Handbrake - Best Settings to encode for ATV and iPhone use?

pilot1226

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Feb 29, 2012

• #1

If I was going to rip/encode some of my DVDs for use on BOTH my iPhone and streaming to Apple TV, what would the best settings be for Handbrake? Universal?

 

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NightStorm

macrumors 68000

• Feb 29, 2012

• #2

Assuming you mean the AppleTV v2 and iPhone 4S, you can start with something like the high profile preset to create smaller (but same quality) encodes than the Universal or AppleTV presets.

 

AppleRocks2011

macrumors member

• Feb 29, 2012

• #3

Up To You

Hi there! You have to remember, DVD's contain a lot of information. If you imported a movie from a DVD onto your laptop at full quality, it would be between 4-6 GB's of storage.

I usually keep my movies at 800MB, that way it looks fine on the computer, and it looks alright on ATV.

If you want good quality, I would compress the files to 1.5GB's or so.

Hope that helps!

 

Diode

macrumors 68020

• Feb 29, 2012

• #4

If you have at least a IP4 and the ATV2 - selecting the ATV2 settings will produce a file playable on both.

 

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Gjwilly

macrumors 68040

• Feb 29, 2012

• #5

I use the iPad setting and files look great on all three, iPhone, iPad, and ATV.

 

pilot1226

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Feb 29, 2012

• #6

Gjwilly said:

I use the iPad setting and files look great on all three, iPhone, iPad, and ATV.

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Great, thanks for the responses. I'll try one and see how they turn out. I have an iPhone 4S, which the preset in Handbrake works great for, a DVD typically turns into around a 1.0 GB file... but they look fuzzy on both computer and TV (via USB Flash Drive).

Planning on getting ATV 3 next week after new launch (hopefully) so wanted to start converting all the stuff.

Thanks again!

 

tbayrgs

macrumors 604

• Feb 29, 2012

• #7

I use the TV2 preset (720p) for playback on TV2, iPad and iPhone 4--looks great on all devices.