Handbrake Help!

[Edrubin]

I have used handbrake for a long time now, but have not noticed this problem until I upgraded to leopard. I did install the new version of handbrake for leopard, but am still having the problem. Here is the problem...let me know if anyone can help:

I rip a DVD, that works perfectly as the DVD, and use the iphone settings. When it finishes the picture quality is great, but the audio is pure fuzz. I have tried many alternative settings, but continually get fuzzy audio.

Anyone have any idea of why or how to fix it? Thanks so much.

 

[tMac85]

i dont have the fuzz, but i do notice that my sound is wayyyyy softer than normal.
do you have this problem?

 

[ozmerelda]

Handbrake to Quicktime

I am also having a problem with handbrake. It converts the files to quicktime and I don't know how to prevent it from doing that. It also doesn't play full screen and when I burn it with Toast 8, it burns as quicktime and won't play on any other format.

Puhleeze help me.

Thanks
OZ

IMAC IPHONE and MACBOOK

 

[Edrubin]

I don't have the low volume problem, or at least I can't tell because the only thing I hear is fuzz. I've tried on my powerbook and my imac (intel) Any reason why this might be?

 

[Chundles]

I am also having a problem with handbrake. It converts the files to quicktime and I don't know how to prevent it from doing that. It also doesn't play full screen and when I burn it with Toast 8, it burns as quicktime and won't play on any other format.

Puhleeze help me.

Thanks
OZ

IMAC IPHONE and MACBOOK

Handbrake is meant to convert a DVD to a quicktime movie. That's it's job.

You sound like you're looking for something to back up a DVD movie. MacTheRipper + Toast will do that job. MTR will rip the DVD as a Video_TS folder in full quality will all the DVD extras and Toast will compress/burn the folder onto a blank DVD.

Handbrake is designed to all ow to to put DVDs onto an iPod.

 

[martinmartin]

I have used handbrake for a long time now, but have not noticed this problem until I upgraded to leopard. I did install the new version of handbrake for leopard, but am still having the problem. Here is the problem...let me know if anyone can help:

I rip a DVD, that works perfectly as the DVD, and use the iphone settings. When it finishes the picture quality is great, but the audio is pure fuzz. I have tried many alternative settings, but continually get fuzzy audio.

Anyone have any idea of why or how to fix it? Thanks so much.

I am also having this problem with fuzzy audio.

I ripped a DVD using MacTheRipper. The rip works fine. Then I use handbrake with the iPhone presets and the video looks great but audio is all fuzzy.

I have used handbrake in the past and have not had this problem.

If anyone can help with the audio fuzz, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[DoFoT9]

I am also having this problem with fuzzy audio.

I ripped a DVD using MacTheRipper. The rip works fine. Then I use handbrake with the iPhone presets and the video looks great but audio is all fuzzy.

I have used handbrake in the past and have not had this problem.

If anyone can help with the audio fuzz, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

why dont you try changing the settings manually?? can't hurt, just play around with the file formats and the like and see how you go.

 

[martinmartin]

why dont you try changing the settings manually?? can't hurt, just play around with the file formats and the like and see how you go.

I just used Toast with the iPhone defaults - but the results were the same, perfect video, audio was all fuzz.

I guess I can try to mess around with the settings manually, but I'm not really sure what to set everything as aside from the iPhone defaults (which obviously aren't working).

Anyone have any specific setting suggestions? Thanks again.

Edit: What's strange is that I have used the iPhone settings before with Handbrake and it has worked fine in the past...???

 

[martinmartin]

did a little more searching and found this thread:
http://forums.mactalk.com.au/14/42068-dvd-ipod-audio-problem.html

someone posted this as a suggestion:
"could be that you're not ripping the right audio track off the dvd in handbrake. It sounds like you're using a Dolby or DTS stream and you need a reciever that can decode those streams to play 'em. So re-rip in handbrake, selecting the 2 channel stereo audio track instead."

so i looked at the audio tab and noticed that it was defaulting to 'English LPCM.' Then, after a search of LPCM, I read that some people were having problems with that audio format and that AC3 should be tried instead. So now I'm trying it again with AC3 and Stereo selected. I will update the post with the results.

 

[DoFoT9]

did a little more searching and found this thread:
http://forums.mactalk.com.au/14/42068-dvd-ipod-audio-problem.html

someone posted this as a suggestion:
"could be that you're not ripping the right audio track off the dvd in handbrake. It sounds like you're using a Dolby or DTS stream and you need a reciever that can decode those streams to play 'em. So re-rip in handbrake, selecting the 2 channel stereo audio track instead."

so i looked at the audio tab and noticed that it was defaulting to 'English LPCM.' Then, after a search of LPCM, I read that some people were having problems with that audio format and that AC3 should be tried instead. So now I'm trying it again with AC3 and Stereo selected. I will update the post with the results.

AC3 is the way to go! AC3 seems to be the best way to do it, because its so uniform!

 

[martinmartin]

Yup, AC3 did the job.

So if your handbrake encodings sound all fuzzy, go to the audio tab and switch it up to AC3 Stereo.

Cheers