HandBrake

Postby xichael on Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:41 pm My point is, if you've bothered to read the thread, and then decided to go through trouble of replying, why not be as helpful as you can? I'm not asking anyone to spoonfeed me, nor am I making any demands, I'm just calling on those who would like to share ...

I have an xbox 360, but oftentimes I just use the ps3 preset with some options manipulation. Once in awhile I, too, get the black screen on playback. No video. No sound. I don't know what's going on. Hmm....

update:

I installed ffdsow. The video now plays in Media Player Classic. It stutters, though. Doesn't play in the xbox. I guess it was a bad encode.

Thanks for moving into the proper section.....I think.

So is this problem too tough for you all?

By the way, Media Player Classic uses quite a bit of cpu power TRYING to play the video. Another clue, perhaps?

Come on, jbrjake, you're always helping me out. Where you at?

Wow, it seems like I'm always coming here with some kind of problem :lol: . Well, this time it's a "black screen" I get. Sorry, I have no handbrake log. And sorry if this post is a bit long. Oh yea, and sorry if the whole xbox 360 thing gets a bit tedious for some. Anyway, I posted THIS up...

Jbrjake, when I look more at the Fairuse encode (enlarging the player window), I see that this ALSO has those lines. It's unnoticeable on an sdtv, but on hdtv, it might not look so hot. So, it must be the dvd itself. I guess it's not necessary to post any shots. Handbrake was doing its job. Thanks f...

Alright, I can do that. If....you are indeed interested. I'll have to encode a chapter again using the settings you recommended. Then I'll have to upload a screen shot. How would I go about uploading or posting screen shots on here?

The 360 will only accept stereo for aac. I always encode (well, usually) h264/aac within an mp4 container. I only get stereo sound, but that's fine for me. All my encodes work, except for the occasional one that has me perplexed. Just use the presets and all will go well. You can manipluate the enco...

I tried as you suggested, jbrjak. Same result and with lines running throughout. Lines sort of like streaky-like lines that run through the faces, clothes, etc. Not looking too good. I'm not gonna worry about it. I was just curious as to why Handbrake has a tough time sometimes. By the way, the Fair...

Alright, I'll try as you suggest. I'll let you know if the encode looks any better. Thanks.

[21:07:05] + Deblock (pp7) (default settings) Deblocking can easily lead to results like that. Doing image filtering like deblocking or denoising or deinterlacing *always* degrades picture quality to some extent. They add extra processing cruft and throw away detail, so they should only be used whe...

Wow, you really do love those logs, don't you? :) Well, I don't know what' going on with Handbrake, but there is absolutely no doubt that Fairuse produced much better quality. Here is a bunch of mumble-jumble that the activity window left behind. Can you make any sense of it? [21:07:01] hb_init: che...

Back one more time. I encoded the same chapter using Fairuse Wizard. Same Framerate using Deinterlacing. Now, I'm not trying to compare the two programs. This is for experimental sake only and to possibly help people out in the future. Well, the Fairuse encode looks WAY better. So should I assume th...

Well, I tried an encode (one chapter) assuming the original framerate. Still jagged. Hmmm.... I guess this movie is just facked.

Hello. I'm also having a problem with (what I THINK is) interlaced material. But I'm a little confused. The movie is "Wicker Park". I have used various xbox 360 encoding options (h264). My first encode didn't use any Deinterlacing. I then tried Deinterlacing using both Fast and Slowest. I ...

Thank you from Mexico! You developer guys kick ass.

I now see that the new release is up. I'll give it a whirl and report back with any potential bugs/problems.

Thank you, jbrjake. I didn't provide a LOG the first time because Handbrake doesn't generate one. Is there an option in the GUI somewhere? Maybe I'm blind. So what I did was copy and paste from the CLI window before it closed itself. So with problem DVDs I guess I can always try VFR, or continue enc...

Wow, exactly as expected. I encoded the movie with NO audio this time. And guess what ? It plays just fine. So, I solved (kinda) the problem with this particular dvd. So....when a dvd might be giving you trouble- audio?- (as was with my case), just encode without audio, then mux in an audio track af...

What's wrong with using "pfftt?" Seems a bit silly to me when considering someone was seeking help from potentially more knowledgeable users. Anyway. I'm following up on this sour thread because maybe it can benefit someone in the future. I'm not entirely sure, but perhaps I was having an ...

Man, you sure like to try to stir people up, don't you? Which you have done a million times already on these boards. Yea, I do read. I thought my title and posts were pretty clear. And they were. "Some h264 movies won't play back"....exactly. They won't play USING media player classic or t...

How is this a "misleading title"? what's SO misleading about it? I'll tell ya: nothing. How can it be a problem with my playback system? The file won't play on my computer using Media Player Classic OR on my xbox 360. The same happens when I try to play the file on another computer. So I h...

Hmmm.

I had already unlocked the dvd previously using "dvdshrink". I then converted to h264 with no problems at all. Maybe you should try using "anydvd".

Maybe somebody can throw me some feedback here? I'm converted "Jackass", the movie using both XVID and H264. The XVID movie plays fine (quality isn't so hot, even at 1500 Kbps...but that's another story). But.....the H264 one for SOME reason just doesn't want to play back using Media Playe...

I would LOVE to have it be able to convert other video formats, as well. Yea, I'm sure this topic has been brought up before. And I've even used other programs to convert to x264 with less than desirable results. Any ideas to convert xvid to h264, other than using megui, xivd4psp or ripbox264? Or ma...