HandBrake

ssj2_goha wrote:Can you post links to some of the free software?
I'm looking into doing this.

Northy wrote:mp4chaps ~ Can you add chapters to MP4's (M4V) that are already tagged?

SubCleaner ~ Is that like Jubler where you can clean up the subs and convert to SRT?

Subler ~ Is it better than Muxo?

Northy wrote:Thanks for the answers, SubCleaner is not for me, ruined my English subs which had German characters in them (Names mainly), the other 2 look good so far (I just hope I can add subs that aren't the length of the film (for example what should be forced subs, Muxo had an issue with them )

As of SVN revision 265 of the mp4v2 library, the information in this post is no longer necessary -- mp4chaps can take the output of eac3to (or ChapterGrabber if you needed to convert 24->23.976) and parse the information correctly. Thanks to the mp4v2 team for responding to my request.

CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000
CHAPTER01NAME=Living Weapon
CHAPTER02=00:05:00.750
CHAPTER02NAME=A Better World
CHAPTER03=00:09:31.937
CHAPTER03NAME=Aboard Serenity (Main Titles)
CHAPTER04=00:14:49.088
CHAPTER04NAME=Going for a Ride
...

00:00:00.000 Living Weapon
00:05:00.750 A Better World
00:09:31.937 Aboard Serenity (Main Titles)
00:14:49.088 Going for a Ride
...

Northy wrote:Thanks for the answers, SubCleaner is not for me, ruined my English subs which had German characters in them (Names mainly), the other 2 look good so far (I just hope I can add subs that aren't the length of the film (for example what should be forced subs, Muxo had an issue with them )

nightstrm wrote:It has been brought to my attention that I failed to mention how to get the output from ChapterGrabber to work with mp4chaps.

The output from eac3to (and ChapterGrabber) will look like this:

rICh wrote:Thank you nightstrm for the great info.

I was wondering if you would be so kind to let me know the h.264 advanced options you are using in handbrake for HD content? I've used a your advanced settings with DVD sources to fantastic effect.

Thank you for your time, patience and knowledge.

iJoel wrote:

nightstrm wrote:It has been brought to my attention that I failed to mention how to get the output from ChapterGrabber to work with mp4chaps.

The output from eac3to (and ChapterGrabber) will look like this:

I can make a converter for you if you think that'd be useful.
Would be trivial to make, and I'm sure you'd find it useful if
your doing all of that manually.

refulgentis wrote:

Northy wrote:Thanks for the answers, SubCleaner is not for me, ruined my English subs which had German characters in them (Names mainly), the other 2 look good so far (I just hope I can add subs that aren't the length of the film (for example what should be forced subs, Muxo had an issue with them )

Change preferences of SubCleaner to not strip accents -- that should fix it.

nightstrm wrote:Just a little update on forced subtitles...

I've found that if I add both the forced and non-forced subtitle track using Subler, I can select the forced subtitle track when I start playing the movie via the AppleTV. On subsequent viewings, the subtitle track will remain in the enabled state and display correctly. While this "works", I'm still investigating a way to cut out the manual step of selecting the track in the first place.

nightstrm wrote:I've tested a patch to mp4chaps that allows direct reading of the chapter files from eac3to. It works as it should; I expect it will be committed to SVN as soon as the dev gets around to it. Once it makes it into SVN code, I'll update my first post with the new information.

:: run_batcheac3to.cmd UPDATED: 02-08-2009

@echo off

:: set your input directory
set batchfolder="Z:\SpeedDisk\Batch Rip"

cd /d %batchfolder%

:: set the search string appended to the filename of the meta file ex. "*_BD.meta"
for /r %%i in (*_BD.meta) do set metafile="%%i" & call batch_eac3to.cmd

:: endscript

:: batch_eac3to.cmd UPDATED: 02-08-2009

for /f "delims=." %%n in ("%metafile%") do set infile="%%~dpn"
for /f "delims=." %%n in ("%metafile%") do set outfile="%%~dpnn.chapters.txt"
"C:\Users\Robert Yamada\Desktop\eac3to\eac3to.exe" %infile% 1) 1: %outfile%
echo "  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"
)
:: endscript

nightstrm wrote: 7.) Use mp4tags (Mac) to set hdvd, stik, and cnID on both HD/SD files (for iTunes grouping to behave).

Hi nightstrm! Thanks for the info! Any possibility you could direct me to the mp4chaps patch?

nightstrm wrote:I've made a lot of progress in 24 hours, and now have encoded both a Bluray and HDDVD title and successfully inserted chapter markers and soft subtitles. To fix my problem with chapter markers getting progressively further off on the HDDVD I ripped, I used a freeware program named ChapterGrabber (Windows) to convert the subtitles from using 24fps to 23.976fps to calculate the timing. Once completed, the chapters occur in their correct spots throughout the movie.