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by JohnAStebbins
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:19 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Rotating videos
Replies: 2
Views: 42

Re: Rotating videos

Given that the video plays in the correct orientation on a PC, it probably has rotation metadata in the container indicating the correct orientation. The digital photo frame is simply ignoring this information. HandBrake should also detect this metadata and automatically rotate the video for you. Ha...
by JohnAStebbins
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:27 pm
Forum: *nix
Topic: Handbrake does not retain Dolby Vision
Replies: 4
Views: 70

Re: Handbrake does not retain Dolby Vision

The flatpak on flathub is indeed built without libdovi. Building rust libs and applications with flatpak builder currently has issues due to how cargo downloads dependencies. flatpak builder is sandboxed and does not permit this kind of network access. We are working on resolving this, see https://g...
by JohnAStebbins
Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:08 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: 4K Encoding Question
Replies: 3
Views: 120

Re: 4K Encoding Question

Also, if file size is a concern, 18 RF is overkill. HandBrake's official 4K presets use RF 24 which should result in about half the size.
by JohnAStebbins
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:15 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: 4k disc degrading
Replies: 6
Views: 367

Re: 4k disc degrading

To put the conversation in another context; any time you handle a physical disc there is a possibility of damaging it. So to minimize damage due to handling, creating a copy and storing the original disc some place cool, dark, and safe is a good way to preserve it.
by JohnAStebbins
Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: How to have handbrake correctly place additional audio tracks without duplicating track 1?
Replies: 4
Views: 1044

Re: How to have handbrake correctly place additional audio tracks without duplicating track 1?

BluePieNinja wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:06 am Ok so am I supposed to choose language as "any" to get the audio tracks to be added?
Set "Selection Behavior" to "All Tracks Matching Selected Languages" and add "Any" to "Selected Languages".
by JohnAStebbins
Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:27 pm
Forum: *nix
Topic: Is this speed is normal? [NEWBIE]
Replies: 7
Views: 372

Re: Is this speed is normal? [NEWBIE]

Ritsuka wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:08 am The GTK GUI doesn't support multiple parallel encodes yet, it has been implemented only on Windows and macOS at the moment.
But if you use the CLI (as you did in your example encode above), you can start as many instances as you like.
by JohnAStebbins
Mon Feb 05, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Converting MP4 to AVC?
Replies: 3
Views: 7388

Re: Converting MP4 to AVC?

Are you certain the player supports "AVC". Could it be "AVI" instead? AVC is a codec while AVI is a container. DVD players generally don't support AVC since DVDs do not use that codec. I suspect the player supports the AVI container with older codecs such as mpeg2 or maybe DivX.
by JohnAStebbins
Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:06 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: HandBrake 1.7 Discussion Thread
Replies: 17
Views: 23138

Re: HandBrake 1.7 Discussion Thread

Hello. Will there be support for calculating the file size when setting the bitrate? I would like to get a comment from the developer. Every feature comes with a cost. One of the costs of this feature is user confusion which results in increased support requests. There are a number of unknowns and ...
by JohnAStebbins
Fri Dec 08, 2023 3:27 pm
Forum: Command Line Interface And Scripting
Topic: Unable to read DVD from CLI but works from GUI
Replies: 4
Views: 13026

Re: Unable to read DVD from CLI but works from GUI

Update: For some reason HandbrakeCLI thinks it needs libdvdcss-2.dll in order to decrypt a non-encrypted disk. I've now tried this with a disk made with a home video that is guaranteed not encrypted and it does the same thing. Put the DLL in the handbrake CLI folder and it works. So HB is not check...
by JohnAStebbins
Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:50 pm
Forum: Devices and Presets
Topic: Email 288p Preset
Replies: 3
Views: 16354

Re: Email 288p Preset

Paste the text below into a file called email_preset.json. From the Presets menu, select "Import Preset" and open email_preset.json. This should create a new custom preset named "Email 25 MB 10 Minutes 288p30". { "PresetList": [ { "AlignAVStart": true, "A...
by JohnAStebbins
Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:24 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Re Transcoding with hard coded forced subs
Replies: 7
Views: 13074

Re: Re Transcoding with hard coded forced subs

lossless will result in very large files. I.e. your 44 GB BD would likely get re-encoded to something like 400 GB. What you did with mkvtoolnix is probably the best option if you want to keep original video and make the subs forced. HandBrake will always re-encode the video which isn't necessary in ...
by JohnAStebbins
Thu Nov 30, 2023 8:48 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Re Transcoding with hard coded forced subs
Replies: 7
Views: 13074

Re: Re Transcoding with hard coded forced subs

I misread the original post. My eyes saw 400+ GB
by JohnAStebbins
Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:26 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Re Transcoding with hard coded forced subs
Replies: 7
Views: 13074

Re: Re Transcoding with hard coded forced subs

Given that the 44GB source encodes to about 4GB with default settings, my guess is that the source is a lossless format (either raw or some other lossless codec). If you want to maintain the "lossless" quality, there are a couple ways you may be able to do this in HandBrake. First you need...
by JohnAStebbins
Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:17 pm
Forum: *nix
Topic: Can't install HandBrakeCLI in Ubuntu/WSL2 later than version 1.5.1
Replies: 4
Views: 16608

