HandBrake

The default has changed over the years for what to use as the extension for MP4 files. MP4 is the same as M4V, but Apple USED TO allow more features for files ending in M4V. That has been changing over the years, though. You can turn setting M4V back on through the preferences. Mine still uses M4V b...

Is your playback environment limited to MP4-only? A lot are, but not everything. The MKV format is more flexible with subtitles. You should test that in your playback system.

If you are looking at trimming OTHER THAN on key frames, you're going to need something that recodes at least PART of the video, because you need to start with a key frame. Handbrake can do that, but it's going to recode the whole thing.

Not sure your request is going to be "fixed", because recaptcha is becoming very popular. Your "pop-up" blocker is likely refusing to load the google.com code necessary to do the authentication, so your request is considered invalid. Just removing the block "fixed" it. ...

Knowing what errors were encountered would be helpful.

Reading what was sent to you, the frame you cut on will become a "key frame", because handbrake will generate one for it as the start.

which requires an extra (but generally quick) pass through the video.

Except it's reading direction from the DVD, which slows it down quite a bit. It's another reason to rip first, then run handbrake.

Not within handbrake. There are utilities to edit chapters out there, though. mkvtoolnix comes with an editor for chapter tracks, but I've not used it more than to try it. You would then set the new chapter file as the chapter file for the video. Be aware that if you set a chapter change that does N...

Different settings will give different results.

Seeing the encode logs from the two sets of settings would be helpful. You've described one set, but not shown them.

"OP" means Original Poster (i.e., you). "Forced" means a subtitle that is displayed regardless whether you have subtitles generally turned on. Usually, it's when you have foreign audio or video that is different from normal. Think something like German in a French movie, when you...

[20:18:35] * destination [20:18:35] + C:\Z\DV\4HB2\tmp4\Top Gun Maverick 2022-RF21-720p30-H.265sE0+1+2.mp4 ... [20:18:35] Subtitle track 0 (id 0x2) 'English [PGS]': 101 hits (0 forced) [20:18:35] Subtitle track 1 (id 0x3) 'English [PGS]': 137 hits (0 forced) [20:18:35] No candidate detected during ...

Amazingly, computers go by methods involving numbers we humans don't think about. And multi-digit numbers sort differently if their digits are spread over different columns. As mduell points out, "1" comes before "2", but "10" also comes before "2", because th...

You've had word from one of the people (s55) who run the project. Who do you think is necessary to be "the Copyright holder"?

Or is your purpose to test the system, not to ask a question?

The original installer is how most people get handbrake, even from the developers. I use it all the time, and I haven't had a copy of the source code since the last time I had to look something up. It's available, which is the important part.

Have you looked at the handbrake license?

What seems to be your issue? Is handbrake not running? What error message is it displaying if not?

"I'm having a problem. Fix it!"

"What type of problem?"

"A serious one! Fix it!"

"What happens?"

"Lots of stuff! Fix it!"

Can you download the video AS STORED ON GOOGLE without any changes? If not, what does it matter how they store it? You may find that if you shrink your 1GB video to fit in 300MB, then upload it, it ends up being stored as 100MB. You tossed out detail from the video to make it fit, so they can simply...

Handbrake is designed for converting video, and does audio because it is found in video tracks. So no, it doesn't "just do audio". There are several open source projects that can do "just audio", including ffmpeg. They're better fits for what you are looking for, because they can...

Handbrake does not use your "current settings" for batches. It reverts to the saved copy of the settings for anything past the current file. Whether this makes sense or not depends on your reasons for changing the settings.

Batches are created from the saved version of the settings.

libdvdread: Could not open input: libdvdread: Can't open G:\VIDEO_TS for reading libdvdread: Device G:\VIDEO_TS inaccessible, CSS authentication not available. You are being warned that you are trying to read an encrypted DVD. Handbrake does not normally do that, unless you've installed some softwa...

Do you have an accurate way of determining the length before the encode is complete, without someone typing it in? Reading a part of a video does not definitively determine the length of it in time. The file name is set when the job is created, not when it's done, so setting the name before that is ...

Is your problem that the subtitles have shadows (which is based on the fact that your display system generates them) or that your system is crashing? The log shows that the encode did not complete, and it reported an error in the subtitle stream just before it ended. Which are we supposed to be look...

"Just nothing at all" can mean a lot of things in the install process. I've had it when the system decides it doesn't like how the file was copied. And I've had it when the system decides that it thinks a file was POSSIBLY a virus, and hides it. Are there ANY error messages to help decide ...

Handbrake doesn't know the contents, other than the file name. If the file name contains the season and episode number, your inclusion of the title would show that. But it can't detect it within the file itself, and it doesn't break the title down into parts.

As mentioned, handbrake has not included ripping stuff for a dozen years now, because it was part of a different project. It can USE ripping code if found, but it doesn't include it. Even when it's found, it doesn't always work or provide "perfect reads". There are a number of tools that w...