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jbrjake wrote:This shouldn't be happening with current code, but then, you didn't say what version you're using...

Sorry. It's Version 0.9.3 (2008112300)

Okay, so I'm ripping Firefly episodes using mkv, h.264, constant quality 70%, AC-3 Audio, anamorphic (strict), comb filter (default), and the following options: ref=1:bframes=2:direct=auto:subq=8:analyse=all:8x8dct=1:trellis=1:no-fast-pskip=1:fil=1 The results look fantastic... EXCEPT every so often...

Yes, I did confirm it was XBMC. And with the new settings you guys have given me I've got the tearing down to a minimum on XBMC too. The only time it's a problem now is rapid flashes from dark to light (like lightening or a flickering light). Glad I was able to help a bit, at least. Share your sett...

As much as I hate doing so, I don't see much choice but to go back to using 0.9.2, unless somebody can think of some other setting tweak that might solve these problems. I'm more than happy to keep experimenting if anybody has any suggestions. No one can suggest settings tweaks because you haven't ...

At this point, I'm not really sure what to offer. It's possible that what you're looking at is further encoding problems with x264 itself, but it sounds equally likely that it is some sort of player compatibility issue. In any event, unless you can identify a specific test case where x264 output co...

Okay, here's the latest results: With ":psy-rd=0,0:aq-mode=0" appended to the end of the Advanced Option string, MOST of this problem has cleared up, but I still end up seeing an occasional frame with some big blocks of video error. Backing up and re-playing the scene still reveals them, a...

Back to 1,1. Setting aq-mode=0 seems to be the big difference-maker.

60 percent Constant Quality looks a little less than perfect on my big screen, though. I'm going to jack it up to 70 and try doing the full episode. See how it turns out.

And once again, playing it with another app, then going back and playing it in VLC, it runs smooth as silk. Now I'm pretty unsure of what's going on. Anyway, adding "aq-mode=0" seems to have cleaned up those moments of blocky-ness. Should I experiment with leaving that there and setting th...

No weird blocks or lines via VLC this time (at least not in this five-minute sample), but playback did "skip" a couple times a minute (pausing both video and sound for a split-second and then continuing.) If it helps to know, my gear is a 2.0 GHz core duo mini w/2GB of memory connected to ...

How close did you get with the skip-ahead? It could be that you bypassed an I-frame that is gumming up the works. Give this a try: Under advanced options, in addition to the one you tried before, also include "aq-mode=0" and see if it makes a difference. Rodney I jumped up to about 15 sec...

It's gotta be that or VAQ. If this shows the same problem, we'll try something else. Rodney Still getting ugly blocks during VLC playback for a few seconds, this time at about the 5:30 mark, lasting for 4 seconds (which is a completely different point than with the previous attempt). So what are yo...

PsyRDO = psychovisual rate distortion optimization. The basic concept is to leverage what we know about human perception to make encodes look 'better' even though they may not be as 'accurate'. The advanced options string to disable both PsyRDO and PsyTrellis for experimentation purposes is "p...

rhester wrote:Well, if the OP confirms he sees this in VLC, the next thing I'd want to try is exactly the same encode minus PsyRDO.

Rodney

Okay, after searching through the GUI features, the HB Wiki, the HB FAQ, the HB Forums and Google, I give up. What the heck is
PsyRDO and how to I go about removing it?

Can you reproduce playing back the same frame range (say, 50 frames prior through the distortion) when using VLC as a player? Trying to determine if this is a QuickTime bug or a legitimate issue with x264. Rodney I can't speak for the guy who provided you the screenshot & log, but in my case I ...

Plex (a Mac version of the XBMC) has recently become good enough that I'm DONE waiting around for Apple to fix (and in some cases, un-break) Quicktime and FrontRow. It took a while to re-do my library to fit with Plex's naming conventions, but now I've got all my shows, movies & DVDs good to go,...

I'm getting similar problems, and experimenting to see if I can find a setting which avoids these problems. I've been making new rips of Firefly with 9.3, and almost every episode I've done runs into this problem about 5 minutes in. It never happened to me with 9.2, but I don't want to go back if I ...

Any plans in place to un-break it?

Because of all the Quicktime 5.1 audio problems with m4v files, AVI has been my wrapper of choice for my video files. It works great with Quicktime and Perian.

Why not go with: 1: Fast processing, but choppy motion results. 2: Not as fast and still kinda choppy. 3: Pig slow, but the best possible results. :lol: For that matter, the "slow" setting is kind of redundant, isn't it? People who want it done quick & dirty will always choose "fa...

If it was true that "90%" of DTS disks offer no advantage over the AC3 tracks on the same disk (which has never been my experience), then why would ANYBODY spend the money on a home-theater amp which accepts DTS? The answer, of course, is that the other "10%" sounds spectacular. ...

Now that Perian has added DTS support to QuickTime, I hope somebody with more programming skills than me is motivated to add DTS passthrough (no transcoding) as an option in HandBrake. It would be awesome for me to be able to archive my DTS DVDs as h.264 files with DTS sound. When I've brought it up...

So, are there any free products out there that do the job DVD2one does? In a perfect world, backing up any media source would be something so simple that the functionality would be built in to the OS. I donated (once) to MTR, but in general I detest the idea of paying extra money to a commercial dev...

- Hard burned subtitles *poke* :wink: The way I see it is that we are encoding these DVDs for our own personal viewing, not for anyone elses, that could be illegal. Therefore we generally either want the subtitles or don't, and that won't change over time (unless we learn a new language, or go deaf...

- Hard burned subtitles *poke* :wink: Personally, I can live with the hard burn, now that the nightly build has subtitles that don't suck (original colors instead of see-through), but I get why some people would want the option of making them switchable. I'm so happy about it, I'm about to re-rip j...

It's probably not said often enough around here. A huge thanks to each and every person who has been working on HandBrake, every step of the way. A couple years ago, it was the best app out there for ripping files from DVD sources, simply because nothing else was even adequite. Now, it has evolved i...

GBooker, you are correct. I was talking about the passthrough of AC3 in QuickTime in a .mov container with the Perian plug-in installed. I'm able to play/passthrough .mov files that inlcude AC3 (5.1) tracks. My AV-receiver switches to Dolby Digital 5.1 as soon as the signal kicks in (just like with...