Avatar is the first release (on Blu-Ray) to use the newest BD+ protection. It hasn't been cracked by any program yet, even AnyDVD HD. It should only be a week or two, though.
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1024*576 in Handbrake vs Apple TV preset?
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Avatar is the first release (on Blu-Ray) to use the newest BD+ protection. It hasn't been cracked by any program yet, even AnyDVD HD. It should only be a week or two, though.
Yes AnyHD has cracked it (US only*) but you must download beta 6.6.3.7.
I ripped it using Clown to my unRAID server this afternoon and just got through watching it. Was apprehensive at first since I was concerned about going from the 3D experience to 21D but....I must say it is probably the highest quality PQ I have yet to see on my system. For reference I use a DLA projector to a 133" 1.78 screen.*There appears to be 6 different version of the copy protection (2 for the US).
I used DVDFab, ripped the Blu-Ray, then used MakeMKV to create an MKV file that Handbrake can convert. It worked great, my only issue is getting the file below 4GB. I used Handbrake and set the target size to 3.75 gigs, seems to have worked ok... the video looks fine.
I'm still having trouble muxing in 5.1 audio into Blu-Ray encodes where the Blu-Ray doesn't have 5.1 AC-3 audio.
You want the highest guilty for just the iPad? If so then start with selecting under Regular Presets: High Quality. Then select Picture Settings, choose Anamorphic: None and make sure the Keep Aspect Ratio box is checked. Now scale width down to 1024. For audio use the CoreAudio Codec, PLII Mixdown and bitrate of 320Kbps.
Great answer! I'm cutting and pasting this "how-to" in advance of my April 30 iPad. Handbrake rocks!
I have some bluray rips mkv (720p) and i'm using hand brake with some imported ipad settings. Should I reduce the fps to 30? Since that is the only amount the ipad can handle? I have a 16gb ipad, I want to reduce each movie as much as possible, but keep the quality high. What do you guys reccomend I set the settings to?
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For the highest PQ/SQ iPad settings see my post just 2 up. Also if you ripped film content it is at 24fps so you should leave it as is.
You should re rip your BD's since doing 2 lossy encodes is a not a good idea.
You should probably do some searching in the
TV/Home Theatre section of the forums for this info--tons of threads speaking to your questions--rather than take this thread off the OP original topic.When I rip the Blu-Ray and then create an MKV, the file is still lossless (same quality as on the Blu-Ray disc). It isn't until I use Handbrake to convert the mkv that the file gets compressed further. I use the Universal setting in Handbrake at 1280x720... or 720p. However, because Avatar is a long movie, at 16:9 resolution (no cropping to save space) and lots of action and effects, the video was going to be quite large, so instead of using the constant quality setting, I set a target size of 3.75 gigs (or 3750mb).
The file turned out quite well. I only use the target filesize if I know the file will be over 4 gigs.
Are you only using this for the iPad? If so 1280 is not the best choice. 1024 will give you better picture quality and a smaller file size.
Not true. 1280x720 downscaled on the iPad will give better quality than a file encoded at 1024x576.
I'm not worried about the file size, anything under 4GB for HD is fine for me.
But no, I'm not just watching on the iPad, I'm using it on the Apple TV as well.
What is this assumption based on? 1024 is native so 1280 can't be better (provided bitrates are comparable). Besides being an unnecessarily larger file the iPad would be forced to devote more CPU cycles to downscaling the image. This will hurt multitasking performance and increase the chances of dropped frames.
It is much better to let you main computer do all the downscale work and send a 100% native picture size (1024) to the iPad.
Fair enough, 1280 may not look better on the iPad, but I highly, highly doubt it will look worse, and since you are encoding from a 1080p source, encoding at 1280x720 will maintain more of the detail. On their own (such as when watching on a HDTV), the 1280x720 vid will look better than videos encoded strictly for iPad resolution.
Like I said, I'm going to be watching these videos on a 720p television via the Apple TV.
Strange. Are you streaming via wi-fi? Maybe you can try syncing it directly to the Apple TV and see if plays back smoothly. My 720p copy plays fine on both.
It is synced to the USB drive that is connected to it (ATVflash). However it is pushing the 6000kbps bit rate limit. I need to just lower the quality most likely, I just find it interesting that the iPad handles video better.
Here is the Guide I use for using Handbrake to convert for my HDTV. It seems aimed at PCs but you can use the same quality settings.
http://forums.avistaz.com/index.php?showtopic=19388
For the settings box I use:
(2) slightly faster settings
Using these quality settings I get 1GB-1.5GB movies that are identical to the DVD (to my eye) on my HDTV, so they should be all you need (and then some) for a 10" ipad screen.
Turning up the quality beyond this, will just waste more and more space with essentially no benefit to image quality.
Mac BluRay??
It seems you have a MBP, so I'm wondering how you ripped the BluRay DVD...
Videos I have encoded for ATV will transfer to my iPhone 3GS but not to the iPhone 3G if I try to import through iTunes. I won't have my iPad until Friday, but I believe video encoded using the Handbrake preset for ATV should work on the iPad, iPhone 3GS, and presumably any future iPhone.
Used these directions for converting the movie 'The Hangover'. I'm getting a final output of 640x480, and that is the max width. Does this seem correct?
You probably encoded the video the way iTunes does, 640x480 to be displayed at 853x480... anamorphic. That's fine. I probably would have done 720x480 anamorphic, but if you encoded from the Blu-Ray, you'll still have really good quality, so I'd just keep it the way it is if it displays correctly. Even encoding from a DVD 640x480 playing anamorphically looks pretty good.