Comments on: H.264 is Pretty Cool http://gigaom.com/apple/h264-is-pretty-cool/ Fri, 25 May 2012 16:00:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: DVD audio extractor http://gigaom.com/apple/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306083 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:28:41 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/11/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306083 Absolutely with you it agree. It is excellent idea. It is ready to support you.

]]> By: JL http://gigaom.com/apple/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306082 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:39:00 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/11/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306082 Constant quality of 100% is not what you think.
Read more in HandBrake’s wiki about Constant Quality:
http://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/ConstantQuality
Also here is an interesting post to choose which Constant Quality setting to use:
http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8596&start=0#p46980

]]> By: Sean http://gigaom.com/apple/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306081 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:36:25 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/11/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306081 eric, I agree with your file size results. The original poster was, at my best guess, using the Target Size option to limit the file size to 700MB. That’s not near 100% quality. Anyway, I’ve been wondering about 100% quality myself. I do know that the .avi format supports uncompressed audio but those files won’t play in QT. On the audio side, I know that DVD uses a Sample Rate of 48,000 Hz and a bitrate of roughly 448 kbps. 320 is our highest setting here in HB so that seems like a limitation. On the video side, I know that bitrates vary wildly all through a movie on DVD so setting a maximum seems like asking for more compression. It seems to me that the Constant Quality set to 100% is our closest option to getting an exact copy in HB. It’s a shame we all don’t have 2TB XServe RAIDs to hold these files (much less RIP them in the first place). If you’re only using the final files for viewing on your computer, you could try MacTheRipper which simply RIPs the DVD to your hard drive without any alteration or compression. Those files would then play in OSX’s DVD Player. You get a folder full of files, thouigh, not one nice clean one.

]]> By: eric http://gigaom.com/apple/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306080 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:24:56 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/11/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306080 i currently use handbreak to rip my dvd’s to my harddrive, but i do have a question. i’m a stickler about getting 100% quality, and i havent been able to get a perfect copy of a dvd onto my mac. what are the settings you use when preforming the task? i’ve tried hitting constant quality 100%, but it becomes a 17gb file (i know, unbelievable) and will not even open in quicktime. thanks

]]> By: devin http://gigaom.com/apple/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306079 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:07:46 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/11/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306079 well i dont know whats up with your 9 and 10 hour things, but on my pc i can rip and encode a full 140 minute dvd in 4 hours using handbrake. at highest quality settings etc, H.264 (x264) codec. thats with other things running…so 10 hours for a mac just doesnt sound right. are you sure you have your computers optimized or whatever? and yeah quicktime doesnt like the outputted files, but with some fiddling you can get them to play in just about anything. handbrake needs to be made to let the files be played in qt without the fiddling though. either way its an amazing tool and i have never found a better one. not to mention the files are supreme quality. also: its faster if you use dvddecryptor or something like that and get an exact copy of the dvd’s files on your hard drive first.

]]> By: Wiley Wiggins http://gigaom.com/apple/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306062 Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:48:42 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/11/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306062 I transcoded a DVD to h.264 using handbrake and got it running off an ipod shuffle.

A whole 2 hour movie. And I can’t tell the difference between it and the dvd.

http://videothing.blogspot.com/2005/06/full-res-feature-length-film-playing.html

]]> By: Michael_L http://gigaom.com/apple/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306063 Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:50:11 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/11/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306063 QT7 does not like to transcode mpeg2 – even with the official Apple mpeg2 plugin ($20) it will not transcode the audio track. If Handbrake will transcode from a DVD to H264, does this mean it transcodes both mpeg2 video + audio, unlike QT7?

Does anyone know what codecs QT7 transcodes fully from into H264? Has Apple posted this information somewhere?

]]> By: Brian http://gigaom.com/apple/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306064 Mon, 20 Jun 2005 03:55:43 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/11/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306064 How do you get h.264 support in Handbrake? Do you need to buy QT7 Pro?

]]> By: Wiley Wiggins http://gigaom.com/apple/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306065 Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:37:37 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/11/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306065 aha… never mind… I had changed the suffix from mp4 to mov and that was enough to throw it off.

]]> By: Wiley Wiggins http://gigaom.com/apple/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306066 Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:36:50 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/05/11/h264-is-pretty-cool/#comment-306066 For some reason the H.264 mpeg4 files I create with handbrake will only play in VLC… Quicktime 7 says it’s not a file it understands…

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