Notice I do not select the “Forced Only” because I would get nothing to display if I choose that option. Because of the archaic DVD format, I needed to set up the foreign audio choosing “Foreign Audio Scan” and just check marking “Default”. Well, the movie Terminal Velocity is an old movie, to say the least. This way I get both subtitles for languages not in English, and the ability to turn on subtitles for the entire film. Normally, I just need to add two tracks of the “1 English (PGS)” and only check mark the boxes “Forced Only” and “Default” on the first track only. The picture above is a Blu-ray where they are still using the boring old DVD formats. Subtitles are a bit tricky to get right, but I’ll do my best to explain. I use the Mixdown setting “Dolby Surround” as a way of retaining some surround elements from the video. Note that 320 kbit/s isn’t worth it, when someone does a double-blind test, odds are that they cannot tell the difference. When an MP3 is encoded at 192 kbit/s it becomes very difficult to tell the difference from some of the best formats out there. I’ve settled on the MP3 format now because of the following reasons. FLAC held my interest too for a while, but after some lengthy debates with myself, I decided the file size is still too big and the quality difference just isn’t worth it. With time I found my file sizes bigger than what makes sense for me as my digital video library grew. In the past, I just used passthrough, which is just a perfect copy of the Blu-ray or DVD audio file. Next up on the list is deciding on what format to encode the audio with. I could explain for hours why I choose these settings, but summing up the options I choose is what I prefer. Basically, the Optimize Video Section works best when it set at “ Slower“, the Tune is for “Film”, the H.264 Level set to “4.1”. In the Optimize Video section is where I’ve personally lost a lot of time and sleep over. I keep the Frame Rate constant and set it at “Same as Source”. For DVD’s set the Constant Quality at “21” to balance quality and file size. Someone could make a good case for 23 if they didn’t mind a slightly bigger file size. When it comes the Video quality, I’ve gotten the best results using Constant Quality set at 24 for Blu-rays. Blu-rays are still a victim of needing to be cropped, just today I was surprised when I found “Beerfest” had just blank black bars at the top and bottom of the video. Make sure to let Handbrake take care of the Cropping Automatically so that your computer isn’t encoding Black bars at the Top and Bottom or Left and Right of the video. Normally, I’m ripping a Blu-ray and I want Blu-ray quality so I set the Anamorphic to “Loose” and Modulus to “2” because I want all my pixels. The first tab is the Picture settings, which is one of the easiest for me to set up to my liking. Whereas the Foreign Language Subtitles show up by default so that I’m not guessing what they’re saying in a different language. This way if want the watch the video without audio, or if one of my Deaf Friends is watching, I can enable it and enjoy the video. When ripping a video you need two Subtitle tracks, one for Foreign Languages and the other for full subtitles. I use MKV for one reason because MP4 cannot handle multiple Subtitle files. Otherwise, I would never get anywhere trying to rip my Blu-rays because the files would be corrupted. I’ve been doing this for years with great success, but only recently have I found all the settings that just work better than the rest.įirst up, get the program AnyDVD (RedFox instead now) so that you can get past the encryption on the Blu-ray. I compress Blu-ray, or DVD, using the H264 format into an MKV (Not Mp4 and I’ll explain why in a bit) video file. To get around all these problems I’ve turned to ‘s used Blu-ray’s and two programs, and RedFox to solve nearly all of my problems. My final point that they don’t know what they are doing, is that it is easier to torrent a film rather than to obtain a legal copy. As a proof in point, the newer HBO series Silicon Valley is a company that has some extremely good compression logarithm. As far as I’m concerned, there is no reason not to compress data. I can compress Blu-rays down to 1.6GB on average with a nearly unnoticeable quality loss. When it comes to Google Play and iTunes the prices these companies charge for movies is bloated at best in my opinion. In my opinion, the movie corporation needs to wake up to the 21st century and realize that formats like DVDs and Blu-rays are dead.
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