You can spend way too much time with this and get way over critical. On a iMac27 i7 I'm getting encoding frame rates averaging 90fps or so depending on the DVD. So I load up the HandBrake Queue with about 30 movies at night and they are done by noon the next day. I haven't found a reliable way to do a batch convert on the mac, I tried DropFolders but it didn't work for me. The encoded file sizes are averaging between 1.3 and 2.5 gigs and when I watch the movie it's hard to tell the difference from the original DVD. Finally I use a RF of 19.25 not sure why as it's hard to tell the difference between 18 and the recommended 20. That also uses the Loose Amamorphic setting, and then I manually change the Format from MP4 to MKV. (on jail-broken ATV2).Īfter doing a lot of comparisons of quality and video settings I decided to go with the High Profile Preset because it produces a smaller file size with very good quality (but longer encoding time). Not sure if the ATV2 will play that natively and like I said I'm using the Plex App. Anyway I decided MKV H.264 was the way to go for me. I did try a few MP4's but the file size seemed to be a little larger for the same RF (constant quality) number.
All my other encoding tests were done in Handbrake (latest version) with the original ripped VIDEO_TS folders.Īfter doing all the research I decided to use the MKV file format in HandBrake. If you have the Disk Space for storing and backing up then this will be the best quality but a typical DVD is 6-7 gigs so I ruled it our for that reason. The MakeMKV program produced files that were essentially exact copies of the source DVD's. I spent hours reading posts and doing rips and encoding tests because I have over 300 DVD's and don't wan't to do this twice. I also used MakeMKV which takes the DVD VOB files and puts them together in a container so you can watch at full quality with no compression. I'm using the ATV2 with the Plex App and tried many Handbrake formats and Presets. I spend a great deal of time on this recently to encode my DVD collection for use on Plex.
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