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Try Avidemux instead. Two methods: GreyScale filter or MPlayer eq2 filter and drop the saturation.

Avidemux can transcode audio but process video in Copy mode.

Here is what is getting saved in presets.json. Note that "AudioSamplerate": "auto" is being stored. Recall that "auto" is being respected during the session in which the preset is saved. Just not in the next session. "ChildrenArray": [ { "AlignAVStart&quo...

Avidemux. It can loslessly merge/join. It can or transcode audio/video into all(?) the codecs and containers supported by HB. It's weak on batch and correcting bad aspect ratios. I use HB mostly, but use ADM for cases like this.

EDIT: FYI, still broken 1.1.2. Same behavior as before.
Preset maintains audio Auto sample rate within the session in which it was created. Exit HB. Reverts to 48 kHz sample rate for that preset after launching again.
Deleted Custom presets and re-created. Same issue.

For clarification, here are some screen shots:
expected audio settings (sample rate when I created the preset): https://imgur.com/cBm21UZ
actual audio settings from preset: https://imgur.com/jyUgFGr

Possibly the same issue reported here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=37966&p=178926#p178925

Possibly the same issue reported here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=37916

Description of problem or question: I created a custom preset that I use as my default. The audio uses self-compiled HE-AAC, 64 kbps bitrate, Auto sample rate. I noticed the encoded videos were using 48 kHz sample rate regardless of the source. For the default preset, after creating it, Auto sample...

jacop89 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 11:00 am Ok thanks... where can I find a guide for this operation?

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=34953#p163970

Ignore the politics and compile yourself for FDK-AAC. I'm not a programmer, and I do not think it's an easy task add FDK AAC to Windows GUI! Following the compiling instructions is trivial. You can literally copy / paste the commands from the narrative. Read carefully to make sure you're copying th...

Description of problem or question: After a failed encode, when I try to pull it off the queue to put it back on, HB gets stuck at Please Wait ... Scanning Title 1 of 1. There's nothing wrong with the videos. HB read it fine to get it on the queue the first time. If I drag / drop the original file ...

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/1.1.0/developer/build-windows.html Thanks. I built it on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) and HE-AAC is working. One note, the location of the nasm source is wrong. The instructions give the location with http protocol, but it needs https for the tarball p...

Description of problem or question: I noticed the 1.1.0 release news includes "FDK AAC 0.1.5 (AAC audio encoding, must compile from source )" I am using HE-AAC via FDK-AAC on Windows 10 x64 with one of the nightlies post 1.0.7 release (HandBrake Nightly 20171124174407-b43c7c3-master (2017...

If not HB command line, then maybe with ffmpeg. Here is a .bat file I made to "fix" some .m4a audio files that wouldn't play. It is written to use from Windows Explorer. Drag the files and drop them onto the .bat file. It loops through each of the files that are dropped onto it, running th...

... his next question will be "how do you know how much?". This happens to me quite a bit. If the source container is MP4 with either MP3 or AAC audio, I use MP3Gain and perform a Track Gain. Easy because it actually works on videos, so I don't have to separate the video from audio. AAC au...

Ivy Bridge (3xxx) to Coffee Lake (8xxx) would be that jump. CPU frequencies aren't much higher after 5 generations (25%?). Thinking about getting an i5-8xxx when they go mainstream later this year, but wondering if the extra money for an i7 is well spent or money-down-the-drain. On the flip side, Co...

I thought about that. One estimate is chips designs are 3-5 years away which don't have those vulnerabilities. So buying new right now isn't any more or less secure than what I'm running today.

rollin_eng wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2018 6:06 pm And I would probably wait until all this Meltdown/Spectre stuff is sorted out.

Description of problem or question I have an Intel Core i5. Feeling a lot of processor envy. Wondering if I swap it out for a Core i7, would hyper-threading cut the encode time in half? Typical encodes use AVC x.264 / HEVC x.265 and libav AAC / FDK-AAC. I sometimes use decomb, denoise, deblock, too...

Avidemux http://avidemux.sourceforge.net. It can copy the video stream and transcode the audio stream.

Please detail your question or problem in as much detail as possible: Having some issues with Handbrake's internal rules for renaming destination files. I've observed three patterns: this_is_a_test.mp4 --> This Is A Test.mp4 (convert underscore to space, convert to Camel Case) this is a test.mp4 --...

Barking up the wrong tree? I have used imagemagick to convert video to animated gif. Not sure about the supported containers and codecs, though. https://gist.github.com/CoolOppo/f54d86abe726bb7827e6 If all you need is to change the container without transcoding, then consider Avidemux. Note that the...

The audio defaults are part of the preset, so you have to save a new preset. Given your response, this feature needs some UI improvement. Audio --> Configure Defaults and Audio --> Reload Defaults are useless and greatly misleading buttons if they don't do anything and if their behavior is consiste...

Please detail your question or problem in as much detail as possible: Audio --> Configure Defaults --> Save is not persistent between HB sessions. New session gives AAC (avcodec), 96kbps Stereo. If I save a different default, close HB, launch HB, open a video, the saved audio settings are not used....