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You can update your WD TV firmware to the latest beta it is supposed to address mkv sync issues.

See here. http://www.wdtvc.com/2009/05/19/wd-rele ... are-10208/

It's got to be worth a try.

Jesus that was quick John.

Thankyou.

I'm running Mandriva 2009.1 Gnome on a Centrino Duo (Yonah Core) laptop. I have been compiling from svn since the new year without issue, until today when I pulled down svn 2505. It compiled without issue but when I came to run it it crashed within 1 second of starting. I then pulled down revision 2...

If anyone knows how to add thumbnails that would solve my problem I use Metax http://www.kerstetter.net/page53/page54/page54.html or AtomicParsley. Metax is a lot easier. Also if you upgrade your WD TV firmware to the latest version thumbnails are supported by placing a jpeg file with the same file...

Does the WDTV play .m4v files? I've encoded a lot of videos into this format and am looking at getting a WDTV. Thanks in advance for your help. The last time I tried to play m4v the WDTV played it fine but FF and RWD didn't work. Renaming the extension to mp4 cured FF and RWD. (M4V and MP4 are the ...

From HandBrake Wiki which is here :- http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/ (It is an excellent resource). CABAC, or context adaptive binary arithmetic coding, is used by x264 to reduce the bitrate needed for a given quality by 15%. This makes it very cool and very useful, and it should be left on whenever ...

Looks like its a similar chipset to the WD TV HD. So heres how I would start. Start with the Apple TV Preset change the container to MKV remove the AAC audio track but retain the AC3 pass-thru track. Try a test encode. ie a single chapter of the DVD, and if you are not happy with the quality increas...

So I tried setting the framerate to standard listed previously and that did nothing. Ooops I probably could have made it clearer, but I meant for you to try a constant frame rate encode and then put it through mkvmerge if your original variable frame rate encode resulted in audio sync errors after ...

It's in your own Activity Log.

I found that re-muxing the mkv in mkvmerge cured the odd difficult mkv file HandBrake produced for me.
If that doesn't work due to audio sync issues, try setting a constant frame rate in Handbrake.

what is the major difference between lie presets?

Look towards the audio.

Apple Universal = aac + ac3 passthrough

Xbox 360 = aac only

If your happy with the Apple TV settings but want to use mkv then choose the Apple TV Preset and just change the container to MKV, it should result in a file of comparible size. That said, for PAL DVD rips I use the following but that doesn't mean that it is the best, it's just a good compromise bet...

I de-mux the mp4 into seperate tracks with MP4Box -raw before re-muxing to mkv with mkvmerge. I have never had any issues with the aac audio sync but I can't comment on ac3 as I don't tend to use it. I have to remember to set the fps in mkvmerge as it cannot ascertain it from the raw h264 stream. Ho...

As of the latest firmware V 1.02.07 Thumbnails are now supported with mkv and avi. they are not embedded in the file as with mp4, just jpgs renamed to match the video file. For me this probably removes the last restriction from using mkv over mp4 on the WD TV. Advantages of using mkv over mp4 on WD ...

Gotsent will take an MKV and demux-convert audio to aac-remux to MP4 all in one click Now where's the fun in that? No seriously thanks for your input, but I'll stick to mkvextract and MP4Box as I like to feel like I'm in control, (probably another character flaw). Plus it looks to be Windows only. ...

@ Terc If we can move aac audio from mkv to mp4 and we can get the video over in another method, then I suspect some combination of tools could do both I'm not sure I understand your problem. But if you are saying that the audio in the mkv is aac then mkvextract will extract the audio as aac and MP4...

Every standard definition encode I have done with HandBrake has played fine on the WD TV HD, no matter what x264 option was set or unset, mkv or mp4. It is very forgiving. If the file plays on your mac then it should play on the WD TV HD. The problem probably is in something your doing when copying ...

Good to know. My reply, sorry for the brevity, was focused on HandBrake, as that's what this forum is about. Doom9 is a great place to learn about lots of other tools available. I agree that your reply was probably of more use to the OP. I was probably just being a pedant. It's one of my many chara...

No re-encoding of video required just audio. Heres the way I do it on the linux command line. I would think it would be very similar on OSX or Windows. Tools required mkvtoolnix, a52dec or ffmpeg, neroAacEnc or faac, gpac (MP4Box). If audio in mkv is other than ac3 then I use ffmpeg or vorbis-tools ...

I have just blown the cpu cooling vents out, whilst an encode was in progress. I used a Giottos Rocket Air Blower that I usually use for blowing cruft off my DSLR sensor (I didn't feel comfortable using compressed air due to the condensation). CPU temp dropped from 84 to 58 deg C and after 30 minute...

Am I to understand that I couldn't achieve all of the above using just handbrake? With the 0.9.3 HandBrake GUI No I don't think so. Although the current SVN (2344) (at least on linux) looks like it could do it. So it appears to be some thing the devs are working towards. Also, must the disc be conv...

If the file is an mp4 I use MP4Box to change the par of the file so it displays as 16:9 This I have to work out on a case by case basis. As I live in UK I'll use a PAL rip as an example. To calculate the required par. lets assume at a par of 1:1 the video displays at 4:3 ie 720x540. and we want it t...

I don't have a Dell Mini but I do have an Acer Aspire One (Same cpu, similar graphics) on which I run Mandriva 2009 Gnome and Vlc 0.9.8. For DVD rips I find the Apple TV preset @ a CRF of 0.59 , less the AC3 audio track (No call for it) works just fine. Unless you are going to play back onto an exte...

Here's what I have learned over the last month. Western Digital TV-HD Video Capabilities. Part 1. Learned from the Web. 1. mpeg-2 MP@HL up to 1920x1080p24, 1920x1080i30 or 1280x720p60 resolution. 2. mpeg4.2 asp@HL. Rectangular shape video decoding up to 1280x720p30 resolution, support for B Pictures...

Avidemux has an inbuilt vobsub ripper.
There are Mac binarys available here: http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/download.html