Questions tagged [handbrake]
HandBrake is an open source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
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How to see what command-line options handbrake sends to mencoder
I want to see what command-line options handbrake is sending to mencoder. I looked at the Activity Window and it shows a lot of stuff but not what I'm looking for. How can I find it?
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Changing video resolution with Handbrake - anamorphic and modulus parameter
I would like to convert a video in 16:9 format (1920*1080) to a 4:3 format (640*480) with Handbrake. Can anyone explain me what are anamorphic and modulus parameters? I tried to set modulus to 2 or 16 ...
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Handbrake: Best IPhone playable Settings for a 2:1 Aspect Ratio Video
Original Video Settings (360 Panoramic video):
H264
Bitrate: 15000 kbps
FPS: 48
Resolution 3820 x 1910
My current settings in handbrake are:
Apple TV3 Preset
Width: 1920
Height: none
Anamorphic: ...
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How to make Handbrake save default audio settings?
I click on the "configure default..." button in the audio tab, I set it to the codec/bitrate that I prefer.
However, if I close and re-open Handbrake, these defaults are gone. If I open another file ...
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Handbrake Video Encode Tool File Preview Location
So I added a file to render.
I didn't put destination folder.
Then i clicked preview and it started to render. After the it done rendering it open my video in VLC.
I watched it and i closed it.
So ...
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Transferring .wtv files from Windows 8 Pro Media Center to OS X
Does anyone have a good way to do this using only OS X tools? That is, I have a Windows 8 Pro box that has 1 job and 1 job only, record TV shows from it's cableCARD onto its hard drive.
The mac can ...
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FFMpeg and Handbrake
I have a brilliant preset saved in Handbrake but now I need to be able to use that preset in FFMPEG. Is there an easy way to translate or would I have to break apart the commands one by one?
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How to create video file from DVD
I want to take the DVD video slideshow that I got from my wedding photographer, and put the video on youtube (I have permission, I made sure to get the non-exclusive rights to use anything she created ...
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batch video size reduction in nested folders maintaining their source folders as destination
I have a folder containing nested folders which hold many video files with different formats. I want to reduce their size with HandBrake and maintain properties of the original videos (such as frame ...
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video size reduction by grayscaling it
When we convert a video into grayscale, all of its 3 colors (RGB) in a pixel are assigned the same number (instead of 3 different numbers). So theoretically we must have reduction in size almost by 66%...
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Handbrake produces pixelated output
Until recently Handbrake was working just fine. I think with the update to 0.10.0, something in my setup was broken and I can no longer properly rip DVDs. I'm on Windows 8.1 (64 bit), and the output ...
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Handbrake: How to retain sharpness when down-sampling video during an encode?
I have a bunch of 1280x720 resolution videos, but I really don't need to have that high resolution, so I thought of re-encoding and resizing them to 852x480 to save some space, but I noticed Handbrake ...
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Why do the subtitles get larger when I use HandBrake to copy DVDs?
I am trying to rip a DVD using HandBrake, but every time I do the size of the subtitles balloons somewhat, so that in parts they are off the screen.
I'm using Mac OS X 10.9.4 and HandBrake 0.9.9.
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How can I automate Handbrake to monitor and encode new files within a folder?
Here is what I'd like to do in Windows 7:
Monitor a folder for new ISO files (Blu-ray ISOs).
When there is a new file detected, launch Handbrake in the background and encode the ISO to MKV based on a ...
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Is there a quick and easy way to inspect DVD subtitles?
I'm looking for an easy and if possible quick way to inspect DVD subtitles, to determine their properties.
I am ripping some of my movies in .mkv format, using Handbrake for linux, and I'm having an ...
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How to soft code an MKV with subtitles?
I have an avi and corresponding .srt file for subtitles. I hate having two files for this movie, so what I want to do is convert this file to mkv as I heard it can hold subtitles. I have handbrake ...
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Best way to repackage ripped DVD to mpg
I have a bunch of DVDs that I've already ripped into a VIDEO_TS directory containing .IFO and .VOB files.
