HandBrake

Default and burn-in are mutually exclusive. The former includes a separate subtitle track and flags it as the default, the latter actually burns the text into the image.

Forced can be used in combination with either of those options.

Right near the top of the main window where it says [Chapters] [x] through [y]. You can also cut by seconds or frames.

Virtual Speaker is something that the decoder/playback device handles, not the encoder.

Video stream + audio stream + overhead. Sounds like you added a 256k audio stream to your 1024k video stream.

Yeh. Makes it far easier to drag/drop re-order them though. I'm toying with the idea of removing the "Status" text but I'm not sure if the Icon will convey enough to the user. I may still rejig the ordering to try get it into a 3 liner. How about two? You could move the status text up int...

I mean encode from the original DVDs, not ripped copies.

Go back to the original DVDs. You'll get better quality that way, too

gradha wrote:I've tried VLC, Movist and MPlayer but they all suck in terms of frame stepping to select the frame I want.

I don't know if the OSX version works exactly the same, but in the Windows version of VLC, pressing E while paused jumps exactly one frame ahead. Doesn't get much more accurate than that.

(and by the way my HB runs a normal priority per default on my) There's your problem then. When launched from the GUI, handbrakeCLI defaults to BelowNormal, which is low enough for a simple application like a browser to run relatively unimpeded alongside. You'll find an option to set it even lower ...

bobmane wrote:would it be worth me booting into OSX to do this or not that much different?

If you're going to encode AAC with handbrake then OSX is the better option. I'm not sure what Vegas uses to encode AAC.

Would help to know what your sources and playback devices are. There's no "one size fits all" solution.

Handbrake doesn't support audio-only encoding. You'll have to find another program to do that.

IMO, the best solution would be to trim the commercials, station intros and such. Makes for a better viewing experience, too. There are several tools that will allow you to do that in losslessly, without re-encoding, so it only takes a few minutes per movie.

how about adding a bitrate cap to the Constant Quality setting? If that were the default, then the quality wouldn't be constant anymore. Noisy sources are pretty easy to identify, so why not lower the RF in advance or apply a denoise filter? That said, the option is already there (vbv-maxrate=x, wh...

I haven't downloaded any nightlies in a while, but I can tell you that 4713 still included the old UI.

Blu-ray sources are usually cleaner, so the same movie downsized to 480p from Blu-ray usually looks much better than an encode from a 480p DVD at the same RF. If what you're after is DVD quality, you can easily bump up the RF a couple of points to save disk space and get result comparable to what yo...

The encoding times sound normal to me given the weak CPU. Judging the output size is impossible without knowing the input material.

Have you tried simply using the normal preset (+decomb for interlaced sources)?

SCART is an analog connector. The best you can do with it is RGB at 576i, so the DVD player has nothing to do with the deinterlacing process in that case.

In most cases, a folder of MakeMKV titles won't be treated differently than a DVD file structure (with the exception that MakeMKV throws out shorter titles by default). In the case of a badly authored DVD, I don't think it would matter anyway. A DVD with multiple episodes thrown together into a sing...

I think thats a strange ordering. It's not that weird if you consider that originally, the rear speakers weren't supposed to be directional. They were meant to create a diffuse sound field to add depth rather than let the listener hear sounds coming directly from the back. It was only later that th...

On the audio tab there are checkboxes for each codec that can be passed through. By default, none of them are checked. As long as that is the case, auto passthrough will fail and the track will be re-encoded.

Handbrake will treat a folder with multiple video files like a DVD with different titles.

DerickGMoore wrote:P.S. I just noticed that 'HandBrake' is flagged as misspelled! I don't think so!

That would be your browser's doing, not the forum.

That's just the resolution (1080p = 1920x1080, 720p = 1280x720, 480p = 720x480, etc), not an indicator of overall quality.

Could you elaborate on that? If it's not producing usable encodes, what would be the point in benchmarking it?