HandBrake

i dont want to jynx anything, but this is getting closer and closer to perfection

yeah just encode a chapter of something

Settings?

Can you sent me a small <10 mb clip of a chapter?

EXACTLY what options did you use?
try using the quicktime preset... if you didnt use h264 fugeddaboudit entirely

yep truf, but if not specified i always assume mp4/m4v, just because of the nature of mac/HB/ipod/atv, and yes i do know its a bad assumption-default that's just how it clicks in my head.... though if you had 1 audio and no subs why would you put xvid in mkv

yep, still there http://www.flickr.com/photos/21778870@N07/2106880378/ as for the forced subs, i see how the movie works. i thought it was a master subs track with forced subs, but now i think it's 2 separate tracks (1 with full subs, one with the foreign parts in subs), neither is forced, but the d...

crap, if i remember right ac3 only works correctly in the avi container, not the mp4/m4v. so if you are encoding xvid/ac3 use the avi container

the new gui is great! not TOO different from 1102, but here's what i've found (most of which i dont care about, just testing around) ah crap you already posted a new one, im talking about 1116 posted this morning (the only difference being the float/double change - was the gui even changed between t...

i really dont know if HB can do it, but qT pro can do it, literally copy-paste

use the HB autocrop, then double-tap (double click) the movie while watching it on the iphone to toggle between "show full picture and scale image to fit screen" and "crop image to fit screen" oh and don't use anamorphic encoding (doesn't matter if source is anamorphic, i don't b...

please provide exact settings used. i don't do much xvid encoding with handbrake, i usually use autogk. for h264 nothing tops HB. what is the sync issue? try using a prerelease of HB as this fixed a LOT of sync issues and the build that came out today is based on the all-new (sorta) CLI. is it out o...

no i'm not talking about the speed of the decoder, i've used (and use) ffdshow for about EVERYTHING except h.264, it just doesnt do jack for me. have you tried coreavc? best $10 i ever spent

**i could be wrong about this***

the best solution i have tested is the coreavc package (coreavc.com). ffdshow skipped around on my h264 files, coreavc plays them VERY nicely. definitely depends on your computer speed

the actual program file

alright tested on many videos.
this issue IS indeed resolved in 1102 (eddyg changed on 10/23, 1102 CLI is from 10/30)

however, with this cli a new chapter freezing issue has popped up here:
http://handbrake.m0k.org/forum/viewtopi ... 1714#21714

mod(s) please feel free to close this thread

hey so i started with the appletv preset and modified the hell out of it: deblock, denoise, 2pass, turbo 1st, 810 kbps -i "L:\blah" -t 1 -c 1-22 -o "J:\Movies\blah.m4v" -e x264 -E faac --deblock -p -m -b 810 -2 -T --denoise=medium -x bframes=3:ref=1:subme=5:me=umh:no-fast-pskip=1...

you could build directories for each version as long as you have the gui.exe, cli.exe and dll, and create shortcuts to each version on your desktop

what version of windows do you have? Also, do you see the picture of the pineapple by the file you're clicking? I'm assuming you're downloading/installing from the site

i wrote a little thing in autohotkey - it is LITERALLY a mouse and keyboard script that does the following launches the gui and manipulates it: -sets input numerically -sets output file name AND LOCATION based on input file name -auto-picks the title with the greatest number of chapters (i didnt kno...

if you are on a server OS like 2k3, (this setting also exists in XP and vista but is off by default) add the exe (both handbrake and the CLI) to the data execution prevention exceptions: right click my computer -->properties--> Advanced (tab) --> Performance Settings --> data execution prevention (t...

are you using auto crop/manual crop? try playing the movie in VLC and resizing it by hand. the goal is to notice if the black bars are hard coded into the movie (my guess is that they are and it's a cropping issue). if vlc plays this correctly without the side-black-bars ("columns") i'm go...

only 1 way to find out...

ah crap i thought the cli was the heart of the whole thing - would you happen to know if 1102 includes Ed's sound dropout fix cause that's the issue i was trying to deal with

thx again

yeah I just saw the 1102... I think I'll roll with that, thanks!

i would recommend ditching ac3 altogether. this may not sound like what you want, but it sounds like you are playing directly to your home theater system from an xp box. with ffdshow, it is possible to transcode 6ch AAC (which i would highly recommend over the now-outdated ac3) to AC3 for postproces...