I have a cheap primitive video player that will accept .mpg files.
I've tried two different ...
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Keeping Text Sharp whilst shrinking video size - Handbrake
I've recorded a bunch of videos using a high def webcam, and with a website overlay (think of a sports broadcast, with the score on the bottom of the screen).
These videos are 720p avi's, but have a ...
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How can I get Handbrake to find VLC?
I installed HandBrake 0.9.5 i386 (2011010300) on my old 32-bit Intel Mac, to try ripping a DVD (it's the latest version with a prebuilt x86 binary). I also had the latest version of VLC installed ...
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Repackaging DVD TV Episodes
So I have a load of DVDs of episodes that are on my harddrive in the normal DVD format (VOB).
I'd like to repackage these into the individual episodes in a way such that it is lossless.
I know I can ...
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Best Handbrake settings for encoding TV shows
Been using Handbrake since it's the fastest and easiest program for me to understand as I'm not a real A/V guy and I'm getting some under par results from it when it comes to TV shows.
I see episodes ...
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Appending MP4s loses sound from second file
When I try to join two MP4s together using ffmpeg, the first file plays fine and has sound, but the second one loses all sound and becomes a lot choppier.
I encoded both the files from MKVs using ...
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ripping interlaced video to 60fps (frames per second)
It would appear that Broadcast Television is often 1080i30 (60 fields/s), and non-movie DVDs (example, instructional or TV shows) are 60fields/s as well, at some lower resolution (480i?)
However, ...
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Allow multiple instances of Handbrake
Is it possible to run multiple instances of Handbrake on Windows 7 (video encoding application)?
I have a 32 thread system and I think it would be more efficient to encode 2-3 movies at the same time....
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Handbrake Crunches Out 4Kb File
I've been using Handbrake to convert some movies to something I can put on my iPad or Apple TV. By in large it's been working great but I've noticed some of the avi's I toss at it come out as only ~...
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Is there a way to re-encode video files ripped by Handbrake to add iPod 5G support?
Handbrake has an option for iPod 5G support. But I have some video files I ripped without checking that option. Can I use ffmpeg or Handbrake to re-encode those files without having to re-rip from ...
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Using Handbrake with Dropfolders to add subtitle automatically
I am using Handbrake GUI version and Dropfolders to execute Handbrake. I was able convert video files successfully without any parameter. It uses default preset I downloaded from lifehacker.com. Now I ...
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How do I fix Handbrake mp4s that produce Error -2041 when loaded in QuickTime?
After encoding a DVD video to MP4 using Handbrake 0.9.4(2009112300) using the High Profile preset, my video will not open in QuickTime. The video itself does not appear to be corrupt, I can play it ...
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Retrieve the HandBrakeCLI command from HandBrake GUI
I understand that the HandBrake application uses the HandBrakeCLI command-line application to do the actual encoding job
From all the encoding settings I've set on the HandBrake UI, how can I ...
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Video converters don't work anymore after reinstalling Windows
A few days ago, I decided to reinstall Windows 7 as my HD partition seemed to be nearly full and things were slowing down. I'd been using Handbrake almost exclusively to convert TV recordings and used ...
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Can't rip foreign film with subtitles
I'm trying to rip a foreign film DVD, Yojimbo, that has subtitles. I'd like to have the film as a file I can play on my computer and also create a DVD I can play in a player. I'd like subtitles ...
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What is the best Handbrake preset for playing video files on Tivo Series 3
I have Mac2Tivo app running, and I can put video files on Tivo. Tivo supposedly supports avi and various other encoding, but half the time video's don't play. I'm pretty sure this has something to do ...
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Ripping DVDs to 700 MB video files
When downloading movies on torrent websites, usually they come as 700 MB video files and with the .avi extension.
In one single DVD I have 4~6 movies and they play very nice (with good quality) in my ...
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How can I automate converting AVIs to mp4 and stuff them in iTunes?
