HandBrake

What did you use to rip / decode the DVD?

Have you tried disabling libdvdnav in the Preferences (restart of handbrake required)?

So I have to make a blind guess on how much to tweak? Because the filesize varies from 20-30 MB off. I hope the Handbrake dev's will make a fix for this problem in one of the updates. Seems less than likely, as target file size is widely seen as the Least Good option. Constant quality is recommended.

DarkReverser wrote:The code for calling external programs already exists; it's merely a copy/paste and a few tweaks.

What in the world are you talking about.

Use the Apple TV preset appropriate for the generation of device you own. First gen = "Apple TV", second gen = "Apple TV 2" If you own the first gen Apple TV, you have a device with some notable limitations for encoding that will result in slightly lower quality than if you owned...

What are you using for playback?

What did you use to rip the Windows version? Read first paragraph of: https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/WindowsGuiGuide

What sources are you using (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.)?

What is your playback device (VLC on your Mac, Apple TV, etc.)?

You'll never get quality BETTER than the source you started with. So if you're encoding from DVDs, for example, you'll never get better than DVD quality.

While not directly your problem, this:

hatesand wrote: [16:39:05] + quality: 12.75 (RF)

is well into the realm of insanity. Sane RF values are 19-21 for standard def, and 21-23 for high def sources.

Is there a way to recall a history from the log. When it was finished, I did not save the log to a text file or anything (although I will start for this exact reason). If there is a way to recall the log, I will definitely get that in here. I will give the suggestion for Plex a try also. It makes s...

Activity Log? Screen cap showing the combing/artifacts?

Yeah that'll do it. FYI, I think the rationale is that they can't guarantee that the power adapter will be able to provide sufficient power during high CPU usage and they might have to fail over to the battery to supplement. Which seems odd, but glad you figured it out.

Also, post an activity log from one of the older encodes that ran faster, so we can see if there are any noticeable differences. Encode logs are stored to disk at ~/Library/Application Support/Handbrake/EncodeLogs

That doesn't help in the slightest. I am having the same issue: I own: (1) the French Blu-Ray of EMMANUELLE (2) the Anchor Bay DVD release of EMMANUELLE I am in the process of creating an MKV so I can mux the English audio dub onto the movie, since the French blu-ray only has French audio. So I own...

prelude wrote:I'll have to take my chances I guess and see if 0.9.6 will compile and work when the time comes

Doubt it, if anything compatibility will be worse.

Professor Song wrote:The exact same thing has been troubling me. Plays for a couple seconds, and then freezes. It has rendered Handbrake useless! Horribly frustrating. The videos only play through VLC now, no longer able to use QuickTime of iTunes.

And your activity log is where...?

Again, you doubt quick sync can come close to x264... instead of guessing and doubting, lets look at the evidence. Right now there is only a tiny bit of evidence... Maybe not definitive... but points to quick sync being faster and better at the same time... If someone thinks that software will domi...

I would suggest *against* using a laptop for transcoding movies, as mentioned above the cooling is often insufficient to sustain a high processor load for a long time. Most laptops are designed for brief periods/bursts of activity. You're going to be running this thing for HOURS to transcode HD vid...

Unless the DVD was mastered to have a title where all the episodes play, you'll have to encode each individually. There are some third party applications that can join files (mkvmerge, for example).

0.9.4 is no longer supported. Could you try encoding one of the movies that didn't have audio with the new 0.9.5?

Yeah you're right, I thought he said ATV and not ATV2. My bad.

That doesn't look like the AppleTV preset to me. That's another issue though. Under "Picture Settings" change Decomb to "Default" and try the encode again.

From the big red box:
"Activity Log is required for support requests."

Big red box:

"Activity Log is required for support requests. Posts without will likely be ignored!"

I'm assuming that the "cropped" or missing 128 pixels in height is the letterboxing. Yes With regard to presets on the upper right toggle pane, what really _are_ the output differences between Apple, Regular Normal, Regular High Profile, and Legacy? The FAQ is very sketchy on this. Search...

If you click on "browse" you should see all of your attached drives on the lefthand side of the window. If you want to save to a drive on a different computer, you'll have to mount it first in Finder (Go > Connect to Server), then it'll appear.