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Blu-Ray to Apple TV

Blu-ray on Apple TV and Xbox

I have been using Caveman's settings for Blu-ray for awhile now and all works great on ATV. However, I would like to stream to a Xbox 360 in another room with Connect 360. Xbox will not play the ATV settings. I use Handbrake 0.94 and have tried the Normal setting and reducing the resolution down to 1280. That plays great on Xbox, but on ATV it is pixelated, mainly on graphics pages.

Does anybody have any settings that will work HD in both ATV and Xbox? Thanks.
 
Has anyone had any luck with converting Terminator 2? I have the Skynet Edition Blu-Ray and handbrake crashes immediately no matter what format I give it. I've tried a mkv from MakeMKV, m2ts from tsMuxer, etc. It seems to be an issue with the video, as I've tried different audio streams and always get the same result. Anyone have success with this disc?
 
I take it there is still no way to turn Sup into Srt on OS X from what I have read? :(
 
Successful blu-ray cloning on OS X

Well it probably isn't easy, but I finally figured out a way to THEORETICALLY backup purchased blu-ray movies on OSX without installing Windoze. Use Moyea Blu-Ray Ripper on OSX to remove the copy protection. Moyea has the capacity to rip and convert your blu-ray content into dozens of formats. (Don't be scared by the fact that the Chinese developers have written all kinds of fake reviews for this software all over the Net. It actually does work). You could probably rip to .mkv and then use VLC to play your blu-ray movies on OSX. You could also probably make full back-ups of your discs and burn them to BDR blanks. (High quality 25GB BDR blanks can now be purchased for around $3 or less in quantity). One could use the "direct copy" option in Moyea to generate m2ts files. Then you could make a new folder on your desktop, then drag and drop the folders from the original disc (with the exception of the original m2ts files) into the new folder. Then place the m2ts files that Moyea ripped into the BDMV>STREAM folder. And use Roxio 10 or the OSX Finder in Snow Leopard to burn your blu-ray with an external Firewire or USB burner. If you have one of the newer multi-core Macs it probably would not take much more than 60-90 minutes, depending on the size of the disc. Of course, you'll need more expensive 50GB blanks for movies larger than 25GB. Again, this is all THEORETICAL, of course. And I'm making no statements on the legality of ripping the content you already own to back it up or movie it off your TV to another device. But a wholly OSX solution is viable.
 
How do you guys handle large movie sizes such as Hurt Locker, Braveheart, Gladiator? I just got these on blu-ray, ripped using MakeMkv, put it through Handbrake, select ATV, change the movie to 24 fps, and 1280x720.

For Hurt Locker, it took 10 hours just to get 50% and the file size was already 6 gb, I just canceled it. You think if I ripped through AnyDVD, then put it through TSMuxer the file size would be a lot smaller? When I rip through MakeMkv, I'm not selecting any extra languages or subtitles, just the English audio.
 
MCRunning said:
How do you guys handle large movie sizes such as Hurt Locker, Braveheart, Gladiator? I just got these on blu-ray, ripped using MakeMkv, put it through Handbrake, select ATV, change the movie to 24 fps, and 1280x720.

For Hurt Locker, it took 10 hours just to get 50% and the file size was already 6 gb, I just canceled it. You think if I ripped through AnyDVD, then put it through TSMuxer the file size would be a lot smaller? When I rip through MakeMkv, I'm not selecting any extra languages or subtitles, just the English audio.
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With my Coreduo 2 it takes about 4 hours or so. I've never had a rip that I do around 61% go more than 3-4 gb's
 
Scarpad said:
With my Coreduo 2 it takes about 4 hours or so. I've never had a rip that I do around 61% go more than 3-4 gb's
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It usually takes me 5-6 hours on my MBP, but with these action movies it takes ridiculously long and the file size is 3x the normal, thus making me unable to play it on my ATV.
 
Cover Art...Some Transparent, Some Not.

Hello All,

Here's a question regarding a cover art anomaly:

I'm running iTunes 9.0.3 and have successfully converted a number of Blu-ray movies to 720p for the AppleTV. Having discovered that MetaX was breaking my movie files, I started using Subler with excellent results.

I'm creating custom cover art for all of my movies and saving those files as .PNG with transparency. When I import into iTunes, the movie is displayed in cover flow with transparency. Close iTunes are reload it, however, and most of the cover art is no longer transparent. Here's the trick: I've noticed that the movies I purchased from iTunes are successfully retaining transparent cover art even after closing and opening iTunes repeatedly.

Again...Purchased movies with custom cover art continue to display the PNG with transparency while ripped movies with custom cover art stop displaying with transparency following an iTunes "reboot."

To be clear, in both situations the cover art is exactly the same with regard to file format, size, etc. I use the same Photoshop template for all of them.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Nathan
 
I have problems with some of my Blu-Ray movies with too high bitrate. I have tried to use bitrate limit in Handbrake without success.

I have been experimenting on my work with Compressor but can not get Compressor to accept these files. I tried to create an MKV of the movie and then save to a mov file with QuickTime, but only get pixels in the movie when I play it with Quicktime. It looks ok with VLC.

Anyone here who has experience of Compressor and Blu-Ray backups to Apple TV!?
 
Huggi said:
I have problems with some of my Blu-Ray movies with too high bitrate. I have tried to use bitrate limit in Handbrake without success.

I have been experimenting on my work with Compressor but can not get Compressor to accept these files. I tried to create an MKV of the movie and then save to a mov file with QuickTime, but only get pixels in the movie when I play it with Quicktime. It looks ok with VLC.

