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HandBrake vs. Visual Hub
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ok visual hub.. it was all going well i encoded a file so that it was in wide screen instead of the old box way erm
no wide screen lol
anyway i get a im complete from visual hub took 280 odd mins to do. im watching the newly created file in wide screen it looked good no brilliant but good. halfway through the film it stopps ?????
thats it, it only did half the original file?? i tried it again and snap same thing??
y is this??? anyone...
i was on an intel alu imac 24inch 2.8 extreme 4gig ram??? loads o hard drive left (over 200gig) i had visual hub encode to home theater go nuts 1200 by 800 pixlels.... the original file was an avi 1.2 gig in size the new was 3.6 gig in size....
Help please
ok visual hub.. it was all going well i encoded a file so that it was in wide screen instead of the old box way erm
no wide screen lolanyway i get a im complete from visual hub took 280 odd mins to do. im watching the newly created file in wide screen it looked good no brilliant but good. halfway through the film it stopps
?????thats it, it only did half the original file?? i tried it again and snap same thing??
y is this??? anyone...
i was on an intel alu imac 24inch 2.8 extreme 4gig ram??? loads o hard drive left (over 200gig) i had visual hub encode to home theater go nuts 1200 by 800 pixlels.... the original file was an avi 1.2 gig in size the new was 3.6 gig in size....
Help please
ok visual hub.. it was all going well i encoded a file so that it was in wide screen instead of the old box way erm
anyway i get a im complete from visual hub took 280 odd mins to do. im watching the newly created file in wide screen it looked good no brilliant but good. halfway through the film it stopps
thats it, it only did half the original file?? i tried it again and snap same thing??
y is this??? anyone...
i was on an intel alu imac 24inch 2.8 extreme 4gig ram??? loads o hard drive left (over 200gig) i had visual hub encode to home theater go nuts 1200 by 800 pixlels.... the original file was an avi 1.2 gig in size the new was 3.6 gig in size....
Help please
I had this, as well. I ripped The Ringer with MacTheRipper, tried converting the VIDEO_TS files into Apple TV H.264, and than I put it in my iTunes, than I opened it on my
TV, and it stopped about half way/3-4'ths through the movie.. Uhm, that's not possible - I am doing Standard quality in VH, converting to "Apple TV", H.264, and it's at 139 minutes remaining. Wish I had your computer, if what you're saying is true..
The really interesting thing here is that Handbrake and Visualhub both use the exact same backend software. They are both based on libavcodec/ffmpeg/x264 (Handbrake 0.9.3) so for one to be significantly faster than the other seems unlikely.
I did not know they had the same backened software. And yes, I thought it was 'unusual' or unusually impossible for his computer to take under and hour in Go Nuts mode. That's funny that the both use the same software, just different templates.
Um, no. VisualHub is an applescript based gui wrapper for ffmpeg (which has its own very outdated version of x264 in it). Not unlike ffmpegx.
HandBrake, while it uses libavcodec to decode non dvd input sources in the snapshot and ffmpeg just for its ffmpeg mp4 output. Uses its own versions of many different encoding libraries, etc. Particularly the version of libx264 in HandBrake is *much* newer than the old version included in VH's ffmpeg (which is also old).
HandBrake uses a highly modified version of a completely different muxer for mp4 than VH (why do you think VH cannot do comparable AC3 passthrough in mp4 like HB ?) There are many other huge differences. Other than they both encode video, they really are quite different "under the hood".
While I won't speak directly for dynaflash, I think his opinion is QUITE biased...
Me ? Biased ? NahWhile I won't speak directly for dynaflash, I think his opinion is QUITE biased...
VisualHub Quality vs. Handbrake
Dynaflash,
Could you (or anyone else) suggest some encoding options for Handbrake that would make it match VisualHub's visual quality when it comes to x264 MP4 encoding?
Side by side, when transcoding .VOB's or .avi's into .mp4 for use on an iPod Touch, VisualHub's visual crispness is definitely better "out of the box", than Handbrake (tweaked to use 2 pass encoding & turbo on the first).
Thanks for any suggestions.
Dynaflash,
Could you (or anyone else) suggest some encoding options for Handbrake that would make it match VisualHub's visual quality when it comes to x264 MP4 encoding?
Side by side, when transcoding .VOB's or .avi's into .mp4 for use on an iPod Touch, VisualHub's visual crispness is definitely better "out of the box", than Handbrake (tweaked to use 2 pass encoding & turbo on the first).
Thanks for any suggestions.
well, not really only because I do not use VH at all for the most part. I have played with it. But do not use it really. I would have to know exactly what VH is using for bitrate, etc for the iPod touch.
One thing to note: in HB if you use the iPod Hi Rez preset (hint: that will be renamed in the next public release, but I digress) you should get a very crisp movie. The actual iPhone/iPod touch preset built into HB 0.9.2 is designed just for the iPod's screen and tries for a compromise of file size and quailty due to the relatively low storage available on the iPhone at the time it was written.
In HB give the iPod Hi-Rez preset a try, you should notice a better picture due in part to the higher video bitrate it uses as well as proportionately larger file sizes.
If you want to try something totally new, there is a nifty Apple > Universal Preset in the HandBrake Dev Snapshot 5 which you will see at the HB forums. Be sure to Update your Built in Presets. It reportedly looks awesome on the iPhone/iPod touch as well as the atv.
(Important Note: as per the text in the snapshot announcment, there is officially no support for the development snapshots, so don't ask about it on the HB forums. )
One thing to note: in HB if you use the iPod Hi Rez preset (hint: that will be renamed in the next public release, but I digress) you should get a very crisp movie. The actual iPhone/iPod touch preset built into HB 0.9.2 is designed just for the iPod's screen and tries for a compromise of file size and quailty due to the relatively low storage available on the iPhone at the time it was written.
In HB give the iPod Hi-Rez preset a try, you should notice a better picture due in part to the higher video bitrate it uses as well as proportionately larger file sizes.
If you want to try something totally new, there is a nifty Apple > Universal Preset in the HandBrake Dev Snapshot 5 which you will see at the HB forums. Be sure to Update your Built in Presets. It reportedly looks awesome on the iPhone/iPod touch as well as the atv.
(Important Note: as per the text in the snapshot announcment, there is officially no support for the development snapshots, so don't ask about it on the HB forums. )
You guys like to lock threads eh
I asked a question and got told to turn on a feature in the Snapshot, I said it didn't work and my original question was nothing to do with the Snapshot features, and my thread got locked!