How to get the full options Handbrakes uses to encode a DVD ?

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xuo
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How to get the full options Handbrakes uses to encode a DVD ?

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Hi,

I'm using HandBrake 1.2.2 under Mageia7.
My goal is to be able to encode a lot of DVDs (I've bought !!). I could find a way to do it using the HandBrake Gui. But with a lot of DVDs, it won't be possible.
Till now, I was using tccat, tcextract, transcode, ... but in Mageia7, there is a bug in transcode that prevents me to do the same.

My question : is it possible to get the full options used by the gui and to pass them to handbrakeCLI ?
I could try to reverse the activity.log file but it will be painful and arguments like :
-x level=4.1:ref=4:b-adapt=2:direct=auto:me=umh:subq=8:rc-lookahead=50:psy-rd=1.0,0.15:deblock=-1,-1:vbv-bufsize=30000:vbv-maxrate=40000:slices=4
are not really self-explaining and I'm not sure it will be easy to translate the activity log file to CLI commands.

Regards.

Xuo.
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s55
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Re: How to get the full options Handbrakes uses to encode a DVD ?

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Since the GUI doesn't use HandBrakeCLI, no query is ever generated.

HandBrakeCLI --help will give you the list of available options. The options you list above are x264 encoder options which can be copied to the CLI as an input argument if you then translate all the HandBrake options listed in the log into their CLI equivalents.
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Re: How to get the full options Handbrakes uses to encode a DVD ?

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If you can't follow the CLI docs, you can set up a GUI preset, export it, and then import the preset into the CLI. Of course you're limited to GUI options this way.
xuo
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Re: How to get the full options Handbrakes uses to encode a DVD ?

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Hi,

Thanks for the replies. I'll see what I can do with this.
Why does transcode has this bug ??? :lol: :lol: :lol:

Regards.

Xuo.
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Re: How to get the full options Handbrakes uses to encode a DVD ?

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Ask them.
xuo
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Re: How to get the full options Handbrakes uses to encode a DVD ?

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Hi,

I could get what I wanted doing the following :
HandBrakeCLI --preset 'Super HQ 1080p30 Surround' --audio $HB_audioTrack -i vobFile -o mp4File
I get the french audio track with the lsdvd command + grep and gawk ones.

Regards.

Xuo.
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Re: How to get the full options Handbrakes uses to encode a DVD ?

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You could also create a custom preset in the GUI with "add first (or all) track(s) matching selected languages" and ticking French in the list, then using this preset via the CLI (see HandBrakeCLI --help and --preset-import-gui) ;)
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Re: How to get the full options Handbrakes uses to encode a DVD ?

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Hi,

I couldn't make it work that way because I couldn't find any French track from the HB gui. All tracks were defined as 'Unknown' (no language was clearly defined).

Regards.

Xuo.
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Re: How to get the full options Handbrakes uses to encode a DVD ?

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Well if your source is a DVD you're not supposed to open the VOB file (they don't contain track language information), but the VIDEO_TS folder…
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