completely ridiculous.

I'm not using a water cooler, either.

mduell wrote: ↑Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:35 pm The best practice is to fix your CPU cooling.

I agree. I have my rig transcoding for weeks at a time, and temps never gets beyond the low 50s.

Yeah, I get it. It's a very interesting problem.

I realize that. I'm just wondering how widely the parallelism would swing.

Forgive me naivete, as encoding/transcoding software is not my area of expertise. But is all this complexity really necessary. Wouldn't it be easier to let the user set the number of simultaneous transcodes? Wouldn't a given set of hardware typically be able to handle N transcodes at a time. I reali...

You'll also want to implement a hysteresis, so you're not constanting pausing/unpausing a job when you hit some limit.

I’m not sure global FPS would be a good metric if you have different encode sources and settings. Ideally you would want to monitor CPU/Memory/Disk access then once one of those max out you will be at your limit. I absolutely LOVE your idea of monitoring the bounding resources. That's very intellig...

What I've done to handle simultaneous transcodes is just create my own tool to process a queue (generated by another tool) for the command line handbrake, plus other tools I need to use like mkvmerge or ffmpeg, or even a queue generated by the Windows GUI Handbrake. It will run whatever simultaneous...

OK, I found the issue. My "AppData\Roaming\HandBrake\Nightly" folder must have gotten scrogged up. I deleted it and let HandBrake recreate it. Now it works fine.

Sorry to bother you.