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MW

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[SOLVED] Handbrake output formats

I'm having a bit of an issue with handbrake atm.
It only allows for two formats to rip to mkv and mp4, and under audio it only supports  AAC (faac) and AC3  (pass-thru). Am I missing something here or is there an additional package that needed to be installed?

lame, libvorbis and xvid support is installed, so what am I missing?

I'm using handbrake-svn2887 from AUR.

Last edited by MW (2009-10-18 21:40:06)

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Re: [SOLVED] Handbrake output formats

Any errors when you launch it from a terminal? I am using revision 2840 and it works fine.

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MW

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Re: [SOLVED] Handbrake output formats

Nope, absoutely no errors related to the codecs, only some widget warnings.

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Re: [SOLVED] Handbrake output formats

I believe xvid has been dropped.  Handbrake is built around x264.

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Re: [SOLVED] Handbrake output formats

http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12464

* XviD: HandBrake, these days, is almost entirely about H.264 video, aka MPEG-4 Part 10. This makes it rather...superfluous to include two different encoders for an older codec, MPEG-4 Part 2. When choosing between FFmpeg's and XviD's, it came down to a matter of necessity. We need to include libavcodec (FFmpeg) for a bunch of other parts of its API, like decoding. Meanwhile, XviD's build system causes constant grief (it's the most common support query we get about compiling, after x264's requirement of yasm). Since we mainly use MPEG-4 Part 2 for testing/debugging, and recommend only H.264 for high quality encodes, Xvid's undisputed quality edge over FFmpeg's encoder is inconsequential, while FFmpeg's speed edge over XviD is important to us.

MW

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Re: [SOLVED] Handbrake output formats

Okay.... thanks, missed that one.

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Re: [SOLVED] Handbrake output formats

IMO, I wouldn't worry about it. X264/H.264 is years ahead of Xvid and DivX; you get a smaller/equivalent sized video with better quality. And MKV is a far more versatile container than AVI. I know this isn't really a "solution" to your question, but I suggest giving x264/MKV a chance.

MW

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Re: [SOLVED] Handbrake output formats

I have to admit that I do not know that much about X264/H.264, thanks for the info, will look into this.

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Re: [SOLVED] Handbrake output formats

IMO, I wouldn't worry about it. X264/H.264 is years ahead of Xvid and DivX; you get a smaller/equivalent sized video with better quality. And MKV is a far more versatile container than AVI. I know this isn't really a "solution" to your question, but I suggest giving x264/MKV a chance.

Since DivX supports H264 in a MKV container now I think that it's a brilliant solution. Not to mention that x264 is one of greatest pieces of software ever written (in my not-so-humble opinion).

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Re: [SOLVED] Handbrake output formats

Well , Give me an affordable external player capable of playing h264 files .

Not all of us own PS3 and It's handy being able to watch your video files in the TV directly(without using GPU s-video output converted to A/V composite) .

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Re: [SOLVED] Handbrake output formats

Well , Give me an affordable external player capable of playing h264 files .

Not all of us own PS3 and It's handy being able to watch your video files in the TV directly(without using GPU s-video output converted to A/V composite) .

I know absolutely nothing about DivX/Xvid compatible players, but do any of these offer firmware upgrades? And if they do, is the software somehow tied to DivX and not per manufacturer?