What about audio settings? In particular for music. Just increase the bitrate, or is there anything else that needs to be done to get the best sound?
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1080p Handbrake settings for new Apple TV?
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What about audio settings? In particular for music. Just increase the bitrate, or is there anything else that needs to be done to get the best sound?
Does it have a 2 channel stereo track? I've had issues with some movies not playing that only had say, an ac3 5.1 track on my iPad. Run them through mp4 tools and add a stereo AAC track, and all was well. I'm pretty sure the atv2 preset includes a stereo AAC track.
As far as I can tell, the High Profile preset has the same audio settings as the Apple TV2 preset.
I don't know what the deal was, but I trashed everything and started over and all works as expected now. I've done 3 DVDs and all play well on the AT3 and the new iPad. Who knows...
is there some setting i'm supposed to use in makemkv? my first disc ive tried is the BD for X-Files: FTF and it came to a 27GB mkv, which using the settings talked about in the forum, HB is taking like 10+Hours to complete which is insane...
I saw someone else mention they were starting with like an 18GB or so Mkv file after ripping from MakeMKV... is there a setting i'm not seeing or is maybe X-Files BD utilize the space allowed on the DL BD and is using more than some other discs might use for a movie file's size?
I saw someone else mention they were starting with like an 18GB or so Mkv file after ripping from MakeMKV... is there a setting i'm not seeing or is maybe X-Files BD utilize the space allowed on the DL BD and is using more than some other discs might use for a movie file's size?
I just created an MKV of Horrible Bosses. I selected the High Profile preset in HandBrake. For some reason though, the output was listed as 1920x800 instead 1920x1080. So I went into Picture Settings, set Anamorphic to none, unchecked Keep Aspect Ratio, and upped the height to 1080.
Is this right? It wouldn't allow me to up it to 1080 without setting Anamorphic to none and unchecking Keep Aspect Ratio.
Is this right? It wouldn't allow me to up it to 1080 without setting Anamorphic to none and unchecking Keep Aspect Ratio.
Only if you want a horribly distorted picture. 1080P does *not* mean the height will always be 1080 pixels. It depends on the aspect ratio the movie is mastered in. It will be 1920 x (whatever).
Thanks! After rereading more of these posts, it seems i should not mess with the width/height in hand brake's picture settings. I just went with strict-- which ended up being 1920x800.
That said, what do they mean by "upping to 1080p" within the handbrake forum?
Size depends on the movie. My Avatar mkv came out to 45GB and ended up about 12GB after handbrake conversion using High Profile. It took about 22 hours to crank it out. But the time also depends on how much horsepower you have available. High Profile is slow but is yields very good size/quality.
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Nm-- I think I misunderstood the post on hb's forum
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Nm-- I think I misunderstood the post on hb's forum
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As far as I know yes. I don't have one but from others it would appear there is no reason it won't.
I am hoping to keep the file size below 5GB due to my slow internet connection. I'd like to, of course, have the best quality available for my ATV3, but if it takes forever to buffer then it kind of defeats the purpose.
Any suggestions for this?
Any suggestions for this?
Internet connection? Won't you be playing over the LAN? It doesn't have to buffer the whole movie to play, either.
You can reduce your MKV size using tools like DVDfab that allow you to remove foreign audio tracks, foreign subtitles, secondary audio tracks (commentary, etc.) and even strip HD audio from DTS-MA. Just selecting the Main Movie mkv.remux setting in DVDfab gave me ~30GB Avatar mkv file.
Encode time will not change with the above settings because we are only taking the main movie from the MKV and one audio track (even though you will encode two: stereo and 6-channel). Processing power reigns supreme in Handbrake. My encoding workstation took 6 hours for Avatar which is a long movie with complex scenes and burned in subtitles. (I don't encode on my iMac or MBP because I believe running at 90% CPU for extended periods of time is not wise.) Typically, blu-rays take me 4 hours.
I'm having bigger problems on the audio side between the new iPad and new ATV. From what I gather so far, it sounds like the ATV will accept 5.1 audio, but the iPad 3 will simply not play the file unless it sees a stereo AAC track.
That's always been the case AFAIK: the iPad/iPhone don't support AC3 5.1 so you need the AAC stereo track.
Um, right ... and that set of settings includes both the aac track and the ac3 track. Thats why its there. In fact at various atv software updates AC3 only has been broken, so thats a risk. Keep both tracks just as the preset does. ALL hb apple device presets that have AC3 have it second with the AAC track first. The Atv knows what to do with the AC3 track. Don't mess with it.
Thanks! I think I understand why a few of my movies won't play on a few devices now! I messed with those settings a few times I think, putting the AC3 first thinking I was making things better. Might have to go back and re-rip a few movies.
Correct. We did it the way it is for a reason
Its the same audio layout that apple's itunes hd movies are and works as advertised.
I'm also curious whether they'll be downscalable for the Apple TV 2 and iPad 2 as well. From my limited experience the iTunes 1080p versions can do that ...
To date, I have not been able to get a 1080p file (from Apple or otherwise) to sync to my iPad 2. I really wish this worked; the iPad 2 should have no problem with it and I assume it's a software limitation in iTunes.
The suggestions from the handbrake team should have no problem playing on the iPad 3 and AppleTV v2 (@ 720p).
I've used the suggested settings from dynaflash for both Iron Man and Iron Man 2 on blu-ray, and they play great on both the ATV 3 and new iPad. I can't say anything about the ATV 2 or iPad 2.
Sorry, I should have clarified, I was using Home Sharing, so maybe the downscaling is happening on the computer side?