HandBrake

Are you saying that your original source video has out of sync audio? If so, this is not something HandBrake can fix. I don't know off hand what tool might do this. Maybe someone else has some idea.

It states that higher number is worse quality but it recommends using a higher number for higher res footage? That doesn't seem to make sense so maybe someone can help me understand that. The RF controls how closely the output will match the input. If you do 2 encodes using the same RF, one with a ...

There is already an open issue regarding enhanced font size settings https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/issues/146 This feature, if implemented, would have a lot of confusing caveats. Position could only be changed when the source is SRT, or TX3G and the output file format is SSA in Matroska con...

I forgot to mention the other factor that trips up mediainfo and other such apps frequently. Every framerate can't be represented perfectly by the clock HandBrake uses internally. HandBrake uses the standard 90khz clock used by all transport streams and program streams. This is the same clock used b...

I haven't read the H.265 spec to see what it supports. But it wouldn't surprise me if it does not have a specific flag to indicate VFR vs CFR. It's not strictly necessary. In H.264 what the flag really indicates is the meaning of the timebase. When set to CFR, the timebase is the framerate. When set...

Not according to this: https://launchpad.net/~stebbins/+archive/ubuntu/handbrake-releases Have you done an update before upgrading? He's right. I made a change to the code that won't build on 16.04 and below, but forgot to remove those releases from my PPA upload list. I was intending to drop suppo...

I'm not even sure how to answer "what platform? You answered correctly. Platform is OS and version. Since HandBrake supports multiple OS and OS versions, it helps to know what you are running it on. Each platform's GUI is slightly different as they each cater to the OS they were written for. An act...

I've committed a workaround for what I think is the problem here
https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/ ... 71d354091d

It should be available in the next nightly build for testing.

"Heavily pixelated" sounds like you're hitting BD+ encryption. What are you using to remove the encryption on the disk? No, I don't think so. Between the working and non-working versions, we switched from libav to ffmpeg. One of the patches I contributed to libav to fix such problems was modified b...

Increasing the number of preview frames usually only works in the case auto cropping is too aggressive. All it takes is one frame with non-black(ish) data at the edges to cause it to back off. Actually, we create a list of each crop value (i.e. top, bottom left, and right lists). Then we sort each ...

PSNR and SSIM metrics can be generated in the activity log during encoding if you want to see them (see the PSNR and SSIM tune options on the video tab). But they are primarily used to tune algorithms during development and should not be used for encodes you plan to keep because as mduell said, tuni...

See viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37886

You can't compare settings across presets. The only thing you can say after changing a preset is that if all the other settings are the same, the results will be approximately the same with slower presets generally providing better quality and/or smaller file size, but sometimes better quality and l...

libdvdcss isn't supported in 1.0.7 either. You just happened to get it working. It "works" in 1.1.0 as well. But we don't recommend it and don't provide assistance in setting it up.

That encode log looks completely normal and shouldn't result in loss of A/V sync. If you are seeing sync issues from that encode, either your player has a problem or HandBrake does. DVDs with 23.976 fps content are inherently variable framerate. The DVD spec only permits 29.97 fps. To achieve 23.976...

Have you tried playing the same file with multiple players (that don't rely on the same possibly broken demux library)? Often these kinds of problems are problems with the player and the only solutions are to use a different player or fiddle with the encoding until you find something your player lik...

Can you post a log of a scan of this disc with the nightly. It logs additional information about the aspect ratio code that I would like to see.

If you want a constant framerate without dropped frames, you would have to set the framerate to 119.88 which is divisible by both 29.97 (factor of 4) and 23.976 (factor of 5). HandBrake doesn't have this specific framerate, but it does have 120 which is very close. Even though the framerate is much ...

"Deutsch"

It's sorted by *English* spelling, but displayed as *native* spelling. So you'll find Deutsch in the G's. It's really terrible, but I'm not sure how else to sort the list. Since native spellings are in various character sets, it's not really possible to sort by native name.

On linux platforms (with the exception of flatpak builds) HandBrake gets libx264 from your system libs (i.e. we do not build it). If Mint 19 doesn't have the version of libx264 that you want in it's repository, you'll have to figure out how to build and install it yourself.

I could figure out how to actually download the installer from that link! "Nightly builds" are produced approximately nightly :P (sometimes there are missed nights) and can be found here: https://handbrake.fr/nightly.php The current nightly build does not have this workaround yet, so you need to wa...

if it was about the TYPE of stream wouldn't it fail on transcoding Woodstock's point wasn't so much about the type of stream. It was more about it being unusual. The fact that it's unusual means that whoever produced this disc doesn't use the same tools as most everybody else. The production tool t...

Battlestar Pedantica

That's [Censored]'s funny, but everyone please remember to keep it friendly

If you would like to try the next nightly build, I just pushed a workaround for the "unknown aspect" (https://git.io/vh0Vt). You may still end up with a video encoded to the incorrect aspect. The workaround also logs the unknown value, so it would be helpful if you could run the next nightly and pos...

The problem has been located. x265 versions > 2.6 now require nasm for assembly optimizations. The nightly build config didn't list nasm as a dependency, so it was getting built without nasm. Problem should be fixed in the next nightly build (which may be a day or 2 away for other unrelated reasons).