Has anyone had any luck in tricking Handbrake into opening and successfully encoding a non-DVD file without re-encoding it first? If so, please detail your procedure.
(I have a number files that are the result of merging, in VideoReDo Plus, several extracted VOBs or MPEG2-ripped chapters from DVD -- but Handbrake won't open them.)
Tricking Handbrake into opening non-DVD files?
Re: Tricking Handbrake into opening non-DVD files?
If the resultant file is an MPEG-2 Program stream Handbrake 0.9.1 (the current release) should open them fine if they have the .mpg file suffix.Honeyko wrote:Has anyone had any luck in tricking Handbrake into opening and successfully encoding a non-DVD file without re-encoding it first? If so, please detail your procedure.
(I have a number files that are the result of merging, in VideoReDo Plus, several extracted VOBs or MPEG2-ripped chapters from DVD -- but Handbrake won't open them.)
Watch the log window for messages that might help diagnose why the file isn't opening.
Re: Tricking Handbrake into opening non-DVD files?
Here's an example: I've taken one of those horrible DVDs that bust every episode up into half-a-dozen tiny chapters. Now, while each of these is encodable as a chapter when ripped by MagicDVDripper, or Handbrake itself, that presents a logistical nightmare when attempting to determine overall file-size when the fragments are merged.awk wrote:If the resultant file is an MPEG-2 Program stream Handbrake 0.9.1 (the current release) should open them fine if they have the .mpg file suffix. Watch the log window for messages that might help diagnose why the file isn't opening.
So, what I do is merge the ripped chapters into one MPEG-2 with the joiner/stream-copier VideoReDo Plus to produce a larger file which I will then encode to a specific size.
But this is what I get when I attempt to open the file in Handbrake:
If, after closing the warning box, I click encode anyway, I get several seconds of this junk scrolling rapidly before it quits with no file saved:
...if VideoReDo is barfing its output, what MPEG-2 joiner/stream-copier would you recommend?
I recommend reading this thread:
http://handbrake.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=864
http://handbrake.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=864
You might try to use MPEG Streamclip. It it is a little more flexible with the content it can open and export/encode.
http://www.squared5.com/
Just another tool to try.
http://www.squared5.com/
Just another tool to try.
Try setting up the output options of videoredo as per the screenshot in the 1st post of http://forum.toppy.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9625.