Audio cuts out at start of new chapters

[RandomEngy]

I'm ripping the Futurama DVDs with the windows client. The audio goes silent for a few seconds at the start of some chapter changes. This is encoding single pass, both with h.264 and AAC and xvid+mp3, on 44.1 and 48 for the sound. And with the VOB files copied locally with DVD decrypter. I also verified the sound was there by playing the VOB files directly.

Strangely, the previous version of handbrake ripped these files without messing up the audio.

Anyone know what's going on?

[hawkman]

Probably not much use without your activity window logs from the encode, I'm afraid.

[RandomEngy]

How about this?

C:\Program Files\Handbrake>hbcli -i "G:\dvd_rips\FUTURAMA_S1D1\VIDEO_TS" -t 2 -c
1-5 -o "G:\handbrake\1x02.mp4" -e x264 -E faac -w 640 -l 480 --crop 0:0:0:0 --
deinterlace="11" -q 0.5 -B 128 -R 44.1
HandBrake 0.9.0 (2007081900) - http://handbrake.m0k.org/
2 CPUs detected
Opening G:\dvd_rips\FUTURAMA_S1D1\VIDEO_TS...
Scanning title 2...
+ title 2:
+ vts 4, ttn 2, cells 0->9 (609335 blocks)
+ duration: 00:22:32
+ size: 720x480, aspect: 1.33, 23.976 fps
+ autocrop: 0/0/6/4
+ chapters:
+ 1: cells 0->0, 50151 blocks, duration 00:01:43
+ 2: cells 1->1, 125087 blocks, duration 00:04:48
+ 3: cells 2->3, 192268 blocks, duration 00:06:46
+ 4: cells 4->5, 232230 blocks, duration 00:08:37
+ 5: cells 6->9, 9599 blocks, duration 00:00:37
+ audio tracks:
+ 1, English (AC3) (Dolby Surround), 48000Hz, 192000bps
+ 2, Espanol (AC3) (Dolby Surround), 48000Hz, 192000bps
+ 3, Francais (AC3) (Dolby Surround), 48000Hz, 192000bps
+ 4, English (AC3) (Dolby Surround), 48000Hz, 192000bps
+ subtitle tracks:
+ 1, English (iso639-2: eng)
+ 2, Espanol (iso639-2: spa)
+ 3, Francais (iso639-2: fre)
+ 4, Espanol (iso639-2: spa)
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 0.00 %x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE
SSE2
No accelerated IMDCT transform found
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 7.62 % (2.88 fps, avg 3.54 fps, ETA 02h21m03s)MPEG2: Chapter Break Cell Found, searching for GOP
MPEG2: Group of pictures found, searching for I-Frame
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 7.62 % (2.88 fps, avg 3.54 fps, ETA 02h21m03s)MPEG2: I-Frame Found
MPEG2: Chapter Break Inserted
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 7.68 % (2.87 fps, avg 3.54 fps, ETA 02h21m12s)WORK: Copying Chapter Break
WORK: Copying Chapter Break
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 7.68 % (2.99 fps, avg 3.53 fps, ETA 02h21m12s)WORK: Copying Chapter Break
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 28.90 % (4.03 fps, avg 3.94 fps, ETA 01h37m38s)MPEG2: Chapter Break Cell Found, searching for GOP

MPEG2: Group of pictures found, searching for I-Frame
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 28.90 % (4.03 fps, avg 3.94 fps, ETA 01h37m38s)MPEG2: I-Frame Found
MPEG2: Chapter Break Inserted
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 28.96 % (5.21 fps, avg 3.94 fps, ETA 01h37m31s)WORK: Copying Chapter Break
WORK: Copying Chapter Break
WORK: Copying Chapter Break
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 58.95 % (3.73 fps, avg 3.89 fps, ETA 00h57m05s)MPEG2: Chapter Break Cell Found, searching for GOP

MPEG2: Group of pictures found, searching for I-Frame
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 58.96 % (3.73 fps, avg 3.89 fps, ETA 00h57m05s)MPEG2: I-Frame Found
MPEG2: Chapter Break Inserted
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 59.01 % (5.21 fps, avg 3.89 fps, ETA 00h57m00s)WORK: Copying Chapter Break
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 59.02 % (5.21 fps, avg 3.89 fps, ETA 00h57m00s)WORK: Copying Chapter Break
WORK: Copying Chapter Break
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 97.17 % (4.92 fps, avg 3.97 fps, ETA 00h03m52s)MPEG2: Chapter Break Cell Found, searching for GOP

MPEG2: Group of pictures found, searching for I-Frame
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 97.17 % (4.92 fps, avg 3.97 fps, ETA 00h03m52s)MPEG2: I-Frame Found
MPEG2: Chapter Break Inserted
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 97.23 % (5.21 fps, avg 3.97 fps, ETA 00h03m47s)WORK: Copying Chapter Break
WORK: Copying Chapter Break
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 97.23 % (5.21 fps, avg 3.97 fps, ETA 00h03m46s)WORK: Copying Chapter Break
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 99.99 % (5.26 fps, avg 3.98 fps, ETA 00h00m00s)x264 [info]: slice I:286 Avg QP:22.00 size: 254
75 PSNR Mean Y:46.36 U:47.56 V:47.39 Avg:46.52 Global:46.14
x264 [info]: slice P:32150 Avg QP:25.00 size: 3420 PSNR Mean Y:43.23 U:45.30 V:45.11 Avg:43.69 Global:43.33
x264 [info]: mb I I16..4: 53.3% 0.0% 46.7%
x264 [info]: mb P I16..4: 3.1% 0.0% 2.7% P16..4: 6.8% 5.1% 2.3% 0.0% 0.0% skip:80.0%
x264 [info]: SSIM Mean Y:0.9901890
x264 [info]: PSNR Mean Y:43.257 U:45.322 V:45.131 Avg:43.714 Global:43.351 kb/s:693.27

Rip done!
HandBrake has exited.

I also tried ABR rather than quality based but that didn't make a difference.