HandBrake

So you don't know of any other programs for the mac that can do it either. Pay or free?

Unfortunately that does seem to be a bit beyond me. I don't know how or what that (seemingly) source code is used.

Is it possible. I really need to free up some hard drive space and thus far i've had to just leave video_ts files for my movies with DTS sound. I've been looking around and I haven't found any way to encode a dvd into h264 and keep DTS intact. I'm hoping for a solution that will allow me to rip the ...

I've been unsuccessfully trying to get handbrake to output chapter markers into mkv files. I have "create chapter markers" selected, but the chapters do not show up in qt. They do show up if a rip an mp4 file. I am playing back the files using qt 7.5 with perian 1.1 installed. The activity...

From what i've read it seems that the "deblocking" settings only affect playback. Is it possible to alter the deblocking settings of an already encoded h264 file?

Thanks for any input
Dan

I have been ripping files to m4v for my apple tv as it is the only format that supports ac3 h264 and works correctly in animorphic mode in the apple tv. In the future i may want to get a different media streamer and i doubt it will support an m4v with ac3. Will it be possible to switch containers to...

just a tip. Try using 73%. To me, 73% is indistinguishable from dvd. An i'm very picky

I inserted ":vbv-maxrate=5000" into the box in the h264 settings. According to VLC, the streams bitrate jumps to 10mbps at some points. I don't get it.

do you know what those 2 commands mean exactly? i would like to be able to add them to my current settings. Plus they were probably made for the default apple codec and i would have to adjust them some for perian.

you have me in the right direction though. Thanks

I"m trying to rip movies for my hacked appletv. I've tried ripping at 2500kbps.(h264 ac3 mkv). 99% of every movie is excelent. But there are a few seconds in certain movies where the bit rate jumps to 7000kbps and up that make the apple tv pause and skip alot for just a few seconds. I want to s...

Actually i found a solution to my anamorphic problem. I just have to turn cropping off. I assume that since the bars are constant black that they shouldn't take up too much bit rate.

maybe i should start a new thread about this with a title that will attract people who know about sapphire.

well i took your advice and reduced the bit rate to 2500. It still looks very good. Do you have any advice about getting anamorphic par to work correctly with quick time in appleTV with perian. I encoded at 2500 with anamorphic par on using a mkv container. when i browse to it in sapphire it lists t...

i never brought it to my apple tv. I couldn't get it to play in VLC or quicktime with perian so i didn't bother bringing it to my atv.

it shouldn't be limited by either vlc or quicktime (perian) should it?

5.39GB. Thats too bad about the size limitation. I wasn't really concerned with how large the files were. I use them with my hacked appleTV which has ample hard drive space. I need to use .avi because of the ac3 passthrough. I would like the videos to look as good as possible and be playable in Saph...

hmm. I'll take a look but i doubt that will be the kind of thing i would grasp easily.

It seems like handbrake works for the vast majority of poeple. Any idea why me and the only other person i know who uses it are having the same problem?

unfortunately that doesn't mean much to me. What is SVN? Thanks for your help thus far.

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I'm having trouble. I've tried ripping multiple DVD's and i keep having the same problem. I can only play back the first few minutes of the film. In Quick Time it just thinks the file ends after the first several minutes. VLC thinks it has the entire movie, after it reaches the same point in the mov...