HandBrake

I'm not familiar with Motionbox, but if they do not support MP4 and MKV containers (ie only AVI), you will need to either use HandBrake 0.9.3 or another tool besides HandBrake.

Rodney

I am confused as to why you are working directly with the VOBs and not the source DVD, from which chapters and other important data are derived from the IFO files.

Rodney

I would expect FAAC to fall between Nero AAC and MP3, depending on bitrate. Anything above 160kbps ABR is unachievable with FAAC (obviously).

CoreAudio AAC I'd expect to be quite competitive with Nero AAC, largely owing to the latter's lack of updates in over a year.

Rodney

MP4 and MKV are both containers, not codecs, so they have no impact on quality (only the features supported - for instance, DTS can only be directly embedded in MKV). The choice is usually one of personal preference combined with target device compatibility (a lot more devices today support MP4 than...

See the large red box at the top of every forum on how to submit an activity log.

"Your" Applications folder is ~/Applications, you should copy the VLC binary to /Applications (the system Applications folder).

Rodney

But you think LAME can produce superior results to FAAC at sane bitrates?

Rodney

HandBrake does not convert DTS to AC3. It can pass AC3 through in MP4 containers and additionally pass DTS through in MKV.

Rodney

Try passing "weightp=0" in advanced options.

Rodney

They are JPG images embedded in the file. The format has not been fully reverse-engineered and is considered low priority by current developers.

Rodney

Wider than _what_? What is your objective here? Even using a TV-out cable on a 5G, the max horizontal resolution is 640 pixels, anamorphic or no.

Rodney

Without even telling us what operating system you use? I'm afraid my crystal ball isn't working so good these days.

Rodney

Without an activity log, it's difficult to say whether you are failing decryption (remember VLC must be in /Applications, not ~/Applications, and not in a subfolder!) or a region lock.

Rodney

It's a clear bug in the WDTV code, there's no workaround possible with HandBrake (or any other encoding tool).

In fact, it's one of the reasons I don't own one right now.

Rodney

Oh...my...word.

There will be no support offered for this.

Rodney

I think this thread has outlived its usefulness. Locking.

Rodney

Add "weightp=0" (sans quotes) to your advanced x264 settings in your custom ATV preset.

Rodney

Large file size = >4GB.

Rodney

1: Menus are a DVD-only feature and will not be present when transcoded.

2: Activity log required to troubleshoot.

Rodney

It refers to RAM.

Rodney

Activity log?

Rodney

If you blue-screened, dollars to donuts you have a hardware or cooling issue.

Rodney

Are you decrypting the DVDs first, per the first paragraph of the Windows documentation?

Rodney

Blues for a Red Planet has sync issues on the source that are masked by other issues - there is no way to get a coherent/synced rip of this with any tool without severe manual intervention.

Rodney

Given it offers absolutely no improvements as far as HandBrake is concerned? No, I'd think not.

Rodney

I guess we can rule out region mismatch, though the log looks fine (to me) otherwise.

Anyone else welcome to chime in =)

Rodney