Thanks.If "Peak Framerate (VFR)" is checked, it is telling Handbrake to go no higher than 29.97 frames per second, the maximum allowed on the AppleTV. If the source is all 25fps, it will remain 25fps.
Thanks.If "Peak Framerate (VFR)" is checked, it is telling Handbrake to go no higher than 29.97 frames per second, the maximum allowed on the AppleTV. If the source is all 25fps, it will remain 25fps.
Curious what computer everyone has and what kind of encoding times you are getting with 1080P. I have several going right now on my Mac Mini so I'll update when I get a time.
A question about the presets if I may. I would have thought "Same as source" would make more sense for Framerate (FPS) than forcing them all to "29.97 (NTSC Video)". Why is converting something that might be 25fps to 29.97fps a good thing?
FYI, this was posted to the Handbrake forums this morning.
https://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=23648
You have a couple of options:
For the AppleTV3
Normal - Up to 1080p. This preset is much faster than High Profile, but can produce larger file sizes. This may cause problems for weak wireless connected devices. Quality may be slightly less than High Profile
High Profile - Up to 1080p. Encodes will take a long time, but the quality is excellent and filesizes will be more reasonable than the Normal preset.
2011 Mac mini server
2.0GHz Quad-Core Intel i7
8GB 1866MHz Kingston Hyper X
Source and Destination on LaCie Thunderbolt Little Big Disk modified with dual 240GB OCZ Vertex 3 running RAID 0
Handbrake 0.96
Starting Preset Apple TV 2
Video Width to 1920
Web Optimized Check
Advanced String vbv-bufsize=31250:vbv-maxrate=25000
11fps average
When I used handbrake with ATV 1 settings, they wouldn't play on my ATV 2. Now that I've recoded everything for ATV 2, will they work on an ATV3?
So does this mean just choose High Profile and, that's it?!?
if you have the time the high preset is awesome. I did Dark Knight with it yesterday. it took awhile like 6+ hours but the quality is perfect and the file size is under 7gb. i did a few other shorter movies with filesizes ranging up to 12gb and the quality is not even close.
Do you mean the High profile under x264 settings? And if so, are you picking the 7GB file size?
Interesting, thanks for posting that. I've been using iFlicks and their iTunes 1080p preset and it takes about 4 hours to encode with my Mac Mini server.
if you have the time the high preset is awesome. I did Dark Knight with it yesterday. it took awhile like 6+ hours but the quality is perfect and the file size is under 7gb. i did a few other shorter movies with filesizes ranging up to 12gb and the quality is not even close.
no the high preset. its already set to 1080p.
I suppose you can turn off decomb and detelicine since it's already a progressive source from bluray correct?
Ah, OK. I'm encoding now, and it looks like the end result will be about 7GB. Is there anyway to get about twice that size, for improved quality? Right now, I'm averaging 12.7FPS.
Yes, but leaving them on shouldn't reduce the quality of your encode either.
reduce the RF. The preset defaults to 20, if I recall. I run it at 18, but you could try 16 and see what you think. Given that you are never going to exactly duplicate the PQ of the blu-ray with an ATV and a transcoded source, I feel 18 or so is the point of diminishing returns.
I'm just trying to get something for "casual" viewing that is better than cable HD quality. I play the BD in my Oppo if I am critically viewing or having "movie night". I use the ATV as a substitute for channel surfing the cable if I'm reading, surfing the web on the couch, or whatever.
I wonder what kind of system/s Apple uses to encode for the iTunes store or if the movie studios submit already encoded files.