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Blu-Ray to Apple TV
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That seemed to do the trick. Thanks for that. However, now I'm not getting audio. Ugh. Can someone explain to me various sound options and codecs? I read and understand what is in the Handbrake User Guide for the most part, but have noticed that AAC (CoreAudio) is a new option not described there. What is it?
Mac compatible drives questions
Sorry in advance for bringing this up if it was covered previously, but am I understanding correctly that to rip solely on the OSx side of my macbook pro and not in XP (via bootcamp) I need a blu-ray combo drive? Not just a blu-ray reader?
I am trying to find the cheapest way to go about this and the best prices I can find are the following drives (which are blu-ray and dvd multi drives):
Plextor Black Multi
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827249040
or this Velocity Multi
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827270003
Has anyone used or confirmed that these would work?
Thanks again.
Sorry in advance for bringing this up if it was covered previously, but am I understanding correctly that to rip solely on the OSx side of my macbook pro and not in XP (via bootcamp) I need a blu-ray combo drive? Not just a blu-ray reader?
I am trying to find the cheapest way to go about this and the best prices I can find are the following drives (which are blu-ray and dvd multi drives):
Plextor Black Multi
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827249040
or this Velocity Multi
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827270003
Has anyone used or confirmed that these would work?
Thanks again.
Well, the only review I could find about the Velocity Micro Bluray combo drive is that it was not compatible with Mac. I also can not get a definitive answer on whether or not the Plextor external is compatible based on my google searches. I suppose I could try to use either of them in bootcamp on the XP side, but I don't want to have to spend an additional $100 just for AnyDVD HD if the free MakMKV app works fine and/or run into a problem with bootcamp (windows sucks).
Any other suggestions from the experts?
Thanks.
Dark Knight Blu-ray
Hey Caveman,
Thanks for all the info and the excellent FAQ on this stuff.
I noticed in an earlier post, you mentioned you were able to successfully convert Dark Knight using the new HB. Did the .m4v file preserve the iMAX scenes when playing on your aTV? If you are forcing the resolution to 1280 x 720 how does HB handle the alternating aspect ratios for this film?
I am looking to try this out over the weekend depending on how fast I can get a working combo drive and Dark Knight is the top priority for me to try out on my aTV.
Thanks again.
Hey Caveman,
Thanks for all the info and the excellent FAQ on this stuff.
I noticed in an earlier post, you mentioned you were able to successfully convert Dark Knight using the new HB. Did the .m4v file preserve the iMAX scenes when playing on your aTV? If you are forcing the resolution to 1280 x 720 how does HB handle the alternating aspect ratios for this film?
I am looking to try this out over the weekend depending on how fast I can get a working combo drive and Dark Knight is the top priority for me to try out on my aTV.
Thanks again.
Has anyone found a way to get Forced Subtitles into the m2ts file without a Mac? I've managed to get several movies encoded and they work great. However, I haven't managed to get the Forced Subtitles to work. I don't have access to a Mac, so I'm looking for a Windows or Linux solution.
I wasn't saying you could. I wasn't sure if the Mac guys could get them to work or not. A lot of the stuff I have found searching the web deals with Mac-Only software.
I use submerge. I think it cost $9, but works great. You just open the video (I did it with Angels & Deamons yesterday) and then select the correct. SRT file. The program then renders the file and saves the completed movie as a .MOV.
You can try it without paying. However, every 4th ot 5th subtitle will be replaced with text telling you how to register your copy of the software.
Mine worked perfectly fine... Did you put in the SVQ file from the MakeMKV forums before ripping it? Also I only ripped the title that just had the movie I never do all the other extras and junk. I got the extended edition so I am not sure if that's any different that what you have either.
You need Windows if you want to do that as I don't think that the OS X ide of things has got that far, search Doom9's forum and you will find a lot of info on it.
You can then remux into the final MP4/M4V using Subler and I think there is an option to make them come on without needing to set it to
Don't buy things for stuff you can already do with free apps.
The Velocity Micro works with MakeMKV on OS X, and through Bootcamp with the included software (PowerDVD). It's nice to have a portable drive that is bus powered over USB (at least it is on my Macbook Pro 13).
