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by DrXenos
Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:33 pm
Forum: Command Line Interface And Scripting
Topic: Getting Conservative Cropping Values
Replies: 5
Views: 320

Re: Getting Conservative Cropping Values

Just a follow up: this works great. Plus, I love the way you guys have implemented it, so a double scan is unnecessary.

Thanks.
by DrXenos
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:20 pm
Forum: Command Line Interface And Scripting
Topic: Getting Conservative Cropping Values
Replies: 5
Views: 320

Re: Getting Conservative Cropping Values

s55 wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:18 pm the --crop-mode doesn't do anything during the scan since both sets of values are always populated on the JSON return.

conservative == loosecrop
Oh, nice, thank you!!
by DrXenos
Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:45 pm
Forum: Command Line Interface And Scripting
Topic: Getting Conservative Cropping Values
Replies: 5
Views: 320

Re: Getting Conservative Cropping Values

There are a few that will have different cropping for auto vs conservative in the GUI.
Titles 21 (01002.mpls), 26 (01007.mpls), and 29 (01010.mpls) are a examples.

Thanks.
by DrXenos
Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: Command Line Interface And Scripting
Topic: Getting Conservative Cropping Values
Replies: 5
Views: 320

Getting Conservative Cropping Values

Description of problem or question: I'd like to be able to get the conservative cropping mode values a priori like you can in the Windows GUI. But I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or if it's just not possible (in which case I will submit a request on GitHub). Steps to reproduce the problem (If Ap...
by DrXenos
Thu Nov 30, 2023 2:20 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Spécial and accented chars not burned-in
Replies: 12
Views: 27744

Re: Spécial and accented chars not burned-in

Thank you Dr-Xenos: this seems useless & too complex for me, because for the time being, I am satisfied by the UTF-8... Thank you ! Have a BOM is great for helping tools distinguish between formats. Without it, a program has to use heuristics to determine the file type and can mistakenly think ...
by DrXenos
Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:22 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Spécial and accented chars not burned-in
Replies: 12
Views: 27744

Re: Spécial and accented chars not burned-in

By the way, do you know the difference between "UTF-8" and "UTF-8 with BOM" ? (I don't know what "with BOM" means ?...) BOM stands for Byte Order Mark. It is a few bytes added to the start of the file to indicate the type of encoding (e.g., UTF-8, UTF-16, etc.) and the...
by DrXenos
Sat Apr 01, 2023 2:06 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Flickering lines in cartoons after mkv to m4v conversion
Replies: 5
Views: 1213

Re: Flickering lines in cartoons after mkv to m4v conversion

tedfroop wrote: Fri Mar 24, 2023 4:36 pm Every ripping guide I ever found said "dont use detelecine filter"
I think this is the worst advice for HB I've ever read. I've found that most advice on the internet for HB to be demonstrably wrong. I've learned it best to just come here for advice.
by DrXenos
Fri Feb 10, 2023 12:59 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Weird, Rare Issue with Hard Telecined Sources
Replies: 2
Views: 305

Re: Weird, Rare Issue with Hard Telecined Sources

OK, I will. Thanks.
by DrXenos
Thu Feb 09, 2023 9:27 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Weird, Rare Issue with Hard Telecined Sources
Replies: 2
Views: 305

Weird, Rare Issue with Hard Telecined Sources

Description of problem or question: I've been having this very rare issue with some of my transcoded files. Kodi, running on an Nvidia Shield Pro, won't play them well. It will freeze, stutter, go black, etc. Every other player (including others on the same device) will play it fine. I tracked it d...
by DrXenos
Mon Dec 05, 2022 2:05 pm
Forum: Command Line Interface And Scripting
Topic: Sometimes title changes between HandBrake versions for same discs?
Replies: 9
Views: 7220

Re: Sometimes title changes between HandBrake versions for same discs?

Sure, I need to scan the disc each time I'm going to retranscode it, but so what? It's not like I'm going to be doing it over and over. Besides, the transcode time is magnitudes greater than the scan time. So, it a drop in the bucket. Plus, my scripting engine is smart enough to cache the info while...
by DrXenos
Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:16 am
Forum: Command Line Interface And Scripting
Topic: Sometimes title changes between HandBrake versions for same discs?
Replies: 9
Views: 7220

Re: Sometimes title changes between HandBrake versions for same discs?

