HandBrake

What, if anything, did you use to rip the DVD? RipIt used to throw similar errors for me, switched to MDRP and it's worked like a charm.

The iPod is going to be the weak link. If you cut that out, you'd get better quality encodes.

dulcificum wrote:I can't rip it again because I no longer have the DVD - just the full disc rip.

Sounds like Forum Rule 3 to me.

Sounds like overscan to me. Some sources (usually older TV shows, amongst others) will have "overscan" at the edges for the pre-LCD era. The source would have been, say, 105x105 for an expected output on the device of 100x100... but there was room for error. What you're seeing is (in this ...

Can you download VLC and see if they play using that?

Rodeo—do you know if rc-lookahead=60 (or any value) is compatible with the A4/A5 iDevices?

ssim and psnr will give you (rough, and with definite limitations) numerical comparisons of quality.

Target file size is a very poor method of quality-setting for encoding in all but one or two edge cases.

Please post your Activity log, instructions for where they can be found are located in the big red box above. You don't need to re-encode, they are stored to disk.

Raising the RF from 20 to say, 22 or 23, will that truly shrink the file size considerably without the loss of quality? Of course it will lower the quality, the question is whether the perceptible quality is sufficient to meet your needs. The RF scale is (AFAIK) logarithmic, so you'll get pretty go...

First, I see that "constant quality" option - seems it's "supposed" to provide a higher-quality video? Constant quality will use however many bits are necessary to achieve the quality-per-pixel level that you've specified (the RF level). Generally this means that you'll have mor...

What sad excuse for a TV is so broken? I'm seriously asking, so that I can avoid ever buying that brand.

Handbrake can't do this, you can try mkvmerge to accomplish it though.

Have you tried using File >> Open Source (Title Specific), and putting in the Title you found from DVDPlayer.app?

Hmm, that seems to point to it not being a heating issue. My Macbook Pro will regularly settle at about 90c during encodes and can just stay at that temp indefinitely without troubles. It tends to miss a bunch of stuff, but might be worth trying: have you ran the Apple Hardware Test that's included ...

Video encoding is one of the most taxing things that you can do for your CPU. The more work you ask your CPU today, the hotter it will get. This SHOULDN'T cause any problems, and if it is an overheating issue then this indicates that there is some sort of problem with your hardware that should be co...

Sounds like a heating issue, which honestly is somewhat surprising as Apple devices tend to be pretty good with heat (vs cheapo-generic PC). Here's a question: next time an encode freezes, try restarting your Mac and then doing the exact same encode again. See if it freezes at the exact same point, ...

I'm not a developer so I don't have a pony in this race, so to speak. But I have been around the bored long enough and seen enough requests related to TFS to understand exactly why the devs want to get rid of it. I've also been encoding video long before I found handbrake, and I know enough to see t...

It's very strange to hear a small group of people decide how a software should and should not be used. It sounds codependent to say "I can't see why you want to use this method and so I won't let you use it." As if one day LibreOffice would decide to cut out a Table of Contents feature be...

And having warnings all over the place in the UI is just going to make the thing garbage. Not as much as removing useful features. Again, no one has been able to articulate an actually "useful" quality that target size provides with the sole exception of storing on removable media, and gi...

No encode log = no support.

The AVG bitrate option is useful when encoding for a specific hardware media player. The PSP for instance, requires that AVG bitrate not exceed 768 kbps. I'm certain other hardware media players come with their own quirks, and that is where AVG bitrate is useful. Are you sure that this requirement ...

match wrote: Motion Estimation Range: 64

That's just barely this side of being sane. I bet you'd see no perceptible difference @ merange=24, but you'd see a pretty significant speed boost.

Where's your encode log?

It could simply be that the source was badly transferred to the DVD. I know some TV Series have that problem, and there's little that can be done to fix it.