HandBrake

you'll notice that vbv-maxrate=20000:vbv-bufsize=20000 will give you 40000 at 1.00 sec peak That's correct assuming the "buffer" is 100% full, IE that it's preceded by a section that was slow enough that the decoder was so much faster that it could fill the buffer to 100%. The closer the ...

I encode all of my blu-rays for Apple TV 3 with High Profile (1920x1080p), Constant Quality of 18. This produces exquisite results, but I have 3 troublesome discs that produce such a high bitrate that the ATV3 chokes on it. What you need is known as "VBV", JohnAStebbins provided a link to...

If I understand you correctly, the only way around this problem would be to use "vbv-maxrate=20000", right ? I've chosen 20.000 as I believe that this shoule be doable over a LAN link, would you agree ? Or would 25.000 also be ok? As Rodeo noted vbv-maxrate does nothing unless you also sp...

I like to keep an eye on the Dev forums, from time to time. He is Bob, eager for fun. He wears a smile. Everybody run! Smart Bob is Donald Graft's biggest claim to fame, except Don doesn't like to brag. Goes back to around the turn of the (21st) century, iirc. DG's Smart Bob is impressive, especial...

For a lot of examples: http://www.100fps.com/ Not sure exactly how intelligent HandBrake's new Bob filter is but it's going to be a noticeable improvement on what was available before for certain type of media. Note that HandBrake "Decomb:Bob" is not as good as the Bob+Weave they show ther...

So if you have Win 7 64bit, I'd recommend downgrading to 0.9.5 (32-bit), getting libdvdcss-2.dll from http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.11/ (32-bit), copying and renaming it as mentioned earlier, and setting the compatibility mode for handbrake.exe to "Win XP (SP 2)". Big tha...

I've noticed that many purveyors of "completely legitimate" mkvs and mp4s online often turn all their encoder settings to 11 in the quest for maximum quality, even though this often breaks spec. When encoding, I encoded the file multiple times using crfs of 16,18, and 20. No where near 11...

Strict maintains the original aspect ratio of the source exactly. Loose rounds it down to meet certain criteria (by default, mod16, meaning "evenly dividable by 16"), which can result in a slight stretching of the final image. Any rescaling leads to some quality loss, but HandBrake uses a...

Problem: jaggedness, jaggies, jagged motion in scenes of high motion / lots of lighting changes / and or things like fog and dust. Sounds like interlacing artifacts. The options to play with is Detelecine and Decomb. Decomb looks for signs of interlacing and deinterlace them, using different method...

It also makes me wonder what bluray uses. For H.264, level 4.1 for all primary video streams, regardless of resolution (even SD). That's one of the common mistakes people do, Blu-ray does not support level 4.1 despite often tagging their bitstream as such. One result of this is that there's a consi...

Are equal RF values producing the same visual quality regardless of the preset used? I.e. is HighProfile RF20 (in terms of visual quality) the same as AppleTV2 RF20? x264 tries to keep the quality at a given RF the same but it's also known that High Profile enables a couple of options that usually ...

Is the anamorphic function something that one would only use for wide-screen video, or is it a good idea to encode 4:3 aspect ratio video anamorphic as well? Normally I'd use anamorphic (and "strict" or "loose mod 2" because all my devices can handle it) on all to avoid rescalin...

1. Apple often, but not always uses [Censored] or Hitachi-LG DVD drives. If you have one of these in your mac, and you've set your Region, you only have FOUR more times to reset the region before it is PERMANENTLY locked at the firmware level. (I wonder how this would affect a mac that has been ref...

All five seasons of Get Smart on PAL DVD exhibit motion judder when ripped using HandBrake's Universal and Apple TV 2 presets. The problem is mainly noticeable when the picture is panning, but also occurs when there is fast motion in a scene. This is one of the oldest shows I've ripped, and I'm won...

Thank you but I will decide what browser to use. I use Internet Explorer and have done so for 10 years without a problem. If this is the sort of advice and help I get at this site, from a simple request and I would say a polite one as per your sticky and FAQ's then I don't think I will bother to ge...

VLC for Windows is built differently than VLC for Mac, so HandBrake can't use its copy of libdvdcss. Correct, but it can use the libdvdcss from GStreamer for Windows, but due to lack of search paths it's necessary to copy and rename the library file. I believe this was first documented by glyxor in...

Have a look at the A.C. Ryan's also. Just laid my hands on one and plays everything properly and just getting acquainted with YAMJ (Yet Another Movie Jukebox). I am impressed so far. One of the more fully featured media players are from Popcorn Hour, from the YAMJ pages it's also the original platf...

A quick Google search seems to suggest that your device should also support the MKV container. I don't need Google...my device plays MKV, but when I play a MKV movie and I change the chapters or rewind/forward, the movie is played too fast (like 2x) and without audio. If that's a MKV created by Han...

I know what dolby pro logic is, but if i were to trake a HD 5.1 passthru track and run it on only a 2 speaker setup for the time being, how would it sound? I would run this on an hdtv with a pair of audioengine A2 and a media center pc. I really just want to reduce blu-ray size and keep video/audio...

if the issue is a hardware problem, how exactly do i go about figuring out which piece of hardware is casuing the issue? Flail around and replace component after component? :wink: Seriously, there's no cookie cutter method to find out without having a lot of extra components at hand and swapping th...

tried vidcoder, but crashed just like handbrake. downloaded the prime95 and started a stress test. crashed about a minute after it started. ran a virus check with MSE and found nothing. Well, the symptoms said "likely a hardware issues" from the start, crashing with prime95 pretty much co...

When will the nightly build be update with the latest CLI code including the fix for this problem. The CLI has not been updated in the most recent nightly build (svn4324). I tried building the CLI myself from SVN (svn4324) for Windows 64 using MinGW on Ubunto 11.10, but I hit a bunch off errors wit...

Thank you for sorting it out for me. A classic source code fork may solve the problem, though. That would require a developer to be interested, in which case it would likely already be available in HandBrake. You clearly have no idea on how Open Source development is done, know a few Buzz-words isn...

Take these benchmarks with a pinch of salt; it's well known that Intel's compiler cripples AMD CPUs on Windows. If you're running Linux, you'll get pure, unadulterated speed on any 1xxxt X6 cpu. It only affects a small number of programs that are compiled on (IIRC older?) Intel compilers, though so...

Anybody know what in the world is going on here? I agree with Rodeo, the UPS seems to think you're exceeding what your UPS can provide, at which point an UPS either switches to pass-through mode (better models) or stops providing power. Video encoding causes the CPU to draw pretty much the max poss...