My wonderful wife bought me an ATV2 for my birthday and I wanted to start converting our DVD collection into movies to stream from my MacBook. I already have a few I have converted for my iPad and these stream fine and the quality is pretty good too. The thing is I wanted to be able to convert with 5.1 audio too. I fired up handbrake, threw a DVD in the drive and chose the Apple TV 2 preset. After a couple of hours it had encoded and I added it to my iTunes library and played it to check it worked ok on the MacBook. It worked fine so I tried streaming it to the ATV2 through both home sharing and AirPlay but I just got an error message on the MacBook and the ATV2 I hadn't messed with any of the settings so I don't know what I did wrong. I ideally want to be able to watch the encoded movie on my iPad and also stream it from my MacBook to the ATV2. What settings do I need to tell it to enable both of these and have 5.1 audio on the ATV2 and stereo on the iPad? I'm very confused......and apparently rubbish at this
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It's not enough to say that you got an error message. You need to let us know what the error message stated.
Using the Apple TV 2 preset should have worked. It does for me. Anyway, we need to know what your error message is if you are looking to get help with it.
I sue Handbrake to convert movies from mkv to mp4/m4v on two different laptops. One original MacBook and an original unibody MBP. For the last few versions of Handbrake/VLC the MacBook encodes no longer work on my original ATV. They are fine under OS X on both machines. Quicklook, Quicktime, VLC and iTunes play them back just fine but the ATV either skips and freezes a lot, plays just the audio of freezes very quickly after starting and if not stopped quick enough will actually crash and reboot itself.
I have updated versions once or twice since it started happening but no change. Any ideas?
I have updated versions once or twice since it started happening but no change. Any ideas?
I use the AppleTV 2 setting for my movies. These work fine on my MacBook, AppleTV 2, and iPhone.
The only thing different I do is uncheck the "Large File Size" Box in the video settings. I dont change anything else.
multiple chapters
Handbraking a movie recently I noticed when scanning the source it came up with 99 chapters .
There was only 19 chapters in the movie . The problem was after encoding the movie it was completely scrambled . Starting again with the opening titles after 20 minutes into the movie.
The next attempt the encode was truncated by about 40 minutes , after googling some help the answer seemed to be open the dvd in the player and try to locate the source or file it was playing, this was difficult with 99 files to choose from.
It looks like a good movie since I have seen it all except completely out of
sequence .Any answers ?
Handbraking a movie recently I noticed when scanning the source it came up with 99 chapters .
There was only 19 chapters in the movie . The problem was after encoding the movie it was completely scrambled . Starting again with the opening titles after 20 minutes into the movie.
The next attempt the encode was truncated by about 40 minutes , after googling some help the answer seemed to be open the dvd in the player and try to locate the source or file it was playing, this was difficult with 99 files to choose from.
It looks like a good movie since I have seen it all except completely out of
sequence .Any answers ?
My guess is it is picking up the wrong title. When I have this issue I play the DVD in VLC and see what title is playing and then open title specific in Handbrake so it only loads that title. Try this and see if it works.
I remember reading that some copy protections use dozens of empty chapters to fool the copy software...could that be it?
Yeah this is due to copy protection...
I have found that if i want one touch ripping for Apple TV 2 I use WINX DVD Ripper for Mac. It instructs you to start the movie and see which title the DVD player is playing. That is the title to select when ripping the disc.
I use this software interchangeably with Handbrake. Actually I use WINX to rip and Handbrake to encode avi and mkv to m4v. WINX rips to mp4 and that plays nicely with ATV2.
If I'm encoding a movie that is widescreen 2:35:1 ratio and using the ATV2 preset.
Should the result be stretched? When I play these encodes, they look stretched. I can change the aspect to 2:35:1 on my player and that fixes it or I can change my TV mode, but I'd rather keep the exact source aspect ratio.
Should the result be stretched? When I play these encodes, they look stretched. I can change the aspect to 2:35:1 on my player and that fixes it or I can change my TV mode, but I'd rather keep the exact source aspect ratio.
I don't see why it should look stretched, but what you can try is to set the anamorphic setting (found by clicking the 'picture settings' icon in the GUI) and changing anamorphic from 'loose' to 'strict'. If you know the proper dimensions of the 2:35:1 aspect ratio, you can always set anamorphic to 'custom' and manually change the dimensions of the film to be in the correct ratio. Again, I'd try encoding the movie with anamorphic set to 'strict' to see if that helps.
I recently put the Twilight Movies into our iTunes for the wife and I had to use Ripit to decode the movie. Then I used Handbrake to read that file in and was able to get all three movies in without a hitch.
I used the iPad preset and it looked perfect on the AppleTV2 as well.
Not sure if it would have been better on the ATV2 with that preset, but looked fine with the iPad preset. That is what she wanted it for anyway to play on her iPad.
I used the iPad preset and it looked perfect on the AppleTV2 as well.
Not sure if it would have been better on the ATV2 with that preset, but looked fine with the iPad preset. That is what she wanted it for anyway to play on her iPad.
Hiya all, is Handbrake the best app to use to rip my dvd collection? I'm not really having any issues using it, i just don't want to plough ahead then realize that i could of used something better.
I'm using the standard preset of ATV2
thanks
It's not handbrake that encodes the video/audio, Handbrake is just the GUI for x264, CoreAudio etc. Those underlying utilities really are the best tools for the job, don't worry about it
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It's HB setting, source (dvd or blu ray) and computer (more processing power = faster). But I will give you a rough couple of examples from my MacBook Pro 2.66GHZ core Duo w 8gig ram. 5-6GB DVD.mkv using iPad 2 settings (RF=20), around an hour. 30GB BD.mkv using High Profile (recommendation for aTV 3, RF=20) around 11 hours...but it looks really good!
I seem to have an issue with sound levels when burning for the apple tv.
I have aac(coreaudio) with mixdown as dolby surround for one audio track
and AC3 passthrough for the other codec.
Should i be setting the second one to AAC (coreaudio) for the codec and stereo for the mixdown?
I often don't run these on a surround system and i'm wondering if maybe i'm having trouble with the speech track because of this.
Cheers.
I have aac(coreaudio) with mixdown as dolby surround for one audio track
and AC3 passthrough for the other codec.
Should i be setting the second one to AAC (coreaudio) for the codec and stereo for the mixdown?
I often don't run these on a surround system and i'm wondering if maybe i'm having trouble with the speech track because of this.
Cheers.
Ever since the latest update, 0.9.7 I believe, my movie transfers will not play. In the properties of the file, it will only show the size, such as 4.5gb but that's all. Before this issue, it would have more information and would load into iTunes immediately. Now, nothing. It's bad enough that HB takes so to process, but even worse when you realize that it was a complete waste of time. I have been building my movie collection non stop for the last month using Handbrake, with nothing but excellent results. This issue has me truly baffled and driving me crazy!! Anyone have a similar issue or know how to rectify this???
Thanks in advance!!!
Thanks in advance!!!
I think there is a bug in 0.9.7 that they are going to fix in a bug fix release. I would suggest you roll back to 0.9.6 until that is issued.
Update: I was just over at the HB forum and they have republished 0.9.7 and it appears to be working ok now. Might want to try deleting your current download and re-downloading 0.9.7.
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