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No cutting off the ends of films is a "Feature"?

You don't think not missing the end of a film isn't a feature or selling point?

Feb 20, 08 - 05:35 pm Comment from: Wandering joe

Sounds like a good feature to me!

Feb 20, 08 - 05:50 pm Comment from: The Dude

I am glad that they have AC3 support in the MP4 container personally. No more workaround needed to play in iTunes. Was making AVI files and save a reference of the AVI as a .MOV file so iTunes would accept it. Makes my life a little easier now.

And, uh, yeah... not clipping the end of the movie off is a MAJOR plus too! lol

The Dude abides.

Feb 20, 08 - 05:52 pm Comment from: The Dude

ohh, and movies like "Pearl Harbor"... the clipping should begin at the start of the movie. Save the hard drive space.

The Dude abides.

Feb 20, 08 - 05:52 pm Comment from: Ampar

"Recovery when streams have signal loss"

That could be real handy if you frequently black out while urinating.

Feb 20, 08 - 06:45 pm Comment from: chanM

"That could be real handy if you frequently black out while urinating."

That's hilarious!

Even though this program can encode in 5.1 I cannot get Apple TV to use it. Am I missing a step in the procedure. I thought the new version 2.0 software might be able to decode the encoded files but its not. Besides this I think the video output from this program is excellent.

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• Snappier

I had luck sending the audio through the toslink.

Feb 20, 08 - 07:52 pm Comment from: Jubei

@BC

Are you using HDMI to your receiver? You still need a receiver to decode the DD tracks, just like DD encoded DVDs. Toslink or HDMI to Receiver capable of decoding DD. Otherwise if you don't have such a setup, then do AC3 + AAC for you encodes.

"Recovery when streams have signal loss"

I don't black out but dang it, I wish I had the pressure of my four-year-old.

@Ampar
You made me spew coke all over my display and keyboard. SOL.

Feb 20, 08 - 09:16 pm Comment from: LordRobin

0.9.1? This thing has been around for years, and it's still at version 0? What the hell is it with shareware developers and their irrational fear of v1.0? If you can't trust your software enough, after YEARS of development, to take it out of beta, then I want nothing to do with it.

------RM

@Jubei
Thanks for your response. Yes I'm running an HDMI to my receiver that can decode a variety of surround sound coding. I encode using AC3 and 6 channel discrete. I've also encoded using the AC3 and dolby pro logic II setting to see if that made a difference but it doesn't seem to make a difference. One final note will LFE not be encoded.

But does it support the elgato H.264 Turbo hardware accellerator?

Feb 20, 08 - 11:27 pm Comment from: Ampar

To chanM, bildad, Synthmeister: Don't change, you crazy kids.


“I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.”
- Jack Handey

Feb 21, 08 - 12:17 am Comment from: marcus aurelius

Is anybody else having the problem of movies previously ripped from 0.9.1 no longer working on iPhone? Once I upgraded to 1.1.3 and tried to put some more movies on my phone, I get an error saying that it can't be played on iPhone or something. What's the deal?

Still only converting dvd's? No sale.
I can download DVD's faster from usenet than that I handbreak them. This handbreak tool needs to be expanded so it can convert more than just DVD's. How about xvid/divx? How about telestreams?

There's already a program like that. VisualHub.
Handbrake should stick to DVDs in my opinion, and possibly Blu-Ray in the future. I have yet to see any application that can so effortlessly rip a DVD yet deliver the same quality results.

Converting existing xvids/divx/wmv files or other already conpressed files will greatly reduce the quality, and that can already be done with visualhub.

Feb 21, 08 - 10:38 am Comment from: Cubert

"More flexible, "loose" anamorphic video"

Lindsay Lohan?

After a hard night of coke and booze?

Psycho: No sale? Dumbfsck--it is a free program. How retarded are you?

For video file conversion there's visualhub, and also isquint which is a free version with fewer options.

Guess isquint is no sale for you either.

Feb 21, 08 - 10:58 am Comment from: Cubert

@peach picker,

"But does it support the elgato H.264 Turbo hardware accellerator?"

I don't know but I think my girlfriend just bought one of those things last night to replace her silver bullet that died.

Feb 21, 08 - 11:01 am Comment from: Cubert

"[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "The Dude" for the heads up.]"

The Dude abides.

I heard if I get the TK-421 chip installed it can bump it up another 3-4 quads per channel... But thats technical talk.