HandBrake

If you read it, it explains how to do it... things like "where is the file?" are covered. We don't even know what player you are using. Some have had AC3 support REMOVED, due to licensing issues, especially if they run on Apple devices. That would mean an AC3 pass-through is an "inval...

Consider this - if you're working with a DVD source, you've already given up a lot of quality. 16 is overkill, given the source. 14 is asking for better rendition of the noise in the original.

Start iTunes. Click File. Click Add File to Library. Find file in your file system and select it. Click Open. Chant mantra, "I pray that iTunes will accept this offering of a video file" repeatedly, until iTunes returns control to you. As long as the file extension is correct (.m4v) and yo...

And the activity log for your scan of this disk can be found..... where? Without it, we have a pretty picture, and no information to work with.

That's why there's a pink box with red letters in it, describing what your need to provide along with your question.

A forum search for "VP9" would give you a topic that describes why VP9 is not currently in Handbrake, and what it will take to move forward with adding it.

Just to check, you saved the custom preset AFTER you used the "switch to defaults" page in the Audio settings page to make the changes?

I do not believe settings like gain are retained, just selection criteria.

"DVD" is not a valid source identifier. What is the path that your DVD drive appears in your operating system?

The reasons it is not in handbrake have been explained before - hence the admonition about searching first. Joining video together is the function of video editing software. Handbrake is not video editing software. Therefore, joining videos together is not an appropriate suggestion to add to Handbra...

On subtitle screen, click "Switch to defaults". Set defaults. Save your preset.

It's called "scripting", it is done with the Command Line (CLI) version of handbrake, and how you do it depends upon your operating system and programming skills, in all honesty. In the CLI portion of the forum, you can find scripts that do some of what you ask for. Be warned that deleting...

If Handbrake is "scanning" the disk, it is probably because there is some software translating it for handbrake. Usually, such software can also convert the contents directly into MKV files, so only the specific file needs to be handled by Handbrake. Adding such a feature to Handbrake assu...

You need DVD authoring software, if you expect to make a DVD that can play in a DVD player. Handbrake is not DVD authoring software.

The authoring software will either have to support one of the container types that allow MPEG2 video, or it will have to re-encode the output of Handbrake to MPEG2.

A thought - have you tried applying any noise filtering to the encode? Visually noisy sources will use more bandwidth to encode.

But, a 1920x1080 source, scaled to a 720 width, would be around 405 pixels high, which isn't 480. To "perfectly scale" to 720x480, it would have to be a 1440 width source. Does the GUI allow you to distort the picture shape that much, to turn a 16x9 into a 4:3? I know you can tell the CLI ...

You need to save your current settings in a preset for them to remain after you close Handbrake.

You are replying to a topic that is over 4 years old, and a LOT has changed since then.

Please start a new topic for your request, and include the activity log for the rip in question. That's the only way to see what is going on.

What jumps out at me is this line:
The decoder only returned 15 frames of video. The audio track was full length, which is why the resulting file has more audio.

What was the source of the MOV file? How big is the source file?

And, if you installed this over an old version, did you remove any old queues first? Queue format changes between versions.

If you suspend a process not designed to be suspended (and the handbrake processes are NOT so designed), you will likely end up with an unrecoverable mess when you restart them.

Such things aren't not simple to accomplish for one big reason - it probably isn't a good idea. In this case, the black bars are there because the original movie was shot at a different aspect ratio than TVs display, so the BD authors decided to maintain the full visible area (width-wise). To do oth...

The reason they're appearing as separate files is probably because they ARE separate files on the original disk. But, we can't know that yet, because you haven't shown us the actvity log from the rip.

So, have you created a preset for these settings and saved it?

For what it is worth, the old queue manager would generate CLI lines like this:
No quotes around the input path... no need, because there are no spaces or special characters.

Have you tried mapping the resource to a drive letter?

This may have been fixed, but the Windows CLI used to have an issue with files not on drive letters. The test would be to map \\mythtv\storage to, say, "M:", and see if "M:\videos\movie.mkv" works as an output file.

There is a setting you can give x264 to limit how many threads it starts, which will cut back on the number of cores running at 100%. If it is just this one file doing it, though, it would be unusual, unless it happens to be the first one you have that runs at 100% long enough to trip protection. Ha...