HandBrake

To change the preferred audio language: Open this file with a text editor (Text Edit, Text Wrangler...) ~/Library/Automator/Batch Encode.action/Contents/Resources/batchEncode.sh and change on Line 60: # SET PREFERRED AUDIO LANGUAGE audioLanguage="Deutsch" # set to English, Espanol, Franca...

First of all, Mac.Jedi - fantastic work, thank you very much for putting all the work into this as well as supporting. Quick question about presets since the Handbrake documentation hasn't been updated yet for 0.9.4. If I want to continue using the Universal preset in conjunction with this work flo...

i'm having a small issue with the new method of encoding. i've got two external dvd drives on my mac (internal drive doesn't work) if i put a disc in the one connected via firewire, it works just fine but if i put a disc in the one connected via usb2, then FairMount seems to take about twice as lon...

macjedi, I am running the 0.9.4 mac gui 64-bit version of handbrake, and also vlc 1.0.2 64-bit, because apparently 1.0.3 vlc is not working in 64bit and won't be for some time. is there any problem that you see with me continuing with 1.0.2 and implementing your process flow and associate tools? Pl...

Hi, very fantastic how to. Where i can change the options Language to German Preferred Audio Language: English want to German Thank You Michael Hi Michael, Thanks for your post! Right now the default language is English. I need to write a subroutine to parse all the different languages, hopefully I...

sorry - forgot to say. Just wanted to confirm that if we previously had the Folder Actions set up on the /Volumes directory then we should now remove that because it is superseeded by the Dispatcher, yes? Hi again, The folder action is disabled when the dispatcher is activated. You can trash it if ...

firstly i wanted to add my thanks to everyone elses to mac.jedi for both taking the time to collate all the different steps required and provide such a detailed guide, but then also to hang around and be so helpful to all of us that have had issues. i'd always put off encoding my dvd collection bec...

ANNOUNCEMENT: BATCH RIP ACTIONS UPDATED, AGAIN. I did another update to Batch Rip.action and Batch Encode.action at about 4:30PM PST. I highly recommend re-downloading and re-installing to replace the actions if you've previously downloaded v1.0.4. The fix I made earlier, didn't fix the issue. Shou...

ANNOUNCEMENT: BATCH RIP ACTIONS UPDATED I did a stealth update to Batch Rip.action and Batch Encode.action at about 8:30AM PST. I highly recommend re-downloading and re-installing to replace the actions if you downloaded v1.0.4 last night or this morning. The Dirt - The change was a small one, the ...

drawkward wrote:Thank you for the 1.04 update - does it install over 1.03? or should I remove the 1.03 files?

Hi drawkward,

No need to remove 1.0.3. If you run the installer, it'll know if it's upgrading you or doing a new install.

Thanks, mac.jedi

ANNOUNCEMENT: BATCH RIP ACTIONS UPDATED Update 2009-12-02 Release Notes Batch Rip Actions for Automator 1.0.4 Everything Provides general fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and functionality of Batch Rip Actions for Automator. In other words, I fixed a lot of stuff, but forgot write th...

The arguments I put in the "Use Custom DVD Settings" box were "--preset=\"AppleTV\" -U -F -N eng", but the movie still came through without the subtitles. Hi Again, The arguments you are using are outdated. Are you using HandBrakeCLI v0.9.4? If not, go ahead and instal...

mac.jedi Many thanks for the tutorial and the scripts. They have already been very useful for me - ripping my dvd collection and encoding files automatically in the early morning. Today, when encoding seven movies, the log file seems to show that each movie was encoded two times, and the length of ...

mac.jedi, Brilliant post. I've been using handbrake automation for a while now and was very happy to see it's been updated to take advantage of the newest version of handbrake. I do have one small problem, though. I used this argument " -U -F -N eng --decomb" to check and set subtitles an...

when I insert a dvd into my mac (10.6 all updates) nothing comes up in the volumes folder so my workflows never get triggered I'm using all 64 bit versions of all the software involved and have tried many different dvd's none of which mount in the volumes folder. help? Hi Again, If you are still ha...

ERROR: FairMount.app command tool is not setup to execute ERROR: attempting to use tool at /Applications/FairMount/FairMount.app ERROR: FairMount.app command tool could not be found ERROR: FairMount.app can be installed in ./ /usr/local/bin/ /usr/bin/ ~/ or /Applications/ Hi nizz, I'm sorry you are...

Mac Jedi, Now that 0.9.4 is out, and changes for instance for MetaX (which version), etc. I just installed the 64-bit 0.9.4 GA release, and am going to be implementing your workflow, which is extremely thorough and excellently written. I look forward to it, just didn't know if any substantive chang...

Is there any way I can set the Batch Encode action to encode HD content differently based on whether it is a TV show or Movie? Hi mrwiggles, Thanks for posting! The only way to setup different encode settings for TV & Movies is to create two separate Services. Have one target the TV Shows folde...

The one problem I have run into is for the "Encode HD Sources" button in the Batch Encode workflow. I'm not working with Blue-Ray myself and so don't have any of the HD software installed, but I do have 720p .mkv files I'd like to convert. When I enable the checkbox, the terminal window o...

I actually prefer the configuration where it encodes all tracks of valid length. For those that want to the same but don't want to dig into the code, you can just "pretend" your movie sources are tv shows and put them in the Batch Rip TV folder. Then all the tracks will be encoded between...

I've never experienced a situation where the batch encode only does a single track when multiple are present. I did a little more digging and found that there is a problem with the code on line 436. At some point I changed the titleList from a list with each title as a line to a space delimited str...

Hi Again, I've never experienced a situation where the batch encode only does a single track when multiple are present. Perhaps I've missed a setting somewhere in the workflow? As discussed in the tutorial, "If the input source resides in your Batch Rip Movies folder, or its Spotlight comment i...

In a previous post, I had asked about working around discs that have more than one track that meets the length requirements (all of them would be encoded with the same file name, so I'd end up with just the last track). Hi th3_m45t3r, For movies, there is already code that selects only the longest ...

I've updated the main.command file found in the package of the Rename Movie Items action (same version release as above). This change requires a few more lines of code, though: main.command new Lines (starting at line 25): set theFile to "$1" set d to text item delimiters set text item de...

jkbuster wrote:Thanks for an awesome how-to!!

Have you considered making a nice pdf version for downloading and printing?

JKB

Hi Jkbuster,
Thanks for posting! There's a PDF in the Batch Rip Actions Installer for offline viewing.

Thanks again, mac.jedi