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by Smithcraft
Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:00 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: How do I copy the DVD Menu????
Replies: 27
Views: 4149

Re: How do I copy the DVD Menu????

If I may, what DVDs are these?

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by Smithcraft
Sat Jul 02, 2011 6:48 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: How do I copy the DVD Menu????
Replies: 27
Views: 4149

Re: How do I copy the DVD Menu????

So, this DVD has separate video layers, not subtitles for each language?

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by Smithcraft
Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:55 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: up the FPS when converting?
Replies: 5
Views: 1336

Re: up the FPS when converting?

Sorry, I must have read that wrong. I thought he wanted to go the other way...

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by Smithcraft
Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:38 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Uncrop
Replies: 9
Views: 2411

Re: Uncrop

Turn off the auto crop?

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by Smithcraft
Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:28 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Apple TV Setting - Possible to encode just audio?
Replies: 5
Views: 660

Re: Apple TV Setting - Possible to encode just audio?

I thought the AppleTV didn't do anything other than mp4 unless it's been modded?

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by Smithcraft
Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:30 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Apple TV Setting - Possible to encode just audio?
Replies: 5
Views: 660

Re: Apple TV Setting - Possible to encode just audio?

No, but you can set the video settings to the fastest, smallest window, and then remux the audio tracks back into the source file.

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by Smithcraft
Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:28 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: up the FPS when converting?
Replies: 5
Views: 1336

Re: up the FPS when converting?

Wouldn't that be deleting frames, not repeating them?

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by Smithcraft
Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:27 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: How do I copy the DVD Menu????
Replies: 27
Views: 4149

Re: How do I copy the DVD Menu????

Menus are such a waste of time, since I just want to watch the content and not the menus that I can't skip through or avoid. The playback device should let you pick which audio and subtitle tracks you want.

All I would want for a portable playback device would be VLC on a tablet.

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by Smithcraft
Sat Jun 25, 2011 9:48 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: How do I change 6 channel dts to 2 channel ac3?
Replies: 2
Views: 702

Re: How do I change 6 channel dts to 2 channel ac3?

I'm slightly more confused than normal. Could you please post a scan log.

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by Smithcraft
Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:51 am
Forum: Mac
Topic: Can Handbrake access video not stored in the Titles area?
Replies: 2
Views: 570

Re: Can Handbrake access video not stored in the Titles area

Perhaps use MakeMKV to rip it, then Handbrake to transcode it.

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by Smithcraft
Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:06 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Is DTS-HD passthru supported?
Replies: 6
Views: 1066

Re: Is DTS-HD passthru supported?

Workaround - If you rip with MakeMKV, and then just process the video with no audio, you can use mkv tools to swap the video part out of the source file with the Handbrake'd video part.

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by Smithcraft
Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:10 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Aspect ratio - cropping
Replies: 8
Views: 2304

Re: Aspect ratio - cropping

The number you will get, will depend on the aspect ratio of the movie that you are working with. It could be anything from 1038(or so) for 1.85(the first aspect ratio that will have black bars on the top and bottom) content, to 800(or so) for something that is 2.4(the widest ratio I know of). What i...
by Smithcraft
Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:49 pm
Forum: Mac
Topic: Any aspect ratio to 16:9 with black lines
Replies: 2
Views: 435

Re: Any aspect ratio to 16:9 with black lines

I'm not sure Handbrake can pad(add the black bars) with your files.

For the 4 by 3 to 16 by 9, you just need to crop the files on the top and the bottom. The cropping amount would be determined by the content. I don't know if you are using PAL or NTSC materials so I don't know what to tell you.

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by Smithcraft
Sun Jun 19, 2011 6:56 pm
Forum: Mac
Topic: DVD rippen
Replies: 2
Views: 524

Re: DVD rippen

MKV files, from either MakeMKV or some other MKV based ripping tool, would be the fastest way to rip a DVD and the quality would be exactly the same as the DVD.

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by Smithcraft
Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:49 pm
Forum: Bugs
Topic: [Fixed] Error, no audio found, still won't do a preview
Replies: 3
Views: 799

Re: [3993] Error, no audio found, still won't do a preview

Looks like the preview bug might have been fixed.

viewtopic.php?p=98417#p98417

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by Smithcraft
Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:19 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: MKV to MP4 with no quality loss
Replies: 7
Views: 1532

Re: MKV to MP4 with no quality loss

Use MkvExtract to demux the mkv file.

Use MP4Box to remux the file.

No scripts needed.

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by Smithcraft
Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:37 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: PAL to NTSC Conversion to play on set top box
Replies: 7
Views: 926

Re: PAL to NTSC Conversion to play on set top box

I would imagine you would rip the PAL DVD, transcode it to NTSC format, then burn that to a DVD.

Does this set top device handle USB devices or SD cards?

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by Smithcraft
Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:19 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Cropping to Sansa Fuze Size
Replies: 4
Views: 635

Re: Cropping to Sansa Fuze Size

Then that would be the link that I posted. Unless you want it squished to fit. For that, I can't help you.

However, with that aspect ratio(1.25) you are going to be cropping vertically as well.

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by Smithcraft
Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:05 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: iPod Hard Letterboxing guide.
Replies: 4
Views: 513

Re: iPod Hard Letterboxing guide.

How about(if you don't wanna follow jamiemlaws post):

1 - Rip with MakeMKV

2 - Open file from MakeMKV in Handbrake

3 - Turn off cropping in Handbrake, and adjust whatever else you want adjust.

4 - Transcode!

5 - Watch on iPod

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by Smithcraft
Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:49 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Cropping to Sansa Fuze Size
Replies: 4
Views: 635

Re: Cropping to Sansa Fuze Size

Do you mean like this? viewtopic.php?f=11&t=21129

Or do you want to just scale it to the display?

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by Smithcraft
Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:14 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: DVD to MKV Question
Replies: 8
Views: 2103

Re: DVD to MKV Question

Wrath of Khan DVD with the High Profile setting. A poor transfer on a movie filled with rushed effects shots. But in a scene with almost no effects shots, the image was terrible. Contrary to the survey that I saw at Slashdot, the more I am interested in the content, the more aware of the bad parts o...
by Smithcraft
Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:13 am
Forum: Tiki Bar
Topic: Can I rip a PAL DVD (and then Handbrake it)?
Replies: 10
Views: 2682

Re: Can I rip a PAL DVD (and then Handbrake it)?

No problem. Not everyone has AnyDVD. SC Except that I said that was my workflow -- did you not read my original message? Anyway, I'm happy with the advice I got (would never use anything other than AnyDVD and Handbrake -- best combination out there :>) Yes, I did read what you wrote. Why do you ask...
by Smithcraft
Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:50 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: DVD to MKV Question
Replies: 8
Views: 2103

Re: DVD to MKV Question

Going from an HD source to transcoding with Handbrake, might very well be indistinguishable from the source. From DVD to transcoding with Handbrake is more obvious to me. I find there are several factors to this, but primary is the quality of the source, followed by quality of the transfer. If eithe...
by Smithcraft
Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:41 am
Forum: Tiki Bar
Topic: Can I rip a PAL DVD (and then Handbrake it)?
Replies: 10
Views: 2682

Re: Can I rip a PAL DVD (and then Handbrake it)?

JohnAStebbins wrote:
Smithcraft wrote:AnyDVD should remove the region coding.

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DOH! :oops: There I go over complicating things again.
No problem. Not everyone has AnyDVD.

I would recommend MakeMKV also, but I don't know how MakeMKV deals with region coding.

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