After not having a lot of success with using Handbrake (stuttering, macroblocking etc.) to encode my Blu-ray rips for the Apple TV I tried what jlasoon suggested in another thread. Going for Compressor with the Apple TV preset. I would really like to get the same quality for my movies that Apple delivers via the iTunes store (I purchased "Quantum of Solace" and thought it looked fantastic).
There are some problems however. To get a movie in Compressor it has to come in a Quicktime container. I can get mkv's to open and export because I have Perian installed. But my own Blu-ray rips coming in from the Windows partition of my MacPro (using AnyDVDHD and tsMuxerR) are in .ts format and I cannot open them with Quicktime. Is there any way around this or do I have transcode the .ts into an mkv? That seems rather complicated.
Another problem is the speed of encoding. I set up a virtual cluster using 2 instances, as that was recommended somewhere else if you're on a quad-core (which I am). I checked two-pass encoding to maximize the picture quality. However Compressor estimates over 12 hours to finish the encode of a 2-hour movie and that number is rising constantly! By that rate the movie will be finished in 2 days
Does anyone here have any experience with the best settings for Compressor? Should I just abort the encode and uncheck two-pass or will that significantly degrade picture quality? Thanks in advance for any input...
There are some problems however. To get a movie in Compressor it has to come in a Quicktime container. I can get mkv's to open and export because I have Perian installed. But my own Blu-ray rips coming in from the Windows partition of my MacPro (using AnyDVDHD and tsMuxerR) are in .ts format and I cannot open them with Quicktime. Is there any way around this or do I have transcode the .ts into an mkv? That seems rather complicated.
Another problem is the speed of encoding. I set up a virtual cluster using 2 instances, as that was recommended somewhere else if you're on a quad-core (which I am). I checked two-pass encoding to maximize the picture quality. However Compressor estimates over 12 hours to finish the encode of a 2-hour movie and that number is rising constantly! By that rate the movie will be finished in 2 days
Does anyone here have any experience with the best settings for Compressor? Should I just abort the encode and uncheck two-pass or will that significantly degrade picture quality? Thanks in advance for any input...