What does "remux" mean?
Ever since the announcement of 1080p, I'm read about using Subler to remux. What does this mean?
Ever since the announcement of 1080p, I'm read about using Subler to remux. What does this mean?
Ever since the announcement of 1080p, I'm read about using Subler to remux. What does this mean?
Mike, welcome to the forums.
You do realize that there is a handbrake developer commenting within this very thread? Unless something has changed with the latest release of Handbrake (last few days), they've recommended not using 2-pass and average bit rate and instead just sliding the constant quality slider a few points one way or the other if one wants max quality vs. smaller file size. Why? https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/ConstantQuality and https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/AvgBitrateAndTargetSize
It's great if that method works for you and you're happy with it. You might try their suggestion though and see what that gets you. I've done it both ways myself and I like the Constant Quality output & file sizes better (all things considered). The big key is does one care more about file size or max picture quality. I'm in the latter camp.
It means taking, say, a 1080P MKV file, and simply 'remuxing' the video and audio to an M4V file for Apple TV. Remuxing takes just a few minutes as no transcoding of the video or audio is done - just put in a new container.
It is preferable as re-encoding the MKV file takes hours.
Constant quality trumps average bitrate everytime. Trust me ... you aren't smarter than the encoder on what it takes to get a certain visual quality.
Then why does it overbit so badly? As an example, I encoded some 44-minute TV episodes using CQ at default and ended up with 800MB files. Using my settings I get 380MB and the files look and sound identical. It's wasteful. I know I won't get Apple iTMS quality with 320MB for the same file, because they're using Compressor, but I see no reason to use software as good as HB in "not as good" mode. Any thoughts you have on this are welcomed.
Still having trouble with Audio. Subler doesn't let me change DTS to AC3 to make one Stereo and one 6 Channel.
I know I won't get Apple iTMS quality with 320MB for the same file, because they're using Compressor ...
Constant quality trumps average bitrate everytime. Trust me ... you aren't smarter than the encoder on what it takes to get a certain visual quality.
So for a non-technical type like me, am I best to just stick with the presets like I've been doing?
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Did they say if the new apple tv does 24p? Aren't bluray encodes all jerky (especially on a panning scene) if they display at the wrong frame rate?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
well, we think so ... you could adjust the quality level up or down a point or two (rf value) but in general its set at 20 because across many varieties of sources we have found it provides a nice balance of visually perceptive quality at a decent encode speed and bitrate. That said play with it if you like (I tend to use 19 just because I like it a bit more though cannot really say that I can discern a big difference on my 50" panny.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Thanks for that, and keep up the great work!
EDIT: Sorry, one more thing ... is a major new preset like this enough to prompt a new "official" release of HandBrake, or will you stick with the annual release schedule? Are the nightlies generally stable enough to rely on?
I currently store all my bluray movies on my home server in mkv format. I would like to use apple tv 3 on the televisions in my house. The only thing I am wondering about is, is it possible to keep the audio loseless? I don't really care what format it is held in, but I would like to retain all quality.
Maybe you cannot see a difference but i suggest there is. Drop the quality level (rf) I am guessing you wouldn't see the difference either. Visual perception is very hard to determine, If you want to try to *guess* on the appropriate bitrate for a given file .. then do so.
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Of course. Subler remuxes only ( well, not totally true as it can re encode ac3 to aac ). It has no capability to encode dts to ac3. for that you need hb.
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No, they aren't. The main reason you will never achieve the level of compression they get at a given quality level is the fact that they are not using a crappy blu ray source (which is already compressed). The source they use are masters. Basically if you could get your hands on one and run it through hb ... even on an i7 it would make the progress bar probably go backwards. Fact is they use a much better source than you can get your hands on.
Not really sure what you are asking.In light of this Apple Insider article on Apple's new 1080p compression technique, I was wondering if dynaflash could explain the relative merits of HandBrake vs iTunes' compression algorithms?
Not really sure what you are asking.
Now I just converted a Blu-ray using the Apple TV 2 preset and changed the Animorphic to custom, checked the keep ratio box and changed the height to 1080 and width to 1280 and used an average bit rate of 3900 and it seemed to play fine, choppy in iTunes though, but smooth on the Apple TV, now can I up the width to 1920? is there any other settings i'm missing? constant quality maybe? and would it be really better than the 720 encode?
This thread has been very helpful. I currently run Windows Media Center as my entertainment hub, but I am thinking of switching to iTunes and ATV3 instead. I am tired of troubleshooting it and want something that will just work for my wife and five little kids. She loves her iPad and my kids love their iPod touches so I figure they will love ATV as well. They will use it to watch ripped movies, look at family photos, listen to music, and watch recorded OTA tv (will need to get eyeTV now to get the recorded tv for them). I don't like my kids handling our blu-rays, but I will continue to use them as my primary movie viewing medium.
What do you all use for process to rip blu-ray to play on ATV? Either Mac or Windows (currently dont have a mac but will buy one to run eyeTV so they can have recorded TV). My current process for WMC is to decrypt with AnyDVD HD, then use BDinfo to find the main movie playlist with chapters, then use TSMuxer to create a BD folder on my hard drive and then use TMT5 from Arcsoft to play the file in WMC (retains all video quality and passes through DTS MA to my 7.1 receiver and projector (106").
Is handbrake better on Windows or Mac? What is the best process to turn my blu-rays into files that "just work" on ATV? Use MakeMKV on the blu-ray then handbrake using ATV preset once the ATV3 preset is available? I'm not willing to give up my blu-ray sound and picture, so the answer for me is not the easiest solution of all - buy everything on iTunes
Currently, I create two versions of movies: a 720p file for my ATV1s and 544p file for my iPhone. Once I get an ATV3, I will need to make 3 versions, adding the 1080p file for the ATV3. Subler, apparently, has updated its app to allow for the third resolution marker to allow iTunes to tell the difference. I do have the option to nix the 720p version altogether and just feed the ATV1s the 544p version, but I will make that call once I see how the file sizes work out.