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by Cerebus
Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:20 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Copy DVD Chapters when Ripping
Replies: 14
Views: 5353

jasonmogg: chapter markers are coming next release, they work in front row afaik. Yes, you will have to re encode all of your dvd's for them to work. Is this really true? I mean, it's just a text track of timecode markers. I don't see why I couldn't create the track with Metadata Hootenanny and the...
by Cerebus
Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:34 pm
Forum: Mac
Topic: NO AUDIO?... Read Here! (Summary in First Post) **UPDATED**
Replies: 422
Views: 126901

Upthread I've kept a running log of some test encodes I'm running with a title that (under some settings) drops audio. One PITA is I can't seem to make the drop-out occur with a specific segment (one drop was at the beginning of chapter 1, the other at chapter 8), so I've been running full encodes w...
by Cerebus
Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:16 pm
Forum: Mac
Topic: NO AUDIO?... Read Here! (Summary in First Post) **UPDATED**
Replies: 422
Views: 126901

More data points: Hardware: iMac Core Duo (not Core 2). This is the iMac4,1 revision which has a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K05 drive (firmware revision Q523). Software: HB svn 474 (direct rip & encode) Disc: The Incredibles Settings: (1) HB-AppleTV preset, modified for CRF CQ 70% (2) HB-AppleTV preset,...
by Cerebus
Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:48 am
Forum: Devices and Presets
Topic: Storage Hardware
Replies: 38
Views: 15357

I agree though ... a true 100% backup is a bit difficult when you have 1+TB of data. Thats why I opt for the more reasonable RAID solution where I can loose 1-2 disks (in this particular setup, 1 disk... but 2 if I choose to re-config the RAID) and still have all of my data. Its a much more likely ...
by Cerebus
Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:30 pm
Forum: Devices and Presets
Topic: Storage Hardware
Replies: 38
Views: 15357

A backup set (or volume) is generally a single file (compressed archive I suppose) that is much easier to manage than entire directory trees and helps retain integrity. You want Carbon Copy Cloner. http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html CCC can backup to a sparse disk image, which is a single fil...
by Cerebus
Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:23 pm
Forum: Mac
Topic: Stitch together VOB files in Media Fork?
Replies: 2
Views: 2052

Couldn't you rip and encode both separately, then join them in QT?

-- C
by Cerebus
Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:08 pm
Forum: Devices and Presets
Topic: Slightly OT: QTSS with AppleTV?
Replies: 3
Views: 1988

washu wrote:im gona try it this weekend, Ive got QTSS setup just need to add some hint tracks and make a ref movie to see how it goes
Awesome. I'm keenly interested in any results you get. Thanks.

-- C
by Cerebus
Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:10 am
Forum: Mac
Topic: 474 crash at end of encode.
Replies: 3
Views: 1636

To get logging you have to use the CLI. I'll keep that in mind for the next run. What size is the unplayable output file? War of the Worlds is a horribly grainy movie. crf 72% probably pushes your file size over 4 gigs, which is currently a bug HB experiences with mp4 muxing, that's publicly acknow...
by Cerebus
Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:31 am
Forum: Mac
Topic: 474 crash at end of encode.
Replies: 3
Views: 1636

I should add--

Doesn't happen with average bitrate encodes @2mbps with the same settings otherwise.
by Cerebus
Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:29 am
Forum: Mac
Topic: 474 crash at end of encode.
Replies: 3
Views: 1636

474 crash at end of encode.

474 is crashing on War of the Worlds at the tail end of the encode before finishing the mp4 container (file is left unplayable by QT and VLC; VLC reports "no moov box"). Settings are CRF enabled, CQ 72%, and HB-AppleTV presets otherwise. It's reproducible but doesn't appear to leave a log ...
by Cerebus
Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:33 pm
Forum: Mac
Topic: MediaFork frames darker than HandBrake
Replies: 1
Views: 1122

Re: MediaFork frames darker than HandBrake

Is there any control over video output settings like brightness, contrast, etc? Maybe if these are tweakable in MediaFork, the problem can be corrected by users. Is there another thread on this I'm missing? I'm noticing the same darkening effect with the Handbrake SVN version and on some DVDs it's ...
by Cerebus
Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:09 pm
Forum: Devices and Presets
Topic: Slightly OT: QTSS with AppleTV?
Replies: 3
Views: 1988

Slightly OT: QTSS with AppleTV?

So here's a Q for the hive mind: Can AppleTV read streams from QTSS? I've been thinking that Quicktime Streaming Server might make a more appropriate media-on-demand server solution in a multiple-AppleTV setup than running iTunes somewhere (if for no other reason than I can manage QTSS on a headless...
by Cerebus
Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:07 am
Forum: Devices and Presets
Topic: Can Chapters Be Added to M4V Files?
Replies: 17
Views: 7191

The output file needs to be named with .m4v for iTunes to recognise the chapter marks, I believe. That certainly used to be the case, I'm happy to be corrected. Indeed, this appears to be true even when playing in Quicktime player. What I find interesting about this is when the file is named .mp4, ...
by Cerebus
Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:52 am
Forum: Devices and Presets
Topic: Can Chapters Be Added to M4V Files?
Replies: 17
Views: 7191

works great in our current svn. Will also be in our upcoming new release :) Has this been checked into the public branch? I was mucking about with build 474 and I don't see any chapter marks in the result (though the UI element is there it doesn't appear to do anything). Unless I'm missing somethin...