HandBrake

Paste the text below into a file called email_preset.json. From the Presets menu, select "Import Preset" and open email_preset.json. This should create a new custom preset named "Email 25 MB 10 Minutes 288p30". { "PresetList": [ { "AlignAVStart": true, "A...

lossless will result in very large files. I.e. your 44 GB BD would likely get re-encoded to something like 400 GB. What you did with mkvtoolnix is probably the best option if you want to keep original video and make the subs forced. HandBrake will always re-encode the video which isn't necessary in ...

I misread the original post. My eyes saw 400+ GB

Given that the 44GB source encodes to about 4GB with default settings, my guess is that the source is a lossless format (either raw or some other lossless codec). If you want to maintain the "lossless" quality, there are a couple ways you may be able to do this in HandBrake. First you need...

The flatpack would be executed this way $ flatpak run fr.handbrake.HandBrakeCLI --version [08:16:20] Compile-time hardening features are enabled Cannot load libnvidia-encode.so.1 [08:16:20] qsv: not available on this system [08:16:20] hb_init: starting libhb thread [08:16:20] thread 7f287d3ff6c0 sta...

The flathub package was submitted yesterday. It takes some amount of time after submission for it to become available on flathub. It is available now.

As you noted, there are a variety of things that affect file sizes. Without knowing some specifics about what you encoded, we really can't tell you whether something unusual happened that would affect the output quality. But in general, animation will encode to sizes many multiples smaller than grai...

Is there a reason you chose to use constant framerate output? "Same as source" VFR (variable framerate) will output a frame for each field using the field's original duration for each frame duration. This is probably the best that can be done with mixed telecine content.

A full answer is complicated and involves a deeper discussion of how the video is translated from spatial domain to frequency domain where frequency coefficients are decimated when encoding and then frequency domain back to spatial domain when decoding. But the TLDR; answer is that gradients are bet...

According to the manual posted above, the stereo supports the DivX video codec, and MP2, MP3, AC3 audio codecs in an AVI container. HandBrake hasn't supported DivX or AVI since 2009. So you'll have to find another tool to create such files. FYI, full media compatibility specifications for the stereo...

The source is already compressed. When you transcode, you are uncompressing to raw frames and then recompressing the raw frames with the encoder you've chosen. In your particular case, the video is 1920x768 resolution in yuv420 format. Each raw frame of this format is 2211840 bytes. There are 211483...

Disclaimer, I've never done this, but in theory it should work. HandBrake's filters mostly assume they are getting progressive input (except for those that convert interlaced to progressive). If you don't require any filtering (scaling is a filter, so you would have to be sure you are scaling 1:1) y...

The language of the UI is controlled by the system locale setting. It can be temporarily changed through the LANG environment variable. See How to change language of a specific application for an example. If you are using the flatpak version of HandBrake, it's a bit of a tangled mess. You first have...

"Not possible" would be an overstatement. There are certainly ways to do it. I.e. convert the image to a color format with full resolution color planes, do the crop, then convert back. This procedure would be one way to properly preserve the relationship that exists between the color plane...

Allowing only even cropping is intentional. Some color formats (yuv420 in particular which is used in DVD and BD video) have color planes that are half the resolution of the intensity plane. Since you can't crop half a pixel, it is not possible to crop the color planes to odd pixel boundaries (half ...

FFmpeg's license does not permit redistribution of a binary build that mixes LGPL licensed components with FDK-AAC. We tried, they complained, we complied. When FDK-AAC is enabled in the build, FDK-AAC will be listed as a separate encoder in the audio encoders list. You would have to modify presets ...

Off topic, but this is an interesting message from the decoder... HandBrake may be asking for too many threads from the decoder for high core count CPUs

The intel-media-driver package is for hardware acceleration on the iGPU. Handbrake will work without it, but will only provide software encoding options. The flatpak version of Handbrake requires the flatpak version of intel-mdeia-driver in order to use the iGPU for hardware acceleration. You can in...

Handbrake uses a 90khz clock for timestamps. A 23.976 fps frame's duration at 90khz is 3753.754 ticks. Since duration must be represented as an integer number of ticks, most frames will be 3754 ticks and about every 4th frame will be 3753 ticks. This 1/90000th second jitter every 4th frame is what y...

I don’t think you can select the log file location, it is always in the same folder as the handbrake executable I think. There are a couple preference options that should affect the log file location. In the Linux GUI, these are. Set a custom directory for HandBrake temporary files Put individual e...

Patches welcome

Each frame duration is represented as a number of 90khz clock ticks. In the case of 23.976 fps video, each frame is 1 / 23.976 seconds or approximately 3753.753 90khz ticks. The duration of a frame can not be a fraction, so to stay in sync and true to the original source duration, some frames are re...

In order to convert 60 fps to 25 fps, every other input frame must be dropped for about 4 output frames, then on the 5th output frame an extra input frame needs to be dropped to compensate for the fractional quotient.

HandBrake makes heavy use of libraries from other projects that do accept donations. I suggest sprinkling some money around those other projects if you are feeling philanthropic. Just a few of the organizations that support the development of the libraries that we an many others use. https://ffmpeg....

iPod, first AppleTV, QuickTime Player 7, old versions of iTunes. .m4v was required to enable ac-3 audio and chapters. In addition, the vast majority of players that are not brain dead like those mentioned above are smart enough to recognize the file type based on it's content rather than it's filen...