I Hate MKV with a vengeance! MP4 Conversion with Handbrake?

[Fuchal]

ffmpeg can do this super easily...

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.mp4

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

Wow, the second page of this thread is hilarious.

Unless you're doing a direct stream rip with MakeMKV you're now double encoding (Source > MakeMKV > Handbrake).

What else would I be doing if I'm getting 30GB MKV files?

Yeah, that's "hilarious" alright. Maybe if you spent more time reading and less time laughing you'd have a clue about what's been said.

You know what would improve your video quality? Encoding it right the first time. Since MakeMKV can do do transcodes, why don't you just have MakeMKV encode to the size/quality ratio you want. Then you can MP4Tools remux it into an MP4 (which seems like something MakeMKV should be able to support, honestly).

Why don't I have MakeMKV encode INSTEAD of Handbrake? WTF is the difference? Handbrake does it in ONE step rather then having to then run it through MP4Tools afterwards.

I have two Sony blu-ray players here from different years and they both play MKVs fine.

SONY. The king of DRM and proprietary formats.

So your Blu-Ray player handles MKV formats and that has WHAT do with Roku, Apple TV, etc. that are designed for streaming media, not as an after-thought?

Except like, everyone who doesn't speak English. But that's only 94% of the world -- hardly anyone.

So 94% of the world speaks just the 4-6 languages included on a typical North American Blu-Ray?

You realize that many blu-rays are authored for distribution to multiple regions? They just apply a disc label and packaging appropriate for the region.

Blu-Rays must be a far cry from DVDs, then, because nothing plays on region 1 but region 1 and region free (the latter usually being Hong Kong knock-offs). it's why region free DVD players and software became so popular.

Besides, ALL movies should be listened to in the native language of the movie itself, not some bad dub. In other words, I want to hear the actor/actress in the film speaking since audio is a large part of a performance. I want to hear Brad Pitt speak, not some translator. Thus, the proper way of watching a movie that is not in your native tongue is to use sub-titles, not multiple translated soundtracks. When I buy Japanese Anime, I don't want a bad dub, I want a true sub.

ffmpeg can do this super easily...

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.mp4

Gotta love command line only tools. When is ffmpeg going to learn the difference between 7.1 DTS-HD MA and 5.1? It has been incorrectly reading them now for a long time, at least the code included with XBMC and Handbrake.

 

[SeaFox]

Why don't I have MakeMKV encode INSTEAD of Handbrake? WTF is the difference? Handbrake does it in ONE step rather then having to then run it through MP4Tools afterwards.

Uh, it's two steps either way, actually.

Disc > MakeMKV Rip > Handbrake Encode
Disc > MakeMKV Encode > MP4Tool Remux

So your Blu-Ray player handles MKV formats and that has WHAT do with Roku, Apple TV, etc. that are designed for streaming media, not as an after-thought?

Streaming media is an afterthought on Sony bluray players? That's news to me. I have a list of over two-dozen streaming services out of the box. Among them Amazon On-Demand, Hulu+, Netflix, YouTube, Crackle, Pandora, and Sony's own service. I can't watch iTMS-purchased video files. But I have my DLNA server letting me stream my own video files around the house, and my music collection, some of it iTunes-purchased as well.

I can also play XviD/AVI files. And as far as MP4/MKV, my player can handle up to h264/high L4.1 video. Does the AppleTV support AVC playback natively, or it still limited to Main profile as most iPods I've tried encoding for are (which means the video sold on Apple store are also limited to)?

So 94% of the world speaks just the 4-6 languages included on a typical North American Blu-Ray?

As I said...

You realize that many blu-rays are authored for distribution to multiple regions? They just apply a disc label and packaging appropriate for the region.

So it's not a "North American" blu-ray.

Blu-Rays must be a far cry from DVDs, then, because nothing plays on region 1 but region 1 and region free (the latter usually being Hong Kong knock-offs).

I just skimmed through my own blu-ray collection, just over 1/3rd are region free, and none of my discs are "Hong Kong knock-offs". All were purchased in the U.S.

Besides, ALL movies should be listened to in the native language of the movie itself, not some bad dub.

I'm inclined to agree with you on this, except many people don't feel that way. For marketability reasons dubs are done.

When I buy Japanese Anime, I don't want a bad dub, I want a true sub.

There are some good dubs out there, some actually are considered better than the original Japanese. There are also some subtitle jobs that are not really a translation of what was said but still considered the "official" subs.

 

[drsox]

Free trial for a few days if you download iVI from the makers website:

http://www.southpolesoftware.com/iVI/iVI.php

This is a great product ! Makes it easy. Multiple Audio/Subtitle tracks.

 

[jlc1978]

This is a great product ! Makes it easy. Multiple Audio/Subtitle tracks.

Looks interesting. A few things I found:
1) Conversions did not fetch posters - probably a naming issue although my filename matches IMDB and includes the IMDB ID. It also doesn't appear to recognize Titles form the disk name; instead it calls them VOB 1, 2, etc.
2) While it recognizes each VOB it doesn't identify potential content files, such as episodes of a TV series. Not a big deal but that is something Video Catalyst does quite well.
3) For some reason it thought 1 hour TV shows lasted 26 hours.
4) Conversion quality seems to be good.

One feature I like from Video Catalyst that seems to be missing is the ability to bulk rename and add sequence numbers.

I think I'll play with a while to see if it is worth $15 as a replacement for my current workflow which I find quite satisfactory.

Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[drsox]

Looks interesting. A few things I found:
1) Conversions did not fetch posters - probably a naming issue although my filename matches IMDB and includes the IMDB ID. It also doesn't appear to recognize Titles form the disk name; instead it calls them VOB 1, 2, etc.
2) While it recognizes each VOB it doesn't identify potential content files, such as episodes of a TV series. Not a big deal but that is something Video Catalyst does quite well.
3) For some reason it thought 1 hour TV shows lasted 26 hours.

I think I'll play with a while to see if it is worth $15 as a replacement for my current workflow which I find quite satisfactory.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I also discovered that it deals automatically with mounted DVD .iso files, no need to convert first to .mkv. BUT it does't deal with BluRay .iso files, those you will have to convert first (e.g. to .mkv)