HandBrake

Another vote for the CLI from me, but in my example of trying the encode multiple times and getting different results (some with audio, some with drops) I used the CLI each time. In general though you'll get better results using it.

I had done a full-disk rip with MTR and my encode seems ok. Might wanna try a few more times though. On a few movies I've encoded I've seen the sound dropout program, but if I try it again with the exact same options sometimes I'll get a full audio track. Weird.

On a more serious note I recently did a Full-Disk rip and encode, but I haven't watched the movie yet. I need to double check if mine is effed up too though.

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How long would it take to encode a movie on a machine with hardware that can't run OS X? I can't imagine it would be even remotely practical.

I was actually just coming over to here post something similar. I've just finished encoding the majority of my concert DVDs and TV show DVDs. A lot of the concerts are encoded as 1 long track split into chapters, but I prefer to have each chapter as a separate file, which ends up being a separate mu...

I think a point where someone could flip to and see a quick summary of every setting they've chosen would be immensely useful. It would eliminate the need to flip through every part of the program to double-check settings like you mentioned earlier. At a quick glance you can see everything selected...

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There was a fix committed awhile ago, but it broke compatibility with some devices. I actually tried it out myself this weekend while trying to do the LOTR series. The encode worked fine and played fine, but the deal-breaker for me was that I wasn't able to edit the artwork in iTunes.

I was thinking the same thing regarding the queue and double-checking. sr55 (and anyone else who will say there are too many clicks), I'm curious... do you use the presets? For every movie do you check on each setting and available option? The reason why is that the presets should eliminate the need...

Alright, I found some time to finally put a little realistic look to the sketches I've been doing. After a lot of reading of the comments, suggestions and complaints of the current and proposed ideas so far I hope I've found a solution that could benefit everyone. I based this design on a merging of...

Thanks for that thread, it was definitely helpful. What I got out of it was that the opposition to splitting off the advanced features was that it took too many clicks to change the options. Unfortunately, I think that will always be a complaint no matter what changes are made because let's face it ...

I've spent the last week sketching up some ideas and I hope to have a interface screenshot assembled soon, but I suppose I can try to describe where I'm headed. Once I post the screens hopefully I can get some good feedback from the other devs and look to improve the UI for the future. I've tried to...

I guess this sounds obvious, but try checking the Energy Saver preferences in the System Preferences. Make sure the Mac isn't set to go to sleep after 2 hours.

Yeah, I read that later too, but thanks.

Ultimately, my encodes all ended up being anamorphic h.264 at 72% - CRF with 224 kbps Dolby Pro Logic II mixdown for the audio. Suits me just fine.

Ugh, I'm a little more concerned about this now. I've since returned my Apple TV, but yesterday I loaded up an installer on my iMac that replaces Front Row with the new Apple TV program. Fired it up, it works great. I can browse my music, movies, TV shows, etc on my iMac, but using the Apple TV inte...

It's my understanding that a lot of TV shows are 29.97 FPS and that 23.976 (which is what the same as source setting is) is for movies. You might see some TV shows at 23.976, but a lot will be 29.97 so you might want to try using that setting for the shows you're seeing the skipping.

Believe it or not, Confused Amused, we're here to help with HandBrake, not to edify you on the finer points of film to video transfers. Every second I have to spend holding your hand through this stuff is a second I don't spend polishing a script for cvk_b and Loyalty_Anchored, testing out Nyx's aw...

From what I've found from reading a few sources is that anything you watch on your TV is being displayed at 29.97 fps. A movie is stored on a DVD at 23.976 and then your DVD player telecines it on the fly to 29.97 for your TV. Do I have that right so far? Found some more info in the "Optimum se...

Handbrake doesn't provide burning capabilities. If you want to produce a DVD you can watch you should use Toast. Check out http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast ... rview.html for some more information.

If you'd read the link Rodney posted, your questions would have been answered Sure would have, but I did read it. Silly me for reading the section Rodney actually linked to and not everything that was above it... Which is to say, you'll often see 29.97fps as the frame rate when it's really 23.976, ...

Having some trouble clearing this up so maybe someone can help me. Since the current default is "Same as source" aka 23.976 for Handbrake I guess I assumed I'd want to encode at that framerate. I popped up ffmpegx and mplayer, dropped in a lot of VOBs from various DVDs, some movies, some T...

Nice! Definitely a big improvement over the current UI. I'm no programmer, but this is one are where I may be able to help out as well. I'll see if I can come up with a mockup soon. I like the direction of this though. Very streamlined and clean feeling which I think is what OS X apps are about. Off...

Using acronyms too loosely again I suppose. I'm not claiming to be a video expert or even have much of an understanding of it so forgive me for thinking CBR=CRF and VBR=ABR. You're right, so to correct myself, I meant using a CRF encode to produce an ABR encode. I hadn't bothered to read that thread...

I think there's been a push lately towards telling people that the most efficient use of size to create a high quality rip is to do a 1-pass CBR at a certain quality level , take the bitrate that is produced and then do a 2-pass VBR encode with that bitrate as the average. I'm curious if this can be...