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New Version of Handbrake

does anyone know a good setting that meets these criteria?
1. will play on the iPod
2. will play on the PSP
3. will look good on AppleTV

i would like to rip the file to one format and have it work on all 3.
the PSP was recently updated to support higher quality H.264 settings, but it doesnt seem to work very well and supports the opposite mode of encoding that apple uses (mainline instead of baseline)
i use my iPod the majority of the time, but for longer trips i prefer the PSP for video due to it's longer battery life on video playback.

oh...and one quick question. on the chapter markings in the new handbrake...does it just mark them where the normal DVD chapters are or do you manually have to set them?
 
dwishbone said:
sweetness
dammit now i gotta rerip everything. been meaning to do that anyway for higher quality. oh well...now i have another reason.
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I know what you mean. I have so much that I've ripped either at lower quality or without these settings that I really would love to rerip. Now, just need to find an 8-core Mac Pro lying around... :shifty eyes:
 
AliensAreFuzzy said:
A warning to everybody, the server is overloaded. If I can get it downloaded I might be able to put up a mirror.



Well, they're such different programs. I use handbrake because I use it for TV shows. That way I can have all of my TV shows around in a portable format and sorted by episode rather than a disc of episodes.

Sorry for the large number of posts. But I got handbrake downloaded and have it here if the server is still slow to respond.
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thanks, much appreciated.
 
Sounds pretty demanding and like wishful thinking to me... but I'm very curious if anyone out there has an answer... :p

dwishbone said:
does anyone know a good setting that meets these criteria?
1. will play on the iPod
2. will play on the PSP
3. will look good on AppleTV

i would like to rip the file to one format and have it work on all 3.
the PSP was recently updated to support higher quality H.264 settings, but it doesnt seem to work very well and supports the opposite mode of encoding that apple uses (mainline instead of baseline)
i use my iPod the majority of the time, but for longer trips i prefer the PSP for video due to it's longer battery life on video playback.

oh...and one quick question. on the chapter markings in the new handbrake...does it just mark them where the normal DVD chapters are or do you manually have to set them?
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NATO said:
Whoa, whoa whoa! How do you do that? I'm using the GUI version at the moment, I assume that might require the use of the CLI version?
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just duplicate the app and call it handbrake2, now you can start both apps at the smae time

it had a lot of problems when i had dvd in my optical drives, with both apps trying to acces the same drive, but when used with mactheripper output it really works great and gets everything out of the macpro

btw if you have two optical drives (or 3) you can also run multiple macthe rippers the same way, just eject the dvd the first mtr is ripping before starting the second mtr
 
This is really weird. Every time I try to download Handbrake, the BOMArchiveHelper application can't open it, and when I use another application to open the file, the disk image can't be mounted. I've had trouble mounting other disk images in the past. Is there any fix for that?
 
I find the new version produces VERY dark rips. And I have no way whatsoever of brightening them up. I have QTpro but the changes I make with the A/V controls wont save so really its a pointless feature. I am very pissed off.

Any one know how I can brighten up a movie?
 
dukebound85 said:
yea i know but not exactly free like handbrake though lol

how does visual hub compare to handbrake though?
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VisualHub is awesome at converting anything to anything. Handbrake is pretty much only for ripping DVD sources.

I can tell you from personal use that Xgrid on VH kicks ass. Just don't bother if you're using 2-pass as it doesn't support Xgrid encoding at this time.
 
j26 said:
A happy ending?
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Hehe. I have downloaded the older version of handbrake and I get MUCH better rips in both quality and speed. They also seem brighter. I guess thats why the 'new' version is still beta?
 
I cannot seem to get 2 pass encoding to work whatsoever. it always produces an unusable file. any suggestions?
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Forced Perfect said:
VisualHub is awesome at converting anything to anything. Handbrake is pretty much only for ripping DVD sources.

I can tell you from personal use that Xgrid on VH kicks ass. Just don't bother if you're using 2-pass as it doesn't support Xgrid encoding at this time.
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MacboobsPro said:
Hehe. I have downloaded the older version of handbrake and I get MUCH better rips in both quality and speed. They also seem brighter. I guess thats why the 'new' version is still beta?
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Yes, the new version seems a bit darker, but it does have chapters which is great for an iPod, so I guess I'll just have to wait until the final version comes out to rerip my dvd's.
 
This was mentioned above (I believe) or in another thread about Handbrake:

If you are having trouble with encoding speeds on a multi-processor/core Mac then you need to delete Handbrake. I was only getting it to use 70% of my Core Duo processor on my MBP. I went through and deleted every trace of Handbrake that I could fine via Spotlight. I then re-downloaded Handbrake 0.8.5b1 and put in in my applications folder again. I started it up and began encoding the same movie. It's now using 180% of my processor.

Now I just need to figure out why I'm not getting any sound. I'm using the HB-AppleTV preset and have tried adjusting the sound, but to no avail. Everytime I have encoded it has come up with no sound whatsoever. (I'm converting Underworld Evolution from a Video_TS folder that I used MacTheRipper to create).

Any suggestions on how I can get sound?

Thanks!
 
I now have sound. Maybe I just needed a clean/fresh install of Handbrake to resolve that issue.

However, the HB-AppleTV settings do NOT work for streaming via Connect360 to an Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 notices the file in the movies folder, but states that it is not compatible and to see their website for support.

This did work with :apple: TV (or at least the software version I have my MBP pro booted with via a FWHD).

I'd like to be able to find a common setting that looks great with both from my DVD collection so that I can begin ripping them. I have a projection HDTV in my basement and an LCD HDTV in my living room. My 360 is in the basement and the :apple: TV that I'm going to buy (once I get all this figured out and rip a lot of my DVD's) will go in my living room. My goal is to be able to stream to both TV's (one via :apple: TV and one via Xbox 360).
 
I love handbrake but sometimes audio tracks wont work? Sometimes they do?

It really sucks because I never know until I am done encoding.

On a DVD with "Episodes" Some episodes will be good to go, some the audio falls off about a minute through. WTF? lol I know it is still in beta, but come on. This happens on my iBook G4, and my IntelliMac...
 
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