Re: Can't install HandBrakeCLI in Ubuntu/WSL2 later than version 1.5.1

The flatpack would be executed this way $ flatpak run fr.handbrake.HandBrakeCLI --version [08:16:20] Compile-time hardening features are enabled Cannot load libnvidia-encode.so.1 [08:16:20] qsv: not available on this system [08:16:20] hb_init: starting libhb thread [08:16:20] thread 7f287d3ff6c0 sta...
by JohnAStebbins
Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:22 pm
Forum: *nix
Topic: When will 1.7 flatpak be available?
Replies: 4
Views: 8157

Re: When will 1.7 flatpak be available?

The flathub package was submitted yesterday. It takes some amount of time after submission for it to become available on flathub. It is available now.
by JohnAStebbins
Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:33 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Vastly different output file sizes
Replies: 5
Views: 5855

Re: Vastly different output file sizes

As you noted, there are a variety of things that affect file sizes. Without knowing some specifics about what you encoded, we really can't tell you whether something unusual happened that would affect the output quality. But in general, animation will encode to sizes many multiples smaller than grai...
by JohnAStebbins
Tue Oct 17, 2023 6:02 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Going for 24/1.001 judders/second -- How?
Replies: 11
Views: 6837

Re: Going for 24/1.001 judders/second -- How?

Is there a reason you chose to use constant framerate output? "Same as source" VFR (variable framerate) will output a frame for each field using the field's original duration for each frame duration. This is probably the best that can be done with mixed telecine content.
by JohnAStebbins
Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:34 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: h264 8bit to h265 10bit
Replies: 3
Views: 1599

Re: h264 8bit to h265 10bit

A full answer is complicated and involves a deeper discussion of how the video is translated from spatial domain to frequency domain where frequency coefficients are decimated when encoding and then frequency domain back to spatial domain when decoding. But the TLDR; answer is that gradients are bet...
by JohnAStebbins
Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:39 pm
Forum: Devices and Presets
Topic: Car Stereo Vid Codec
Replies: 6
Views: 6546

Re: Car Stereo Vid Codec

According to the manual posted above, the stereo supports the DivX video codec, and MP2, MP3, AC3 audio codecs in an AVI container. HandBrake hasn't supported DivX or AVI since 2009. So you'll have to find another tool to create such files. FYI, full media compatibility specifications for the stereo...
by JohnAStebbins
Wed Sep 13, 2023 4:08 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Convert h264 to h265 sometimes result a larger file
Replies: 3
Views: 1676

Re: Convert h264 to h265 sometimes result a larger file

The source is already compressed. When you transcode, you are uncompressing to raw frames and then recompressing the raw frames with the encoder you've chosen. In your particular case, the video is 1920x768 resolution in yuv420 format. Each raw frame of this format is 2211840 bytes. There are 211483...
by JohnAStebbins
Tue Sep 05, 2023 3:17 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: interlace x265 -- possible?
Replies: 20
Views: 27459

Re: interlace x265 -- possible?

Disclaimer, I've never done this, but in theory it should work. HandBrake's filters mostly assume they are getting progressive input (except for those that convert interlaced to progressive). If you don't require any filtering (scaling is a filter, so you would have to be sure you are scaling 1:1) y...
by JohnAStebbins
Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:49 pm
Forum: *nix
Topic: Change Language
Replies: 2
Views: 5493

Re: Change Language

The language of the UI is controlled by the system locale setting. It can be temporarily changed through the LANG environment variable. See How to change language of a specific application for an example. If you are using the flatpak version of HandBrake, it's a bit of a tangled mess. You first have...
by JohnAStebbins
Sat Aug 26, 2023 2:29 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Custom cropping only allows even numbers
Replies: 11
Views: 2945

Re: Custom cropping only allows even numbers

"Not possible" would be an overstatement. There are certainly ways to do it. I.e. convert the image to a color format with full resolution color planes, do the crop, then convert back. This procedure would be one way to properly preserve the relationship that exists between the color plane...
by JohnAStebbins
Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:13 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Custom cropping only allows even numbers
Replies: 11
Views: 2945

Re: Custom cropping only allows even numbers

Allowing only even cropping is intentional. Some color formats (yuv420 in particular which is used in DVD and BD video) have color planes that are half the resolution of the intensity plane. Since you can't crop half a pixel, it is not possible to crop the color planes to odd pixel boundaries (half ...
by JohnAStebbins
Tue Aug 01, 2023 2:24 pm
Forum: *nix
Topic: A few questions on default ./configure settings under Ubuntu.
Replies: 3
Views: 5592

Re: A few questions on default ./configure settings under Ubuntu.

FFmpeg's license does not permit redistribution of a binary build that mixes LGPL licensed components with FDK-AAC. We tried, they complained, we complied. When FDK-AAC is enabled in the build, FDK-AAC will be listed as a separate encoder in the audio encoders list. You would have to modify presets ...