I know I can use Handbrake to do this all by hand, but I'd like to automate the process. I'm on a Mac, so as a first step, I've tried downloading ffmpeg for the Mac but it's a nightmare to get it ...
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Why Handbrake compressing a video from a DVD can become 300MB, 1GB, or 2GB when the original should be only 600MB?
Handbrake can convert a DVD clip which is about 30 minutes to a 300MB .mkv file. For experiment, I tried also 1GB file size and 2GB, and they both came out as 1GB or 2GB.
But I estimate that the ...
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Handbrake is slow at converting audio
My conversion in Handbrake is taking forever (over 24hrs). The video conversion is done in a few minutes, but then I get miles of this over and over again:
sync: adding 102 ms of silence to audio ...
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Join two h.264 movie files, merging chapters?
I have two h.264 encoded .m4v files, generated with Handbrake 0.9.3. They used the same Handbrake preset. How can I merge the two files into one movie, and do I need to do anything special to preserve ...
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Is it possible to queue HandBrake transcodes across multiple DVD drives?
As I strive to be more efficient with my transcoding of all my personal DVDs, I was wondering if its possible to queue up a couple of DVDs at a time in separate DVD readers. I've not been able to find ...
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Getting Windows Media Center to recognize chapter marks in .mp4 files
I started to convert my DVD collection to .mp4 and despite the fact that Handbrake is adding chapter marks in the .mp4 files, WMC doesn't recognize them and skips forward in the same manner as ...
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How can I transcode a library of DVD Rips into a more compact/accessible format?
I have a hard drive that was filled with DVD copies of movies that I own, used in conjunction with My Movies to allow the children to easily watch the DVDs without having to mess around with and ...
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Handbrake Not Finding Audio Tracks on DVD
I'd been running Handbrake 0.95 (and earlier versions) on OS X Snow Leopard (and earlier versions) for some time and it's been working great. However, recently my Mac gave up the ghost and I replaced ...
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Open source tool to merge videos (VCD CD, DVD chapters) without losing too much data prior to encoding
Is there an opensource tool to merge videos alongside with encoding. Merge in a sense to merge vcd cd1 and vcd cd2. or to merge different chapters of dvd. can handbrake do this?
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What is the best / latest software to convert DVD recorder disc to YouTube?
I recorded some Wii gameplay to a DVD-R using a DVD recorder, and tried using Handbrake to convert it to YouTube compatible format.
Basically, it needs resizing to 16:9, and selecting 00:03 to 3:10 ...
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Clipping in video converted by HandBrake
I own an iPad and an iPhone 4 and my Mac has a Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP 30-inch (2560x1600) display connected to it. I have a wealth of both 720p and 1080p ‘MKV’ videos of various television shows and ...
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Best way to convert episodic DVDs for Windows Media Center?
I'm archiving my DVD collection. My goal is to be able to play them back in Windows Media Center on Windows 7 Ultimate. For feature-length DVDs, I'm using AnyDVD and CloneDVD, which is working well.
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How to add subtitles with Handbrake
I'm trying to add subtitles to an AVI using handbrake. The subtitles are stored in an .srt file. The output file is MP4. After I run the conversion everything completes without error but when I watch ...
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Slow audio in Handbrake
I was trying to convert a H264 video down to iPod resolution in order to be able to watch on my Palm Pre. It turns out that while video converts just fine, the audio track seems to be dramatically ...
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how to rip several minutes of dvd with subtitles - using VLC
Title says it all...I want to rip several minutes of a DVD movie - with subtitles - using VLC (or Handbrake). How can I do this? OS is Windows 7.
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Repackage m4v file
I have some m4v files I made with Handbrake where the AC3 audio channel was the first one, and the stereo was the second. This causes problems with some things (like Quicktime) so I want to repackage ...
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What video codec should I use?
Based on the answer to another question here (which I can't find now), I downloaded and started using Handbrake and I like it a lot so far. Works well on Windows, is lightweight, is pretty ...
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