HandBrake

I just realized your source looks like it's possibly HDR? That's a possible cause for the issue, as HandBrake 1.3.x has no support for HDR. The nightly builds have basic support for some forms of HDR and might work better in that regard. Your log also shows you have the Comb Detect and Decomb filte...

Can you provide a screenshot of the artifacts you're seeing? External file hosts won't work, but you can post a link to the screenshot or use the built-in attachment feature of the forum itself. Alright, I think this might work. Before: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1mhd5omewyb4rz6/before_3.jpg?dl=0 Af...

Can you provide a screenshot of the artifacts you're seeing? External file hosts won't work, but you can post a link to the screenshot or use the built-in attachment feature of the forum itself. I want to do that, but I can't find that feature in any of the places in an online forum I'd expect to f...

Description of problem or question: I want to burn subtitles into a 4k movie, but the image quality is adversely affected with the creation of vertical artifacts throughout most of the picture. If I convert to 1080p the problem goes away, but I'd prefer keeping the 4k resolution. Regardless of the ...

I want to encode a movie to as close to the movie's initial quality as possible. I'm encoding on low speed, and want to match the previous compression's RF setting. I have the app Mediainfo. Does this app show the movie's RF setting when originally compressed? If I set the RF at a lossier level I'll...

While newer codecs are generally better than older ones there is no “best” bit rate. This is why most people have switched to quality based encoding. https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/1.3.0/workflow/adjust-quality.html https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/1.3.0/technical/performance.html So to be clear, if I we...

I'm trying to understand the basic quality of a video from looking at the compression types and the video bit rates. I have zero doubt that I'm confusing unrelated concepts, but let's take the following videos... 1. AVC. Video bit rate: 8000 2. HEVC. Video bit rate: 4000 3. HEVC 10 Bit. Video bit ra...

what goes into making surround sound in the first place? Is there an audio engineer determining which sounds go to which channels? Pretty much, yes. There are a variety of techniques. Microphones placed in different locations and/or pointing in different directions for live events. Sound effects ad...

Rodeo wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 3:50 pm The left surround and rear left surround are mixed together, same for right surround and rear right surround (with -3dB each).

Thank you. It's good to know I'm not hurting the audio (overly much) by down mixing it.

Re-upping this. First things first, I'd like to get a really basic question out of the way: what goes into making surround sound in the first place? Is there an audio engineer determining which sounds go to which channels? I know this is an incredibly rudimentary question, but I'm starting from an i...

Rodeo wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 8:30 pm

Bubbabob wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 10:36 pm I forgot to include that the converter I'm using is Videomass, which incorporates ffmpeg.

So are you asking what happens when using HandBrake or when using ffmpeg?

Whichever one (or both) you know the answer to.

I forgot to include that the converter I'm using is Videomass, which incorporates ffmpeg. This app allows me to convert just the audio with video pass through.

I have a 5.1 system, and will occasionally need to convert a movie with 7.1 audio to 5.1. This is because the nature of my system will literally only play proper surround sound if the codec is ac3. So that's what I have to play with. So if I have a file with 7.1 or dts, down to ac3 5.1 it goes. So m...

musicvid wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:51 pm It's always better to increase bitrate a bit to compensate for losses, but 320 will be enough.

Thanks.

When converting aac to ac3 do I need to increase the bit rate because aac works better at lower bit rates than ac3? Or would I just be adding file size? Another way to put the question is, if I already have a 256 bit rate aac, is my conversion to 256 bit rate ac3 a lateral or lesser move?

Super Eight, 18 minutes in, one with AAC and the other AC3. With AAC, the train car explodes and nothing special happens with the sound. Like I said, it's just front speakers pushed to the rear a little. Coded to AC3 the explosion moves all around me as the camera moves. Like I said, no comparison.

It's a Roku Ultra with the latest firmware. To be clear, AAC does send sound to the surround speakers...badly. Against a film with AC3 there's just no comparison. In my Star Wars AC3, you can hear surrounding environmental sounds exactly as you'd expect. With AAC, it just extends the sound of the fr...

Subler likes the idea of converting codecs from ac3 to aac, but isn't a big fan of changing anything TO ac3. I'm not familiar with a ffmpeg that has the UI I can use. Unless I read something incorrectly, I believe handbrake utilizes ffmpeg? Avidemux has a fairly user-friendly UI and it has the optio...

Good god, everything about the mmpeg website and its application seems designed to scare away people just like me. I seem to be forced to choose between the hell of mmpeg's UI and other applications that offer next to zero granular control.

Hi, I tried doing a search but couldn't find a thread that pointed to my issue. I'd like to keep my video formats but just convert the audio codecs. Is there a way to do this in handbrake? I can't find an alternate converter that simultaneously excludes the video in the conversion while also easily ...