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If a 'quick and dirty' remux will do the job for a movie you may not watch often, factor in the time/hassle element vs ultimate available quality. While your HB transcodes may take quite some time, if they are frequently viewed items the reduction in file size may be very helpful for iOS devices or just storage in general. Why not ask on the Handbrake forum directly? They may have good info. I'd compare the BluRay tothe remuxed or HB versions to attempt to decide which was more faithful to the original but even then it would be dependent on the BluRay player's settings in some cases. Equally there might be settings in HB which artificially sharpen or otherwise alter the video which you prefer.
Instead I suspect it more accurately processes enhanced h264 features before transcoding into a new smaller m4v file. Handbrake on the other hand has time at its disposal - it has been refined over many years by dedicated enthusiasts so if a simple remux is all that's required i'd be surprised they have not implemented that. I suspect but cannot prove that the issue you notice is due to AppleTV attempting to support advanced h264 features but making compromises which affect playback quality - in other words it is cutting corners to playback advanced h264 profile features rather than refusing. There is nothing you can adjust on AppleTV - it will either play the encoded movie or it won't.ĪppleTv's generally playback the h264 codec (in an m4v container) - there are many many versions/levels of this codec and each generation of AppleTv has been able to play slightly more sophisticated versions. I have no experience of the remuxing you describe, but interesting observations. Trying to figure this out before I continue down this home media server path cuz it's a lot of work to do these Blu's one at a time.
#Subler hangs opening m4v full#
Is there some sort of streaming setting on the ATV3 that needs to be set or adjusted that will allow the full gorgeous pic quality of a 29GB file to stream right through to it, and look better than the Handbrake'd m4v file? It feels like there's a bottleneck somewhere that's not letting all of the complete picture information through, and an intact, perfect 29GB file should look light years better than that 29GB file Handbrake'd down to 4GB. So it seems like the larger file should be even higher quality - but I'm getting better results with a smaller file that's Handbrake'd from MKV to m4v. But I also noticed that the smaller m4v's (say a 3.5GB file that comes from a 9GB MKV file via Handbrake) seem to be slightly better quality than the 9GB file that was remuxed. I'm running a 300mbps cable modem so the streaming shouldn't be a problem over my home wifi.
#Subler hangs opening m4v tv#
But I noticed that, say, a 29GB MKV file is a much poorer softer picture on my plasma TV than the same movie that's only a 9GB MKV file (remuxed to m4v with subler for streaming over ATV3). But I recently learned about the quick remux method using Subler, which quickly converts the MKV container into an m4v container without any quality loss and while keeping the same size file. I normally do a Handbrake conversion for ATV3, so the MKV files end up being significantly smaller m4v's and the quality is outstanding. You can then open this file in Subler, turn off any audio conversion features, and add whatever metadata, subtitles, artwork etc you want to the file.I'm slowly building my home media server and putting my Blu-Ray's onto it. This copies the video, converts the audio to a stereo AAC track as the first audio track and copies the AC3 audio as a second audio track without alteration. The command to take an MKV with a single video track and a single AC3 audio track is as follows: ffmpeg -i nameofmkv.mkv -map 0:v -c:v copy -map 0:a -strict experimental -c:a:0 aac -ac 2 -b:a:0 256k -map 0:a -c:a:1 copy nameofm4v.m4v It will only pass the AC3 track directly through HDMI or optical to a receiver. Additionally, an Apple TV will not attempt to downmix AC3 audio to stereo, which is why the extra AAC audio is needed. mp4) file with a video track, an AAC stereo track and a AC3 surround track and the AAC track must come before the AC3 track:ĪC3 audio will not work if there is no AAC track ahead of it in the file.
#Subler hangs opening m4v how to#
I'll leave you to Google how to install it (hint: 'ffmpeg install youroperatingsystem') but it's the best tool for this job.Īpple TV's are remarkably fiddly in this department.