This is what I do (if you care). My scripts are impervious to changes in HandBrake's title numbers, because they don't use them. The scripts use the Blu-ray's mpls title numbers (which never change). When the script runs, the scripting engine will automatically scan the disc with HB and create a map...
by DrXenos
Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:44 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Can not rip dvd's on Dell Vostros 5890
Replies: 7
Views: 692

Re: Can not rip dvd's on Dell Vostros 5890

Please lets not get hung up on semantics and terminology. I use HB to take a dvd and convert (call it transcode, rip, whatever) to mp4 or other portable format and have done so successfully for years and still do except for the system mentioned. So lets stay on topic with HB and the issue at hand. ...
by DrXenos
Thu Aug 04, 2022 1:18 pm
Forum: Command Line Interface And Scripting
Topic: CLI with visual progress?
Replies: 5
Views: 6229

Re: CLI with visual progress?

This is pretty easy to do. You just need to run HB as a separate process with its standard out redirected to a non-blocking (asynchronous) pipe. You can then periodically read and parse the output, looking for percent done text. I do this in my GUI transcoder tool to update the % complete on the sta...
by DrXenos
Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:15 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Windows File Explorer Columns
Replies: 0
Views: 1099

Windows File Explorer Columns

This is just and FYI to help others that may have been trying to figure out the same issue as I. I could never get Windows' File Explorer to displays file properties (e.g., width, height, framerate, etc.) for MKV files generated by HandBrake. Files from others sources would, but not HB. I found that...
by DrXenos
Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:27 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: MKV from HandBrake is larger and has less readable metadata.
Replies: 14
Views: 1922

Re: MKV from HandBrake is larger and has less readable metadata.

JohnAStebbins wrote: Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:19 pm I probably saw your request, said something like, "That would be a great idea!", and then promptly forgot about it due to busy life :P Maybe this time the idea will stick.
HAHA! No biggie. Calling mkvmerge isn't that hard. :)
by DrXenos
Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:03 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: MKV from HandBrake is larger and has less readable metadata.
Replies: 14
Views: 1922

Re: MKV from HandBrake is larger and has less readable metadata.

The PGS track is compressed in the zlib format in mkvmerge file, but uncompressed in the HandBrake one. That's interesting. I didn't know that was an option in mkv. It certainly would save a lot of space. Will have to look into adding support for that since zlib is already one of our dependencies. ...
by DrXenos
Fri Nov 12, 2021 1:36 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: How to rip from special features off a DVD
Replies: 1
Views: 572

Re: How to rip from special features off a DVD

DVD Special features can be in places that HB is unable to access directly. They can be embedded in the menu or they can be packed in the same title. The former I access with DVD Shrink (which can create a new DVD image with the video moved to a title that I then feed to HB), the latter I extract vi...
by DrXenos
Mon Oct 11, 2021 12:51 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: PC Restarting
Replies: 13
Views: 1711

Re: PC Restarting

mduell wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 12:27 am Cooling or power are the most common culprits.
Yup. I'd run something like CPUID HWMonitor while transcoding, which can collect history temps, power, etc.
by DrXenos
Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:20 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Suggestion for an easy change
Replies: 5
Views: 607

Re: Suggestion for an easy change

Hello I use handbrake for a long time. For few weeks I have solar panels anbd I want to compress only when I have sun that produce electricity. So I try to automate the start/stop file from my home automation system. I managed but this was really a ain in the ass. It would be very easy if : - in th...
by DrXenos
Sun Jul 18, 2021 5:07 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Combining a 2 disc file
Replies: 4
Views: 820

Re: Combining a 2 disc file

OK, thanks. Just curious.
by DrXenos
Sun Jul 18, 2021 1:43 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Combining a 2 disc file
Replies: 4
Views: 820

Re: Combining a 2 disc file

Is there a big difference between merging then trancoding is. transcoding then merging? I always do that latter because I found doing the former will sometimes glitch at the merge point. For example, I remember when I transcoded the first Lord of the Rings movie, I was playing around with the frame ...
by DrXenos
Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:00 pm
Forum: Command Line Interface And Scripting
Topic: Error Code 5
Replies: 3
Views: 1939

Re: Error Code 5

Extracting it first with MakeMKV fixed the issue. Does that mean there was something wrong with how it was encoded on the disc (just curious)?
by DrXenos
Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:46 pm
Forum: Command Line Interface And Scripting
Topic: Error Code 5
Replies: 3
Views: 1939

Re: Error Code 5

That's odd. It gets to 100% before returning this error. The whole time it's reading blu-ray folder and writing the mkv file just fine.

I ran it twice. Both times the same. Now I've extracted the title with MakeMKV and retrying with HB.

Thanks.
by DrXenos
Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:09 pm
Forum: Command Line Interface And Scripting
Topic: Error Code 5
Replies: 3
Views: 1939

Error Code 5

Description of problem or question: Can Someone please tell me what it means when HB exits with error code 5? I've never encountered that one before. HandBrake --min-duration 1 --previews 40:0 --input "D:\DVD\Net 1 & 2 (Blu-ray) (1995, 2006)\The Net" --title 6 --format av_mkv --output...