2008-05-29, 00:15
Great work on finding these settings.
My fastest computer is Linux only so I wanted to use the HandBrakeCLI to encode. I rewrote the command line for HandBrake and was able to create an MKV file with no problems. I prefer to just pass through the AC3 audio instead of transcoding to aac, but either way works fine.
Here is my HandBrakeCLI command
~/HandBrakeCLI -f mkv -e x264 -b xxxx -E ac3 -U -F -N eng -x ref=5:mixed-refs=1:bframes=4:direct=auto:b-pyramid=1:weightb=1:brdo=1:bime=1:me=umh:8x8dct=1:trellis=1:no-fast-pskip=1:vbv-bufsize=1500:vbv-maxrate=5000:nr=0ubme=7:no-psnr=1:no-ssim=1:ratetol=4.0:nf=1ubme=7:partitions=all l -i DVD.ISO -o movie.mkv
This will encode the main movie to MKV format. I ran some test encodings with a couple of chapters from a movie and it played fine on XBMC.
So far it looks great, seeking is much improved over my previous set of options, and I get to use the original AC3 for sound.
Please let me know if I missed anything. Thanks.
My fastest computer is Linux only so I wanted to use the HandBrakeCLI to encode. I rewrote the command line for HandBrake and was able to create an MKV file with no problems. I prefer to just pass through the AC3 audio instead of transcoding to aac, but either way works fine.
Here is my HandBrakeCLI command
~/HandBrakeCLI -f mkv -e x264 -b xxxx -E ac3 -U -F -N eng -x ref=5:mixed-refs=1:bframes=4:direct=auto:b-pyramid=1:weightb=1:brdo=1:bime=1:me=umh:8x8dct=1:trellis=1:no-fast-pskip=1:vbv-bufsize=1500:vbv-maxrate=5000:nr=0ubme=7:no-psnr=1:no-ssim=1:ratetol=4.0:nf=1ubme=7:partitions=all l -i DVD.ISO -o movie.mkv
This will encode the main movie to MKV format. I ran some test encodings with a couple of chapters from a movie and it played fine on XBMC.
So far it looks great, seeking is much improved over my previous set of options, and I get to use the original AC3 for sound.
Please let me know if I missed anything. Thanks.