VLC and Handbrake

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Amorlind
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VLC and Handbrake

Post by Amorlind »

Hello,

I have a quick question here.
When i'm on VLC reading an .mkv file, all the informations related to the Audio and Subtitles are distincly provided, meaning in VLC :

1/ Audio / Audio Track
French (international) : Dolby Digital 2.0
English : Dolby Digital 5.1

2/ Subtitle / Sub Track
French : Subtitles
English: Subtitles

Now, when i want to reencode this file wich is originally in 1920*1080 and i look in my audio and subtitles tabs in Handbrake, i don't have those informations listed, meaning i got :

1/ Audio tab
Unknown (AC3) (2.0 ch) (192 kbps)
Unknown (AC3) (5.1 ch) (640 kbps)

2/ Subtitle tab
Unknown [UTF8] - Name : French : Subtitles
Unknow [UTF-8]...Name : English : Subtitles

What i would like to know is :

1/Why in Handbrake do i have those "Unknown" labels ?
2/ When re-encoding my file is there a way to remove those Unknown and insert a proper identification (as the one displayed in VLC)

Thanks ;-)
Woodstock
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Re: VLC and Handbrake

Post by Woodstock »

If you're encoding a 1080p MKV file ripped from a bluray, it is unlikely that it would have UTF-8-encoded subtitles, so we really need your activity logs to find out what handbrake saw. None of the normal assumptions can be made.
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