[Solved] Handbrake not loading videos correctly

elvinatom · 2010-04-03 15:01:25

Hello community!
I installed handbrake yesterday, I used the GTK-version plenty under Ubuntu before, so I know my way around. Right after installing I set up my first encoding profile and saved it and I noticed that my selection "mkv" changed back to "mp4" (the default) and I then further noticed that none of my selections were in that profile, but only the defaults. Deleting/recreating the profile or other profiles didn't help either. That's a big problem since I really need presets.

A bigger problem then showed itself when I loaded a (decrypted) DVD. ghb scanned through the chapters fine and selected the longest title automatically - just like it should. But right beside the Title, it shows "Chapters 1 through 100", no matter what video you load. The entire "Picture"-tab is greyed out, the "Audio"-tab shows no audio streams and the "video"-tab also shows no evidence of a video.

I launched handbrake with sudo to see if I might have permission problems, but that made no difference either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. And if you can't help but have the same problem, please let me know, so we can maybe work together.

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rune0077 · 2010-04-03 16:24:24

It's not a handbrake problem since it only just happened with todays/yesterdays updates (and handbrake wasn't updated). Look a few threads down from your own for similar issue: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94398

I get the same behaviour as you described. Seems downgrading some packages might fix it, but that's more work than I have the time for right now so I haven't tried it.

elvinatom · 2010-04-03 16:46:05

Thank you for your reply, rune!
I read the thread you linked, but I found them to have different problems. I don't even get to the point that I can click the "Start Encoding" button. But I'm glad that I am not alone. Btw, downgrading seems a little scary to me; I don't want to run into other problems because of dependency issues.

rune0077 · 2010-04-03 16:51:24

Yeah I don't have the "Start" option either, it's just greyed out. And I used this very same version of handbrake only two days ago with no issues, so something broke with the last bunch of updates. I might try the downgrade thing later tonight. Let you know if I do, and if it works.

elvinatom · 2010-04-03 17:50:38

rune0077 wrote:

Yeah I don't have the "Start" option either, it's just greyed out. And I used this very same version of handbrake only two days ago with no issues, so something broke with the last bunch of updates. I might try the downgrade thing later tonight. Let you know if I do, and if it works.

That would be fantastic. I never ran handbrake under Arch. I installed it yesterday and thought "maybe I should upgrade first".
Anyways, I did remove all of gnome (except a very few components I need), but it made no difference. There seem to be a few gnome-packages that hadbrake depends on. If you find out what package handbrake is using that was changed during the last upgrade, I guess you have solved the riddle, but that might be beyond my level of knowledge.

Shirakawasuna · 2010-04-03 18:04:34

Like I said in the other thread, downgrading glib2 and its reverse dependencies fixed my issues. It may fix yours as well.

elvinatom · 2010-04-03 19:01:02

Shirakawasuna wrote:

Like I said in the other thread, downgrading glib2 and its reverse dependencies fixed my issues. It may fix yours as well.

That is great! Can some point me to how to downgrade glib2?

wonder · 2010-04-03 19:09:34

Shirakawasuna wrote:

Like I said in the other thread, downgrading glib2 and its reverse dependencies fixed my issues. It may fix yours as well.

better report that on handbrake bugtracker rather than avoiding it.

elvinatom · 2010-04-03 19:13:49

wonder wrote:

Shirakawasuna wrote:
Like I said in the other thread, downgrading glib2 and its reverse dependencies fixed my issues. It may fix yours as well.
better report that on handbrake bugtracker rather than avoiding it.

I found it in "Bugs", but at this time I really need the software to run and I'm happy to restore to glib2's latest version once the issue is resolved.

Actually I found it on Arch's bug list, not handbrake's.

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azleifel · 2010-04-03 19:48:24

I found that I had the same problem as discussed in the thread linked by rune0077, so I checked the handbrake forums, saw that it was fixed in svn, built handbrake-svn from AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29320) and everything works just fine. At least, handbrake svn3196 had no problems picking the right title from the Inglourious Basterds DVD I bought yesterday and it's busily encoding it as I write this.

elvinatom · 2010-04-03 22:18:39

That's good to know. I have another Arch box (unfortunatelly a lot slower) that has not been "upgraded" . I'm gonna run handbrake on that until the arch-repo has caught up.

rune0077 · 2010-04-04 13:05:03

azleifel wrote:

I found that I had the same problem as discussed in the thread linked by rune0077, so I checked the handbrake forums, saw that it was fixed in svn, built handbrake-svn from AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29320) and everything works just fine. At least, handbrake svn3196 had no problems picking the right title from the Inglourious Basterds DVD I bought yesterday and it's busily encoding it as I write this.

Just tried installing handbrake-svn from AUR. Tested it, and so far it is running fine on my end as well.

elvinatom · 2010-04-04 14:03:11

I'm sorry for asking such a noob-question: how do I do that? I read many times that people here install from AUR. How does that work?

Edit: Never mind, I moved my lazy eyes over the instructions and figured it out ...

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elvinatom · 2010-04-04 14:38:31

rune0077 wrote:

azleifel wrote:
I found that I had the same problem as discussed in the thread linked by rune0077, so I checked the handbrake forums, saw that it was fixed in svn, built handbrake-svn from AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29320) and everything works just fine. At least, handbrake svn3196 had no problems picking the right title from the Inglourious Basterds DVD I bought yesterday and it's busily encoding it as I write this.
Just tried installing handbrake-svn from AUR. Tested it, and so far it is running fine on my end as well.

Confirmed, it works - boy am I a happy camper now!

mr1643 · 2010-04-05 14:17:57

just wanted to also say that using the svn version for AUR worked for me as well.

ben-arch · 2010-04-09 03:35:06

+1 on the svn solution.

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mellofone · 2010-04-09 03:43:55

svn keeps segfaulting on me like crazy...

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86turbodsl · 2010-04-28 10:00:31

I did this to fix handbrake after the big update and found that often handbrake won't grab all the movie. It says it completed, but the movie is half length or so. Not sure why.

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