Handbrake BluRay encode questions

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I am re-encoding all of my Movies / TV shows to MP4 using handbrake. all is working out on that front using High Profile for Movies and Normal for TV shows.

the issues are with my blu rays. I can get a great video using the High profile and RF 20 but I do not get any sound what so ever.

I have tried both the media browser and also VLC to check for sound but nothing on both fronts.

any suggestions for Audio?

I am using the aac for 2.0 and also keeping the 5.1 using ac3 passthru
 
If you are using the latest version of handbrake and the audio for your bluray is DTS, choose DTS passthrough, if the audio for the bluray is DTS-HD then choose DTS-HD passthrough in handbrake, only choose AC3 passthrough if the audio from the bluray is AC3.
 
Dang, that is why I wasn't getting surround. lol I am about 35% through my library and just read this and realized, most of my BD movies are either DTS-HD or something. I get stereo sound fine when I am just playing normal, but when I plug a chromecast into the AV receiver to try and get HD audio, there was nothing, and now I know why. Thank you.
 
lone wolf said:
I am re-encoding all of my Movies / TV shows to MP4 using handbrake. all is working out on that front using High Profile for Movies and Normal for TV shows.

the issues are with my blu rays. I can get a great video using the High profile and RF 20 but I do not get any sound what so ever.

I have tried both the media browser and also VLC to check for sound but nothing on both fronts.

any suggestions for Audio?

I am using the aac for 2.0 and also keeping the 5.1 using ac3 passthru
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MP4 is just a container. You shouldn't have to encode anything. You can just mux them over. Also alot of things don't play DTS inside a MP4 container. MKV is your best bet for everything working.
 
Dion said:
MP4 is just a container. You shouldn't have to encode anything. You can just mux them over. Also alot of things don't play DTS inside a MP4 container. MKV is your best bet for everything working.
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You can mux them over but after doing a lot of testing I found it wasted too much space and the quality wasn't really better then using handbrake with RF 19 (I use ATV3 preset with RF 19). Also, there are still a bunch of movies out there using the VC-1 codec, which need to be converted to h.264.

I agree about using MKV for DTS or HD 7.1 tracks. The only reason I went with m4v was for ipad/atv support and the fact that I was fine with converting everything to DD 5.1. Rather then use 7.1 I'm bi-amping my front speakers. ;-)
 
Just an update

I just finished the movie act of valor, I did check the audio before and it had 2 tracks of DTS (both said unknown) one was set to AAC and the other was DTS Passthru, so I set both to DTS passthru.

I just checked the movie and the video quality is excellent even at RF 20 but in Media Browser the movie does play and looks great but still no sound (using the default windows media player). BUT in VLC the sound is there and excellent as well, with both tracks being listed (stereo and surround)

is there something I need to do to get media browser to play the music or should I have been using VLC all along?
 
no codecs are installed. just media browser in windows media center. I did read that you can have VLC launch when you want to play a movie file so I might give that a go.
 
VLC is great for it's built-in ability to play just about anything. For windows media player to work you're going have to install a codec. I've had good luck with the combined community codec pack. www.cccp-project.net
 
You re-encoding in H.265 or H.264?

H.265 would be the same qauility for half the space.
 
KGarcia said:
VLC is great for it's built-in ability to play just about anything. For windows media player to work you're going have to install a codec. I've had good luck with the combined community codec pack. www.cccp-project.net
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I installed the cccp codecs and I now how sound in windows media player. thank you for that!

I am still using handbrake settings high profile and RF of 20 and SD movies with the settings of high profile and RF-17. TV shows are normal and RF-20 as most of them are 80s shows and I really don't care about surround with them

thank you everyone for your help! :D
 
Are these going to be for an Apple TV by chance? As a note ATV only supports Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3).
 
I was using media center with media browser launched the MPC-HC player. Worked great.

However now i'm using plex. Plex media server on my server and plex home theater on my HTPC and the plex channel on my roku.
Need to mess with any codecs at all. Plays everything including the HD audio.
 
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