HandBrake

Indeed, we didn't remove it "for fun", we removed it because it was inaccurate and unreliable. ... and often used for the wrong reasons. Target file size is fine if you have a physical media that you plan to put 1 or 2 videos on and space is tight. In this case you can somewhat predictably encode v...

You also appear to be having some sort of problem writing to the network share you've selected as the destination. You should check that you have all necessary permissions to write to that location.

This isn't a HandBrake problem. Your system is unstable when overclocked. You need to fix that or don't overclock. HandBrake puts much more stress on the system than most other applications and exposes stability issues fairly readily. Since the temperatures sound sane, I would first look into memory...

Thanks for the log. It indicates that the source audio and video timestamps are the same. If they were not the same, there is a possibility you were seeing a known issue with some players and mp4 files that HandBrake *does* have a fix for. But since this isn't the case, you'll have to find some othe...

I transcoded the DVD using Handbrake and both copies are out of sync. It is a small, subtitle difference. What adjustments can I use in Handbrake? An Activity Log is required for support requests. Please read How-to get an activity log? for details on how and why this should be provided. I am not a...

Hmm, interesting. I'm out of time for the day. But I'll look into that. Looks like some kind of problem with libbluray's recognition of directory trees vs. iso images when the file is a network share. Can you try the same thing with the BD directory tree local on your HDD?

There are differences in behaviour between all 3 of the HandBrake GUIs due to differences in conventions expected on the different platforms and different platform capabilities. So don't expect identical operation. The linux GUI doesn't have a way to toggle through the previews in the summary tab. T...

There are 3 official release packages The PPA for Ubuntu based systems https://launchpad.net/~stebbins/+archive/ubuntu/handbrake-releases A flatpak bundle that can be downloaded from our download page https://handbrake.fr/rotation.php?file=HandBrake-1.1.2-x86_64.flatpak Flathub https://flathub.org/a...

I read your follow-up in that other forum. You've actually uncovered a bug in my flatpak builds :oops: Long story, but short answer is the flatpak build is missing a module that allows it to access network shares. I'm working adding the necessary module to the flatpak, so in the future this will be ...

Thanks for your help and sorry for the false alarm.

Your welcome. Good to hear you got it sorted out.

The link you provided does not give instructions on how to mount an SMB share. It is a link to another support request you made on another forum. I don't know how you are mounting your SMB drive. Can you please first verify that you got your version of HandBrake from our PPA? https://launchpad.net/~...

No. The purpose of RF is to use as many or as few bits as it takes to meet a certain quality metric. For some video sources this can be 10 or 20 times what it is for other video sources. I.e. for the same quality, cell animation encodes much smaller than fast action grainy video.

Fixed https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/ ... 108d44c46f

Quality slider granularity can be modified in preferences

Yes, but the highlighted statement above is also incorrect (unless you actually meant "It's being worked but if it doesn't fix it, then the TV firmware is also buggy"). I'm not sure if you would call it "buggy" or not. But the TV firmware is definitely incomplete. The resulting mkv files *have* sps...

hahahah so you can see your program bug! I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but that comment was borderline offensive. In all likely hood there is no bug. HandBrake can't do everything for you. It's just not possible to distinguish all the ways that they can screw up a video. Experience is requ...

First Woodstock is *almost* right :mrgreen: When using detelecine, you must either leave the framerate set for variable, or set it to the correct constant framerate. It doesn't get converted back to telecine since telecine is inherently interlaced and HandBrake doesn't generate interlaced output. Wh...

*shrug*

Depends on your playback environment. For maximum compatibility, AAC would be the best choice. MP3 would probably be next best for compatibility and gives good quality, but many players won't play MP3 when it's used in the MP4 container. Best quality would be FLAC (it's "lossless"), but then you hav...

We should probably also have a link to HandBrake on flathub somewhere.
https://flathub.org/apps/details/fr.handbrake.ghb

Hmm, the "Warning about broken third-party builds" section should either just link to release and snapshot download pages or add links to flatpak releases and snapshots that are available from the respective download pages. The we should be pointing all non-ubuntu/debian linux users to the flatpaks.

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Thu Oct 25, 2018 3:58 am

... HB-converted files that other people have made, when played on my TV, don't have this problem.

It might be helpful to see the output of mediainfo for one of these files. Also, an encode log from your HandBrake encodes that don't work would tell us exactly what you are trying.

You want a final resolution of 720x576. I forgot that you'll have to bump the resolution back up. It doesn't automatically keep "max" resolution when changing crop values.

The cropping is definitely strange. Maybe the entire video is one very dark scene and it's misdetecting black borders. In any case, setting custom cropping with all 0 will result in a video that is 16:9 when played back.

If you don't want cropping, select custom and set all values to 0. Generally it is wasteful to disable auto-crop since it removes black borders that contain no content. But the fact that auto-crop detected such wide left and right borders is unusual. An activity log showing us the scan HandBrake doe...