HandBrake

i'm running handbrake on my powerbook on osX 10.4.7..mpeg4 with aac audio set at 1500 kbps 2 pass encoding... the dvd is less than 2 hours long and handbrake is telling me it's gonna take over 10 hours! is this normal!!??? or am i doing something wrong??? That's about right. It's a lot of work this...

I can confirm that cabac=0 does work. Movies that had nasty jitter are now jitter free. FYI here is my recipe using two pass: HandBrakeCLI --longest -i "$dvd" -o "$dvd.mp4" -e x264 -q0.75 -v -x bframes=3:subme=1:me=dia:trellis=0:analyse=none:cabac=0:pass=1:stats=$dvd.stats HandBr...

If this is covered elsewhere, I apologize in advance, but is it possible to use scene selection or is that feature just gone once converted? Thanks! It's just plain gone I'm afraid. The scene selection is part of the DVD Menus, you no longer have a DVD, you have a video file. What you can do is ski...

OK I was out with reading the structure. And looks like I was wrong thinking that the pre/post commands were responsible for selecting the default sub-picture stream. I found some nice functions in ifo_print.h that dump out the PGC and command tables. According to it LoTR has the following for the t...

Not possible with current code, see the following thread

http://handbrake.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=669

Mmm.. the commands aren't making much sense so far, at least not to the parser in dvdread. No setting of the subpicture anyway. Audio Stream Number = g[1] g[14] = 0x0 if ( WARNING: Unknown general register == WARNING: Unknown general register ) WARNING: Unknown link instruction [WARNING, unknown bit...

Hi, Has anyone attempted to get Handbrake to parse the PreCmds from the DVD command table? This looks as if it is the only way of enabling default subtitles. I've got handbrake dumping out the contents of the table, and it's a small step to interpret them (or I could link in libdvdnav to do the same...

Hi, Well I think I've figured out how this is supposed to work. The DVD has a command table of instructions that do things like enable subtitles by default. When the DVD is started it reads a pre-command table. I've got handbrake reading this command table and dumping the output: [16:04:16] scan: de...

When using vbv-maxrate do you need to use two-pass? I was thinking that it may need the first pass in order to know the bitrate in the first place?

Cheers, Ed.

Ah - in that case, set both bitrate and vbv_maxrate to 5000, I thought it was published as 2500 for H.264. Rodney 2500 was chosen for the average bitrate as a good compromise between quality and file size. I find 2500 average quite good myself except for the stutter when changing scenes to a pannin...

The AppleTV says that it can handle 5000kbps maximum bitrate, so maybe vbv-maxrate=5000 would ensure that we don't peak above that when doing average bitrate encoding? A bit of experimenting with a problem scene should iron this one out without dropping cabac. With cabac the AppleTV may be limited t...

Cool, I'll start thinking about integrating this into the repository before the next beta. What do you want for your entry in the AUTHORS file? BTW, minor detail -- in the list of short options: hvuC:f:i:o:t:L:c:ma:6:s:e:E:2dgpw:l:n:b:q:S:B:r:R:Qx:Y:X: ...pretty sure you don't need a colon after th...

The key here is how do you know which "English" subtitle track is the correct one to use without actually encoding the movie first. For example LOTR Return of the King has three different English subtitle tracks. Ideally we could autoselect the same one that the DVD player selects when cho...

jbrjake wrote:Yeah I spend around as long researching and writing the tooltips for each one as I do coding the actual widget.

In fact, rather than copying over from the wiki, the tooltips are going to be copied over to flesh out the wiki page.

Good stuff!

Little Miss Sunshine - encoded using HB latest SVN with AppleTV preset During the teenager melt down scene there is 5 minutes of stutter on the AppleTV. Watched it many times, same problem every time at the same place. Watched the same scene on my Mac Pro, no stutter. I suspect that the AppleTV trul...

I had to make a minor change to the diff to scan all titles up front when searching for the longest one: *** test/test.c Tue May 22 14:01:46 2007 --- ../HandBrake/test/test.c Tue May 22 14:42:45 2007 *************** *** 20,25 **** --- 20,26 ---- static char * output = NULL; static char * format = NU...

I was thinking something like the following for the CLI: (the diff is a little mangled, but you get the idea) *** test/test.c Tue May 22 14:01:46 2007 --- ../HandBrake/test/test.c Tue May 22 14:07:14 2007 *************** *** 20,25 **** --- 20,26 ---- static char * output = NULL; static char * format...

Afaik, HandBrakeCLI uses the first title that contains video. If that's not the correct title, you should use -t command line option to select the one you want. Mac GUI selects the longest title by default, because that's what you usually want to do anyway. Thanks... OK - let's say I wanted to add ...

Hi, I've been noticing that the HandbrakeCLI selects a different Title to encode to Handbrake. I have a script setup that uses the HandbrakeCLI (latest SVN), that will sometimes select the wrong title. Then when I use the GUI version on the same DVD it selects the right title. I've been looking thro...

Hi, Just thought I'd say that I really like the new look GUI for the advanced options in the latest SVNs. It's handy being able to have the option of either pasting in a string or using the GUI. I tend to paste in a favourite and then fine tune using the GUI. It would be really nice to have little &...

Hi All: I have encoded a few movies using the HandBreak AppleTV preset. However it seems that the movies sometimes need to buffer while watching them or that they freeze on a frame for a second, but then are fine. Should I attempt to lower the Average Bitrate? Movies with lower bitrates do not seem...

The only consistent thing so far is inconsistency (at least between users. Some never have issues with a given method.) This sounds like some sort of race condition in the pipeline somewhere. The fact that it varies from time to time and computer to computer. Maybe something bad happens when the pi...

Hi, Handbrake just crashed on me, first time. It crashed when I Quit after processing 8 jobs in a queue. Processing all went well. The crash looks like: Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000044 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 org.m0k.handbrake 0x00016ba4 hb_get_st...