HandBrake

When you created this directory, did you decrypt the DVD with something as you copied it, or just do a raw dump of the files?

Handbrake does not do disk decryption by itself.

You might also want to look at some of the other scripts posted here, to see if there are any other features you want to add.

That depends upon what you selected as the preview viewer...

[11:59:10] * Foreign Audio Search: Passthrough, Forced Only [11:59:10] + subtitle, English (track 1, id 0x20bd) Picture [VOBSUB] [11:59:10] + subtitle, English (Closed Caption) (track 2, id 0x21bd) Picture [VOBSUB] Maybe someone will correct me on this, but... I have not gotten iTunes to properly h...

Ripping with MakeMKV right now might be a problem - the beta test key expired a few days ago, and the author hasn't put up a new one yet. So you have to set your system date back before starting MakeMKV, or it will say it is too old. After it is running, the date can be reset to current.

libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 5.0.1 libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable. libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00fd0000. Regions: 2 libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable. What are you using to decrypt the DVD? Handbrake does not do that on its own. A tool designe...

Not sure what the issue is. I've opened both of your test files, scanned them, and even encoded them. The logs show no anomalies.

My test was done on Windows 7, however.

There are no settings in handbrake that will truly "sharpen" a video. There are some that could make the variations between colors less smooth, but "sharper" requires some frame-by-frame analysis that an encoder isn't going to do.

Since current versions of handbrake insert PGS subtitles into MKV files just fine, you are likely suffering from "did I really request any subtitles be added?" syndrome. Log files would show that.

Bradley, did you read some of the reviews on the Intensity, where the hardware requirements are mentioned?

Probably just fine for recording low-res sources like are being discussed here, though. Unless your USB chip set is not up to snuff.

Get a high-quality video encoder that has composite and S-Video inputs, and then use whatever appropriate player for VHS, LaserDisk, Beta, or whatever. The better your analog-to-digital recorder, the fewer problems you'll have later. There really isn't a need to use DVD as an intermediate step. If y...

[15:25:02] macgui: ScanDone state received from fHandle [15:25:02] macgui: showNewScan: This is a new source item scan [15:25:56] macgui: trying to open video_ts folder (video_ts folder chosen) [15:25:56] macgui: trying to open a physical dvd at: /Volumes/Untitled Project/VIDEO_TS [15:25:56] macgui...

And also the template does not seem to enforce putting quotes around the input and output paths.

However, "Alert and Convert" seems to be an abandoned (that is, unsupported) project, as the company's domain is "parked" with no content.

Your template looks like a printf() function template, which is then used as part of a shell script that calls handbrake.

As rollin points out, your question is for whoever wrote the program that computes the values going into that shell script.

[17:30:19] sync: got 22922 frames, 207448 expected This looks like the ripping process hit an error on the disk. Handbrake took it as "end of source", and finished things up. As suggested, a tool intended for ripping will at least give you better error detection and reporting, because WHY...

Wasn't there a rather long topic on how to get the ATV to respond properly to audio tracks about a month or two ago?

The problem is that the registry work-around that was available in Win 7/8 was specifically disabled by Microsoft for Win 10. The simplest "fix" is to plug a fake monitor adapter, also known as a "Display Emulator", into the motherboard port. I found that it was better to use ano...

Did you finalize the DVD before moving it to handbrake? Also, the large number of audio sync errors is consistent with other threads here of over-the-air video streams having issues with jumping time stamps. Unfortunately, the "best tool" for what you need to do isn't available for the Mac...

No guesses without information.

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You know, if you had provided the log from the encode, as mentioned in the RED ON PINK note at the top of the page, we might have information necessary to answer your support request.

MakeMKV does no compression on the video - it's just as it comes off the disk. Handbrake can be used on the MKV file and, converting the video to h.264 compression, will shrink the size significantly. How significantly? Depends upon the source and your preferences. The "Normal" preset work...

For future reference, when looking at Windows events, you can open the event viewer, find the event in question, and use copy and paste to post the text from the event. From your ability to encode using other presets, the one preset probably is corrupted. I would rename it to get it out of the way, ...

Apparently you aren't decrypting the DVD, which is why the video looks so bad.

Tools like MakeMKV and others are designed to rip video from disks (unlike handbrake) know how to deal with encryption, and generate files that work well with handbrake.

When it crashes, Windows should make an entry into the Event Viewer about it. Can you pull that up and post it, please?

Sorry, but its too late for that log now and I also don't see how a log would help when this was a simple question RE audio settings rather than an error. Earlier you asked: Question however, why does handbrake incorrectly show the DTS HD MA track as 5.1 when it is infact 7.1 when I ripped it with ...