Anyone here who has experience of Compressor and Blu-Ray backups to Apple TV!?
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If you add vbv-maxrate=9500:vbv-bufsize=9500 to the advanced x264 string in the latest Handbrake, your encoded file should have little/no problem streaming to the AppleTV via 802.11n. The next version of Handbrake will have this default for the AppleTV preset, and it should work well with HD material at 720p24 and 720p25 (based on testing done by myself, dynaflash, and others in the #handbrake IRC channel using a "difficult" HD source).
 
northy124 said:
Bird Scene in Planet Earth? that is the only one people should test out this with ;) :p
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That bird scene test is bogus. It (and the other BBC videos) use some highly unusual VC-1 encoding scheme. It's only at 20 MB/sec and the audio is AC3, not True-HD. In terms of difficulty, it shouldn't be as flaky as it is. If you really want to test, try the last Bourne movie. It clips over 40 MB/s and uses a lot of hand-held camera scenes.
 
well, when the screen backs up and there about a million white flapping dots ... thats a pretty complex scene. Whether or not the source has more or less bitrate may be another matter. That said with the vbv string above, just about any source should be pretty much stutter free as long as you don't use Hi Profile ( testing in cabac would still yield stuttering from time to time on hd sources at rf 19.25).
 
I have that series on Blu-ray and the straight m2ts rip (which only has AC3 audio) stuttered on my quad-core hackintosh with Plex or XBMC. I transcoded it using the Apple TV preset, changed to 1920 by xxx and set to average 20 MB/s (same as the source bit rate) and it plays perfectly fine, even on my 2 gHz C2D GMA950 mini. Something is really strange about the VC-1 on those discs.
 
I dont really get the point in ripping blurays. they take up a huge amount of space and the apple tv can only display 720p. I wanna do it just cause I like exploring new technology but it doesn't seem very logical to me haha.
 
NightStorm said:
If you add vbv-maxrate=9500:vbv-bufsize=9500 to the advanced x264 string in the latest Handbrake, your encoded file should have little/no problem streaming to the AppleTV via 802.11n. The next version of Handbrake will have this default for the AppleTV preset, and it should work well with HD material at 720p24 and 720p25 (based on testing done by myself, dynaflash, and others in the #handbrake IRC channel using a "difficult" HD source).
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Unfortunately it does not help :mad: I have problems especially with Year One, the intro scene is a stuttering inferno. Also problems in some explosion scenes in Terminator Salvation. Bangkok Dangerous also gives me problems.

For most movies vbv-maxrate=9500:vbv-bufsize=9500 works but in some movies, especially with full screen (16:9) movies a little bit more control whould be happy to have.
 
Huggi said:
Unfortunately it does not help :mad: I have problems especially with Year One, the intro scene is a stuttering inferno. Also problems in some explosion scenes in Terminator Salvation. Bangkok Dangerous also gives me problems.

For most movies vbv-maxrate=9500:vbv-bufsize=9500 works but in some movies, especially with full screen (16:9) movies a little bit more control whould be happy to have.
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Surprising, I haven't been able to find an encode yet that exhibits any problems since adding this to my string, and have heard similar results from others in #handbrake. I've re-encoded about half of my Bluray/HDDVD collection and haven't witnessed any stuttering problems.
 
baldies said:
I have been using Caveman's settings for Blu-ray for awhile now and all works great on ATV. However, I would like to stream to a Xbox 360 in another room with Connect 360. Xbox will not play the ATV settings. I use Handbrake 0.94 and have tried the Normal setting and reducing the resolution down to 1280. That plays great on Xbox, but on ATV it is pixelated, mainly on graphics pages.

Does anybody have any settings that will work HD in both ATV and Xbox? Thanks.
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I was under the impression that the xbox does not play HD files very well unless they were wmvHD. I remember reading about this a while ago, I am not sure this is still the case though...
 
easier than these instructions indicate

I just use AnyDVD to rip the Bluray movie to my hard drive and the use Handbrake to convert it to an Apple TV .mp4 and Metax to edit the tags and send it to iTunes.

Find the biggest file in the streams directory in the movie folder and this is the movie to upload to Handbrake.

Drawback is no chapters in the movie, anyone know how to do this?
 
sacoffee said:
I just use AnyDVD to rip the Bluray movie to my hard drive and the use Handbrake to convert it to an Apple TV .mp4 and Metax to edit the tags and send it to iTunes.
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Yes, that's pretty much what the first post says. Except that you don't want .mp4, you want .m4v container. And you have to ensure it's 720p or less. And you have make sure your bit rate doesn't exceed the ATV's limit. And you have to...well, you get the picture. ;)

Find the biggest file in the streams directory in the movie folder and this is the movie to upload to Handbrake.
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Except that doesn't work for all discs.

Drawback is no chapters in the movie, anyone know how to do this?
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Yes, use MakeMKV and not AnyDVD HD.
 
sacoffee said:
I just use AnyDVD to rip the Bluray movie to my hard drive and the use Handbrake to convert it to an Apple TV .mp4 and Metax to edit the tags and send it to iTunes.

Find the biggest file in the streams directory in the movie folder and this is the movie to upload to Handbrake.

Drawback is no chapters in the movie, anyone know how to do this?
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You can extract chapters using a program called eac3to. The output will be a text file that you can attach to the Handbrake output using subler (I'd also reccomend using subler for your tagging needs if you are on a Mac... much better results and it has Tagchimp functionality if you don't want to manually enter the metadata).

You can use other tools as well, but I haven't bothered to modify my workflow since I get consistent results with every movie I've converted (both Bluray and HDDVD).
 
Cave Man said:
Yes, that's pretty much what the first post says. Except that you don't want .mp4, you want .m4v container. And you have to ensure it's 720p or less. And you have make sure your bit rate doesn't exceed the ATV's limit. And you have to...well, you get the picture. ;)



Except that doesn't work for all discs.



Yes, use MakeMKV and not AnyDVD HD.
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my bad, you're correct .m4v
 
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