It works fine in Handbrake if you don't include subtitle tracks with MakeMKV. Of course, you don't have subtitles, but you can add them in using mkvtoolnix (that's how I did it) or Handbrakes Add SRT function.
Here's the subtitle track I used for the non-english parts only:
http://subscene.com/english/Angels-and-Demons/subtitle-253302.aspx
Damn wish i would of seen this last week when i encoded this. I am not trying to rip this again just for that.
Dark Knight problems
Hey caveman,
So I got my bluray drive yesterday (LG Electronics CH08LS10K LightScribe SATA Blu-ray Combo Drive) which is working fine on all of my MACs through a Sata-USB enclosure, but I am still having a few problems with the process itself.
In step 2, I opened the movie with makemkv for MAC (Dark Knight is the one I am currently working on) and I located the largest file with the chapter set. I am not sure if I was supposed to do this, but I unchecked everything else except this single title set. The resulting file export was around 27GB.
In step3, I opened the .mkv file up in tsmuxer but didn't really see any options for extracting the audio. So I went ahead and exported the files (I had a single video track and two audio tracks) back out to an m2ts.
I tried using the resulting m2ts file in HB and the preview looked fine after making the adjustments to cropping and turning anamorphic off. I also noticed that the m2ts file didn't retain the chapters. Unfortunately, HB(64bit ver. running on Snowleopard) crashed before it finished on my first machine (macmini, 1.83ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram, 320GB 7200rpm HDD) and HB(normal ver. 0.9.4 running on Leopard) caused my laptop to shutdown completely (macbook pro, 2.0ghz Intel Core Duo 1st gen, 2GB ram, 320GB 7200rpm HDD). I am now trying out the original .mkv file instead on my G5 (last gen, 2.0ghz PPC Dual Core, 10GB ram, 10K rpm HDD) and after 7 hours it was only up to 40% with another 8 hours to go.
Do you have any suggestions to help me get this working right? Are there any steps I am missing in this process?
Thanks for all your help.
Hey caveman,
So I got my bluray drive yesterday (LG Electronics CH08LS10K LightScribe SATA Blu-ray Combo Drive) which is working fine on all of my MACs through a Sata-USB enclosure, but I am still having a few problems with the process itself.
In step 2, I opened the movie with makemkv for MAC (Dark Knight is the one I am currently working on) and I located the largest file with the chapter set. I am not sure if I was supposed to do this, but I unchecked everything else except this single title set. The resulting file export was around 27GB.
In step3, I opened the .mkv file up in tsmuxer but didn't really see any options for extracting the audio. So I went ahead and exported the files (I had a single video track and two audio tracks) back out to an m2ts.
I tried using the resulting m2ts file in HB and the preview looked fine after making the adjustments to cropping and turning anamorphic off. I also noticed that the m2ts file didn't retain the chapters. Unfortunately, HB(64bit ver. running on Snowleopard) crashed before it finished on my first machine (macmini, 1.83ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram, 320GB 7200rpm HDD) and HB(normal ver. 0.9.4 running on Leopard) caused my laptop to shutdown completely (macbook pro, 2.0ghz Intel Core Duo 1st gen, 2GB ram, 320GB 7200rpm HDD). I am now trying out the original .mkv file instead on my G5 (last gen, 2.0ghz PPC Dual Core, 10GB ram, 10K rpm HDD) and after 7 hours it was only up to 40% with another 8 hours to go.
Do you have any suggestions to help me get this working right? Are there any steps I am missing in this process?
Thanks for all your help.
That's how it's supposed to work!
You don't need tsmuxer for Make MKV, only for AnyDVD HD.
Don't do this. Go straight from Make MKV to Handbrake. That's probably why you lost the chapter markers.
This happens to my overclocked hackintosh - the heat that HB generates is about as much as anything can generate. So I now do all my HB transcodes on my other hackintosh that is not overclocked. Check your laptop's temps to see if they go really high.
I would try this original file from Make MKV (without passing it through tsmuxer) on your Mini with Handbrake.